PSD Online Practice Questions and Answers

The purpose of a sprint is to produce a done increment of product

A. False

B. True

How is the management external to the Scrum team involved in the daily scrum?

A. The product owner speaks on their behalf

B. The developers self-manage and they are the only management required at the daily scrum

C. The scrum master speaks on their behalf

D. The scrum master lets them know whether they need to be preset

Which three describe TDD?

A. An incremental and emergent approach to software design

B. A software development technique based on automated tests

C. A predictable way to develop working well-organized code

D. Creating a manual test script before writing code

E. Having testers involved in the development process

Which three of the following are code quality metrics?

A. Unit tests per class

B. Cycle time per product backlog item

C. Number of check-ins per day

D. Depth of inheritance

E. Cyclomatic complexity

F. Class coupling

How much time will there be after a sprint before the next one starts?

A. Enough to deploy the increment and update the product backlog based on the outcome of the sprint review

B. Enough to clean up lingering definition of done points

C. None, a new sprint starts immediately after the end of the previous one

D. At most a week for a one-month sprint

Who creates documentation included with a working increment?

A. Scrum requires no documentation

B. Technical writers

C. Scrum master

D. Product owner

E. Developers

Who is responsible for engaging the stakeholders?

A. The business analyst

B. The sales manager

C. The scrum master

D. The developers

E. The project manager

F. The product owner

What are two ways developers can ensure a good architecture? (two answers)

A. Architecture is an ongoing discussion amongst the developers, focusing on implementing current Sprint Backlog Items

B. The developers focus only on adding functionality. The architecture will take care of itself as the developers add functionality

C. The developers have a set of guiding architecture principles that every developer understands and follows when writing code

D. Developers assign someone to the role of software architect to ensure the architecture

E. Architecture is dealt with in sprint 0

Product backlog items are refined by

A. Developers

B. Developers and product owner

C. Product owner

D. Scrum team

E. Scrum master and product owner

F. Scrum master

What statement best describes the product backlog?

A. It is an emergent, ordered list of what is needed to improve the product

B. It is the diary of the product owner

C. It is mainly meant as inspiration for the sprint planning

D. It is a list of all the requirements that will have to be added to the product

Which two criteria are useful in deciding if something should be documented every sprint?

A. It has always been documented in the past

B. The documentation is used to enhance and maintain the software

C. The scrum master demands it

D. The software tool being used requires it

E. It is required by the definition of done

What is static analysis?

A. Analysis performed on software at runtime

B. A tool that inspects the correctness of static keyword usage

C. Work performed by the business analyst

D. Analysis performed on code

What would not be considered refactoring?

A. Extracting methods

B. Reordering method parameters to improve readability

C. Changing external interfaces or APIs

D. Renaming things to be more logical

E. Extracting interfaces

Which of the following two best describe a ready product backlog item?

A. It is a complete user story with all the necessary components

B. It is well understood by the developers and product owner at the sprint planning

C. It has been changed from unready to ready status in the tracking tool

D. It has been fully described in the user requirements analysis

E. It can most likely be done within one sprint

When might a sprint be cancelled?

A. When the developers feel they aren't ready

B. When the project manager decides this.

C. Never, the sprint must always be finished.

D. When the sprint goal becomes obsolete