Scrum Master Professional Certificate SMPC®
Sample Exam #1 V092021
1. If the Daily Meeting has a 15-minute timebox then...
a) The Sprint Review is 4 hours
b) The Sprint Review is 1 hour
c) Nothing can be said about the duration of the Sprint Review.
d) The Sprint Review is 2 hours
2. Who participates in the Sprint Retrospective meeting?
a) The Scrum Team
b) Mandatory for Developers and Product Owner, optional for Scrum Master and Customer
c) Mandatory for Developers, optional for Scrum Master, and Product Owner
d) Mandatory Scrum Team, optional the customer
3. The acronym that defines the Product Backlog is:
a) PEET (Prioritized, estimated, emergent and testable)
b) None
c) DEEP (Detailed appropriately, estimated, emergent, and prioritized)
d) DEET (Detailed appropriately, estimated, emergent and testable
4. Are Agile and Scrum the same thing?
a) True
b) False
5. Why is the Daily Scrum held at the same time and place?
a) It is the most optimal because it reduces complexity
b) Meeting rooms are difficult to book and this allows any location to be reserved
c) The place can be named
d) Because it is one of the principles of the Agile Manifesto
6. What are the roles in a Scrum Team?
a) Scrum Manager, Product Owner, and Developers
b) Scrum Tester, Product Owner, and Developers
c) None, in Scrum there are no roles
d) Scrum Project, Product Owner, and Scrum Manager
7. Which of the following is part of the Agile Manifesto?
a) Project manager team
b) Responding to change on the follow-up to a plan
c) Following a plan on the response to change
d) Contract negotiation on following a plan
8. If we need 20 engineers to develop an industrial engine, we could form five development teams
of four members each, where each development team has its own Scrum Master, and all
development teams have a Product Owner. Is this way of working adequately?
a) True
b) False
9. What is the time-box for a Sprint?
a) One month or less
b) 15 minutes
c) Depending on the product, project, or service, up to 1 month and a half
d) 2 hours always
10. All Sprints belonging to the same project have the same Definition of Done.
a) True
b) False
11. Who has more authority for the development team, the Scrum Master or Product Owner?
a) Scrum Master
b) Both
c) Product Owner
d) None
12. Scrum is?
a) Adaptive
b) Predictive
13. Generating a functional MVP, starting from the second sprint, is optional.
a) True
b) Sometimes
c) False
14. When does the second Sprint begin?
a) Immediately after the first Sprint
b) When the CEO decides
c) When the Development Team decides
d) Before the first Sprint ends
15. During the Sprint, the Scrum Master's role is to:
1. Remove Impediments
2. Facilitate Inspection and Adaptation opportunities
3. Manage the Scrum Team
4. Add or Remove Team Members
a) 1, 2, 3
b) None
c) 2, 3
d) 1, 2
e) All
16. A User Story is broken down into at least one task.
a) No, never
b) Yes, always
c) Depends on what the team decides
17. In which event is an increase shown to the customer?
a) Sprint Retrospective
b) Backlog refinement
c) Daily Scrum
d) Sprint Review
18. Which statement best describes the responsibility of a Scrum Master?
a) Ensure that the work meets the prerequisites of the Stakeholders
b) Responsible for promoting and supporting Scrum
c) Keeping stakeholders at bay
d) Team management as the Project Manager
19. A new developer has joined an existing Scrum team. He has been having ongoing conflicts with
the existing members and is making the environment hostile. If necessary, who would be
responsible for removing the new team member, and why?
a) CEO and the Scrum Master are responsible for this, as they are the main stakeholders
b) The Team is responsible because it is a self-managed team
c) A Scrum team member cannot be removed if the Sprint has started
d) The Product Owner and Scrum Master are responsible for this
e) Only with the CEO's approval can a person be removed from the team
Answers
1. C
2. A
3. C
4. B
5. A
6. C
7. B
8. A
9. A
10. B
11. D
12. A
13. C
14. A
15. D
16. C
17. D
18. B
19. B
