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The Product Owner should have a complete and exhaustive Product Backlog before the first
Sprint can start?
1. True
2. False
2. A Scrum Master is working with a Development Team that has members in different
physical locations. The Development Team meets in a variety of meeting rooms and has
much to do logistically (for example, set up conference calls) before the Daily Scrum. What
action should the Scrum Master take? (choose the best answer)
1. Ask the development Team members to alternate who is responsible for meeting
setup.
2. Inform management and ask them to solve it.
3. Set up the meeting and tell the Development Team that is how it will be done.
4. Allow the Development Team to self-manage and determine for itself what to do.
3. 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? (choose the best answer)
1. Remind the Product Owner that their primary concern is the flow of value reflected
in the ordering of the Product Backlog
2. Tell the Product Owner that the Product Backlog should be ordered to maximize
utilization of the Development Team.
3. Tell the Product Owner to re-order the Product Backlog so the work involving the
external component can be planned in a separate sprint.
4. How much time must a Product Owner spend with the Development Team? (choose the
best answer)
1. However much time the Development Team asks the Product Owner to be present.
2. Enough so that the Product Owner is not surprised by the value delivered by the
increment.
3. 40% or more if the stakeholders agree.
4. 100%
5. A Scrum Master is keeping a list of open impediments, but it is growing and they have been
able to resolve only a small portion of the impediments. Which two techniques would be
most helpful in this situation? (choose the best two answers)
1. Add each open impediment to the Product Backlog.
2. Arrange a triage meeting with all project managers.
3. Discuss the impediments with the Development Team.
4. Prioritize the list and work on them in order.
6. True or False: Multiple Scrum Teams working on the same project must have the same
Sprint start date.
1. True
2. False
7. How is management external to the Scrum Team involved in the Daily Scrum? (choose the
best answer)
1. The Development Team self-manager and is the only management required at the
Daily Scrum.
2. The Product Owner represents their opinions.
3. The Scrum Master speaks on their behalf.
4. Management gives an update at the start of each Daily Scrum.
8. True or False: The Product Owner makes sure the right stakeholders are invited to the Sprint
Retrospective. They might have important instructions for team improvements.
1. True
2. False
9. Which of these may a Development Team deliver at the end of a Sprint? (choose the best
answer)
1. Failing unit tests, to identify acceptance tests for the next Sprint.
2. An increment of software with minor known bugs in it.
3. A single document, if that is what the Scrum Master asked for.
4. An increment of working software that is “done.”
10. A product’s success is measured by: (choose the best three answers)
1. The impact on customer satisfaction.
2. The delivery of upfront defined scope compared to the upfront planned time.
3. The impact on revenue.
4. The impact on my performance rating.
5. The impact on my boss’s mood.
6. The impact on cost.
11. Who should make sure everyone on the Development Team does his or her tasks for the
Sprint? (choose the best answer)
1. The Project Manager.
2. The Product Owner.
3. The Scrum Master.
4. The Development Team.
5. All of the above.
12. How often should customer satisfaction be measured? (choose the best answer)
1. Quarterly
2. Annually
3. Daily
4. Frequently
13. True or False: Product Owners must specify complete acceptance criteria for a Product
Backlog item before the team can select the item in Sprint Planning.
1. True
2. False
14. What three things might a Scrum Product Owner focus on to ensure his product delivers
value? (choose the best three answers)
1. How readily his product can be absorbed and used by his customers.
2. Minimizing changes to project scope.
3. Direct customer feedback.
4. The size of his product in “lines of code”.
5. How much of the functionality of his product is being utilized.
15. A Product Backlog is: (choose the best three answers)
1. Managed by the Product Owner.
2. An exhaustive list of upfront approved requirements to be implemented for the
system.
3. Only visible to the Product Owner and stakeholders.
4. Ordered based on priority, value, dependencies, and risk.
5. An inventory of things to be done for the Product.
16. What is the tactic Scrum Master should use to divide a group of 100 people into multiple
Development Teams? (choose the best answer)
1. Ask the Product Owner to assign the people to teams.
2. Ask the developers to divide themselves into teams.
3. Create teams based on their skills across multiple layers (such as database, UI, etc.).
17. In the middle of the Sprint, the customer decides that there are 2 new features she wants.
The Product Owner could: (choose the best two answers)
1. Introduce these features at the next Daily Scrum.
2. Have the Scrum Master add these features to the current Sprint.
3. Add it to the Product Backlog.
4. Ask the Development Team to consider whether they can add these features to the
current Sprint.
