A.  

Run the Daily Scrum.

B.  

Prioritize the Development Team’s work on the Sprint Backlog.

C.  

Update management on what is being worked on.

D.  

Answer QUESTION NO:s from the Development Team about items in the current Sprint.

A.  

Ensuring that the most valuable functionality is produced first, at all times.

B.  

Interacting with stakeholders.

C.  

Providing the Development Team with detailed specifications.

D.  

Describing features as Use Cases.

E.  

Creating detailed functional test cases.

A.  

Understanding the product, the product vision and the rules of the Scrum framework, the group divides itself into teams.

B.  

It doesn’t really matter because you can rotate the teams every Sprint to spread knowledge.

C.  

Check with the allocation department to see who has worked together before and make these the first teams.

D.  

Create a matrix of skills, seniority, and level of experience to assign people to teams.

A.  

At the end of each Sprint.

B.  

At the beginning of each Sprint.

C.  

Only when the Scrum Team determines it needs one.

D.  

At the end of the last Sprint in a project or a release.

A.  

There should be six Product Owners, one tor each Scrum Team.

B.  

There should be six Product Owners, reporting to a Chief Product Owner.

C.  

The product has one Product Backlog.

D.  

Each Scrum Team should have a separate Product Backlog.

E.  

There should be only one Product Owner.

A.  

The Scrum Master

B.  

The Product Owner

C.  

The scrum Team

D.  

The Developers

A.  

Always deliver the items in the Sprint forecast.

B.  

Help the other Scrum Team members.

C.  

Do your best

D.  

Send out a daily status report.

E.  

Work late.

A.  

The consistency reduces complexity.

B.  

The place can be named.

C.  

The Product Owner demands it.

D.  

Rooms are hard to book and this lets it be booked in advance.

A.  

A proportional amount of time on analysis, design, programming, testing, and documentation.

B.  

As much as it can fit into the Sprint. Any remaining work will be transferred to a subsequent Sprint.

C.  

All development work and at least some testing.

D.  

As much as it has told the Product Owner will be done for every Product Backlog item it selects in conformance with the definition of “Done”.

A.  

How will we make sure all teams have the right amount or expertise?

B.  

What is the right mixture of senior and junior people on each team?

C.  

Who are going to be the team leads?

D.  

Who are the subject matter experts on each team?

A.  

The person coming in last. This encourages people to be on time and helps to stay within the time-box.

B.  

Whoever the Development Team decides should start.

C.  

The person who has the token.

D.  

The Scrum Master. This ensures that the Development Team has the meeting and stays within the time-box.

E.  

The person who last broke the build.

A.  

Bring all the people together and let them organize into Scrum Teams

B.  

Managers personally re-assign current subordinates to new teams.

C.  

Existing teams propose how they would like to go about organizing into the new

structure.

D.  

Managers collaborate to assign individuals to specific teams.

E.  

The Chief Product Owner determines the new team structures and assignments.

A.  

At least 7.

B.  

9

C.  

10 or fewer.

D.  

7 plus or minus 3.

A.  

Users

B.  

Scrum Master

C.  

Product Owner

D.  

Development Team

E.  

Customers

A.  

Turn Product Backlog items into an Increment of potentially releasable product functionality.

B.  

Do all of the development work, except for specialized testing that requires additional tools and environments.

C.  

Complete the project within the date and cost as calculated by the Product Owner.

A.  

It is a complete list of all work to be done in a Sprint.

B.  

Every item has a designated owner.

C.  

Each task is estimated in hours.

D.  

It is the Development Team's plan for the Sprint.

E.  

It is ordered by the Product Owner.

A.  

Wait to bring this up until the Sprint Retrospective.

B.  

Encourage the Product Owner to put quality specifications on the Product Backlog and express the

stakeholder’s concern to the Developers.

C.  

Bring the concern to the testers to improve how the Product is verified.

D.  

Explain to the Product Owner that it is up to the Developers to decide on acceptable quality standards.

E.  

Coach the Product Owner on how to talk with the Developers about this concern.

A.  

True

B.  

False

A.  

True

B.  

False

A.  

Stakeholders walking in at the Daily Scrum to check progress and work with the Scrum Master to optimize the functional scope for the Sprint.

B.  

The Development Team members are working within the boundaries of their functional description and nicely handing off work from analyst to developer to tester to integration.

