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Question 1

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True or False: To ensure the Product Backlog accurately reflects business priorities, the Product Owner must personally perform the ordering of all Product Backlog items and is not permitted to delegate this task to anyone else.

Question 2

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True or False: While the Scrum Team is structured and empowered by the organization, management retains the authority to decide who does what, when, and how within the Sprint to ensure maximum efficiency.

Question 3

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Halfway through a Sprint, the Scrum Team discovers that a third-party API they are integrating with has unexpectedly changed its data format. This makes their current development approach unacceptable. According to the Scrum pillar of Adaptation, which three of the following statements describe how the team should handle this situation?

(Choose the best 3 answers)

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The Scrum Team adapts their work the moment they learn this new information through inspection.

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The Scrum Team relies on being empowered and self-managing, as adaptation becomes more difficult otherwise.

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The Product Owner pauses the Sprint to seek formal stakeholder approval before the team adjusts their materials.

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The Scrum Master provides detailed instructions to the Developers on how to handle the API change based on the Scrum framework.

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The Scrum Team adjusts the materials being produced or the process being applied as soon as possible to minimize further deviation.

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The Scrum Team documents the deviation and waits until the Sprint Retrospective to adjust their process for the next Sprint.

Question 4

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Product Owner David is facing intense pressure from stakeholders to deliver a complete reporting module by the end of the month. During Sprint Planning, David presents five high-priority Product Backlog items related to this module. After discussing the items, the Developers determine that based on their past performance and upcoming capacity, they can only complete three of the items. David insists that all five items must be added to the Sprint Backlog to meet the stakeholder deadline. According to Scrum, how should the selection of these Product Backlog items be handled?

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The Developers have the final say, as they select items from the Product Backlog to include in the current Sprint through discussion with the Product Owner.

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The Scrum Master decides how many items are selected to resolve the conflict and protect the Developers from overwork.

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The Product Owner has the final say, as they are responsible for maximizing the value of the product and meeting stakeholder expectations.

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The entire Scrum Team votes on the number of items to include, and the majority decides the outcome.

Question 5

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A senior executive is frustrated with the perceived slow progress of a new product. They demand that the Product Owner start assigning specific tasks to individual Developers during the Sprint to maximize resource utilization and speed up delivery. How should the Product Owner respond to best uphold the Scrum Values?

(Choose the best answer)

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Delegate the task assignments to the Scrum Master, since they are accountable for team efficiency and focus.

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Invite the executive to the Daily Scrum so they can assign the tasks directly, demonstrating the Scrum value of Openness.

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Accept the executive's request to demonstrate the Scrum value of Commitment to the organization's overall delivery goals.

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Decline the request and explain that Scrum requires respecting the Developers as capable, independent people who manage their own work.

Question 6

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A Product Owner is managing a highly complex product. Over the past few months, the Scrum Team has grown to 16 members to include all the cross-functional skills needed to deliver value. However, the team is now struggling to communicate effectively and coordinate their work during Sprints. What is the most appropriate action to take according to the Scrum framework?

(Choose the best answer)

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Appoint a Lead Developer to manage the team's daily tasks and establish sub-teams based on specialized skills.

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The Product Owner should assign specific tasks to individual Developers during Sprint Planning to ensure efficient coordination.

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Reorganize into multiple cohesive Scrum Teams that share the same Product Goal, Product Backlog, and Product Owner.

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Divide the developers into multiple specialized Scrum Teams (e.g., Frontend and Backend), each with its own unique Product Backlog.

Question 7

7.

True or False: To confidently forecast how much work can be completed within a Sprint, Developers are required to use practices such as burn-downs, burn-ups, or cumulative flows.

Question 8

8.

Mid-Sprint, Product Owner Mark realizes the Developers are blocked by a misconfigured testing server managed by an external department. Mark lacks the authority to resolve the infrastructure issue, but it is severely threatening the Sprint Goal. According to the Scrum framework, what is the most appropriate way to handle this impediment?

(Choose the best answer)

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The Scrum Team should document the issue and wait until the Sprint Retrospective to plan a way to fix it.

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The Scrum Master should serve the team by causing the removal of the impediment.

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Mark must personally negotiate with the external department to fix the server since he is accountable for product value.

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Mark should remove the blocked items from the Sprint Backlog and replace them with unblocked items of equal size.

Question 9

9.

