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How to study the Scrum PSM II: Professional Scrum Master II Exam
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Introduction to Scrum PSM II: Professional Scrum Master II Exam
The Professional Scrum MasterTM level II (PSM II) assessment is available to anyone who wishes to demonstrate his or her ability to apply the Scrum framework to solving advanced, complex problems in the real world. Those that pass the assessment will receive the industry-recognized PSM II Certification as an indication of their advanced knowledge and abilities about Scrum and the role of the Scrum Master.
Anyone attempting the PSM II should have advanced Scrum knowledge, in-depth Scrum experience, and/or have taken the Professional Scrum Master course before taking this assessment. However, attending a course is neither necessary nor sufficient for certification. The PSM II assessment is very difficult and consists of multiple-choice questions based on your knowledge of Scrum and how you would handle real-world situations. Preparation of the exam should be started with PSM II exam dumps.
NEW QUESTION 25
A Development Team has a total of six members, 4 members who work full time in the office and 2 members who work part time at home. The Development Team is complaining that it is too difficult to synchronize every day and has suggested having the Daily Scrum every other day instead.
What would be three key concerns if the Daily Scrum is held less frequently? (Choose three.)
- A. Opportunities to inspect and adapt the Sprint Backlog are reduced.
- B. Less information about the progress will be shared causing the Sprint plan to become inaccurate and reducing transparency over progress toward the Sprint Goal.
- C. Impediments are raised and resolved more slowly.
- D. The Product Owner cannot accurately inspect utilization of the individual team members.
- E. The Scrum Master loses the ability to update the burndown chart adequately.
Answer: A,B,C
Explanation:
The Daily Scrum is an internal meeting for the Development Team to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and to inspect how progress is trending toward completing the work in the Sprint Backlog. The Daily Scrum optimizes the probability that the Development Team will meet the Sprint Goal. Every day, the Development Team should understand how it intends to work together as a self-organizing team to accomplish the Sprint Goal and create the anticipated Increment by the end of the Sprint.
Reducing the frequency of the event will increase the length of the feedback loop and adds risk if the team deviates too far off course.
NEW QUESTION 26
During the Sprint, the Development Team realizes they might not be able to finish all of the items in the Sprint Backlog.
What should happen?
- A. The Sprint length holds and the Development Team continuously learns what is actually possible to do within the time-box.
- B. Continue Sprinting until the work is complete and redefine a new Sprint time-box based on the results of the current Sprint.
- C. Product Backlog items are either 'done' or 'not done.' This helps with transparency, reduces complexity and allows for improved empiricism.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 27
Doing your best and helping other Scrum Team members demonstrates which of the following?
- A. Increased Revenue
- B. Value of Commitment
- C. Increased Profit
- D. High Performance
- E. Maximizing utilization
Answer: B
Explanation:
People personally commit to achieving the goals of the Scrum Team by doing their best and helping others.
NEW QUESTION 28
A new Product Owner has joined an existing Scrum Team that has been working together for eight Sprints. The Development Team has grown to have a good understanding of the functionality and business for the product they have been building. The Product Owner, being new to the company, is unsure about his responsibilities.
As a Scrum Master explain what two acceptable ways of helping the Product Owner would be. (Choose two.)
- A. You inform the Product Owner that, in today's highly competitive markets, it is important that the Development Team is updated on changing business priorities on a daily basis. The Daily Scrum allows the Development Team to adapt to the changes in scope without delay.
- B. You advise the Product Owner to rely on the Development Team and the stakeholders to formulate the Product Backlog, as they are the ones most knowledgeable. By asking Question:s and working with them the Product Owner will quickly be up to speed.
- C. You advise the Product Owner to start building a good relationship with the stakeholders of the product.
Ongoing interaction with them is important to regularly align with changing organizational or market expectations. The Product Owner is also expected to invite the right stakeholders to the Sprint Review meeting. - D. You tell the Product Owner to make sure that there are no ambiguities or possible misunderstandings in the items on the Product Backlog when they are handed over to the Development Team. This is best done by capturing the functional requirements during an analysis phase, resulting in documents that are considered as the working product of such analysis Sprints.
