PROFESSIONAL SCRUM MASTER (PSM-I) – DENEME 04

Instructions:
Number of Questions: 80
Must be finished in one sitting. You cannot save and finish later.
Has a pass mark of: 85%

Which of the following is not a Product Owner responsibility?

Maintaining the Product Backlog with current information

Working with stakeholders to determine and detail product features

Assigning tasks to team members

Prioritizing the Product Backlog

Scrum framework consists of… Select two answers.

Product Development Processes

Scrum Teams

Scrum Standards

Roles, events, artifacts, and rules associated with Scrum
Teams

When handling team dynamics, what should the Scrum Master do?

Empower the team members within appropriate limits

Encourage an environment of competition and personal
advantage

Give clear directives to the team about what they should do and how

Expect team members to be proactive and each work to their own priorities and objectives

What is mainly defined by the Scrum Framework? Select two answers.

Rules & Roles

Development Team composition

Document guidelines

Artifacts and events

Which one of the following is a key feature that you would expect to find in an Agile project?

System documentation created at the end of each increment, at the start of the deployment

User Stories held in a spreadsheet or specialist database, where full details of user conversations are recorded for future purposes, like handover to maintenance or support

User Story cards containing only enough detail for planning and development, which will need to be supplemented by further face-to-face conversations

No written documentation, as all good communication is
face-to-face

The purpose of a Sprint is to have a working increment of product done before the Sprint Review.

True

False

Which is the Scrum way of doing things?

To produce working product of the right quality, early and incrementally

To produce working product after documentation has been signed off

To produce simple prototypes early, but no finished product until the end of the project

To produce products without technical integrity, but reengineer later

A Scrum Master is keeping a list of open impediments, but it is growing and he has been able to resolve only a small portion of the impediments. Which techniques would be most helpful in this situation? Select three answers.

Prioritize the list and work on them in order

Alert management to the impediments and their impact

Arrange a triage meeting with all other project manager

Discuss the absence of management support with the
Development Team

Consult with the Development Team

Who has the authority to cancel the Sprint?

Scrum Master

Development Team

Product Owner and Scrum Master

Key Stakeholders

Product Owner

10.

How should “Done” be defined when multiple Scrum Teams are working on a single product?

Each Scrum Team must define and use their own Definition of Done

The Scrum Master defines when the item is Done

All Scrum Teams work towards an integrated Definition of Done

11.

What is meant by Kanban?

A list of activities banned by the team, in relation to Team Norms

The set of Can Have stories for a project

A visible chart of work to do, work in progress and work
done

A graph of tasks partially-completed by the team

12.

A Product Owner wants a story to be completed in two days. The Development Team member working on the Story reckons it will take five days. The Scrum Master feels it should take three days. A subject matter expert, who has worked on similar Stories in the past, thinks it should be at most a one day effort. Whose estimate should be used for planning?

Product Owner’s

Scrum Master’s

Subject Matter Expert

Development Team

13.

Which of the following is not a Product Owner’s responsibility?

Prioritizing the product backlog

Keeping the product backlog up to date

Inspecting work at sprint review

Assigning tasks to team members during the sprint

14.

From the activities given, which is the latest step in sequence of the Scrum framework?

Daily Scrum

Sprint Retrospective

Sprint Review

Sprint Planning

15.

Which statement best describes what it means for an activity to be time-boxed?

The activity must take place on a particular date

The activity must start at a particular time

There is a maximum time limit for the activity

There is a recommended amount of time for the activity

16.

Scrum is a technique.

False

True

17.

What is the major difference between Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog?

The Product Backlog is equal to the Sprint Backlog

The Product Backlog is a subset of the Sprint Backlog

The Sprint Backlog is a subset of the Product Backlog

The Sprint Backlog is owned by the Product Owner

18.

lf burndown charts are used to visualize progress, what does a trend line through a release burndown chart indicate?

When all work will be completed so the Scrum Team can be released for other work

The evolution of the cost spent on the project

When the project will over if the Product Owner removes
work that is equal in effort to any new work that is added

When the work remaining will be likely completed if nothing changes on the Product Backlog or the Development Team

19.

What should the Scrum Master do, if the Scrum Team does not have the tools and infrastructure required for the development of items?

Allow them to spend some time preparing before starting the first Sprint

Have them improve the tools and infrastructure over time and adjust the Definition of Done accordingly

Start Sprint zero for preparation and then start developing with Sprint one

20.

