PSM II Professional Scrum Master II Topic 2
Question #: 41
Topic #: 1
Which two scenarios would best represent a self-organizing Development Team? (Choose two.)
A. The Development Team members are strictly focused on the work within their functional role and always handing off the work to other roles in a timely matter.
B. Management works with the Scrum Master to optimize the Development Team’s progress during the Sprint.
C. Development Team members collaboratively select and re-plan their work throughout the Sprint.
D. The Development Team invites external people to the Sprint Planning to help them create a complete and detailed Sprint Backlog.
E. The Development Team creates its own Sprint Backlog, reflecting all work that is part of the Definition of Done.
Selected Answer: A
Question #: 42
Topic #: 1
Steven is a Scrum Master of a Development Team that has members working in different cities and time zones. Organizing the Scrum events is time consuming and requires a lot of effort to set up and run. The Development Team proposes to only hold the Daily Scrum on Mondays.
Which two responses would be most appropriate from Steven? (Choose two.)
A. Coach the team on why having a Daily Scrum every day is an important opportunity to update the Sprint plan and how it helps the team self-organize work toward achieving the Sprint Goal.
B. Ensure that there is an overall consensus by having the Development Team members vote.
C. Help the Development Team understand that lowering the frequency of communication will only increase the feeling of disconnect between the team members.
D. Acknowledge and support their decision.
Selected Answer: C
Question #: 43
Topic #: 1
Steven is a Scrum Master of a Scrum Team that is new to Scrum. At the halfway point of the Sprint, the Product Owner comes to Steven telling him that he is concerned the Development Team will not be able to complete the entire Sprint Backlog by the end of the Sprint.
What should Steven do in this situation?
A. Motivate the Development Team to meet their commitment to the Product Owner.
B. Coach the Product Owner that with complex software development, you cannot promise the entire scope that was forecast during Sprint Planning. As more is learned during the Sprint, work may emerge that affects the Sprint Backlog.
C. Advise the Product Owner that the Development Team owns the Sprint Backlog and it is up to them to meet their commitments. No one tells the Development Team how to turn Product Backlog into Increments of potentially releasable functionality.
D. Add more people to the Development Team to meet the Product Owner’s expectations.
Selected Answer: C
Question #: 44
Topic #: 1
Scrum addresses which of the following four risks in software development? (Choose four.)
A. The complexity and unpredictability of the requirements.
B. The stability and complexity of the technology.
C. The skills and working relationships of the people on the teams.
D. The timescale of the planned work.
E. The clear definitions of stages and gateways in the overall governance model.
F. The definition of incentive and bonus strategies by HR for all team members.
Selected Answer: D
Question #: 45
Topic #: 1
After several Sprints, a key stakeholder starts using the product. The stakeholder is surprised by the slow performance and complains to the Product Owner. The
Product Owner comes to the Scrum Master asking for advice.
What is the best action for a Scrum Master to take?
A. Wait until the next Sprint Retrospective as it is the most opportune time to modify the Definition of Done.
B. Bring the concern to the testers in the Development Team and ask them to include performance testing.
C. Explain to the Product Owner that it’s up to the Development Team to. decide on acceptable performance standards as they own the Definition of Done.
D. Encourage the Product Owner to bring the performance concerns to the Development Team and work with them on how to improve performance, and ultimately have stronger Definition of Done.
Selected Answer: C
Question #: 46
Topic #: 1
During the Sprint Review, the Product Owner decides to release the current Increment to production. The stakeholders suggest temporarily delaying the next
Sprint in order to respond more quickly to user feedback after the release. The Product Owner prefers to continue to the next Sprint and make progress towards the next release. Steven, the Scrum Master, begins facilitating the discussion.
What would be two acceptable outcomes of the discussion? (Choose two.)
A. Continue with the Sprints and include the customer feedback in the Product Backlog.
B. Delay the next Sprint to allow the Development Team to work on new customer feedback.
C. Continue with the Sprints but shorten the Sprint time-boxes to allow for shorter feedback loops.
D. Continue with the Sprints but allow the Sprint Goal within the Sprint to change according to the customer feedback.
Selected Answer: AD
Question #: 47
Topic #: 1
At the Sprint Planning, the Development Team is not able to forecast the number of Product Backlog items it can do in the upcoming Sprint due to unclear requirements. The Product Owner, however, was able to clearly define the business objective he hopes to achieve in the Sprint.
Which of the following two actions would you support? (Choose two.)
A. The Development Team forecasts the most likely Product Backlog items to meet the business objective and create a Sprint Backlog based on a likely initial design and plan. Once the time- box for the Sprint Planning meeting is over, they start implementation and continue to analyze, decompose, and create additional functionality during the Sprint.
