SMC Scrum Master Certified Exam Practice Questions

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1. Which of the following is/are role(s) of a Chief Scrum Master, not of a Chief Product Owner?

A) Addresses impediments that impact more than one Scrum Team.

B) Prepares and maintains the overall Prioritized Product Backlog for the large project.

C) Facilitates the Scrum of Scrums meetings.

D) Interfaces with the Program Product Owner to ensure alignment of the large project with the goals and objectives of the Program.

A and C

A and D

A, B, and C

2. Which of the following comparisons is true about Scrum and Traditional Project Management?

In Scrum, upfront planning is high, while in Traditional Project Management it is low.

In Scrum, performance measurement is based on plan conformity, while in Traditional Project Management it is based on business value.

In Scrum, customer involvement is high throughput the project, while in Traditional Project it varies according to the project's lifecycle.

In Scrum, Quality Assurance is process centric, while in Traditional Project Management it is customer centric.

3. Collaboration within a team is an important principle of Scrum.

All of the following activities constitute collaboration EXCEPT:

The Scrum Team decides which User Stories are important and assigns which Sprint they should be worked on.

The Scrum Team discusses the best approach to creating deliverables during a Sprint.

A Scrum Team member is facing difficulties in one of his tasks and another team member pitches in to help him.

The Scrum Team interacts with the Product Owner to obtain clarification on User Stories.

4. A Product Owner is prioritizing user Stories to create a Prioritized Product Backlog for a project to design a banking portal.

All of the following User Stories will be evaluated while prioritizing EXCEPT:

User Stories that generate value for the customer.

User Stories that are dependent on others for completion.

User Stories that are innovative and may or may not be successfully created.

User Stories that are very difficult to determine its value, create and/or deliver.

5. Which of the following is true about Scrum?

Continuous feedback is provided through the Groom Prioritized Product Backlog process

Deliverables are improved progressively by time-boxing non-essential work

The Conduct Daily Standup process leads to greater levels of motivation among team members.

Emphasis on risk mitigation and detailed planning ensures a customer-oriented framework.

6. Which of the following about User Story Acceptance Criteria is true?

User Stories are objective, and the Acceptance Criteria provides the subjectivity required for the User Story to be considered as Done.

In the Sprint Review Meetings, the Acceptance Criteria provides the context for the Scrum Master to decide if a User Story has been completed satisfactorily.

It is the Scrum Master who has to ensure that the Acceptance Criteria for a User Story are not changed by the Product Owner in the middle of a Sprint.

It is the Scrum Team's responsibility to keep track of what changes are being made to the Acceptance Criteria even during the Sprint.

7. Suppose you are a Scrum Master on a project to design a metro rail system for a city. It has been brought to your attention that the Product Owner wants to change the Acceptance Criteria for one of the User Stories committed to for the current Sprint because the customer has changed a critical business requirement.

Which one of the following statements presents the best solution for such a situation?

You should direct the Scrum team to stop working on the current Sprint Backlog, and to start working on the latest business requirements.

The Product Owner should add this requirement to the overall Prioritized Product Backlog, and the team would work on it in a future Sprint.

You should tell the Product Owner to inform the stakeholders that this business requirement cannot be worked on as the Scrum Team has no bandwidth in the current Sprint.

The Product Owner should cancel the current Sprint, and should start planning a new Sprint for the team to be able to develop the deliverable as per the latest business requirement.

8. Which one of the following is NOT a type of identified dependencies in a Scrum project?

Critical

Mandatory

Discretionary

Internal

9. Which of the following is a tool that can be used for communicating information related to risks?

Risk Burnup chart.

Risk Burndown chart.

Risk Progress chart.

Risk Tracking chart.

10. Which of the following is a process in the initiate phase of Scrum?

Identify Scrum Master and Stakeholder(s)

Estimate User Stories

Conduct Daily Standup

Commit User Stories

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11. One of the responsibilities of the Scrum Master is to ensure that the Product Owner does not change the Acceptance Criteria of a committed User Story in the middle of a Sprint.

In this regard, which of the following statements about Acceptance Criteria is correct?

User Story Workshops are held as part of Sprint Review.

Acceptance Criteria provide the objectivity required for the User Story to be considered as Done or not Done.

The Scrum Master defines and communicates the Acceptance Criteria to the Scrum Team.

During the Sprint Retrospect Meeting, the Acceptance Criteria provide context for the Product Owner to decide if a User Story has been completed satisfactorily.

12. To enable the Product Owner to successfully deploy the product release as a part of the Ship Deliverables process, the Scrum Master should ensure that:

The Scrum Team creates Deliverables as agreed upon

The Release Plan and Prioritized Product Backlog are updated

The Scrum Team creates the Release Planning Schedule

The Scrum team Accepts/Rejects the deliverables during Demonstrate and Validate Sprint process

13. The Chief Scrum Master is a part of the Scrum Core Team that assembles to retrospect the project and to identify, document, and internalize the lessons learned. There are various tools to Retrospect Project during the Retrospect Project Meeting.

Which of the following tools can be used in this process?

Gap analysis.

SWOT analysis.

Proof of Concept.

Speed Boat.

14. A Scrum Team is estimating the prioritized User Stories. Each team member has been assigned a deck of numbered cards, in which each card is numbered in a sequence. The team members use these cards to assess a particular User Story by picking and showing a card from the deck that represents their estimate for the User Story.