David is a Product Owner managing a complex product in a highly regulated industry. Stakeholders are anxious about risks and are demanding detailed, long-term predictive plans and comprehensive instructions for the Developers to follow to guarantee value delivery. According to Scrum theory, which of the following are appropriate ways for David and the Scrum Team to optimize predictability, control risk, and make important decisions? (Choose 3)

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Establish comprehensive, detailed instructions and mandatory processes for the Developers to follow to guarantee the planned value is created.

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Make decisions based on experience and what is observed, rather than providing people with detailed instructions.

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Base important decisions regarding the product on the perceived state of Scrum's three formal artifacts.

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Employ an iterative, incremental approach to the work to optimize predictability and to control risk.

Question 10

10.

During the Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team identifies several process bottlenecks that caused delays in delivering the Increment. The Product Owner is highly invested in seeing these bottlenecks removed to improve future delivery speed and quality.

According to the Scrum Guide, how should the Scrum Team handle these identified improvements? (Choose two)

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Address the most impactful improvements as soon as possible.

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The Scrum Master must record them in an Impediment Log and escalate them to management.

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The Scrum Team may add them to the Sprint Backlog for the next Sprint.

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The Product Owner must convert them into Product Backlog items and prioritize them against new features.

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The Scrum Team must pause new feature development in the upcoming Sprint until the bottlenecks are resolved.

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The Product Owner must formally approve the improvements before the Developers can spend time implementing them.

Question 11

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A Scrum Team frequently struggles with integrating their work, resulting in buggy Increments. Stakeholders are expressing concern to the Product Owner over the decreasing quality. The Product Owner wants to ensure the upcoming Sprint Retrospective is used to address this effectively.

Which THREE of the following are valid ways the Scrum Team can handle this situation during the Sprint Retrospective?

(Choose the best 3 answers)

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They can identify the most impactful improvements and add them to the Sprint Backlog for the next Sprint.

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The Scrum Master can extend the Sprint Retrospective beyond its three-hour timebox to ensure the integration problems are fully resolved.

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They can inspect how the last Sprint went with regards to their processes, tools, and Definition of Done to plan ways to increase quality.

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They can invite the concerned stakeholders to the Sprint Retrospective so the Developers can hear the quality complaints firsthand.

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The Product Owner can define new mandatory integration tools and processes that the Developers must use in the upcoming Sprint.

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They can identify assumptions that led them astray during the Sprint and explore the origins of those assumptions.

Question 12

12.

Maria, a Product Owner, is working in a highly complex and unpredictable market. To capture unrealized value, her stakeholders are demanding a guaranteed, detailed 12-month delivery plan so they can make reliable forward-looking business decisions.

How should Maria respond to this demand based on Scrum principles?

(Choose the best answer)

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Explain that in complex environments, what will happen is unknown, and only what has already happened may be used for forward-looking decision making.

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Lock the Product Backlog for the next 12 months to ensure the Scrum Team focuses entirely on fulfilling the stakeholders' long-term objective without scope changes.

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Use proven forecasting practices like burn-up charts or cumulative flows to replace empiricism and provide the guaranteed 12-month plan.

Question 13

13.

Mark is the Product Owner for a complex e-commerce platform. He is overwhelmed by the demands of multiple stakeholders and is struggling to keep up with writing every single Product Backlog item. Meanwhile, stakeholders are making assumptions about the product's direction that increase risk and diminish value because they do not understand the upcoming work. Based on the Scrum Guide, which TWO actions are appropriate for Mark to take?

(Choose the best 2 answers)

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Focus on making the Product Backlog transparent, visible, and understood, because low transparency increases risk and diminishes value.

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Transfer the accountability for maximizing the value of the product to the Developers so he can focus entirely on stakeholder management.

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Create multiple Product Goals simultaneously to satisfy the diverse demands of the different stakeholder groups.

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Personally write every Product Backlog item to ensure it clearly communicates the stakeholders' needs, as this work cannot be delegated.

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Update the Sprint Backlog directly to ensure the Developers' daily plan aligns with the stakeholders' latest priority changes.

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Delegate the creation of Product Backlog items to others, understanding that he still remains accountable for effective Product Backlog management.

Question 14

14.

Over the last few Sprints, the Scrum Team's Sprint Retrospectives have devolved into negative complaining sessions that frequently exceed the timebox. Frustrated by the lack of outcomes, the Product Owner suggests skipping the next Sprint Retrospective to focus on Product Backlog refinement instead. What is the Scrum Master's accountability regarding this situation?

