Test certification Scrum n°9 (17) : 35 questions and answers
CSM – Scrum Practice Test (35 questions and answers)
1) Who ultimately decides when the team has enough work for the sprint in planning?
A- The ScrumMaster
B- The product owner
C- The team
D- The product owner, ScrumMaster and team vote to determine when the sprint backlog is full
Answer : C
2) What are the advantages of the Scrum Framework?
A- Fine-grained requirements are only defined when they are really needed.
B- All activities to design, build and test a certain functionality are kept together in one phase.
C- Changes are expected and welcomed by Scrum team.
D- All of the given answers
E- None of the given answers
Answer : D
Explanation: Fine-grained requirements are only defined when they are really needed, All activities to design, build and test a certain functionality are kept together in one phase and the Changes are expected and welcomed by Scrum team. These are the advantages of Scrum framework
3) Who should define the business value of a Feature within the Scrum Project?
A- The individual end-users
B- The Product Owner
C- The Business Analyst
D- The Business Sponsor
Answer : B
4) Why is it important to trust the team?
A- High trust teams do not have to be accountable to each other
B- High trust teams do not require a user representative
C- The Project Manager does not then have to keep a project schedule
D- The presence of trust is positively correlated with the team performance
Answer : D
Explanation: Because trust is one main aspect that the ScrumMaster & the product owner has to have towards the team, as the team decides what they will do & when. Trust is the fruit from the Scrum Values of Courage, focus, Respect, Openness, & commitment
5) Which of the following is NOT a typical artifact of the Scrum framework?
A- Product Backlog
B- Sprint Backlog
C- Burn down chart
D- Gantt chart
Answer : D
Explanation: While there is some debate as to whether there are three or four artifacts, a Gantt chart is not a typical Scrum artifact. Most of the leading Scrum guides include the product backlog, sprint backlog, and burn down charts in their lists of artifacts.
6) Which of the following best describes the approach for determining the Sprint length?
A- Sprint should always be 30 days
B- The team determines Sprint length by dividing the total number of story points by the average velocity of the team
C- Sprint should always be two weeks
D- The team should agree on the length of the Sprint, taking the size and complexity of the project into consideration
Answer : D
Explanation: As a self-organized entity, the team has to decide along with the ScrumMaster & the product Owner, the length of the Sprint that they can finalize the committed work within such Sprint length.
7) What is the Maximum time recommended by the Scrum framework that the team spends in the daily scrum (daily standup)?
A- Fifteen minutes
B- Thirty minutes
C- One hour
D- Four hours
E- As long as it takes
Answer : A
Explanation: A daily Scrum meeting is time boxed at fifteen minutes and terminates at the end of fifteen minutes.
8) How the product backlog should be ordered?
A- Chronological
B- Alphabetical
C- Random
D- Priority
Answer : D
Explanation: At any point, the Product Backlog is the single, definitive view of ‘everything that could be done by the Team ever, in order of priority and The product backlog is prioritized by the product owner so that the team always works on the most valuable features first.
9) Which of the following best represents the Agile way in planning?
A- Planning is not part of an Agile approach, because Agile is exploratory
B- Planning should be done in detail at the outset of a project and not revisited
C- Planning should involve the whole team, not just the ScrumMaster
D- Planning should all be done by the Product Owner
Answer : C
Explanation: As the team is responsible & accountable for the timelines & deliverables they commit to. The team has to be deeply involved in the planning of the project in its various phases.
10) Which concept of the following is NOT defined in the Scrum Framework?
A- ScrumMaster
B- Project Manager
C- Scrum Product Owner
D- Daily Scrum
E- Scrum Product Burndown
Answer : B
11) What are the two main artifacts of a sprint planning meeting?
A- A sprint goal and a sprint backlog
B- A requirements documents and a Gantt chart
C- A requirements documents and a test plan
D- A test plan and a Gantt chart
Answer : A
Explanation: An outcome of (sprint planning) is the sprint backlog, or the list of tasks that the team collectively needs to execute in order to turn the items in the selected product backlog into running tested features. During the first half of the sprint planning meeting), a sprint goal is crafted. The sprint goal is an objective that will be met through the implementation of the product backlog.
12) In Scrum framework, what do we call the detailed pieces of work needed to convert a product backlog item into working software?
A- Stories
B- Tasks
C- Scrum bits
D- Use cases
Answer : B
Explanation: From the Scrum Guide: « Tasks are the detailed pieces of work needed to convert the Product Backlog into working software…. This task list is called the Sprint Backlog. »
13) Where are the customer requirements stored?
A- In the Product Backlog
B- In the Sprint Backlog
C- In a database
D- In a Scrum Product Requirement Specification
E- Nowhere. The Scrum Product Owner knows them
Answer : A
Explanation: The product backlog contains all the stories that should be completed during the scrum project, which specifies all the customer requirements. Those requirements are kept stored in the product backlog either those stories completed, in-progress, or not yet implemented.
14) If a Sprint plan needs to be reprioritized in a hurry, who should re-prioritize?
