Simulado 02

01) Which three behaviors demonstrate that a team is NOT self-managing and are NOT
following the Scrum Guide? (Choose the best three answers)
A) The Developers creates their own sprint backlog, reflecting all work that is part of
the definition of "Done".
B) Developers collaboratively selecting their own work during the Sprint.
C) The Developers has all the skills needed to create a releasable Increment.
D) Stakeholders attend the Daily Scrum to check progress and work with the Scrum
Master to optimize the functional scope for the Sprint.
E) The Developers invites external people to the Sprint Planning to ask them how to
turn a Product Backlog item into an Increment via a complete and detailed Sprint
Backlog.
F) The Developers are working within the boundaries of their functional description
and nicely handing off work from analyst to developer to tester to integration.

02) True or False: When multiple teams work together on the same product, each team
should maintain a separate Product Backlog.
A) True
B) False

03) True or False: It is mandatory that the product increment be released to production at
the end of each Sprint.
A) True
B) False

04) When might a Sprint be abnormally cancelled? (choose the best answer)
A) When it becomes clear that not everything will be finished by the end of the Sprint.
B) When the Developers feels that the work is too hard.
C) When the sales department has an important new opportunity
D) When the Sprint Goal becomes obsolete

05) The Developers should not be interrupted during the Sprint. The Sprint Goal should
remain intact. These are conditions that foster creativity, quality and productivity.
(Which one the following answers is FALSE?)
A) The Product Owner can help clarify or optimize the Sprint when asked by the
Developers.
B) The Sprint Backlog is fully formulated in the Sprint Planning meeting and does not
change during the Sprint.
C) As a decomposition of the selected Product Backlog Items, the Sprint Backlog
changes and may grow as the work emerges.
D) The Developers may work with the Product Owner to remove or add work if it finds
it has more or less capacity than it expected.

06) What are the two primary ways a Scrum Master keeps the Developers working at its
highest level of productivity? (Choose the best two answers)
A) By facilitating Developers decisions
B) By removing impediments that hinder the Developers
C) By starting and ending the meetings at the proper time
D) By keeping high value features high in the Product Backlog
07) An organization has decided to adopt Scrum, but management wants to change the
terminology to fit with terminology already used. What will likely happen if this is done?
(Choose the best answer)
A) Without a new vocabulary as a reminder of the change, very little change may
actually happen.
B) The organization may not understand what has changed with Scrum and the
benefits of Scrum may be lost.
C) Management may feel less anxious.
D) All of the above.

08) Which of the following services are appropriate for a Scrum Master in regard to the Daily
Scrum? (Choose the best answer)
A) Lead the discussions of the Developers.
B) Ensure that all 3 questions have been answered.
C) Facilitate in a way that ensures each team member has a chance to speak.
D) Teach the Developers to keep the Daily Scrum within the 15 minute time-box.
E) All answers apply.

09) Who is required to attend the Daily Scrum? (Choose the best answer)
A) The Developers.
B) The Scrum team.
C) The Developers and Scrum Master.
D) The Developers and Product Owner.
E) The Scrum Master and Product Owner.

10) Who is on the Scrum Team? (Choose the best three answers)
A) The Scrum Master
B) The Product Owner
C) The Developers
D) Project Manager
E) None of the above

11) What is the recommended size for a Scrum Team? (Choose the best answer)
A) Minimal 7
B) 10 or less
C) 7 plus or minus 2
D) 9

12) Scrum Team membership should change: (Choose the best answer)
A) Every Sprint to promote shared learning.
B) Never, because it reduces productivity.
C) As needed, while taking into account a short-term reduction in productivity.
D) As needed, with no special allowance for changes in productivity.

13) Who should know the most about the progress toward a business objective or a release,
and be able to explain the alternatives most clearly? (Choose the best answer)
A) The Product Owner
B) The Developers
C) The Scrum Master
D) The Project Manager
14) What is the role of Management in Scrum? (Choose the best answer)
A) Continually monitor staffing levels of the Developers.
B) Monitor the Developer’s productivity.
C) Support the Product Owner with insights and information into high value product
and system capabilities. Support the Scrum Master to cause organizational change
that fosters empiricism, self-managing, bottom-up intelligence, and intelligent
release of software.
D) Identify and remove people that are not working hard enough.

