ACING PSM I EXAMS: A COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS BLUEPRINT FOR A+ ACHIEVEMENT.
Which of the following events has the shortest max time box in a four week sprint?
Sprint Retrospective
In a one month sprint, what is the time box for a Sprint Planning?
8 hours or less
In a one month sprint, what is the time box for a Sprint Review?
4 Hours
In a one month sprint, what is the time box for a Sprint Retrospective?
3 hours
Is it okay if a sprint is shorter than a month, to have a shorter length for the Sprint planning, review
and retrospective?
Yes, the timebox suggestions are maximum times allowed. Any shorter amount of times are okay
Doing your best and helping other Scrum team members demonstrates which of the following?
Value of commitment
Which statements are correct in describing the product owner?
The Product owner is one person (not a committee), the product owner can be influenced by others and
the product owner is responsible for managing the product backlog
Which of the following characteristics are exhibited in effective agile team members?
Competence, Decision making ability, mutual respect and trust and openness
Customer satisfaction should be measured when?
Frequently
If one of the developers isnt getting along with the other developers, who is responsible for removing
that developer ?
The developers are responsible and they can request help from the scrum master
Scrum is an iterative and incremental Agile frame work?
TRUE
What is a good way for a scrum team to ensure that security concerns are addressed and transparent?
Have the scrum team create product backlog items for each concern and add security concerns to the
definition of done
, Who is the scrum team?
the scrum master, developers and product owner
Who is responsible for determining when it is most appropriate to update the sprint backlog?
Developers
Who can override the product owners decisions?
No one
Which statement is LEAST accurate about the definition of done?
Its created by the product owner
There should be frequent integration sprints to integrate the work of developers?
FALSE - there no such thing as an integration sprint
Several sprints into a project, a client complains to the product owner about poor product
performance. As a scrum master, how can you help the product owner?
coach the product owner on effective ways to communicate this concern to the developers and
encourage the product owner to add the performance issue to the product backlog
Its better to have longer sprints for projects with more risk ?
FALSE, shorter sprints are preferred cause they provide shorter feedback loops and more opportunities
to inspect and adapt
The sprint goal is defined before the sprint backlog is forecasted?
FALSE, the goal is defined based on the forecast. In other words, forecast the backlog and THEN define
the goal
Scrum promotes self-management. Which of these statements would not support self-management?
Removing the need for documentation - this is cause the developers are the ones using documentation
thus they should be the ones who decide how much documentation is too much or too little
What type of process control is scrum?
empirical - meaning based on real world experiences and making decisions based on what is known
Why should developers adhere to the definition of done ?
to control the cost of developing and maintaining the product AND to provide transparency on the work
that was completed in the sprint
Scrum mandates the use of burn down charts?
FALSE - theyre recommended but not mandatory
Flexibility in scrum is not achieved through which of the following?
ANSWERS BLUEPRINT FOR A+ ACHIEVEMENT.
Which of the following events has the shortest max time box in a four week sprint?
Sprint Retrospective
In a one month sprint, what is the time box for a Sprint Planning?
8 hours or less
In a one month sprint, what is the time box for a Sprint Review?
4 Hours
In a one month sprint, what is the time box for a Sprint Retrospective?
3 hours
Is it okay if a sprint is shorter than a month, to have a shorter length for the Sprint planning, review
and retrospective?
Yes, the timebox suggestions are maximum times allowed. Any shorter amount of times are okay
Doing your best and helping other Scrum team members demonstrates which of the following?
Value of commitment
Which statements are correct in describing the product owner?
The Product owner is one person (not a committee), the product owner can be influenced by others and
the product owner is responsible for managing the product backlog
Which of the following characteristics are exhibited in effective agile team members?
Competence, Decision making ability, mutual respect and trust and openness
Customer satisfaction should be measured when?
Frequently
If one of the developers isnt getting along with the other developers, who is responsible for removing
that developer ?
The developers are responsible and they can request help from the scrum master
Scrum is an iterative and incremental Agile frame work?
TRUE
What is a good way for a scrum team to ensure that security concerns are addressed and transparent?
Have the scrum team create product backlog items for each concern and add security concerns to the
definition of done
, Who is the scrum team?
the scrum master, developers and product owner
Who is responsible for determining when it is most appropriate to update the sprint backlog?
Developers
Who can override the product owners decisions?
No one
Which statement is LEAST accurate about the definition of done?
Its created by the product owner
There should be frequent integration sprints to integrate the work of developers?
FALSE - there no such thing as an integration sprint
Several sprints into a project, a client complains to the product owner about poor product
performance. As a scrum master, how can you help the product owner?
coach the product owner on effective ways to communicate this concern to the developers and
encourage the product owner to add the performance issue to the product backlog
Its better to have longer sprints for projects with more risk ?
FALSE, shorter sprints are preferred cause they provide shorter feedback loops and more opportunities
to inspect and adapt
The sprint goal is defined before the sprint backlog is forecasted?
FALSE, the goal is defined based on the forecast. In other words, forecast the backlog and THEN define
the goal
Scrum promotes self-management. Which of these statements would not support self-management?
Removing the need for documentation - this is cause the developers are the ones using documentation
thus they should be the ones who decide how much documentation is too much or too little
What type of process control is scrum?
empirical - meaning based on real world experiences and making decisions based on what is known
Why should developers adhere to the definition of done ?
to control the cost of developing and maintaining the product AND to provide transparency on the work
that was completed in the sprint
Scrum mandates the use of burn down charts?
FALSE - theyre recommended but not mandatory
Flexibility in scrum is not achieved through which of the following?
