Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) Practice Test

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* 1. In Scrum, who is responsible for determining how much work can be done each Sprint?

The Product Owner

The Development Lead

The Product Managers

The ScrumMaster

The Developers

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* 2. What does a Scrum Team attempt to do during their first Sprint?

Focus on assembling the Product Backlog

Focus only on requirements analysis, architecture, and infrastructure

Create an Increment of usable, releasable product

Create a definitely sellable product increment

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* 3. What, most importantly, must the ScrumMaster NOT do?

Manage development

Ask open-ended questions

Share uncomfortable observations

Highlight impediments

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* 4. When does a Sprint end?

When the timebox expires.

When all Sprint tasks are completed.

When all planned Product Backlog Items meet their Definition of Done

It depends.

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* 5. The quantity of work an experienced, mature team of Developers can do each Sprint should be ultimately based on:

(available team person-hours x (load factor + contingency factor)) - task hours.

collective gut feel (team intuition).

available team hours minus task hours.

the opinion of the developer wearing the largest T-shirt size.

the same number of backlog items as there are developers, one per team member.

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* 6. Who is responsible for testing?

Test engineers

The QA Manager

Developers

The QA team

The Product Owner

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* 7. Why have we gotten used to saying “resources” when we really mean people?

We sound more impressive to upper management if we speak in abstractions instead of plain language.

We’ve inherited a 19th century concept of human labor efficiency and misapplied it to the 21st century problem of collaborative product development.

Programmers do not differ significantly in skill, perspective, or ability and therefore can be treated as equivalent cogs in a machine.

Human collaborative problem-solving ability can be objectively quantified and standardized in the same manner as physical resources like petroleum, water, and lumber.

Software development is unskilled labor that is reducible to the cheapest cost per unit of time.

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* 8. Especially in recent years, product development is increasingly becoming…

a form of construction.

a form of manufacturing.

a form of knowledge creation.

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* 9. Muscle memory…

affects only bodybuilders.

affects our thinking and behavior even when we’re not aware of it.

might’ve caused you to answer the previous question incorrectly.

helps sleepwalkers find the bathroom at night.

Answers 2 and 3

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* 10. Who is accountable for Product Backlog management?

The ScrumMaster, with guidance from the Developers

The Product Manager

No one party is accountable. It’s done by consensus

The stakeholders, with guidance from the ScrumMaster

The Developers, with guidance from the ScrumMaster.

The Product Owner

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* 11. Who manages the Developers?

The ScrumMaster

The Developers

The Team Lead appointed by the ScrumMaster

The Product Owner

The Functional Manager

The Project Managers

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* 12. Who works on Sprint Backlog Items to create the Increment?

The Developer whose specialty is most closely related to the work in the PBI.

The Developers with the most unallocated capacity.

Any Developer who isn’t busy with other PBIs.

The Developer who wrote and estimated the PBI during Backlog Refinement.

All Developers collectively during the Sprint.

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* 13. ScrumMasters should focus on enabling…

learning teams and learning organizations

elimination of thinking through automated tasking.

efficient decisions through adoption of best practices.

efficient teams and efficient organizations.

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* 14. What, most importantly, does the ScrumMaster do?

Maximizes transparency, helping the organization see what is

Serves as a liason between Product Owner and Developers

Facilitates all Scrum meetings and working sessions

Manages Developers, keeping them on task and productive

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* 15. What is the recommended size for a Scrum Team?

9 plus or minus 2

It doesn't matter, as long as the team is cross functional

6 +/- 3

10 or fewer: Small enough to be nimble, large enough to complete significant work in a Sprint

As many as necessary in order to have all the skills needed to create an Increment of product

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* 16. By the end of a three month release cycle using two-week Sprints, a Scrum Team will probably deliver...

the highest value scope as it's discovered along the way, which may exclude some of the original scope

all the originally known scope on time and on budget

all scope originally planned for the release, plus the new scope discovered along the way

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* 17. What does a Scrum Team try to develop every Sprint?

A thick client

A thin vertical slice of work

A thin horizontal slice of work

A thin wrapper around the work

A thin foundation underpinning the work

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* 18. According to the Agile Manifesto, when do Agile approaches involve both business people and developers?

In the release planning meeting

In an ongoing dialogue

In the Kickoff Meeting, the Preliminary Design Review, the Detailed Design Review, and the Test Readiness Review

During the inception, elaboration, and transition phases

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* 19. When do Scrum Developers welcome changing requirements?

When planning any Sprint before the elaboration phase begins

When planning any Sprint, early or late in a release cycle

When planning Sprints early in a release cycle

When planning any Sprint before the construction phase begins

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* 20. Which activities should you intentionally delay until the deployment phase?

Final integration

System testing

Bringing the product into compliance with legal or regulatory requirements

User Acceptance testing

None of these

All of these

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* 21. What best describes Scrum?

