Scrum Scrum Certifications PSM-II Questions & Answers

• Question 101:

  Which of the following statements are true about the Scrum Master role?

  A. The Scrum Master assigns the tasks to Development Team members and ensures they are completed within the committed timebox.

  B. The Scrum Master helps those outside the Scrum Team understand which interactions are helpful and teaches the Development Team to keep the Scrum meetings within the timebox.

  C. The Scrum Master is responsible for updating the Scrum board and ensuring team members avoid conflicts.

  D. At the Sprint Review, the Scrum Master demonstrates the completed Increment and answers any questions from the stakeholders.

  Correct Answer: B

  The Scrum Master is responsible not only for coaching the Scrum Team but also the organization.

• Question 102:

  A Development Team, that has remote team members, typically spends time before the Daily Scrum to setup the meeting rooms and conference calling equipment and tools in order to have their Daily Scrum. How should the Scrum Master handle this situation?

  A. Allow the Development Team to self-manage and decide for itself what to do.

  B. Setup the meeting and tell the Development Team that is how it will be done.

  C. Ask the Development Team members to alternate who is responsible for meeting setup.

  D. Inform management and ask them to solve it.

  Correct Answer: A

  As a self-organized team, they will decide for themselves how to best manage communication between team members. The Scrum Master will only take action if requested OR if he/she observes that there is a potential problem.

• Question 103:

  In what ways does the Scrum Master keep a Development Team working at its highest level of productivity?

  A. By removing impediments that hinder the Development Team and facilitating Development Team decisions.

  B. By helping the Development Team with user acceptance tests and tracking defects.

  C. By ensuring each member takes turns speaking at the Daily Scrum and ending the event on time.

  D. By keeping the Scrum board and burn-down chart updated daily.

  Correct Answer: A

  The Scrum Master serves the Development Team by removing impediments to the Development Team's progress and facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed.

• Question 104:

  The director of engineering in your organization always stresses the importance of meeting deadlines in order for the engineering department to be seen as a reliable source for the product management department. The director has calculated that the team's velocity needs to increase an additional 15% to meet the commitment he made to management for the release date of the product.

  He asks Steven, the team's Scrum Master, to increase his team's velocity. Which would be the best two responses for Steven to take? (Choose two.)

  A. He explains how a team uses the velocity of a Sprint primarily to forecast work for the next Sprint, not to perfectly predict future productivity. He refers the director to the Product Owner for all information concerning the progress of development.

  B. He informs the director of organizational impediments he is aware of that prevent the team from being more productive. He suggests collaborating with him on how to remove these impediments.

  C. He educates his director how it is part of a team's self-organization to improve velocity. He invites the director to the next Sprint Retrospective to brainstorm on how they can improve.

  D. He helps the director understand that it typically takes a few Sprints for a team to gradually increase the velocity up to the level expected. Meanwhile he presents this to the team as a challenge and a company goal, leaving it however up to them to figure out exactly how to achieve this.

  E. He tells the director that this is not his responsibility in Scrum. He tells the director to work with the Product Owner to check whether the estimates on the Product Backlog are being respected during implementation.

  Correct Answer: AB

  The Scrum Master serves the organization by helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development and causing change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team.

• Question 105:

  During the Sprint Review, one of the stakeholders announces that due to recent market changes, there is risk that funding might be reduced for the project. This triggers tensions to rise and arguments to break out between members. As a Scrum Master, what would be the best two actions to take? (Choose two.)

  A. Defend the original budget and request the stakeholders to adhere to the original agreed funding for the product.

  B. Encourage the stakeholders and Product Owner to focus on delivering the highest value items for the next Sprint.

  C. Be objective and request for a short break for people to calm down.

  D. Avoid getting involved as it is the Product Owner's responsibility to manage stakeholder expectations.

  E. Inform everyone that the team needs to stay busy until the information is formally announced.

  Correct Answer: BC

  The Scrum Master is responsible for promoting and supporting Scrum by helping everyone embody the values of commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect.

• Question 106:

  Your organization requires all Increments to pass user acceptance testing (UAT) before it is allowed to be released to production.

  Is it a good idea to postpone UAT until the end of the project to prevent the Development Team from being disrupted during the Sprints?

  A. No, because the state of the Product Increment won't be transparent and the feedback loop would be too long.

  B. It depends on the team's Definition of Done.

  C. Yes, because the Development Team is a self-organizing team and should not be disrupted during development.

  D. Yes, because UAT is done in a hardening Sprint before the release Sprint.

  Correct Answer: A

  The purpose of each Sprint is to deliver Increments of potentially releasable functionality that adhere to the Scrum Team's current definition of "Done". At the end of a Sprint, the new Increment must be "Done", which means it must be in useable condition and meet the Scrum Team's definition of "Done". An increment is a body of inspectable, done work that supports empiricism at the end of the Sprint. If UAT is a part of the team or organizational standard, then any delay in this activity will reduce transparency and increase risk.

• Question 107:

  What would be the best two ways to identify that a Development Team is self-organizing? (Choose two.)

  A. Management is able to know which members are working on which items.

  B. Creativity thrives and new possibilities are explored.

  C. The Development Team members are cross-functional and knows what it needs to do to deliver the all tasks committed to the Sprint Planning.

  D. The Development Team is able to resolve internal conflicts between members in order to continue working.

  Correct Answer: BD

  In self-organized teams creativity thrives, conflicts can be resolved, and new possibilities are explored.

• Question 108:

  Select two ways in which Scrum uses time-boxing to promote self-organization? (Choose two.)

  A. Time-boxes ensures that the Development Team commits to completing the items in the Sprint Backlog by the end of the Sprint.

  B. Time-boxes encourage the ones closest to the problem make the best possible decisions within the time-frame given the current situation.

  C. Time-boxes can help teams plan how many additional Sprints is needed for User Acceptance testing.

  D. Time-boxes helps everybody concentrate on the same problem at the same time.

  Correct Answer: BD

  Time-boxes help everyone focus on the work of the Sprint and personally commit to achieving the goals of the Scrum Team.

• Question 109:

  During the Sprint Review of a scaled development effort, each Scrum Team should demonstrate its individual Increment in a separate branch of the code.

  A. True

  B. False

  Correct Answer: B

  If there are multiple Scrum Teams working on the system or product release, the Development Teams on all the Scrum Teams must mutually define the definition of "Done". Each Increment is additive to all prior Increments and thoroughly tested, ensuring that all Increments work together.

• Question 110:

  Steven is a Scrum Master for three Scrum Teams building the same product and working from the same Product Backlog. Management wants to standardize how velocity is calculated across all three teams in order to identify which teams are high performing and which teams need more support.

  What would be the best two responses Steven could provide to management? (Choose two.)

  A. There is no direct relationship between velocity and value.

  B. Standardizing velocity across teams is a good way to understand which teams are producing the most value.

  C. Providing incentives based on velocity can increase the Scrum Team's motivation to produce more value.

  D. Velocity is the amount of business functionality that a Scrum Team creates in a Sprint. It is unique to that team and used as an input to Sprint Planning.

  Correct Answer: AD

  Working software is the primary measure of progress. Scrum is based on empirical process control theory where delivering working software frequently and measuring the impact helps the Product Owner maximize opportunity for the business to deliver value.