Answer: B,C
Explanation:
The ones that are closest to the work are the best ones to understand and explain what the work is and what the needs of the users and product are.
NEW QUESTION 29
The Scrum values promote Development Teams be cross-functional and have all the skills needed to build a product within the team.
While starting Scrum, what would be the advantages of keeping the existing component teams (e.g. design, database, backend, frontend)?
- A. Component teams generally have all the skills needed to deliver shippable Increments that add business value.
- B. Because their productivity is already predictable, they can deliver shippable Increments more quickly than a newly formed team.
- C. Component teams would have all the skills needed to focus on their specific technical layer.
- D. Because they have been working together for some time, there will be less initial disruption than a newly formed team. As they begin working, they will discover what works best and how to move towards cross- functional teams.
- E. There is less communication overhead than working in feature teams.
Answer: D
Explanation:
The ones that will be doing the work are the best ones to decide on what Development Team structures work best.
NEW QUESTION 30
How much work must a Development Team do to a Product Backlog item it selects for a Sprint?
- A. As much as it can fit into the Sprint. Any remaining work will be moved to a subsequent Sprint.
- B. As much as it has informed the Product Owner will be done for every Product Backlog item it selects in conformance with the definition of "Done".
- C. All development work and at least some testing.
- D. An equal amount of time on analysis, design, programming, testing and documentation.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 31
Which role is responsible for engaging with stakeholders?
- A. The business analyst
- B. The Development Team
- C. The project manager
- D. The team lead
- E. The Product Owner
Answer: E
NEW QUESTION 32
Which of the following actions is appropriate for a Scrum Master at the Daily Scrum?
- A. Leading the Daily Scrum.
- B. Making sure each member has an opportunity to answer all three Question:s.
- C. Teaching the Development Team to keep the Daily Scrum time-boxed to 15 minutes or less.
- D. Updating the Scrum board.
- E. All of the above.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 33
Peter, a Project Manager, has raised concerns about your Scrum Team's productivity and progress towards the objectives.
Which is the best way to respond to Peter's concerns?
- A. Share the last stakeholder status report prepared by the Scrum Master.
- B. Share the current impediments.
- C. Show the Profit & Loss (P&L) report.
- D. Share the Product Backlog, the projections towards the release dates and ensure that Peter has access.
Answer: D
Explanation:
One of the key pillars that support the empirical process control is Transparency. Transparency will help manage stakeholder expectations and allow the teams to effectively adapt if and when needed.
NEW QUESTION 34
An organization wants to apply Scrum to build a new product and has hired Steven to be the Scrum Master of three new teams that will build the first release. The organization is new to Scrum and asks Steven for advice on how to start.
Which two things should Steven first advise? (Choose two.)
- A. Having one Product Owner to be accountable for maximizing the flow of value throughout the development process and provide transparency on the overall progress.
The Scrum Master serves the organization in several ways, including: Leading and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption; Planning Scrum implementations within the organization; Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development. - B. One Product Backlog to represent all of the known work needed to be done for the product.
- C. Three Product Owners, one for each Scrum Team.
- D. Each Scrum Team has its own Product Backlog with items only their team will be working on.
Answer: A,B
NEW QUESTION 35
An organization is planning to form five new Scrum Teams to work on building a single product. A few of the future team members ask the Scrum Master who will coordinate the work between the different Scrum Teams.
What action should the Scrum Master take?
- A. Teach them that it is their responsibility to form the teams such that each team will have the necessary skills, knowledge, and competencies to create an integrated Increment by the end of every Sprint.
- B. Advise the teams to minimize dependencies by working on separate development branches and integrate at the end of four Sprint cycles.
- C. Visit the five Development Teams daily to ensure alignment and that all Sprint Backlogs remain synchronized.
- D. Teach the Product Owner to work with the technical leads on ordering Product Backlog in a way to avoid too much technical and development overlap during a Sprint.
- E. At the end of Sprint Planning, collect all Sprint tasks and create a consolidated plan for the entire Sprint.
Answer: A
Explanation:
Development Teams are structured and empowered by the organization to organize and manage their own work. This includes deciding how to form teams when multiple teams are needed. The resulting synergy optimizes the Development Team's overall efficiency and effectiveness. They are self-organizing. No one (not even the Scrum Master) tells the Development Team how to turn Product Backlog into Increments of potentially releasable functionality.
