PSM-I Online Practice Questions and Answers

When is a Sprint over?

A. When the Product Owner says it is done.

B. When all Product Backlog items meet their definition of "Done".

C. When all the tasks are completed.

D. When the time-box expires.

How much time is required after a Sprint to prepare for the next Sprint?

A. The break between Sprints is time-boxed to 1 week for 30 day Sprints, and usually less for shorter sprints.

B. Enough time for the requirements for the next Sprint to be determined and documented.

C. Enough time for the Development team to finish the testing from the last Sprint.

D. None. A new Sprint starts immediately following the end of the previous Sprint.

E. All of the above are allowed depending on the situation.

Which answer best describes the topics covered in Sprint Planning?

A. What to do and who will do it.

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

C. What can be done and how to do it.

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

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

During a Sprint, when is new work or further decomposition of work added to the Sprint Backlog?

A. When the Product Owner identifies new work.

B. As soon as possible after they are identified.

C. When the Scrum Master has time to enter them.

D. During the Daily Scrum after the Development Team approves them.

Which Scrum Values are violated by building Product Backlog items that have low business value? (Choose three.)

A. Economic Value Added.

B. Respect.

C. Focus.

D. Earned Value.

E. Courage.

How much of the Sprint Backlog must be defined during the Sprint Planning event?

A. Just enough tasks for the Scrum Master to be confident in the Development Team's understanding of the Sprint.

B. The entire Sprint Backlog must be identified and estimated by the end of the Sprint Planning meeting.

C. Enough so the Development Team can create its best forecast of what is can do, and to start the first several days of the Sprint.

D. Just enough to understand design and architectural implications.

Which Scrum Value is affected by a lack of trust in the Scrum Team?

A. Focus

B. Respect

C. Openness

D. Courage

E. Commitment

F. All of the above

Which statement best describes a Product Owner's responsibility? (Choose the best answer.)

A. Optimizing the value of the work the Scrum Team does.

B. Ensuring that the work meets the commitments to the stakeholders.

C. Directing the Development Team.

D. Keep stakeholders from distracting the Development Team.

The Product Owner determines how many Product Backlog items the Development Team selects for a Sprint.

A. False.

B. True, accordingly to what was committed to the stakeholders.

C. True, but only after confirmation by the resource manager that the Team has enough capacity.

D. True.

E. False, the Scrum Master does that.

F. False, capacity and commitment are the Project manager's responsibility.

An Increment must be released to customers or users at the end of each Sprint.

A. True

B. False

What factor should be considered when establishing the Sprint length?

A. The frequency at which team formation can be changed.

B. The organization has mandated similar length sprints.

C. The organization's release schedule.

D. The need for the team to learn based on doing work and measuring results.

When does a Developer become accountable for an item in the Sprint Backlog? (Choose the best answer.)

A. During the Daily Scrum.

B. As soon as a Developer on the Scrum Team can accommodate more work.

C. Never. All Developers on the Scrum Team share accountability for items in the Sprint Backlog.

D. At Sprint Planning when all of the Sprint Backlog items are split evenly across the Developers.

You are the Scrum Master for four Scrum Teams working from the same Product Backlog. Several of the developers come to you complaining that work identified for the upcoming two Sprints will require full-time commitment from a technical specialist who is external to the teams. What are two key concerns for the Scrum Master to take into account in this situation? (Choose two.)

A. The desire to maintain a stable velocity.

B. The benefit of Development Teams figuring out a solution for themselves.

C. The need to have enough work to keep all Development Team members busy.

D. The ability of the Scrum Teams to produce integrated Increments.

Which best describes the Product Backlog?

A. It is allowed to grow and change as more is learned about the product and its customers.

B. It provides just enough information to enable a Scrum team to start the design phase of a product.

C. It contains all foreseeable tasks and requirements from which the Scrum team can develop and maintain a complete project plan.

D. It is baselined to follow change management processes.

What are two ways that architecture and infrastructure are handled in Scrum? (Choose two.)

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

B. They are implemented along with functional development of the product.

C. They are added to the Product Backlog and addressed in early Sprints, while always requiring at least some business functionality, no matter how small.

D. They are built by a separate team through the creation of an architectural runway.