In which meetings the Key Stakeholders are allowed to participate?

Sprint Retrospective

Sprint Review

Sprint Planning

Daily Scrum

21.

Who determines whether the development team has been assigned enough work in a Sprint?

Development Team

Product Owner

Product Owner and Scrum Master

Scrum Master

22.

Which of the following is true about the Scrum Master role? Select two answers.

Teaches the Development Team to keep the meetings to their time-box

Manages the Development Team for maximizing the
productivity

Is the contact point between the team and the customer

Should be dedicated to one project at a time

Works with other Scrum Masters in the organization to adopt Scrum

23.

Please select which statement regarding the Refinement is the most accurate.

Refinement is a part-time activity during a Sprint between the Product Owner and the Development Team

Refinement is a full-time activity during a Sprint for the
Scrum Team

Refinement is a part-time activity during a Sprint between the Product Owner and the Scrum Master

Refinement is a full-time activity during a Sprint between the Product Owner and the Development Team

24.

The purpose of a Sprint is to produce a done increment of working product.

True

False

25.

Which technique is the least productive way the Scrum Master can ensure that the Development Tea m communicates effectively with the Product Owner?

Teach the Development Tea m total k in terms of business needs and objectives

Teach the Product Owner about the technologies employed during the Sprints

Monitor communications between and facilitate direct
collaboration

Act as a go-between for them

26.

Development Team maintains a Sprint burn-down to track estimated remaining work. In the middle of the Sprint, the burn down graph shows an upward spike. This indicates…

A planned work is removed

The Product Owner added a new item to the Sprint

The Development Team added new work

27.

Which statement is true about the projects which has multiple teams?

It should have one Product Backlog and one Product Owner

It should have one Product Backlog and multiple Product Owners

It should have multiple Product Backlogs and one Product Owner

It should have multiple Product Backlogs and Multiple
Product Owners

28.

It is mandatory that the product increment be released to production at the end of each Sprint.

True

False

29.

A Scrum Team selects a Product Backlog Item (PBI) for the Sprint Backlog.

What must the Development Team do to finish the Product Backlog Item it selects?

As much as can be done in the Sprint before the deadline

As much as is required to satisfy the Definition of Done

Analyze, design, program, test and document the Product Backlog Item

30.

What is the role of Management in Scrum?

Continually monitor staffing levels of the Development Team

Monitor the Development Team’s productivity

Support the Product Owner with insights and information into high value product and system capabilities. Support the Scrum Master to cause organizational change that fosters empiricism, self-organization, bottom-up intelligence and intelligent release of software

Identify and remove people that aren’t working hard enough

31.

During a Sprint, when is new work or further decomposition of work added to the Sprint Backlog?

As soon as possible after they are identified

When the Product Owner identifies new work.

When the Scrum Master has time to enter them

During the Daily Scrum after the Development Team
approves them

32.

Even though the Scrum Team is following the Scrum framework entirely and their project is going well, the organization as a whole does not have a good understanding of Scrum, which makes some troubles for the Scrum Team. Who should try to fix it?

Product Owner

Scrum Master

Development Team

A subset of the Development Team assigned to this task

33.

Which of the following is required by Scrum? Select two answers.

Sprint performance measurement (the tool is optional, but the artifact is mandatory)

Sprint Planning

Release planning

Sprint burn-down chart

Project charter

34.

Why does the Development Team need a Sprint Goal?

A Sprint Goal ensures that all of the product Backlog items selected for the Sprint are implemented.

A Sprint Goal only gives purpose to sprint

The Development Team is more focused with a common and specific goal

Sprint Goals are not valuable. Everything is known from the Product Backlog

35.

An organization has decided to adopt Scrum, but management wants to change the terminology to fit with a terminology already used. What will likely happen if this is done?

Without a new vocabulary as a reminder of change, very little change may actually happen

Management may feel less anxious

The organization may not understand what had changed
within Scrum and the benefits of Scrum may be lost

AII answers apply

36.

Which statement best describes a Product Owner’s responsibility?

Optimizing the value of the work the Development Team
does

Managing the project and ensuring that the work meets the commitments to the stakeholders

Keeping stakeholders at bay

Directing the Development Team

37.

Who is responsible for tracking the total work remaining in the Sprint Backlog to project the likelihood of achieving the Sprint Goal?

Scrum Master

Scrum Team

Product Owner and Development Team

Product Owner

Development Team

38.

