1. Which of the following might the Scrum Team discuss during a Sprint Retrospective?

a. All of them
b. Its definition of done
c. Methods of communication
d. The way the scrum master participates in the sprint planning
e. Skills needed to improve the development team’s ability to deliver

2. The Sprint length should be:

a. All of the answers are correct
b. Short enough to keep the business risk acceptable to the product owner
c. No more than one month
d. Short enough to be able to synchronize the development work with other business events

3. A Development Team decides to divide the Sprint Backlog and assign ownership of every
Sprint Backlog items to each member of the team. The Scrum Master should:
a. Encourage this practice as it increase invididual accountability
b. Coach the team to collectively take ownership of the sprint
c. Encourage this practice as it increase productivity
d. The Sprint Backlog is collectively owned by the Development Team.

4. All of the items on the Product Backlog must be written by the Product Owner before they
are handed over to the Development Team.
a. True
b. False

5. What happens if the Development Team cannot complete its work by the end of the Sprint?
a. The sprint length hold and the dev team continuously learns what’s actually possible to do
within a sprint of this length
b. The sprint is extended and future sprints use this new duration
c. The sprint is extended temporarily, lessons are taken to ensure it doesn’t happen again

6. The frequency of updating the product backlog is

a. Weekly
b. Anytime
c. Daily
d. At every sprint beginning

7. How is the Product Backlog ordered?

a. Whatever seems the best to the product owner
b. Items are ordered by function (i.e. : design, frontend, backend, database)
c. Items with the fewest story points are at the top and the most at the bottom
d. Highest priority items at the bottom and lowest priority items at the top
e. The leas risky items are at the top and the riskiest items at the bottom

8. When is ownership of individual items, in the Sprint Backlog, assigned to Development Team
members?
a. Never. Even if individuals work on specific sprint backlog items, the dev team as a whole
remains accountable for the sprint backlog in its entirety
b. During daily scrum
c. Any time during sprint planning
d. When the scrum master assigns it

9. When a Development Team is having trouble delivering a working Increment because they
don't understand a functional requirement, what should they do?
a. Partially complete the functionnality, and discuss the remaining work at the sprint review
b. Add a specialist to the dev team
c. Collaborate with the product owner to determine what’s possible and acceptable
d. Defer the work to a more appropriate sprint

10. Who must do all the work to make sure Product backlog items conform to the definition of
"Done"?
a. The scrum team
b. The dev team
c. QA specialist
d. The product owner
e. The scrum master

11. How will an organization know the outcomes of a product that is currently in development?
(choose the best answer)
a. By releasing often, and updating KPIs (key performance indicators) on value after every
release and feeding this information back into work on the product backlog
b. By the patternn of increment approvals by the product owner and stakeholders at the sprint
review
c. By comparing the estimated time for development versus the actual time spent
d. By an increase of velocity trends from sprint to sprint

12. A new developer is having conflicts with existing Development Team members and creating a
hostile environment. If necessary, who is responsible for removing the team member?
a. The deve team is responsible, and may need help from the scrum master
b. The hiring manager is responsible, because he/she hired the developer
c. The product owner is responsible, because he/she controls the return on investment (ROI)
d. The scrum master is responsible, because he/she removes impediments

13. Which concept illustrates that, as a forecast lengthens, the level of unknowns also increase?
(choose the best answer)
a. Software product life cycle
b. The cone of uncertainty
c. The iron triangle
d. Empirical process control

14. Choose two responsibilities of a self-organizing Development Team? Choose 2

answers

a. Reorder the product backlog

b. Report daily progress to stakeholders
c. Increase velocity
d. Do the work planned in the sprint backlog
e. Pull product backlog items for the sprint

15. How should multiple Scrum Teams, working from the same Product Backlog, select
the Product Backlog items their teams plan to work on?

a. The product owner will present the work and the dev teams will select the items they
will work on
b. Each scrum team would select an equal number of items
c. The product owner assigns the work to each team
d. The product owner creates separate product backlogs for each dev team
e. The scrum team with the highest productivity will select the items first

16. What prerequisites must be met before a Sprint Planning can start? (choose the best
answer)

a. User stories that conform with the definition of ready

b. Approval from the steering committee
c. A fulle refined product backlog
d. The preparedness of the product owner
e. There are no such prerequisites
f. Availability of key scrum team members

17. It is the responsibility of the Scrum Master to engage the stakeholders to maximize
the value of the product

a. True
b. False

18. A Development Team selects a set of Product Backlog items for a Sprint Backlog with
the intent to get the selected Items "Done" by the end of the Sprint. Which three
phrases best describes the purpose of a definition of "Done"? Choose 3 answers

a. It controls whether the developers have performed their tasks

b. It tracks teh percent completeness of a product backlog item
c. It creates transparency over the work inspected at the sprint review
d. It provides a template for elements that need to be includeed in the technical doc
e. It guides the dev team in creating a forecast at the sprint planning
f. It defines what it takes for an increment to be ready for release

19. A Scrum Team is at the end of a Sprint. The next Sprint starts:

a. After the retropsective event of the current sprint

b. After the product increment is released to production
c. After the sprint planning

