Simulado 06

01) What is the standard used by the Product Owner and Scrum Team to identify unfinished
work in a Sprint? (choose the best answer)
A) Coding Standard
B) Definition of Ready
C) Testing Standard
D) Definition of “Done”

02) What does the Scrum Master manage? (choose the best answer)
A) Scrum People
B) Scrum Framework
C) Scrum Technology
D) All of them
E) None of them

03) Which Scrum events facilitate inspection and adaptation? (choose the best answer)
A) Sprint
B) Testing
C) Sprint Retrospective
D) Analysis

04) During Daily Scrum, what plan is used as a reference to understand the changes in
progress? (choose the best answer)
A) Sprint Backlog
B) Product Backlog
C) Sprint Burn-down

05) Sprint Planning helps in: (choose the best answer)

A) Building entire technical architecture
B) Staffing plan
C) Testing strategy
D) Release plan
E) None of the above

06) True or False: One of the Scrum Teams chose to have a Developer also playing the role
of Scrum Master. A Developer cannot also play Scrum Master’s role.
A) True
B) False

07) The team has not completed anything by Sprint end. What is the next step? (choose the
best answer)
A) Extend the Sprint since Scrum favors "getting done"
B) Advice Product Owner to accept completed portion of story, and plan to complete
100% of it by next Sprint, since Scrum favors "empowered teams"
C) End the Sprint with a retrospective, since Scrum favors time boxing
08) The Scrum Team, based on the learning from previous Sprints, decides to revisit the
length of the Sprint. What is the appropriate Scrum event to discuss and agree on the
change? (choose the best answer)
A) Sprint Planning
B) Sprint Retrospective
C) Daily Scrum
D) Sprint Review

09) To effectively track the Sprint progress, Scrum mandates: (choose the best answer)
A) Preparing Sprint burn down charts
B) Increasing the transparency by frequently updating the remaining work
C) Earned Value approach

10) True or False: Only the Product Owner can come up with items that can be considered
for Product Backlog. Others cannot provide input / recommendations / ideas about new
items
A) True
B) False

11) True or False: Sprint Planning is the only occasion where the Developers estimates the
Product Backlog items
A) True, because without estimate, the team cannot plan what can go into the Sprint
B) False, estimation of Product Backlog Items is a continuous event throughout at time

12) Which is true about Sprint Restrospective?

A) It focuses on Product and Sprint Review focuses on development process
B) It focuses on development process and Sprint Review focuses on Velocity
C) It focuses on development process and Sprint Review focuses on Product

13) During a Sprint Review, the Scrum Master notices that the Product Owner does not use
the Product burn-down graph to explain the status to stakeholder. The Scrum Master:
(Choose the best answer)
A) Should coach the Product Owner on the importance of using this Scrum tool
B) Should cancel the review and schedule it back when the Product Owner is ready
with this
C) Do Nothing

14) A short expression of the purpose of a Sprint which is often a business need– is called
as: (choose the best answer)
A) Sprint Goal
B) Acceptance Criteria
C) Definition of Done

15) The estimation method recommended by Scrum is: (choose the best two answers)
A) Planning Poker
B) T-Shirt Sizing
C) Yesterday’s weather
D) None of the above

16) True or False: It is mandatory that the definition of "Done" includes “Release to
Production”
A) True
B) False
17) Under this part of the Sprint Planning, the Developers is more active in planning and
Product Owner is mostly observing or clarifying in: (Choose the best answer)
A) Part One (What)
B) Part Two (How)

18) What is the definition of “Done”? (Choose the best answer)

A) Testing strategy for Scrum Team
B) A standard used by Scrum Team to assess if a product Increment is “done”
C) Defined by Product Owner and safeguarded by Scrum Master

19) A person external to the Scrum Team with a specific interest in and knowledge of a
product that is required for incremental discovery, is known as: (choose the best
answer)
A) Technical/Domain Expert
B) Stakeholder
C) Senior Management

20) The Developers tries to put together some guidelines on testing approach. Who will own
these guidelines? (choose the best answer)
A) The Developers
B) Test Lead
C) Scrum Master

21) Who should participate of the Sprint Retrospective meeting? (choose the best three
answers)
A) Product Owner
B) Stakeholders invited by Product Owner
C) Scrum Master
D) Developers
E) Technical/Domain/Process experts invited by Developers