A- The developers alone (they know what the customer wants)
B- The Product Owner (the developers would only choose the easy things as top priority)
C- The Project Leader (they can give an independent, pragmatic view)
D- The whole team including Product Owner and developers (together they can consider both business value and practicality)
Answer : D
Explanation: As the team has the practical side of doing things, and all the related issues, and as the product owner has the business value side & the customer/market needs, then both the product owner along with the team has to re-prioritize what is needed to have both visions while discussing.
15) What does NOT belong to the agile manifesto’s main pillars?
A- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
B- Working software over comprehensive documentation
C- Processes over people
D- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
E- Responding to change over following a plan
Answer : C
Explanation: The 4 main pillars of Agile manifesto are:
1. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
2. Working software over comprehensive documentation
3. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
4. Responding to change over following a plan
So the remaining option is the correct answer which is not an Agile manifesto statement.
16) When handling team dynamics, what should the ScrumMaster do?
A- Empower the team members, within appropriate limits
B- Encourage an environment of competition and personal advantage
C- Give clear directives to the team about what they should do and how
D- Expect team members to be proactive and each work to their own priorities and objectives
Answer : A
Explanation: The ScrumMaster shall empower the team in order to have ultimately a self-organized team. Empowering the team members & the team as a whole is the ScrumMaster responsibility, which leads at the end to a Sprint achieved goal, and Product achieved goal respectively.
17) What is mainly defined by the Scrum Framework?
A) Rules & Roles
B) Document guidelines
C) Artifacts and events
A- A
B- B
C- C
D- A, B, C
E- A, C
Answers : A, C
Explanation: The Scrum framework mainly defines the Roles of all participants & the Rules for each Role. Also it defines mainly among other things the events & the artifacts that are included & defined in the framework.
18) What is the effect of having a large visible Story board on a wall?
A- It removes the need to create any other reports for management
B- It continuously communicates progress within the team and to other stakeholders
C- It allows the Project Manager to allocate tasks to specific team members
D- It is restrictive, as it does not allow the team to innovate and change
Answer : B
Explanation: As the Story board states the status of each story, and the progress of each, it gives a great communication tool to all interested parties in the project at a glimpse. It also motivates the team, and lets them know where they are without any waste of time for reporting the various progress.
19) Which of the following is a characteristic of a ScrumMaster?
A- Task focused
B- Process oriented
C- Supportive
D- Disengaged
Answer : C
Explanation: The ScrumMaster has to be supportive to all the team members in order to give them the needed power & motivation to finalize their tasks correctly & in a timely manner; otherwise they might get demotivated & end up with a lot of deferred backlog tasks to sub-sequent Sprints
20) Which one of the following is a key feature that you would expect to find in an Agile project?
A- System documentation created at the end of each increment, at the start of the deployment
B- User Stories held in a spreadsheet or specialist database, where full details of user conversations are recorded for future purposes, like handover to maintenance or support
C- User Story cards containing only enough detail for planning and development, which will need to be supplemented by further face-to-face conversations
D- No written documentation, as all good communication is face-to-face
Answer : C
21) An effective workshop facilitator will always …
A- Involve the whole project team in all project workshops
B- Agree the process and participants of the workshop with the workshop owner before the workshop
C- Involve only those team members who will commit to doing further work after theworkshop
D- Act as a proxy for any invited participant who is unable to attend the workshop on the day
Answer : B
Explanation: This is a key responsibility for the ScrumMaster, as he always facilitate the various Scrum events (meetings), so he has to have and implement this skill.
22) Who is responsible for prioritizing the product backlog?
A- Product Owner
B- Project Manager
C- Lead Developer
D- Business Analyst
Answer : A
23) What are the advantages of maintaining consistent Sprint length throughout the project?
A- It helps to establish a consistent pattern of delivery
B- It helps the team to objectively measure progress
C- It provide a consistent means of measuring team velocity
D- All of the above
Answer : D
Explanation: The main benefits of maintaining consistent Sprint length throughout the project is to keep a consistent delivery pattern of shippable product increments, which will show the customer the added business value bit by bit from the project. Helping the team to measure the progress against what was expected from them in the project beginning helps the team to determine their velocity correctly & accurately
24) Which of the following are roles in the Scrum framework? (Select 3 correct answers)
A- ScrumMaster
B- Product Owner
C- Project Owner
D- Team lead
E- Team
Answers : A, B, E
Explanation: In Scrum, there are three roles: the product owner, the team, and the ScrumMaster.
25) Which of the following responsibilities is NOT one of the Scrum Master’s
A- Removing impediments
B- Facilitating meetings
C- Reminding the team of the process
D- Assigning tasks to team members
E- Pushing back against products owner request when needed
Answer : D
Explanation: From the Scrum Primer: « The ScrumMaster helps the product group learn and apply Scrum to achieve business value. The ScrumMaster does whatever is in their power to help the Team and Product Owner be successful. The ScrumMaster is not the manager of the Team or a project manager; instead, the ScrumMaster serves the Team, protects them from outside interference, and educates and guides the Product Owner and the Team in the skillful use of Scrum.