Which outcome is expected as Scrum Teams mature?

They will improve their definition of “Done” to include more stringent criteria

A Scrum Master is no longer needed since they are a mature team now

Sprint Reviews will no longer be needed

There is no need for a time-boxed Sprint sinee time-boxes are only for new Scrum Teams

39.

During a Sprint, a Development Team determines that it will not be able to finish the complete forecast. Who should be present to review and adjust the Sprint work selected?

The Product Owner and the Development Team

The Product Owner and all stakeholders

The Scrum Master, the project manager and the Development Team

The Development Team

40.

A sustainable pace means…

If the team members work long hours regularly they will get used to it and be able to sustain it

A 40 hours week is only for the weaker members of the team. Others can do more

The team should establish a velocity which can be sustained within normal working hours

Working long hours is the only way to deliver on time

41.

What belongs solely to the Development Team?

Increment

Definition of Done

Product Backlog

Sprint Backlog

42.

For a Scrum Team, the Sprint Planning meetings are always going beyond the time-boxing. What could be the likely causes? Select two answers.

The Scrum Master does not moderate and control the
participants

The Team didn’t invest enough into Backlog Refinement

The Product Backlog size is huge

The Development Team is trying to get a perfect and detailed Sprint plan

43.

What does it mean to say that an event has a time-box?

The event must at least a minimum amount of time

The event must happen at a set time

The event can take no more than a maximum amount of time

The event must happen by a given time

44.

What is Scrum?

A framework within which people can address complex
adaptive problems, while productively and creatively
delivering products of the highest possible value

It’s not an agile Framework

Scrum is a complete process to develop software

None of above

45.

lf burndown charts are used to visualize progress, what do they track?

Accumulated cost

Individual worker productivity

Accumulated business value delivered to the customer

Work remaining across time

46.

Which of the following are feedback loops in Scrum? Select three answers.

Sprint Review

Sprint Retrospective

Release Planning

Refinement

Daily Scrum

47.

Who is responsible for managing the progress of work during a Sprint?

Development Team

Scrum Master

Product Owner

The most junior member of the Team

48.

What is the time-box for a Sprint Review?

4 hours for a monthly Sprint

2 hours for a monthly Sprint

As long as needed

1 day

49.

When is a Product Backlog ítem considered complete?

When the item has no work remaining in order to be released

When all work in the Sprint Backlog related to the ítem is
finished

When QA reports that the item passes all acceptance criteria

At the end of the Sprint

50.

The Product Owner role in Scrum…

Has no control over the prioritization of delivered features

Has total control over the prioritization of features

Collaborates with the developers over prioritization of
features, but the developers have the final decision

Collaborates with the developers over prioritization of
features, but the stakeholders have the final decision

51.

How many hours per day should a Development Team member work?

At least 6 hours

At a sustainable pace

As much as needed for realizing the Sprint Backlog items until the end of the Sprint

Between 6 and 16 hours, depending on the situation

52.

When can a Development Team cancel a Sprint?

It can’t. Only Product Owners can cancel Sprints

When functional expectations are not well understood

When the Product Owner is absent too often

When the selected Product Backlog items for the Sprint
become unachievable

When a technical dependency cannot be resolved

53.

One of the development stages you would expect to see a team go through is…

Storming

Warming

Clonin

Yawning

54.

Agile methodologies think all documentation is a waste of time…

True

False

55.

A senior manager frequently distracts the team. Who should try to solve this problem?

Product Owner

Scrum Master

Scrum Team

Development Team

56.

What does not belong to the agile manifesto’s main pillars?

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Processes over people

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

57.

How often should Development Team membership change?

Just as it would on any development team, with no special allowance for changes in productivity

Every Sprint to promote shared learning

As needed, while taking into account a short term reduction in productivity

Never, because it reduces productivity

58.

What are the three most applicable characteristics of the Product Owner? Select three answers.

Lead Facilitator of Key Stakeholder involvement

Lead Scrum evangelist in the organization

Product Marketplace Expert

Facilitator of Scrum events

Product Value Maximizer

59.

Who is responsible for all estimates in the Product Backlog?

Scrum Master

Development Team

Product Owner

Scrum Team

60.

The structure of the Daily Scrum is well-defined and constant. Every team member should answer the three main questions:

What did I do yesterday?
What will I do today?
Do I see any impediment?

True

False

61.

