PSPO-II Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which of the following practices might help the Product Owner minimize waste in developing and sustaining the Product Backlog? (Choose all that apply.)

A. Only fully describe the Product Backlog items near the top of the Product Backlog since they are more likely to be selected during Sprint Planning.

B. Maintain newly gathered Product Backlog items in a separate Product Backlog until they are fully understood to avoid distracting the Developers.

C. Write Product Backlog items with clearly expressed expected outcomes.

D. As Product Owner ask the Developers to refine several important Product Backlog items.

Adding acceptance criteria to each Product Backlog item is a practice many Scrum Teams find useful. Is it the Product Owner's responsibility to write all of the acceptance criteria for each Product Backlog Items?

A. Yes. the Product Owner is responsible for adding acceptance criteria to Product Backlog items.

B. No, acceptance criteria should be written by the Developers completing the work.

C. It depends, the Product Owner is accountable for clearly communicating Product Backlog items but they may delegate the responsibility of writing acceptance criteria to others, or they may do the work themselves.

Your executive leadership team believes that your product can achieve higher market share.

1.

The Sales Leader is pressuring you to reduce the price of the product to attract more customers.

2.

The Director of Finance is concerned that reducing the price will merely reduce the product's profitability.

What sources of information should you consider when deciding whether to drop the price as the Sales Leader is suggesting? (Choose four.)

A. Channel sales strategy

B. Customer satisfaction

C. Competitor pricing

D. Market share

E. Unmet customer needs

F. Company earnings targets

An effective Product Owner must:

A. Ensure that every stakeholder need is met

B. Be the "expert" opinion for all Product Backlog items

C. Ensure that the team is as productive as possible

D. Be the single point of contact for all stakeholders

E. All of the above

F. None of the above

You have been a Product Owner at a new company for a few weeks. It has become clear to that many people, both inside and outside the Scrum Team, expect close involvement in the decisions that you, as a Product Owner, are accountable for.

As a result, you find that it takes too long to make decisions. Which of the following are reasonable options you could take? (Choose three.)

A. Create and share a delegation hoard that displays your decision-making areas and work with your Scrum Team to clarify decision making accountability and responsibility

B. Allow other members of the Scrum Team and stakeholders to continue making decisions they are not accountable for documenting which decisions do not deliver the intended value

C. Demonstrate with the help of data, how long it is taking you to make decisions and the impact that the long decision-making cycle has on delivering value to the customer

D. Work with your Scrum Master to better understand what next steps you can take to move the company's understanding of product ownership up in the maturity curve towards Entrepreneur

E. Start making all the decisions without consulting the others who have expressed interest

The Developers have struggled to get all of their forecasted work done during the last three Sprints. As a Product Owner what steps could you take to help the Developers improve their ability to deliver a done Increment? (Choose two.)

A. Add more people to the team so they can get more done

B. The Product Owner can spend more time with the Developers

C. Ask the Scrum Master to help the Developers learn techniques for improving their ability to forecast work

D. Ensure that all Developers are top performers

A user satisfaction gap exists when there is a difference between: (Choose two.)

A. The user's actual experience

B. The user's desired outcome

C. The total market size

D. The market share of the product

The smallest product Increment that is valuable enough to release is one that:

A. Delivers a single new or improved outcome

B. Adds a new feature

C. Fixes at least one defect

D. Delivers all "must do" Product Backlog items.

Which best describes the Product Backlog?

A. It provides just enough information to enable a Scrum Team to start the design phase of a product

B. It contains all foreseeable tasks and requirements from which the Scrum Team can develop and maintain a complete project plan

C. It is baselined to follow change management processes

D. It can grow and change as more is learned about the product

When should the Product Owner update the project plan?

A. The Product Backlog is the plan in Scrum It is updated as new information and insights emerge.

B. The project plan must be updated prior to the Sprint Retrospective.

C. Before the Sprint Planning to know how much work will have to be done in the Sprint.

D. After the Daily Scrum to ensure an accurate daily overview of project progress.