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ASM EXIN Agile Scrum Master Questions and Answers

Questions 4

Which of the following is a responsibility of the Scrum Master in the context of change in Scrum?

Options:

A.

Eliminating all changes that may affect the quality of deliverables and processes

B.

Facilitating identification of Change Requests by the Scrum Team and their assessment and prioritization

by the Product Owner.

C.

Providing requests for changes in a project.

D.

Approving changes that are amended, removed, or added according to project requirements, and

communicating the same to the Scrum Team.

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Questions 5

At the end of each Sprint the Scrumboard is _________.

Options:

A.

Updated with new tasks and completed tasks.

B.

Placed besides the new one to compare team velocities in Sprints.

C.

Analyzed by the Scrum master to understand the project progress in that particular sprint.

D.

Reset or wiped off.

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Questions 6

Which of the following statements is NOT true of an Impediment Log?

Options:

A.

Impediment Log can be discussed during Daily Standup.

B.

Internal impediments from within the team are never recorded in the Impediment Log, and only brought up

during the Daily Standups.

C.

Transparency in Scrum ensures swift and easy identification of impediments.

D.

Scrum Master maintains and updates the Impediment Log.

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Questions 7

A company changes to Scrum. This gets some people out of their comfort zone and creates resistance. One way of finding out how to deal with this resistance is looking at the individuals resisting. Suppose that you categorize all individuals into Conservers, Pragmatists and Originators.

What are the best activities to help Pragmatists transition to Scrum?

Options:

A.

No special activities are necessary, because these people will embrace the change.

B.

Provide more prestige or power for the people that resist in order to get them to comply.

C.

Provide predictability of the transition process and keep certain best practices.

D.

Provide training and run a pilot project that includes these people on the team.

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Questions 8

You are hosting a Sprint Retrospective for the Scrum Team and you want to set some ground rules for the meeting. All of following are appropriate topics for the Sprint Retrospective meeting except for which one?

Options:

A.

Items that should be in the next Sprint's Backlog.

B.

What's not working well with a team member.

C.

What's working well in the project.

D.

Why the user stories weren't completed as planned.

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Questions 9

A team is transitioning to Scrum Sam. one of the team members really liked the way the team was working before He is actively speaking out against changing the way of working Sam is a diehard.

Addy is the Scrum Master of the team and wants to help Sam overcome his resistance

What is the best way to help a diehard overcome resistance?

Options:

A.

Acknowledge Sam’s fears and confront them and make him dissatisfied with the original way of working

B.

Do not let Sam talk in meetings move him to another team or if that all fails, maybe even fire him

C.

Make sure Sam understands Scrum, give him some time to adjust and appoint a champion diehard

D.

Model the desired behaviors, involve Sam in team activities and praise him for doing the right thing

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Questions 10

Your company has discovered that it takes more than high quality, low cost, and differentiation to excel. It also takes speed and flexibility. This calls for a different approach: you are aware that the current process is not delivering acceptable results.

What would be the next activity after becoming aware?

Options:

A.

Ability to succeed with Scrum

B.

Desire to adopt Scrum as a way to address current problems

C.

Promotion of Scrum through sharing experiences so that we remember and others can see our successes

D.

Transfer of the implications of using Scrum throughout the company

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Questions 11

Which of the following is the correct format for writing a User Story?

Options:

A.

As a {role/persona}, I should be able to {requirement} so that {benefit}.

B.

As a {role/persona}, I should be able to {benefit} so that {requirement}.

C.

I should be able to {benefit}, as a {role/persona} so that {requirement}.

D.

I should be able to {requirement} so that {benefit} as a {role/persona}.

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Questions 12

Emily has taken on the role of Scrum Master on a new project. Training the team is one of her major

responsibilities. As Scrum Master, which aspects will Emily need to address in this respect?

A) Gaps in technical knowledge in any of the team members.

B) Shortcomings in the Scrum Team's understanding of business value of features.

C) Increasing the team's capability to articulate their challenges to find solutions.

D) Lack of understanding of the Scrum processes and principles.

Options:

A.

B and C

B.

A, B, and C

C.

C only

D.

C and D

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Questions 13

Which of the following Scrum Master's responsibilities are correct?

A) Define the strategic objectives and priorities for projects.

B) Ensure that Scrum processes are correctly followed by all team members including the Product Owner.

C) Ensure transparency and clarity of Prioritized Product Backlog Items.

D) Oversee Release Planning Meeting and schedule other meetings.

Options:

A.

В

B.

В, С, and D

C.

В and D

D.

A and В

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Questions 14

Maria is one of the Scrum Master for a rail-road reservation system program. She facilitates the Daily Standup

Meetings to enable the Scrum Team to discuss issues faced by individual members, and seek solutions to

motivate the team. Which of the following represents the mandatory outputs of Conduct Daily Standup

process?

Options:

A.

Updated Sprint Burndown chart and Impediment log.

B.

Updated Scrumboard and Unapproved Change Requests.

C.

Updated Sprint Burndown chart and Motivated Scrum Team.

D.

Updated Scrumboard and Dependencies.