B. If all agree they can extend the Sprint Planning until the Development Team can forecast enough Product Backlog items before starting the implementation.
C. Allow the Development Team members as much time as needed to review the Product Backlog items and reconvene with the Product Owner when they are confident enough to make a forecast for the Sprint.
D. They discuss in the upcoming Sprint Retrospective why this happened and what changes will make it less likely to occur again.
Selected Answer: C
Question #: 48
Topic #: 1
Steven is a Scrum Master on a new Scrum Team.
What would be the best way for him to determine if the Product Owner is interacting enough with the Development Team during a Sprint?
A. Check whether the Product Owner is actively engaged at the Daily Scrums.
B. Check whether the Increment presented at the Sprint Review meets the Product Owner’s expectations.
C. See whether the Product Owner has provided enough information at the Sprint Planning to make his/her presence optional during the Sprint. The level of autonomy within Development Team can be the result of having the right presence from the Product Owner.
D. The Product Owner must always be present with the Development Team. Unavailability of the Product Owner is prohibited in Scrum.
Selected Answer: B
Question #: 49
Topic #: 1
In what two ways is velocity and technical debt related? (Choose two.)
A. They are not related because technical debt is non-functional and velocity is calculated based on end user functionality.
B. As the Development Team is working on new Product Backlog items, they may unexpectedly run into technical debt that will result the team’s velocity dropping.
C. A Development Team can artificially increase velocity by allowing technical debt to be incurred.
D. Adding estimates to technical debt will allow the Development Team to maintain constant velocity therefore ensuring predictability.
Selected Answer: C
Question #: 50
Topic #: 1
A new Product Owner has joined an existing Scrum Team that has been working together for eight Sprints. The Development Team has grown to have a good understanding of the functionality and business for the product they have been building. The Product Owner, being new to the company, is unsure about his responsibilities.
As a Scrum Master explain what two acceptable ways of helping the Product Owner would be. (Choose two.)
A. You advise the Product Owner to start building a good relationship with the stakeholders of the product. Ongoing interaction with them is important to regularly align with changing organizational or market expectations. The Product Owner is also expected to invite the right stakeholders to the Sprint Review meeting.
B. You inform the Product Owner that, in today’s highly competitive markets, it is important that the Development Team is updated on changing business priorities on a daily basis. The Daily Scrum allows the Development Team to adapt to the changes in scope without delay.
C. You tell the Product Owner to make sure that there are no ambiguities or possible misunderstandings in the items on the Product Backlog when they are handed over to the Development Team. This is best done by capturing the functional requirements during an analysis phase, resulting in documents that are considered as the working product of such analysis Sprints.
D. You advise the Product Owner to rely on the Development Team and the stakeholders to formulate the Product Backlog, as they are the ones most knowledgeable. By asking questions and working with them the Product Owner will quickly be up to speed.
Selected Answer: C
Question #: 51
Topic #: 1
If burndown charts are used to visualize progress, what does a trendline through a release burndown chart indicate?
A. When all work will be completed so the Scrum Team can start work on a new Product Backlog.
B. When the project will be over if the Product Owner removes work that is equal in effort to any new work that is added.
C. When the work remaining is projected to be completed if nothing changes on the Product Backlog or Development Team.
D. The evolution of the return of investment on the project.
Selected Answer: D
Question #: 52
Topic #: 1
What is a good way for a Scrum Team to ensure that security concerns are addressed and transparent?
A. Add Security Sprints to resolve security concerns when needed.
B. Have the Scrum Team create Product Backlog items for each concern and/or add security concerns to the definition of ג€Doneג€.
C. Create a separate backlog for security items and only work on the items when a specialist becomes available.
D. Delegate the work to an external team.
Selected Answer: C
Question #: 53
Topic #: 1
Technical Debt can lead to false assumptions about the current state of the system and the Increment reviewed at the end of the Sprint.
A. True
B. False
Selected Answer: B
Question #: 54
Topic #: 1
When technical debt occurs, the system will become more unstable as development progresses and code is added resulting in future work being slowed down.
A. True
B. False
Selected Answer: A
Question #: 55
Topic #: 1
At the eighth Sprint Review, the stakeholders are upset that the product being built is not what they expected and will incur additional costs that was not planned for.
What may have led to this?
A. The Scrum Master has not been reporting on the progress of the Scrum Team. The Product Owner has not been managing the Development Team’s tasks effectively. The Development Team has not been improving their velocity.
B. The Scrum Master has not ensured that the project is transparent. The Product Owner has not made the stakeholders aware of the progress of the project. The stakeholders have not been attending the Sprint Reviews.