18. What are the two primary ways a Scrum Master keeps a development Team working at its
highest level of productivity? (choose the best two answers)
1. By keeping high value features high in the Product Backlog.
2. By ensuring the meetings start and end the proper time.
3. By removing impediments that hinder the Development Team.
4. By facilitating Development Team decisions.
19. What enhances the transparency of an Increment? (choose the best answer)
1. Reporting Sprint progress to the stakeholders daily.
2. Doing all work need to meet the definition of “Done”.
3. Updating Sprint tasks properly in the electric tracking tool.
4. Keeping track of and estimating all undone work to be completed in a separate
Sprint.
20. When should the Product Backlog be refined? (choose the best two answers)
1. Business analysts in the organization should to this work for the Scrum Team 1-2
Sprints ahead of the development Sprints.
2. The Product Owner must do this as essential work in Sprint 0.
3. The Product Owner and the Development Team do it in the actual Sprint if they
haven’t been able to do it in preceding Sprints.
4. The Product Owner takes the time between the Sprints to do it.
5. The Product Owner and the Development Team do it in the 1-2 preceding Sprints.
21. What is the accountability of the Product Owner during Sprint 0? (choose the best answer)
1. Make sure enough Product Backlog items are refined to fill the first 3 Sprints.
2. Gathering, eliciting, and analyzing the requirements that will be inserted into the
Product Backlog.
3. Determine the composition of the Development Teams so they have the capacity to
deliver the complete forecast.
4. Make the complete project plan to commit date, budget and scope to the
stakeholders.
5. There is no such thing as Sprint 0.
22. A Scrum Team has been working on a product for 9 Sprints. A new Product Owner comes in,
understanding he is accountable for Product Backlog. However, he is unsure about the
purpose of the Product Backlog. He’s read that Product Backlog should be a list of all user
features for the product. He goes to the Scrum master asking where to put the other types
of requirements that are going to be taken into account. Are all the following types of
requirements acceptable on a Product Backlog?
1. Stability requirements
2. Performance requirements
3. Product Functionality
4. Documenttation
5. Fixes
1. Yes, they all belong on the Product Backlog. Product Backlog is supposed to be the
‘single source of truth’ for all the work for the product.
2. No, Product Backlog is a tool for the Product Owner. The Product Owner represents the
users and stakeholders. Other types of requirements should be managed separately by
the Development Team. They are not the Product Owner’s concern.
23. How often should Development Team membership change? (choose the best answer)
1. As needed, with no special allowance for changes in productivity.
2. Never, because it reduces productivity.
3. As needed, while taking into account a short term reduction in productivity.
4. Every Sprint to promote shared learning
24. When a Development Team determines that it will not be able to finish the complete
forecast, who has to be present when reviewing and adjusting the Sprint work selected?
(choose the best answer)
1. The Product Owner and all stakeholders.
2. The Development Team.
3. The Scrum Master, project manager and Development Team.
4. The Product Owner and the Development Team.
25. Why does the Product Owner want the Development Team to adhere to its definition of
“Done?” (choose the best answer)
1. To know what the team will deliver over the next three Sprints.
2. To predict the team’s productive over time.
3. To have complete transparency into what has been done at the end of each Sprint.
4. To be able to reprimand the team when they don’t meet their velocity goal for the
Sprint.
26. Scrum requires that the Product Owner must use which of the following items? (choose all
that apply)
1. A release burndown diagram.
2. Burndown chart.
3. Feature burn-up.
4. Critical Path Analysis.
5. Refactoring.
6. Project Gant chart.
7. None of the above.
27. Which of the following is required by the Scrum? (choose all that apply)
1. Sprint Retrospective.
2. Members must stand up at the Daily Scrum
3. Sprint Burndown Chart.
4. Release Planning. (x)
5. All of the above
28. Who is accountable for releasing the most valuable product possible? (choose all that apply)
1. The entire Scrum Team.
2. The Development Team.
3. The Product Owner.
4. The Scrum Master.
5. The CEO.
29. When is it most appropriate for a Development Team to change the definition of “Done”?
(choose the best answer)
1. During Sprint Planning
2. Prior to starting a new project.
3. During the Sprint Retrospective.
4. Prior to starting a new Sprint
30. True or False: Software dependencies could influence how the Product Owner orders
Product Backlog items.
