Professional Scrum Master I Exam. 48 questions.

Question 1 of 48

1. Question

1 points

Why is it important to trust the team?

1. The presence of trust is positively correlated with the team performance
2. High trust teams do not have to be accountable to each other
3. High trust teams do not require a user representative
4. The Project Manager does not then have to keep a project schedule

Question 2 of 48

2. Question

1 points

Which of the following is NOT a typical artifact of the Scrum framework?

1. Product Backlog
2. Sprint Backlog
3. Burn down chart
4. Gantt chart

Question 3 of 48

3. Question

1 points

When handling team dynamics, what should the ScrumMaster do?

1. Give clear directives to the team about what they should do and how
2. Encourage an environment of competition and personal advantage
3. Empower the team members, within appropriate limits
4. Expect team members to be proactive and each work to their own priorities and objectives

Question 4 of 48

4. Question

1 points

Tracking project impediments in a Scrum project is whoes primary responsibility?

1. Developer
2. ScrumMaster
3. Tester
4. Functional Manager

Question 5 of 48

5. Question

1 points

Which of the following are roles in the Scrum framework? (Select 3 correct answers)

1. Product Owner
2. ScrumMaster
3. Team
4. Team lead
5. Project Owner

Question 6 of 48

6. Question

1 points

What does NOT belong to the agile manifesto’s main pillars?

1. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
2. Processes over people
3. Working software over comprehensive documentation
4. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
5. Responding to change over following a plan

Question 7 of 48

7. Question

1 points

What is most important in all Scrum projects?/A) Self-organization/B) Clear hierarchies in the company/C) Communication/D) Continuous improvement

1. A, D
2. A, B, C, D
3. A
4. A, C, D
5. A, B

Question 8 of 48

8. Question

1 points

Which one of the following is a key feature that you would expect to find in an Agile project?

1. System documentation created at the end of each increment, at the start of the deployment
2. No written documentation, as all good communication is face-to-face
3. User Stories held in a spreadsheet or specialist database, where full details of user conversations are recorded for future purposes, like handover to maintenance or support
4. User Story cards containing only enough detail for planning and development, which will need to be supplemented by further face-to-face conversations

Question 9 of 48

9. Question

1 points

Who ultimately decides when the team has enough work for the sprint in planning?

1. The product owner, ScrumMaster and team vote to determine when the sprint backlog is full
2. The team
3. The product owner The ScrumMaster

Question 10 of 48

10. Question

1 points

Which of the following main events are defined by Scrum Framework?/A) Sprint Planning Meeting/B) Sprint Retrospective Meeting/C) Sprint Review Meeting/D) Mid-Sprint Status Review Meeting/E) Daily Scrum Meeting

1. A, B, C, D
2. A, C, E
3. A, C, D, E
4. A, B, C, D, E
5. A, B, C, E

Question 11 of 48

11. Question

1 points

Who is responsible for prioritizing the product backlog?

1. Product Owner
2. Lead Developer
3. Project Manager
4. Business Analyst

Question 12 of 48

12. Question

1 points

What is mainly defined by the Scrum Framework?/A) Rules & Roles/B) Document guidelines/C) Artifacts and events

1. A
2. A, B, C
3. B
4. C
5. A, C

Question 13 of 48

13. Question

1 points

Which statement of the following is a best description for sprint?

1. A sprint is a fixed amount of time set aside for team to run tests and fix any outstanding bugs right before the products ships.
2. A sprint is a condensed amount of time where a development works as many hours as they need to in order to finish the work assigned to them.
3. A sprint is a pre-specified amount of time in which the development team works at sustain pace to complete a chosen set of work.
4. A sprint is a pre-specified period of time during which team members choose individual items from the product backlog to work on. As each item is completed. A new item is brought into the sprint.

Question 14 of 48

14. Question

1 points

Which one of the following is NOT traditionally an activity of the Scrum framework?

1. Sprint review
2. Daily scrum
3. Sprint retrospective
4. Weekly inspection
5. Sprint planning

Question 15 of 48

15. Question

1 points

What kind of software development projects can be executed by Scrum Framework?

1. All kinds of software development projects
2. Sub-systems, components or parts of bigger systems
3. None of the above
4. Complete software packages
5. Customer projects

Question 16 of 48

16. Question

1 points

How should work be allocated to the team in an Agile project?

1. Tasks should be randomly allocated to team members, using Planning Poker
2. The Team Leader (ScrumMaster) should allocate specific tasks to individuals
3. Team members should self-select tasks appropriate to their skills
4. The most complex tasks should be allocated by the Team Leader (ScrumMaster)

Question 17 of 48

17. Question

1 points

What are the advantages of the Scrum Framework?

