For three sprints running your team has lost most of a week waiting for a shared test environment another group controls. What do you do about it?

Short answer

Price the delay in developer-days from the board's own timestamps, then escalate with a specific ask, an owner and a date rather than a complaint. Decide honestly whether this is an impediment somebody can remove or a constraint to design around, and watch for the workaround that hides the cost.

The interviewer is listening for how you handle impediments without turning them into blame. Serious impediments need visibility, ownership, and a decision path; they do not disappear because the team mentions them again in stand-up. A strong answer separates impediments the team can remove from impediments that need escalation, then shows how you keep delivery honest while the dependency is unresolved. The weak answer treats impediments as background noise and lets the sprint plan stay fictional.