PSPO II Practice Quiz

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PSPO II Practice Quiz - 3

Product Backlog management includes which of the following activities ? (choose all that apply) *

1 point

Adding estimates to Product Backlog items.

Ordering the items in the Product Backlog.

Identifying and reducing dependencies between Product Backlog items.

Breaking down larger Product Backlog items into smaller items.

Reviewing the Product Backlog with key stakeholders.

Estimates to Product Backlog items.

Required

When should refining of the Product Backlog occur ? (choose the two best answers) *

1 point

The Product Owner does this between the end of the previous Sprint and the start of the next.

The Product Owner and the Developers do it in the current Sprint if they have been unable to do it in preceding Sprints.

The Business Analysts prepare items be worked on at least 1 Sprint ahead of development.

The Product Owner and the Developers can refine the Product Backlog during any Sprint as needed, ideally in advance of the upcoming Sprint.

The Product Owner must do this as essential work in Sprint 0.

Required

Your organization's portfolio consists of several products. Management has decided to place the lead revenue generating product into maintenance mode, taper off its investment, and seek other opportunities for future growth. What may have led to this ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Your organization has stopped using Scrum.

None of the answers provided.

All the answers provided.

The product has been losing customers, revenues are down, and the Unrealized Value is low (even though the Current Value is high).

The innovation rate for the product is low.

The organization has decided to reduce operational overhead and to focus on products that generate better Product cost Ratios.

How does the Scrum Master serve the Product Owner ? (choose the three best answers) *

1 point

Introducing cutting edge development practices.

Leading and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption.

Facilitating stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed.

Finding techniques for effective Product Backlog management.

Understanding product planning in an empirical environment.

Required

When should the Sprint Retrospectives happen ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

At the end of each Sprint.

After each release.

Any time as needed or requested.

After the project has been delivered.

The Evidence-Based Management (EBM) consists of four Key Value Areas (KVAs). Which of the following best describes the Key Value Area of Current Value (CV) ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

It reveals the value that the product delivers to customers, today.

It expresses the ability of a product development organization to deliver new capabilities that might better meet customer needs.

It suggests the potential future value that could be realized if the organization could perfectly meet the needs of all potential customers.

It expresses the organization’s ability to quickly deliver new capabilities, services, or products.

Jane is a Product Owner of a scaled product development effort with multiple Scrum Teams involved. She is stretched thin and is unable to spend enough time with all of the teams. Which of the following strategies would be the most helpful ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Split the Product Backlog and add a Product Owner to each in order to spread the work.

All the answers provided.

None of the answers provided.

Hire Business Analysts to assist the Product Owner.

Delegate some of the Product Owner work to the Developers on the Scrum Teams.

Move towards a scaled Scrum framework.

Which preferred Product Owner stance helps people to align around the product vision and get people excited to join the case ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

The Influencer

The Visionary

The Manager

The Subject Matter Expert

The Product Owner has the final say on if an Increment is “Done”. True or False : *

1 point

True.

False.

Which three activities would be the most appropriate for a Product Owner ? (choose the three best answers) *

1 point

Designing software.

Ordering the Product Backlog.

Breaking down larger Product Backlog items into smaller ones.

Estimating the sizes of Product Backlog items.

Making technical decisions.

Creating Product Backlog items.

Required

What best describes a user satisfaction gap ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

The difference between time to market and ability to innovate.

None of the answers provided.

The difference between the market share of the product and the total market size.

The difference between the user's desired outcome and the user's actual experience.

The difference between the costs to release and revenue generated.

Experimentation can help a Product Owner to : (choose all that apply) *

1 point

Understand the Product/Market fit and business viability of a product.

Have complete certainty as to the future success of a product.

Make decisions on whether to invest and build something.

Reduce waste

Required

You are a Product Owner hired to take the lead on a new company initiative. As the one responsible for the success of the Product, you are responsible for creating, managing, and owning the Product Vision. Which is the best approach for defining the Product Vision ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Collaborate with your stakeholders, Scrum Team, customers, and users to develop an initial Product Vision that clear and inspiring. Iterate and improve it over time.

Have your stakeholders, Scrum Team, customers, and users submit different Product Visions. When enough suggestions have been collected, facilitate a session to vote on the best one. This creates a formal agreement to protect the Product Vision from changing during development.

Take some time alone to focus on what the vision should look like and present it to the steering committee for approval.

Fully formulate the Product Backlog first and the define the Product Vision based on the "must have" features.

Your product has several internal stakeholders. You've gathered the following feedback related product direction : The CEO thinks the feature is too expensive and suggests staying focused on the market you're currently serving. The CMO tells you that there's a new market opportunity and believes that in order to reach it, the product will need a new feature. The Developers estimate that this new feature will require a high level of effort. As the Product Owner, you have full ownership of final product decisions. How should you proceed ? (choose the best answer) *

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Develop an experiment that will help the business to better understand the new market, market opportunities and its potential.

