| The role of Scrum Master in the Sprint Retrospective is
a) Auditor
b) Silent observer
c) Peer Team Member
d) None of the above | c) Peer Team Member |
| To deliver a single product three different scrum teams are formed. How many Product owners are needed?
a) As many as recommended by Scrum master.
b) Three
a) One | a) One |
| Scrum Framework is founded on
a) Empiricism
b) Empiricism and technical practices
c) Empiricism and emotional intelligence | a) Empiricism |
| After sprint review, Production release in Scrum requires
a) Hardening sprint
b) Non -functional Testing
c) Architectural Validation
d) Usability/End user testing
e) All of the above
f) None of the above | f) None of the above |
| A scrum team crafts the following Sprint Goal: "All the Sprint code should have passed 100% automated unit tests".
a) Not an appropriate goal since sprint goal should be about expected Business value.
b) It is incorrect since the product owner formulates the Goal not the Scrum team.
c) It is well formed Sprint goal. | a) Not an appropriate goal since sprint goal should be about expected Business value.
The Sprint Goal Reflects the intended Business functionality that will be delivered in a sprint. |
| One of the Scrum teams choose to have developers also play the role of scrum master part time. The Developer cannot also play the Scrum master role
a) True
b) False | b) False |
| The Duration length of the Sprint is decided by
a) Product owner
b) Scrum master
c) Scrum Team | c) Scrum Team |
| During a Daily meeting which plan is used as a reference to understand the changes in progress?
a) Sprint Backlog
b) Product Backlog
c) Sprint Burn Down | a) Sprint Backlog |
| An important executive wants the developers to take in a highly critical feature in the current sprint. The Developers
a) Should work on that since the organization's priority is more important.
b) Should ask the executive to work with the Product owner
c) As an empowered team they should ask the executive to select the work to be removed so that there will be the same amount of work in the sprint. | b) Should ask the executive to work with the Product owner |
| The Scrum team is in the process of defining Product backlog items. The Scrum master notices that the team is not using a User Story Format to capture the Backlog items. The Scrum master should
a) Correct the teams behavior by teaching them about user stories.
b) Let the team decide the format of product backlog items
c) Add a business analyst with knowledge of writing user stories to the team with specif responsibility of documenting backlog items in terms of user stories | b) Let the team decide the format of product backlog items |
| The Scrum Team uses the information of Scrum artifacts to make ongoing decisions. The soundness of these decisions depends on the
a) Artifacts Adaptability
b) Artifacts Transparency
c) Artifacts Agility
d) Artifacts Format | b) Artifacts Transparency |
| An Organization decides to have small scrum teams with less than three developers. The likely result could be
a) The team may have decreased interaction.
b) The Team may have skill shortage
c) The Team may low productivity gains
d) All of the above | d) All of the above
While Scrum team should be small enough to nimble, fewer than three developers decreases interaction and results in smaller productivity gains. Smaller Scrum Team may encounter skill constraints during the sprint causing the developers to be unable to deliver a valuable and useful increment. |
| The Product development Project is about delivering an internal feature for an organization. The team has good skill composition and worked on similar projects. The Sprint length can be
a) Decided after First release
b) Ignored since it is an internal project.
c) A maximum of one calendar month | c) A maximum of one calendar month |
| Select all that apply. Empiricism provides
a) Frequent opportunities to obtain information so uncertainty can be completely eliminated
b) Frequent opportunities to discuss different possibilities
c) Frequent opportunities to make informed decision reducing risk | b) Frequent opportunities to discuss different possibilities
c) Frequent opportunities to make informed decision reducing risk |
| The leadership model followed by Scrum master is
a) Micro Management
b) Servant Leadership
c) Command and Control | b) Servant Leadership |
| During the Sprint Review, the Stakeholder notice that the Product development progress is not clearly visible and lacks transparency. Moreover they are not able to understand the next steps. Who is responsible for this
a) Developers
b) Product Owner
c) Scrum Master
d) Scrum team | b) Product Owner |
| In the middle of the sprint a team member was required by another department manager to support an important task outside the Sprint work. What is recommended for the team member to do?
a) The team member must support since it is important task.
b) The Team member should ask the manager to speak with Scrum Master.
c) The Team member should politely decline and explain to the manager his responsibility and accountability to the Scrum team | c) The Team member should politely decline and explain to the manager his responsibility and accountability to the Scrum team |
| When more Scrum teams are added to a project that works o a single product, the Productivity of the original Scrum team most likely will increase.
a) True
b) False | b) False |
| Within just few sprints, Scrum increases the Transparency of the following
a) Technical ability of the team to create the Product increment.
b) Information of real Progress
c) Both | c) Both
Since the Sprints completes one full cycle of development activities including Sprint Planning, Developing, Delivering a valuable and useful increment etc. useful information and transparency is available |
| The architecture features of the product need to be
a) Evolved along with Sprint Deliveries.
b) Completely designed upfront before the sprints.
c) Decided at least at a Skeleton level in sprint Zero | a) Evolved along with Sprint Deliveries. |
| A sprint that is longer than one calendar month may result in
a) Too much to inspect in short meetings
b) Detached Stakeholders
c) Increased complexity needing more traditional controls like documentation.