26) What should the developers do if the product owner is repeatedly too busy to be available?
A- Continue the work, record the assumptions and ask the customer later for input.
B- Send the customer a written warning that the end product will be completed on time, but may not meet their needs
C- Allow the Business Analyst to take on the role of Proxy Customer Representative
D- Draw the problem to the attention of the ScrumMaster
Answer : D
Explanation: One of the main ScrumMaster’s Roles & responsibilities is to remove the team’s impediments. In this situation the team has to raise the issue to the ScrumMaster & he will find a solution one way or another to remove such impediment.
27) Which one of the following is NOT traditionally an activity of the Scrum framework?
A- Sprint planning
B- Sprint review
C- Sprint retrospective
D- Daily scrum
E- Weekly inspection
Answer : E
Explanation: The sprint is the heartbeat of the Scrum cycle. It is bookmarked by sprint planning at the start and by the sprint review and sprint retrospective at the end…. Each day during the sprint the team holds a daily scrum meeting.
28) What is most important in all Scrum projects?
A) Self-organization
B) Clear hierarchies in the company
C) Communication
D) Continuous improvement
A- A, B, C, D
B- A, C, D
C- A, D
D- A
E- A, B
Answer : B
Explanation: One of the main benefits of the scrum framework is the multiple communication channels it provides to accomplish the product as required. The self-organized team is committed to the product & the backlog they acquire, and as a fruit of the communication & the self-organized teams is the continuous improvement.
29) Which one of the following statements is correct regarding acceptance of any deliverables on a Scrum Project?
A- The team should allow only senior managers to sign off deliverables.
B- The team should get acceptance of project deliverables from the appropriate stakeholders at least at the end of every Sprint.
C- The team should get acceptance of project deliverables from the users during a UAT phase at the end of the project.
D- Acceptance of any particular deliverable on the project is gained from all stakeholders at the same time.
Answer : C
Explanation: The team do the sprint review meeting to demonstrate what they have achieved in the Sprint to the product owner, the customer, and any interested stakeholders. In that meeting the product owner either accepts the deliverable or not, according to the Definition of Done agreed between the product owner & the team, and the team towards each other.
30) What are the disadvantages of the classical waterfall model? (Select the best alternative)
A) End-Product has to be fully anticipated beforehand.
B) Some requirements are implemented as defined in the beginning of the project, and yet they are not really needed by the customer.
C) Each phase is strictly separated.
A- A
B- B
C- C,B
D- A, B
E- A, B, C
Answer : E
Explanation: Those are the main pitfalls of the waterfall model that the Agile frameworks & methodologies are implemented to overcome, and Scrum is not an exception.
31) Tracking project impediments in a Scrum project is whoes primary responsibility?
A- Tester
B- ScrumMaster
C- Functional Manager
D- Developer
Answer : B
Explanation: The ScrumMaster is the issues facilitator in the Scrum framework, he has to remove all impediments for the team to do their jobs effectively & finish all their tasks within the Sprint as they committed.
32) What kind of software development projects can be executed by Scrum Framework?
A- Complete software packages
B- Customer projects
C- All kinds of software development projects
D- Sub-systems, components or parts of bigger systems
E- None of the above
Answer : C
Explanation: Scrum framework is not only for specific kind of projects, it can fit for all types of software development projects, and can be used as well with some modifications as a generic project management framework as well.
33) Which of the following main events are defined by Scrum Framework?
A) Sprint Planning Meeting
B) Sprint Retrospective Meeting
C) Sprint Review Meeting
D) Mid-Sprint Status Review Meeting
E) Daily Scrum Meeting
A- A, B, C, D, E
B- A, B, C, D
C- A, B, C, E
D- A, C, D, E
E- A, C, E
Answer : C
Explanation: The main meetings (called events, or celebrations, or ceremonies) in the scrum framework are:
1. The Sprint Planning
2. The Daily Stand Up (Daily Scrum)
3. The Sprint review
4. The Sprint retrospective
So that
34) Which statement of the following is a best description for sprint?
A- A sprint is a condensed amount of time where a development works as many hours as they need to in order to finish the work assigned to them.
B- A sprint is a pre-specified amount of time in which the development team works at sustain pace to complete a chosen set of work.
C- A sprint is a fixed amount of time set aside for team to run tests and fix any outstanding bugs right before the products ships.
D- A sprint is a pre-specified period of time during which team members choose individual items from the product backlog to work on. As each item is completed. A new item is brought into the sprint.
Answer : B
Explanation: One of the principles of agile development is « sustainable pace, » and only by working at regular hours at a reasonable level can teams continue (running sprints) indefinitely. Scrum projects make progress in a series of sprints, which are time boxed iterations no more than a month long. Sprints occur one after another, with no time in between sprints.
35) How should work be allocated to the team in an Agile project?
A- The Team Leader (ScrumMaster) should allocate specific tasks to individuals
B- Tasks should be randomly allocated to team members, using Planning Poker
C- Team members should self-select tasks appropriate to their skills
D- The most complex tasks should be allocated by the Team Leader (ScrumMaster)
Answer : C
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