PSPO II Practice Quiz

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PSPO II Practice Quiz - 1

As a Product Owner, you have sufficient data showing the outcome of the last release. The information shows that very few people are utilizing the new functionality and a number of features are never being used. Which of the following actions could you take to further evaluate this unexpected result? (choose all that apply) *

1 point

Spend more time talking with your users to understand their needs.

Turn off the features that are never used and seek more user feedback.

Run experiments to increase your understanding of your customer needs.

Evaluate whether the features are solving the intended problems.

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Who is accountable for the Scrum Team’s effectiveness?

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The Developers

The Project Manager

The Scrum Master

The Product Owner

The whole Scrum Team

The Product Owner wants to know if customer value is being delivered. Which two measures would be the most helpful? (Select two answers) *

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Customer Happiness.

Increase in me the Developers spent writing code.

How close the team adheres to the Project Charter.

Feature Usage.

The Velocity of the Developers

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How can Scrum help with making funding and investment decisions? (choose the two best answers) *

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The only financial decisions required is the funding necessary for the operational costs of the Scrum Teams.

By releasing to the customers and users early and often.

By frequently inspecting the outcomes of the delivered Sprint Increments to understand how much value is being produced per investment spent.

Setting a fixed budget will ensure that the project is delivered on-time, within scope, and on-budget.

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John, a Product Owner, notices that the Developers have been struggling to get the forecasted work done in the last few Sprints. What can John do to help the team? (choose the two best answers) *

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Inform the Scrum Master so he/she can help the Developers learn techniques for improving their ability to forecast work.

Do not end the Sprint until the work is done.

John can spend more time with the Developers.

Make the Definition of Done less stringent.

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In Scrum, how would budgeting and financial forecasting be performed? (choose the two best answers) *

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Frequently inspect the outcomes of the delivered Sprint Increments to understand how much value is being produced per investment spent.

A single release may be funded with several Sprints where every Sprint is producing shippable increments.

Budgeting is not necessary as the only funding necessary is the operational costs of the Scrum Teams.

Fixed budgets are not allowed in Scrum.

Required

Your product is the market leader in your segment. Your team is continuously releasing new features. The rate that you are releasing features is higher than the rate that the customers can adopt the features. Customers complain that while they are still getting used to a release, a new release will appear. Your Developers have also made you aware that technical debt is accumulating with each release. As a Product Owner, which would be the best approach? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Start focusing on how to improve the system in order to make releasing better and less risky, even if it means releasing less features.

Add customer support staff to help customers with their upgrade challenges.

Slow down the release cycles so customers have more time to catch-up.

Which of the following is NOT true about a Product Owner? (choose the best answer) *

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The Product Owner establishes a Product Vision.

The Product Owner accepts work done during the Sprint.

The Product Owner decides on when to release Product Increments.

The Product Owner defines the Sprint Goal for the Scrum Team.

During the development effort of your product, you have been frequently approached by various stakeholders asking for new features. You feel that a lot of the requests are either not aligned with the Product's vision or does not contribute to the Product's forward progress. As a Product Owner, which tool can help stakeholders steer on outcome (value steering) rather than steer on output (steering on features)? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Now-Next-Later product roadmap.

Release plans.

Goal Oriented product roadmap.

GANTT chart.

Story maps.

Measuring the number of times team members switch tasks and the frequency of interruptions can help identify improvements to which two Key Value Areas? (choose the two best answers) *

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Current Value

Time to Market

Unrealized Value

Ability to Innovate

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Which statement best describes the Sprint Review? (choose the best answer) *

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An inspection of all of the work done in the Sprint by the Developers.

An opportunity for the Product Owner to evaluate the results of the Developers.

An opportunity to Inspect the Increment and adapt the Product Backlog.

A demonstration of functionality completed in the Sprint.

As a Product Owner, who can you invite to the Sprint Review? (choose all that apply) *

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Your clients/customers.

Your product's investors/sponsors.

Your end users.

Your internal stakeholders.

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You have a Scrum Team that has been working together for over a year. The team consists of 11 Developers who rarely collaborate and work within their functional boundaries. There are no Sprint Goals and most of the items in the Sprint Backlog are unrelated. The Scrum Team has concluded that it is not possible to create Sprint Goals based on the items in the Product Backlog. What might explain why the Scrum Team is finding it difficult to craft Sprint Goals? (choose all that apply) *

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The Product Owner doesn’t set objectives that he/she wants to achieve with upcoming Sprints.

The Sprints are too long.

There are too many people in the scrum team

Scrum might not be the best framework for this team.

The Product Owner is not empowered to make decisions about items in the Product Backlog nor how they are ordered.