d) All the above | d) All the above |
| The work left against time is shown by
a) Team velocity
b) Burn Down graph
c) Story Points
d) Release Burn Up Chart | b) Burn Down graph |
| In sprint review, along with the review of the product increment and progress, "What (Steps) to do next" is also discussed.
a) False
b) True the scope of next increment is also finalized here.
c) True, it may capture probable backlog items for the next sprint, but the scope of the next sprint is deferred until sprint planning. | c) True, it may capture probable backlog items for the next sprint, but the scope of the next sprint is deferred until sprint planning. |
| In the middle of the Sprint the product owner wants the Developers to participate in am important meeting with a group of customers.
a) The Developers should strive to work on item related to current sprint. They should involve the Scrum master who can educate the product owner to defer such interruptions and if required plan them in next sprint.
b) The Developers should participate in meetings since it is with customers.
c) The developers should stop the Current sprint work until that meeting to ensure they clearly understand the customers concerns. | a) The Developers should strive to work on item related to current sprint. They should involve the Scrum master who can educate the product owner to defer such interruptions and if required plan them in next sprint |
| A scrum team decides that the frequency of the Daily scrum should be reduced to once a week.
a) The Scrum team is self managing and can choose their own practices.
b) Self Management is alright, but such decisions need to be approved by Agile Coach. So they should involve the Agile Coach.
c) Self Management is about how to get the Sprint work done but must follow Scrum. So the Scrum Master should strive to coach the Team on the essentials of Daily Scrum. | c) Self Management is about how to get the Sprint work done but must follow Scrum. So the Scrum Master should strive to coach the Team on the essentials of Daily Scrum. |
| Who performs inspection of work in Scrum?
a) External Audit team
b) Scrum Master at Defied Inspection points.
c) Developers | c) Developers |
| During the Daily Scrum, a team member says he does not know when his task will be complete
a) It is acceptable as the Sprint Review date is far away.
b) Replace the Team member with new Team member
c) The developers should collaborate to plan alternative steps such as pairing this member with someone else, etc to eliminate the risk of not meeting the Sprint Goal.
d) Ask the Scrum Master to mentor the team member on how to estimate the task. | c) The developers should collaborate to plan alternative steps such as pairing this member with someone else, etc to eliminate the risk of not meeting the Sprint Goal. |
| In every sprint, the working increment should be tested progressively from unit testing, to integration testing, and then user acceptance testing.
a) Yes, It is the Prescribed method.
b) No, the Test strategy is decided by Quality Assurance lead.
c) Not Necessary, While the team need to ensure that each increment is thoroughly tested, all increments work together and meets the definition of done, it is up to the team to find the best method to achieve this.
d) Incorrect, it should also include non functional testing. | c) Not Necessary, While the team need to ensure that each increment is thoroughly tested, all increments work together and meets the definition of done, it is up to the team to find the best method to achieve this. |
| You are on a scrum team that is in the middle of a Sprint. Your team gets some additional team members. The Likely result is
a) The team can take more stories on top of the originally forecast sprint backlog.
b) The team will have to do a Sprint planning again and get buy in from the new members on the new planning.
c) The Team may suffer in its productivity. | c) The Team may suffer in its productivity. |
| A scrum team needs to develop a web application in increments. Some of the sprints have sprint Goal like : Develop Data layer for Functionality A. What is your inference?
a) The Scrum team follows horizontal Decomposition off backlog items. This is Recommended.
b) The Scrum team follows Vertical decomposition of backlog items. This is recommended.
c) The Scrum team follows Horizontal decomposition of the Product backlog items. This is not recommended.
d) The Scrum team follows vertical decomposition of the product backlog items. This is not recommended. | c) The Scrum team follows Horizontal decomposition of the Product backlog items. This is not recommended.
It is preferable to decompose Product backlog items such that each team can produce usable business Functionality instead of Producing Technical component.
Such Decomposition based on usable Business functionality is called vertical decomposition.
A Horizontal Decomposition, on the other hand makes the team a technical component team that will have external dependencies |
| The Definition of Done is
a) Initially defined per product by Scrum team, but may change throughout the Production development duration.
b) Initially defined by Scrum team and does not change
c) Defined after the first sprint based on the new insights obtained from the First sprint Review. | a) Initially defined per product by Scrum team, but may change throughout the Production development duration. |
| Which of the Following statements is true? Select all that apply
a) After Sprint planning, a sprint cannot proceed without complete requirement specification.
b) After Sprint planning the Sprint cannot proceed without Sprint Goal.
c) After Sprint planning the Sprint can proceed without a complete sprint backlog.
d) After Sprint planning, a sprint cannot proceed without complete Architecture. | b) After Sprint planning the Sprint cannot proceed without Sprint Goal.
c) After Sprint planning the Sprint can proceed without a complete sprint backlog. |
| A scrum team is self managing and empowered, it means it has authority on internally deciding who does what, when and how.