1. True
2. False
31. Why would you expect a Product Owner to care about the Development Team adhering to
its definition of “Done”? (choose the best two answers)
1. To be able to punish the team when they don’t meet their velocity goal for the
Sprint.
2. The definition of “Done” can affect the product’s total cost of ownership.
3. To have complete transparency into what has been done at the end of each Sprint.
4. The Product Owner should not care about the Definition of “Done”, it is the
Development Team’s responsibility.
5. To forecast the team’s productive over time.
32. When a Development Team is having trouble delivering a working Increment because they
don’t understand a functional requirement, what should they do? (choose the best answer)
1. Collaborate with the Product Owner to determine what is possible and acceptable.
2. Partially complete the functionality, and discuss the remaining work at the Sprint
Review.
3. Defer the work to a more appropriate Sprint.
4. Add a specialist to the Development Team
33. Which metrics will help a Product Owner establish that value is being delivered? (choose the
best two answers)
1. Velocity.
2. Time to market.
3. Scope implemented.
4. Customer satisfaction.
5. Productivity
34. When is it most appropriate for a Development Team to change the definition of “Done”?
(choose the best answer)
1. During Sprint Planning.
2. During the Sprint Retrospective.
3. Prior to starting a new project.
4. Prior to starting a new Sprint.
5. Retrospective a Scrum Team has identified several high priority process
improvements. Which of the following statements is most accurate? (choose the
best answer
6. The Scrum Master selects the most important process improvement and places it in
the Sprint Backlog
7. The Scrum Team should decline to add a process improvement to the Sprint Backlog
when things are running smoothly.
8. The Scrum Team should choose at least on high priority process improvement to
place in the Product Backlog.
9. The Scrum Team should choose at least on high priority process improvement to
place in the Sprint Backlog.
35. What is Product Owner work that a Product Owner might delegate? (choose the best
answer)
1. Writing User Stories.
2. Ordering the Product Backlog.
3. Attending the Sprint Review.
4. Representing stakeholders to the Scrum team.
36. True or False: To get started in terms of what to build, Scrum requires no more than a
Product Owner with enough ideas for the first Sprint, a Development Team to implement
those ideas and a Scrum Master to help guide the process.
1. True
2. False
37. Which of the following are true about the length of the Sprint? (choose the best two
answers)
1. It is best to have Sprints of consistent length throughout a development effort.
2. Sprint length is determined during the Sprint Planning and should be long enough to
make sure the Development Team can deliver what is to be accomplished in the
upcoming Sprint
3. Sprint length is determined during Sprint Planning and should hold the time it will
take to code the planned features in the upcoming Sprint, but does not include time
for any testing.
4. The length of the Sprint should be proportional to the work that is done in between
Sprints.
5. All Sprints must be 1 month or less.
38. What are three advantages of a Product Owner with a solid product vision? (choose the best
three answers)
1. It helps the Scrum Team maintain focus on when to complete Product Backlog
should be finished.
2. It is easier to inspect incremental progress at the Sprint Review.
3. It helps the Scrum Team keep focus and they can check any decision against it, even
within a Sprint
4. It’s not mandatory in Scrum. There’s no real advantage.
5. It gives a good overall direction so Sprints will feel less like isolated pieces of work.
39. What typically happens if the Product Backlog is not sufficiently clear at Sprint Planning?
(choose the best answer)
1. The Development Team has difficulties creating a forecast of work for the Sprint.
2. The meeting is canceled so refinement can be done first.
3. It is compensated if the Product Owner gives the team a clear Sprint Goal instead.
4. The Scrum Master shouldn’t allow this to happen. Look for a new Scrum Master and
re-start the Sprint.
5. Nothing in particular.
40. The Product Owner is accountable for the functionality included in each Increment. Does he
or she have the final say over the definition of “Done”? (choose the best answer)
1. Yes, the product Owner is responsible for the definition of “Done”. The
Development Team may be consulted.
2. No, the Development Team is responsible for the definition of “Done”. The Product
Owner may be consulted.