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Improved business value is a desired outcome of using the Scrum framework as an agile approach. True or False : *

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True.

False

The Product Owner is responsible for deciding when to deliver product releases to customers. The Developers are responsible for creating an increment that is potentially shippable. As a Product Owner, how can you help improve the release cycle? (choose all that apply) *

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Involve the Release Department as they are the ones responsible for deploying product increments to the customers.

Support the Developers in getting ownership over the release process.

Collaborate with your Developers to automate the release process, automate tests, automate deployments, etc.

Raise awareness about the release process with your stakeholders and work with your company to remove organizational impediments hindering the Developers.

Plan at least one release Sprint every month.

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You are a Product Owner at a company that is new to Scrum. The stakeholders are coming to you to requesting functionality to be added to the product and defining the priorities of their requests. As a result, your decision making is slow and time-consuming. Which three approaches are the most appropriate to take? (choose the three best answers) *

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Ensure there's transparency and alignment with the Product Owner decision-making areas and help everyone understand what you're responsible and accountable for.

Work with your Scrum Master to help the company understanding product ownership and improve the environment to support Scrum.

Add stakeholder requests to a separate list. Synchronize the list with the Product Backlog to ensure every Sprint includes item(s) from the stakeholder list.

Request to hire a Business Analyst to the team in order to help you work the stakeholders and breakdown their requirements into User Stories in the Product Backlog.

Create a Value Stream Map to demonstrate how long it is taking you to make decisions as Product Owner and the impact it has on delivering value to the users.

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Your product releases are failing to generate the revenue you had expected. Which action would help you understand the problem? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Measuring Release Frequency

Measuring Usage Index

Measuring Innovation Rate

Measuring Lead Time

Which of the following statements is TRUE about the Sprint Backlog? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

The Product Owner has the final say on the scope and the ordering of the Sprint Backlog.

The Developers commit to completing the Sprint Backlog by the end of the Sprint time-box.

The Developers own the Sprint Backlog.

It is helpful to have the Sprint Backlog defined before the Sprint Planning.

What is TRUE about the Stakeholder's role in Scrum? (choose the best answer) *

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The Scrum Master schedules all stakeholder interactions.

The Product Owner is responsible for engaging with the Stakeholders, but can be delegated.

The Head of Product represents the Stakeholder needs and is the point of contact for product requirements.

Only the Developers can engage with the Stakeholders.

The Business Analyst (Subject Matter Experts) is responsible for engaging with the Stakeholders and collecting requirements for the Product Owner.

A new market opportunity has appeared and your organization will need to react quickly. In order to capture this valuable opportunity, you must accelerate your deliveries. Some managers are proposing extending work hours, some recommend hiring more resources, the Developers suggest automating both testing and releasing efforts. What would help guide you in solving this problem and where to focus improvements? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

All the answers provided.

Ask the employees what their biggest struggles are.

Create a visualization of the whole process and identify any bottlenecks affecting the flow using Value Stream Mapping (VSM).

Analyze utilization rates of the team members in order to optimize the work effort.

Work with HR to hire additional members while also including automation to the development effort.

You are a new Product Owner brought in to fix an existing product. The product is integral to the organization's long-term vision. When examining the issues you were able to learn that : (1) The last three releases have had no positive impact on product value. (2) The costs to build and maintain a release is high compared to the revenue it generates. i.e. Product Cost Ratio. (3) The time from which the team starts working on a release to having it shipped to users is long. i.e. Time-to-Market. As the Product Owner, which strategy would you pursue? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Focus on identifying and delivering high-value features that will gain more customers and increase revenue.

Improve the team's Ability to Innovate by identifying and eliminating the waste that is creating the high cost ratios and long release cycles.

Suggest cancelling the product and focus on other opportunities as the Unrealized Value is low.

What can a Product Owner achieve through experimentation? (choose all that apply) *

1 point

Understanding Product-Market fit and if a viable business can be created around a Product.

Eliminating all uncertainty and risks to the future success of a Product.

Making decisions on investment strategies and funding

Identifying waste.

Required

Which of the following would help you evaluate how much value is being delivered? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

All the answers provided.

The number of Product Backlog items in a release.

The cycle-time cost of the product release.

How frequently your product is used by your customers.

The number of Story Points delivered by the Developers.

None of the answers provided.

Jane, a Product Owner, does not have enough time to do all of the things that are needed to be done as she is overloaded and stretched too thin. What can Jane do? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Ask the developers to help with some of the responsibilities.

Split the product into different units, each unit will have its own Product Owner, and a delivery manager who will be responsible for integrating releases.

Assign some of the work to Business Analysts in order to spread the workload.

None of the answers provided.

All the answers provided.

