PSPO II Practice Quiz

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PSPO II Practice Quiz - 2

A Scrum Team has just completed Sprint 5. The average velocity is 55 points per Sprint. The remaining items in the Product Backlog total 220 points. The Product Owner forecasts that the remaining items can be completed in the next 5 Sprints. Will this project deliver the desired impact by the end of Sprint 10 ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Yes.

No.

We don't know.

The Evidence-Based Management (EBM) consists of four Key Value Areas (KVAs). One of which is Ability to Innovate (A2I). The goal of looking at the A2I is to maximize the organization’s ability to deliver new capabilities and innovative solutions. Which action can improve your A2I ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Co-locating the team members.

All the answers provided.

Setting days where there are no meetings outside of the Scrum events in order to increase focus.

Increasing the level of your team's cross-functionality skills.

In Scrum, every product needs a ______________. (choose the best answer) *

1 point

deadline

All the answers provided.

None of the answers provided.

comprehensive business plan

Product Owner

finalized requirements documentation

You are releasing new versions of your product every week. Most of what's being delivered are only minor changes or bug fixes which is not improving your product's current low customer satisfaction measurements. What two Key Value Areas should be your focus in order to improve your product ? (choose the two best answers) *

1 point

Ability to Innovate

Current Value

Unrealized Value

Time to Market

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What would be two boundaries, defined in Scrum, that gives guidance for teams to effectively self-manage ? (choose the two best answers) *

1 point

Having a mixture of different levels of skills and experience to promote domain knowledge sharing.

Time-boxing the events in Scrum to allow for regular inspection and adaptation creating opportunities to adjust course in any given path.

Clearly defined functional teams between the Developers to define handoff phases during development.

Creating an integrated and potentially shippable Increment by the end of each Sprint.

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What can be measures of internal value ? (choose all that apply) *

1 point

Time spent context-switching

Customer or user satisfaction gap

On-Product Index

Employee Satisfaction

Cycle Time

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During the Sprint Review, the Product Owner is sharing the latest product user analytics. A couple of the features have not been received well by the end users. One of the stakeholders feels that the product is not at the stage where it's useful to measure data yet. The Product Owner has validated that the measures are accurate, a good representation of user satisfaction, and valuable to help you and your team. What should the Product Owner do ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Stop measuring user data until the product has matured enough.

Continue measuring and sharing the outcomes to provide transparency and openness, and continue to use the data to help with decision making.

Continue measuring user data but only share it when needed in order to avoid conflict with stakeholders.

Which two measures can help a Product Owner evaluate how much impact is being delivered ? (choose the two best answers) *

1 point

How many Story Points is completed per Sprint.

How much of the scope has been delivered versus what was planned.

How frequently your deliveries are being used.

How many items the team is delivering per Sprint.

How satisfied the customers are.

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Which of the following statements are valid when scaling the Product Owner role ? (choose all that apply) *

1 point

Each Product has a Product Owner.

Large Product efforts require multiple Product Owners.

The Product Owner role can be scaled by delegating responsibilities to the Developers.

There is only one Product Backlog for each Product.

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Successful use of Scrum depends on how well people behave and act in ways that reflect the Scrum values. What can the value of openness affect ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Collaboration efforts.

Trust from stakeholders.

Level of product quality.

Team member happiness.

All the answers provided.

Time to market.

John is new to the Product Owner role and is asking you for advice on what he should be doing to be an effective Product Owner. Which of the following would be the most appropriate advice to give him ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Ensure that all of the stakeholder needs are met.

None of the answers provided.

All the answers provided.

Maximize the productivity of the team.

Be the only point of contact for all stakeholders.

Have an understanding of all items in the Product Backlog to the level needed to maximize the flow of value.

A Product Owner has decided to remove a product feature that's currently on production. Which measure could have led to this decision ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Too much time spent context-switching

Increasing Defect trend

Long Cycle Times

Low Customer Usage Index

What are the artifacts in Scrum ? (choose all that apply) *

1 point

The Spring Goal.

The Product Backlog.

The Increment.

The Sprint Backlog.

The list of removed impediments.

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The ability of a product development organization to deliver new capabilities that might meet customer needs can be expressed through which measure ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Unrealized Value

Ability to Innovate

Time to Market

Current Value

You are a Product Owner of a new product that will require a large development effort. Five teams will be working on the product. You discuss with them the high level of integration that the product Increment will require by the end of their first Sprint. The future team members have provided various suggestions on how to work together. As a Product Owner, which option would you support ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Each Scrum Team delivers functionality at the end of each Sprint. New Product Backlog items will then be added to the next Sprint Backlog to integrate their functionality with the other teams to create a unified Increment.