C. The Scrum Master has not been attending the Daily Standup. The Product Owner has not been using the Gantt chart correctly. The Stakeholders has not been invited to the Sprint Retrospectives.
Selected Answer: C
Question #: 56
Topic #: 1
Select the correct Scrum Team roles defined in Scrum.
A. Development Team, Scrum Master, Product Owner
B. Engineers, Business Analyst, Product Owner
C. Stakeholders, Scrum Master, Project Manager, Product Owner
D. Product Manager, Business Analyst, Development Team, Stakeholders
Selected Answer: C
Question #: 57
Topic #: 1
Scrum has a role called `Project Manager.`
A. True
B. False
Selected Answer: A
Question #: 58
Topic #: 1
A Scrum Team has been working on the same product for twelve Sprints. What would likely be the immediate impact on the original Scrum Team if two new
Scrum Teams are to be added the same product?
A. Its productivity is likely to decrease.
B. Its productivity is likely to increase.
C. Its productivity is likely to stay the same.
Selected Answer: B
Question #: 59
Topic #: 1
What would be the main benefits of self-organization?
A. Increased rule compliance, self-accountability, commitment.
B. Increased rule compliance, self-accountability, output.
C. Increased capacity, accuracy of estimates, output.
D. Increased creativity, self-accountability, commitment.
Selected Answer: B
Question #: 60
Topic #: 1
A Scrum Team must have a Product Owner and Scrum Master.
A. False. A Scrum Master is only necessary when requested or needed.
B. True. Each must be a full-time member on the Scrum Team.
C. True. Their participation and availability will impact the outcomes produced by the Scrum Team.
D. False. If a Product Owner is unavailable, he/she can be replaced by a Business Analyst.
Selected Answer: D
Question #: 61
Topic #: 1
A new member has just joined an existing Development Team that has been together for several Sprints. During the Sprint, the individual has been trying to share his ideas and viewpoints but is continuously ignored by the rest of the Development Team.
Which three Scrum Values has the Development Team been neglecting? (Choose three.)
A. Commitment
B. Respect
C. Transparency
D. Focus
E. Openness
F. Courage
Selected Answer: D
Question #: 62
Topic #: 1
Which two behaviors would reflect Servant Leadership in a Scrum Master? (Choose two.)
A. Facilitating Scrum Events as requested or needed.
B. Coaching the Development Team, the Product Owner and the organization on how to work empirically.
C. Staying away from internal Development Team interactions, maximizing their autonomy and freedom.
D. Resolving every impediment for the Development Team.
Selected Answer: D
Question #: 63
Topic #: 1
Collaboration issues and technical dependencies between multiple Scrum Teams working on the same product can be fully resolved by using the correct version control tools.
A. True
B. False
Selected Answer: A
Question #: 64
Topic #: 1
Which two statements are the most accurate in regards to scaling Scrum for large projects requiring multiple Scrum Teams? (Choose two.)
A. A person focusing on the Sprint Backlog of a single Scrum Team is often more productive than that same person working on multiple Scrum Teams at the same time.
B. A well-structured Product Backlog can minimize and often eliminate Development Team members working on multiple Scrum Teams during a Sprint.
C. Team members must work full time on a single Scrum Team.
D. Customizing the core Scrum framework is necessary to be successful with Scrum at large scale.
Selected Answer: D
Question #: 65
Topic #: 1
You have a Scrum Team that has been working together for over a year. The Development Team consists of eleven members who rarely collaborate and work within their functional boundaries. There are no Sprint Goals and most of the items in the Sprint Backlog are unrelated. The Scrum Team has concluded that it is not possible to create Sprint Goals based on the items in the Product Backlog.
What might explain why the Scrum Team is finding it difficult to craft Sprint Goals? (Choose all that apply.)
A. The Sprints are too long.
B. The Product Owner is not empowered to make decisions about items in the Product Backlog nor how they are ordered.
C. The Product Owner doesn’t set objectives that he/she wants to achieve with upcoming Sprints.
D. Scrum might not be the best framework for this team.
E. The Development Team is too big.
Selected Answer: B
Question #: 66
Topic #: 1
According to the Scrum Guide, where should the Daily Scrum be held?
A. Wherever the Development Team decides is most suitable.
B. In a room where management can attend.
C. In the same location where the Development Team is seated.
D. In front of the Scrum board.
E. Wherever the Scrum Master decides is best.
Selected Answer: C
Question #: 67
Topic #: 1
During the Sprint Retrospective, the team is discussing the quality issues that prevented the team from delivering a releasable Increment at the end of the Sprint.
