Free PSM-II Questions for Scrum PSM-II Exam

Question #1

What can the Scrum Value of openness easily impact?
(choose the best answer)

A. Time to market.

B. Product quality.

C. Collaboration.

D. Stakeholder trust.

E. All of the above.

F. Employee satisfaction.

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Correct Answer: E Vote an answer

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Question #2

A Scrum Team is struggling over the fact that not all Developers work full time and that other Developers regularly work from home. To solve the difficulties in aligning daily, at the Sprint Retrospective two Developers suggest having the Daily Scrum every three days, when everyone is in the office.
What would be three key concerns if the frequency of the Daily Scrum were to be lowered?
(choose the best three answers)

A. Opportunities to inspect and adapt the Sprint Backlog are reduced. Re-aligning is bound to become even more difficult.

B. Less progress information will be shared, causing the plan for the Sprint to become inaccurate and transparency over progress toward the Sprint Goal is reduced.

C. Impediments are raised and resolved more slowly which might impact
productivity and progress.

D. The Scrum Master loses the ability to update the Gantt chart properly, there by obscuring the Scrum Master's tracking of Sprint progress.

E. The Product Owner cannot accurately report progress about the state of the forecasted work to the stakeholders.

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Correct Answer: A,B,C Vote an answer

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Question #3

You are the Scrum Master of a Scrum Team that has one Developer who disagrees with team decisions. Their disagreements are becoming disruptive and slowing progress. The Developer often returns to earlier team decisions and re-opens the issue.
What are two ways to go about this problem?
(choose the best two answers)

A. At the Sprint Retrospective you observe whether the topic is raised. If it does not happen, you check on how comfortable everybody is with the way team decisions are made.

B. You organize an offsite team building activity to establish a foundation of trust. You observe whether the problem persists after the offsite activity.

C. You go to the Human Resources department and ask them to have a
conversation with the Developer based on the issues the team has raised.

D. You take the Developer aside to express your concern over their disagreements and tell them to act as a team player and to comply with the team's decision.

E. To every team member expressing this concern you suggest raising this with the full team. You offer to help initiate the conversation but not to resolve the concern yourself.

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Correct Answer: B,E Vote an answer

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Question #4

Several Sprints into a project, the Product Owner tells the Scrum Master that a key stakeholder just started using the product The stakeholder is unhappy with the slow performance, a complaint that the Product Owner agreeswithAs the Scrum Master how will you move this forward?
(choose the best answer)

A. Bring the concern to the quality assurance members of the Scrum Team and ask them to improve how the system is tested.

B. Explain to the Product Owner that it is up to the Developers to decide on acceptable performance standards as they own the Definition of Done

C. Wait to bring this up in the next Sprint Retrospective as this is the appropriate time for the Developers to re-consider the Definition of Done.

D. Encourage the Product Owner to bring the performance concerns to the rest of the Scrum Team and work together to improve the Definition of Done

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Question #5

True or False: Using Scrum ensures that adding more resources to a project proportionally increases the value delivered.

A. False

B. True

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Question #6

A Scrum Team has been using the Daily Scrum to report Sprint progress to the Product Owner, because the Product Owner wants to track what every Developer is working on every day. What is the best thing for the Scrum Master to do?
(choose the best answer)

A. Start attending the Daily Scrum so that whenever the Developers have a conflict with the Product Owner, the Scrum Master can resolve the conflict

B. Nothing. The Product Owner can continue to track progress at the Daily Scrum.

C. Coach the Product Owner and the Developers on the purpose of Scrum events and let them figure out how to deal with this situation.

D. Ask the Product Owner to stop attending the Daily Scrum.

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Correct Answer: C Vote an answer

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Question #7

During the Sprint Review the Product Owner introduces the functionality that is likely to be done over the next Sprints. The Chief Security Officer reminds everyone that through the envisioned functionality, sensitive personal user data will be stored. This might be the subject of external security audits. He reminds everyone of important non-functional requirements with regards to security. These were not applicable and not considered previously What are two effective ways the Scrum Team can manage these high-security concerns?
(choose the best two answers)

A. They are discussed, determined, and documented in parallel Sprints to not disturb the actual feature development Once analyzed, they should be applied to the work already done before further feature development can continue.

B. They should be managed by a separate specialist team in a parallel Sprint, so they can be specifically resolved through an improved application design without hindering functional development.

C. The impact of these security concerns on past and future work needs to be determined before new Sprints can start. A list of security-related Product Backlog items needs to be passed on to the Product Owner before starting the next Sprint

D. They are added to the Product Backlog and addressed throughout the next Sprints, combined with creating the business functionality in those Sprints, no matter how small that business functionality.

E. During the Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team assesses how to add these expectations to the Definition of Done so every future Increment will live up to these requirements. If needed they can work with external specialists to better understand the requirements

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Question #8

What is the primary concern when multiple Scrum Teams work from the same Product Backlog with the goal of creating a valuable and useful integrated Increment by the end of their Sprint?
(choose the best answer)

A. Maximizing velocity.

B. Minimizing dependencies between Scrum Teams.

C. Making sure there is enough work tor everyone on every team.

D. Clearly defining all requirements three Sprints ahead.

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