Hello
Friends, I have prepared the below set of questions while studying about Agile
and Scrum.
The
questions are prepared on the basis of thorough study of the subject. While
preparing for the PSPO assessment, I referred to a lot of study material,
websites, books, Scrum.org open assessments and I even don’t remember the name
of each study material that I went through. One thing that I noticed was
missing everywhere is uniqueness. There were a lot of questions that I went
through in open assessment in scrum.org were repeated in mock tests available
on websites. So, I always felt why this question is here when one already has
access to this in open assessment. So, while preparing for this questionnaire
below the underlying idea and intent was “Unique”. The questions are not copied
from anywhere. They are formed based on thorough study of the subject and
practical experience while working in Agile. I assure you that you won’t find
them anywhere else, other than the case if they have been copied from here….
:). Also, the purpose of having a unique set of questions was to
challenge your mind and think for the right answer. While going through the
same set of questions every time, I started feeling that I had even stopped
reading through the questions and just looking at the structure I knew the
answer to the question. This is a very bad practice from an exam point of view.
With this practice, chances of me marking a wrong answer are high while going
through a similar question I have attempted during mock tests. I am sharing
just the questions in this post. Please share your answers in the comments and
lets take it as an open forum for discussion. Your feedback is highly
appreciated, I will keep sharing accordingly
Questions:
- What are the pre-conditions to start a Sprint?
a) There are no
preconditions
b) Completely refined
product backlog
c) Both of these
d) None of these
- What is
the minimum required to start a sprint?
a) Availability of scrum
team
b) List of business ideas
c) Project Manager who can
inspect the progress from start
d) None of these
- From
where the team gets its requirements?
a) Product backlog
b) CEO of the organization
c) Product owner announces
it on mail
d) Scrum master in
collaboration with product owner
4. Select all that is
required as inputs for Sprint planning.
.
a) Product backlog
b) the latest product
increment if any
c) projected capacity of
the development team
d) past performance of the
development team
e) None of these
- Development
team along with the Product Owner is in the meeting room for sprint
planning with Product backlog, latest product increment, past performance
of the development team. Scrum master Ramesh checks into the room with few
minutes delay and observes that the team is not doing effective planning.
Why do you think Ramesh has this observation?
.
a) Team has not enough
stationery available in meeting room, and may move out in middle to collect
some which will be interruption in the process
b) They are not taking into
account projected capacity of the development team
c) Ramesh is too critical
of the things and interfering with the teams functioning
d) None of these
- Sushil,
a very dynamic and proficient Product owner, has asked her scrum master
Rashmi to attend the Sprint planning event on his behalf and represent him
as he is busy with some other business critical meetings. He has informed
Rashmi that he has refined the backlog thoroughly and she won't face any
challenge. Despite this Rashmi has declined his request. What do you think
is the reason for the decline?
.
a) Product owner cannot
delegate his participation in the scrum events
b) Scrum master is not
justified in the decline of request as Sushil is busy with some business
critical meetings and business always takes priority.
c) Rashmi should coach the
Product owner for this behavior.
d) None of these
7. The product owner is
empowered to do the below
.
a) Delegation of
participation in scrum events
b) Delegation of activities
of Product backlog management
c) None of these
d) Both of these
- What is
incorrect about Scrum?
a) Lightweight
b) Simple to master
c) Difficult to understand
d) B and C
e) None of these
- Though
scrum is a framework, however if a scrum has to be defined as a process
.
a) Scrum is an a agile
process to manage and control development work
b) Scrum cannot be defined
as a process as it is a framework
c) Both statements are
incorrect
- Why
scrum is referred as a framework and not a process, technique or a
definitive method.
.
a) Within Scrum you can
employ various processes and techniques.
b) Scrum doesn't believe in
defined processes as it against agility
c) Process, techniques and
definitive method hampers creativity and scrum fosters creativity.
d) A
framework is an approach to solving a problem that provides a rough
outline of the process that will achieve a specific goal, but that does not
provide the level of specificity found in a process.
- Scrum helps to improve the following:
a) Product
b) The
team
c) Work
culture and environment
d) All
of the above
- Manohar is an agilist and has wide experience in implementing
Scrum. He has been designated to implement scrum in the organisation. Team
is not very convinced with the new way of working and has escalated it to
the CEO. The CEO knows Manohar is doing the right things the right way and
at the same time doesn't want to make the developers unhappy. He suggests
few tweaks in the scrum components and their implementation.
