SCRUM-MASTER Online Practice Questions and Answers

According to Scrum, the amount of time for a team to plan Sprint activities is expressed in what unit of time?

A. Weeks

B. Days

C. Hours

D. Minutes

You are the Scrum Master. The Sprint will complete in two days. Each day of the Sprint is equivalent to 8 hours. The team has just enough time to complete all tasks in the remaining 16 hours with the exception of three tasks. Of these three tasks, two tasks (a total of 6 hours) are required to complete one Product Backlog item and one task (an estimate of 2 hours) is required to complete another Product Backlog item. How should the development team handle the remaining three tasks?

A. The development team should negotiate with the Product Owner on the definition of "done".

B. The development team should work the extra 8 hours to complete their commitment to the Product Owner

C. The development team should place the two Product Backlog items back onto the Product Backlog

D. The development team should keep the three tasks on the Sprint Backlog for the next Sprint and complete those tasks first

On a new Scrum Team, the Development Team tell the Scrum Master that they don't feel the need for retrospectives. Which answer is correct?

A. Discuss with product owner

B. Start doing retrospectives

C. None of above

The correct sequence of events in using Scrum framework is as follows:

A. Sprint Planning, Sprint, Sprint Retrospective, Daily Scrum, and Sprint Review

B. Sprint Planning, Sprint, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective

C. Sprint Planning, Sprint, Sprint Retrospective, Daily Scrum, and Sprint Review

D. Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective

What happens when the Sprint is cancelled?

A. The Scrum Team disbands immediately

B. The complete Sprint Backlog is put back to the Product Backlog

C. The completed Sprint Backlog items are evaluated for a release and incomplete items are ignored.

D. The completed Sprint Backlog items are evaluated for a release and incomplete items are put back to the Product Backlog

What is the primary way a Scrum Master keeps a Development Team working at its highest level of productivity?

A. By ensuring the meetings start and end at the proper time

B. By facilitating Development Team decisions and removing impediments

C. By preventing changes to the Backlog once the Sprint begins

D. By keeping high value features high in the Product Backlog

The Sprint Goal is selected before the Sprint Backlog is created.

A. True

B. False

What is the maximum time that Scrum recommends the team spend in the daily scrum (daily standup)?

A. Fifteen minutes

B. Thirty minutes

C. One hour

D. Four hours

E. As long as it takes

The term Agile Development was first introduced in:

A. An addendum called Project Management Principles

B. The Agile Manifesto

C. Lean Process Improvement

D. The Scrum Framework

Agile software development also promotes industry best practices that _______________ and

A. Emphasize teamwork; customer involvement

B. Emphasize managers; stakeholder involvement

C. Emphasize team members; partner involvement

D. Emphasize software developers; manager involvement