15) Who has the final say on the order of the Product Backlog? (Choose the best answer)
A) The Stakeholders
B) The Developers
C) The Scrum Master
D) The Product Owner
E) The CEO

16) When does a Developer become the sole owner of a Sprint Backlog item? (Choose the
best answer)
A) At the Sprint planning meeting.
B) Never. All Sprint Backlog Items are "owned" by the entire Developers, even though
each one may be implemented by an Developer.
C) Whenever a team member can accommodate more work.
D) During the Daily Scrum.

17) Who is responsible for the Product Backlog maintenance? (choose the best answer)
A) The Scrum Master
B) The strategic committee
C) The Product Owner
D) The Scrum Team

18) Which of the following best defines the Scrum? (choose the best answer)
A) Scrum is a framework for developing, delivering, and sustaining complex products.
B) Scrum is a methodology
C) Scrum is a complete process for developing software
D) Scrum is not an agile framework

19) Which of the following factors should be used to order the Product Backlog? (choose
the best answer)
A) Size, where small items are at the top, and large items are at the bottom.
B) Risk, where items with low risk are at the top, and riskier items are at the bottom.
C) Least valuable items at the top to most valuable at the bottom.
D) Importance, where the most important items are at the top at all times.
E) Whatever is deemed most appropriate by the Product Owner.

20) In some situations, a Sprint can be cancelled. Who has the authority to cancel a Sprint?
(choose the best answer)
A) The Scrum Team
B) The Scrum Master in agreement with the Product Owner
C) The Product Owner
D) The Product Owner in agreement with the Scrum Master

21) Who is responsible for defining the Sprint Backlog scope? (choose the best answer)
A) Only the Product Owner
B) The Developers in agreement with the Product Owner
C) The Scrum Master in agreement with the Product Owner
D) Only the Developers
22) Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog are two official Scrum artifacts. Jhon, a new team
member, does not know the main differencebetween them. If you were Jhon's Scrum
Master, what should you tell him? (choose the best answer)
A) There is no big difference. Both are used for the same purpose: show the Product
Backlog items.
B) The Sprint Backlog is optional, while the Product Backlog is required.
C) The Sprint Backlog is a subset of the Product Backlog.
D) The Sprint Backlog is owned by the Scrum Master and the Product Backlog is owned
by Product Owner.

23) Near the end of Sprint Planning, the Developers realizes that they pulled work beyond
their capacity. Given the following options, which one makes more sense? (choose the
best answer)
A) Work overtime and deliver all committed items. The Developers must be reliable.
B) Collaborate with the Product Owner and potentially remove or change items.
C) Cancel the Sprint.
D) Start the Sprint and add extra team members. The Developers needs to be reliable

24) A big company has 5 Teams working on the same product. They want to deliver a done
and potentially shippable product increment.

How should they do it? (choose the best answer)

A) Each Sprint, all Scrum Teams have a done increment that integrates with all of the
other done increments from all other Scrum Teams on the initiative; the sum of all
of increments is the increment for that initiative or project
B) Each Scrum Team provides a unique done increment that includes the team´s
added functionality
C) Functionality not integrated with the work of other Scrum Teams may be delivered
as unintegrated increments; this demonstrates the value created by the Scrum
Teams unable to completely integrate their increments
D) Each Scrum Team delivers done increments of its own area of responsibility; these
increments are integrated into a whole product during stabilization prior to release

25) The Product Owner decides to cancel the current Sprint because the Sprint Goal does
not make sense anymore. What happens next? (choose the best answer)
A) Nothing. The Product Owner has no authority to cancel the sprint.
B) All items are discarded.
C) The completed Sprint Backlog items are evaluated for a release while incomplete
items are discarded.
D) The completed Sprint Backlog items are evaluated for a release while incomplete
items are put back into the Product Backlog

26) What is the Release Burndown? (choose the best answer)

A) A graph indicating what has been completed by the Scrum Team
B) A measure of the remaining Product Backlog across the time of a release plan
C) What has been completed by the Scrum Team to date
D) The work remaining to be completed by the Product Owner