The Development Team does, however, mention that they were able to achieve a high velocity.
What are the best two responses for Steven, their Scrum Master, to take? (Choose two.)
A. Stress the value of working software over measured velocity.
B. Agree and acknowledge the Development Team’s hard work, so they will be motivated to do even more in the next Sprint.
C. Acknowledge the hard work but remind the Development Team that they need to improve in order to do even more in the next Sprint.
D. Facilitate a discussion on how to improve the quality to a level high enough for the Increment to be releasable, even if the measured velocity drops in the next Sprint.
Selected Answer: B
Question #: 68
Topic #: 1
Adding more resources in Scrum will proportionally increase the value delivered.
A. True
B. False
Selected Answer: C
Question #: 69
Topic #: 1
Steven, a Scrum Master, has been hired by an organization that is new to Scrum. He has been invited to meet the IT and product management team to kick-off the project. During the meeting the Product Owner asks how many Sprints will be needed to address the entire architecture and infrastructure before working on the features for the new product.
What are the two best responses for Steven to explain how such work is handled in Scrum? (Choose two.)
A. You explain that product management should not worry about technical solutions. You inform them that the developers will work with the IT department when needed and keep the Product Owner updated on additional time required for each Sprint. The additional effort will be added to the top of the Sprint Backlog before Sprint Planning.
B. You explain that it is more effective when architecture and infrastructure emerge alongside the development of business functionality. The additional advantage is that business value is created more quickly and earlier.
C. You confirm that architecture and infrastructure is needed before starting on business functionality but the estimated budget will be difficult to estimate. You suggest that the first Sprint will be dedicated towards building the technical foundation in order to get an accurate estimation for any additional budget and time required.
D. You coach the Product Owner and Development Team to add this work to Product Backlog to ensure transparency, have the Development Team estimate the work and do this in early Sprints while also creating some business functionality in the early Sprints.
Selected Answer: C
Question #: 70
Topic #: 1
Steven, who is a Scrum Master, on one of the Scrum Teams has approached you asking for advice. Their Daily Scrum requires more than 15 minutes and the team has suggested dividing themselves into two separate teams in order to stay within the time box.
As another Scrum Master, what would be the best response?
A. Agree ג€” this is an appropriate solution to the problem.
B. Disagree ג€” as the root cause may not be that the team is too big.
C. Unsure ג€” dividing a team into two cannot be decided based on this information. You offer to observe.
D. Agree ג€” You agree that dividing the team into two is a good strategy to allow the teams to learn how to run Daily Scrums quickly and effectively. Once they’ve learned to limit the Daily Scrum to 15 minutes, you can merge the teams again.
Selected Answer: B
Question #: 71
Topic #: 1
An organization is using Scrum to build five new products.
What would be the best two options for the number of Product Owners the organization should have? (Choose two.)
A. There is one Product Owner for each product (so five in total). Each Product Owner may delegate, share and align work within their individual Product Backlog.
B. Enough Product Owners to delegate as much work needed to maximize utilization of all Development Team members.
C. There is one Product Owner responsible for all five products. This person is not allowed to delegate any of the Product Owner responsibilities as he/she is accountable for the success of each product.
D. There is one Product Owner responsible for all five products. In order to scale his/her role, he/she can delegate some of the individual Product Owner responsibilities to others within each product but would still remain accountable for the value of the work produced.
Selected Answer: B
Question #: 72
Topic #: 1
Your company has notified the stakeholders that they will be delivering the first release of a new product within ten Sprints. On the seventh Sprint, the Scrum
Team discovers that they will not be able to include all of the expected features within the first release. The Product Owner believes if they remove some items from the Definition of Done they will be able to accelerate the development process. The Development Team objects to this idea as it will lead to technical debt.
As a Scrum Master, what would be the best two ways to explain to the Product Owner the impact of technical debt? (Choose two.)
A. As long as there is still technical debt in the current release, feature development for the next release cannot be started. The Product Owner must first agree to this impact before allowing changes to the Definition of Done.
B. Reducing the Definition of Done will introduce unknown errors as development progresses and functionality is added. The system can become more difficult to stabilize as work progresses. Development for the actual release as well as future releases will be slowed down in unpredictable ways.
C. Releasing the version upon a reduced Definition of Done creates false assumptions about the actual state of the system. This will create many interruptions during the development of the next release as fixes will need to be done to the previous release caused from a reduction of quality.
D. The amount of technical debt will need to be analyzed in order to understand the impact on subsequent releases in order to allocate additional Sprints at the end of the project.
