Scrum Master - Cert Exam
What is the longest iteration duration allowed in Scrum?
1 month
The Daily Scrum is a _____________ and create a plan for the next 24 hours.
15-minute time-boxed event for the Scrum Team to synchronize activities
What is the essence of Scrum?
A small team of people that is highly flexible and adaptive
________ that result from the conversations between customers, users, Product Owners and developers, including non-functional requirements. One product only has one Product Backlog.
Acceptance tests can be used to express many of the details
Which are two good approaches for the Scrum Team to make non-functional requirements visible?
Add them to the acceptance criteria as part of the definition of "Done".
The Scrum Team should place the two Product Backlog items back onto the Product Backlog.
All incomplete Product Backlog Items are re-estimated and put back on the Product Backlog.
The Team, the Scrum Master, the Product Owner
All management responsibilities in a project are divided among these accountabilities.
What amount of work should the Scrum Team do to a selected Product Backlog item to complete the Sprint?
As much as needed in adherence to the definition of "Done"
If an inspector determines that one or more aspects of a process deviate outside acceptable limits, when must an adjustment be made?
As soon as possible to minimize further deviation
Which of the following is not a Product Owner responsibility?
Assigning tasks to team members
When the Product Owner realizes that the Sprint doesn't make sense anymore or because the Sprint Goal has become obsolete.
Cancelling a Sprint
What does the word "development" mean in the context of Scrum? Select the best option?
Complex work that can include all the suggested options and even more
But none of the ______________________ that could create a negative and possibly embarrassing environment, and detract from the environment of openness.
Daily Scrum questions are about failures
Feedback is a continuous improvement process where the output of the process is fed back into the input to be improved. Which is NOT the feedback used in SCRUM?
Feedback to individuals
The Scrum Master is responsible for all of the following except:
Helping the team understand customer requirements (Product Owner)
You were assigned as a Proxy Product Owner in a Scrum Team. What less likely will you expect to see as the Project goes on?
Increase in productivity and morale
Which is the single most important characteristic of a product backlog item that is necessary to classify it as "Ready" for selection in Sprint?
It can be completed in one sprint
Once a project is underway, what shall be the approach to planning?
It is normal to need to plan and re-plan as the project progresses based on the latest learnings, feedback, change in priority, etc.
How much of the Sprint Backlog needs to be defined throughout the Sprint Planning meeting?
Just enough, so that the Scrum Team can estimate what they can do and to start the work the first days of the Sprint.
The ______________ sets the objective that the Sprint should achieve although it can be influenced by the Scrum Team.
Product Owner
______________ is "A framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value."
Scrum
____________ is a facilitator and serves the best interests of the team.
Scrum Master
The Product Owner wants to create estimations and ask the Scrum Master for guidance about it. What is the most proper guideline that the Scrum Master should give?
Scrum Team must create estimations.
Who is included in the Scrum Team?
ScrumMaster + Product Owner + Development Team
One of the following definitions describes the correct characteristics of the Scrum team:
Self-managing, and Cross-functional
After the Sprint Planning, the items pulled from ___________ can't be changed.
Sprint Backlog
The Scrum Team modifies the _______________ throughout the Sprint.
Sprint Backlog
Which Scrum ceremony provides customer feedback on working software from the team?
Sprint review
Who is allowed to participate in the Daily Scrum?
The Daily Scrum is an internal meeting for the Scrum Team. If others are present, the Scrum Master ensures that they do not disrupt the meeting.
Feedback is a continuous improvement process where the output of the process is fed back into the input to be improved.
The Feedback specific to SCRUM are listed as all options except through option "Feedback to individuals".
______________________ by helping them understand and select trade-offs, but the people who will perform the work make the final estimate.
The Product Owner may influence the Scrum Team
All events in Scrum are time-boxed with every event having a maximum duration. As Scrum Teams mature, they can do some events faster (e.g. the Sprint Planning or the Sprint Retrospective).
The Scrum Guide does not require a minimal duration for any event.
Who can remove and replace Sprint Backlog items during the Sprint?
The Scrum Team
Who is responsible for all estimates in the Product Backlog?
The Scrum Team is responsible for all estimates.
required for Product Backlog items, in order to create a potentially releasable Increment.
The Scrum Team must do the work
You are the Scrum Master. The Sprint will complete in two days. Each day of the Sprint is equivalent to 8 hours. The team has just enough time to complete all tasks in the remaining 16 hours with the exception of three tasks. Of these three tasks, two tasks (a total of 6 hours) are required to complete one Product Backlog item and one task (an estimate of 2 hours) is required to complete another Product Backlog item. How should the Scrum Team handle the remaining three tasks?
The Scrum Team should place the two Product Backlog items back onto the Product Backlog
Only the Scrum Team can change its Sprint Backlog during a Sprint. ____________________________ that the Scrum Team plans to accomplish during the Sprint, and it belongs solely to the Scrum Team.
The Sprint Backlog is a highly visible, real-time picture of the work
What is an Increment in Scrum?
