SMC Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which of the following comparisons is true about Scrum and Traditional Project Management?

A. In Scrum, upfront planning is high, while in Traditional Project Management it is low.

B. In Scrum, performance measurement is based on plan conformity, while in Traditional Project Management it is based on business value.

C. In Scrum, customer involvement is high throughput the project, while in Traditional Project it varies according to the project's lifecycle.

D. In Scrum, Quality Assurance is process centric, while in Traditional Project Management it is customer centric.

Suppose you are a Scrum Master on a project to design a metro rail system for a city. It has been brought to your attention that the Product Owner wants to change the Acceptance Criteria for one of the User Stories committed to for the current Sprint because the customer has changed a critical business requirement. Which one of the following statements presents the best solution for such a situation?

A. You should direct the Scrum team to stop working on the current Sprint Backlog, and to start working on the latest business requirements.

B. The Product Owner should add this requirement to the overall Prioritized Product Backlog, and the team would work on it in a future Sprint.

C. You should tell the Product Owner to inform the stakeholders that this business requirement cannot be worked on as the Scrum Team has no bandwidth in the current Sprint.

D. The Product Owner should cancel the current Sprint, and should start planning a new Sprint for the team to be able to develop the deliverable as per the latest business requirement.

Which of the following is a process in the initiate phase of Scrum?

A. Identify Scrum Master and Stakeholder(s)

B. Estimate User Stories

C. Conduct Daily Standup

D. Commit User Stories

One of the responsibilities of the Scrum Master is to ensure that the Product Owner does not change the Acceptance Criteria of a committed User Story in the middle of a Sprint. In this regard, which of the following statements about Acceptance Criteria is correct?

A. User Story Workshops are held as part of Sprint Review.

B. Acceptance Criteria provide the objectivity required for the User Story to be considered as Done or not Done.

C. The Scrum Master defines and communicates the Acceptance Criteria to the Scrum Team.

D. During the Sprint Retrospect Meeting, the Acceptance Criteria provide context for the Product Owner to decide if a User Story has been completed satisfactorily.

Scrum can easily be scaled for effective use in large projects with multiple small teams working on the project.

Which of the following facilitates coordination among scrum teams?

A. Scrum of Scrums Meeting

B. Daily Standup Meeting

C. Sprint Review Meeting

D. Sprint Planning Meeting

Scrum Masters have to solve both internal and external impediments for the Scrum team during the Create

Deliverables process. To do so, they record the impediments in the Impediment Log

during_________________________.

A) Daily Standup Meetings.

B) Sprint Review Meetings.

C) Release Planning Meetings.

D) Sprint Planning Meetings.

A. A and C

B. A

C. A and D

D. A, B, and C

The Product Owner on a project, on which you are the Scrum Master, has identified disaster situations, such as earthquakes and tsunamis, as potential risks to the underwater transnational communication sea link. The Stakeholders have suggested that steps to safeguard the foundations of the ocean infrastructure be taken at the earliest, and also have recommended that a contingency reserve be created, which could be used in case of disaster situations.

This is an example of:

A. Risk Mitigation.

B. Risk Prioritization.

C. Risk Avoidance.

D. Risk Assessment.

The Scrum Team along with the Scrum Master adopted the Fist of Five technique to arrive at accurate estimations for the prioritized User Stories. The results of the vote of each team member are as follows: three embers: 2 fingers; four members: 3 fingers; and two members: 5 fingers. Which of the following options is in plurality?

A. I am not sure and would like to go with the group's consensus conclusion.

B. I agree with the group's conclusion and would like to discuss some minor issues.

C. I disagree with the group's conclusion and have major concerns.

D. I wholeheartedly agree with the group's conclusion.

answered?

A) What has my team been working on since the last meeting?

B) What will my team do until the next meeting?

C) What were other teams counting on our team to finish that remains undone?

D) What is our team planning on doing that might affect other teams?

A. C and D

B. A and B

C. B and D

D. All of the above.

Scrum Master is the 'servant leader' of Scrum Team. In this context, which of the following is a key responsibility of the Scrum Master?

A. Help create Project Vision Statement

B. Identify key stakeholders of the project

C. Ensure back-up resources are available

D. Define Acceptance Criteria for User Stories

At the end of each Sprint the Scrumboard is _________.

A. Updated with new tasks and completed tasks.

B. Placed besides the new one to compare team velocities in Sprints.

C. Analyzed by the Scrum master to understand the project progress in that particular sprint.

D. Reset or wiped off.

Which of the following is NOT an objective of a Retrospect Sprint Meeting?

A. Identify process improvements

B. Identify best practices

C. Identify new product features

D. Identify process problems and bottlenecks

Program Stakeholders, the Program Product Owner, Program Scrum Master, and Chief Product Owner have gathered together to create the Project Vision. They are trying to determine and document the difference between current business capabilities and the final desired set of capabilities. Which one of the following should they use to arrive at a conclusive decision?

A. Trial Project.

B. JAD Session.

C. Gap Analysis.

D. SWOT Analysis.

You are a Scrum Master on a project creating an optical fiber cable network across the country. The project has reached the Create User Stories process. Which of the following is NOT an input to this process?

A. The Prioritized Product Backlog.

B. Identified Risks.

C. Personas.

D. Done CriteriA.

Which of the following is NOT a Scrum Master's responsibility?

A. Groom the Prioritized Product Backlog.

B. Coordinate creation of Release Planning Schedule.

C. Facilitate Prioritized Product Backlog Review Meetings.

D. Represent the Scrum Core Team to provide lessons from the project.