PSM - Séance COACHING N°1

Question 1 of 60
The three pillars of empirical process control are:
A) Respect For People, Kaizen, Eliminating Waste
B) Planning, Demonstration, Retrospective
C) Inspection, Transparency, Adaptation
D) Planning, Inspection, Adaptation
E) Transparency, Eliminating Waste, Kaizen

Question 2 of 60
Which statement best describes a Product Owner's responsibility?
A) Optimizing the value of the work the Developers do.
B) Directing the Developers.
C) Managing the project and ensuring that the work meets the commitments to
the stakeholders.
D) Keeping stakeholders at bay.

Question 3 of 60
Why is the Daily Scrum held at the same time and same place?
A) The place can be named.
B) The consistency reduces complexity and overhead.
C) The Product Owner demands it.
D) Rooms are hard to book and this lets it be booked in advance.

Question 4 of 60
When is a Sprint over?
A) When all Product Backlog items meet their definition of done.
B) When the Product Owner says it is done
C) When all the tasks are completed.
D) When the timebox expires.

Question 5 of 60
Which statement best describes Scrum?
A) A complete methodology that defines how to develop software.
B) A cookbook that defines best practices for software development.
C) A framework within which complex products in complex environments are
developed.
D) A defined and predictive process that conforms to the principles of Scientific
Management.

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Question 6 of 60
When do a Developer becomes the exclusive owner of a Sprint Backlog item?
A) At the Sprint planning meeting.
B) Never. All Sprint Backlog Items are "owned" by the entire Developers Team,
even though each one may be done by an individual developer.
C) Whenever a team member can accommodate more work.
D) During the Daily Scrum.

Question 7 of 60
The CEO asks the Development Team to add a "very important" item to the
current Sprint. What should the Development Team do?
A) Add the item to the current Sprint without any adjustments.
B) Add the item to the current Sprint and drop an item of equal size.
C) Add the item to the next Sprint.
D) Inform the Product Owner so he/she can work with the CEO.

Question 8 of 60
Scrum Team membership should change:
A) Every Sprint to promote shared learning.
B) Never, because it reduces productivity.
C) As needed, while taking into account a short term reduction in productivity.
D) Just as it would on any Developers team, with no special allowance for changes
in productivity.

Question 9 of 60
The purpose of a Sprint is to have a valuable and useful increment of product
before the Sprint Review.
A) True
B) False

Question 10 of 60
Which of the below are accountabilities on a Scrum Team?
A) Developers
B) Users
C) Customers
D) Product Owner
E) Scrum Master

Question 11 of 60
Which of the below are commitments for a Scrum Team?
A) Product Vision
B) Sprint Goal
C) Definition of done
D) Product Vision
E) Scrum Values

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Question 12 of 60
Who should know the most about the progress toward a business objective or a
release, and be able to explain the alternatives most clearly?
A) The Product Owner.
B) The Developers.
C) The Scrum Master.
D) The Project Manager.

Question 13 of 60
The Product Backlog is ordered by:
A) Small items at the top to large items at the bottom.
B) Safer items at the top to riskier items at the bottom.
C) Least valuable items at the top to most valuable at the bottom.
D) Items are randomly arranged.
E) Whatever is deemed most appropriate by the Product Owner.

Question 14 of 60
What is the recommended size for a Scrum Team ?
A) Minimal 7
B) 3 to 9
C) 7 plus or minus 2
D) 10 or fewer

Question 15 of 60
When many Scrum Teams are working on a single product, what best describes
the definition of "done?"
A) Each Scrum Team defines and uses its own. The differences are discussed and
reconciled during a hardening Sprint.
B) Each Scrum Team uses its own but must make their definition clear to all other
Teams so the differences are known.
C) All Scrum Teams must have a definition of "done" that makes their combined
work potentially releasable.
D) It depends.

Question 16 of 60
An abnormal termination of a Sprint is called when?
A) When it is clear at the end of a Sprint that everything won't be finished.
B) When the Team feels that the work is too hard.
C) When Sales has an important opportunity.
D) When the Product Owner determines that it makes no sense to finish it.