(Choose the best answer)

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Allowing the team to skip the event, as the Scrum Master serves the Product Owner by finding techniques for effective time management.

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Canceling all future Sprint Retrospectives until the Scrum Team improves its self-management and cross-functionality.

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Ensuring that the Sprint Retrospective takes place and is positive, productive, and kept within the timebox.

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Acting as a proxy for the Product Owner during the Retrospective so the Product Owner can skip the event without impacting the Developers.

Question 15

15.

True or False: To fulfill their accountability for the Scrum Team’s effectiveness, the Scrum Master must direct the Developers on how to organize and execute their daily tasks.

Question 16

16.

Product Owner Elena is leading the development of a mobile banking app in a complex market. Stakeholders are nervous about the high budget and suggest instituting a formal phase-gate review every three months to ensure they do not spend money building the wrong things. To maximize time-to-market and limit the risk of cost and effort, what is the BEST approach Elena should propose?

(Choose the best answer)

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Suggest employing shorter Sprints to generate more learning cycles and limit the risk of cost and effort to a smaller time frame.

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Extend the Sprint length to two months so the Scrum Team has enough time to deliver a comprehensive, risk-free release.

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Establish detailed predictive burn-down charts for the next three months to guarantee the budget and forecast progress for stakeholders.

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Agree to cancel the current Sprint whenever stakeholders request a major change, so the team can immediately pivot and reduce wasted effort.

Question 17

17.

True or False: If multiple key stakeholders reach a consensus regarding a new product feature, they can directly update the Product Backlog to expedite development, provided they notify the Product Owner.

Question 18

18.

Sarah is the Product Owner for a Scrum Team building a healthcare app. The team's current Product Goal is to 'Launch a secure telemedicine consultation feature.' While the team is making progress toward this goal, the VP of Marketing insists that the team simultaneously adopt a second Product Goal to 'Integrate a wellness tracking gamification system' to capitalize on a new market trend. The VP argues that the team has enough capacity to handle both long-term objectives in parallel.

How should Sarah respond to this request according to Scrum?

(Choose the best answer)

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Maintain both Product Goals in the Product Backlog, but ensure the telemedicine goal is assigned a higher priority.

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Create a second Product Backlog specifically for the wellness tracking system, ensuring each Product Goal has its own dedicated artifact.

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Clarify that the Scrum Team must fulfill or abandon the current Product Goal before taking on the next one.

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Accept the second Product Goal, provided the Developers confirm they have the capacity to pursue both objectives concurrently.

Question 19

19.

During a Sprint Review, key stakeholders announce a major shift in the competitive market environment. Anxious about the product's relevance, they demand that a stakeholder steering committee be established to oversee and update the Product Backlog. They also hand you, the Product Owner, a list of urgent features they want prioritized immediately.

As the Product Owner, which TWO of the following actions align with the Scrum framework?

(Choose the best 2 answers)

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Inform the stakeholders that the Sprint Review is solely for presenting the Increments completed during the Sprint, and schedule a separate meeting for backlog adjustments.

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Explain that those wanting to change the Product Backlog must try to convince the Product Owner, as the Product Owner is one person, not a committee.

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Accept the list of urgent features and immediately place them at the top of the Product Backlog to maintain stakeholder satisfaction and strategic alignment.

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Collaborate with the stakeholders during the Sprint Review to discuss the environmental changes and adjust the Product Backlog to meet the new opportunities.

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Ask the Scrum Master to facilitate a vote among all Sprint Review attendees to democratically decide which of the new features should be prioritized.

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Agree to form the steering committee, as stakeholders are the ultimate source of business value and must have direct control over product direction during market volatility.

Question 20

20.

Sarah is the Product Owner for a new mobile banking app. The Scrum Team frequently struggles during Sprint Planning because many Product Backlog items are too large to be completed in one Sprint and lack clear details. Sarah wants to adopt a better approach to Product Backlog refinement to ensure items are 'ready' for selection.

Which of the following principles from the Scrum framework should guide the team's refinement efforts? (Choose 3)

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The Developers who will be doing the work are responsible for sizing the items, although Sarah may influence them by helping select trade-offs.

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The Scrum Team may refine Product Backlog items during the Sprint Planning event itself, which increases understanding and confidence.

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Product Backlog refinement is an ongoing activity to break down items into smaller, more precise items and add details such as description, order, and size.

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Sarah is responsible for sizing the Product Backlog items because she is solely accountable for maximizing the value of the product.

Question 21

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