27) The Developers should be self-managing bringing autonomy and many responsibilities
as well. What are two responsibilities of a self-managing team? (Choose the best two
answers)
A) Elaborate status report and report it daily to stakeholders
B) Increase velocity over Sprints
C) Pull Product Backlog items for the Sprint
D) Do the work planned in the Sprint Backlog
E) Redefine the Sprint Goal
28) A big company has 5 teams working on the same product. The Product Owner is not sure
about how to arrange the Product Backlog. You, as a Scrum Master, should support the
Product Owner. What do you suggest? (choose the best answer)
A) Backlog for each Scrum Team; all of the increments are integrated at the end in an
integration Sprint.
B) All Scrum Teams work from a common Product Backlog and integrate their work
every Sprint
C) Each Developers should have a separate product backlog; all of the increments are
integrated at the end in an integration Sprint
D) Scrum Teams should have their separate Product Backlogs

29) A big company has 5 Teams working on the same product. Each team wants use their
own Definition of Done. According to Scrum, what best describes the Definition of
"Done" in this scenario? (choose the best answer)
A) All teams must use the same definition
B) Each team should define and uses its own
C) Each team uses its own but must make it clear to all other teams
D) It depends

30) You are the Scrum Master for five new teams working on the same Product Backlog.
Several developers come to you asking if their increments should be integrated every
sprint.

What do you tell them? (choose the best answer)

A) No,each team have to deliver their own increment.
B) Yes, but that is not a problem if one or two teams cannot do that.
C) Yes, but only Scrum Teams that work on the same product module.
D) Yes, the Product Owner needs an integrated increment in order to be able to
inspect what was done accurately.

31) The Scrum Master has a lot of responsibilities. A new team member, that is new to
Scrum as well, comes to you asking about the main responsibility of the Scrum Master.

What do you tell him/her? (choose the best answer)

A) The main responsibility is to facilitate all daily scrum meetings
B) The main responsibility is to remove any impediments that the Developers
encounters during their work.
C) The main responsibility is work with the Scrum Team acting as a technical leader.
D) The main responsibility is to manage the Developers. The Scrum Master helps the
Product Owner as well, but her/his main focus is the Developers

32) Given the following statements, which three are true? (Choose the best three answers)
A) Scrum and traditional processes have many similarities, but Scrum allows self-
managing teams, so no project managers are needed.
B) Empirical process control theory is the Scrum foundation.
C) Scrum is a methodology and prescribes exactly what you have to do in each
situation.
D) Scrum is a framework.
E) Scrum has few components and each one has a specific purpose. To be successful,
all components are required
33) The Scrum defines a series of responsibilities.

Who is the owner of the Sprint Backlog? (choose the best answer)
A) The Scrum Team
B) The Product Owner
C) The Developers
D) The Product Owner and the Developers

34) Sprint Planning is time-boxed to a maximum of eight hours for a one-month Sprint. For
shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter. Given the following objectives, which ones
are covered as part of the Sprint Planning? (choose the best answer)
A) Understanding what features the Product Owner most want for the next Sprint and
figuring out how to do them.
B) Updating the release project plan with sprints, deadlines, risks, and costs.
C) Demonstrating current software increment and figuring out if it is good enough.
D) Re-estimating higher product backlog items, reviewing team velocity, and making
commitment about project end date.

35) The Developers should be cross-functional. What does it mean? (choose the best
answer)
A) It means that each team member has all the skills to turn the selected Product
Backlog into an increment of potentially shippable product functionality.
B) It means that the Developers has all the skills necessary as a team to turn the
selected Product Backlog into an increment of potentially shippable product
functionality.
C) It means that the Developers has all the skills to develop software, except testing.
Testing activities are carried out by the Testing Team
D) None of the above.

36) Who should be accountable for managing and updating the Sprint Backlog during a
Sprint? (Choose the best answer)
A) The Developers in agreement with Product Owner.
B) The Scrum Team. He is responsible for administrative tasks.
C) The Developers.
D) The Product Owner. He is responsible for managing the project progress.

37) A new team member, that is new to Scrum as well, come to you asking about what a
good Sprint output could be.

What should you tell him? (Choose the best answer)

A) A complete requirement specification
B) An increment of working software that was not tested
C) An increment of software with some incomplete functionalities
D) An increment of working software that is "done"

38) During the Sprint, the Developers works to turn Product Backlog items into a working
software increment. The Scrum Master act as a coach and removes impediments.