Each Scrum Team delivers Increments in its own code branch. After UAT is performed at the Sprint Review, the code branch is isolated until enough Increments are considered acceptable. All code branches will then be merged during the release phase.

All Scrum Teams agree on a mutual understanding of ‘done’ that defines all work necessary to deliver a potentially shippable Increment that includes all previous Increments delivered for the product.

Wait until enough of the infrastructure and architecture is in place before starting the first Sprints. This will increase the success of delivering integrated Increments in Sprint 1.

Interacting directly with the product's customers is an effective way for the Product Owner to assess value. True or False : *

1 point

True.

False.

Towards the end of the Sprint Planning, the Developers are NOT able to confidently forecast Product Backlog items for the Sprint. However, as the Product Owner, you are able to clearly define the business objective you hope to achieve in the Sprint. Which would be the best two approaches ? (choose the two best answers) *

1 point

If all agree they can extend the Sprint Planning until the Developers can forecast enough Product Backlog items before starting the implementation.

They discuss in the upcoming Sprint Retrospective why this happened and what changes will make it less likely to occur again.

Allow the Developers as much time as needed to review the Product Backlog items and reconvene when they are confident enough to make a forecast for the Sprint.

The Developers forecast the most likely Product Backlog items to meet the business objective and create a Sprint Backlog based on a likely initial design and plan. Once the time-box for the Sprint Planning meeting is over, they start implementation and continue to analyze, decompose, and create additional functionality during the Sprint.

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What questions would an organization ask in order to evaluate Current Value ? (choose all that apply) *

1 point

How happy are your employees? Is their happiness improving or declining ?

What prevents customers or users from benefiting from that innovation ?

How fast can you deliver new value to customers ?

How happy are users and customers today? Is their happiness improving or declining ?

How happy are your investors and other stakeholders? Is their happiness improving or declining ?

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As a Product Owner, you plan to increase the price of your product. Which would be the best approach to support the higher price ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Temporarily reduce the price to acquire more customers and gradually increase the price until the target price is achieved.

Improve the value your product delivers to the users.

Remove low value or wasteful features.

Increase the number of features.

According to the Scrum Guide, what would be considered the smallest Product Increment that would be valuable enough to be released ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

The Increment delivers a single new or improved outcome.

The Increment adds a new feature.

The Increment delivers all "must have" Product Backlog items.

The Increment includes fixes for at least one defect.

The Product Backlog : (choose the two best answers) *

1 point

is ordered by the Product Owner.

is visible to the Scrum Team and stakeholders.

is only described through User Stories.

only contains items defined by the Product Owner.

is managed by the Scrum Master.

must be finalized before the first Sprint can start.

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You are a Product Owner that has been building a product for a specific user group in mind. As your product's customer base grows, you begin to notice that different user groups have been using the product in different ways. Which of the following would be the best action to take ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Evaluate whether you could provide better business value by building different products to serve each user group.

No action needed. Focus on delivering the features that were committed to at the steering committee.

Ensure that every release provides something that satisfies all groups of users.

Create separate marketing campaigns for each group to attract more users and drive revenue.

You are a Product Owner and the most recent report is showing a downward trend in your product's users. A stakeholder (Subject Matter Expert) informs you that you need to release more features in order to win new customers. Based on the data you have collected, you have confirmed that the loss of customers is due to market changes rather than the lack of features. The stakeholder is afraid that if you don't increase the number of features in your next release, you risk missing the window of opportunity and losing the most valuable customers. As a Product Owner, which two actions are most appropriate ? (choose the two best answers) *

1 point

Acknowledge the stakeholder's viewpoint but decline to increase the number of features in the next release.

Run a small experiment, in collaboration with the stakeholder, to validate their feedback.

Acknowledge the stakeholder's viewpoint and increase the number of features in the next release.

Collaborate with other stakeholders to gather additional ideas and take a poll on which ideas you should pursue.

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What can be included in the Product Vision and Strategy that will keep people motivated about the product ? (choose all that apply) *

1 point

What people will gain by using the product.

How people will use the product to address their needs.

The advantages the product has over competitors.

How the product will generate revenue.

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What can help you improve product viability and business value ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Improving the predictability of the Developers' velocity.

Tracking team member utilization.

Ensuring no changes are made after project plan approval.

Using Evidence-Based Management.

As a Scrum Product Owner, what should be your most important activity ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Making sure that all the needs of the stakeholders are satisfied.

Being the primary contact point for all product details.

Ensuring the maximum value is delivered by the product.

Planning release schedules and roadmaps.