Follow the CMO's suggestion as he/she is the expert in understanding market opportunities.

Gather additional feedback and needs of the other stakeholders.

Follow the CEO's suggestion as he/she is ultimately responsible for the success of the organization.

Focus on the current market as you do not want to risk losing customers.

A Visionary Product Owner tends to : (choose the best answer) *

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support people in their own discovery process, whether it’s about defining goals, clarifying PBIs or analyzing customer needs.

know all about the Scrum Team's velocity and predictability and maximizing output in order to deliver all features.

focus on the future, on changing the status quo and helping people to see what could be, instead of what is.

know all about the details, and about every bug in the software or system.

Which of the following is the Product Owner accountable for maintaining and communicating ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

All the answers provided.

The Definition of Done.

None of the answers provided.

The utilization of the Developers.

The Product Vision.

The Sprint burn-down chart.

Your company has invested in a large agile transformation initiative. Management does not have experience in 'agile' environments and wants to know how to measure whether the transformation is succeeding or not. Which measure would help evaluate agile transformation effectiveness ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

The number of on-time, on-budget, and on-scope projects.

Average team velocity.

Customer outcomes.

The number of Scrum Teams.

All of the answers provided.

You work for a large financial organization that has many existing products. The products are interdependent. There is a high level of effort to synchronize releases as changes in one product will also affect the other products. This creates challenges in maintaining consistency and adds complexity. What would be the best way to reduce this problem ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

All of the answers provided.

Make the products as independent as possible and have each product determine their own release plans.

Appoint a Product Owner to lead to oversee all products.

Ensure that Dev-Ops manages the interdependencies.

Apply Release Planning to coordinate cross-platform releases to ensure consistency.

None of the answers provided.

Scrum addresses which of the following four risks in software development ? (choose the four best answers) *

1 point

The skills and working relationships of the people on the teams.

The complexity and unpredictability of the requirements.

The timescale of the planned work.

The clear definitions of stages and gateways in the overall governance model.

The definition of incentive and bonus strategies by HR for all team members.

The stability and complexity of the technology.

Required

Which of the following are considered preferred Product Owner stances ? (choose all that apply) *

1 point

The Visionary

The Decision Maker

The Subject Matter Expert

The Collaborator

The Story Writer

Required

What can be used to help you understand the potential market for your product ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

All of the answers provided.

Net Promoter Score (NPS).

None of the answers provided.

Revenue trends.

Usage Index.

Market Share trends.

What is the value of a Product Owner having a clear and inspiring Product vision ? (choose the three best answers) *

1 point

It provides a focus when making decisions.

It is not defined in Scrum and therefore optional.

It provides a direction and purpose for the product.

It ensures that the Scrum Team is committed to deliver all of the Product Backlog items.

It makes it easier to inspect progress.

Required

The DISC is a model that divides behavior into four personality types : Dominance : People with the D style tend to be direct, firm, or even forceful. They value taking action and getting results and generally are competitive. Influence : People with the I style tend to be outgoing, enthusiastic, and generally are optimistic in nature. Like the D style, they like to take action and are more collaborative than competitive. Steadiness : People with the S style tend to be patient and accommodating. They enjoy stability and much like the I style tend to be collaborative and enjoy being helpful. Conscientiousness : People with the C style are usually analytical and reserved. Similar to the S style, they prefer stability, but their priority on accuracy will cause them to challenge assumptions. What would be the best way when approaching a stakeholder with a mostly Dominant trait ? (choose the two best answers) *

1 point

Providing him/her with options.

Offering him/her solutions.

Build empathy and ask him/her for advice.

Convince him/her to escalate the problems.

Required

What is the benefit of having short release cycles ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

It provides teams with more opportunities to inspect and adapt.

It helps teams to better manage defects.

Smaller, more frequent releases are less risky.

None of the answers provided.

All the answers provided.

Teams are able to receive user feedback earlier to better understand and meet customer needs.

You are a Product Owner joining an existing Scrum Team that has been working together for eight Sprints. The Developers have grown to have a good understanding of the functionality and business for the product they have been building. As the new Product Owner, what are the two most effective ways for you to onboard ? (choose the two best answers) *

1 point

You have the Developers send you daily updates on changing business priorities. The Daily Scrum allows the Developers to adapt to the changes in scope without delay.

You rely on the Developers and the stakeholders to formulate the Product Backlog, as they are the ones most knowledgeable. By asking them questions and working with them you will quickly be up to speed.

You start building a good relationship with the stakeholders of the product. Ongoing interaction with them is important to regularly align with changing organizational or market expectations. You also invite the right stakeholders to the Sprint Review meeting.