20. Every Development Team should have the competencies and skills needed to deliver
a Done Increment in a Sprint.
a. True
b. False

21. Choose the 2 true statements

a. The main priority of the product owner is to maximize the value of the product
b. Dev team cannot act on directions from anyone other than product manager
c. Product users are the most important stakeholders
d. Product ownear’s decisions are visible in the sprint backlog content

22. It is good practice to maintain separate Product Backlogs for multiple Scrum Teams
that work on one product

a. False
b. True

23. Your organization is new to Scrum. Management would like to understand what
measures are helpful in determining if value is being delivered. As a Product Owner,
which two metrics would be appropriate? (choose the best two answers)

a. Productivity
b. Scope
c. Time-to-market
d. Customer satisfaction
e. Velocity

24. The key stakeholders invited to the Sprint Review provide:

a. Feedback on the technical design

b. Feedback on the team’s working methodology
c. Feedback on the increment
d. Feedback on scrum implementation

25. What are the desired benefits of a Product Owner having a clear Product
Vision? (choose the best three answers)

a. It helps the scrum team stay focused and provides them something to check their
decisions against
b. A product vision provides an overarching direction so that sprints deliver high added-
value
c. A product vision provides the sprint review a way of inspecting the incremental
progress
d. It’s not mandatory in scrum and there’s no direct benefit
e. A product vision helps the scrum team know how much work is remaining until it can
be satisfied
26. Scrum users must frequently inspect artifacts and progress toward the product's
vision and goals. In what ways does a Product Owner take the lead on detecting
desirable/undesirable variances? (choose the best two answers)

a. At the conclusion of sprint planning, the product owner inspects the sprint backlog
before allowing the development process to begin
b. At the sprint review the product owner shares the product backlog as it stands. He or
she projects likely target and delivery dates based on progress to date which results in
a revised product backlog
c. The product owner invites stakeholders to the sprint review to learn about the
current state of the market and how it infliences what could be done next to optimize
value
d. Dureng the daily scrum the product owner inspects the sprint burndown chart in
order to create a report on the team’s performance

27. What are the best ways for a Product Owner to manage value for the Product?
(choose the best two answers)

a. Managing the product cost ratio

b. Ordering of the product backlog
c. Frequently releasing increments to validate assumptions built into the product
d. Setting value points on individual product backlog items

28. The Scrum Framework recommends:

a. Quarterly releases
b. Early and frequent release of usable increments
c. Release planning of a fully developed product

29. A member of the Development Team takes the Scrum Master aside to express his
concerns about data security issues. What should the Scrum Master do?

a. Add security to the definition of done

b. Create a product backlog item for security
c. Tell the product owner to stop further development of features untill the issues are
fixed
d. O check with the testers
e. Ask the preson to share the issue with the team as soon as possible

30. Which of the following are roles on a Scrum Team? Choose all that apply

a. Users
b. Product owner
c. Customers
d. Dev team
e. Scrum master
31. A Product Owner cannot send a representative to the Sprint Review instead of
himself.

a. True
b. False

32. When do Development Team members take ownership of a Sprint Backlog item?

a. During the daily scrum

b. At the sprint planning meeting
c. Whenever a team member can accommodate more work
d. Never, all sprint backlog items are owned by the entire dev team, even though each
one may be done by an indivdual dev team member

33. Each increment must be released to production to maximize the value

a. False
b. True

34. Of the following choices, what is the most effective way a Scrum Master can keep a
Development team working at its highest level of productivity?

a. Keep high value features high in the product backlog

b. Ensure the meetings start and end at proper time
c. Prevent changes to the backlogs once the sprint begins
d. Facilitate dev team decisions and remove impediments

35. While Product Backlog Items can be re-estimated, reordered, modified, they can
never be removed from the Product Backlog

a. True
b. False

36. Part of the team's Definition of "Done" requires creating or updating technical
documentation in order to maintain the product and/or features in the future. The
team's technical writer will be on vacation during the Sprint. What should you do?

a. Wait until technical writer returns before continuing with the related items
b. The dev team members will write it as they are still responsible for creating the
documentation to make the increment done in confromance with their definition of
done
c. Encourage the technical writers from other teams to form a specialized team to
organize and plon the work for multiple teams
d. Complete all development work first while adding technical documentation to the
product backlog to be done in a supbsequent sprint

37. Scrum Team adapts the definition of “Done” during

a. Anytime
b. The product backlog refinement
c. The sprint retrospective

38. The Development Team is self-organizing which means:

a. It decides of the length of each sprint

b. It manages the scrum events
c. It manages how to perform the development work
d. It manages the product backlog

39. What should a Development Team do with non-functional requirements?

a. Ensure they are addresesd in every increment

b. Add them to a separate non-functional requirement list
c. Assign them to the technical leads on the team
d. They will be addressed in the integration sprints

40. What areas of focus can help a Product Owner make sure that the product is
delivering value? (choose the best three answers)

a. How much can the customer absorb and use the product
b. How much of the functionality of his product is being utilized
c. Direct customer feedback
d. The size or quantity of the user stories delivered
e. The level of accuracy between the done increment and the original requirements