Scrum Master

What is the recommended size for a Scrum team?

10 or fewer

The time-box for a Daily Scrum for a two-week Sprint is?

15 minutes

The Sprint Retrospective is time-boxed to

3 hours for monthlt sprints, usually shorter

The Sprint Review is time-boxed to?

4 hours for a monthlt sprint, usually shorts

What is the time-box for the Sprint Planning for a two weeks Sprint?

8 hours or less - Sprint Planning is timeboxed to a maximum of eight hours for a one month Sprint. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter.

What is a Scrum Master?

A framework for developing, delivering, and sustaining complex products.

Consider that the first Sprint has just ended. When does the second Sprint begin?

A new Sprint starts immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint.

You are the Scrum Master for a Scrum Team. One of the team's Developers, John, is constantly missing the Daily Scrum because he thinks that if he gets his job done, the Daily Scrum is a waste of time. Some of the other Developers agree with him, and others don't. However, no action was taken by the Developers. What should you, the Scrum Master, do?

ASAP, invite tehe developers for a chat and ask them what the benefit of the DSU are when everybody attends and what go wrong if someone is missing.

Currently, your organization organizes its teams based on components. Looking for ways to improve, your organization hired an agile consultant. One of her suggestions was to, instead of working with component teams, work with feature teams. According to her, feature teams could enhance the capability of the Scrum Teams to deliver Done Increments every Sprint, because it would reduce the dependencies between them. What is one thing that you must consider when making the transition from component to feature teams?

Any change in the teams' structure tends to reduce their productivity in the short term. In the case of feature teams, they will need time to adapt and get used to working on a feature from end-to-end.

True or False An Increment can only be released after a Sprint is over.

FALSE - Scrum does not prescribe when to release the Increment.

What is the primary service that the Scrum Master provides to help the Developers maximize their productivity?

Facilitate decisions of the developers

True or False Scrum requires the Increment to be released at the end of every Sprint.

False Scrum does not prescribe when to release the Increment.

What does the Cone of Uncertainty present?

How the product's knowledge evolves.

Which Scrum value is manifested when an information radiator such as a burndown, burnup, or cumulative flow chart is made available so that everyone can see it?

Openness

Who is accountable for engaging with stakeholders?

PO

Who is accountable for knowing the most about the progress towards a business objective or a release and also being able to clearly explain the alternatives?

PO

What are the accountabilities on a Scrum Team?

PO, SM, Developers

True or False

Scrum is both an incremental and iterative agile way of delivering work.:TRUE

Which agile aspect refuses what is often considered a "necessary evil" in many industries - long work hours, overtime, or even working nights or weekends?

Sustainable

True or False If the Definition of Done for an Increment is part of the organization's standards, all Scrum Teams must follow it as a minimum.

TRUE

True or False Product Backlog items that the Scrum Team can do within one Sprint are deemed ready for selection in a Sprint Planning event.

TRUE

True or False The Sprint Backlog is composed of the Sprint Goal (why), the set of Product Backlog items selected for the Sprint (what), as well as an actionable plan for delivering the Increment (how).

TRUE

true/false Every Scrum team should include Developers that have the competencies and skills needed to deliver a Done Increment in a Sprint.

TRUE

true/false The Scrum Master is responsible for the process in which Scrum is adopted and enacted.

TRUE

Who has the final say on the Product Backlog ordering?

The PO

Which of the following is a valid reason for the Scrum Master to be at the Daily Scrum?

The SM does not have to be at DSU, but they should ensure the developers holdit

The Sprint Backlog is composed of the Sprint Goal (why), the set of Product Backlog items selected for the Sprint (what), as well as an actionable plan for delivering the Increment (how).

The Sprint Backlog is a forecast. The Developers commit to the Sprint Goal.