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Question 17 of 60
What is the main reason for the Scrum Master to be at the Daily Scrum?
A) To make sure every team member answers the three questions in the right team
member order.
B) He or she does not have to be there; he or she only has to ensure the Developers
has a Daily Scrum.
C) To write down any changes to the Sprint Backlog, including adding new items,
and tracking progress on the burndown.
D) To gather status and progress information to report to management.

Question 18 of 60
Who has the final say on the order of the Product Backlog?
A) The Stakeholders
B) The Developers
C) The Scrum Master
D) The Product Owner
E) The CEO

Question 19 of 60
When multiple teams are working together, each team should maintain a separate
Product Backlog.
A) True
B) False

Question 20 of 60
Which two (2) things does the Developers not do during the first Sprint?
A) Deliver an increment of potentially shippable functionality.
B) Nail down the complete architecture and infrastructure.
C) Develop and deliver at least one piece of functionality.
D) Develop a plan for the rest of the project.

Question 21 of 60
During the Daily Scrum, the Scrum Master's role is to:
A) Lead the discussions of the Developers.
B) Make sure that all 3 questions have been answered.
C) Manage the meeting in a way that each team member has a chance to speak.
D) Teach the Developers to keep the Daily Scrum within the 15 minutes timebox.
E) All of the above.

Question 22 of 60
The Developers should have all the skills needed to:
A) Complete the project as estimated when the date and cost are committed to the
Product Owner.
B) Do all of the development work, but not the types of testing that require
specialized testing, tools, and environments.
C) Turn the Product Backlog items it selects into an increment of potentially
shippable product functionality.

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Question 23 of 60
When does the next Sprint begin?
A) Next Monday.
B) Immediately following the next Sprint Planning.
C) When the Product Owner is ready.
D) Immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint.

Question 24 of 60
The maximum length of the Sprint Review (its timebox) is:
A) 2 hours.
B) 4 hours for a monthly Sprint. For shorter Sprints it is usually shorter.
C) As long as needed.
D) 1 day.
E) 4 hours and longer as needed.

Question 25 of 60
What does it mean to say that an event has a timebox?
A) The event must happen at a set time.
B) The event must happen by a given time.
C) The event must take at least a minimum amount of time.
D) The event can take no more than a maximum amount of time.

Question 26 of 60
What is the role of Management in Scrum?
A) To continually monitor staffing levels of the Developers.
B) To monitor the Developers productivity.
C) Management supports the Product Owner with insights and information into
high value product and system capabilities. Management supports the Scrum
Master to cause organizational change that fosters empiricism, self-organization,
bottom-up intelligence, and intelligent release of software.
D) To identify and remove people that aren't working hard enough.

Question 27 of 60
Who is required to attend the Daily Scrum?
A) The Developers.
B) The Scrum team.
C) The Developers and Scrum Master.
D) The Developers and Product Owner.
E) The Scrum Master and Product Owner.
Question 28 of 60
What is the primary way a Scrum Master keeps the Developers working at its
highest level of productivity?
A) By facilitating Developers decisions and removing impediments.
B) By ensuring the meetings start and end at the proper time.
C) By preventing changes to the backlogs once the Sprint begins.
D) By keeping high value features high in the Product Backlog.

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Question 29 of 60
Upon what type of process control is Scrum based?
A) Empirical
B) Hybrid
C) Defined
D) Complex

Question 30 of 60
The length of a Sprint should be:
A) Short enough to keep the business risk acceptable to the Product Owner.
B) Short enough to be able to synchronize the development work with other
business events.
C) No more than one month.
D) All of these answers are correct.

Question 31 of 60
An organization has decided to adopt Scrum, but management wants to change
the terminology to fit with terminology already used. What will likely happen if
this is done?
A) Without a new vocabulary as a reminder of the change, very little change may
actually happen.
B) The organization may not understand what has changed with Scrum and the
benefits of Scrum may be lost.
C) Management may feel less anxious.
D) All answers apply.

Question 32 of 60
The timebox for the complete Sprint Planning meeting is?
A) 4 hours.
B) 8 hours for a monthly Sprint, proportionately less for shorter Sprints.
C) Whenever it is done.
D) Monthly.

