Test certification Scrum n°12 (23) : 15 questions and answers
Test scrum (15 questions)
1) Is not a Product Owner responsibility:
A- Running the daily scrum meeting
B- Gathering requirements for Product Backlog items
C- Working with stakeholders to determine and detail product features
D- Inspecting work at Sprint Review
Answer : A
Explanation: All the other tasks are product owner responsibility except holding the daily stand up meeting & making sure that it has been run correctly. This is one of the Scrum Master responsibilities.
2) If More than one Scrum Team are working on a single project or a single release. How should the Product Backlog be arranged by the Product owner?
A- A separate Product Backlog is constructed for each Scrum Team. All of the increments are integrated at the end in an integration Sprint.
B- All Scrum Teams work from a common Product Backlog and integrate their work every sprint.
C- Only one Scrum Team should work on Scrum project.
D- Scrum Teams should have their separate Product Backlogs.
Answer : B
Explanation: When there are a number of Scrums considered, then there should be a high level of coordination & communication between the teams, which the Scrum of Scrums do. For the product backlog, it’s concerned with the Product, not the teams, nor the organization, so as long as the project is for one product, or the release is for one product, then one product backlog is considered.
3) The Product Backlog management include
1. Clearly expressing the different Product Backlog items
2.Authoring the various Product Backlog items
3. Ordering Product Backlog items by size and risk Only
A- 1 and 3 only
B- 2 only
C- 1 and 2 only
D- 1, 2, and 3
E- 1 only
Answer : C
Explanation: Product backlog management include expressing & elaborating on the different product backlog items, authoring those items, changing the prioritization of the backlog according to the Business value, and adding & deleting any further items.
4) Ali « as the Scrum Master of a Scrum Team » is invited for a Daily Stand-up meeting at 9am. During the meeting the whole team gets into a deep discussion and they finally start blaming each other.
What should he do in such situation?
A) Wait until people calm down again and continue with the meeting.
B) Stop the discussions and continue with the meeting.
C) Interrupt the meeting and continue it later that day.
D) Discuss the situation with the team and decide together what to do to improve the situation.
A- A
B- B
C- C
D- C, D
E- B, D
Answer : B
Explanation: He has to make everyone abide to the rules of the daily stand-up meeting, and the improvements or anything went wrong in the sprint shall be placed on the table during the Sprint retrospective meeting.
5) The Sprint Planning Meeting consists of __ session(s).
A- One
B- Two
C- Three
D- Four
Answer : B
Explanation: The Sprint planning meeting consists of 2 parts/sessions, the first one is for the Product Owner to elaborate more on the product backlog items & showing what he aims to accomplish in the coming sprint (setting the sprint goal), the second session is mainly for the team to plan, estimate & commit to the amount of work that they’ll finish during the coming sprint.
6) The Sprint Backlog is ultimately owned by:
A- The Product Owner
B- The Scrum Master
C- The Stakeholders
D- The Scrum Team
Answer : A
Explanation: The Scrum product owner is the person who is ultimately responsible& accountable for maintaining the Product/Scrum backlog, as he has to prioritize the items in the backlog mainly according to the return on Investment (ROI).
7) During a Scrum of Scrums approach for a project, what best defines the definition of « done »?
A- Each Team defines and uses its own.
B- Each Team uses its own but must make it clear to all other Teams.
C- All teams must use the same definition.
D- It depends.
Answer : B
Explanation: When considering the Scrum of Scrums, each Scrum team can use their own definition of done, but they have to make it clear to all other teams in order for all the teams to synchronize together their work at the end of each sprint, so they can consider each other’s DoD (definition of done)
8) What is the Time-box for a Sprint Review meeting if the Sprint was 2-weeks long?
A- 15 minutes
B- However long is needed
C- 4 hours
D- 2 hours at the end of every sprint
Answer : D
Explanation: The sprint review meeting is proportional to the sprint duration, it’s almost half the duration of the sprint planning meeting, and is proportional to the sprint duration 1:1, which means 1 week of sprint duration is equal to 1 hour sprint review meeting duration, 2 weeks sprint duration, means 2 hours sprint review meeting, and so on.
9) Which one is not a Scrum role?
A- Product Owner
B- Scrum Master
C- Product Manager
D- Team
Answer : C
Explanation: In Scrum, there are three roles only: the Product Owner, the Team, and the Scrum Master. All other roles like Project Manager; though can exist in the organization, but not a part of the scrum framework.
10) ___ constitute the Sprint Backlog and are normally estimated in hours.
A- Stories
B- Use Cases
C- Features
D- Tasks
Answer : D
Explanation: Tasks constitute the Sprint Backlog and are often estimated in hours. Alternate choices: Use cases are used for either requirements. A task may be to create use cases. Stories, also known as Storycards, are what may be used to document the product backlog item. Features requested by Product Owners are generally expressed in the Product Backlog as one or more story cards.
11) What best describes ‘time-boxed’ activity?
A- There’s a target time limit for the activity.
B- There’s a maximum time limit for the activity.
C- The activity is planned to be delivered by a specified date.
D- The activity must start on a specified date.
Answer : B
Explanation: Time-boxing means setting a time limit for the activity to end within that time limit, not later. If time extension is required, it’s ok to have an extension in some case (e.g. sprint review meeting), but not in other cases (e.g. Sprint, daily stand-up meeting), but all the participants in the activity shall know that the time-box has expired and they are working in the time extension, in order to limit themselves and their discussions accordingly.
12) The Release Burn down Is:
A- A graph indicating what has been completed by the Scrum Team.
B- What has been completed by the Scrum Team to date.
C- The work remaining to be completed by the Product Owner.
D- A measure of the remaining Product Backlog across the time of a release plan.
Answer : D
Explanation: The concept of a burndown chart is to measure how much work remaining roughly. The release burndown chart is not an exception. So it’s a way of measure of the remaining Product backlog across the time of a releaseplan.
13) The used metric to estimate with Planning Poker is:
A- Numeric sizing (1 through 10)
B- T-shirt sizes (XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL, XXXL)
C- The Fibonacci sequence (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, etc.)
D- Person Hours
E- Person Months
Answer : C
Explanation: The Fibonacci sequence (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, etc.) is the metric used in all the designed planning poker decks. Though, some of those are deviating from the sequence a bit, but normally all the designed decks are following the Fibonacci sequence (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, etc.) in some fashion.
14) Which of the following is a Scrum Value?
A- Openness
B- Fight
C- Strength
D- Quality
Answer : A
Explanation: Scrum values are five: Focus, Courage, Openness, Respect, Commitment.
15) What are the most critical items to start a Scrum Project?
A. Scrum Team and Stakeholders
B. Scrum Team, Product Backlog, Scrum Master
C. Product Backlog, Scrum Team, Scrum Master, and Product Owner
D. Time, Scope, Budget, and Quality
A- A and D
B- C
C- A, B, and C
D- A and B
Answer : B
Explanation: This is the answer where no duplications, and where all the required Scrum project components are available. To start a Scrum Project you’ll need to have a product backlog to define your product & the project scope, then the team to build that product, the maestro who will lead all that (scrum master), and the connection between those & the business who is accountable for the Return On Investment (ROI) ( product owner).
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