What should the developers do if the product owner is repeatedly too busy to be available?

Continue the work, record the assumptions and ask the
customer later for input

Send the customer a written warning that the end product will be completed on time, but may not meet their needs

Allow the Business Analyst to take on the role of Proxy
Customer Representative

Draw the problem to the attention of the Scrum Master

62.

Which of the following might the Scrum Team discuss during a Sprint Retrospective?

Methods of communication

The way the Scrum Team does Sprint Planning

Skills needed to improve the Development Team’s ability to deliver

All of the above

63.

The Sprint Backlog and the Sprint Goal are the results of Sprint Planning.

True

False

64.

Which activities will a Product Owner likely engage in during a Sprint? Select three answers.

Participate in Daily Scrums

Update the Sprint burn-down chart

Reorder the Product Backlog items

Answer developers questions about the Sprint Backlog items

Create new items in the Product Backlog

65.

Who is responsible for monitoring progress toward high-level goals?

Product Owner

Scrum Master and Development Team

Scrum Master

Product Owner and Development Team

66.

What is meant by Team velocity in Scrum projects?

Teams work less when it rains

Keeping metrics of earlier work load to help with future
estimates required to get the whole project done

Retrospectives should include less important topics, such as the weather, as ice-breakers

Estimating team efforts for completing the project

67.

The formal opportunities for Inspection and Adaptation are…

Sprint

Definition of Done

Product Increment

None of the above

68.

The length of a Sprint should be…

Short enough to keep the business risk acceptable to the Product Owner

Short enough to be able to synchronize the development work with other business

No more than one month

All of these answers are correct

69.

When do Development Team members take ownership of a Sprint Backlog item?

Whenever a team member can accommodate mover work

During the Daly Scrum

Never. All Sprint Backlog items are “owned” by the entire Development Team, even though each can be done by an individual Development Team member

At the Sprint planning meeting

70.

If a new requirement emerges once a Scrum project is running, it should be…

Automatically included in the work of the project

Automatically excluded and left until a later project or
increment

Assessed for importance and, if sufficiently important to the business, included in the project, displacing less important requirements

Put on the backlog for consideration by the wider group of stakeholders after the project has been completed

71.

A Scrum Team failed to meet the Sprint objectives. One of the key members of the Development Team fell ill and was away for 3 days right at the beginning of the 4-week Sprint. What is the most likely reason that the Team did not meet the Sprint objectives?

The Development Team is over-worked

The Development Team is lacking skills

The Team did not plan the Sprint effectively

The Product Owner is unable to prioritize

72.

When many Scrum Teams are working on the same product, should all of their increments be integrated in every Sprint?

Yes, but only for Scrum Teams whose work has
dependencies

Yes, otherwise the Product Owners (and stakeholders) may not be able to accurately inspect what is done

No, each Scrum Team stands alone

No, that is far too hard and must be done in a hardening
Sprint

73.

A Scrum Master has a list of open impediments which is growing without proper resolutions. The Scrum Master consults with the Development Team on the problem. Is it right?

Yes

74.

Who defines the Sprint Backlog scope?

Product Owner

Development Team

Scrum Master

Stakeholders

75.

What does the Scrum Development Team attempt to develop at every Sprint?

A product that is ready for customer delivery

A completed Sprint Backlog

A product that is ready for QA testing

A product increment that is potentially-ready for customer delivery

76.

The most encouraged time of day to hold a Scrum Daily Meeting is…

Beginning of the day

Immediately after lunch

4:30 PM

7:00 PM

77.

What are the major properties of a cross-functional Development Team?

The team is able to complete the project according to the planning, after the date and cost are committed to the Product Owner

The team has all the skills on board, needed to accept
collective ownership for the next product increment

All team members have the knowledge and experience
needed to deliver the correct product increment

The team comprises competence teams dedicated to
particular domains like specialised testing or business
analysis to facilitate deliverance of the highest business value

78.

Which of the following meeting is not part of Scrum?

Sprint retrospective

Sprint planning

Product review

Sprint review

79.

When does the next Sprint begin?

Next Monday

Immediately following the next Sprint Planning

When the Product Owner is ready

Immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint

80.

What is the effect of having a large visible story board on a wall?

It removes the need to create any other reports for
management

It continuously communicates progress within the team and to other stakeholders

It allows the Project Manager to allocate tasks to specific team members

It is restrictive, as it does not allow the team to innovate and change

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