How much work must the Developers do to a Product Backlog item it selects for a Sprint?

as much as negotiated with the PO and in conformance with the DOD

How often should Scrum team membership change?

as needed, while taking into account a short term reducation in productivity

During a Sprint Review, a key stakeholder points that the budget for the project was reduced given external factors. Given this, an emotional argument follows. As a Scrum Master, what is your best option?

ask for a short break for people to calm down and be objective

You are the Scrum Master of a Scrum Team. The Product Owner has been using the Daily Scrum to gather information regarding the Sprint progress. He feels that, for the project to succeed, it is vital that he tracks what every Developer is working on every day. What is the best thing for you to do?

coach the PO and the developers on the purpose of daily scrum and other scrum events, let them figure out how to deal with the situation

What must the Developers do during the first Sprint?

create a potentially shippable prodcut increment that includes at least one piece of functinality

How is a cross-functional Scrum team defined?

cross-skilled developers can do all the work necessary to deliver a shippable increment at the end of a sprint

Who manages the progress of work during a Sprint?

developers

Who must ensure that the work done for a Product Backlog item conforms to the Definition of Done?

developers

True or False The Scrum Team must choose at least one high-priority process improvement, identified during the Sprint Retrospective, and place it in the Sprint Backlog.

false - This rule has been removed in Scrum Guide 2020.

True or False The work planned during Sprint Planning must be decomposed into one day or fewer units.

false -This is a recommendation, not a rule.

True or False The Scrum Master defines the Sprint Goal during Sprint Planning.

false- During Sprint Planning, the whole Scrum Team collaborates to define a Sprint Goal that communicates why the Sprint is valuable to stakeholders.

How often should the customer satisfaction be measured?

frequently

You are the Scrum Master of a Scrum Team that is experiencing a complicated relationship between the Product Owner and the Developers. The Developers are annoyed with the Product Owner because the requirements are changing too much. Thus, they feel like they are wasting time redoing work constantly. The Product Owner is angry with the Developers because they are not being flexible to handle the change requests in a timely manner. What would you do?

gather with the PO and developers to discuss why the requirements are changing, Ask them the impact on delivered value of such changes on requirments.

Which statement best describes the Sprint Retrospective?

it is an opportunity for the scrum team to plan ways to increase quality and effectiveness

What best describes the Product Owner's accountability?

maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team.

When does a Developer become the owner of a work unit (i.e., work item, task, technical task, or task card)?

never

What are typical Product Owner activities during Sprint 0?

no such thing as sprint zero

What are the Developers responsible for?

organizing the work required to meet the sprint goal and resolving internal team conflicts

Which of the following statements reflect Scrum's Respect value?

respect the diversity of opinions, backgrounds, epirence, and skills of the developers

The Scrum Guide says that Daily Scrum is held at the same time and place. Why?

such consistency reduces complexitity

You are the Scrum Master of a novice Scrum Team. Halfway through the Sprint, the Product Owner is worried and looks for your guidance. He claims that the Developers are not going to be able to meet the forecast that they developed during Sprint Planning. What would you tell him?

teach him that the scrum team focuses on achieving the sprint goal, not the forecast

Which of the following actions is appropriate for a Scrum Master at the Daily Scrum?

teaching the developers to keep the DSU to 15 mins or less

Who must attend the Daily Scrum?

the developers

You are the Scrum Master of a Scrum Team. Your team is conducting a Sprint Planning. The timebox of the event is almost expiring and the Product Owner and Developers have not been able to get into an agreement about the highest order Product Backlog items. Because of this situation, the Developers are having a hard time forecasting which Product Backlog items they could get Done by the end of the Sprint. However, at the beginning of the event, the Product Owner successfully point the Scrum Team to the business objective that she was hoping to achieve this Sprint. Which of the following action would you support?

the developers forecast the product backlog items that are most likely to meet the business objective and define the sprint backlog. Once the timebox of sprint planning elapses, the event is done, the scrum team starts working on the product backlog. During the sprint, they continue to refine additional functionality as needed.

Which statement best describes the Sprint Review?

the purpose of the sprint review is to inspect the outcome of the sprint and determine future adaptations

Who must participate in Sprint Retrospectives?

the scrum team

What are the typical Scrum Master activities during a Sprint?

to cause the removal of impediments to the scrum team's progress

Which of the following best describes a Product Owner?

value optimizer

The Product Backlog is ordered by?

whatever is deemed most appropriate by the PO

What might be a valid reason for abnormally cancelling a Sprint?

when the sales department discovers features that add more value than the current work being done

You are the Scrum Master of a Scrum Team from an organization that is known to consider on-time delivery and reliability very seriously. A manager detected that your team is not up to speed and that it should increase velocity by 15%. He came to you, the Scrum Master, expecting you to make it happen. How do you respond?

you explain how a scrum team uses velocity as a forecast for the work to be done next sprint but as a predicition of future productivity. Further, you encourage the manager to communicate with the PO for information about the prodcut development progress.

