Practice CSM Test Thanks for taking this practice test as part of your preparation for the official Certified ScrumMaster test administered by Scrum Alliance. This test has 35 questions with varied numbers of options. The current Certified ScrumMaster test has 50 questions with 4 options each. OK Question Title * 1. What was the date of the first day of your Certified ScrumMaster training? Date / Time Date OK Question Title * 2. What kind of Sprints does Scrum have? Analysis Sprints, Design Sprints, Construction Sprints, Test Sprints Sprint 0, plus regular development Sprints None of these. Scrum is used only for the construction phase Inception, Elaboration, Construction, Transition None of these. All Sprints contain a mix of activities OK Question Title * 3. Which activities should you intentionally delay until a stabilisation Sprint? System testing None of these Bringing the product into compliance with legal or regulatory requirements Final integration User Acceptance testing All of these OK Question Title * 4. What is the recommended size for a Scrum Development Team? 9 plus or minus 2 It doesn't matter, as long as the team is cross functional 3 to 9 10 plus or minus 3, or more if the team is geographically dispersed OK Question Title * 5. In sustainable Agile software development practice, refactoring... is the main activity of the final iteration is best tracked in separate Product Backlog Items (PBIs) is an ongoing activity built into the team's hourly workflow OK Question Title * 6. Does the Agile manifesto place any value on planning? Yes, and it values responding to change even more Yes, Agile is intended to be an efficient way to execute plans that have already been made No, planning has no value at all in Agile No, traditional planning is replaced by the Sprint Burndown Chart OK Question Title * 7. In Scrum, who is responsible for deciding how much work to take on each Sprint? The Product Manager The Project Manager The Product Owner The ScrumMaster The Development Team OK Question Title * 8. Agility is more about... being able to steer going fast OK Question Title * 9. What is the Scrum approach when a project requires a lot of infrastructure and architecture work that will take eight weeks to complete? Find a way to divide the work into demonstrable slices without increasing Sprint duration Let the work be done by the architecture team before the work is handed to the development team. Increase the team size so one team can complete the infrastructure and architecture work without increasing Sprint duration Do the infrastructure work in one Sprint, the architecture work in a second Sprint Attempt the infrastructure and architecture work in one Sprint without increasing Sprint duration, working overtime if necessary. Carry it to the next Sprint if it's not "Done" Hire additional teams and divide the work among them without increasing Sprint duration Do the infrastructure and architecture work in one eight week Sprint OK Question Title * 10. What should managers in an Agile organisation do? Monitor the Daily Scrum Meetings and reward team players Sponsor 360 performance reviews Coordinate activities between Scrum teams Monitor the Sprint Burndown Chart to ensure individuals are contributing Help resolve team-reported impediments OK Question Title * 11. How many working days should be allocated between Sprints for bug fixing, system testing, and refactoring? 1 0 Depends on team velocity 2 OK Question Title * 12. When is a Product Backlog Item considered complete? When the time-box expires When the QA department reports that it passes all acceptance criteria When it complies with the Definition of Done and Acceptance Criteria that the Development Team has agreed with the Product Owner When all tasks in the Sprint Backlog that are related to it are complete OK Question Title * 13. When do Agile approaches involve both business people and developers? During the inception, elaboration, and transition phases 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 OK Question Title * 14. The Product Backlog is: randomly arranged an ordered list arranged by relative size, with large risky items at the top grouped into sections P1 through P5, representing priority a one-dimensional list arranged in the order the items are discovered OK Question Title * 15. When do Scrum development teams welcome changing requirements? When planning Sprints early in development When planning any Sprint before the construction phase begins When planning any Sprint before the elaboration phase begins When planning any Sprint, early or late in development OK Question Title * 16. How often should a Scrum Development Team accept a change in goal? Every Release Cycle Every Sprint Every day Every Project Kickoff OK Question Title * 17. Which of the following is one of the Scrum Values? Collaboration Communication Courage Continuous Improvement OK Question Title * 18. Which best describes a Sprint Backlog? A backlog of tasks that have not yet been completed in the current Sprint All Sprint Tasks that the team has committed to complete during the Sprint The Product Backlog Items selected for the Sprint that are not yet Done The Product Backlog Items selected for a Sprint plus the Sprint Tasks identified to