PSM-II Online Practice Questions and Answers

Steven is a Scrum Master of a Scrum Team that is new to Scrum. At the halfway point of the Sprint, the Product Owner comes to Steven telling him that he is concerned the Development Team will not be able to complete the entire Sprint Backlog by the end of the Sprint.

What should Steven do in this situation?

A. Motivate the Development Team to meet their commitment to the Product Owner.

B. Coach the Product Owner that with complex software development, you cannot promise the entire scope that was forecast during Sprint Planning. As more is learned during the Sprint, work may emerge that affects the Sprint Backlog.

C. Advise the Product Owner that the Development Team owns the Sprint Backlog and it is up to them to meet their commitments. No one tells the Development Team how to turn Product Backlog into Increments of potentially releasable functionality.

D. Add more people to the Development Team to meet the Product Owner's expectations.

Select the correct Scrum Team roles defined in Scrum.

A. Development Team, Scrum Master, Product Owner

B. Engineers, Business Analyst, Product Owner

C. Stakeholders, Scrum Master, Project Manager, Product Owner

D. Product Manager, Business Analyst, Development Team, Stakeholders

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.

The outcome of a Sprint can be impacted by which of the following? (Choose all that apply.)

A. The working relationships and skills of the people on the Scrum Team(s).

B. The complexity and stability of the technology.

C. The complexity of the requirements.

What would be typical Scrum Master activities during the Sprint?

A. Monitor the progress of the Development Team and assigning tasks.

B. Remove impediments and facilitating inspection and adaptation opportunities as requested or needed.

C. Avoiding conflicts and escalating to the line managers if conflicts occur.

What is a Product Owner responsibility that he/she might delegate?

A. Writing User Stories

B. Ordering the Product Backlog

C. Representing stakeholders to the Scrum team

D. Attending the Sprint Review

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

A new Product Owner is hired to work on an existing product that has ongoing for five Sprints. He/she is unsure about all of the responsibilities of a Product Owner. Which of these Product Owner's activities are defined in Scrum?

A. Writing User Stories.

B. Interacting with stakeholders and ensuring that the most valuable functionality is always produced first.

C. Describing features as Use Cases.

D. Ensuring work is completed within scope and time.

Which of the following are feedback loops in Scrum?

A. Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective

B. Daily Standup, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective

C. Release Planning, Daily Scrum, and Sprint Review

D. Grooming, Daily Status, and Sprint Review

Self-management is more effective when it happens within boundaries.

Select two relevant boundaries for self-management provided by the Scrum framework. (Choose two.)

A. Timeboxing work to allow for frequent inspection.

B. Creating a valuable and useful Increment by the end of each Sprint.

C. Having an even number of members in a Scrum Team to be able to do pair programming and be more productive.

D. Clearly defining sub-responsibilities and handovers within the Scrum Team.