And how about the Product Owner? What three activities a Product Owner will probably
do during the Sprint? (choose the best three answers)
A) Facilitate the Daily Scrum
B) Answer questions from the Developers about items in the current Sprint
C) Update the sprint burndown chart
D) Work with the stakeholders
E) Prioritize the Developer`s activities
F) Provide feedback
39) Scrum Teams are self-managing. Self-managing teams choose how to best accomplish
their work rather than being directed by others out of the team.

Which moment the Developers volunteer to own a Sprint Backlog item? (Choose the
best answer)
A) During the Sprint Planning meeting.
B) They are self-managing. It might be any time.
C) Never. The Sprint backlog and all items are collectively owned by the Developers,
even if they are being worked on by a specific member.
D) At the beginning of the Sprint.

40) Select the two best answers about the Daily Scrum Meeting. (Choose the best two
answers)
A) Its duration is fifteen minutes or less.
B) It is facilitated by the Product Owner or Scrum Master.
C) All team members must answer the three questions
D) Its location and time should remain constant

41) Which of the following should be considered for setting the duration of Sprints? (Choose
the best three answers)
A) It shouldn’t be so long that other business events can’t be synchronized with the
development work
B) It shouldn’t be so long that the risk is unacceptable to the Product Owner
C) It shouldn’t be more than one calendar month

42) One of the Scrum Master's objective is to keep the Developers working at its highest
level of productivity. How should the Scrum Master reach this objective? (Choose the
best two answers)
A) By removing impediments that disturb the Developers
B) By acting as a coach facilitating Developers decisions
C) By facilitating all Scrum events, always
D) By teaching the Product Owner about how to detail features

43) The Sprint Retrospective is an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and
create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint. Which of the
following might be the Scrum Team discuss during a Sprint Retrospective? (Choose the
best answer)
A) The way the Scrum Team does things
B) How to improve software quality.
C) Skills needed for Developers in order to improve its ability to deliver a product
increment "done".
D) Discuss and improve definition of done.
E) All of the above.

44) Which three questions might be answered by all Developers members at the Daily Scrum
in order to inspect and adapt the work? (Choose the best three answers)
A) What did I do yesterday that help the Developers meet the Sprint Goal?
B) What is my main personal problem?
C) What will I do today to help the Developers meet the Sprint Goal?
D) Do I see any impediment that prevents me or the Developers from meeting the
Sprint Goal?
E) Is the Product Owner happy?
F) Are the stakeholders satisfied?
45) When is the Sprint Backlog created? (Choose the best answer)
A) At the beginning of the release planning
B) During the product refinement (grooming)
C) At the beginning of the Retrospective Planning
D) During the Sprint Planning meeting

46) True or False: The Sprint Goal is an objective that will be met within the Sprint through
the implementation of the Product Backlog, and it provides guidance to the Developers
on why it is building the Increment. The Sprint Goal is crafted before the Sprint Backlog
is created.
A) True
B) False

47) Who is responsible for managing the progress toward a business objective? (Choose the
best answer)
A) The Product Owner
B) The Product Owner and the Scrum Master
C) The Scrum Master
D) The Developers

48) The Developers should not be interrupted during the Sprint. The Sprint Goal should
remain intact. These are conditions that foster creativity, quality, and productivity.
(Which one the following answers is FALSE?)
A) The Product Owner can help clarify or optimize the Sprint when asked by the
Developers.
B) The Sprint Backlog is fully formulated in the Sprint Planning meeting and does not
change during the Sprint.
C) As a decomposition of the selected Product Backlog Items, the Sprint Backlog
changes and may grow as the work emerges.
D) The Developers may work with the Product Owner to remove or add work if it finds
it has more or less capacity than it expected.

49) Who has the final say on the order of the Product Backlog? (Choose the best answer)
A) The Stakeholders
B) The Developers
C) The Scrum Master
D) The Product Owner
E) The CEO

50) Upon what type of process control is Scrum based? (choose the best answer)
A) Empirical
B) Hybrid
C) Defined
D) Complex

51) A Sprint could be canceled before the Sprint timebox ends. Which of the following is an
acceptable reason for that? (Choose the best answer)
A) When it becomes clear that not everything will be completed at the end of the
Sprint.
B) When the sales department has an important new opportunity.
C) When the Developers feels that the work is too hard.
D) When the Sprint Goal becomes obsolete.
52) The time-box for a Daily Scrum is? (choose the best answer)
A) The same time of day every day.
B) Two minutes per person.
C) 4 hours.
D) 15 minutes.
E) 15 minutes for a 4-week sprint. For shorter Sprints it is usually shorter.

