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Practice for Professional Scrum Product Owner Certification (Scrum Guide 2017)

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What are the three advantages of a product owner with a solid product vision? ß

It helps the Scrum team keep focus and they can check any decision against it, even within a Sprint. ß

It helps the Scrum team maintain focus on when the complete Product Backlog should be finished.

It's not mandatory in Scrum. There's no real advantage.

It's easier to inspect incremental progress at the Sprint Review.

It gives a good overall direction so sprints will feel less like isolated pieces of work.
What are the two primary ways a Scrum Master keeps a Development Team working at its ß
highest level of productivity?

By keeping high value features high in the Product Backlog ß

By facilitating Development Team decisions

By ensuring the meetings start and end at the proper time

By removing impediments that hinder the Development Team

What are three benefits of self-organization? ß

Increased commitment ß

Increased rule compliance

Increased self-accountability

Increased creativity

Increased accuracy of estimates

What are three ways Scrum promotes self-organization? ß

By not allowing documentation ß

By preventing stakeholders from entering the development room

By removing titles for Development Team members

 By being a lightweight framework

By the Development Team deciding what work to do in a Sprint

What are two good answers a Scrum Master might give their manager and Product Owner when ß
they say they have allocated budget for a first Sprint to figure out architecture and
infrastructure issues?

Explain that Sprints are time-boxed and that one Sprint may not be enough to fully determine architecture. ß

Agree that architecture and infrastructure are best handled before starting Scrum.

Explain that the developers will reach out to the system architect when needed during each Sprint Planning meeting.

Encourage the Product Owner to include some business functionality in the Sprint.

Explain that the best architecture and infrastructure emerge alongside the development of functionality.

What are two good ways for a Scrum Team to ensure security concerns are satisfied? ß

Postpone the work until a specialist can perform a security audit and create a list of security-related Product ß
Backlog items.

Add security concerns to the definition of "Done".

Add a Sprint to specifically resolve all security concerns.

Delegate the work to the concerned department.

Have the Scrum Team create Product Backlog items for each concern.
What are two good ways for the Development Team to make non-functional requirements ß
visible?

Put them on a separate list on the Scrum board, available for all to see. ß

Add them to the Product Backlog and keep the Product Owner posted on the expected effort.

Run the integration and regression tests before the end of the Sprint, and capture the open work for the Sprint Backlog of
the next Sprint.

Run the integration and regression tests before the end of the Sprint, and capture the open work for the Sprint Backlog of
the next Sprint.

Add them to the definition of "Done" so the work is taken care of every Sprint.

What are two responsibilities of testers in a Development Team? ß

Finding bugs ß

Everyone in the Development Team is responsible for quality

Scrum has no "tester" role

Verifying the work of programmers

Tracking quality metrics

What are two ways that architecture and infrastructure are handled in Scrum? ß

They are added to the Product Backlog and addressed in early Sprints, while always requiring at least some ß
business functionality, no matter how small.
 They are built by a separate team through the creation of an architectural runway.

They are discussed, determined, and documented before the actual feature development Sprints

They are implemented along with functional development of the product

What best describes the relationship of the Product Owner and the stakeholders? ß

The Product Owner writes the User Stories as provided by the stakeholders. ß

The Product Owner has the final call over the requirements and should involve the stakeholders as little as possible.

The Product Owner actively asks for stakeholder input and expectations to process into the Product Backlog.

The Product Owner provides the stakeholders with acceptance forms at the Sprint Review to record their formal
agreement over the delivered software.

What does it mean for a Development Team to be cross-functional? ß

The Development Team includes individuals who are able to contribute all that is necessary to deliver an increment ß
of software.

Developers on the Development Team work closely with business analysts, architects, developers and testers who are
not on the team.

The Development Team includes not only developers but also business analysts, architects, developers and testers.

The Development Team is a virtual team drawing from separate teams of business analysts, architects, developers and
testers.
What does it mean to say that an event has a time-box? ß

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

The event must take at least a minimum amount of time.

The event must happen by a given time.

The event must happen at a set time.

What enhances the transparency of an increment? ß

Doing all work needed to meet the definition of "done" ß

Updating sprint tasks properly in the electronic tracking tool

Keeping track of and estimating all undone work to be completed in a separate sprint

Reporting sprint progress to the stakeholders daily

What happens if the Development Team cannot complete its work by the end of the time-box? ß

Scrum shall be abandoned. ß

The time-box is extended temporarily. Lessons are taken to ensure it doesn't happen again.

The time-box holds and the Development Team continuously learns what is actually possible to do within a time-box.

The time-box is adjusted permanently to reflect reality.