41. True or False: The value delivered by a product can only be determined by revenue.
1. True
2. False
42. Which of the following are criteria to order product backlog items
Choose all that apply
1. Value of product backlog items
2. Dependencies between product backlog items
3. Dependencies to other products
4. The availability of the scrum masters
5. All of the above
65. Scrum is a methodology that tells in detail how to build software incrementally
1. True
2. False
66. The product owner must write all of the product backlog items on the product backlog before
handing them over to the development team
1. True
2. False
67. Product owners must create clear and unambiguous acceptance criteria for each product backlog
item before it may be selected in sprint planning
1. True
2. False
1. 7 plus or minus 3
2. 9
3. 3 to 9
4. At least 7
69. The product owner makes sure the team selects enough from the product backlog for a sprint to
satisfy the stakeholders
1. True
2. False
70. Who is responsible for managing the progress of work during a sprint?
1. Sprint testing
2. Sprint retrospective
3. Release testing
4. Sprint 0
5. Release retrospective
6. Sprint planning
7. Daily scrum
1. True
2. False
74. Which of the following might the scrum team discuss during a sprint retrospective?
1. Methods of communicating
2. The way the scrum team does sprint planning
3. Skills needed to improve the development team’s ability to deliver
4. Its definition of done
5. All of the above
75. As the sprint planning meeting progresses, the development team sees that the workload is greater
than they can handle. Which two are valid actions?
77. The development team is accountable for releasing the most valuable product possible
1. True
2. False
78. User documentation is part of your definition of “Done”. However, there aren’t enough technical
writers for all team. Your development team doesn’t have a technical writer. What should you do?
1. Let the user documentation remain undone and accumulate until after the last
development sprint, It will then be done by any available technical writers
2. You Development team is still responsible for creating user documentation. In this case,
the development team members will write it
3. Wait until you have a technical writer on you development team to take care of this
4. Form a separate team of technical writers that will work on an on-demand basis for the
various Product owners. Work order will be first in, first out.
79. You are a product manager with a proven track record in your company. Your management has
asked you to take the lead in the development of a new product. Six teams new to Scrum will build this
product. You have gathered a number of requirements and ideas into an early form of a product
backlog. How would you minimize dependencies between the scrum team?
80. The Development team finds out during the sprint that they aren’t likely to build everything they
forecast. What would you expect a product owner to do?
1. Cancel the sprint
2. Change the sprint goal
3. Re-work the selected Product backlog items with the development team to meet the
sprint Goal
4. Skip Product backlog refinement activities
5. Inform management that more resources are needed
1. Sprint length
2. Product backlog ordering
3. Stakeholders for the sprint review
4. When to release, based on its progress
5. How to best accomplish its work
1. It is a demo at the end of the sprint for everyone in the organization to check on the
work done
2. It is a mechanism to control the development team’s activities during a sprint
3. It is when the scrum team and stakeholders inspect the outcome of a sprint and figure
out what to do next
4. It is used to congratulate the development team if it did what is forecast, or, to punish
the dev team if fit failed to meet its forecast
84. Who determines when it is appropriate to update the sprint backlog during a sprint?
85. A Development Team selects a set of Product Backlog items for a Sprint Backlog with the intent to
get the selected items “Done” by the end of the Sprint. Which three phases best describe the purpose of
a definition of “Done”?
86. Sprint burndown charts are an efficient tracking tool, because they show:
87. Who must do all the work to make sure product backlog items conform to the definition of done?
1. Dev team
2. Product owner
3. Qa specialists
4. Scrum team
5. Scrum master
1. The dev team is a virtual team drawing from separate teams of business analysts, architects,
developers and testers
2. The dev team includes not only developers but also business analysts, architects, developers,
and testers
3. The dev team includes cross-skilled individuals who are able to contribute to do what is
necessary to deliver an increment of software
4. Developers on the dev team work closely with BA, Archi, Devs, Testers who are not on the team
1. Most senior people in the org, including architects, and subject matter experts
2. Dev team after clarifying requirements with the product owner
3. Scrum master
4. Product owner with input from the dev team
5. Dev team, alone.
90. When do development team members take ownership of a sprint backlog item?
91. In order to maximize the value of the product, a product owner need awareness of the following
1. Competitive research
2. Customer Feedback
3. Product vision
4. Forecasting & Feasibility
5. All of the above
6. None of the above
92. What might indicate to a product owner that she needs to work more with the scrum team?