Jane, a Product Owner, sees that sales for his product is declining whereas a competitor's is increasing. Which Key Value Areas (KVA) can help Jane analyze and decide what to do next? (choose the two best answers) *

1 point

Current Value

Ability to innovate

Time to Market

Unrealized Value

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What is the stance of the Product Owner during the Sprint Retrospective? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

A Manager.

A Scribe.

A peer Scrum Team Member.

He/She does not have to be there.

Which would be a desired outcome of using an agile approach? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Eliminating business risk exposure.

All the answers provided.

None of the answers provided.

Decreasing non-value-added waste.

Maximize predictability.

Maximizing productivity.

Which of the following is the most effective way of improving the Time-to-Market of a product? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Hiring more team members.

All the answers provided.

Increasing project funding.

Understanding and removing impediments to faster deliver.

Working harder to go fast.

Removing low performing people.

According to the Scrum Guide, where should the Daily Scrum be held? (choose the best answer) *

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Wherever the Product Owner decides is most suitable.

In front of the Scrum board.

Wherever the Scrum Master decides is best.

Wherever the Developers decide is most suitable.

In the same location where the Developers are seated.

As a Product Owner, what are two approaches that can help you manage your business's exposure to risk? (choose the two best answers) *

1 point

Conduct experiments so you can better understand customer needs.

Ensure that no changes are made to the Sprint plan during an active Sprint.

Create a risk management plan that identifies all future risks and solutions for addressing those risks.

Keep the releases as small as possible, and release when the increment can provide a single new or improved outcome.

Ensure that the Product Backlog items committed to at Sprint Planning are completed by the end of the Sprint.

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Who is allowed to make changes in the Product Backlog? (choose the two best answers) *

1 point

The Developers, in agreement with the Product Owner.

The Key Stakeholders.

The Product Owner.

Anyone.

The Scrum Master.

Required

Which best describes testing responsibilities in a Scrum Team? (choose the two best answers) *

1 point

The Developers as a whole are responsible for the quality of the product.

Increments must be approved by the Tester before it can be deemed releasable.

Ensuring all test cases created at Sprint Planning have been passed.

Scrum recognizes no Tester titles for team members.

Required

When there are multiple Scrum Teams working on the same product, each team should demonstrate its individual Increment in a separate branch of the code. True or False : *

1 point

False.

True.

Your organization requires all Increments to pass user acceptance testing (UAT) before it is allowed to be released to production. Is it a good idea to postpone UAT until the end of the project to prevent the Developers from being disrupted during the Sprints? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Yes, because the Developers are a self-managing team and should not be disrupted during development.

No, because the state of the Product Increment won't be transparent and the feedback loop would be too long.

Yes, because UAT is done in a hardening Sprint before the release Sprint.

It depends on the team's Definition of Done.

Considering the following : (1) Team A is averaging a velocity of 55 units of work per Sprint. (2) Team B is averaging a velocity of 40 units of work per Sprint. Which team is delivering more value? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Team A

We don't know

Team B

You are a Product Owner on a Scrum Team that has been working on a product for several iterations and has an average velocity of 75 units of 'done' work per Sprint. A second Scrum Team will be added to work on the same product. What might be the impact on the original team? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

Their velocity is likely to rise and be more than 75.

Their velocity is likely not affected and will remain at 75.

Their velocity is likely to drop and be less than 75.

Which statement best describes a Sprint forecast? (choose the best answer) *

1 point

A Sprint forecast is the amount of work the Developers believe they can complete in the current Sprint.

Sprint forecasts allow stakeholders to know what the Scrum Team has committed to deliver in future releases.

Sprint forecasts is a tool for measuring the performance of the team.

A Sprint forecast is the commitment of the Developers to finish completely before the Sprint time-box ends.

Your product is currently meeting your targets and goals. The board members in your organization are convinced that there is still a large share of potential customers in your product's market. The CSO advises you to reduce your product's price in order to attract those customers but the CFO argues that this would have a negative impact the product’s profit. What sources of information can help you decide on your product's pricing strategy? (choose the three best answers) *

1 point

Unmet customer needs

Company earnings reports

Sales channel strategy

Competitor's pricing

Customer satisfaction

Market share

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A desirable Product Vision _________ (choose the best answer) *

1 point

All the answers provided.

None of the answers provided.

reminds the team of the direction so they understand how their roles and daily activities contribute to the bigger picture.

is approved by all stakeholders.

is a formal agreement with the business.

What questions must the Developers use at the Daily Scrum? (choose the best answers) *

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What impediments are in my way or in the way of the team?

How is the Sprint proceeding?

What work am I going to do today to help the team achieve its goal?

Why were you late?

What work did I do yesterday to help the team achieve its goal?

None of the answers provided.

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