Question 33 of 60
Scrum does not have a role called "project manager."
A) True
B) False

Question 34 of 60
The Developers should not be interrupted during the Sprint. The Sprint Goal
should remain intact. These are conditions that foster creativity, quality and
productivity. Based on this, which of the following is FALSE?
A) The Product Owner can help clarify or optimize the Sprint when asked by the
Developers.
B) The Sprint Backlog is fully formulated in the Sprint Planning meeting and does
not change during the Sprint.

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C) As a decomposition of the selected Product Backlog Items, the Sprint Backlog
changes and may grow as the work emerges.
D) The Developers may work with the Product Owner to remove or add work if
it finds it has more or less capacity than it expected.

Question 35 of 60
The time-box for a Daily Scrum is?
A) The same time of day every day.
B) Two minutes per person.
C) 4 hours.
D) 15 minutes.
E) 15 minutes for a 4 week sprint. For shorter Sprints it is usually shorter.

Question 36 of 60
During a Sprint, Developers determine that it will not be able to finish the
complete forecast. Who should be present to review and adjust the Sprint work
selected?
A) The Scrum Master, the project manager and the Developers.
B) The Product Owner and the Developers.
C) The Product Owner and all stakeholders.
D) The Developers.

Question 37 of 60
Who is responsible for managing the progress of work and updating the work
estimates during a Sprint?
A) The Developers
B) The Scrum Master
C) The Product Owner
D) The most junior member of the Team

Question 38 of 60
Which statement best describes the Sprint Review?
A) It is a review of the team's activities during the Sprint.
B) It is when the Scrum Team and stakeholders inspect the outcome of the Sprint
and figure out what to do in the upcoming Sprint.
C) It is a demo at the end of the Sprint for everyone in the organization to provide
feedback on the work done.
D) It is used to congratulate the Developers if they did what it committed to doing,
or to punish the Developers if they failed to meet its commitments.

Question 39 of 60
A sprint burndown chart is updated :
A) Daily
B) Weekly
C) At the end of the sprint
D) At the end of the release

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Question 40 of 60
A Scrum Master is keeping a list of open impediments, but it is growing and
he/she has been able to resolve only a small portion of the impediments. Which
three techniques would be most helpful in this situation?
A) Prioritize the list and work on them in order.
B) Alert management to the impediments and their impact.
C) Arrange a triage meeting with all other project managers.
D) Discuss the absence of management support with the Developers.
E) Tell the Product Owner that Scrum isn't working.
F) Consult with the Developers.

Question 41 of 60
Why does Scrum prevent Product Owners from changing Product Backlog items
that are being worked on during the Sprint?
A) The Developers cannot meet their Sprint commitment to complete work if
requirements are changing
B) A Sprint cycle is not enough time for senior management review and approve
changes
C) This forces Product Owners to focus on what is really important for the team
to develop
D) The Developers must be able to limit the Product Owner authority

Question 42 of 60
Which of the following is not a Scrum artifact?
A) User Stories
B) Sprint Backlog
C) Product Backlog

Question 43 of 60
_____________ can change the priority of items in the _________ backlog at any
time.
A) The Team; Product
B) The Product Owner(s); Sprint
C) The Product Owner(s); Product
D) The Scrum Master; Sprint

Question 44 of 60
________________ is a plan by and for the Developers. It is updated throughout
the sprint as more is learned.
A) Sprint Goal
B) Product Goal
C) Sprint Backlog
D) Product Backlog

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Question 45 of 60
Under what circumstances should separate Product Backlogs be maintained?
A) There are several Product Owners for one product. Each Product Owner should
have their own Product Backlog
B) There are multiple teams working on independent products. Each unique
combination of team and product should have an independent Product Backlog
C) There are multiple product features being developed by the same team.
D) There are multiple teams working on the components of the same product.
Each team should an independent Product Backlog

Question 46 of 60
Which of the following activities do not occur at the end of the Sprint?
(Select All Apply)
A) Software development
B) Release deployment
C) Sprint review meeting
D) Quality assurance testing

