MANAGEMENT YOGI: Management Yogi's Scaled Agile (CIPSA) Certification: 15 Free Questions and Answers (Part

The Certified In Practical Scaled Agile (CIPSA) certification is a unique and powerful certification. With this certification, you'll learn scaling multiple Scrum or Kanban teams. It's hands-on and practical.

It uses the latest release of MS Project software (MS Project Online Desktop Client) and is prepared with the inputs, feedback and suggestions from Scaled Agile practitioners.

These questions are taken from the course: Certified In Practical Scaled Agile (CIPSA)

As noted earlier, the course is prepared with feedback from many Scaled Agile practitioners, around the world. Many have informed that the CIPSA certification course is comprehensive and very diffierent from other Scaled Agile certifications.

To answer these questions, you need to have:

Solid understanding of Scaled Agile Management practices scaling both team-level Scrum and team-level Kanban.
Excellent grasp of the CIPSA framework. The CIPSA certification course follows this framework. Practical, hands-on applicability is almost always overlooked in certification courses. In that sense, the CIPSA certification is radically different.
Sound understanding on MS Project Scaled Agile features. Other software tools can also be used as the fundamentals remain the same. As you proceed with the course, you'll have mastery over such Scaled Agile features.
Good understanding of traditional (waterfall), team-level Scrum and team-level Kanban management.
Critical thinking, logical reasoning, ability to think out of the box and also answering questions with speed and accuracy.

This first series has 8 questions and answers. The next part has another set of 7 questions with answers.

I hope you enjoy doing these questions and it helps in your preparation for the CIPSA certification exam.

[This series - Part - 2]

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Question – 1: You’ve been planning for the Sprints for the individual Scrum teams and the CIPSA Team as a whole. The Sprint length has been kept at two weeks for all. However, one of the teams wants only its Sprint length to three weeks. What should you do?

A Change the specific Scrum team’s Sprint length to 3 weeks.

B Modify all Scrum teams Sprint length to 3 weeks.

C Inform that in the CIPSA Framework, the Sprints are synchronized.

D Inform that it’s not possible with MS Project Agile software.

Question – 2: In your CIPSA Scrum Team, there are five individual Scrum teams – Scrum Team A, B, C, D and E. You, the Principal Scrum Master, is now checking the progress with the individual Scrum Master of Team A with the help of Team A Sprint Planning Board, which is shown below. The Team Scrum Master being new is unable to know what the No Sprint column is empty.

What should be your explanation? (click on the image to expand)

A There are not sufficient items in the Product Backlog.

B Some of the items are not properly refined.

C All items for all Sprints, i.e., Sprint 1, Sprint 2 and Sprint 3 for Team A, are associated.

D The board view is incorrect and No Sprint column should not be there.

Question – 3: For a Scaled Kanban project, you have scaled the Kanban teams who will work their respective work items. Next, you applied the Team Group Task filter and chose the condition of ‘All Teams’. This is shown below. What work items will be shown in the view when it’s applied? Choose the MOST correct answer.

A All Teams’ work items, i.e., work items from Team A, Team B and Team C.

B Only the work items associated with All Teams, but not from some teams.

C The work items associated with the ‘All Teams’ field.

D Some of the work items from the CIPSA team.

Question – 4: In individual Team Sprint Planning events for the CIPSA team, the Scrum Teams took the backlog items and broke them down to individual tasks and added the team-level events. The resources were identified, who will be working on the tasks. What should happen next?

A Conduct the Team Daily Scrums

B Go for Team Daily Scrums, followed with CIPSA Daily Scrum

C Go for CIPSA Daily Scrum, followed with Team Daily Scrums

D Proceed to the CIPSA Sprint Review

Question – 5: For the CIPSA team, the Scrum Board is shown below. What should you do to visualize only the items applicable to the entire CIPSA Team? (click on the image to expand)

A Use the Sprint Planning filter to get the items

B Apply the CIPSA Planning filter

C Search the CIPSA related items with the filter icon in the board

D Switch to the Sprint Planning Sheet view

Question – 6: Your Scaled Scrum team is building a large-language model (LLM), which is deployed to check anomalies in patient data in big hospitals. While doing so, the CIPSA Scrum Team is giving integrated increments in every Sprint. The CIPSA Integrated Increment is:

A Sum of all integrated work completed by all the individual Scrum teams

B Combination of work delivered by the key Scrum Teams

C Used directly in the CIPSA Sprint Review meta-event

D Built by developers and designed by the Chief Product Owner

Question – 7: There are multiple key artifacts in the CIPSA framework. Which one of the following helps a CIPSA team to move closer to the Product Goal?

A Product Backlog

B CIPSA Backlog

C CIPSA Backlog and Team Backlog

D CIPSA Integrated Increment

Question – 8: A three-team (Team A, Team B and Team C) Scaled Kanban project has the below Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD). This shows the Actual Tasks for each Kanban team. What can be correctly said about work in progress (WIP) with respect to the individual Kanban teams from this integrated CIPSA team report?