SMC Online Practice Questions and Answers

Andy, a Scrum Master, is helping his team draft a Sprint Backlog. In which of the following phases would this Scrum process be in?

A. Initiate

B. Plan and Estimate

C. Implement

D. Review and Retrospect

As a Scrum Master how will you coordinate with the Product Owner to ensure Value-Driven Delivery on Scrum projects?

A. By ensuring that requirements are prioritized based on opportunity for investment

B. By ensuring that customers realize the value at the end of project

C. By ensuring that requirements are reprioritized after every Sprint

D. By understanding what adds value to customers and ensuing that stakeholders are closely involved throughout the project

As a Scrum Master, it is important that you assess skill gaps and training requirements for the team members, and map the skills, capabilities, and interest level of team members in using those skills and capabilities on a project. Which one of the following tools can help you do this?

A. Skills Requirement Matrix.

B. Organizational Deployment Method.

C. Daily Standup.

D. Organizational Resource Matrix.

Which of the following statements is NOT true of an Impediment Log?

A. Impediment Log can be discussed during Daily Standup.

B. Internal impediments from within the team are never recorded in the Impediment Log, and only brought up during the Daily Standups.

C. Transparency in Scrum ensures swift and easy identification of impediments.

D. Scrum Master maintains and updates the Impediment Log.

Scrum Masters have to solve both internal and external impediments for the Scrum team during the Create

Deliverables process. To do so, they record the impediments in the Impediment Log

during_________________________.

A) Daily Standup Meetings.

B) Sprint Review Meetings.

C) Release Planning Meetings.

D) Sprint Planning Meetings.

A. A and C

B. A

C. A and D

D. A, B, and C

A town has begun a project that involves keeping track of the buses traveling on the roads of the town. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of this project if it is managed according to Scrum Framework?

A. Detailed upfront planning will be done to ensure that risks are identified early on.

B. The team working on this project will meet every day for 15 minutes to list impediments to completing their tasks.

C. The Product Owner will prioritize the tasks that deliver maximum business value.

D. The customer does not have to be able to define very concrete requirements early on.

Which of the following methods helps estimate the value provided by projects?

A. Internal Rate of Return

B. Net Rate of Return

C. Present Rate of Return

D. Estimated Rate of Return

The Scrum Master can help the Product Owner deploy Product Releases and coordinate deployment with the customer by helping him/her adopt Organizational Deployment methods. Which of the following statements about the deployment mechanisms of an organization is true?

A. Deployment mechanisms do not provide any guidelines regarding minimum functionality.

B. Deployment mechanisms are not well-defined in most cases.

C. Deployment mechanisms are static, and cannot vary across organizations.

D. Deployment mechanisms can take place remotely.

Which of the following is NOT a Scrum Master's responsibility?

A. Groom the Prioritized Product Backlog.

B. Coordinate creation of Release Planning Schedule.

C. Facilitate Prioritized Product Backlog Review Meetings.

D. Represent the Scrum Core Team to provide lessons from the project.

To enable collaboration, the Product Owner, the Scrum Master, and the Scrum Team collaborate with each other and the stakeholders to create deliverables that provide the greatest possible value to the customer.

This ensures realization of all the following project benefits, EXCEPT:

A. The customer can easily request changes and get things done by interacting closely with the team. Thus collaboration ensures efficient management of large numbers of Change Requests.

B. The team will be able to identify, and assess risks. Also, due to the collaborative approach they are able to implement risk responses to high-priority risks.

C. Even if a team member has missed a task deadline, the team members can align themselves collaboratively to meet the targets agreed to for completing the Sprint.

D. The Scrum Master can work with the team to rework and improve the processes for the next scheduled Sprint. Thus, collaboration leads to the practice of continuous improvement.