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Questions 15

What is the recommended size of a Development Team?

Options:

A.

5 to 12

B.

5 to 9

C.

3 to 9

D.

3 to 15

E.

3 to 6

F.

3 to 12

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Questions 16

A Scrum team uses a Scrum board. They have recently introduced work-in-progress limits (WiP-limits) and blocker tickets to improve flow. The blocker tickets show on which tickets the Developers cannot currently work

The Product Owner walks past the Scrum board and sees a blocker ticket in the 'doing' column with a WiP-limit of 2 He suggests that the ticket affected is moved back to the waiting to be done' column so that another ticket can be worked on in the meantime

How should the Scrum Master respond to this suggestion?

Options:

A.

Agree with the Product Owner Achieving flow in sprints was the main reason Developers chose to introduce WiP-limits and moving the ticket will improve flow

B.

Agree with the Product Owner Getting work completed is more important than wasting time on an activity that has some impediment preventing it from getting to done

C.

Disagree with the Product Owner Only Developers may decide to move tickets on the Scrum board, so moving the ticket will invalidate the principle of serf-managing teams

D.

Disagree with the Product Owner Work on the blocker ticket is in progress and moving the ticket back artificially increases the WiP-limit to 3 and leaves the block in place

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Questions 17

In Scrum, it is advised to keep Scrum teams relatively small. The reason is that smaller teams are more productive. Why are smaller teams generally more productive?

Options:

A.

Because small teams are less likely to form sub-groups everyone's contribution is more visible and coordinating is easier

B.

Because small teams can switch between different projects each sprint more easily, which helps add the most business value

C.

Because small teams usually have Developers with similar backgrounds and technical capabilities which speeds up communication

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Questions 18

A Scrum Team is estimating the prioritized User Stories. Each team member has been assigned a deck of

numbered cards, in which each card is numbered in a sequence. The team members use these cards to

assess a particular User Story by picking and showing a card from the deck that represents their estimate for

the User Story. Which estimation tool is the Scrum Team using?

Options:

A.

Fist of Five.

B.

Wideband Delphi.

C.

Affinity Estimation.

D.

Planning Poker.

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Questions 19

A representative of the customer has asked the Development Team to add a very important item to an ongoing Sprint. What should they do?

Options:

A.

Refer the representative to the Scrum Master to discuss it

B.

Accept it only if they are willing to ask for it formally

C.

Refer the representative to the Product Owner to discuss it

D.

Refuse it, because they are in the middle of the Sprint

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Questions 20

The Scrum Master can help the Product Owner update business justification in the Project Vision statement

and ensure continuous value justification for projects by facilitating which of the following processes?

A) Conduct Daily Standup

B) Groom Prioritized Product Backlog

C) Retrospect Project

D) Sprint Deliverables

Options:

A.

B and D

B.

A and В

C.

А, B, and С

D.

Only А

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Questions 21

The table given below presents some Scrum roles that play an important part in business justification and their

responsibilities. Choose the option that correctly matches each role in the left hand column to its action in the

right hand column.

ASM Question 21

Options:

A.

I-b, II-c, III-a, IV-d

B.

I-a, II-c, III-b, IV-d

C.

I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a

D.

I-d, II-b, III-c, IV-a

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Questions 22

Which of the following is NOT a core dimension of collaborative work?

Options:

A.

Team members working together so that everyone is aware of each other's work.

B.

Adapting technology to suit team's needs.

C.

Compartmentalizing work into units, distributing the units among team members, and reintegrating it.

D.

Team members working in sub groups so that a competitive environment is maintained among the groups.

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Questions 23

One of the responsibilities of the Scrum Master is to ensure that the Product Owner does not change the

Acceptance Criteria of a committed User Story in the middle of a Sprint. In this regard, which of the following

statements about Acceptance Criteria is correct?

Options:

A.

User Story Workshops are held as part of Sprint Review.

B.

Acceptance Criteria provide the objectivity required for the User Story to be considered as Done or not

Done.

C.

The Scrum Master defines and communicates the Acceptance Criteria to the Scrum Team.

D.

During the Sprint Retrospect Meeting, the Acceptance Criteria provide context for the Product Owner to

decide if a User Story has been completed satisfactorily.

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Questions 24

A team is new to Scrum and is enthusiastic to try it. The company is very open and there is enough trust between management and coworkers.

The Developers on the team used to work in two separate teams with different specialties Previously they were working as competitive teams racing to become team of the month Because they feel they should have all competences represented in the team to be self-sufficient, they will form a team together.

For Scrum to be successful the team must do the following things (in alphabetical order)

- change their assumptions about how to work and how others may be able to help

- make the culture into a true Agile culture because it is only halfway there now

- switch me focus from traditional development methods to delivering value for the customer in cooperation with the customer

- implement and start using a new set of Agile measures to track progress

Options:

A.

Changing the assumptions

B.

Changing the culture

C.

Changing the locus

D.

Changing the measures

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Questions 25

You are a Scrum Master on a project that is preparing to begin its first Sprint. You explain to the Scrum team

the concept of Daily Standup Meetings. You include all of the following points in your introduction to the Daily

Standup Meeting, EXCEPT:

Options:

A.

