Certification PO

What does NOT belong to cornerstones of the agile manifesto?

Processes over people

What metric is used to estimate with Planning Poker?

The Fibonacci sequence (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, etc.)

How many people should be in a Scrum Team?

7+/-2

What is the Scrum Backlog?

A list of high level requirements and user stories that need to be done within the project.

What is a Release Plan? A) A very high-level plan for multiple Sprints. B) A guideline that reflects expectations about which features will be implemented and when they are shipped to customer. C) The list of milestones defined by management.

A, B

In software engineering what are the disadvantages of the classical waterfall model? 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.

A, B, C

What is necessary for a successful WHAT-Meeting? A) A Sprint Goal B) The relevant entries in the Scrum Backlog are presented C) The team knows their capacity

A, B, C

The Scrum Backlog is filled with an initial list of user stories. The next step of the Scrum Product Owner is to perform an initial prioritization. Which criteria could the Scrum Product Owner use to prioritize the entries? A) Business value B) Return on Investment (ROI) C) Kano Model - User Centered Design and Decision-Making Aid Tool D) Level of Risk E) Complexity of implementation

A, B, C, D

What are properties of the Scrum Product Backlog? A) Entries always add value for the customer. B) Entries are prioritized and ordered accordingly. C) The level of detail depends on the position of the entry. D) Entries are estimated. E) It is a living document. F) No action-items and no low-level tasks are yet defined.

A, B, C, D, E, F

Which ones 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

A, B, C, E

The Scrum Product Owner prepares the user stories for the next sprint. What are the criteria to decide if an entry is ready for implementation? A) The entries are small enough to be implemented in one sprint. B) The entries are detailed enough to describe and estimate the implementation. C) The entries define clearly how to implement the requirement. D) There are acceptance criteria defined for the story.

A, B, D

The Scrum Product Owner prioritizes the entries in the Product Backlog by estimating their business values. Which factors must be considered? A) (Financial) value for the customer B) Costs involved C) Personal preferences of the Scrum Product Owner D) New Technologies for the Scrum Team E) Risks

A, B, D, E

Alex is the Scrum Product Owner of a new software project. He wants to fill the Product Backlog and create the initial list of user stories and requirements. Which criteria should be considered while writing the initial set of entries? A) User stories explicitly describing functionalities required by the customer. B) Requirements to handle specifics of the software platform to use. C) Important non-functional requirements like scalability, performance etc. D) Requirements regarding the UI. E) User stories which required to realize the main Product Concept. F) Requirements for the underlying database model.

A, E

How much time should the Scrum Team allocate to maintain the Scrum Product Backlog (discussions, estimations etc.)?

About 10% of overall project.

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

All kinds of software development projects

What are the advantages of the Scrum Framework?

All of the given answers

The Scrum Product Owner prepares the user stories for the next sprint. What should he do? A) Nothing as the Product Backlog is already prioritized and estimated. B) Define a Sprint goal C) Check which user stories are relevant for the Sprint goal. D) Break-down high-level requirements into smaller user stories that could be implemented within one sprint.

B, C, D

The Sprint Backlog is filled with a list of high-level topics. What should the Scrum Product Owner do to break-down these topics into suitable user stories? A) Start at the bottom of the Product Backlog to break-down the topics. B) Start at the top of the Product Backlog to break-down the topics. C) Pick any topic from the Product Backlog and break it down. D) Convert topics into requirements. Then convert requirements into user stories. E) Convert all topics directly into user stories.

B, D

Which ones of the following main roles are defined by Scrum Framework? A) Scrum Tester B) The Scrum Team C) Scrum Manager D) Scrum Master E) Scrum Product Owner

B, D, E

The Scrum Backlog is filled with an initial list of user stories. The next step of the Scrum Product Owner is to perform an initial prioritization. While doing the prioritization the Scrum Product Owner struggles. Many entries are tightly connected and their importance seem to be equal. Therefore, he could not easily decide for a suitable prioritization of entries. What could he do? A) Just create an arbitrary prioritization. B) Cluster related stories into a theme. Prioritize them at theme level. C) Ask the customer what is more important for them. D) Give all entries the same priority and let the team decide.

C

The Scrum Product Owner is invited for a workshop to identify and discuss risks within the project. During the workshop they identify a not yet considered risk. Evaluation shows that risk occurrence probability is rated as medium and risk impact is rated as high. What should the Scrum Product Owner do?

Call the customer and report the risk.

The Scrum Product Owner is invited for a workshop to identify and discuss risks within the project. The team complains that they have more important tasks to do and they cannot spend time for this. What could the Scrum Product Owner do to convince the team? A) Re-schedule the meeting within the same sprint. B) Tell them that that they have to attend. C) Explain that this is an important task for the success of the project. The risks have to be identified and their mitigation plans have to be discussed as soon as it is possible. D) Just shift the workshop to the next sprint. E) Ask the Scrum Master which user stories are not finished yet and decide if some of the incomplete user stories can be removed from the sprint.