22) Sprint Backlog is modified throughout the Sprint. What does Developers need to do as
soon as a new task is identified? (choose the best answer)
A) Product Owner adds it to the Sprint Backlog and communicates about it to Scrum
Team
B) Scrum Master adds it to the Sprint Backlog and communicates about it to Scrum
Team
C) Developers adds it to the Sprint Backlog and communicates about it to Scrum Team

23) What is required during the Sprint Review? (choose the best two answers)
A) Product Owner’s sign-off
B) Stakeholders active participation
C) Transition sign-off
D) Inspection and Adaptation activities

24) Does the application of Scrum guarantee the success of software projects? (choose the
best two answers)
A) Yes
B) Compared to Waterfall – Yes
C) Scrum is a framework to solve complex problems using teamwork. It does not
guarantee anything
D) Scrum increases the opportunity to control risk and optimizes the predictability of
progress
25) The Sprint Backlog emerges during the Sprint because the Developers modifies it
throughout the Sprint. In the middle of the Sprint, new work is added to Sprint Backlog.
As a result, estimated remaining work will: (choose the best answer)
A) Increase
B) Decrease
C) Stay the same

26) To deliver a single product, three different Scrum Teams are formed. How many Product
Owners are needed? (choose the best answer)
A) As many as recommended by Scrum Master
B) Three
C) One

27) What are Scrum Values? (choose the best three answers)
A) Respect and courage
B) Simplicity
C) Commitment and Openness
D) Creativity and Intuition
E) Focus

28) The Developers has five members. Each one works on a different product. What could
we infer about the team? (choose the best answer)
A) The team will have higher productivity since division of work is clear
B) The team implements diversity, a principle of Scrum
C) The potential of teamwork and benefit of Scrum is less
D) All of them still will have common definition of “Done”

29) What team Velocity refers to? (choose the best answer)
A) Average of amount of Product Backlog Items turned into "Done" Items per Sprint
B) Average rate of churn of team members in Scrum Team during a Sprint
C) Average number of defects per Sprint normalized over all defect types

30) The Scrum Framework is founded on: (choose the best answer)
A) Empiricism
B) Empiricism and Technical Practices
C) Empiricism and Emotional Intelligence

31) True or False: Scrum Master forecasts the the date of release of product during Sprint
Review.
A) True
B) False

32) In the middle of the Sprint, the Developers did not get some technical tools that were
originally promised. This will slow down the work. What is the next best thing to do?
(choose the best answer)
A) Scrum Master should escalate to Project Manager
B) Product Owner should cancel the Sprint
C) The Developers should assess the impact to meeting the Sprint Goal and the
definition of “Done”, and find alternatives to still meet the Sprint Goal without
compromising definition of "Done"
33) A Scrum Team has created the Sprint Backlog in the form of a task board. What is your
inference as Scrum Master? (choose the best answer)
A) The team can choose to represent it any form that makes sense
B) It is okay to have it in task board format, but it must be ensured that it follows
Kanban guidelines
C) Scrum Master must coach the team to create proper Sprint Backlog in the form of
list of backlog items, related tasks, and estimations

34) Velocity is an indication of team performance. Who may use it? (choose the best
answer)
A) The Scrum Team an internal measure to plan and track their improvements.
B) The managers to da performance appraisals for the team
C) The organization to aggregate into organization level productivity

35) In a new Scrum Team, a Scrum Master notices that a Developer works on a task that is
not contributing to the Sprint Goal or Sprint Backlog. What should the Scrum Master do?
(choose the best answer)
A) Escalate this to Product Owner
B) Discuss with developer and educate about Scrum way of working
C) Do not interrupt since the team is self-organizing

36) The Scrum Team gathers for Sprint Planning meeting. The Product Owner has some
Product Backlog items but the Developers finds that they do not have enough
information to understand the work involved and to make forecast. What is the next
best thing to do? (choose the best answer)
A) The Scrum Master cancels the Sprint
B) The Developers proceeds with starting with whatever is known
C) The Developers makes it transparent that they cannot make a forecast with
insufficient information, and negotiates with Product Owner on refining the
Product Backlog items to ready state
D) The Scrum Team discusses the root cause in the retrospective