You make sure that there are no ambiguities or possible misunderstandings in the items on the Product Backlog when they are handed over to the Developers. This is best done by capturing the functional requirements during an analysis phase, resulting in documents that are considered as the working product of such analysis Sprints.

Required

Agile approaches help organizations rapidly respond to market changes. Which measurements would be helpful in identifying improvement areas to an organization's ability to respond to change ? (choose all that apply) *

1 point

On-Product Index

Cycle Time

Revenue per Employee

Technical Debt

Velocity

Required

Each __________ has a separate Product Backlog. (choose the best answer) *

1 point

All the answers provided.

product

Scrum Team

testing team

portfolio

Management has asked you for advice on which product to fund. Each product is focusing on different markets. Given the following information : Product A has very high user satisfaction scores and high market share. Product B has low user satisfaction scores, low market share, but is in a growing market in which no other competitor has significant market share. Which product would you suggest funding ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Product B

Product A

We don't know

Which of the following would be the best reason for reducing investment in a product ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

When the Current Value is very low.

When the Current Value is very high.

When the Unrealized Value is very high.

None of the answers provided.

When the Unrealized Value is very low.

Jane is a Product Owner of a product with a variety of stakeholders. The stakeholders are pressing Jane to add all of their feature requests into the next release. Each one says that their feature is urgent. As Product Owner, Jane has confirmed that their requests are indeed important. What should Jane do ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Hire additional team members in order to manage the extra work.

Delegate prioritization to the CPO in order to protect the Product Backlog.

Iteratively and incrementally release when single outcomes are fulfilled, even though not all features are done.

Release only when all features have been completed.

Which of the following is a benefit of using Scrum as an agile approach ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

All the answers provided.

Managing the business' exposure to risk.

Managing team member utilization.

On-time delivery of fixed scope.

Increasing team velocity.

None of the answers provided.

Evidence Based Management consists of which Key Value Areas (KVA) ? (choose all that apply) *

1 point

Current Value

Time to Market

Customer Value

Product Quality

Ability to Innovate

Unrealized Value

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As a Product Owner, understanding the Scrum Team's velocity will help you measure time to market and innovation rate. How does technical debt relate to velocity ? (choose the two best answers) *

1 point

As the Developers are working on new Product Backlog items, they can run into technical debt resulting in an unexpected slowdown in velocity.

Adding estimates to technical debt will allow the Scrum Team to maintain constant velocity therefore ensuring predictability.

A Scrum Team can artificially inflate velocity by allowing technical debt to be incurred.

They are not related because technical debt is non-functional and velocity is calculated based on end user functionality.

Required

Who participates at the Sprint Review ? (choose all that apply) *

1 point

The Developers.

The CEO.

The Product Owner.

The CMO.

The Key Stakeholders.

The Scrum Master.

Required

During the Sprint Review, your stakeholders suggest temporarily delaying the start of the next Sprint in order to react more quickly to the expected user feedback after the latest release. As a Product Owner, what would be two acceptable approaches ? (choose the two best answers) *

1 point

Continue with the Sprints but shorten the Sprint time-boxes to allow for shorter feedback loops.

Continue with the Sprints and include the customer feedback in the Product Backlog.

Continue with the Sprints but allow the Sprint Goal within the Sprint to change according to the customer feedback.

Delay the next Sprint to allow the Developers to work on new customer feedback.

Required

Your organization multiple versions of the same product. The different versions are needed for older and various devices. You're spending almost all of your effort fixing and supporting the different variations and this leaves you no time to improve the product and your ability to deliver value. Which Key Value Area does this impact ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Ability to Innovation.

Revenue per Employee.

Velocity.

All of the answers provided.

Cycle Time.

What type of indicator does value become if it is measured infrequently ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

A Leading indicator.

A Lagging indicator.

A new competitor has arrived in your market and has been quickly gaining traction. They are able to release much faster than you and they are able to create better customer engagement and satisfaction rates with with each release. What is the best first response ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Add features to your next release that you think will keep current customers as well as attract new customers.

Move your product to a different market that is less competitive.

Reduce your product's price to make it more attractive.

Improve your Time-to-Market and Ability to Innovate in order to respond faster.

Which statement is TRUE about the Cone of Uncertainty ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

It is designed to manage non-technical requirements in order to meet feature delivery commitments.

It is a tool that can identify and help eliminate all uncertainties.

It can be used in complex environments to help forecast when a scope of work might likely to be done.

It can help individual team members adhere to commitments.

Your job as a Product Owner includes sharing the Product Vision. What is the most effective way for a Product Owner to share your vision ? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

None of the answers provided.

Focus your pitch on the technology and features as it displays domain expertise.

Request the marketing department to formulate a single vision that is approved by all stakeholders.

Create a Vision statement general enough to be interpreted in different ways.

Make a tailor-made pitch for your different stakeholder groups and adapt your vision pitch, based upon your target audience.

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