The Daily Standup Meeting is a short daily meeting, time-boxed to 15 minutes.

B.

The meeting may be cancelled or delayed if one or more members are not able to attend.

C.

Team members assemble to report their progress in the Sprint and plan the day's activities.

D.

The information provided by the Team members is used to identify the impediments in the way of project

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Questions 26

Suppose you are a Scrum Master on a project to design a metro rail system for a city. It has been brought to

your attention that the Product Owner wants to change the Acceptance Criteria for one of the User Stories

committed to for the current Sprint because the customer has changed a critical business requirement. Which

one of the following statements presents the best solution for such a situation?

Options:

A.

You should direct the Scrum team to stop working on the current Sprint Backlog, and to start working on

the latest business requirements.

B.

The Product Owner should add this requirement to the overall Prioritized Product Backlog, and the team

would work on it in a future Sprint.

C.

You should tell the Product Owner to inform the stakeholders that this business requirement cannot be

worked on as the Scrum Team has no bandwidth in the current Sprint.

D.

The Product Owner should cancel the current Sprint, and should start planning a new Sprint for the team to

be able to develop the deliverable as per the latest business requirement.

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Questions 27

A company is transitioning to Scrum. The Scrum Master tells the management team that the role of traditional management does not exist in an Agile environment. The management team asks what the managers should do once the company has transitioned to Scrum. They feel insecure about letting all control go and wish to supervise the Scrum teams closely.

What should the Scrum Master teach the Scrum teams and the managers about Scrum?

Options:

A.

Teach me Scrum learn that they are self-managing and decide how to divide work and do the work

Teach the managers that they have the role of coaches and must trust the Scrum teams

B.

Teach the Scrum team that they should coach the managers to become more self-managing

Teach the managers that they can become Product Owners or Scrum Masters to keep in control

C.

Teach the Scrum team that they should keep their managers involved in planning sprint tasks

Teach the managers how to read the Scrum board to make sure they can intervene on time

D.

Teach the Scrum teams to check in with their managers often enough to give them a sense of control

Teach the managers how to influence the Product Owners and Scrum Masters to keep control

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Questions 28

Program Stakeholders, the Program Product Owner, Program Scrum Master, and Chief Product Owner have

gathered together to create the Project Vision. They are trying to determine and document the difference

between current business capabilities and the final desired set of capabilities. Which one of the following

should they use to arrive at a conclusive decision?

Options:

A.

Trial Project.

B.

JAD Session.

C.

Gap Analysis.

D.

SWOT Analysis.

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Questions 29

Collaboration within a team is an important principle of Scrum. All of the following activities constitute

collaboration EXCEPT:

Options:

A.

The Scrum Team decides which User Stories are important and assigns which Sprint they should be

worked on.

B.

The Scrum Team discusses the best approach to creating deliverables during a Sprint.

C.

A Scrum Team member is facing difficulties in one of his tasks and another team member pitches in to

help him.

D.

The Scrum Team interacts with the Product Owner to obtain clarification on User Stories.

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Questions 30

During a Daily Standup Meeting, several members of the team voice their concerns about some Acceptance

CriteriA. Which of the following would be the best course of action?

Options:

A.

The Product Owner must proactively help the team solve issues during the meeting.

B.

The Product Owner should discuss the issues with the management and come up with solutions after the

meeting.

C.

Discuss and resolve issues as and when they are spoken about during the meeting.

D.

Discuss among Core Roles after the meeting and resolve the issues.

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Questions 31

A start-up company that uses Scrum has a discussion Some of the coworkers do not see the use of portfolio planning for such a small company After all they only have two small Scrum teams.

Why is the portfolio planning important for this company?

Options:

A.

Aligning both Scrum teams m the portfolio planning to identify any dependencies will help them be more productive

B.

Defining the planning horizon for the next three to five years will allow the employees to work without further guidance

C.

Determining which products support the organization's goals and objectives is important for a company of any size

D.

Ensuring that the product backlog is clearly documented, refined and made visible will create the most value

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Questions 32

Which of the following should be cross-functional?

Options:

A.

Development Team

B.

Product Owner

C.

All of the above

D.

Scrum Master

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Questions 33

All of the following events and activities are examples of adaptation, EXCEPT:

Options:

A.

Seeking help from team members

B.

Experienced team members mentoring new members

C.

Recording Lessons learned to improve processes and address problems

D.

Using information radiators to track the project progress

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Questions 34

A company that builds propellers for ships has incurred heavy losses while implementing the product at the end of the project. This is because a large number of customer requirements which changed during the project were not incorporated into the deliverables. The company could have avoided this situation if it had applied the Scrum Methodology, as it would have ensured that any change requested by the customer was included as part of the project, and that the team produced deliverables that were better suited to the final business environment. Which Scrum aspect is being emphasized here?

Options:

A.

Value-based prioritization

B.

Appropriation

C.

Iterative development

D.

Transparency

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Exam Code: ASM
Exam Name: EXIN Agile Scrum Master
Last Update: Dec 11, 2023
Questions: 227