C.  

The Product Owner doesn’t need to be at Sprint Retrospectives.

D.  

The Development Team creating their own sprint backlog, reflecting all work that is part of the definition of “Done”.

E.  

The Development Team has all the skills needed to create a releasable Increment.

F.  

Development Team members collaboratively selecting their own work during the Sprint.

G.  

The Development Team inviting external people to the Sprint Planning to ask them how to turn a Product Backlog item into an Increment via a complete and detailed Sprint Backlog.

A.  

Facilitate inspection and adaptation opportunities as requested or needed

B.  

Coaching the team members in self-management

C.  

Ensure the Product Owner attends all scrum events.

D.  

Escalate team conflicts to functional line managers

E.  

Monitor the progress of the Developers

F.  

Assign tasks with the Scrum team.

A.  

The organization has mandated similar length sprints.

B.  

The level of uncertainty over the technology to be used.

C.  

The frequency at which team formation can be changed.

D.  

The risk of being disconnected from the stakeholders.

A.  

To gather status and progress information to report to management.

B.  

To write down any changes to the Sprint Backlog, including adding new items, and tracking progress on the burn-down.

C.  

He or she does not have to be there; he or she only has to ensure the Development Team has a Daily Scrum.

D.  

To make sure every team member answers the three questions.

A.  

Every item nas a designated owner.

B.  

It is ordered by the Product Owner.

C.  

Each task is estimated in hours.

D.  

It is the Developers plan for the Sprint

E.  

It is a complete list of all work to be done in a Sprint.

A.  

The Scrum Team includes not only developers but also business analysts, architects, and testers.

B.  

The Scrum Team includes skilled individuals who together have all the skills

necessary to create value each Sprint.

C.  

Developers on the Scrum Team work closely with business analysts, architects,

developers, and testers who are not on the team.

D.  

The Scrum Team is a virtual team drawing from separate teams of business analysts, architects, developers, and testers.

A.  

Users.

B.  

One Scrum Master.

C.  

Developers.

D.  

Customers.

E.  

One Product Owner.

A.  

At the end of the Sprint.

B.  

When the item has no work remaining in order to be potentially released.

C.  

When QA reports that the item passes all acceptance criteria.

D.  

When all work in the Sprint Backlog related to the item is finished.

A.  

At the beginning of the project.

B.  

During the Sprint Planning meeting.

C.  

Prior to the Sprint Planning meeting.

D.  

During the Sprint.

A.  

When the Development Team feels that the work is too hard.

B.  

When the Sprint Goal becomes obsolete.

C.  

When the sales department has an important new opportunity.

D.  

When it becomes clear that not everything will be finished by the end of the Sprint.

A.  

There should be six Product Owners, one for each Scrum Team.

B.  

There should be six Product Owners, reporting to a chief Product Owner.

C.  

The product has one Product Backlog.

D.  

Each Scrum Team should have a separate Product Backlog.

E.  

There should be only one Product Owner.

A.  

Scrum Master

B.  

Product Owner

C.  

Development Team member

D.  

Project Manager

E.  

None of the above

A.  

To identify and remove people that are not working hard enough.

B.  

To present the Scrum Teams with insights and resources that help them improve.

C.  

To monitor the productivity of the Developers.

D.  

To continually monitor staffing levels of the Scrum Team.

A.  

Managing the performance of the Scrum Team.

B.  

The meetings and the objectives that a Scrum Team sets for itself.

C.  

The Scrum framework being adopted and used properly.

D.  

Keeping track of resource allocation.

A.  

True

B.  

False

A.  

Inform the Product Owner’s functional manager.

B.  

Stop the Sprint, send the Product Owner to a course and restart.

C.  

Bring up the problem in the Sprint Retrospective.

D.  

Coach the Product Owner in the values of Scrum and incremental delivery.

E.  

Nominate a proxy Product Owner.

A.  

The Scrum Team.

B.  

The Product Owner.

C.  

The Developers.

D.  

The Project Manager.

A.  

Architects.

B.  

The Development Team.

C.  

The Scrum Master.

D.  

Subject matter experts.

E.  

Development Team managers.

A.  

It is facilitated by the team lead.

B.  

It is held first thing in the morning.

C.  

It is fifteen minutes or less in duration.

D.  