37) In the middle of the Sprint, the Developers finds that it has more capacity to take more
work. What is the next best thing to do? (choose the best answer)
A) Make it transparent to Product Owner immediately and collaborate to add
additional work.
B) Consult and follow Scrum Master’s and follow their Direction
C) Keep that as a contingency to accommodate unplanned work

38) The Developers is not having regular Daily Scrums. What do you have to do as a Scrum
Master? (choose the best answer)
A) Will advise the team to think about conducting regular Daily Scrums, but will let the
team take the decision themselves as they are self-organizing
B) Will escalate this to resource managers
C) Will step in directly to guard the Scrum Framework by asking action-begetting
questions to team and positively influencing them to conduct Scrum events

39) When a Scrum Team adds new team members for replacing some members going out,
the productivity of the team (choose the best answer)
A) Will be negatively impacted
B) Will be positively impacted
C) Will remain the same
40) Who starts the Daily Scrum? (choose the best two answers)
A) Whoever the Developers decides should start.
B) The person who last broke the build.
C) The person who has the token.
D) The person coming in last. This encourages people to be on time and helps to stay
within the time-box.
E) The Scrum Master. This ensures that the Developers has the meeting and stays
within the time-box.

41) What is the role of Scrum Master with respect to Scrum artifacts? (choose the best
answer)
A) Coach the team to increase the transparency of the artifacts
B) Decide the format of the artifacts and ensures that the team follows it
C) Owner of the artifacts and responsible for having them up to date

42) Three Scrum Teams are working as part of a big project to develop a product. When
Sprints are in motion, there will be: (choose the best answer)
A) Three Product Backlogs, and three Sprint Backlogs
B) One Product Backlog, and three Sprint Backlogs
C) One Product Backlog and one Sprint Backlog

43) In empiricism, the decisions are based on: (choose the best answer)
A) Scientific calculation and Prediction
B) Meeting and Brainstorming
C) Observation, experience and experimentation

44) What is the correct statement? (choose the best answer)

A) The technical design continuously evolves over the Sprints. Hence the team should
have some basic guidelines to start with but try to emerge the design through the
Sprints.
B) The team can choose to have an exclusive Sprint only to finalize the technical
design. At the end, the design should be approved by the project architect
C) The team does not need to pay attention on the architecture as it will evolve itself
as a by-product of self-managing

45) The Developers is often interrupted in the Sprint midway and assigned to work on
“other” high priority items. Frequently, such interruptions lead to not meeting the Sprint
Goal. The most likely cause could be: (choose the best answer)
A) The Developers is not technically competente
B) The Product Owner authority is ineffective or influenced by another authority
C) The Sprint Planning is poor

46) In Sprint Planning, a Scrum Team spends lot of time in discussing and estimating Product
Backlog items. It also ensures that all the work associated with each Product Backlog
item are identified and sufficiently decomposed. The Sprint Planning meetings are
always going beyond the time boxing. What could be the possible causes? (choose the
best two answers)
A) The Scrum Master is new
B) The team did not invest enough in Backlog Refinement
C) The Product Backlog size is huge
D) The Developers is trying to get perfect and detailed Sprint plan before starting any
work
47) Middle of the Sprint, the Developers finds that some of the Product Backlog Items
forecast for this Sprint cannot be finished because they need significant additional
effort. However, the Developers can still meet Sprint Goal with rest of the items. What
is the next thing to do? (choose the best answer)
A) Consult with Product Owner and if they agree, have them cancel the current Sprint,
and plan new Sprint with new estimations
B) Do not cancel or modify the Sprint. Extend the Sprint duration as required for the
additional effort
C) Remove the Product Backlog Items that cannot progress. Collaborate with the
Product Owner to add new work up to team’s capacity. Complete the Sprint.

