PSM I Block 12 - Certifica2IT

Professional Scrum Master I

Questions Block 12

1. Who owns the Sprint Backlog?

The Scrum Team.

The Product Owner.

The Scrum Master.

The Development Team.

2. When might a Sprint be cancelled?

When the Developers determine the product plan is infeasible.

When the Sprint Goal becomes obsolete.

When the sales department has an important new opportunity.

When it becomes clear that not everything will be finished by the end of the Sprint.

3. Every Development Team should have:

At least one representative from each major software engineering discipline; such as, Quality Assurance, Development, and User Experience.

The competencies and skills needed to deliver a Done Increment in a Sprint.

One Lead Developer and no more than 8 other members.

4. Why does the Product Owner want the Development Team to adhere to its definition of 'Done'?

To have complete transparency into what has been done at the end of each Sprint.

To be able to reprimand the team when they don't meet their velocity goal for the Sprint.

To know what the team will deliver over the next three Sprints.

To predict the team's productivity over time.

5. During a Sprint Retrospective, for what is the Scrum Master responsible?

Prioritizing the resulting action items.

Participating as a Scrum team member and facilitating as requested or needed.

Acting as a scribe to capture the Development Team's answers.

Summarizing and reporting the discussions to management.

6. In the Sprint Planning meeting, the Product Owner and the Development Team were unable to reach a clear understanding about the highest order Product Backlog items. Because of this, the Development Team couldn’t figure out how many Product Backlog items it could forecast for the upcoming Sprint. They were able to agree on a Sprint Goal, however.

Which of the following two actions should the Scrum Master support? (Choose two.)

Cancel the Sprint. Send the entire team to an advanced Scrum training and then start a new Sprint.

Forecast the most likely Product Backlog items to meet the goal and create a Sprint Backlog based on a likely initial design and plan. Once the time-box for the Sprint Planning meeting is over, start the Sprint and continue to analyze, decompose, and create additional functionality during the Sprint.

Continue the Sprint Planning meeting past its time-box until an adequate number of Product Backlog items are well enough understood for the Development Team to make a complete forecast. Then start the Sprint.

Discuss in the upcoming Sprint Retrospective why this happened and what changes will make it less likely to recur.

Ask everyone to take as much time as needed to analyze the Product Backlog first, and then reconvene another Sprint Planning meeting.

7. Which answer best describes the topics covered in Sprint Planning?

What to do and who will do it.

How conditions have changed and how the Product Backlog should evolve.

What can be done and how to do it.

What went wrong in the last Sprint and what to do differently this Sprint.

Who is on the team and what team member roles will be.

8. Which of the following is required by Scrum? (Choose all that apply.)

Sprint Retrospective.

Members must be stand up at the Daily Scrum.

Sprint Burndown Chart.

Release planning.

All of the above.

9. The purpose of a Sprint is to produce a done Increment of product.

True

False

10. A Development Team asks their Product Owner to re-order the Product Backlog. The team is waiting for an external supplier to deliver a specific software component. Without that component there won’t be enough work in the next Sprint to occupy the full team. The Product Owner asks the Scrum Master for help. What would be good advice to give the Product Owner?

Remind the Product Owner that his primary concern is the flow of value reflected in the ordering of the Product Backlog.

Tell the Product Owner to re-order the Product Backlog so the work involving the external component can be planned in a separate sprint.

Tell the Product Owner that the Product Backlog should be ordered to maximize utilization of the Development Team.