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
- 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 2 of 3)
- 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
- A new agile coach asks the Scrum Master to add a two-hour "Backlog Refinement" event to the calendar every Sprint, and to publish its timebox and its mandatory attendee list alongside the other Scrum events. What is the accurate position? machine-checked
- A Scrum Team has three Product Goals pinned to the wall — one for each market segment the product serves — and works toward all three at once. Sprint Goals alternate between them. What does Scrum say about this? machine-checked
- The Developers keep their own list of technical debt and infrastructure work in a separate tool, and pull from it whenever they have spare capacity, so that it never has to compete with features in the Product Backlog. The Product Owner is aware and content with the arrangement. What is the problem? machine-checked
- Which TWO of these does Scrum make the Product Owner accountable for? machine-checked
- A programme manager asks the Scrum Master to restructure the team's Sprint Backlog board to match the corporate reporting format, and to freeze it after Sprint Planning so that the weekly report is comparable Sprint to Sprint. What should the Scrum Master explain? machine-checked
- A Developer joining their first Scrum Team asks what the Sprint Backlog actually consists of. Which answer is complete? machine-checked
- A week into a two-week Sprint the Developers discover that one selected item is far larger than they assumed. They are confident they can still meet the Sprint Goal without it. What does Scrum expect them to do? machine-checked
- During one Sprint the Developers complete work meeting the Definition of Done on four separate days. At the Sprint Review a stakeholder asks how many Increments the Sprint produced. What is the accurate answer in Scrum terms? machine-checked
- Which TWO of these statements about the Increment 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