1) Who should make sure everyone does his or her tasks for the Sprint Backlog?
a) The product owner
b) The development team
c) The Project manager
d) The scrum master
e) All the above
2) The length of a Sprint should be:
a) Short enough to keep the business risk acceptable to the product owner
b) Short enough to be able to synchronize the development work with other business events
c) No more than one month
d) All these answers are correct
3) Which of the following is NOT a product owner’s responsibility?
a) Running the daily scrum meeting
b) Working with stakeholders to determine and detail product features
c) Gathering requirements for the product backlog items
d) Inspecting work at sprint review
4) How should items in the product backlog be ordered?
a) Alphabetically first and then by list order in the product backlog
b) Grouped by business features first and then chronologically by date of original business request
c) Prioritized by business importance first: the items that result in biggest ROI must be prioritized first
d) Chronologically by date of original business request first and then by list order in the product backlog
5) Which of the following is a role in the scrum framework?
a) Database admin
b) Development team
c) QA tester
d) Senior developer
6) When might a sprint be abnormally terminated?
a) When it becomes clear that not everything will be finished by the end of the sprint
b) When the sales department has an important new opportunity
c) When the development team feels that the work is too hard
d) When the sprint goal becomes obsolete
7) When multiple team work together on the same product, each team should maintain a separate product backlog.
8) Why does scrum prevent product owners from changing product backlog items that are being worked on during the sprint?
a) The development team cannot meet their sprint commitment to complete work if requirements are changing
b) A sprint cycle is not enough time for senior management to review and approve changes
c) This forces product owners to focus on what is really important for the team to develop
d) The development team must be able to limit the product owner authority
9) Which of the following is not an official scrum artifact?
a) User stories
b) Sprint backlog
c) Product backlog
d) Software increment
10) When do Development Team members become the exclusive owner of a Sprint Backlog item?
a) Never. All Sprint Backlog Items are “owned” by the entire Development Team, even though each one may be done by an individual Development Team member
b) During the Daily Scrum
c) At the Sprint planning meeting
d) Whenever a team member can accommodate more work
11) Which of the following statements best explains what the term Sprint means in Scrum?
a) A Sprint is a specific amount of days for a team to test and resolve any issues prior to product release or shipment
b) A Sprint is a specific amount of days for a team to work at a sustainable pace to finish select work
c) A Sprint is an agreed upon period of time for team members to select individual items from the product backlog to work on
d) A Sprint is a specific amount of days for a team to work as many hours as needed to finish assigned work
12) A product owner is entitled to postpone the start of a new Sprint after the conclusion of a previous Sprint for the following reason
a) The product owner has not identified a Sprint Goal
b) The QA department needs more time to make the previous increment “done”
c) The stakeholders are not happy with the value produced in the previous Sprint
d) There is no acceptable reason. A new Sprint starts immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint
e) Not enough Product Backlog items are “Ready”
13) Which of the following is not a Scrum cycle activity?
a) Sprint retrospective
b) Daily Scrum
c) Weekly inspection
d) Sprint planning
14) Which of the following statements is true about product backlog items?
a) Undefined poorly defined product backlog items should be place on the product backlog with low priority
b) All product backlog items are the result of an analysis, requirements and/or design phase(s)
c) Undefined or poorly defined product backlog items should be kept out from the product backlog until sufficient detail in a Sprint
d) Every product backlog item, whether low priority or high priority, should possess sufficient detail for the team to complete in a Sprint.
15) Which of the following is required by Scrum?
a) Release Planning
b) Release retrospective
c) Sprint Burndown chart
d) Members must stand up at the daily Scrum
e) Sprint Review
f) All the above
16) Under what circumstances should separate Product Backlogs be maintained?
a) There are several Product Owners for one product: each Product Owner should have their own Product Backlog
b) There are multiple teams working on independent products: each unique combination of team and product should have an independent Product Backlog
c) There are multiple product features being developed by the same team
d) There are multiple teams working on the components of the same product: each team should have an independent Product Backlog
17) Who determines whether the Development Team has been assigned enough work in a Sprint?
a) The Development Team
b) The Product Owner
c) The Product Owner and the Scrum Master
d) The Scrum Master
18) Which of the following is not a Product Owner's responsibility?
a) Maintaining the Product Backlog with current information
c) Assigning tasks to team members
d) Prioritizing the Product Backlog
19) Which of the following activities do not occur at the end of the Sprint? (choose 3 answers):
a) Software development
b) Release deployment
c) Sprint Review meeting
d) Quality assurance testing
20) What does the Scrum Development Team attempt to develop every Sprint?
a) A product that is ready for customer delivery
b) A completed Sprint Backlog
c) A product that is ready for QA and/or QC testing
d) A product increment that is potentially-ready for customer delivery
21) Which two (2) things does the Development Team do during the first Sprint?
a) Develop a plan for the rest of the release
b) Deliver an increment of releasable software.
c) Develop and deliver at least one piece of functionality.
d) Create the complete Product Backlog to be developed in subsequent Sprints.
e) Determine the complete architecture and infrastructure for the product.
22) The Sprint Planning meeting is comprised of how many sections?
4
3
2
1
23) Please select which of the following statements are true: (choose 3 answers)
a) The Product Owner itemizes which Product Backlog items are done and which Product Backlog items are not done during Sprint Review
b) The Product Owner demonstrates potentially-shippable product features and/or components during the Sprint Review
c) The Scrum Master provides a report of what happened during the Sprint
d) The Development Team demonstrates potentially-shippable product features and/or components during the Sprint Review
e) Feedback from stakeholders during the Sprint Review may result in additional Product Backlog items
24) Who is responsible for managing the progress of work during a Sprint?
a) The most junior member of the Team
c) The Development Team
25) From the activities given, which is the latest step in sequence of the Scrum framework?
a) Daily scrum
b) Sprint retrospective
c) Sprint Review