53) The Developers requests the product owner to reorder the Product Backlog. The team
is waiting for an outside vendor to provide a specific software component. Without this
component, there will not be enough work in the next Sprint to occupy the entire team.
The Product Owner asks the Scrum Master for help. What would be good advice to give
the Product Owner? (Choose the best answer)
A) Tell the Product Owner to reorder the Product Backlog so that work involving the
external component can be planned in a separate sprint.
B) Tell the Product Owner that your primary concern is the value stream reflected in
the Product Backlog rating.
C) Tell the Product Owner that the Product Backlog should be ordered to maximize
utilization of the Developers.

54) Which best describes the cross-functionality? (Choose the best answer)
A) The Developers should have all the expertise required for the product, in a way that
they do not need any help from the outside
B) Each Developer should have all the expertise needed for the production of the
Product Backlog items
C) The Developers members should collaborate not only with the customer, but also
with all functional units in the performing organization as well as the busines

55) When should Developers’ membership change? (choose the best answer)
A) Every Sprint to promote shared learning.
B) Never, because it reduces productivity.
C) As needed, while taking into account a short-term reduction in productivity.
D) As needed, with no special allowance for changes in productivity.

56) True or False: When multiple teams work together on the same product, each team
should maintain a separate Product Backlog.
A) True
B) False

57) Among the options below, what are the characteristics of Scrum? (Choose the best
three answers)
A) Iterative and incremental development.
B) Tight process control.
C) User involvement.
D) Self-managing of teams.
E) All team members do what they want and when they want it.
F) All answers presented above.

58) Which statement best describes the Sprint Review? (choose the best answer)
A) It is a mechanism to control the Developers activities during a Sprint.
B) It is when the Scrum Team and stakeholders inspect the outcome of a Sprint and
figure out what to do next.
C) It is a demo at the end of the Sprint for everyone in the organization to check on
the work done.
59) When many Scrum Teams are working on a single product, what best describes the
definition of "Done?" (choose the best answer)
A) Each Scrum Team defines and uses its own. The differences are discussed and
reconciled during a hardening Sprint.
B) Each Scrum Team uses its own but must make their definition clear to all other
teams, so the differences are known.
C) All Scrum Team must have a definition of "Done" that makes their combined work
potentially releasable.
D) It depends.

60) How much work must a Developers do to a Product Backlog item it selects for a Sprint?
(Choose the best answer)
A) As much as it has told the Product Owner will be done for every Product Backlog
item it selects in conformance with the definition of "Done".
B) As much as it can fit into the Sprint.
C) All development work and at least some testing.
D) Analysis, design, programming, testing and documentation.

61) True or False: The Sprint Backlog contains only items selected from the Product Backlog.
A) True
B) False

62) How can security requirements can be addressed in Scrum? (Choose the best two
answers)
A) They can be handled in s specific Sprint with this Goal
B) They can be added to the Product Backlog
C) They can be outsourced to th security department
D) They can be added to the Definition of Done

63) True or False: When a team adopts Scrum, it should deliver software running from 4 to
6 months, giving preference to longer periods, as it facilitates the planning of activities.
A) True
B) False
.
64) Transparency in Scrum is critical. Which of the following represents a situation where
there is transparency? (Choose the best answer)
A) The Developers is pretty sure they will not be able to develop what was agreed with
the customer. There is still a week to go before the delivery date and the team
decides not to say anything to anyone because they believe there is a chance to
deliver everything with a few overtimes without anyone knowing about it.
B) Developer A always estimates tasks a few hours longer than necessary. So it ends
early and always has time to study and improve, making it more productive.
C) Halfway through a development cycle, the team realized that they would not be
able to cope to deliver everything that was agreed upon. He immediately called a
meeting with the Product Owner and Scrum Master to explain what happened and
together to decide what to do.
D) None of the above presents a situation where there is transparency.