NEW QUESTION 36
Who is responsible for ensuring the Product Backlog items are understood to the level needed?
- A. The Product Owner.
- B. The Development Team.
- C. The Scrum Master.
- D. The Business Analyst.
Answer: A
Explanation:
The Product Owner is accountable for managing the Product Backlog.
NEW QUESTION 37
Which two statements best describe a Sprint Goal? (Choose two.)
- A. Sprint Goals can change as new insights emerge during the Sprint.
- B. Sprint Goals are defined when the completed work is reviewed at the end of a Sprint.
- C. During the Sprint Planning, the entire Scrum Team collaboratively crafts a Sprint Goal based on a business objective that the Product Owner would like to achieve that Sprint.
- D. Sprint Goals give the Development Teams flexibility and creativity on how to implement functionality during the Sprint.
Answer: C,D
Explanation:
The number of items selected from the Product Backlog for the Sprint is solely up to the Development Team.
Only the Development Team can assess what it can accomplish over the upcoming Sprint.
The Sprint Goal is an objective set for the Sprint that can be met through the implementation of Product Backlog. It provides guidance to the Development Team on why it is building the Increment. It is created during the Sprint Planning meeting. The Sprint Goal gives the Development Team some flexibility regarding the functionality implemented within the Sprint. The selected Product Backlog items deliver one coherent function, which can be the Sprint Goal. The Sprint Goal can be any other coherence that causes the Development Team to work together rather than on separate initiatives.
NEW QUESTION 38
Which of the following are time-boxed events in Scrum?
- A. All of the above
- B. Sprint Retrospective
- C. Daily Scrum
- D. Sprint Review
- E. Sprint Planning
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 39
Technical Debt can lead to false assumptions about the current state of the system and the Increment reviewed at the end of the Sprint.
- A. True
- B. False
Answer: A
Explanation:
Explanation
Explanation:
Technical debt is any shortcomings in the code. It is a natural by-product of software development (unavoidable) and can at best be managed. If neglected, it will compound and have a negative effect on the team's ability to the deliver value. A team can have an artificially high velocity by taking shortcuts or introducing technical, debt into the system. This can give a false assumption about the current state of the product. It can look good on the surface but underneath can be a mess.
NEW QUESTION 40
Who manages the progress of work during a Sprint?
- A. The Product Owner
- B. The Team Lead
- C. The Development Team
- D. The Scrum Master
Answer: C
Explanation:
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
The Development Team is self-organized, thus manages and decides how to manage their own progress.
NEW QUESTION 41
Stakeholders are only allowed to meet with the Scrum Team at Sprint Review.
- A. False
- B. True
Answer: A
Explanation:
Explanation
Explanation:
Getting feedback from Stakeholders is a crucial activity in Scrum. Working with stakeholders frequently ensures the team to focus on the right things to build. Although it is required to have Stakeholders at Sprint Review, they can also engage with the Scrum Team during Product Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning or during the Sprint if the Scrum Team requires it.
NEW QUESTION 42
Select the correct Scrum Team roles defined in Scrum.
- A. Stakeholders, Scrum Master, Project Manager, Product Owner
- B. Product Manager, Business Analyst, Development Team, Stakeholders
- C. Engineers, Business Analyst, Product Owner
- D. Development Team, Scrum Master, Product Owner
Answer: D
Explanation:
The Scrum Framework only recognizes these three roles although others may be needed to help the team build the most valuable product possible.
NEW QUESTION 43
What must the Development Team do during the first Sprint?
- A. Create a potentially shippable product Increment that includes at least one piece of functionality.
- B. Analyze and estimate the requirements for the subsequent Sprints.
- C. Only design and develop the architecture and infrastructure.
- D. Create a project plan in order to map functional development to Sprint dates.
Answer: A
Explanation:
Sprints promote iterative and incremental development.
NEW QUESTION 44
A cross-functional Development Team is defined as:
- A. A team of engineers, testers, business analysts, technical architects and functional managers.
