Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Practice Questions

The product is released to customers after each Sprint

The principal goal for a Sprint is to produce release-quality increments in functionality

Releases usually incorporate the result of multiple Sprints

Occur at times dictated by customer and business needs

Remove Carlos from the team.

Use Carlos as an asset, particularly during risk identification

Ignore him and hope it goes away

Escalate the issue with the higher authorities

Rules of Etiquette

Cross-functional

Process Oriented

Can have multiple Product Owner’s

Maintaining the Product Backlog with current information

Working with stakeholders to determine and detail product features

Assigning tasks to team members

Prioritizing the Product Backlog

The development team cannot meet their Sprint commitment to complete work if requirements are changing

A Sprint cycle is not enough time for senior management review and approve changes

This forces Product Owners to focus on what is really important for the team to develop.

The development team must be able to limit the Product Owner authority

Product Backlog items should be sorted by level of effort or complexity in descending order.

Product Backlog items should be sorted by business priority in descending order.

Product Backlog items should be date sorted in ascending order.

Product Backlog items should be grouped by business category or feature.

Identify the main instigator of the blame and coach them privately.

Introduce and facilitate the Retrospective using the 'Prime Directive,' which states that regardless of what is discovered, the team understands and truly believes that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand.

Forbid any discussion of failures and focus the Retrospective only on what went well.

Ask the team's manager to attend the Retrospective to enforce professional behavior.

To share with the team what each member has completed in the Sprint, what each member will work on next, and to report progress roadblocks

To give a status report to the Product Owner on what each member has completed in the Sprint, what each member will work on next, and to report progress roadblocks.

To discuss work details with the team since every team member must attend the meeting

To give a status report to the Scrum Master on what each member has completed in the Sprint, what each member will work on next, and to report progress roadblocks.

Team Members Name

Number of Product Backlog Items Completed

Number of Tasks Remaining

Work Hours Remaining

The Scrum Master should reprioritize the Product Backlog only at the end of a new Sprint

The Scrum Master should reprioritize the Product Backlog only at the beginning of a new Sprint

The Team should reprioritize the Product Backlog only at the end of a new Sprint.

The Product Owner should reprioritize the Product Backlog whenever new information is learned