Free Scrum PSM-II Exam Questions

Question 1

At the Sprint Planning, the Development Team is not able to forecast the number of Product Backlog items it

can do in the upcoming Sprint due to unclear requirements. The Product Owner, however, was able to clearly

define the business objective he hopes to achieve in the Sprint.

Which of the following two actions would you support? (Choose two.)

A : Development Team forecasts the most likely Product Backlog items to meet the business objective and create a Sprint Backlog based on a likely initial design and plan. Once the time- box for the Sprint Planning meeting is over, they start implementation and continue to analyze, decompose, and create additional functionality during the Sprint.

B : all agree they can extend the Sprint Planning until the Development Team can forecast enough Product Backlog items before starting the implementation.

C : low the Development Team members as much time as needed to review the Product Backlog items and reconvene with the Product Owner when they are confident enough to make a forecast for the Sprint.

D : ey discuss in the upcoming Sprint Retrospective why this happened and what changes will make it less likely to occur again.

Answer: A,D

Question 2

Steven, a Scrum Master, is approached by the Development Team members complaining that one of the senior

engineers is using too much time during the Daily Scrums to share technical solutions.

Which are the best two actions for Steven to take? (Choose two.)

A : Coach the Development Team to help them find a way to solve the problem, and for them to take ownership of the solution.

B : Contact the team member’s direct manager and to resolve this problem.

C : Suggest that the team members timebox the amount of time each person can speak at the Daily Scrum to a maximum of two minutes.

D : Suggest using a token to limit who is allowed to speak during the Daily Scrum.

E : Speak with the person privately and coach him on the purpose of the Daily Scrum.

Answer: A,E

Question 3

During Sprint Planning, the Definition of Done will help the Development Team forecast the amount of work,

selected from the Product Backlog, deemed feasible to make ‘done’ by the end of the Sprint.

Which two items best describes what ‘done’ means? (Choose two.)

A : l the work needed to prepare the Increment for User Acceptance Testing.

B : l the work needed to prepare the Increment for Integration Testing.

C : ving an Increment of working software that is potentially releasable to the end users.

D : l the work performed as defined in the Definition of Done.

E : l the work completed within the current skills and expertise in the Development Team.

Answer: C,D

Question 4

An organization has just hired you as a new Scrum Master to help them transition their teams from their current traditional process to Scrum. The teams are currently structured to specialize in a single function. This is also known as component teams where a team would only address a single layer (i.e. design, frontend,

backend, database, testing, etc.). You’ve introduced the concept of cross-functional teams where all the skills needed to produce business functionality, from end to end, are inside of a single team. What should you keep in mind when transitioning from siloed teams to cross-functional teams? (Choose two.)

A : is easier to compare the performance between cross-functional teams in order to identify to which teams to assign tasks and which teams need additional coaching.

B : wly formed teams will need time to stabilize before reaching their peak performance. During the initial stages of forming, performance will suffer and productivity may be low, although even then delivery of business value is still likely to increase.

C : thout feature teams, you cannot do Scrum. Postpone Scrum adoption until the teams are reorganized in feature teams.

D : ople from the different layers and components will need time to become accustomed to working and delivering unified functionality together as one Scrum Team thus productivity may suffer.

Answer: B,D

Question 5

Your company has notified the stakeholders that they will be delivering the first release of a new product

within ten Sprints. On the seventh Sprint, the Scrum Team discovers that they will not be able to include all of

the expected features within the first release. The Product Owner believes if they remove some items from the

Definition of Done they will be able to accelerate the development process. The Development Team objects to

this idea as it will lead to technical debt.

As a Scrum Master, what would be the best two ways to explain to the Product Owner the impact of technical

debt? (Choose two.)

A : long as there is still technical debt in the current release, feature development for the next release cannot be started. The Product Owner must first agree to this impact before allowing changes to the Definition of Done.

B : ducing the Definition of Done will introduce unknown errors as development progresses and functionality is added. The system can become more difficult to stabilize as work progresses. Development for the actual release as well as future releases will be slowed down in unpredictable ways.

C : leasing the version upon a reduced Definition of Done creates false assumptions about the actual state of the system. This will create many interruptions during the development of the next release as fixes will need to be done to the previous release caused from a reduction of quality.

D : amount of technical debt will need to be analyzed in order to understand the impact on subsequent releases in order to allocate additional Sprints at the end of the project.

Answer: B,C