Developing people and teams — page 3
Objective 2 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.
What this objective covers
The 54 questions written for this objective cite 18 Scrum Guide sections (Adaptation, Commitment: Definition of Done, Commitment: Sprint Goal, Daily Scrum, Developers, End Note, Increment, Product Owner, Scrum Events, Scrum Master, Scrum Team, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Review, The Sprint, Topic Three: How will the chosen work get done?, Transparency).
They break down as 46 single-answer questions and 8 choose-several questions.
Questions on this objective (page 3 of 3)
- A steering committee meets monthly and hands the Product Owner a fixed ordering for the next two Sprints. The Product Owner tells the Scrum Master he disagrees with it but has no standing to argue. What does the Scrum Master do? machine-checked
- A line manager asks the Scrum Master for each Developer's individual completed-points figure every Sprint, so it can feed the annual appraisal round. How should the Scrum Master respond? machine-checked
- Three days into the Sprint, two Developers are idle while a third is overloaded. A department head tells the Scrum Master to assign the outstanding work himself, arguing that the team is clearly not capable of organising itself yet. What should the Scrum Master do? machine-checked
- A portfolio director asks the Scrum Master to send a written weekly status report — percentage complete, risks, a RAG rating — because the directors want visibility without attending anything. What is the best response from the Scrum Master? machine-checked
- During refinement a Developer turns to the Scrum Master and asks, "How should we break this item down?" The Scrum Master has split items like it many times and could answer in a sentence. What is the coaching response? machine-checked
- A programme manager tells the Scrum Master: "You are accountable for this team, so I need you to guarantee that all twelve forecast items are finished by the end of the Sprint, and to sign off their quality." Which TWO statements correct him? machine-checked
- An organisation with four Scrum Teams is writing what it expects of its Scrum Masters at the organisational level. Which TWO of the following are ways the Scrum Guide says a Scrum Master serves the organisation? machine-checked
- A new Product Owner asks the Scrum Master what she can expect from him. Which TWO of the following are ways the Scrum Guide says a Scrum Master serves the Product Owner? machine-checked
- With a large launch two weeks away, the Developers propose skipping the Sprint Retrospective for the next two Sprints — "we know what is wrong, we just have no time to talk about it". The Product Owner agrees. What should the Scrum Master do? machine-checked
- A newly appointed Scrum Master is told by his head of engineering that his mandate is to "enforce the process" and to escalate the names of people who do not follow it. How should he understand his accountability? machine-checked
- A Scrum Team has no tester. Every Sprint its work waits several days in a queue at a central QA department, and items regularly finish after the Sprint has ended. The Scrum Master is considering how to coach the team. What is the most appropriate direction? machine-checked
- At the Sprint Review the Developers proudly demonstrate eleven finished items. Three of them still have manual steps outstanding that the team's Definition of Done requires, and the Product Owner cannot tell what he is able to release. The Developers explain that the number of items closed is what their manager looks at. How should the Scrum Master serve the Scrum Team here? machine-checked
- A finance director insists on a signed twelve-month plan naming every feature and its delivery month before he will release next year's budget, saying he cannot fund work that has no plan. The Product Owner is ready to invent the dates to get the money. What is the Scrum Master's best course? machine-checked
- A Scrum Master facilitates the Daily Scrum every morning, going round the three questions and noting blockers. The Developers have grown quiet and now speak to her rather than to each other. She is not working on any Sprint Backlog item. What should she change? 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 Developing people and teams
The other objectives in Professional Scrum Master I
- 1. Understanding and applying the Scrum framework — 33.33% of the exam
- 3. Managing products with agility — 33.33% of the exam