True or False For the Product Goal to be fulfilled, all the Product Backlog items must be "Done."

FALSE

True or False The Sprint Review is a formal meeting for demonstrating the Increment.

FALSE

True or False The only valid reason for having a Sprint be canceled is the Sprint Goal becoming obsolete, but only the Scrum Master can make such a decision.

FALSE

Which statement best describes a Product Backlog?

an emergent ordered list of what is needed to improve the product. It is the single source of work undertaken by the scrum team.

True or False When multiple teams work together on the same product, each team has its Product Owner. Therefore, it is possible to have multiple Product Owners for the same product.

FALSE

True or False When multiple teams work together on the same product, each team should maintain a separate Product Backlog to reduce complexity.

FALSE

True or False- By adopting Scrum you guarantee that adding more people to a team proportionally increases the value delivered:

FALSE

True or False- the product backlog might commit to product goal.

FALSE

True/False Scrum has an accountability called "Project Manager."

FALSE

True/False The Scrum Master is no longer needed when teams become self-managed.

FALSE

True/false Cross-functional teams are specialized for working on specific system components (e.g. design, database, back-end, front-end).

FALSE

true/false A high performing Scrum team will have frequent Release Sprints.

FALSE

What is the role of Management in Scrum?

Embrace bottom - up intelligence by providing information to the scrum team, supporting its empiricism, and trusting it to learn about the problem at hand.

What is Scrum founded on?

Empiricism and lean thinking

The Developers should have all the skills needed to

Create a product increment

One Scrum Team is developing a product with a velocity of 24 points per Sprint. The product received extra funding and a new team will be added to work on the. What is the most likely impact on the original team's velocity in the short term?

Decrease and be lower than 24

You are the Scrum Master of a Scrum Team. During Sprint Planning, the Developers selected five Product Backlog items for the current Sprint. However, at the end of the Sprint, they were not able to meet the Definition of Done for two of the selected Product Backlog items. Given this, they ask you what should they do with these incomplete Product Backlog items? What would you suggest they do? I - The items are not included in the Increment for this Sprint. II - The items are put on the Product Backlog for the Product Owner to decide what to do with it. III - The items must be reviewed during Sprint Review. Further, the done part of each of these items should be considered for the team's velocity. Finally, new Product Backlog items must be created for the remaining work. IV - It is up to the stakeholders to decide over accepting undone work or even releasing it.

I and II

"The Increment commits to the Definition of Done. Which of the following explain what Done means? I - An Increment that could be released to end-users. II - The work that the Scrum Team is capable of doing given their skills and expertise. III - All work performed meets the Definition of Done. IV - An Increment that is ready for quality control activities such as testing. V - An Increment that is ready for the Product Owner to perform acceptance testing.

I and III

Which of the following statements are correct regarding large-scale product development with Scrum? I - A well-ordered Product Backlog can minimize or even often eliminate having Developers work on multiple Scrum Teams simultaneously. II - Scrum Team members must be working full-time on a team. III - A person working on multiple Scrum Teams at once is often less productive than working on a single Scrum Team. IV - It is necessary to change the core Scrum framework for successfully employing Scrum at scale.

I and III II - Scrum does not mandate having full time members IV - Scaled Scrum is still Scrum. Nexus does not change the core design or ideas of Scrum, or leave out elements, or negate the rules of Scrum. Doing so covers up problems and limits the benefits of Scrum, potentially even rendering it useless.

You are the Scrum Master for four Scrum Teams working on the same Product. At some point, several of the Developers come to you worried because the work identified for the upcoming two Sprints will require a full-time commitment from an external specialist. What would you suggest they do? I - Identify the Developers interested in the external specialist's domain to volunteer to take the work in their respective Scrum Teams. II - Have the Developers re-order the Product Backlog so that the external specialist could work as a full-time member of a Scrum Team. III - Research other frameworks for scaling Scrum. IV - Create a Scrum Team with the specialist and other Developers that volunteer to learn more about his domain. V - Schedule a release Sprint for the specialist to review all his work.

