PSM-II Online Practice Questions and Answers

Stakeholders are only allowed to meet with the Scrum Team at Sprint Review.

A. True

B. False

A PO (Product Owner) is essentially the same thing as a traditional PM (Project Manager).

A. True

B. False

Which stakeholder is the most important for the Product Owner to satisfy?

A. The company founder

B. The board of directors

C. The Head of Product

D. The Product's users

What activities would a Product Owner do during an active Sprint?

A. Engage with the stakeholders and answer questions from the Development Team.

B. Prioritize the Sprint Backlog.

C. Participate at the Daily Scrum.

D. Update the burndown chart.

Cross-functional teams are specialized for working on specific system components (e.g. design, database, backend, frontend).

A. True

B. False

A Scrum Master colleague of yours wants some guidance on what to do in the following situation. During the Daily Scrum, one Scrum Team member, who is a key central figure in the organization, drags on and on about things which actually are interesting but not relevant for the Daily Scrum, day after day. What are two suggestions you would offer to your colleague? (Choose two.)

A. You contact the team member's Line Manager and raise this as an impediment to the Manager, and ask that they resolve this matter.

B. You suggest coaching the Developers to help them find a way to solve the problem, and own the solution.

C. You suggest passing a token around. The person holding the token has the floor to speak for an allotted amount of time.

D. You suggest taking the person aside and asking them what they believe the key outcomes are for the Daily Scrum. Effectively coaching them to help create focus during the Daily Scrum.

E. You suggest using a timer, to limit the time each person can speak at the Daily Scrum.

During the Sprint Retrospective, the newest developer says that his perspective and ideas have been ignored by the rest of the Developers throughout the Sprint. What Scrum values are touched here? (Choose three.)

A. Openness

B. Transparency

C. Courage

D. Respect

E. Focus

F. Commitment

Creating a forecast for a Sprint tends to run more smoothly when the Product Backlog items that are discussed are well understood and actionable. Which approach would you recommend to ensure well understood and actionable Product Backlog items at Sprint Planning?

A. A separate Scrum Team of business analysts and testers analyze high-ordered requirements one Sprint ahead of development.

B. The Product Owner works with the stakeholders to prepare Product Backlog items outside of the Sprint so the Developers will not be disrupted.

C. The analysts on the Scrum Team document high-ordered Product Backlog items during a Sprint when they are not busy working on the forecast.

D. The Developers use some time in each Sprint to analyze, estimate and design high-ordered Product Backlog items.

Your organization always stresses the importance of on-time delivery and reliability. A manager has detected that your team's progress is too slow. They feel that your team's velocity needs to be 10% higher. The organization expects you, as the Scrum Master, to make it happen. How do you respond? (Choose two.)

A. You help management understand that it typically takes a few Sprints for a team to gradually increase the velocity up to the level expected. Meanwhile you present 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.

B. You educate management that it is the Scrum Team's responsibility to improve their velocity. You invite management to the next Sprint Retrospective to brainstorm on how they can improve.

C. You explain how a Scrum Team uses the velocity of a Sprint primarily to forecast work for the next Sprint, not to perfectly predict future productivity. You refer management to the Product Owner for all information concerning the progress of development.

D. You inform management of organizational impediments that prevent the Scrum Team from being more productive. You enlist their help to remove these impediments.

E. You tell management that this is not your accountability in Scrum. You direct them to the Product Owner to determine whether the forecast is accurate.

What can the Scrum Value of openness easily impact?

A. Collaboration.

B. Product quality.

C. Employee satisfaction.

D. Time to market.

E. Stakeholder trust.

F. All of the above.