The items from the Sprint Backlog that the team actually completes during the Sprint
What is the Sprint Backlog?
The set of Product Backlog items selected for the Sprint, plus a plan for delivering the product Increment and realizing the Sprint Goal.
When can a Scrum Team cancel a Sprint?
They can't cancel Sprints.
The Product Owner tracks the total work remaining at least every Sprint Review, compares to the work remaining to assess progress toward completing projected work by the desired time for the goal.
This information is made transparent to all stakeholders.
When can the composition of the Scrum Team change?
Whenever really needed, while taking account a reduction in productivity in the short term.
The whole Scrum Team.
Who estimates the work during the Sprint?
Which of the following helps Scrum teams focus?
Writing a Sprint Goal
Could the Sprint Planning be finished if only work planned for the first days of the Sprint is decomposed to units of one day or less?
Yes, as long as the work planned for the first few days of the Sprint is understood and broken down into smaller tasks.
Scrum requires 3 ____________.
accountabilities.
A successful Sprint must __________to the product.
add value
The Scrum Master will monitor the handling of conflicts within the team and _______________________ themselves first.
allows team members to solve situations
Sprint Review can be considered as _______.
an informal meeting to present the increment
Only members of the Scrum Team
create the Increment.
Scrum teams _________________ to complete the Sprint Backlog items.
decomposes Sprint Backlog items into tasks to determine what work will be done during the Sprint
A common problem of the Product Owner is that they and their team _________________ what features the team will build during the Sprint, or accept them "as done" on behalf of the company.
do not have the authority to decide on behalf of the company
The Increment is the sum of all the Product Backlog items completed
during the Sprint and the value of the increments of all previous Sprints.
The ________________ for creating a valuable, useful Increment every Sprint.
entire Scrum Team is accountable
Sprint Review is a ________________ for one-month Sprints.
four-hour time-boxed meeting
During each Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team plans ways to ________________________ if appropriate and not in conflict with product or organizational standards.
increase product quality by improving work processes or adapting the definition of "Done",
Each component within the Scrum framework serves a specific purpose and _______________________.
is essential to Scrum's success and usage
An important asset of a Scrum Team _________________________, to manage their own work and themselves, which includes internal conflicts.
is self-empowerment, fostering self-management
The purpose of the Daily Scrum questions _____________________________, so they can help identify problems with the current plan that need to be fixed.
is to give everyone a good idea of how each person on the team is progressing
Sprint Retrospective is for
looking back at what happened and making improvements that's what the
It is a teams' responsibility to ______________________, plan, estimate and optimize the work required for items and the Sprint Goal, and to resolve their own conflicts.
measure its own productivity and performance throughout the Sprint, figure out its own process
Scrum does not do upfront planning,
only a few tasks broken down from the items created in the Sprint Planning.
If an item in the Sprint Backlog cannot be finished by the end of the Sprint (it turned out there is a lot more work to do than was estimated), the Sprint is cancelled...
only in the case if the Sprint Goal became obsolete.
The Product Owner is responsible for ___________________ and its resulting system.
representing the interests of everyone with a stake in the project
Product Owners are responsible for communicating effectively with the customers and ______________________________.
stakeholders by engaging them
Other people than the Scrum Team can attend the Sprint Planning in order to provide _____________.
technical or domain advice
The Scrum Team is responsible for creation of
the Definition of "Done"?
Only _________________________ during a Sprint. The Sprint Backlog is a highly visible, real-time picture of the work that the Scrum Team plans to accomplish during the Sprint, and it belongs solely to the Scrum Team.
the Scrum Team can change its Sprint Backlog
The Scrum Team is self-organized, ____________________ and there is no baseline for a Scrum project.
their members decide who does what
Sprint Planning is _____________________ for a one-month Sprint.
time-boxed to a maximum of eight hours
The Sprint Backlog emerges during the Sprint, as the Scrum Team _________________________ needed to achieve the Sprint Goal.
works through the plan and learns more about the work
During the Sprint Planning that is moving ahead, the Scrum Team has become aware they won't be able to finish the work for all selected Sprint Backlog items. Which two of the following are usually the best actions?
Inform to Product Owner as soon as possible and start the Sprint.
Which of the following is one of the scrum artifacts?
Increment
What aspect of empirical process control theory involves frequently examining the different Scrum artifacts and making sure the team is still on track to meet the current goal?
Inspection
The maximum time allowed for the Sprint planning for a 2 week Sprint is_________.
8 hours
Who does the work of delivering a potentially releasable Increment of "Done" product at the end of each Sprint?
Scrum Team
The business users let the PO know about a major regulatory change in one of his regular meetings with them. Handling this regulatory change is now a very high priority for the team, and will need to be the main objective of the next Sprint. Which of the following is used to describe the main objective of the next Sprint?
The Sprint Goal
During the Sprint the Scrum Team determines that cannot complete its work by the end of the Sprint. What happens in this case?
The Sprint continues.
Hoda is a Product Owner on a Scrum team. She's talking to one of her business users, who gives her a new requirement. Which of the following should Hoda do next?
Update the Product Backlog