Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II) Practice Assessment. Full details on this practice assessment can be found here. Results 10 of 10 Questions answered correctly Your time: 00:01:28 You have reached 10 of 10 point(s), (100%) Congratulations, you have scored over 85% and passed the practice assessment. This is a good sign that you are ready to attempt the Professional Scrum Master II (PSM I!) assessment from Scrum.org Click ‘View questions’ below to see which you got right and wrong and review the feedback for each question, Please note that we are unable to provide answers or further guidance on assessment questions. You can retake the assessment if you wish Do you want more practice questions? Try our Ultimate Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II) Practice Assessment. Restart Practice Assessment View QuestionsA new Developer joins the Scrum Team taking the total number to 11 people. As a Scrum Master, What should you do? Do nothing, the Developers must fix its own issues Raise the increased team size as a potential issue and help the Developers decide what to do about it Instruct the Developers to split into 2 teams, they should decide the appropriate sizes Instruct the Developers to split into 2 teams Correct Small Scrum Teams typically work best. The exact upper limit is not set by Scrum. 10 is a recommendation. The Developers in your Scrum Team suggest that they no longer need the Daily Scrum and want to stop doing them. They collaborate on an ad-hoc basis throughout the day. As a Scrum Master, How should you respond? Check the Developers understand the purpose of the Daily Scrum. Do their ad- hoc conversations include everyone in a synchronous way that would allow the surfacing of issues that may not occur via 1 on 1 or smaller group discussions? How do they collectively plan work for the next 24 hours? If these things are happening elsewhere, why not do them via the Daily Scrum? Enforce the Daily Scrum. It is a mandatory part of Scrum and must be done.Do nothing. The Scrum Master does not manage the Scrum Team and this is not something they need to get involved in Allow the Scrum Team to make the change. Self-management key here. Correct The Daily Scrum is part of Scrum. The Scrum Master cannot support this request for that reason alone. Doing nothing and allowing the change will increase risk. Enforcing is not the best way forward as it will lead to resistance and reduces trust and respect. Helping the Developers see why a successful Daily Scrum is important is key here. Using Scrum ensures that all resources on a project will be utilised in the most efficient way. True False Correct Scrum is about value delivery. Sometimes it is necessary to de-optimise efficiency in order to optimise value. Relationships between the Product Owner and Developers have been tense for many Sprints The Product Owner has lost trust and respect for the Developers as they consistently fail to achieve the Sprint Goal to her satisfaction by the end of each Sprint. The Developers blame the Product Owner for increasing scope each Sprint making the Sprint Goal unachievable.As a Scrum Master, what should you do? ‘Speak to the line managers of the various Developers about their lack of productivity and ask them to take corrective action. Talk to the Product Owner and tell them not to increase scope mid Sprint Discuss the situation with the Scrum Team. Help them find improved ways to clarify and set a more realistic Sprint Goal Take no action. Allow the Developers to self-manage to address the issue Correct The problem has been buidling for some time so taking no action is no longer a good option, Seeking help outside the Scrum Team may lower trust and cause further problems The Scrum Master should make the issue transparent and help the Scrum Team to solve it. If the Developers are ignoring the Sprint Goal and/or the Product Owner is forcing increased scope on the Developers in the Sprint, then the Scrum Master will need to take some action to addrees this Done must include testing, False TrueCorrect If we do not test, how can we know the product is useable and has the required level of quality present? Developers decide to adopt a #noestimates policy. The CIO and COO require all projects and work to be estimated in days/hours. They blame you the Scrum Master for the absence of this information As a Scrum Master, What should you do? Support the decision of the Developers which was reached via self-management Support the CIO and COO and instruct the Developers to abandon #noestimates Discuss and understand the need for estimates from the CIO and COO, and the reasons for the Developers adopting #noestimates. Help the CIO and COO understand the potential waste in estimation and the opportunities for increased value delivery that will be possible. Discuss and understand the need for estimates from the CIO and COO, and the reasons for the Developers adopting #noestimates. Facilitate a discussion. Help them find the best possible solution under the circumstances. Correct Itis not up to the Scrum Master to select or enforce practices for the Development Team. Where their choices create problems for the organisation the Scrum Master may step in to assist to protect the use of Scrum and the empirical approach. The Scrum Master should not take sides in a case like this.How much time should be spent carrying out Product Backlog refinement? Up to 10% of the capacity of the Developers in a typical Sprint, but as much as 90% in early Sprints No more than 10% of the capacity of the Developers As much as the Product Owner and Developers agree is necessary to create enough ready Product Backlog Items As much as the Product Owner deems necessary to create enough ready Product Backlog Items Correct This is not answered by Scrum. The Scrum Guide prior to 2020 suggested 10% of the capacity of the Developers as normal but this was never a rule. The Scrum Team needs to find an appropriate level to ensure they have enough ready Product backlog items for Sprint Planning. You join a new Scrum Team as Scrum Master. Up until now, the Product Owner has not been attending Sprint Retrospectives. The Developers fear they will become "too negative" with the Product Owner present As a Scrum Master, What should you do? Facilitate a discussion in the Scrum Team and allow them to decide what is best to doRespect the Developers wishes Speak to the Product Owner and see what they think. Do what they suggest is best. Explore further why the Developers fear the presence of the Product Owner. Work with the Developers to find a safe way to introduce the Product Owner to the Sprint Retrospective to enable greater transparency. Correct This is not a decision for the Developers or Product Owner to make. Scrum requires the Product Owner to attend the Sprint Retrospective in order to increase transparency and enable inspection & adaptation. The Scrum Master needs to help make this happen. Exploring the resistance to this and seeking to deal with it will be necessary here The Product Owner suggests postponing Sprint Planning as they haven't been able to process all the feedback from the Sprint Review into the Product Backlog yet. They argue it makes no sense to plan the Sprint if the Product Backlog isn't in a good state. As a Scrum Master, How should you respond? Select 2 answers. Get the Product Backlog into a refined state as part of Sprint Planning and the early work in the Sprint. Delay the start of the Sprint for a short time to allow the refinement to occur. Transparency is key and it would not make sense to work on other things in the Product Backlog in the meantime. Focus on work that is refined and work to incorporate this new feedback intothe Product Backlog during the Sprint. Start the Sprint, delay Sprint planning and ensure the Scrum Team spend the time needed to refine the Product Backlog. Correct We rarely have complete and perfect information in complex environments. Practice the art of the possible and keep using Scrum and an empirical approach. Adapt and improve as you go. Alll work including refinement happens inside Sprints. There may be times when high-value work is not ready/refined enough and so development work must wait until this is complete. We should work on other highly ordered work instead or focus on the refinement as the priority. Developers are working from globally distributed locations. Conducting the Scrum events via a conference call is proving difficult and an impediment to the Scrum Team self-managing. As Scrum Master, you have raised this in the Sprint Retrospective Which two are the most appropriate things for the Scrum Master to do? Choose 2 answers Introduce the tools in use elsewhere in the organisation that have helped other teams Help the Developers discuss, choose and introduce suitable communication tools Wait for the Developers to choose and implement a solution Raise the impediment to management and challenge the distributed nature ofthe team Correct Forcing tools on a team will not help. Helping the Developers select tools may help. The problem has become an Impediment and as such the Scrum Master needs to act. Waiting for the Developers to act is now no longer appropriate