It is free from and designed to promote conversation.

E.  

It consists of the Scrum Master asking the Team members the three questions.

F.  

Its location and time remain constant.

A.  

Add the item to the current Sprint and drop an item of equal size.

B.  

Add the item to the current Sprint without any adjustments.

C.  

Inform the Product Owner so he/she can work with the CEO.

D.  

Add the item to the next Sprint.

A.  

Comply with the decision of the self-managing team.

B.  

Begin facilitating productive and useful Sprint Retrospectives.

C.  

Call a meeting between the ScrumTeam and senior management

D.  

Consult with the Product Owner to see how they feel about the situation.

A.  

True

B.  

False

A.  

Never The entire Scrum Team is accountable for creating value every Sprint.

B.  

At the Sprint Planning Evented

C.  

Whenever a team member can accommodate more worn.

D.  

During the Daily scrum

A.  

Release Testing.

B.  

Release Retrospective.

C.  

Sprint Retrospective.

D.  

Sprint Planning.

E.  

Sprint Testing.

F.  

Sprint 0.

G.  

Daily Scrum.

A.  

Involve the complete Development Team.

B.  

Use coaching techniques; such as open questions and active listening.

C.  

Ask an external technical specialist to make the decision.

D.  

Send every team member to the company’s HR department to express their concerns.

A.  

Economic Value Added.

B.  

Respect.

C.  

Focus.

D.  

Earned Value.

E.  

Courage.

A.  

Cancel the Sprint. Send the entire team to an advanced Scrum training and then start a new Sprint.

B.  

Forecast the most likely Product Backlog items to meet the goal and create a Sprint Backlog based on a likely initial design and plan. Once the time-box for the Sprint Planning meeting is over, start the Sprint and continue to analyze, decompose, and create additional functionality during the Sprint.

C.  

Continue the Sprint Planning meeting past its time-box until an adequate number of Product Backlog items are well enough understood for the Development Team to make a complete forecast. Then start the Sprint.

D.  

Discuss in the upcoming Sprint Retrospective why this happened and what changes will make it less likely to recur.

E.  

Ask everyone to take as much time as needed to analyze the Product Backlog first, and then reconvene another Sprint Planning meeting.

A.  

what have we learned since yesterday, and now should we modify our plan to increase our ability to meet the Sprint Goal?

B.  

Are mere any impediments Clocking progress toward the sprint Goal?

C.  

What will I be working on tomorrow?

D.  

Are mere any decisions that need to be made to maintain progress toward the sprint Goal?

E.  

Why were you late?

F.  

How many hours Old I spend on the project yesterday

G.  

win todays work negatively impact our ability to meet the sprint Goal for the Split following this one?

A.  

The Project Manager

B.  

The Product Owner

C.  

The Scrum Master

D.  

The Scrum Team

E.  

All of the above

A.  

When the Product Owner says it is done.

B.  

When all Product Backlog items meet their definition of “Done”.

C.  

When all the tasks are completed.

D.  

When the time-box expires.

A.  

When the Product Owner is actively working on items on the Sprint Backlog; however, they participate as a Developer

B.  

When the Product Owner needs to represent the stakeholders point of view to the Developers

C.  

When there are impediments to discuss

D.  

When the Scrum Master asks the Product Owner to attend

A.  

The length of the Sprint should be proportional to the work that is done in between Sprints.

B.  

It is best to have Sprints of consistent length throughout a development effort.

C.  

Sprint length is determined during Sprint Planning, and should hold the time it will take to code the planned features in the upcoming Sprint, but does not include time for any testing.

D.  

Sprint length is determined during Sprint Planning, and should be long enough to make sure the Development Team can deliver what is to be accomplished in the upcoming Sprint.

E.  

All Sprints must be 1 month or less.

A.  

1 day

B.  

4 hours for a one-month Sprint.

C.  

As long as needed

D.  

2 hours for a one-month Sprint.

A.  

Introduce a bonus system for the top performers in the team.

B.  

Have the Scrum Team members introduce themselves to each other and give a brief background of their skills and work history.

C.  

Have the development managers for each Development Team member introduce their direct reports and go over their responsibilities on the Scrum Team.

D.  

Ensure the Scrum Team members have compatible personalities.

E.  

Ensure the team understands they need a definition of “Done”.

F.  