1. All activities to design, build and test a certain functionality are kept together in one phase.
2. None of the given answers
3. All of the given answers
4. Changes are expected and welcomed by Scrum team.
5. Fine-grained requirements are only defined when they are really needed.

Question 18 of 48

18. Question

1 points

Which concept of the following is NOT defined in the Scrum Framework?

1. Project Manager
2. ScrumMaster
3. Daily Scrum
4. Scrum Product Owner
5. Scrum Product Burndown

Question 19 of 48

19. Question

1 points

Which of the following best represents the Agile way in planning?

1. Planning should all be done by the Product Owner
2. Planning should be done in detail at the outset of a project and not revisited
3. Planning is not part of an Agile approach, because Agile is exploratory
4. Planning should involve the whole team, not just the ScrumMaster

Question 20 of 48

20. Question

1 points

What are the advantages of maintaining consistent Sprint length throughout the project?

1. It helps to establish a consistent pattern of delivery
2. It provide a consistent means of measuring team velocity
3. All of the above
4. It helps the team to objectively measure progress

Question 21 of 48

21. Question

1 points

In Scrum framework, what do we call the detailed pieces of work needed to convert a product backlog item into working software?

1. Stories
2. Tasks
3. Scrum bits
4. Use cases

Question 22 of 48

22. Question

1 points

Which of the following best describes the approach for determining the Sprint length?

1. Sprint should always be 30 days
2. The team should agree on the length of the Sprint, taking the size and complexity of the project into consideration
3. Sprint should always be two weeks
4. The team determines Sprint length by dividing the total number of story points by the average velocity of the team

Question 23 of 48

23. Question

1 points

Which of the following is a characteristic of a ScrumMaster?

1. Disengaged
2. Supportive
3. Task focused
4. Process oriented

Question 24 of 48

24. Question

1 points

Where are the customer requirements stored?

1. In a Scrum Product Requirement Specification
2. Nowhere. The Scrum Product Owner knows them
3. In the Product Backlog
4. In the Sprint Backlog
5. In a database

Question 25 of 48

25. Question

1 points

What should the developers do if the product owner is repeatedly too busy to be available?

1. Send the customer a written warning that the end product will be completed on time, but may not meet their needs
2. Continue the work, record the assumptions and ask the customer later for input.
3. Draw the problem to the attention of the ScrumMaster
4. Allow the Business Analyst to take on the role of Proxy Customer Representative

Question 26 of 48

26. Question

1 points

How the product backlog should be ordered?

1. Alphabetical
2. Random
3. Priority
4. Chronological

Question 27 of 48

27. Question

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Who should define the business value of a Feature within the Scrum Project?

1. The Product Owner
2. The Business Sponsor
3. The Business Analyst
4. The individual end-users

Question 28 of 48

28. Question

1 points

What are the two main artifacts of a sprint planning meeting?

1. A test plan and a Gantt chart
2. A requirements documents and a test plan
3. A sprint goal and a sprint backlog
4. A requirements documents and a Gantt chart

Question 29 of 48

29. Question

1 points

Which one of the following statements is correct regarding acceptance of any deliverables on a Scrum Project?

1. The team should allow only senior managers to sign off deliverables.
2. Acceptance of any particular deliverable on the project is gained from all stakeholders at the same time.
3. The team should get acceptance of project deliverables from the appropriate stakeholders at least at the end of every Sprint.
4. The team should get acceptance of project deliverables from the users during a UAT phase at the end of the project.

Question 30 of 48

30. Question

1 points

If a Sprint plan needs to be reprioritized in a hurry, who should re-prioritize?

1. The developers alone (they know what the customer wants)
2. The whole team including Product Owner and developers (together they can consider both business value and practicality)
3. The Product Owner (the developers would only choose the easy things as top priority)
4. The Project Leader (they can give an independent, pragmatic view)

Question 31 of 48

31. Question

1 points

What is the effect of having a large visible Story board on a wall?

1. It removes the need to create any other reports for management
2. It allows the Project Manager to allocate tasks to specific team members
3. It is restrictive, as it does not allow the team to innovate and change
4. It continuously communicates progress within the team and to other stakeholders

Question 32 of 48

32. Question

1 points

What is the Maximum time recommended by the Scrum framework that the team spends in the daily scrum (daily standup)?

1. One hour
2. Fifteen minutes
3. As long as it takes
4. Four hours
5. Thirty minutes

Question 33 of 48

33. Question

1 points

Which of the following responsibilities is NOT one of the Scrum Master’s

1. Assigning tasks to team members
2. Facilitating meetings
3. Removing impediments
4. Pushing back against products owner request when needed

Question 34 of 48

34. Question

1 points

As per Scrum, Who should attend the stand-up meetings?