48) For a Scrum Team that develops software, what provides the shared understanding of
standards that software should meet in order to be accepted as complete by Product
Owner? (choose the best answer)
A) Acceptance Criteria
B) Definition of ready
C) Definition of “Done”

49) The Product Owner provides the transparency of their product plan to the stakeholders
and the Scrum Team through: (Choose the best answer)
A) Sprint Backlog
B) Planning Backlog
C) Project Backlog
D) Product Backlog

50) What is the role of Scrum Master during the Daily Scrum? (Choose the best two
answers)
A) Facilitate discussions of the Developers
B) Moderate and control so that everyone gets a fair chance to speak
C) Ensure that all 3 questions have been answered
D) Teach the Developers to keep the Daily Scrum within the 15 minutes time box
E) All of the above

51) Burn-up and Burn-down charts show evolution of progress over time. In particular,
(choose the best answer)
A) Burn-up shows increase in completion, while Burn-down shows remaining effort
B) Burn-up shows increase in team productivity, while Burn-down shows decrease in
productivity
C) Burn-up shows increase in turn-around time, while Burn-down shows decrease in
turn-around time

52) The Scrum Team decides to have an exclusive Sprint to evolve the technical architecture.
The sole outcome of this Sprint is a finalized architecture design. (choose the best
answer)
A) It is a good practice since it will help the design to emerge
B) It is not the Scrum approach, since every Sprint must produce at least one
releasable functionality
C) It does not matter, since the team is self-organized about how to perform their
work
53) In Scrum based software development effort, while the Sprint Goal will deliver a Product
Increment, one of the Product Backlog Items is asking for production of a document.
(choose the best answer)
A) It is not okay. Every Product Backlog item must be about a working software
requirement
B) It is not okay. Documentation is not needed until Product Owner chooses to release
an Increment to production
C) It is okay. A Sprint can produce a document as a sole outcome of the Sprint
D) It is okay. A Sprint can produce other deliverables like document requested by
Product Owner along with working Increment.

54) It is essential for the Product Owner to have these skills. Usually Scrum Master serves
the Product Owner by coaching him in: (choose the best two answers)
A) Software application development
B) Understanding and practicing agility
C) Coaching team
D) Product planning in empirical environments

55) What is the role of Scrum Master in Sprint Retrospective? (choose the best answer)
A) Auditor
B) Silent Observer
C) Peer Team Member
D) None of the above

56) A Scrum Team is in the process of defining Product Backlog items. The Scrum Master
notices that the team is not using User Story format to capture the backlog items. What
should the Scrum Master do? (choose the best answer)
A) correct the team’s behavior by coaching them about user stories
B) let the team decide the format of Product Backlog items
C) add a business analyst with knowledge of writing user stories to the team, with
specific responsibility of documenting backlog in terms of user stories

57) An organization decides to have very small Scrum Teams of size fewer than five. The
likely result could be: (choose the best answer)
A) The team may have decreased interaction
B) The team may have skills shortage
C) The team may have low productivity gains
D) All of the above

58) During a Sprint Review, the stakeholders notice that the product development progress
is not very clearly visible and lacked transparency. Moreover, they are not able to
understand the next steps. Who is responsible for this? (choose the best answer)
A) Developers
B) Product Owner
C) Scrum Master
D) Scrum Team

59) The architectural features of the product need to be: (choose the best answer)
A) Evolved along with Sprint deliveries
B) Completely designed upfront before the Sprints
C) Decided at least at skeleton level in Sprint zero
60) Sprint longer than one calendar month may result in: (choose the best answer)
A) Too much to inspect in short meetings
B) Detached stakeholders
C) Increased complexity needing more traditional controls like documentations
D) All of the above

61) The Scrum Team decides that the frequency of Daily Scrum should be reduced to once
per week. Is this consideration correct? (Choose the best answer)
A) Yes, because the Scrum Team is self-managing. So, they can choose their practices
B) No, self-managing is alright, but such decisions need to be approved by agile coach.
So, they should involve agile coach.
C) No, self-managing is about how to get the Sprint work done but subject to following
Sprint. So, Scrum Master should strive to coach the team on the essentials of Daily
Scrum

62) Every Sprint, the working Increment should be tested progressively from unit testing to
integration testing, and then user acceptance testing. (choose the best answer)
A) Yes. It is the prescribed method
B) No. The test strategy is decided by the Quality Assurance Lead in the team
C) Not necessary. While the team needs to ensure that each Increment is thoroughly
tested, ensuring that all Increments work together, and meets definition of “Done”,
it is up to the team to find best method to achieve this
D) Incorrect. It should also include non-functional testing.

