EXIN KANBANF Certification Sample Questions

01. When designing work item cards, several aspects should be considered. One aspect is that the card should have enough information. Why should the card have enough information?
a) To distinguish the work item type
b) To identify the team’s exact workload
c) To enable self-organization of the team
d) To start the work as soon as possible

02. How would establishing a delivery cadence benefit a service provider?
a) It creates regular delivery, which builds trust with customers.
b) It prevents all ad hoc deliveries, which increases productivity.
c) It reduces the cost of coordination, which reduces resources.
d) It supports timeboxing, which results in a better prioritization.

03. Within Kanban, what is the benefit of thinking of any process as a set of policies?
a) Policies are a series of actions to make something or achieve a particular result, which helps the team understand what management needs.
b) Policies can be made explicit easily once they are identified, which helps the team understand them and change them if they become outdated.
c) Policies govern behavior that the team could use to reduce waste and variation in their reports to upper management and stakeholders.
d) Policies help the team add value by focusing on aligning products and services with the needs of the business and its most important stakeholders.

04. Velocity is one of the Agile metrics that measures team performance best. Velocity is how much work is delivered per iteration. Which Kanban metric measures something similar to velocity?
a) Burndown charts
b) On-time performance
c) Throughput
d) Story points

05. What is a good reason for using swim lanes on a task board?
a) Attaching issues to the corresponding work items
b) Displaying the flow of activities for each team member
c) Showing the order of the tasks performed in a workflow
d) Visualizing the types of work in a value stream

06. A team wants to use Kanban and has established their work-in-progress limits (WIP-limits). What does capacity allocation for this team require?
a) Allocating two or three items per person that are assigned tasks
b) Creating a comparative demand analysis for each work item type
c) Determining total allocations and specific queue limits
d) Reaching consensus with stakeholders and senior management

07. Why is it important to use appropriate release cadences?
a) Because they accelerate the delivery of work
b) Because they set work-in-progress limits (WIP-limits)
c) Because they reduce the work that must be done
d) Because they build regularity and trust with customers

08. A team has a number of different work item types, but they have no idea what types those exactly are. The Kanban consultant recommends making a demand analysis. How should this analysis be done?
a) Create a new work item type for each work item and do a regular supply-and-demand analysis to keep the Kanban consultant happy
b) Group work items into a maximum of three different work item types and do preferably an anecdotally derived subjective analysis
c) Identify the work item types for all items and do a quantitative study if historical data is available, or a qualitative analysis otherwise
d) Implement changes based on senior team member preferences without identifying work item types or conducting demand analysis, ignoring the need for a data-driven approach and risking inefficiencies.

09. What is a benefit of using work item types when mapping the value stream?
a) It facilitates the allocation of work items to the right team members.
b) It helps the team distinguish different types of work and their priorities.
c) It improves visualization of the value stream by using different colors.
d) It increases efficiency by setting work-in-progress limits (WIP-limits).

10. How should a team ideally set work-in-progress limits (WIP-limits) for work items?
a) By agreeing on a limit after a good discussion with all stakeholders
b) By deciding first if the team is mature enough to work with WIP-limits
c) By estimating the WIP-limit without discussions from historic data
d) By setting a limit of at most one work item at a time per person