What is a Development Team responsible for? ß

Resolving internal team conflicts ß

Selecting the Product Owner

Reporting productivity

Organizing the work required to meet the Sprint Goal

What is a Product Backlog? ß

It is a living artifact of product requirements that exists and evolves as long as a product exists. ß

It is a formally approved list of requirements to be implemented over a set period.

It is a detailed list of functionality from which the Development Team draws items, to be complemented by a separate
Technology Backlog managed by the Development Team.

It is a list of references to Use Case documents that are stored in a central repository. The references should be viewable
and clickable by anybody to enhance transparency.

What is included in the Sprint Backlog? ß

 User Stories ß

Use Cases

Tasks

Tests

Any of the above (or others) which are a decomposition of the selected Product Backlog items

What is NOT a benefit of self-organization to the Development Team? ß

Increased commitment ß

Increased feeling of accountability

Increased creativity

Management can remove a failing resource more easily

What is Product Owner work that a Product Owner might delegate? ß

Order the Product Backlog ß

Represent stakeholders to the Scrum team

Attend the Sprint Review

Write user stories

What is the accountability of the Product Owner during Sprint 0? ß

Make sure enough Product Backlog items are refined to fill the first 3 Sprints. ß
 Make the complete project plan to commit date, budget and scope to the stakeholders.

Determine the composition of the Development Teams so they have the capacity to deliver the completed forecast.

There is no such thing as Sprint 0.

Gathering, eliciting, and analyzing the requirements that will be inserted into the Product Backlog.

What is the best suited structure for Development Teams in order to produce integrated ß
Increments?

Each Development Team works only on one technical layer of the system (e.g. GUI, database, middle tier, ß
interfaces).

Each Development Team develops functionality from beginning to end throughout all technical layers.

What is the key concern when multiple Development Teams are working from the same Product ß
Backlog?

Minimizing dependencies between teams. ß

Clear definition of requirements.

Meeting original scope projections.

Making sure there's enough work for everyone on every team.

 Maximizing velocity

What is the main reason for the Scrum Master to be at the Daily Scrum? ß

To gather status and progress information to report to management. ß

To write down any changes to the Sprint Backlog, including adding new items, and tracking progress on the burn-down.

He or she does not have to be there; he or she only has to ensure the Development Team has a Daily Scrum.

To make sure every team member answers the three questions.

What is the maximum length of a Sprint? ß

Not so long that the risk is unacceptable to the Product Owner. ß

Not so long that other business events can't be readily synchronized with the development work.

No more than one calendar month.

All of these answers are correct.

What is the role of the Product Owner in crafting the Sprint Goal? ß

The Product Owner shouldn't come to the Sprint Planning without a clearly defined Sprint Goal ß

The Product Owner should come to the Sprint Planning with a business objective in mind and work with the
Development Team to craft the Sprint Goal based upon the forecast.

The Product Owner has no role in it. This is the Development Team's responsibility

The Product Owner defines the scope for a Sprint and therefore also the Sprint Goal

The Product Owner must work with the stakeholders to set each Sprint's Goal
What is the primary way a Scrum Master keeps a Development Team working at its highest level ß
of productivity?

By facilitating Development Team decisions and removing impediments. ß

By ensuring the meetings start and end at the proper time.

By preventing changes to the backlogs once the Sprint begins.

By keeping high value features high in the Product Backlog.

What is the Product Owner accountable for in Scrum? ß

Describing an Increment at the Sprint Planning and make sure that the Development Team delivers it by the end of ß
the Sprint

Creating and sustaining a Product Backlog that maximizes value and represents the needs and expectations of the
stakeholders

Refining the top level Product Backlog items until they are ready to be handed over to the Development Team

Writing the User Stories so they are understandable to stakeholders

What is the purpose of a Sprint Review? ß

 To take time to judge the validity of the project. ß

To inspect the product increment with the stakeholders and collect feedback on next steps.

To review the Scrum Team's activities and processes during the Sprint.

To build team sprint.

What is the recommended size for a Development Team (within the Scrum Team)? ß

3 to 9 ß

7 plus or minus 2

Minimum 7

What is the role of Management in Scrum? ß

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

Continually monitor staffing levels of the Development Team.

Identify and remove people that aren't working hard enough.

Monitor the Development Team's productivity

What is the tactic a Scrum Master should use to divide a group of 100 people into multiple ß
Development Teams?
 Ask the Product Owner to assign the people to teams. ß

Create teams based on their skills across multiple layers (such as database,Ul. etc.).

Ask the developers to divide themselves into teams.

What is the time-box for the Sprint Planning meeting? ß

4 Hours for a monthly Sprint ß

Monthly

8 Hours for a monthly Sprint

Whenever it is done

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