PSM-II Online Practice Questions and Answers

What is a good way for a Scrum Team to ensure that security concerns are addressed and transparent?

A. Add Security Sprints to resolve security concerns when needed.

B. Have the Scrum Team create Product Backlog items for each concern and/or add security concerns to the definition of "Done".

C. Create a separate backlog for security items and only work on the items when a specialist becomes available.

D. Delegate the work to an external team.

An organization is using Scrum to build five new products.

What would be the best two options for the number of Product Owners the organization should have? (Choose two.)

A. There is one Product Owner for each product (so five in total). Each Product Owner may delegate, share and align work within their individual Product Backlog.

B. Enough Product Owners to delegate as much work needed to maximize utilization of all Development Team members.

C. There is one Product Owner responsible for all five products. This person is not allowed to delegate any of the Product Owner responsibilities as he/she is accountable for the success of each product.

D. There is one Product Owner responsible for all five products. In order to scale his/her role, he/she can delegate some of the individual Product Owner responsibilities to others within each product but would still remain accountable for the value of the work produced.

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

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

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

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

D. Delegate the work to the Assistant Product Owner.

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

A new Product Owner is hired to work on an existing product that has ongoing for five Sprints. He/she is unsure about all of the responsibilities of a Product Owner. Which of these Product Owner's activities are defined in Scrum?

A. Writing User Stories.

B. Interacting with stakeholders and ensuring that the most valuable functionality is always produced first.

C. Describing features as Use Cases.

D. Ensuring work is completed within scope and time.

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?

A. Add the item to the bottom of the Sprint Backlog.

B. Replace an item in the current Sprint of equal size.

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

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

What would be good ways of creating Development Teams that would support the Scrum values?

A. Project Managers will allocate individuals to specific teams.

B. Bring all the developers or existing teams together and let them propose how to organize into the new structure and self-organize into Development Teams.

C. The operations manager determines the new team structures and assignments.

D. Direct managers personally re-assign current reports to new teams.

What Product Owner activities occur between the end of the current Sprint and the beginning of the next Sprint?

A. Product Backlog refinement.

B. Updating stakeholders on project progress.

C. There are no such activities. When the current Sprint ends, the new Sprint begins.

D. Participate as a team member at the Sprint Retrospective.

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 two.)

A. 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.

B. 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.

C. 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.

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. 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.

You are a Scrum Master and one of the Developers approaches you and says: Every Sprint we are not completing regression testing for all of the selected Product Backlog items in the Sprint, but regression testing is part of the Definition of Done. We have discussed with the Product Owner and during the Sprint we decided to change the Definition of Done to remove regression testing. Which two actions are appropriate in this situation? (Choose two.)

A. Agree with altering the Definition of Done, if both the Developers and Product Owner agree.

B. Ask the Developers and the Product Owner if removing regression testing from the Definition of Done allows the team to produce useful and valuable Increments at the end of every Sprint?

C. Ask the Developers and the Product Owner what problem they are going to solve by altering the Definition of Done during the Sprint to remove regression testing. Will this raise transparency or improve quality?

D. Disagree with the decision and tell them that having a stringent Definition of Done is important for the quality of the product, and they need to follow it.

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, "I do not feel like the Developers will be able to meet the forecast that they developed during Sprint Planning." What should you do in this situation?

A. Add more people to the Scrum Team to meet the Product Owner's expectations.

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

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

D. 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.