65) Among the options below, what are the characteristics of Scrum? (Choose the best
three answers)
A) Iterative and incremental development.
B) Tight process control.
C) User involvement.
D) Self-managing of teams.
E) All team members do what they want and when they want it.
F) All answers presented above.
66) True or False: Scrum team practices constantly evolve through the application of
frequently learned lessons.
A) True
B) False

67) During the Scrum implementation process, the company director decided to change the
names of Scrum Guide practices, events and roles. Would you say: (Choose the best
answer)
A) It's okay to do that, as long as all that really has changed are the names of the
practices, events, and roles.
B) This is not correct because it makes it difficult to change the culture in the company,
as well as hindering communication and benchmarking with other companies that
adopt Scrum.
C) I wouldn't say anything, after all he is the director.
D) This is not correct because only the Scrum team has the authority to do so.

68) True or False: A Scrum Master is essentially the same as a traditional PM (Project
Manager).
A) True
B) False

69) Which of the following are roles in a Scrum Team? (Choose the best three answers)
A) Commercial
B) Scrum Master
C) Product Owner
D) Developers
E) Customers

70) According to Scrum theory, how should a group of 100 people be divided into several
Scrum Teams? (choose the best answer)
A) Check with the allocation department to see who works before and make these
first teams
B) Create a matrix of skills, seniority, and experience level to assign people to teams
C) It really does not matter, because you can rotate teams every sprint to spread
knowledge
D) Understanding the product, product vision and Scrum framework rules, the group
is divided into teams.

71) True or False: To start with in terms of what to build, Scrum requires no more than a
Product Owner with enough ideas for a first Sprint, the Developers to implement those
ideas, and a Scrum Master to guide the process:
A) True
B) False

72) A new developer is having ongoing conflicts with existing of the Developers and creating
a hostile environment. If necessary, who is responsible for removing the team member?
(choose the best answer)
A) The Product Owner is responsible because he controls the return on investment
(ROI)
B) The Developers is responsible and may need help from the Scrum Master.
C) The hiring manager is responsible because he / she hired the developer
D) Scrum Master is responsible because it removes impediments
73) What activities would a product owner normally perform in the phase between the end
of Current Sprint and the beginning of the next Sprint? (choose the best answer)
A) Refine Product Backlog
B) Work with QA departments to increase current Sprint
C) There are no such activities. The next Sprint begins immediately after the Current
Sprint.
D) Update the project plan with stakeholders.

74) How do you know a scrum team is multifunctional? (choose the best answer)
A) Some members of the Developers pair the program and take Test Driven
Development
B) All members of the Developers can perform all tasks
C) No conflicts within the Developers
D) The Developers has all the skills to create a potentially releasable increment at the
end of each Sprint.

75) How should the Developers handle nonfunctional requirements? (Choose the best
answer)
A) Make sure the release department understands these requirements but is not the
responsibility of the Developers.
B) Assign them to key team developers
C) Dealing with them during the Sprint Integration that runs the Launch Sprint
D) Make sure every increment meets them.

76) A Developers requests the product owner to reorder the Product Backlog. The team is
waiting for an outside vendor to provide a specific software component. Without this
component, there will not be enough work in the next Sprint to occupy the entire team.
The Product Owner asks the Scrum Master for help. What would be good advice to give
the Product Owner? (choose the best answer)
A) Tell the Product Owner to reorder the Product Backlog so that work involving the
external component can be planned in a separate sprint.
B) Tell the Product Owner that your primary concern is the value stream reflected in
the Product Backlog rating.
C) Tell the Product owner that the Product Backlog should be ordered to maximize
utilization of the Developers.

77) True or False: Sprint's goal is a result of Sprint's planning, as is the Sprint Backlog.
A) True
B) False

78) True or False: Multiple Scrum Teams working on the same product or system select all
jobs from the same Product Backlog.
A) True
B) False

79) True or False: A Scrum Team can only meet with stakeholders during the Sprint Review.
A) True
B) False
80) No one in the current composition of the Team knows how to test a piece of software
professionally and we do need to test each piece of software as it’s developed. What
should we do? (Choose the best answer)
A) Add anothe person to the Developers who is a pro software tester.
B) Ask the test unit, which provides services to other projects of the company, to
handle the testes of this Project.
C) Outsource the tests to anothe company
D) It is soon to decide on a task is due to the end od the Project.