A Scrum Master is not only a servant-leader to the Scrum Team and organization, it’s also
considered a management position. Which three activities describe what a Scrum Master
manages as reflected by the Scrum Guide? (Choose three.)
A. The way Scrum is understood and enacted within the organization.
B. Reporting on the performance of the Sprint.
C. Managing the Product Backlog items and work in the Sprint Backlog.
D. Managing the capacity and utilization of each Development Team member.
E. Managing the process in which Scrum is applied.
F. Removing organizational impediments that limits the team’s progress and
productivity.
Which approach would you recommend to ensure that the Product Backlog items discussed
at Sprint Planning are well understood, actionable, and easier to forecast?
A. Having the business analysts in the Development Team create the upcoming
Product Backlog items during a Sprint and adding them to the next Sprint’s forecast.
B. Having the Development Team use some time during each Sprint to help the
Product Owner analyze, estimate, and design items at the top of the Product Backlog
that is projected to be worked on in the upcoming Sprint.
C. Having a separate group of business analysts and functional testers analyzing
high-ordered Product Backlog items before Sprint Planning.
D. Having the Product Owner work with stakeholders between the end of the last
Sprint and before beginning the next to prepare the Product Backlog items so not to
interrupt the Development Team.
) A Scrum Master is keeping a list of open impediments, but it is growing and he/she has
been able to resolve only a small portion of the impediments. Which would be the LEAST
helpful technique in this situation?
A. Alerting management to the impediments and their impact.
B. Prioritizing the list and working on them in order.
C. Consulting with the Development Team
D. Arranging a triage meeting with all project managers.
What is a Product Owner responsibility that he/she might delegate?
A. Writing User Stories
B. Ordering the Product Backlog
C. Attending the Sprint Review
D. Representing stakeholders to the Scrum team
Your organization has formed a new Scrum Team and has assigned you as the Scrum
Master. In what ways would you help the team start?
A. Have the Scrum Team members introduce their background experience with each
other, ask the Product Owner to discuss the product and answer questions, and
ensure the team understands the need for a Definition of “Done.”
B. Ensure the Scrum Team members have compatible personalities, have the tech
leads clarify the expectations and responsibilities of each role, and propose a
performance rewards system.
Several Sprints into a project, a client is complaining to the Product Owner about the poor
performance of the product. As a Scrum Master, how can you help the Product Owner?
A. Coach the Product Owner on effective ways to communicate this concern to the
Development Team and encourage the Product Owner to add the performance issue
to the Product Backlog.
B. Tell the Product Owner performance is defined by the Development Team.
C. Notify the team responsible for system performance.
D. Note the issue for the next Sprint Retrospective.
7) Steven is a Scrum Master for three Scrum Teams building the same product and working
from the same Product Backlog. Management wants to standardize how velocity is
calculated across all three teams in order to identify which teams are high performing and
which teams need more support. What would be the best two responses Steven could
provide to management? (Choose two.)
A. Standardizing velocity across teams is a good way to understand which teams are
producing the most value.
B. Providing incentives based on velocity can increase the Scrum Team’s motivation
to produce more value.
C. There is no direct relationship between velocity and value.
D. Velocity is the amount of business functionality that a Scrum Team creates in a
Sprint. It is unique to that team and used as an input to Sprint Planning.
What guideline should the Scrum Master provide if the Product Owner asks how estimations
should be made in Scrum?
A. The Development Team is responsible for estimates.
B. Estimates must be made in Story Points.
C. Estimates must be in relative units.
D. Estimates must follow the Fibonacci Sequence.
E. Estimates are made by the Product Owner.
Which stakeholder is the most important for the Product Owner to satisfy?
A. The Product’s users
B. The company founder
C. The board of directors
D. The Head of Product
The Product Owner’s primary concern is the flow of value reflected in the ordering of the
Product Backlog.
A. False
B. True
As a Scrum Master, what would you strive for if five new Scrum Teams were to work on one
product?
A. There should be five Product Backlogs and one Product Owner to manage them.
B. The product has one Product Backlog and one Product Owner.
C. There should be five Product Backlogs and five Product Owners.
D. There should be five Product Owners, one for each Scrum Team.
The Development Team discovers that it doesn’t have the tools and infrastructure to make
each selected Product Backlog item done. What is the most appropriate action for the Scrum
Master to take?
A. Encourage the Product Owner to accept partially done Increments and complete
the work in the Hardening Sprint.
B. Coach the Development Team to improve its skills, tools and infrastructure over
time and establish a Definition of “Done” that is actually possible to achieve given the
current circumstances.
C. Stop the Sprint and have the Development team work on the infrastructure before
continuing.
