Validate your PSM-II Exam Preparation with PSM-II Practice Test (Online & Offline) [Q19-Q38] – IT Certification Exam Questions & Answers

NEW QUESTION 19
Scrum is based on which of the following?

Defined process.

Complex process.

Empiricism.

Hybrid model

NEW QUESTION 20
What is the recommended size for a Development Team (within the Scrum Team)?

3 to 9

Minimal 5

7 plus or minus 2

9

NEW QUESTION 21
Collaboration issues and technical dependencies between multiple Scrum Teams working on the same product can be fully resolved by using the correct version control tools.

True

False

NEW QUESTION 22
What would be two boundaries, defined in Scrum, that give guidance for teams to effectively self-organize? (Choose two.)

Timeboxing the events in Scrum to allow for regular inspection and adaptation creating opportunities to adjust course in any given path.

Clearly defined functional teams within the Development Team to define handoff phases during development.

Creating an integrated and potentially shippable Increment by the end of each Sprint.

Having a mixture of different levels of skills and experience to promote domain knowledge sharing.

NEW QUESTION 23
Successful use of Scrum depends on how well people behave and act in ways that reflect the Scrum values. What can the value of openness affect?

Collaboration efforts.

Level of product quality.

Team member happiness.

Time to market.

Trust from stakeholders.

All of the above.

NEW QUESTION 24
Peter, the Product Owner, has been giving positive recognition to individual Development Team members who have moved their work to ‘done’ during the Daily Scrum. Peter wants to ensure the team is adhering to the ideal guideline on the burndown chart.
What would be two valid actions for Steven, the Scrum Master, to take? (Choose two.)

Steven talks with Peter about concerns of how his behavior might impact the team members and request that he stop attending for now.

Steven coaches Peter on best practices for updating the burndown chart as it provides accurate information on how well the team is performing.

Nothing. Steven is optional at the Daily Scrum and it is the responsibility of the team to decide how to best run it.

Steven coaches the Scrum Team about the purpose of the Daily Scrum.

NEW QUESTION 25
What is the most appropriate action for the Scrum Master to take if the Product Owner is having difficulties managing the Product Backlog?

Have the Development Team order the work instead of the Product Owner.

Have the Product Owner order the items based on size, having the Development Team work on the smallest items first.

Offer the Product Owner help in understanding that the goal of ordering the Product Backlog is to maximize the flow of value.

Delegate the work to the Assistant Product Owner.

Delay the Sprint in order for the Product Owner to have enough time to prioritize the Product Backlog.

NEW QUESTION 26
If there are multiple Scrum Teams working on the same product, all of the Scrum Teams must mutually define a Definition of Ready (DoR). The DoR is a checklist that the Product Owner must fulfill before a Product Backlog item can be presented at the Sprint Planning. This protects the Development Team from interruptions and disruptions during the Sprint.

True

False

NEW QUESTION 27
In Scrum, how would budgeting and financial forecasting be performed? (Choose two.)

Frequently inspect the outcomes of the delivered Sprint Increments to understand how much value is being produced per investment spent.

A single release may be funded with several Sprints where every Sprint is producing shippable increments.

Budgeting is not necessary as the only funding necessary is the operational costs of the Scrum Teams.

Fixed budgets are not allowed in Scrum.

NEW QUESTION 28
During a Product Backlog refinement meeting, the Product Owner introduces a business objective that will be worked on for the next several Sprints. The Product Owner envisions several key features necessary to be delivered in order to meet the business objective. As the features will be using sensitive user data it will be subjected to external security audits. These non-functional security requirements were not applicable to previous Increments.
What are two good ways the Development Team can handle these high-security concerns? (Choose two.)

They should be planned in parallel Sprints so not to disrupt the Development Team during feature development. After security concerns have been finalized, they will be applied to the work that is already completed before new feature development can continue.

They should be handled in a parallel Sprint by a separate security team so that security can be resolved through application enhancements without impacting the functional development.

A complete list of security-related Product Backlog items needs to be created before starting a new Sprint.

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

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 the business functionality.

NEW QUESTION 29
Which role is responsible for determining when it is most appropriate to update the Sprint Backlog?

The Product Owner

The Development Team

The Scrum Team

The Scrum Master

NEW QUESTION 30
What could be a reason for a Product Owner to delay the start of a new Sprint after the conclusion of the previous Sprint?

The QA team has not finished testing the previous Increment before declaring it ready to ship.

The stakeholders were disappointed with the Increment produced in the previous Sprint.

There is no acceptable reason. A new Sprint starts immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint.

The Product Owner needs additional time to identify the next initiatives.

There’s not enough work in the Product Backlog to work on in the upcoming Sprint.

NEW QUESTION 31
You are a Scrum Master employed by the IT department. The IT manager considers adopting Scrum tor a new project He wonders however, what the value is in having all team members attend this meeting called “Daily Scrum” every day. The organization already has its employees attending so many mandatory meetings.
What are two outcomes of the Daily Scrum you inform him about, to express the importance of the Daily Scrum?
(choose the best two answers)

During the Daily Scrum the Developers will bring up problems that are hindering their progress, and tor which they nave no means to resolve, this provides an opportunity to resolve those impediments.

The Daily Scrum serves tor the Developers to report to you, as a Scrum Master, all updates on the tasks to the Sprint, as registered in the Sprint Backlog. You can then use the team’s updates to plan their work tor the next day, making sure that every team member is assigned the right tasks.