Which estimation tool is the Scrum Team using?

Fist of Five.

Wideband Delphi.

Affinity Estimation.

Planning Poker.

15. On a hydroelectric power project, damage to life and property due to floods and landslides has been identified as a potential risk.

Which of the following Risk Assessment Techniques can be used by the Scrum Team to assess the potential risk, and its impact on project objectives?

Probability Impact Grid.

Probability Trees.

Pareto Analysis.

Expected Monetary Value.

16. All of the following events and activities are examples of adaptation, EXCEPT:

Seeking help from team members

Experienced team members mentoring new members

Recording Lessons learned to improve processes and address problems

Using information radiators to track the project progress

17. Andy, a Scrum Master, is helping his team draft a Sprint Backlog. In which of the following phases would this Scrum process be in?

Initiate

Plan and Estimate

Implement

Review and Retrospect

18. Suppose you are a Scrum Master or a Scrum Team that is progressing through Tuckman's model of Group Dynamics.

In which of the following stages will you be most actively involved?

Forming

Storming

Norming

Performing

19. During a Scrum of Scrums, each Scrum Team representative provides an update on which of the following:

A) What has my team been working on since the last meeting?

B) What will my team do until the next meeting?

C) How many story points has my team completed since the last meeting?

D) What is our team planning on doing that might affect other teams?

A, , and

A, C, and D

A, , and D

C, and D

20. As a Scrum Master how will you coordinate with the Product Owner to ensure Value-Driven Delivery on Scrum projects?

By ensuring that requirements are prioritized based on opportunity for investment

By ensuring that customers realize the value at the end of project

By ensuring that requirements are reprioritized after every Sprint

By understanding what adds value to customers and ensuing that stakeholders are closely involved throughout the project

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21. During the Form Scrum Team process, the Scrum Master must collaborate with the Product Owner to enable him or her to select the team members.

Which of following sets of Traits is desirable of a Scrum Team member?

Scrum Expert, Business Domain knowledge, Highly motivated.

Collaborative, Self-organizing, Negotiation skills.

Business Domain knowledge, Collaborative, Cross-functional outlook.

Collaborative, Highly motivated, Independent.

22. While assisting the Product Owner in developing a Prioritized Product Backlog, the Scrum Master must consider the primary factors on which the Prioritized Product Backlog is based-on.

Which of the following are those primary factors?

A) Value

B) Dependencies

C) Risk

D) Deliverables

A, , and

A, C, and D

23. A large software company has 8 Scrum teams with each team having a Scrum Master. After the Daily Standup everyday with their respective teams, all Scrum Masters meet for a Scrum of Scrums.

What are they likely to do during this meeting?

Discuss ways to resolve technical impediments faced by development teams, especially if two or more teams face the same issue.

Discuss what each individual development team member has worked on since the last time all Scrum Masters met.

Discuss actions of a team that could potentially affect another team.

Share a status update on all individual team member' tasks.

24. As a Scrum Master, it is important that you assess skill gaps and training requirements for the team members, and map the skills, capabilities, and interest level of team members in using those skills and capabilities on a project.

Which one of the following tools can help you do this?

Skills Requirement Matrix.

Organizational Deployment Method.

Daily Standup.

Organizational Resource Matrix.

25. Gregory is the Scrum Master on a project to create automated devices for the health industry. He advocates that every member of the Scrum Team should actively participate in team building activities, estimation meetings, and in Daily Standups. He looks to give more responsibility to team members.

Which of the following theories does Gregory seem to subscribe to?

Theory X

Theory Y

Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Win/Win Conflict Resolution

26. Collaboration is one of the Scrum principles.

Which of the following are the three dimensions of this principle?

Awareness, articulation, and appropriation

Transparency, precision, and coordination

Perfection, cooperation, and comprehension

Honesty, responsiveness, and adaptability

27. A company that builds propellers for ships has incurred heavy losses while implementing the product at the end of the project. This is because a large number of customer requirements which changed during the project were not incorporated into the deliverables. The company could have avoided this situation if it had applied the Scrum Methodology, as it would have ensured that any change requested by the customer was included as part of the project, and that the team produced deliverables that were better suited to the final business environment.

Which Scrum aspect is being emphasized here?

Value-based prioritization

Appropriation

Iterative development

Transparency

28. You are the Scrum Master on a project to develop machine parts for automobile manufacturing. The Product Owner on your project proposes to use Utility Function to find out the stakeholders' risk tolerance level.

Which of the following is NOT a risk tolerance classification?

Risk Averter.

Risk Seeker.

Risk Mitigator.

Neutral Risk Taker.

29. Which of the following statements is NOT true of an Impediment Log?

Impediment Log can be discussed during Daily Standup.

Internal impediments from within the team are never recorded in the Impediment Log, and only brought up during the Daily Standups.

Transparency in Scrum ensures swift and easy identification of impediments.

Scrum Master maintains and updates the Impediment Log.

30. Scrum can easily be scaled for effective use in large projects with multiple small teams working on the project.

Which of the following facilitates coordination among scrum teams?

Scrum of Scrums Meeting

Daily Standup Meeting

Sprint Review Meeting

Sprint Planning Meeting

SMC Scrum Master Certified Exam Practice Questions

SMC Scrum Master Certified Exam Practice Questions

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