Understanding and applying the Scrum framework — page 3
Objective 1 of Professional Scrum Master I, worth 33.33% of the exam. This is page 3 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 3 of 3)
- 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
- An organisation publishes a Definition of Done that every product must meet. A Scrum Team working on a payments product believes it needs stricter security testing than that standard requires. What does Scrum allow? machine-checked
- On the final day of the Sprint an item is functionally finished, but the operator documentation the Definition of Done requires has not been written. The Product Owner asks for it to be shown at the Sprint Review and released to one pilot customer. What does Scrum say? machine-checked
- Three Scrum Teams work together on one product. Each has written its own Definition of Done, and they disagree about what "tested" requires. What does Scrum require them to do? machine-checked
- A team asks its Scrum Master to settle an argument about the difference between the Definition of Done and the acceptance criteria they write on individual Product Backlog items. Which explanation is accurate? machine-checked
- Which TWO of these are true of the Definition of Done 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