Which two statements are the most accurate in regard to scaling Scrum for large projects that require multiple Scrum Teams ? (choose the two best answers) *

1 point

A Product Owner must work full time on a single Scrum Team.

A well-structured Product Backlog can minimize and often eliminate Developers working on multiple Scrum Teams during a Sprint.

A person focusing on the Sprint Backlog of a single Scrum Team is often more productive than that same person working on multiple Scrum Teams at the same time.

Customizing the core Scrum framework is necessary to be successful with Scrum at large scale.

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What is a desired outcome of using the Evidence-Based Management (EBM) approach ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Identifying low performing teams and decide on training strategies.

Measuring team progress against the predefined project plan.

Continuously improve product viability and business value by ways of measuring delivered value and the ability to deliver value.

Improving the velocity and predictability of the Developers.

Management has asked you for advice on which product to fund. Each product is focusing on different markets. Given the following information : Product A is the main driver of both revenue and profit for your company. Product A has very happy customers (high Current Value) and low Unrealized Value. Product B is relatively new. Product B has low Current Value and high Unrealized Value. Both Product Owners of the two products are requesting significant additional funding to improve their products. What funding advice would you give management ? (choose the best answers) *

1 point

Invest funding in Product A because your company's success depends on its continued success.

Invest funding in Product B because it has more future potential for the company.

Split funding equally between both products.

Split funding proportionally based on product revenues.

What three attributes help build an effective User Story ? (choose the three best answers) *

1 point

Confirmation

Completeness

Compliance

Card

Conversation

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The Product Vision can evolve as the Scrum Team learns more about the customers and their desires. True or False : *

1 point

False.

True.

Product A produces high revenue. Product B is a new product. Using those two data points, information provided, and taking a long-term view, which of the options below should you pursue ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Weight your investment toward Product B since it has more future potential.

Weight your investment toward Product A as it is the lead revenue generator and you do not want to risk losing customers.

Invest in both products equally.

During the product's development effort, the market for which the product is being built has changed and evolved. What should you do ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Make changes to the Product Backlog to reflect what is needed to deliver the most value.

The Product Backlog should remain unchanged. Move the product to a more suitable market as you have already made investments in product development.

There is no impact as the commitment is to deliver on the approved project plan.

Replace the current Product Backlog with a new Product Backlog that fits the updated market.

Which Scrum events would people external to the Scrum Team participate ? (choose the two best answers) *

1 point

The Daily Scrum.

The Sprint Retrospective.

The Sprint Planning.

The Sprint Review.

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Personas is a technique used to describe the users and customers of a product. How can it help to make the right product decisions ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

All the answers provided.

Helping to understand the needs of a set of users.

Helping to discover what triggers customers.

Helping to formulate a hypothesis about product value.

Helping to understand the market potential.

None of the answers provided.

You are a Product Owner for a new product that has many stakeholders. You currently have a large unordered list of features. Consider the following : You have a limited time-box where all stakeholders can gather at the same time. You need to quickly gather their feedback regarding importance of several features. This information will be used to help you formulate an initial product roadmap. Which of the following tools would help you quickly gather their feedback ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

A Now-Next-Later product roadmap.

A Story Map.

A GANTT chart.

A Goal Oriented product roadmap.

Value Stream roadmap.

As a Product Owner, which of the following measures would you consider important ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Measurements that the reflect the quantity of features delivered.

Measurements that reflect the utilization rates of the Developers.

Measures that reflect changes that impact on your business.

Measurements that reflect on time delivery of commitments.

As an experienced Product Owner, your organization has asked you for your advice on investment strategies for two products. Given the following information : Product B generates more revenue than Product A Product B has higher user satisfaction rates than Product A Product A has bigger potential market opportunities than Product B Which of the following strategies would you advise ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

For both products, continually measure the impact of any new investments or marketing.

Increase marketing for Product B to grow its market share.

None of the answers provided.

Invest in Product A to increase its market share, user satisfaction, and revenue.

As a Product Owner, you've gathered a lot of ideas and suggestions. Based on the limited budget and time, you will not be able to pursue all of them. Which would be the best approach ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Distribute the budget evenly across all items in order to accurately compare the ROI between items.

Rank the items by Unrealized Value and invest fully in as many as possible.

Invest in the items that can potentially return the highest revenue for the upcoming year.

Fund small experiments to test the proposed ideas and assumptions, then evaluate outcomes.

What best describes a GO product roadmap ? (choose the two best answers) *

1 point

It provides an overview of all the user activities that need to be covered by the system.

It enables value steering.

It focuses on what is being worked on "now", what will be worked on "next", and work to be done "later".

It focuses more on the goals you want to achieve rather than the actual work to be done (the features).

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