63) Which of the following statements are true? (choose the best two answers)
A) After Sprint Planning, a Sprint cannot proceed without complete requirement
specification
B) After Sprint Planning, a Sprint cannot proceed without a Sprint Goal
C) After Sprint Planning, a Sprint can proceed without a complete Sprint Backlog
D) After Sprint Planning, a Sprint cannot proceed without complete architecture

64) True or false: The Developers are self-managing and empowered. It is also the authority
on deciding what business needs are required to be developed.
A) True
B) False

65) True or False: A Product Owner can not send a representative (delegate) to the Sprint
Review.
A) True
B) False

66) What is an Increment? (choose the best answer)

A) The sum of the value of all increments from previous iterations integrated with the
Product Backlog Items “done” in latest Sprint
B) The sum of Product Backlog Items selected into Sprint Backlog
C) The sum of Product Backlog Items “done” in latest Sprint

67) What are the true statements? (choose the best two answers)
A) Product Owner is responsible for formulating the business objective
B) When existing Product Backlog Items in the Sprint Backlog are modified, the Sprint
Goal is bound to become invalid
C) The coherence between Product Backlog items is made transparent by Sprint Goal.
Lack of coherence will lead to Developers working individually
68) What events the Scrum Team participates? (choose the best three answers)
A) Sprint Planning
B) Daily Scrum
C) Sprint Review
D) Sprint Retrospective

69) True or False: A Scrum Team can identify the improvements only during the Sprint
Retrospective.
A) True
B) False

70) True or False: When a Sprint is cancelled, the Scrum Team discards all the work and
refines a new Product Backlog
A) True
B) False

71) What does a key inspect and adapt meeting for the Developers? (choose the best
answer)
A) Project Status Meeting
B) Daily Scrum
C) Design Sessions

72) What are the true statements? (choose the best two answers)
A) Only the Product Owner should update the Product Backlog without delegating to
anyone
B) Only the Developers should be responsible for estimates of Product Backlog Items
C) Only the Product Owner should cancel the Sprint. Others can influence the decision
to cancel
D) Only the Product Owner can change the Sprint Backlog

73) At the end of Sprint Planning, the Developers could not decompose all the work into
units of one day or less. It could decompose the work for only the first few days of the
Sprint. (choose the best answer)
A) The Developers should close the Sprint Planning and start the work
B) Since the team is self-managing, they should continue Sprint Planning in the
following days before they start the work
C) The Scrum Master should coach the team in required skills

74) Which is not a Product Backlog Management activity in Scrum? (choose the best
answer)
A) Clearly expressing and ordering Product Backlog items
B) Optimizing the value of the work the Developers performs
C) Using formal change control to manage Product Backlog when market provides
feedback from Product usage.
D) Ensuring the Developers understands items in the Product Backlog to the level
needed.

75) What three activities will the Product Owner be engaged in during a Sprint? (choose the
best three answers)
A) Update Sprint's burndown chart.
B) Prioritize Developers tasks.
C) Interact with stakeholders.
D) Provide Feedback.
E) Hold the Daily Meeting.
F) Ask questions that the Developers has about Product Backlog items.
76) When should the Sprint retrospective meeting be held? (choose the best answer)
A) At the end of each Sprint, after Sprint Review.
B) In the middle of each sprint.
C) Just at the end of the last project sprint.
D) At the beginning of the last project sprint.

77) What does the Scrum Team deliver at the end of a Sprint? (choose the best answer)
A) A software increment with as few bugs as possible.
B) Failed test units to identify acceptance tests for the next Sprint.
C) A unique document if that is what the Product Owner has asked to do.
D) A functional software enhancement that meets ready-made criteria

78) What is the Sprint Review Meeting Time Box? (choose the best answer)
A) 4 hours for a one-month Sprint, proportionately a shorter time is allocated for
smaller Sprints.
B) 3 hours.
C) 8 hours.
D) As long as it takes to inspect the entire product.

79) How can Product Backlog items be sorted? (choose the best answer)
A) The items with the highest business value at the top of the list and the least
valued items at the bottom of the list.
B) The least risky items at the top of the list and the riskiest items at the bottom of
the list.
C) The easiest items to develop at the top of the list and the hardest items at the
bottom of the list.
D) As may be most appropriate in the view of the Product Owner.

80) What is the time-box to complete a Sprint planning meeting? (choose the best answer)
A) A whole month.
B) As long as it takes to review all Product Backlog items.
C) 8 hours for a month-long Sprint, which is proportionally less
D) For smaller sprints.
E) 4 hours.