1. Sponsor and Executive Management only
2. Project Manager and Technical Leads only
3. The entire team
4. Project Leader and Customer Representatives only

Question 35 of 48

35. Question

1 points

The Agile Manifesto states which of the following values:

1. Plans should have priority over ability to respond
2. People are more important than contracts
3. Contracts should be negotiated which allow control over the people
4. Working software should have priority over comprehensive documentation

Question 36 of 48

36. Question

1 points

You have been engaged as the Technical Coordinator in a product development team. The Product Owner and the Scrum Master are happy because the team always delivers business value on time. However, you worry that the technical debt is increasing. What would be your primary goal to ensure the right quality?

1. Ensure testers define their entry criteria for quality, which they impose on the development team
2. On time delivery and happy end users are the only quality measures in Agile development
3. Make sure that the maintainability quality attribute is addressed
4. Nothing. Prescribed roles such as technical coordinators are not part of an Agile team

Question 37 of 48

37. Question

1 points

How could maintainability of the developing product be improved in a development team?

1. Make refactoring a common practice
2. Apply standard design patterns
3. All of these
4. Ensure unit testing is included in the

Question 38 of 48

38. Question

1 points

What are the disadvantages of the classical waterfall model? (Select the best alternative)/A) End-Product has to be fully anticipated beforehand./B) Some requirements are implemented as defined in the beginning of the project, and yet they are not really needed by the customer./C) Each phase is strictly separated.

1. C,B
2. A, B
3. A
4. A, B, C
5. B

Question 39 of 48

39. Question

1 points

What does Scrum advise a team to do with the product backlog items it chooses to bring into the sprint?

1. The team should break each product backlog item into tasks and estimate each task in terms of effort.
2. The team doesn`t do anything with the product backlog items. Scrum doesn,t use tasks or task lists.
3. The product owner assigns each product backlog item to the specialist best suited to carry the work.
4. The team asks the ScrumMaster to research the product backlog items and decide who should work on each one.

Question 40 of 48

40. Question

1 points

What is meant by Team Velocity in Scrum projects?

1. Keeping metrics of earlier work load to help with future estimates required to get the whole project done
2. Teams works less when it rains
3. Estimating team efforts for completing the project
4. Retrospectives should include less important topics, such as the weather, as ice-breakers

Question 41 of 48

41. Question

1 points

Agile is all about responding quickly to change. That’s why a product owner can add or subtract feature from the product backlog or even change their priority at any time.

1. False
2. True

Question 42 of 48

42. Question

1 points

A Product Owner ……..

1. Will always receive lower-quality products than their non-Agile counterparts
2. Will typically get business value delivered early and often
3. Must have a thorough understanding of Agile techniques, for Agile to work
4. Will need to understand the technical aspects of development, to contribute effectively

Question 43 of 48

43. Question

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Which of these best describes the Scrum approach to team-working?

1. The team will burn out if they have to work overtime for more than two sprints in a row
2. The team should expect to work longer hours towards the end of the sprint, in order to deliver all that was committed to
3. The team should plan to work a small amount of overtime regularly throughout the project
4. The team should strive for a sustainable pace and a normal working week

Question 44 of 48

44. Question

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One of the development stages you would expect to see a team go through is:

1. Storming
2. Cloning
3. Warming
4. Yawning

Question 45 of 48

45. Question

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Agile methods are described as adaptive because…

1. Project Managers are not needed in Agile methods because teams are self-organizing
2. Agile teams have the empowerment to frequently respond to change and to learn on a project by changing the plan
3. The rate of development progress on an Agile project is constantly tracked to allow adaptation
4. Workshops held at the beginning and the end of every iteration (timebox) allow the team to adapt the product specification

Question 46 of 48

46. Question

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The leadership style of a ScrumMaster is …..

1. Directive
2. Assertive
3. Facilitative
4. Feature-based

Question 47 of 48

47. Question

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In order to communicate well, the Agile project should …

1. Keep team-size large, to avoid stakeholders feeling left out
2. Operate with one team of less than 10 people
3. Operate with separate customer, developer and test teams
4. Break the project into small, mixed-skill, self-organizing teams

Question 48 of 48

48. Question

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An effective workshop facilitator will always …

1. Agree the process and participants of the workshop with the workshop owner before the workshop
2. Act as a proxy for any invited participant who is unable to attend the workshop on the day
3. Involve only those team members who will commit to doing further work after the workshop
4. Involve the whole project team in all project workshops

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