a) True
b) False | a) True |
| Who decides the duration of the Sprint
a) Product Manager
b) Scrum Master
c) Developers
d) Scrum Team | d) Scrum Team |
| A product owner is not available for scrum events and not supportive enough for the developers. The Next immediate accountability is with the
a) Developers who need to cancel the sprint.
b) Stakeholders who need to get written commitment from the Product owner.
c) Product owner's manager who need to engage the Developers and understand their problems
d) Scrum Master who needs to educate the Product owner on his role. | d) Scrum Master who needs to educate the Product owner on his role. |
| When is the Product backlog retired?
a) when the Product owner retired.
b) When all the sprints are over.
c) When the Product retires.
d) When a customer provide sign off on the Completion of the Project. | c) When the Product retires. |
| A product owner cannot send a representative (delegate) to the sprint Review.
a) True
b) False | a) True
A product owner though accountable for a product backlog can delegate many of the activities around the Product Backlog management, such writing them, ordering them etc. However they cannot delegate their participation in the Scrum Events. |
| A product owner is also knowledgeable on technology. In addition to product requirements, they also impose some technical conditions that the product should meet. These conditions must be added to the
a) Product backlog
b) Sprint Backlog
c) Definition of Done | c) Definition of Done
Every Product backlog item should be about product's needs to bring business value. The Conditions that the Product owner brings here is about the technical constraints.So, it should be added to Definition of Done |
| An Increment is
a) The sum of the value of all increments from previous sprints integrated with the done product backlogs items in the latest sprint.
b) The sum of the Product backlog items selected into sprint backlog.
c) The sum of the Product backlog items done in the latest sprint. | a) The sum of the value of all increments from previous sprints integrated with the done product backlogs items in the latest sprint. |
| Which are true statements? select all that apply.
a) The Scrum team is responsible for formulating the sprint goal.
b) When existing product backlog items in the Sprint backlog are modified, the sprint goal is bound to become invalid.
c) The coherence between product backlog items is made transparent by the sprint Goal. Lack of Coherence will lead to the developers working individually | a) The Scrum team is responsible for formulating the sprint goal.
c) The coherence between product backlog items is made transparent by the sprint Goal. Lack of Coherence will lead to the developers working individually |
| Which is not the product backlog management activity?
a) Clearly expressing and ordering Product backlog items.
b) Optimizing the value of the work of the Developers.
c) Using formal change control to manage product backlog when the market provides feedback from product usage.
d) Ensuring the developers understand items in the product backlog to the level needed. | c) Using formal change control to manage product backlog when the market provides feedback from product usage. |
| Select all that apply. The Scrum team must participate in
a) Sprint Planning
b) Daily Scrum
c) Sprint Review
d) Sprint Retrospective | a) Sprint Planning
c) Sprint Review
d) Sprint Retrospective |
| An inspector finds a work aspect deviate outside acceptable limits, and that the resulting product will be unacceptable. When will the team adjust this work aspect to minimize the deviation?
a) In the next Scrum event.
b) As soon as possible.
c) After the Scrum master approves the Adjustment | b) As soon as possible. |
| A scrum team can identify the improvements only during the sprint retrospective
a) True
b) False | b) False |
| For the first sprint, the inputs are the Product backlog and projected capacity of the developers. What are the additional inputs to the subsequent sprints? Select all that apply.
a) The defect list from the previous sprint
b) The Sprint Plan
c) The past performance of the Developers
d) The latest product increment | c) The past performance of the Developers
d) The latest product increment |
| When a sprint is cancelled, the Scrum team discards all the work and refines a new product backlog.
a) True
b) False | b) False
The team still conducts the sprint review to review Done Product log items. If part of the work is valuable and useful, the Product owner typically accepts it. All incomplete product backlog items are re estimated and put back into pRoduct backlog . |
| At the end of the Sprint planning, the Developers could not decompose all the work into units of one day or less. It could only decompose the work only for first few days of the sprint.
a) The Developers should close the sprint planning and start the work.
b) Since the team is self managing, they should continue sprint planning in the following days before they start the work.
c) The Scrum master should coach the team in the Required skills. | a) The Developers should close the sprint planning and start the work. |
| What is the key inspect and adopt meeting for the Developers?
a) Project status meeting.
b) Daily Scrum
c) Design Sessions | b) Daily Scrum |
| Which are true statements select all that apply.
a) Only the Product owner should update the Product backlog without updating to anyone.
b) Only the Developers should be responsible for the estimates of the product backlog items.
c) Only the Product owner should cancel the Sprint, others can influence the decision to cancel.
d) Only the Product owner can change the sprint backlog | b) Only the Developers should be responsible for the estimates of the product backlog items.
c) Only the Product owner should cancel the Sprint, others can influence the decision to cancel. |
| Who defines the definition of done ?
a) Developers
b) Technical/Domain Experts
c) Product owners
d) Scrum Team | a) Developers
The Definition of done is developed by the Developers with conditions that are acceptable to the Product owner |
| Select all that apply. Which Scrum events facilitate inspection & Adoption
a) Sprint
b) Backlog Refinement
c) Sprint Retrospective
d) Development work | d) Sprint Retrospective
Just Sprint Retrospective as other than Sprint which is a container for these four events of Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective facilitate Inspection & Adoption |