Question 47 of 60
A _____________________ is created to answer the question during the Sprint
planning meeting to answer the question “Why is the sprint valuable” and a
_________________ is created to answer the question “how will the chosen work
get done” ?
A) Sprint Backlog, collection of tasks
B) Product Backlog, collection of tasks
C) Sprint Goal, Sprint Backlog
D) Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog

Question 48 of 60
Which of the following is not a Scrum Master responsibility?
A) Establish priorities together with product owner for Product Backlog items
B) Preventing Senior Management from shifting team priorities
C) Empowering the team
D) Socializing scrum throughout the organization

Question 49 of 60
How could the team and other stakeholders know if a product backlog item is
done?
A) They should ask to the Developers
B) They should compare what was done, against the definition of Done
established by the Scrum Team
C) Ask to the Product Owner
D) Ask to the Manager

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Question 50 of 60
A Scrum Master is introducing Scrum to a new Developers’ Team. The
Developers have decided that a retrospective is unnecessary. What action should
the Scrum Master take?
A) Comply with the decision of the self-organizing Team.
B) Begin facilitating productive, useful retrospectives
C) Consult with the Product Owner to see how he/she feels about the situation.
D) Call a meeting between the Developers and senior management.

Question 51 of 60
When can the Product Backlog be updated?
A) Only after a Sprint Review if agreed to by the stakeholders
B) Only during Product Backlog refinement sessions if the Product Owner is
present
C) Never, unless agreed to by the change request
D) At any time when done by the Product Owner or at the Product Owner’s
discretion

Question 52 of 60
A first Sprint can start before the Product Owner has a complete and exhaustive
Product Backlog in place.
A) True
B) False

Question 53 of 60
What two things best help the Product Owner manage the value of a product?
A) Setting value on individual Product Backlog items using Value Poker
B) Devising a formula for a neutral calculation of value
C) The order of the Product Backlog
D) Validating assumptions of value through frequent releases

Question 54 of 60
Must the Product Owner be present at the Sprint Retrospective?
A) It is optional. Attendance is only required when the Product Owner gets invited
by the Scrum Master.
B) It is mandatory. The Sprint Retrospective is an opportunity for the Scrum Team
to assess its performance and improve itself.
C) It is not allowed.
Question 55 of 60
The Developers find out during the Sprint that they aren’t likely to build
everything they forecasted. What would you expect a Product Owner to do?
A) Cancel the Sprint.
B) Change the Sprint Goal.
C) Re-work the selected Product Backlog items with the Developers to meet the
Sprint Goal.
D) Skip Product Backlog refinement activities.
E) Inform management that more resources are needed.

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Question 56 of 60
How much work must a Developers do to a Product Backlog item it selects for a
Sprint?
A) As much as it has told the Product Owner will be done for every Product
Backlog item it selects in conformance with the definition of done.
B) As much as it can fit into the Sprint.
C) All development work and at least some testing.
D) Analysis, design, programming and testing.

Question 57 of 60
Which of the following is not a Scrum cycle activity?
A) Sprint retrospective
B) Daily scrum
C) Weekly inspection
D) Sprint planning

Question 58 of 60
You have just been hired by a company new to Scrum. Your management has
assigned you to be the Scrum Teams. These teams will build one product. Select
two conditions you should strive for this scenario:
A) There should be six Product Owners, one for each Scrum Team.
B) The product has one Product Backlog.
C) There should be only on Product Owner.
D) There should be six Product Owners, reporting to a chief Product Owner.
E) Each Scrum Team should have a separate Product Backlog.

Question 59 of 60
The Product Owner’s authority to change and update the Product Backlog is
unlimited, except for:
A) Decisions by the CFO, the CEO or the board of directors.
B) Nothing. The entire organization must respect a Product Owner’s decisions.
C) Decisions by the chief program manager.
D) Technical and architectural work that needs to be done first

Question 60 of 60
What variables should a Product Owner consider when ordering the Product
Backlog?
A) Effort first, then value
B) Development cohesion as indicated by the Developers
C) Lowest development cost in order to maximize ROI
D) The availability of resources and skills for implementation
E) Whatever is most appropriate for the Product Owner to achieve the product’s
goals and to optimize the value received

Good luck ☺

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