deliver these to Done, irrespective of their status in the Sprint OK Question Title * 19. Do Scrum teams produce documented products? No, the Agile movement does not value documentation Yes, all documentation is written during the stabilisation Sprint Yes, the amount of documentation needed should be part of the product-wide Definition of "Done." OK Question Title * 20. Who manages the Scrum Development Team? The Functional Manager The Product Owner The ScrumMaster The Project Manager The Scrum Development Team The Team Lead appointed by the ScrumMaster OK Question Title * 21. What best describes Scrum? A defined process that fits in with traditional project management An empirical framework for learning about products and the processes we use to create them A defined process that prescribes what to do in every situation A lightweight methodology that does not disrupt the organisation's existing habits OK Question Title * 22. What does the Product Owner do during the Daily Scrum? Clarifies items on the Sprint Backlog Motivates the Development Team to reach the Sprint Goal Assigns tasks to Development Team members The Product Owner’s participation in the Daily Scrum should be defined by the Scrum Team OK Question Title * 23. Which of the following is a responsibility of a ScrumMaster? Co-ordinates the allocation of work done in a Sprint Works with the Team to find and introduce the technical practices that will allow them to get to Done by the end of each Sprint Conducts performance reviews with each team member Ensures that the project is on track according to scheduled timelines OK Question Title * 24. When applied to product/systems development, what does Scrum require? No change in development practices Incremental improvements to development practices Improvements to development practices as determined during Sprint 0 Improvements to development practices before sprinting begins OK Question Title * 25. Scrum is intended for... Work with somewhat unknown requirements, somewhat unknown technical challenges Work with known requirements and somewhat unknown technical challenges Work with known requirements and known technical challenges OK Question Title * 26. Is the Scrum framework defined in terms of rules or guidelines? Scrum has a small number of rules Scrum has guidelines, not rules OK Question Title * 27. What does a Scrum Team attempt to do during the first Sprint? Build a potentially sellable product increment Focus only on assembling the Product Backlog Build a potentially releasable product increment Focus only on requirements analysis, architecture, and infrastructure OK Question Title * 28. By the end of a three month release cycle using two-week Sprints, a Scrum team will probably deliver... all scope originally planned for the release, plus the new scope discovered along the way all the originally known scope on time and on budget the highest value scope as it's discovered along the way, which may exclude some of the original scope OK Question Title * 29. In Agile software development, which is the primary measure of progress? Cyclomatic complexity SEI CMM Level Source Lines Of Code (SLOC) Function points Actuals compared to estimates Working software Earned Value Metrics (EVM) OK Question Title * 30. In Scrum, which meeting is the most appropriate time to invite outside stakeholders? Sprint Planning Daily Scrum Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective OK Question Title * 31. What are the three components of empirical process control? Planning, checking for quality, taking action Planning, committing, and measuring Transparency, inspection, and adaptation Feedback, courage, and simplicity OK Question Title * 32. The Product Backlog should be... re-prioritised when change requests have been approved by all stakeholders never re-prioritised constantly re-prioritised prioritised, then mostly locked down when we pass through the project elaboration gate OK Question Title * 33. When is Sprint execution completed? When all tasks are complete When all committed Product Backlog Items meet their definition of "Done" When the time-box expires It depends OK Question Title * 34. What is the longest allowable Sprint, in Scrum? It depends how much work was committed to the Sprint 30 days or one calendar month Two weeks Six weeks As long as necessary to achieve a robust definition of "Done" One day, starting with a 15 minute "Daily Scrum" meeting OK Question Title * 35. How do Scrum Teams handle changing requirements during Sprint execution? The Product Owner adds them wherever he/she wants within the Product Backlog The Development Team adds them to the top of the Sprint Backlog The Development Team adds them to the Product Backlog, according to business value divided by effort The ScrumMaster puts them in the freezer The ScrumMaster adds them to the top of the Product Backlog The Product Owner adds them to the bottom of the Product Backlog OK Question Title * 36. If a Development Team realises that it has planned too much work for the Sprint, who should be involved with adjusting the Product Backlog Items and Sprint Goal? The Product Owner The ScrumMaster The Development Team All of the above OK Question Title * 37. First name: OK Question Title * 38. Last name: OK DONE