A Product Owner is prioritizing user Stories to create a Prioritized Product Backlog for a project to design a
banking portal. All of the following User Stories will be evaluated while prioritizing EXCEPT:
Emily has taken on the role of Scrum Master on a new project. Training the team is one of her major
responsibilities. As Scrum Master, which aspects will Emily need to address in this respect?
A) Gaps in technical knowledge in any of the team members.
B) Shortcomings in the Scrum Team's understanding of business value of features.
C) Increasing the team's capability to articulate their challenges to find solutions.
D) Lack of understanding of the Scrum processes and principles.
Kelly is the Scrum Master for her organization and she's meeting with her manager to discuss the skillsets required for the Development Team. Kelly tells her manager what fact about what the Development Team needs in every Scrum project?
A Scrum Master is teaching Agile estimation techniques using Story Points to a new team. A more
experienced member of the team argues that:
An estimate expressed in Story Points is useful for a shorter period of time than an estimate in Ideal Days.
Is this true and what is the reason?
While assisting the Product Owner in developing a Prioritized Product Backlog, the Scrum Master must
consider the primary factors on which the Prioritized Product Backlog is based-on. Which of the following are
those primary factors?
A) Value
B) Dependencies
C) Risk
D) Deliverables
A team is faced with interruptions to their sprints by unplanned work. The team decides that the best course of action is to channel the unplanned work and make sure there is room for unplanned work in the next sprint.
Who is accountable for making sure this happens?
Which of the following are important selection criteria while choosing a Scrum Master?
Beth is a Scrum Master over a newly formed team. What can Beth expect as the team matures in the project?
Who among the following can directly approve changes recommended in the project?
The definition of done is an important principle in Scrum and something you must understand as a Scrum Master. Which one of the following statements is not a valid characteristic of the definition of done?
Voltex is a traditional electrical hardware distributor that has been using a command-and-control way of managing As a result, the level of trust between employees and managers is low Senior management wants to become more Agile to survive in their competitive market.
The Voltex electrical team is new to Scrum and adopting Agile is a significant cultural change Therefore management has asked Jennifer, an experienced Scrum Master to lead the new team
The Developers and the Product Owner struggle to follow the advice given during their Scrum training. They wish to adapt the Scrum practices to fit with their previous work and do not understand the changes. For example the Product Owner and Developers question why the Developers should choose what to work on instead of the managers assigning tasks.
What should the Scrum Master do?
The Scrum Master must ensure that a sustainable pace is maintained throughout every Sprint. What does
sustainable pace mean in the context of Scrum?
In a sprint planning meeting, me Product Owner selects the following user story from me product backlog to be estimated
As a system administrator I want to manage the access of users
The Developers argue that this might not be a good user story to estimate right now
What is the most likely reason the Developers would say this?
Marty is coaching the Development Team on being completely done with the user stories in a Sprint. What should Marty tell the Development Team regarding the completeness of a Product Backlog?
A Sprint planning is created in a Sprint Planning meeting. Anyone involved in taking a raw idea and turning it into a functioning product should be present in this meeting.
Who acts as the facilitator for this meeting?
A company that builds propellers for ships has incurred heavy losses while implementing the product at the end of the project. This is because a large number of customer requirements which changed during the project were not incorporated into the deliverables. The company could have avoided this situation if it had applied the Scrum Methodology, as it would have ensured that any change requested by the customer was included as part of the project, and that the team produced deliverables that were better suited to the final business environment. Which Scrum aspect is being emphasized here?
You are the Scrum Master for your organization and you're coaching the Development Team on the work they'll need to do in the Sprint. What does a Development Team deliver at the end of a Sprint?
Collaboration is one of the Scrum principles. Which of the following are the three dimensions of this principle?
To enable the Product Owner to successfully deploy the product release as a part of the Ship Deliverables
process, the Scrum Master should ensure that:
As a Scrum Master how will you coordinate with the Product Owner to ensure Value-Driven Delivery on Scrum
projects?
You are the Scrum Master of the JKM Project and your Development Team has asked to change some rules about the duration of the Sprints. Which one of the following statements is a rule of Scrum that the team should follow when it comes to Sprint duration?
Which of the following best describes why Epics are decomposed into smaller User Stories during a Sprint?
Scrum Masters have to solve both internal and external impediments for the Scrum team during the Create
Deliverables process. To do so, they record the impediments in the Impediment Log during
_________________________.
A) Daily Standup Meetings.
B) Sprint Review Meetings.
C) Release Planning Meetings.
D) Sprint Planning Meetings.
“As a coach, I can manage information about swimmers on my team.”
What would be a good technique to split the above User Story into smaller stories?
John is the Scrum Master for his organization. His current project has one Development Team, but it's been decided to add two more Development Teams. What can John expect for the immediate impact on the existing Development Team's productivity?
Select all that apply. Before starting the first Sprint, what needs to be in place?
Lynn is the Scrum Master for her organization and she's working with seven Development Teams on a single Scrum project. What statement best describes the starting date for these seven Development Teams?
You're working with the Product Owner and the Development Team to create a Sprint burndown chart. The Product Owner doesn't see the value in the Sprint burndown chart. What's the value of the Development Team creating this chart?
Which of the following is/are role(s) of a Chief Scrum Master, not of a Chief Product Owner?
A) Addresses impediments that impact more than one Scrum Team.
B) Prepares and maintains the overall Prioritized Product Backlog for the large project.
C) Facilitates the Scrum of Scrums meetings.
D) Interfaces with the Program Product Owner to ensure alignment of the large project with the goals and
objectives of the Program.