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What you will practice
- A group of stakeholders wants to attend the Daily Scrum. How should the Scrum Master handle the situation?
- All of the following are key ingredients of defining a Scrum method EXCEPT:
- Ideally, the Daily Scrum should be a:
- You are the Scrum Master for a product development project and one of your goals is to ensure that the team p…
- Who creates the Definition of Done?
- If a Developer becomes an impediment, can the project manager remove them from the team?
Answers and explanations
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Q1. A group of stakeholders wants to attend the Daily Scrum. How should the Scrum Master handle the situation?
Answer: A. Instruct the stakeholders to remain quiet and refrain from asking questions or making comments. They are allowed to listen in for the sake of transparency, but the meeting is intended for the developers.
The Daily Scrum is specifically for Developers, but bystanders may observe silently. Complete exclusion is too extreme an option, so ensure you pick the choice that protects the event without entirely banning observation.
Q2. All of the following are key ingredients of defining a Scrum method EXCEPT:
Answer: E. Responsibilities
Scrum is defined by accountabilities, events, and artifacts rather than generic responsibilities. The 2020 update specifically replaced traditional roles with specific accountabilities, making that the clear exception here.
Q3. Ideally, the Daily Scrum should be a:
Answer: B. Short, focused 15-minute event
The Daily Scrum is intentionally designed to be a focused 15-minute event for synchronization. The physical location or posture of participants is entirely irrelevant, so focus strictly on the timebox.
Q4. You are the Scrum Master for a product development project and one of your goals is to ensure that the team performs at its highest level of productivity. What is the BEST way to realize this objective?
Answer: C. By facilitating daily scrum meetings and removing impediments
Facilitating the Daily Scrum and removing impediments is a core Scrum Master duty. Ensure you filter out distractors proposing weekly Scrum events or ignoring obstacles, as these violate foundational Scrum rules.
Q5. Who creates the Definition of Done?
Answer: B. The development organization (or the Scrum Team if none is available from the development organization)
If it exists, the development organization sets the minimum standard for the Definition of Done. Otherwise, the Scrum Team must create it. Remember that the Product Owner or Scrum Master alone cannot dictate this standard; it requires broader organizational or team consensus.
Q6. If a Developer becomes an impediment, can the project manager remove them from the team?
Answer: A. There is no project manager within the Scrum Team. If a project manager works with a Scrum Team, he does not have the authority to remove a Developer as the Scrum Team is self-managed.
There is no project manager role in Scrum, and Scrum Teams are self-managing. While external managers handle personnel, the team decides how to accomplish work without outside interference.
Q7. Transparency and trust in an Agile project is built by:
Answer: E. Maintaining highly visible information radiators about the progress and performance of the teams
Using highly visible information radiators ensures project progress and performance are open to all stakeholders, building trust through transparency. Options focusing on socializing or exposing all individual work misrepresent agile principles.
Q8. You are assigned to conduct a feasibility study on a complicated product development project to see if it can be delivered in an Agile environment. Which approach would you adopt to maximize the business value?
Answer: E. Empirical
An empirical approach relies on transparency, inspection, and adaptation, making it ideal for complex Agile projects. Theoretical or hypothetical approaches lack real-world validation, which is required to navigate complex project uncertainty properly.
Q9. In an Agile project, the customer is kept satisfied by:
Answer: C. Continuous delivery of a valuable product
Agile principles prioritize customer satisfaction through the continuous delivery of valuable software. Options suggesting heavy documentation or late delivery fail because empirical approaches rely heavily on early and frequent increments.
Q10. During the Daily Scrum, the Scrum Master goes around the room pointing to each Developer and asks them for their work done the day before. Each team member gives their update and the Scrum Master goes to the next person. The Daily Scrum go…
Answer: B. The Scrum Master should not be directly involved in the Daily Scrum – his only duty regarding the Daily Scrum is to ensure the Developers are having the Daily Scrum and that they keep it within a timebox of 15 minutes
The Scrum Master should not run the Daily Scrum as a status report, because Developers fully own and conduct this event. Remember that facilitating Scrum events does not mean the Scrum Master actively participates in them.
Q11. Sprint Retrospectives focus on:
Answer: E. What is working well and what is not working well
The Sprint Retrospective focuses on inspecting how the last Sprint went regarding individuals, interactions, processes, tools, and the Definition of Done. Exam cue: if an option discusses what was delivered or creating backlogs, it describes the Sprint Review or Planning, not the Retrospective.
Q12. What does a Product Owner focus on? A. The product as a whole B. The next release C. The next sprint D. All of these choices
Answer: D. all of these choices
A Product Owner must focus on the product as a whole, the next release, and the next Sprint to effectively maximize value. For the exam, remember that the Product Owner balances both the overarching product strategy and immediate delivery goals.
Q13. Without product ownership, the team may build products that are _____.
Answer: B. all of these answers
The Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Developers. Without clear product ownership, teams risk delivering products that are not valuable, useful, or what customers actually need.
Q14. John is working on a product development project in an Agile environment and discusses with his team ways to improve and manage stakeholder expectations. Which of the following best describes his efforts in achieving this objective?
Answer: D. Creating an environment of trust so as to decrease the impediments among stakeholders.
Agile principles emphasize collaboration and building trust to manage stakeholder expectations effectively. For the exam, dismiss distractors that suggest excluding less influential stakeholders or micromanaging team members, as these violate Agile values.
Q15. You are entrusted with the responsibility of forming an Agile team to add business value to the project. What key competencies would you look for in creating the team?
Answer: C. A blend of interpersonal and technical skills
Agile teams require a blend of interpersonal and technical skills to collaborate and deliver successfully. The placeholder option is a clear formatting error that should be ignored during practice.
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