AGILE SCRUM MASTER B22 – CCSD Exam Portal

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The Scrum-of-Scrums meeting is designed to allow clusters of Scrum Teams to discuss their work, focusing especially on areas of overlap and integration. Who should attend the Scrum-of-Scrums meetings on behalf of your Scrum Team?

The Product Owner

The Scrum Master

The team can choose anyone

The whole team

Petra is an experienced Project Manager. She usually makes great decisions for the team she is managing. Now, her company adopts Scrum and replaces the role of project manager by a Scrum Master. Petra feels uncomfortable, because the Scrum Team expects a more collaborative attitude than she is used to. What would a Scrum coach most likely recommend to Petra?

A) Become a member of the Development team and act as a team coordinator

B) Integrate Scrum practices with Project Management practices and create a hybrid model

C) Keep working as a project manager alongside a newly appointed Scrum Master

D) Talk to other Scrum Masters as much as possible and learn from their experience

In distributed environments, it is more difficult to form a coherent team. The emergence of a coherent team requires trust between team members. How should the formation of subgroups around surface-level attributes be prevented?

A) Avoid interpersonal relationships to form

B) Avoid too much focus on the progress

C) Put an early focus on interpersonal relationships

D) Put an early focus on making progress

Which two Agile methodologies focus explicitly on limiting Work-in-Progress (WiP)?

A) DSDM and Kanban

B) Kanban and SAFe

C) SAFe and XP

D) XP and DSDM

Many teams beginning the transition to an Agile development process are faced with a large number of legacy bugs. What would be a good method to deal with these bugs?

A) The Development Team must immediately correct bugs

B) The Development Team should ignore bugs and focus on features

C) Track all bugs on a task board and show them to the Product Owner

D) Track only the critical bugs on a task board and show them to the Product Owner

As a coach, I can manage information about swimmers on my team." What would be a good technique to split the above User Story into smaller stories?

A) Do not split. The User Story is small enough

B) Splitting the User Story into Epics

C) Splitting the User Story into separate CRUD operations

D) Splitting the User Story into tasks

When is it a good idea to use an additional Development Team instead of the Scrum Team that is currently working on the project?

A) If the current Scrum Team does not have all of the needed competences

B) If the current Scrum Team does not work well together in the beginning

C) If the current Scrum Team has a great diversity in gender, race or culture

D) If the current Scrum Team is made up of many inexperienced people

A good Scrum Master is responsible, humble, collaborative, committed, influential, and knowledgeable. A Scrum Master leaves the Scrum Master role midway during a project. Which of the six attributes does this Scrum Master not demonstrate?

Committed

Humble

Influential

Knowledgeable

Kevin is a Product Owner for a retail organization. The Product Backlog for his immense marketing tool project has 200 Product Backlog items. Into what should he group the smaller Stories together?

Epics

Themes

User Stories

Views

The Scrum Master and Product Owner are analyzing a new Product Backlog. The Product Owner wants all the User Stories in the Product Backlog to be described in great detail. What is the best response the Scrum Master can give?

A) Agree, because a Product Backlog is Emergent

B) Agree, because a Product Backlog is Prioritized

C) Disagree, because a Product Backlog is Detailed Appropriately

D) Disagree, because a Product Backlog is Estimated

The ability for a Scrum Team to self-organize around the goals of a project is fundamental to all Agile methodologies. Why is a Scrum Team a self-organized team?

Because it helps the Scrum Team to make their own decisions in the project

So that the Scrum Team commits to their work and feels responsible

To ensure that decisions are made by a collective instead of an individual

A Scrum Team suggests to have a project with 3 Sprints of 2 weeks, while the customer suggests 1 Sprint of 6 weeks. What is the greatest advantage of having 3 Sprints of 2 weeks?

The customer has to invest less time.

The team can inspect and adapt twice.

The team delivers more Story Points.

There is one thing you should always do first, whether you are already using Scrum or in a transition to Scrum. What is the very first thing to do?

A) Communicate that there is a better way

B) Decide where you are in the ADAPT sequence

C) Get the team to take Scrum for a test drive

D) Set reasonable targ

A Development Team consists of various different roles: analysts, programmers, UX experts, DBA and systems architects. They are estimating Backlog items in Ideal Days. What is the best approach to provide estimates for the Backlog Items ?

Each role should provide a separate estimate; the Scrum Master integrates them.

Ideal Days estimation is not feasible in this case: Story Points should be used.

The Development Team provides a single estimate for each Backlog item.

The Product Owner will integrate the input on the estimates from each role.

One of the most important benefits of physically working in the same room is that it fosters communication. For which typical Agile method should you be in contact with your co-worker continuously?

Pair programming

Refactoring

Test-driven development

Your company is changing to Agile Scrum working. You have been working as a project manager, but will now take on the role of Scrum Master. You will work with new co-workers in your team. What is the most successful strategy for the transition to Agile Scrum?

A) Customize Scrum to fit with formerly used ways of working, so that the transition is made gradually.

B) Do not learn too much about Agile or Scrum and keep away from other Scrum Masters until you find your way.

C) Let the Development Team decide the way of working, so that you do not introduce harmful behavior.

D) Strictly keep to the rules of Scrum, until there is more experience with Scrum and Agile working.

As items are developed and removed from the top of the Product Backlog, the Product Backlog iceberg develops a flat spot at the top and loses its shape. What would be a necessary measure to counter this effect?

Creating a chart of the number of Product Backlog items

Grooming the Product Backlog

Prioritizing the Product Backlog

Using an improvement Backlog

For a cross-functional team, it is important that all skills, that are necessary to go from an idea to an implemented feature, are represented within the team. What consequence can this have when you start Agile Scrum?

Coaches must be hand-selected for new teams

Rapid improvements are no longer possible

The team size is slightly larger than desired

What is one of the risks if the Scrum Master is also a programmer on the team?

The Scrum Master does not have the required people skills.

The Scrum Master cannot stay away from critical path activities.

The Scrum Master tries to push through changes to the process.

An inexperienced Scrum team uses Story Points to estimate User Stories. Halfway through a Sprint, the Story Points finished do not match the estimated Velocity of the team. The team makes less progress than expected. How should the team address this?

Increase the Velocity of the team if possible, or re-estimate the Velocity

Re-estimate all partial User Stories to match the current Velocity

Stop using Story Points to estimate and switch to using ideal Days

Your organization starts a new project using Scrum for the first time. Six months after starting the project you review any changes in the time demand for the Product Owner. What changes are most likely?

A) Time demand for the Product Owner is decreasing

B) Time demand for the Product Owner is equal to the time demand at the start of the project

C) Time demand for the Product Owner is increasing