Selected Answer: D
Question #: 73
Topic #: 1
Steven is a Scrum Master for three Scrum Teams building the same product and working from the same Product Backlog. Management wants to standardize how velocity is calculated across all three teams in order to identify which teams are high performing and which teams need more support.
What would be the best two responses Steven could provide to management? (Choose two.)
A. There is no direct relationship between velocity and value.
B. Standardizing velocity across teams is a good way to understand which teams are producing the most value.
C. Providing incentives based on velocity can increase the Scrum Team’s motivation to produce more value.
D. Velocity is the amount of business functionality that a Scrum Team creates in a Sprint. It is unique to that team and used as an input to Sprint Planning.
Selected Answer: A
Question #: 74
Topic #: 1
Which approach would you recommend to ensure that the Product Backlog items discussed at Sprint Planning are well understood, actionable, and easier to forecast?
A. Having a separate group of business analysts and functional testers analyzing high-ordered Product Backlog items before Sprint Planning.
B. Having the Product Owner work with stakeholders between the end of the last Sprint and before beginning the next to prepare the Product Backlog items so not to interrupt the Development Team.
C. Having the business analysts in the Development Team create the upcoming Product Backlog items during a Sprint and adding them to the next Sprint’s forecast.
D. Having the Development Team use some time during each Sprint to help the Product Owner analyze, estimate, and design items at the top of the Product Backlog that is projected to be worked on in the upcoming Sprint.
Selected Answer: C
Question #: 75
Topic #: 1
During the Sprint Review of a scaled development effort, each Scrum Team should demonstrate its individual Increment in a separate branch of the code.
A. True
B. False
Selected Answer: D
Question #: 76
Topic #: 1
What would be the best two ways to identify that a Development Team is self-organizing? (Choose two.)
A. Management is able to know which members are working on which items.
B. Creativity thrives and new possibilities are explored.
C. The Development Team members are cross-functional and knows what it needs to do to deliver the all tasks committed to the Sprint Planning.
D. The Development Team is able to resolve internal conflicts between members in order to continue working.
Selected Answer: C
Question #: 77
Topic #: 1
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.
Selected Answer: D
Question #: 78
Topic #: 1
Your organization requires all Increments to pass user acceptance testing (UAT) before it is allowed to be released to production.
Is it a good idea to postpone UAT until the end of the project to prevent the Development Team from being disrupted during the Sprints?
A. No, because the state of the Product Increment won’t be transparent and the feedback loop would be too long.
B. It depends on the team’s Definition of Done.
C. Yes, because the Development Team is a self-organizing team and should not be disrupted during development.
D. Yes, because UAT is done in a hardening Sprint before the release Sprint.
Selected Answer: D
Question #: 79
Topic #: 1
During the Sprint Review, one of the stakeholders announces that due to recent market changes, there is risk that funding might be reduced for the project. This triggers tensions to rise and arguments to break out between members.
As a Scrum Master, what would be the best two actions to take? (Choose two.)
A. Defend the original budget and request the stakeholders to adhere to the original agreed funding for the product.
B. Encourage the stakeholders and Product Owner to focus on delivering the highest value items for the next Sprint.
C. Be objective and request for a short break for people to calm down.
D. Avoid getting involved as it is the Product Owner’s responsibility to manage stakeholder expectations.
E. Inform everyone that the team needs to stay busy until the information is formally announced.
Selected Answer: C
Question #: 80
Topic #: 1
The director of engineering in your organization always stresses the importance of meeting deadlines in order for the engineering department to be seen as a reliable source for the product management department. The director has calculated that the team’s velocity needs to increase an additional 15% to meet the commitment he made to management for the release date of the product.
He asks Steven, the team’s Scrum Master, to increase his team’s velocity. Which would be the best two responses for Steven to take? (Choose two.)
A. He explains how a team uses the velocity of a Sprint primarily to forecast work for the next Sprint, not to perfectly predict future productivity. He refers the director to the Product Owner for all information concerning the progress of development.
B. He informs the director of organizational impediments he is aware of that prevent the team from being more productive. He suggests collaborating with him on how to remove these impediments.
C. He educates his director how it is part of a team’s self-organization to improve velocity. He invites the director to the next Sprint Retrospective to brainstorm on how they can improve.
D. He helps the director understand that it typically takes a few Sprints for a team to gradually increase the velocity up to the level expected. Meanwhile he presents this to the team as a challenge and a company goal, leaving it however up to them to figure out exactly how to achieve this.
E. He tells the director that this is not his responsibility in Scrum. He tells the director to work with the Product Owner to check whether the estimates on the Product Backlog are being respected during implementation.
Selected Answer: BC