Ask the Product Owner to discuss the product or project, its history, goals, and context, as well as answer questions.

A.  

He/She doesn’t need to be there.

B.  

To hear about impediments in functionality.

C.  

To represent the stakeholders’ point of view.

D.  

To participate as a Scrum Team member.

A.  

Define the major product features and a release plan architecture.

B.  

Build at least one piece of valuable functionality.

C.  

Create at least one valuable, useful Increment

D.  

Make up a plan tor the rest of the project

E.  

Analyze, describe, and document the requirements for the subsequent Sprints.

A.  

The Business Analyst.

B.  

The Scrum Team.

C.  

The Team Manager.

D.  

The Project Manager.

E.  

The Developers.

A.  

When calculated and estimated, the total amount of technical debt shows exactly how long until the Product Owner can release the Increment.

B.  

It leads to false assumptions about the current state of the system, specifically of an Increment being releasable at the end of a Sprint.

C.  

As development progresses and code is added, the system becomes more difficult to stabilize, which results in future work being slowed down in unpredictable ways.

D.  

It enhances transparency for the Product Owner as a Development Team is not allowed to do additional feature development in a Sprint as long as there is technical debt.

A.  

Scrum implements self-management by replacing Project Managers with Scrum Masters.

B.  

Each component of Scrum serves a specific purpose and is essential to Scrum’s success and your usage

of Scrum to develop complex products.

C.  

Scrum is a methodology where you can pick and choose which parts of Scrum you think will work for your

environment.

D.  

Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products.

E.  

Scrum is based on empiricism and lean thinking.

A.  

Its productivity is likely to decrease.

B.  

Its productivity is likely to stay the same.

C.  

Its productivity is likely to increase.

A.  

Definition of “Done”.

B.  

How the team does its work.

C.  

Team relations.

D.  

The value of work currently represented in the Product Backlog.

E.  

Arranging the Sprint Backlog for the next Sprint.

A.  

To facilitate the Scrum Teams with insights and resources that help them improve.

B.  

To monitor the Development Team’s productivity.

C.  

To identify and remove people that aren’t working hard enough.

D.  

To continually monitor staffing levels of the Development Team.

A.  

Create teams based on their skills across multiple layers (such as database, UI, etc.)

B.  

Ask the Product Owner to assign the people to teams.

C.  

Ask the developers to divide themselves into teams.

A.  

The Product Owner is one person.

B.  

The Product Owner is accountable for ordering the Product Backlog.

C.  

Multiple people can share the Product Owner role on a Scrum Team.

D.  

The Product Owner role can be played by a committee or a team of people.

A.  

True

B.  

False

A.  

The Scrum Master as he/she is responsible for the Development Team’s productivity.

B.  

The Scrum Team, in a collaborative effort where the result is the common denominator of all members’ definition.

C.  

The Product Owner as he/she is responsible for the product’s success.

D.  

The development organization (or Development Team if none is available from the development organization).

A.  

All development work and at least some testing.

B.  

as much as is required to meet the Scrum Team's Definition of Done.

C.  

A proportional amount of time on analysis, design development and testing

D.  

As much as they can fit into the Sprint, with remaining work deferred to the next Sprint

A.  

Recruit additional Developers before the work can begim

B.  

The Developers ensure that the Scrum Team is aware, start the Sprint, and

monitor progress.

C.  

The Developers work overtime during this Sprint

D.  

Cancel the Sprint

E.  

Remove or change selected Product Backlog items.

A.  

The Project Manager.

B.  

The Scrum Master.

C.  

The Development Team.

D.  

The Product Owner.

A.  

User Stories.

B.  

Tasks.

C.  

Use Cases.

D.  

Tests.

E.  

Any of the above (or others) which are a decomposition of the selected Product Backlog items.

A.  

Guide the Development Team on how many Product Backlog items to select for the Sprint.

B.  

Create a shared understanding of when work is complete.

C.  

Describe the purpose, objecti ve, and time-box of each Scrum event.

D.  

Describe the work that must be done before the Sprint is allowed to end.

E.  

Increase transparency.

A.  

True

B.  

False

A.  

Optimizing the value of the work the Development Team does.

B.  

Managing the project and ensuring that the work meets the commitments to the stakeholders.

C.  

Directing the Development Team.

D.  

Keep stakeholders from distracting the Development Team.