I and IV

You are the Scrum Master for four Scrum Teams working on the same product. One of your organization's managers suggested standardizing the velocity across all teams. According to her, it would be a way to better assess the delivered value and assist in improving the teams' productivity. What would you respond? I - Velocity is the amount of Product Backlog items turned into an Increment of product during a Sprint, tracked by the Developers for use within the Scrum Team. II - Using the velocity as the basis for incentive programs can boost the Scrum Team's morale. III - Standardizing the velocity across the four teams will help compare which teams are productive and create more value. IV - There is no direct relationship between velocity with value.

I and IV

You are the Scrum Master of a Scrum Team. After a Sprint Review, the Product Owner comes to talk to you, because he is very worried that the stakeholders are not satisfied with the product. During the Sprint Review, the stakeholders confessed that the product being built is not useful for them. The Product Owner would like you to help him identify what led to this situation. What would you tell him? I - The frequency of interaction between the Product Owner and the stakeholders is not enough. II - The project manager is not engaged causing the project plan to be inaccurate. III - The stakeholders are not participating in the Daily Scrum IV - The stakeholders have not been using the Sprint Reviews to actively engage and inspect and evaluate progress. V - The change request process plan has not been followed properly.

I and IV

Your organization is using Scrum to develop three of its major products. Management asks your opinion about how many Product Owners should they assign for these three products. What would you suggest? I - Having one Product Owner responsible for all three products. In this case, the Product Owner may delegate work to others. II - Depending on the complexity of the requirements, there could be as many Product Owners as needed. III - Having one Product Owner responsible for all three products. In this case, the Product Owner may not delegate work to others. IV - Having three Product Owners, one for each product. Each Product Owner may delegate Product Backlog management work to others. Further, whenever necessary, they align their work through the Product Backlogs.

I and IV

At the sixth Sprint Retrospective, the Product Owner is very disappointed. He claims that the technical debt has increased and that the product is not up to his expectations. Consequently, he claims that the product will need extra Sprints to meet security requirements. Which of the following could be true about this Scrum Team? I - The Sprint Retrospectives have not been used effectively by the Scrum Team. II - The Developers have not instilled the necessary quality into the product. III - The Developers are fulfilling their accountability and they cannot be held responsible for the product having poor quality. IV - The Scrum Master has not ensured that the Scrum Team is being transparent

I, II, and IV III - The Developers are responsible for instilling quality by adhering to the Definition of Done. Further, having an appropriate Definition of Done is an accountability shared by the whole Scrum Team..

During a Sprint, the CEO asks the Developers to add work on something critical not part of the Sprint Backlog. What should the Developer do?

Let the PO aware so that they can handle the requests of the CEO

A Scrum Team is having a hard time scheduling the Daily Scrums because not all Developers work full time and some regularly work from home. To solve this issue, a Developer suggested having Daily Scrums twice a week, when everyone is in the office. What would be three key concerns if the frequency of the Daily Scrum is reduced? I - The opportunities to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and adapt the Sprint Backlog are reduced. Re-aligning is bound to become even more difficult. II - It becomes challenging for the Scrum Master to update the Burndown chart daily, which hinders the Scrum Master from fulfilling his/her duty of tracking the Sprint's progress. III - The plan for the Sprint might become inaccurate and transparency over progress toward the Sprint Goal is reduced. IV - It becomes challenging for the Product Owner to accurately report progress about the state of the forecasted work to the stakeholders. V - Impediments are raised and resolved more slowly.

I, III, V II - It is not the Scrum Master's duty to track the Sprint's progress IV - It is not the Product Owner's duty to report progress of the Sprint to stakeholders..

You have been hired as a Scrum Master for an organization new to Scrum. You are about to start working on your first project with Scrum and the Product Owner seems confused about how to deal with architecture and infrastructure tasks. She asks you how many Sprints the project should schedule to deal with these issues. What would you tell her? I - She shouldn't worry about technical issues, because you will keep an eye on the team to make sure they ask for help if needed. II - Teach her that such issues should be added to the Product Backlog. III - Explain to her that the architecture and infrastructure should emerge alongside developing business functionality to better mitigate risks. IV - Tell her that the risks related to architecture and infrastructure should be dealt with before starting the first Sprint.

II and III

You have just been hired as a Scrum Master by an organization new to Scrum. You are going to be the Scrum Master of three new Scrum Teams that will work on a product. The organization assigned three Product Owners but looks for your input. What would you suggest? I - Each Scrum Team has a Product Backlog. II - There should only be one Product Backlog for the new product. III - Having one Product Owner will improve the clarity of accountability to the teams and to the product management department. IV - It is fine to have three Product Owners, but they need to assign a chief Product Owner to centralize decision-making. V - There should only be one Product Owner.

II and III and V

Scrum Teams self-manage. What does that mean? I - The Developers assign the tasks to be worked on during Sprint Planning and make sure to get all the committed tasks done by the end of the Sprint. II - Scrum Teams are able to resolve internal conflicts. III - The Scrum Master assigns the tasks to the Developers daily. IV - Scrum Teams are flexible and creative.

II and IV

What does the Scrum Team commit to each Sprint? I - Getting done with the Sprint Backlog forecasted on Sprint Planning. II - The Sprint Goal III - Reporting to the Product Owner about the progress on a daily basis. IV - Seeking stakeholder feedback. V - Increasing their velocity. VI - Updating the Sprint burndown right after each Daily Scrum.

II and IV

You are the Scrum Master of a Scrum Team. During the Daily Scrum, one Developer is constantly discussing technical topics that are interesting but not relevant for the Daily Scrum. What would you do? I - Manage turn-taking on the Daily Scrum by passing a token around. Each person only speaks while owning the token, which lasts an allotted amount of time. II - Coach the Developers to help them find a way to solve the problem and own the solution. III - Use a timer to limit the time that each Developer can speak at the Daily Scrum. IV - In private, ask the Developer what he believes are the key outcomes for the Daily Scrum. Use the opportunity to coach him and help create focus during the Daily Scrum. V - Raise the issue as an impediment to the Developer's manager and ask her to resolve this matter.

II and IV I - This hurts self-management. III - This hurts self-management V - This hurts self-management.

What are the pillars of empiricism?

Inspection, adaptation, transparency

You are working with a product which as performance as a key requirement. The manager of a Scrum Team which has you as the Scrum Master suggests to you that performance testing should only be performed every other Sprint because it is too costly. He wants to know your opinion. What would you say?

It is not a good idea, bc the increment will lose transparency, making the feedback longer than need, and hindering empiricism

You are assigned as the Scrum Master of three newly formed Scrum Teams for developing a product. During the kick-off meeting, one of the Developers asks you who will coordinate the work between the different Scrum Teams. What should you answer?

It is their responsibility to form scrum teams with skills and knowledge to create at least one integrated increment by the end of every sprint. If they need any help, you are available to teach them how to do it

John is a Product Owner working on a Scrum Team on a new release for his product. John used the velocity of the previous release as the reference to estimate that the new release would take ten Sprints. The average velocity of the previous release was twenty Story Points per Sprint. Development is four Sprints underway, with seven more Sprints to go until the release. Further, the Product Backlog has not changed much. Over the first three Sprints, the average velocity is fifteen, but not all the delivered functionality was tested as needed. The Developers estimate that the unfinished testing would have required 25% of a Sprint's time. The Developers believe that the required velocity of twenty-three is within their reach. What is the most effective way to recover?

The developers inform John that the progress that he has percieved to date is not correct, bc the delivered functionaloty is not tested. The increment is not releasable. They tell john their estimated effort for paying off the tech debt and suggest paying it off before processing with new features. The developers also re-estimate the effort to compelte the remaining product backlog.

Who creates the Definition of Done?

The developmet organization ( or scrum team if none is availble from the development organization)

Which of the following best describes the Increment?

The moment a product backlog item meets the DoD, an increment is born

When could the Developers cancel the Sprint?

They can't. Only PO

True or False. The Scrum Master is a manager.

True -The Scrum Master manages through the Scrum framework. Notice that, unlike traditional management, he/she does not manage people or have authority over them.

When is a Sprint over?

When the time-box is over

You are a Scrum Master assisting five Scrum Teams that are working on the same product. At this point, you are discussing with them about integrating their work for developing the Increments. Many opinions were shared by the future Scrum Team members. Which of the following would you support?

all scrum teams agree on a shared DOD that describes all work needed to deliver an increment that is the integrated sum of the work from all scrum teams

Who describes the Definition of Done in the case of multiple Scrum Teams working on a single product?

all scrum teams must mutually define DOD