D

What is the goal of the Daily Sprint Meeting?

Each member of the team gives a short info about what he did yesterday, what he plans to do next and if there are any impediments.

In a workshop the architect explains that implementing a certain set of customer requirements would require massive efforts because of the limitations of underlying development framework. What should the Product Owner do?

Estimate Return On Investment (ROI) considering business value, time and costs. Prioritize the features accordingly.

Where are the customer requirements stored?

In the Product Backlog

During the discussions with his customer the Scrum Product Owner notices that he had missed some important user stories. What should he do?

Inform the customer that these user stories are not planned and cannot be implemented within the current sprint.

In the Retrospective meeting the team complains that they have a bunch of user stories to implement, and yet they do not know much about the release strategy behind their activities. What shall the Scrum Product Owner do?

Invite for a meeting to explain the strategy.

Why can Fibonacci sequence (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, etc.) be used to estimate the backlog items?

It fairly reflects the correlation between increasing complexity and increasing estimates.

What is the goal of the Sprint Review Meeting?

Present and demonstrate the completed Sprint Backlog items.

Which concept is NOT defined in the Scrum Framework?

Project Manager

The Scrum Product Owner is in a workshop with the customer. The customer explains that the business case has been changed and some of the future requirements shall not be included anymore. What should the Scrum Product Owner do?

Remove these requirements from the Product Backlog.

The Scrum Product Owner is invited for a workshop to identify and discuss risks within the project. During the assessment of the known risks they discover that one of the previously identified risks is no longer valid. What should the Scrum Product Owner do?

Report to the customer.

Who is responsible for maintaining the Scrum Product Backlog?

Scrum Product Owner

Who is responsible for maximizing the return on investment (ROI)?

Scrum Product Owner

The Scrum Product Owner is in a workshop with the customer. The customer explains that the business case has been changed and some of the requirements shall not be included anymore. Unfortunately the Scrum Team is already working on these user stories in the current sprint. What should the Scrum Product Owner do?

Tell the customer that it is too late and the requirements will be anyway implemented and delivered.

What is the goal of the WHAT-Meeting?

To define a realistic Sprint Backlog containing all items that could be fully implemented until the end of the Sprint.

What is the goal of the HOW-Meeting?

To fill the Sprint Backlog by identifying the concrete tasks needed for a complete implementation of given features

Which one of the following meetings are part of a Sprint Planning Meeting?

WHAT-Meeting and HOW-Meeting

Alex is the Scrum Product Owner of a new software project. He wants to fill the Scrum Product Backlog and create the initial list of user stories and requirements. What could he do to get this initial list? A) Perform a requirements workshop meeting with the customer. B) Brainstorm with the team. C) Identify risks

A

What is the goal of the Sprint Retrospective Meeting? A) Reflect on negative issues during the last Sprint. B) Define actionable suggestions to improve performance. C) Reflect on positive issues during the last Sprint.

A, B, C

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

A, C

What is the correct order of steps during planning poker? A) Each member of the Scrum Team privately chooses the card representing the estimation. B) The Scrum Product Owner presents the story. C) The Scrum Team asks questions. D) People with high and low estimates are allowed to explain their estimate. E) All selections are revealed. F) Repeat until a consensus is found among all team members.

B, C, A, E, D, F

What is NOT part of the Scrum Product Backlog? A) Detailed tasks B) Recurring meetings like Daily Scrum C) User stories D) Tasks for exploration of features E) Administrative tasks

A, B, D, E

The Scrum Product Owner is in the progress of creating a release plan. Which information should he include or show? A) Estimated user stories B) Assignments of user stories to sprints C) Release dates D) Assumptions and constraints

A, C

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

A, C, D

Scrum Master talks to the Scrum Product Owner and tells him that the team complains they have many open questions but cannot reach him to clarify their issues. What should the Scrum Product Owner do?

Arrange a recurring clarification meeting to clarify open questions.

Which of the following is a user story?

As an authenticated user, I want to see all my action items.

At the end of the Sprint the Scrum Product Owner is invited for the Sprint Review meeting. The team explains that they had problems with one of the build packages and the official build package is not available today. Instead they have prepared a demo on one of the development machines. What should the Product Owner do? A) Stop the session and mark all stories as not complete. B) Accept it and continue. C) Have a look a the features but tell the team that the stories are not accepted. D) Escalate. E) Ask the Scrum Master for an additional session when the official package is available.

B

What is NOT true for the entries in the Scrum Backlog?

Level of detail is high for all Product backlog entries.

In a discussion, the software architect points out that there are additional tasks that have to be implemented independent from any customer requirements. What should the Scrum Product Owner do?

None of the above