Understanding and applying the Scrum framework
Objective 1 of Professional Scrum Master I, worth 33.33% of the exam.
- Share of the exam
- 33.33%
- Questions in a real sitting
- roughly 27 of 80
- Questions in this bank
- 45
- Signed for by a person
- 0
- Machine-checked only
- 45
Partly checked. None of the 45 questions here has been read against the cited source by a person. 45 questions have been checked against their cited clause by an automated pass — which is not the same thing, and is not a signature.
Only questions a person has signed for are used in mock exams here. That is the whole difference between the two kinds of checking above.
What this objective covers
The 45 questions written for this objective cite 20 Scrum Guide sections (Adaptation, Commitment: Definition of Done, Commitment: Product Goal, Commitment: Sprint Goal, Daily Scrum, Developers, Increment, Inspection, Product Backlog, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Scrum Team, Scrum Theory, Scrum Values, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Review, The Sprint, Transparency).
They break down as 36 single-answer questions and 9 choose-several questions.
Questions on this objective (page 1 of 3)
- A department is choosing an approach for a product where both the requirements and the technology are poorly understood and keep changing as the team learns. Someone argues for Scrum "because it is founded on empiricism". What does founding an approach on empiricism actually commit the team to? machine-checked
- At the end of a Sprint three items are functionally complete but have not been through the automated test suite the Definition of Done requires. To avoid an awkward conversation the Developers mark them Done on the board and include them in the Sprint Review. Which pillar has been damaged, and what follows from that? machine-checked
- A Scrum Team holds every event on schedule, keeps a burn-down chart and reviews its metrics carefully. For six Sprints running, the same impediment — a two-day wait for a shared test environment — has been named in the Retrospective, and nothing about it has changed. What is the accurate diagnosis? machine-checked
- Mid-Sprint, the Developers discover that a third-party API rate-limits far below what they assumed, which makes the current plan unworkable. One of them suggests carrying on as planned and raising it at the Sprint Retrospective, so the Sprint is not disrupted. What should happen instead? machine-checked
- Which THREE of these statements about Scrum theory are accurate as the framework defines it? machine-checked
- A Developer is fairly sure the design the team agreed last week will not scale. The team is halfway through the Sprint, everyone else seems content, and saying so means an uncomfortable conversation and probably rework. Which Scrum value most directly asks them to speak? machine-checked
- At Sprint Planning the Developers select eleven Product Backlog items. At the Sprint Review, nine are Done and the Sprint Goal has been met. A manager tells the Scrum Master that the team "broke its commitment" and should be held to its number next time. How should the Scrum Master respond? machine-checked
- Three days into a two-week Sprint the Developers conclude that the Sprint Goal is very unlikely to be met. They agree among themselves to say nothing until the Sprint Review, in the hope that something turns in their favour. Which value are they failing, and what does the framework expect? machine-checked
- A newly appointed Scrum Master finds that the Developers wait each morning to be told which item to pick up, because the previous Scrum Master assigned the work. They decide to keep assigning tasks "until the team is ready to do it themselves". What is wrong with that plan? machine-checked
- A Scrum Team is reviewing its own behaviour against the five Scrum values. Which TWO of these behaviours are consistent with the values as Scrum describes them? machine-checked
- One product is being built by a single Scrum Team of eighteen people. Communication is slow, the Daily Scrum routinely overruns, and nobody has a complete picture of what is in flight. What does Scrum suggest? machine-checked
- A senior stakeholder is unhappy that their request sits near the bottom of the Product Backlog. During the Sprint they approach two Developers directly and ask them to "just slot it into the next Sprint". What is the correct position in Scrum? machine-checked
- A Product Owner is stretched thin and asks a business analyst to write most of the Product Backlog items and to propose their order each week. Is that permitted, and who answers when the ordering is challenged? machine-checked
- A department head asks the Scrum Master for a weekly report showing which Developer completed which task, and asks them to chase anyone who is behind. How should the Scrum Master handle the request? machine-checked
- Scrum states a short list of things the Developers are always accountable for, whatever the domain of work. Which THREE of these are on it? machine-checked
- A Scrum Team finishes its Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective on a Friday afternoon. Its Sprint Planning for the next Sprint is booked for the following Wednesday, leaving two working days in between for "catching up". When does the next Sprint actually begin? machine-checked
- Ninety minutes into Sprint Planning the Scrum Team has selected items and begun breaking them down, but has never discussed why this Sprint matters. The Scrum Master stops the room. What has to be true before Sprint Planning is allowed to end? machine-checked
- A Scrum Team runs two-week Sprints and blocks eight hours for Sprint Planning every Sprint, because a member insists "eight hours is the rule". They routinely finish in three. What is the accurate position? machine-checked
- Two days before the end of a two-week Sprint, the Product Owner asks the Developers to take on a small but urgent item that has nothing to do with the Sprint Goal. The Developers judge that it would put the Sprint Goal at risk. What does Scrum say? machine-checked
- Which TWO of these statements about Sprint length are true in Scrum? machine-checked
Drill this objective
The trainer can run a practice set drawn from this objective alone, which is what the weight column above is for: revise the heavy objectives first.
Practise Understanding and applying the Scrum framework
The other objectives in Professional Scrum Master I
- 2. Developing people and teams — 33.33% of the exam
- 3. Managing products with agility — 33.33% of the exam