- B. Cross-skilled individuals who are able to do all the work necessary to deliver a shippable Increment at the end of the Sprint.
- C. A group of full-stack developers shared across multiple teams.
- D. A team of skilled developers that can effectively multi-task on multiple Product Backlog items at the same time.
Answer: B
Explanation:
The objective of the Sprint is to produce a shippable Increment at the end of each Sprint so that the team can effectively inspect and adapt accordingly.
NEW QUESTION 45
Which two behaviors would reflect Servant Leadership in a Scrum Master? (Choose two.)
- A. Coaching the Development Team, the Product Owner and the organization on how to work empirically.
- B. Staying away from internal Development Team interactions, maximizing their autonomy and freedom.
- C. Facilitating Scrum Events as requested or needed.
- D. Resolving every impediment for the Development Team.
Answer: A,C
Explanation:
The Scrum Master is responsible for serving the team by facilitating and removing impediments to ensure there are minimal roadblocks in the way of the team. The Scrum Master also coaches the Scrum Team and organization to ensure the benefits of Scrum is realized.
"Removing every impediment for the Development Team" may seem like the right thing to do but by doing it this way, the Dev Team's ability to self-organize would be limited. There are some impediments that will depend solely on the Scrum Master and there will be some that require collaboration with the Dev Team. The former might be working with the finance department to renew services that the team is using. The latter might be lack of skills to make a particular item done. The Scrum Master can coach the team on finding different solutions to resolve the issue.
"Removing impediments" is good. "Removing every impediment for the Development Team" is not so good and sometimes not even possible.
NEW QUESTION 46
The three pillars of empirical process control consist of:
- A. Planning, Inspection, Adaptation
- B. Planning, Demonstration, Retrospective
- C. Respect For People, Kaizen, Eliminating Waste
- D. Inspection, Transparency, Adaptation
Answer: D
Explanation:
These three pillars uphold every implementation of the empirical process control. Without them, Scrum cannot be implemented as intended.
NEW QUESTION 47
The director of engineering in your organization always stresses the importance of meeting deadlines in order for the engineering department to be seen as a reliable source for the product management department. The director has calculated that the team's velocity needs to increase an additional 15% to meet the commitment he made to management for the release date of the product.
He asks Steven, the team's Scrum Master, to increase his team's velocity. Which would be the best two responses for Steven to take? (Choose two.)
- A. He informs the director of organizational impediments he is aware of that prevent the team from being more productive. He suggests collaborating with him on how to remove these impediments.
- B. He helps the director understand that it typically takes a few Sprints for a team to gradually increase the velocity up to the level expected. Meanwhile he presents this to the team as a challenge and a company goal, leaving it however up to them to figure out exactly how to achieve this.
- C. He educates his director how it is part of a team's self-organization to improve velocity. He invites the director to the next Sprint Retrospective to brainstorm on how they can improve.
- D. He explains how a team uses the velocity of a Sprint primarily to forecast work for the next Sprint, not to perfectly predict future productivity. He refers the director to the Product Owner for all information concerning the progress of development.
- E. He tells the director that this is not his responsibility in Scrum. He tells the director to work with the Product Owner to check whether the estimates on the Product Backlog are being respected during implementation.
Answer: A,D
Explanation:
The Scrum Master serves the organization by helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development and causing change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team.
NEW QUESTION 48
Currently, your engineering department is organized in siloed teams that specialize by function (for example, design, front-end, back-end, database, and testing).
What would you consider when moving away from component teams towards feature teams?
- A. You cannot begin Scrum without have feature teams. It is easier to measure and compare performance between feature teams. Feature teams should have an equal number of team members.
- B. Moving from component teams to feature teams could reduce, productivity in the initial stages. Feature teams have less communication complexity. Getting the support from the business side makes the transition easier.
- C. Members within feature teams require compatible personalities. Feature teams should have a mix of junior and senior members. Tasks are completed more quickly than component teams.
Answer: B
Explanation:
The initial phase of forming a new team could cause short-term disruption as they need time to discover how to best work together. Because all the skills and competencies are inside the team the communication overhead is reduced. Having an environment that supports the Scrum values reduces complexity.
NEW QUESTION 49
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