PSM-II Online Practice Questions and Answers

A Development Team has a total of six members, 4 members who work full time in the office and 2 members who work part time at home. The Development Team is complaining that it is too difficult to synchronize every day and has suggested having the Daily Scrum every other day instead.

What would be three key concerns if the Daily Scrum is held less frequently? (Choose three.)

A. Impediments are raised and resolved more slowly.

B. Opportunities to inspect and adapt the Sprint Backlog are reduced.

C. Less information about the progress will be shared causing the Sprint plan to become inaccurate and reducing transparency over progress toward the Sprint Goal.

D. The Scrum Master loses the ability to update the burndown chart adequately.

E. The Product Owner cannot accurately inspect utilization of the individual team members.

Select two ways in which Scrum uses time-boxing to promote self-organization? (Choose two.)

A. Time-boxes ensures that the Development Team commits to completing the items in the Sprint Backlog by the end of the Sprint.

B. Time-boxes encourage the ones closest to the problem make the best possible decisions within the time-frame given the current situation.

C. Time-boxes can help teams plan how many additional Sprints is needed for User Acceptance testing.

D. Time-boxes helps everybody concentrate on the same problem at the same time.

Which two statements best describe a Sprint Goal? (Choose two.)

A. Sprint Goals are defined when the completed work is reviewed at the end of a Sprint.

B. Sprint Goals give the Development Teams flexibility and creativity on how to implement functionality during the Sprint.

C. During the Sprint Planning, the entire Scrum Team collaboratively crafts a Sprint Goal based on a business objective that the Product Owner would like to achieve that Sprint.

D. Sprint Goals can change as new insights emerge during the Sprint.

What would be typical Scrum Master activities during the Sprint?

A. Monitor the progress of the Development Team and assigning tasks.

B. Remove impediments and facilitating inspection and adaptation opportunities as requested or needed.

C. Avoiding conflicts and escalating to the line managers if conflicts occur.

What is the most appropriate action for the Scrum Master to take if the Product Owner is having difficulties managing the Product Backlog?

A. Have the Development Team order the work instead of the Product Owner.

B. Have the Product Owner order the items based on size, having the Development Team work on the smallest items first.

C. Offer the Product Owner help in understanding that the goal of ordering the Product Backlog is to maximize the flow of value.

D. Delegate the work to the Assistant Product Owner.

E. Delay the Sprint in order for the Product Owner to have enough time to prioritize the Product Backlog.

Several Sprints into a project, a client is complaining to the Product Owner about the poor performance of the product. As a Scrum Master, how can you help the Product Owner?

A. Coach the Product Owner on effective ways to communicate this concern to the Development Team and encourage the Product Owner to add the performance issue to the Product Backlog.

B. Tell the Product Owner performance is defined by the Development Team.

C. Note the issue for the next Sprint Retrospective.

D. Notify the team responsible for system performance.

A new Product Owner is hired to work on an existing product that has ongoing for five Sprints. He/she is unsure about all of the responsibilities of a Product Owner. Which of these Product Owner's activities are defined in Scrum?

A. Writing User Stories.

B. Interacting with stakeholders and ensuring that the most valuable functionality is always produced first.

C. Describing features as Use Cases.

D. Ensuring work is completed within scope and time.

What is the Development Team responsible for?

A. Writing User Stories and ordering the Product Backlog.

B. Reporting productivity and selecting the Sprint time-box.

C. Organizing the work required to meet the Sprint Goal and resolving internal team conflicts.

According to Scrum theory, how should a group of fifty people be divided into multiple Development Teams?

A. Allow the team leads to divide and select teams.

B. Understanding the product, the product vision and the Scrum framework, the group self-organizes into teams.

C. Create a skills matrix, identify role levels, and years of experience to assign people to teams.

D. The teams will rotate members every Sprint to spread knowledge.

What would be the responsibilities of a self-organizing Development Team?

A. Update stakeholders on the daily progress and keep the burn-down chart updated.

B. Select the Product Backlog items for the Sprint and do the work planned in the Sprint Backlog.

C. Writing User Stories and reordering the Product Backlog.

D. Deciding on the value of the product features and value estimations.

What Product Owner activities occur between the end of the current Sprint and the beginning of the next Sprint?

A. Product Backlog refinement.

B. Updating stakeholders on project progress.

C. There are no such activities. When the current Sprint ends, the new Sprint begins.

D. Participate as a team member at the Sprint Retrospective.

What are typical Product Owner activities during Sprint 0?

A. Creating a project plan based on the defined timeline.

B. Ensuring there is enough work to do for at least three Sprints.

C. Creating User Stories based on the requirements document.

D. Allocating enough resources before starting Sprint 1.

E. There is no such thing as Sprint.

What must the Development Team do during the first Sprint?

A. Create a potentially shippable product Increment that includes at least one piece of functionality.

B. Analyze and estimate the requirements for the subsequent Sprints.

C. Create a project plan in order to map functional development to Sprint dates.

D. Only design and develop the architecture and infrastructure.

Which two options describe how project budgeting and financial forecasting work in Scrum? (Choose two.)

A. It is ideally revisited as frequently as each Sprint to ensure value is being delivered for the investment spent.

B. Scrum does not align with traditional accounting practices. The financial department needs to be given a fixed cost per Sprint per team.

C. Several Sprints may be funded as a single release, with the result of each Sprint being releasable product.

D. The only funding is for the run cost (time and materials) of the Scrum Teams, so no budgeting process is needed.

In the Daily Scrum, the Product Owner applauds every Developer who moves a Sprint Backlog item to completion. The Product Owner wants to encourage the Developers to make progress visible on the burn-down chart. Select the two best options for the Scrum Master to take. (Choose two.)

A. Take the opportunity to create more energy and team spirit and encourage everyone to participate in the applause.

B. Nothing. The Scrum Master does not attend the Daily Scrum.

C. Tell the Product Owner your concerns about how his behavior may impact the Developers, and ask him to stop attending the Daily Scrum for some time.

D. Coach the Scrum Team about the purpose of the Daily Scrum.