.
a) Scrum
is a framework within which we can employ various processes and techniques, so
suggestions by the CEO should be implemented.
b) Each
component of the scrum framework serves a specific purpose and is essential for
effective usage and success.
c) Scrum
helps in improving work environment, so the happiness of developers should be
taken care of and tweaks are justified.
d) Scrum
is about inspection and adaptation, so adapting to suggestions by developer and
CEO should be done on priority.
- What is the importance of rules in Scrum?
.
a) Rules
of scrum bind together the roles, events, and artifacts, governing the
relationships and interaction between them.
b) Scrum
doesn't have rules as it hampers agility.
c) Rules
of scrum are described in Scrum guide.
d) Both
A and B
- Ravi hates sprint events every sprint and feels that it is a waste
of developer’s time. Scrum master Aniruddha has been trying to coach Ravi
for quite some time now on the importance of these events. What all
is applicable to each scrum event.
.
a) Each
event is time boxed except sprint planning which can continue till end of
sprint, till the development team does not break down complete sprint backlog
b) Each
scrum event enables progress through adaptation and transparency except Sprint
planning
c) Daily
scrum is one of the scrum events which is time boxed but is optional to have it
as per development team decides as they are the ones who must attend it.
d) None
of these is applicable.
- Scrum events helps in the below:
.
a.
Enable progress through adaptation and transparency
b.
Opportunity for socialization among team members.
c.
Keep scrum master in job
d.
None of these
- What are professional scrum competencies
.
a) Understanding
and applying the scrum framework
b) Developing
people and teams
c) Managing
products with agility.
d) Developing
and delivering products professionally
e) Evolving
Agile organization
- Empiricism asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making
decisions based on what is known. Living by this belief the senior most member
Lakshay of the development team takes decision independently considering
the juniors are not capable to handle challenges as of now and will learn
with time and let them focus on other work. What is being compromised
here?
.
a) Transparency
b) Respect
c) Openness
d) Nothing,
Lakshay is living by the value of commitment and is protecting the junior team
members from losing focus on the work of the sprint and goals of the scrum
team.
- The development team in agreement with the product owner commits
for a sprint goal. The team always meets its sprint goal, is focussed and
is transparent in the deliverables. Product owner is also happy with the
quality of deliverables. They are turning the product backlog into
potentially releasable work every increment. However, the scrum master
feels the development team’s work is not very challenging when looked at
the deliverables of other development teams in the organization. Scrum
master feels that the team is not living by the value of courage and they
lack courage to work on tough problems. What should be done?
.
a)
Scrum master should coach the development team
b)
Development team is doing the right thing, letting
them work as they are already doing a good job.
c)
Scrum master is too critical and doing comparison
between teams which is not appropriate
d)
Scrum master may need to do more investigation and
clear his doubts and then take the right approach to solve the problem if it
exists.
- Today, at daily scrum Kapil has committed to finish a task which is
a dependency for the rest of the team to merge their work in the master
code base. He leaves by 5 and when he was about to merge his code and
leave for the day, the environment has gone down and has been informed it
may be up only after an hour. He has nothing pressing back at home and can
spare a few hours to finish the work and then leave for the day. What
should he do?
.
a) He
should leave for the day after sending a mail to the team that why he couldn't
complete his work and also inform Scrum master that it is an impediment should
be removed.
b) Should
stay back and complete the work as he has personally committed to achieving the
goals of the scrum team and the goal can be endangered.
c) Kapil
can stay back late and complete the work, but he doesn't want to set up a wrong
work culture at the workplace for junior team members.
d) He
should immediately check with the Environment maintenance team and understand
the gravity of the situation and may take his decision based upon his analysis.
- Ashiana is the junior most member of the development team, and she
performs testing of the software developed. Raj, senior member always
ensures that what is being tested by Ashiana is re-tested so that there
may not be any slippage. Also while doing estimations the team the dual
testing effort is estimated, as they Ashiana is not senior enough to
independently handle testing tasks, though there has been no slippage of
bugs in quite some time. What scrum value is being compromised in this
case?
.
a) Courage
b) Focus
c) Commitment
d) Respect
e) Openness
- Raghav, a junior member in the team always believes in what is
being told to him to do. Team is very happy with his behavior and
performance and likewise Raghav as well. Navneet, the scrum master, sees
that the scrum values are being compromised. What scrum values Navneet
needs to coach the team about?
a) Courage
and Openness
b) Commitment
and Respect
c) Respect
and Openness
d) Focus
and Commitment