Through the snort, daily alignment of the Daily Scrum the Developers build and improve a shared understanding of the most important work to be undertaken in the next 24 hours, to achieve the best possible progress toward the Sprint Goal. This daily opportunity to inspect and adapt Will enable the Developers to tackle any unforeseen circumstances that might otherwise disrupt the team’s progress.

During the Daily Scrum, the Developers need to update the Scrum board with their current status and progress, at a task level. This is crucial to ensure that the IT manager can go up to the room at any time and view the team’s actual progress.

The Developers will produce a status report indicating what each individual has done the past working day, and now much time that has taken. The accumulated reports will support discussing how the Sprint went at the Sprint Review meeting. It will provide detailed insights into the accuracy of estimates versus actual time spent, which can be used to create better estimates at the subsequent Sprint Planning meeting.

NEW QUESTION 32
The relationship between the Product Owner and the Developers has degraded over time.
The Developers are growing increasingly angry with the Product Owner for changing the requirements all the time and not being available enough. The Product Owner is angry with the Developers for changing requirements during implementation. What guidance should the Scrum Master offer?
(choose the best answer)

Take everyone to a 2-day off-site event to relax and re-align. It is liberating to take people’s minds away from work.

Ask each person’s functional manager to instruct their employees that they must collaborate better, or be removed from the team.

Address why requirements change during the Sprint Retrospective. Ask the Developers and the Product Owner to talk about why the requirements are changing and consider the impact on value during this discussion.

Ask for a project manager or other external resource to mediate and temporarily take over for the Product Owner.

Explanation
The Scrum Master is responsible for promoting and supporting Scrum, which includes helping the Scrum Team and the organization understand and enact Scrum values, principles, and practices. The Scrum Master should offer guidance that:
Addresses the root cause of the conflict, not just the symptoms or the consequences.
Empowers the Scrum Team to self-organize and collaborate effectively, without relying on external intervention or authority.
Fosters a culture of transparency, inspection, and adaptation, where feedback is welcomed and used to improve the product and the process.
Focuses on delivering value to the customer and meeting the Sprint Goal, not on following a fixed plan or satisfying individual preferences.
Therefore, the best option is to address why requirements change during the Sprint Retrospective, which is an event that allows the Scrum Team to inspect how they worked together and create a plan for improvements.
The Scrum Master should ask the Developers and the Product Owner to talk about why the requirements are changing and consider the impact on value during this discussion. This will help them understand each other’s perspectives, clarify their expectations, and align their goals.
The other options are not appropriate because they:
Take everyone to a 2-day off-site event to relax and re-align (A), which may be a nice gesture, but does not solve the underlying problem or help the Scrum Team improve their collaboration skills. It may also be seen as a distraction or a reward for poor performance.
Ask each person’s functional manager to instruct their employees that they must collaborate better, or be removed from the team (B), which undermines the self-organization and autonomy of the Scrum Team and introduces a threat of punishment that may damage trust and motivation. It also violates the Scrum value of respect and the principle of servant leadership.
Ask for a project manager or other external resource to mediate and temporarily take over for the Product Owner (D), which creates a dependency on an outsider who may not have the necessary knowledge, authority, or vision to manage the product. It also violates the Scrum role of the Product Owner and the principle of single-wringable-neck.
References: : [Scrum Guide], The Scrum Master : [Scrum Guide], The Sprint Retrospective : [Scrum Guide], The Product Owner : [Scrum Guide], The Developers : [Scrum Guide], Scrum Values

NEW QUESTION 33
What should the Development Team do if they are approached by someone outside the team and asked to add a “very important” item to a Sprint that is in progress?

Add the item to the bottom of the Sprint Backlog.

Replace an item in the current Sprint of equal size.

Add the item to the top of the next Sprint Backlog.

Inform the Product Owner so he/she can work with the person.

NEW QUESTION 34
You are the Scrum Master of a Scrum Team that is new to Scrum. The Product Owner comes to you halfway through the Sprint and says, “l do not feel like the De-velopers will be able to meet the forecast that they developed during Sprint Planning.” What should you do in this situation?
(choose the best answer)

Coach the Product Owner that achieving the Sprint Goal is the Scrum Team’s objective. A forecast is only used to initially estimate the effort required to reach the Sprint Goal.

Agree to help the Product Owner by having a discussion with the Developers about the importance of meeting their forecast.

Add more people to the Scrum Team to meet the Product Owner’s ex-pectations.

Talk to the Developers. Challenge and inspire them to complete all of the work so that they meet their forecast.

NEW QUESTION 35
Stakeholders are only allowed to meet with the Scrum Team at Sprint Review.

True

False

NEW QUESTION 36
How should a Scrum Master respond if the Product Owner plans the first Sprint to only focus on setting up the infrastructure and architecture in order to work on functionality in a subsequent Sprint?

Help the Product Owner understand the value of including business functionality into every Sprint and explain to him/her that the best architecture and infrastructure emerge alongside the development of the functionality.

Support the Product Owner’s decision as he/she is accountable for maximizing the value of the work that the Development Team does.

Explain that one Sprint may be too short to finish the architecture and he should pre-allocate subsequent Sprints just in case.

Add at least one technical architect to the Development Team to ensure the architecture can be completed in the first Sprint.

NEW QUESTION 37
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.)

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.

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.

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.

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.

NEW QUESTION 38
How much time is allowed between the conclusion of the current Sprint and the start of the next Sprint?

Maximum of one day for Sprints that are time-boxed to two weeks.

None. A new Sprint starts immediately following the conclusion of the previous Sprint.

Enough time for the last Increment to finish testing.

Enough time for the Product Owner to prepare the Product Backlog for Sprint Planning.

All of the above are allowed.