Understanding and applying the Scrum framework — page 2
Objective 1 of Professional Scrum Master I, worth 33.33% of the exam. This is page 2 of 3 of its question list; page one carries the full objective summary.
- Share of the exam
- 33.33%
- Questions in a real sitting
- roughly 27 of 80
- Questions in this bank
- 54
- Signed for by a person
- 0
- Machine-checked only
- 54
Partly checked. None of the 54 questions here has been read against the cited source by a person. 54 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.
How these questions are written — where each question comes from, what the verification ledger records, and what happens when one is found wrong.
What this objective covers
The 54 questions written for this objective cite 21 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, Topic Three: How will the chosen work get done?, Transparency).
They break down as 43 single-answer questions and 11 choose-several questions.
Drill this objective
The trainer can run a short 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
Questions on this objective (page 2 of 3)
- 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
- A line manager has started attending the Daily Scrum and asks each Developer in turn what they did yesterday, taking notes for a weekly status report. The event now runs twenty-five minutes and the Developers have stopped mentioning problems. What should the Scrum Master do? machine-checked
- The Developers dislike going round the room each morning and propose replacing it with a five-minute walk of the Sprint Backlog board, discussing only the items that put the Sprint Goal at risk. They ask the Scrum Master whether that is still Scrum. machine-checked
- A Scrum Team prepares a polished slide deck for the Sprint Review, presents for fifty minutes, takes two questions and closes. Everyone is complimentary and the Product Backlog is unchanged afterwards. What has gone wrong? machine-checked
- Mid-Sprint, a piece of work meets the Definition of Done and the Product Owner would like it in customers' hands this afternoon. A Developer objects that nothing may go out before the Sprint Review, where stakeholders see it first. Who is right? machine-checked
- Which TWO of these belong to the Sprint Review as Scrum describes it? machine-checked
- Three days into a two-week Sprint, a regulatory ruling makes the Sprint Goal meaningless — the feature it aimed at may not now be offered at all. Who has the authority to cancel the Sprint? machine-checked
- Halfway through a Sprint the Developers accept that they will not finish most of the items they selected — the work was much larger than they thought. They ask the Product Owner to cancel the Sprint so they can start again with a realistic plan. Is that a proper use of cancellation? machine-checked
- A Scrum Team ends every Sprint Retrospective with a list of a dozen improvements written on a wall, and none of them has ever happened. What does Scrum suggest instead? machine-checked
- A Scrum Team runs two-week Sprints and books three hours for the Sprint Retrospective, usually finishing in forty-five minutes. A new team member argues the event must run the full three hours "because that is what Scrum says". What is the accurate position? machine-checked
- Which THREE of these does the Sprint Retrospective inspect, as Scrum describes the event? machine-checked
- A Product Owner arrives at refinement with sizes already written against the top ten Product Backlog items, taken from a similar product they ran last year. The Developers think several are badly wrong. Who is responsible for sizing in Scrum? machine-checked
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