A defined process that fits in with traditional project management

A lightweight methodology that does not disrupt the organization's existing habits

A defined process that prescribes what to do in every situation

An empirical framework for learning about products and the processes we use to create them

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* 22. A team of Scrum Developers...

consists of designers, programmers, and testers developing product, joined by other people with specialized functions as needed to meet the Sprint goal.

is a cross-functional group of programmers with all the required experience to deliver a specific component of the product.

consists of experienced resources with at least 50% capacity available to be allocated to the project.

contains all of the skills necessary to create a releasable increment of product every Sprint, without dependence on anyone not on the team full-time.

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* 23. A User Story is…

a format for describing typical development tasks so that they can be planned, tracked,
estimated, and audited.

a structured conversation about end-user value that articulates who, what, and why.

a template that, when populated, ensures an Agile Work Breakdown Structure (AWBS)

a required component of both Product Backlog and Sprint Backlogs.

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* 24. The Definition of Done...

embodies a contract between business and development to ensure both business and development commitments are honored.

is an official-sounding way of saying "Works on my box".

is an alternative term for the Acceptance Criteria of User Stories.

is an explicit standard a Backlog Item must meet for it to be considered part of the Increment

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* 25. Scrum provides…

best practices that can be applied to any development project for repeatable success.

answers for every decision you might have to make in the course of developing and releasing a product.

a simple structure of roles, events, and artifacts to help contain the chaos inherent in product development.

new names for traditional management roles and functions so that you can do Agile with minimal change
in thinking or behavior.

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* 26. Scrum is intended to:

Ignore problems

Solve problems

Create problems

Reveal problems

Avoid problems

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* 27. The correct name and spelling of a popular collaboration framework
for incremental, iterative product development is:

SCRUM: An acronym for Swarming Collaborative Reactive User Motivation

SCRUM: An acronym for Shouting [in] Capitals Really Underscores Motivation

scrum: an onomatopoeia for throwing pasta at the wall, hoping it’ll stick

SCRUM: An acronym for Scaled Corporate Restructuring Under Management

Scrum: An analogy to the chaotic-but-ordered restart-of-play formation in Rugby

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* 28. What fully defines the Sprint Backlog?

The Product Backlog Items the Developers commit to delivering by the end of the Sprint

The Product Backlog Items forecast for completion in the Sprint; a plan for how the Developers will complete them; and a Sprint Goal that unites the team in shared work toward a common objective

A prioritized wish list of product functionality, force-ranked in order of importance

The ‘What’ capabilities the Developers will try to add to the Increment, the ‘How’ they plan to do so, and the ‘Why’ the work of this Sprint is valuable

A force-ranked list of PBIs that were not finished in prior Sprints, automatically carried over into the current Sprint

Answers 2 and 4

Answers 3 and 5

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* 29. How many working days should be allocated between Sprints for fixing bugs, system testing, and refactoring?

Depends on team velocity

Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) Practice Test

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* 1. In Scrum, who is responsible for determining how much work can be done each Sprint?

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* 2. What does a Scrum Team attempt to do during their first Sprint?

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* 3. What, most importantly, must the ScrumMaster NOT do?

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* 4. When does a Sprint end?

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* 5. The quantity of work an experienced, mature team of Developers can do each Sprint should be ultimately based on:

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* 6. Who is responsible for testing?

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* 7. Why have we gotten used to saying “resources” when we really mean people?

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* 8. Especially in recent years, product development is increasingly becoming…

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* 9. Muscle memory…

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* 10. Who is accountable for Product Backlog management?

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* 11. Who manages the Developers?

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* 12. Who works on Sprint Backlog Items to create the Increment?

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* 13. ScrumMasters should focus on enabling…

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* 14. What, most importantly, does the ScrumMaster do?

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* 15. What is the recommended size for a Scrum Team?

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* 16. By the end of a three month release cycle using two-week Sprints, a Scrum Team will probably deliver...

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* 17. What does a Scrum Team try to develop every Sprint?

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* 18. According to the Agile Manifesto, when do Agile approaches involve both business people and developers?

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* 19. When do Scrum Developers welcome changing requirements?

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* 20. Which activities should you intentionally delay until the deployment phase?

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* 21. What best describes Scrum?

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* 22. A team of Scrum Developers...

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* 23. A User Story is…

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* 24. The Definition of Done...

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* 25. Scrum provides…

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* 26. Scrum is intended to:

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* 27. The correct name and spelling of a popular collaboration frameworkfor incremental, iterative product development is:

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* 28. What fully defines the Sprint Backlog?

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* 29. How many working days should be allocated between Sprints for fixing bugs, system testing, and refactoring?

* 27. The correct name and spelling of a popular collaboration framework
for incremental, iterative product development is: