Scrum Professional Scrum Developer PSD Questions & Answers

• Question 1:

  The developers can invite experts to the sprint planning to give them advice

  A. False

  B. True

  Correct Answer: B

  The scrum guide says: "The Scrum Team may also invite other people to attend Sprint Planning to provide advice."

• Question 2:

  Which of the following describes an architecture spike?

  A. A fundamental architectural problem found in an existing application

  B. The result of an exhaustive architectural planning effort

  C. A small development activity to learn about technical elements of a proposed solution

  D. A decision made by a systems architect to settle disagreement amongst the developers

  Correct Answer: C

  An architecture spike is a small development activity to learn about technical elements of a proposed solution.

• Question 3:

  When might a sprint be cancelled?

  A. When the developers feel they aren't ready

  B. When the project manager decides this.

  C. Never, the sprint must always be finished.

  D. When the sprint goal becomes obsolete

  Correct Answer: D

  The product owner can cancel the sprint if the sprint goal becomes obsolete. This is a very rare event. It can happen when a company losing a client or the client decides to take a completely different turn.

• Question 4:

  How long should the sprint review take? Choose the best answer

  A. Until everyone is done.

  B. Max two hours for a one month sprint

  C. Max two hours

  D. Max four hours

  E. Max four hours for a one-month sprint

  Correct Answer: E

  The scrum guide says: "The Sprint Review is the second to last event of the Sprint and is timeboxed to a maximum of four hours for a one-month Sprint."

• Question 5:

  How long is the daily scrum?

  A. The scrum master ends the meeting when it is done

  B. This is for the developers to decide

  C. At most 15 minutes

  D. At least 15 minutes

  E. Around 15 minutes, but more if necessary

  Correct Answer: C

  Explanation: The timebox for the daily scrum is 15 minutes. The timebox doesn't say anything about a minimum length, just about a maximum length.

• Question 6:

  How is architecture decided in a scrum team during a project?

  A. The developers emerge architecture as the system is created

  B. The architect works in the early part of each sprint to define the architecture of that sprint

  C. Upfront designs are presented to the developers prior to the first sprint

  D. The architecture cares for itself as code is written and deployed

  E. An architect on the team undertakes all architecture tasks

  Correct Answer: A

  Architecture emerges as more is created. There are often guidelines and principles in place.

• Question 7:

  Which of the following two best describe a ready product backlog item?

  A. It is a complete user story with all the necessary components

  B. It is well understood by the developers and product owner at the sprint planning

  C. It has been changed from unready to ready status in the tracking tool

  D. It has been fully described in the user requirements analysis

  E. It can most likely be done within one sprint

  Correct Answer: BE

  A ready product item needs to be able to be done in a sprint (scrum guide). In order for it to be ready, the product owner and the developers need to understand it well. Tracking tools and requirements analysis and how user stories should be made isn't part of scrum or the best practices for development.

• Question 8:

  Choose two common cross-cutting concerns in application architecture

  A. Release documentation

  B. Build automation

  C. Security

  D. Design pattern choices

  E. Scalability

  Correct Answer: CE

  The others are either not cross-cutting or not related to architecture.

• Question 9:

  The three pillars of empirical process control are:

  A. transparency

  B. planning

  C. inspection

  D. respect

  E. commitment

  F. adaptation

  Correct Answer: ACF

  If you are not sure, please review the Scrum theory section in the scrum guide

• Question 10:

  Which four are benefits of TDD?

  A. It promotes good design and separation of concerns

  B. It causes you to construct a test harness that can be automated

  C. It improves quality and reduces bugs D It reduces the cost of maintenance over time

  D. It ensure there will be no bugs in the code

  Correct Answer: ABCD

  Nothing can really ensure it will be bug free.