A project team has been tracking defect trends over five sprints. The data shows defects found increasing from 15 to 42, defects fixed increasing from 12 to 35, but remaining defects accumulating from 3 to 18. What does this trend MOST likely indicate?

Answer options:

The team's testing effectiveness is improving as they identify more defects each sprint

Technical debt is accumulating faster than it's being resolved, indicating a quality management issue

The increasing defect count shows the product is becoming more complex, which is normal for iterative development

The team should reduce testing efforts in the next sprint to focus on fixing existing defects

How to approach this question

Focus on the trend in remaining/unresolved defects rather than just the total found or fixed. Accumulating defects indicate systemic issues.

Full Answer

B.Technical debt is accumulating faster than it's being resolved, indicating a quality management issue✓ Correct

The key indicator is the growing backlog of unresolved defects, which suggests that the team is creating technical debt faster than they can resolve it.

Common mistakes

Focusing only on defects found (which seems positive) rather than the accumulation of unresolved defects, which is the real quality indicator.

Question 10 All questions Question 12

Practice the full PMI PMP Practice Exam 3

100 questions · hints · full answers · grading

More questions from this exam

Q01During a sprint retrospective in an agile project, two team members engage in a heated argument a...Hard Q02A project manager is leading a hybrid software development project where the client has clearly d...Hard Q03A project manager notices that a high-performing team member has become withdrawn, is frequently ...Hard Q04During sprint planning for a software development project, the development team reports that they...Hard Q05A project has the following earned value metrics at the end of Month 8:<br/>- Budget at Completio...Hard

View all 100 questions →