During Sprint Planning, the Development Team was not able to confidently forecast a Sprint Backlog but the Scrum Team was able to create a Sprint Goal for upcoming Sprint. What action should the Scrum Master take?

What action should a Scrum Master take if the Development Team has decided that Retrospectives are no longer necessary?

Which approach would you recommend to ensure that the Product Backlog items discussed at Sprint Planning are well understood, actionable, and easier to forecast?

Steven, who is a Scrum Master, on one of the Scrum Teams has approached you asking for advice. Their Daily Scrum requires more than 15 minutes and the team has suggested dividing themselves into two separate teams in order to stay within the time box. As another Scrum Master, what would be the best response?

During the Sprint Retrospective, the team is discussing the quality issues that prevented the team from delivering a releasable Increment at the end of the Sprint. The Development Team does, however, mention that they were able to achieve a high velocity. What are the best two responses for Steven, their Scrum Master, to take? (Choose two.)

Steven is a Scrum Master for three Scrum Teams building the same product and working from the same Product Backlog. Management wants to standardize how velocity is calculated across all three teams in order to identify which teams are high performing and which teams need more support. What would be the best two responses Steven could provide to management? (Choose two.)

In what ways does the Scrum Master keep a Development Team working at its highest level of productivity?

Several Sprints into a project, a client is complaining to the Product Owner about the poor performance of the product. As a Scrum Master, how can you help the Product Owner?

The Development Team discovers that it doesn’t have the tools and infrastructure to make each selected Product Backlog item done. What is the most appropriate action for the Scrum Master to take?

What is the most appropriate action for the Scrum Master to take if the Product Owner is having difficulties managing the Product Backlog?

What guideline should the Scrum Master provide if the Product Owner asks how estimations should be made in Scrum?

A Scrum Master teaches those who are interested in the Development Team’s progress that progress in Scrum comes from inspecting an Increment at the Sprint Review.

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 Development Team from being disrupted during the Sprints?

If there are multiple Scrum Teams working on the same product, all of the Scrum Teams must mutually define a Definition of Ready (DoR). The DoR is a checklist that the Product Owner must fulfill before a Product Backlog item can be presented at the Sprint Planning. This protects the Development Team from interruptions and disruptions during the Sprint.

Steven is a Scrum Master employed by the engineering department. The Director of Engineering considers using Scrum for a new project but wonders about the value of having all of the Development Team members attend the Daily Scrum. He is concerned that the employees already attend a lot of mandatory company meetings. What are two outcomes of the Daily Scrum that Steven should explain on why the Daily Scrum is important? (Choose two.)

Your company has notified the stakeholders that they will be delivering the first release of a new product within ten Sprints. On the seventh Sprint, the Scrum Team discovers that they will not be able to include all of the expected features within the first release. The Product Owner believes if they remove some items from the Definition of Done they will be able to accelerate the development process. The Development Team objects to this idea as it will lead to technical debt. As a Scrum Master, what would

What action can the Scrum Master take to ensure communication between the Development Team and Product Owner is effective?

You are the Scrum Master for four Scrum Teams working on one product. Several of the developers notify you that their teams will need full-time help of an external technical specialist in the upcoming two Sprints. What key concerns should the Scrum Master take into account?

During a Product Backlog refinement meeting, the Product Owner introduces a business objective that will be worked on for the next several Sprints. The Product Owner envisions several key features necessary to be delivered in order to meet the business objective. As the features will be using sensitive user data it will be subjected to external security audits. These non-functional security requirements were not applicable to previous Increments. What are two good ways the Development Team can handle these

A Scrum Master is keeping a list of open impediments, but it is growing and he/she has been able to resolve only a small portion of the impediments. Which would be the LEAST helpful technique in this situation?

On a project where multiple Scrum Teams are working from the same Product Backlog, how should the work be distributed between teams?

Steven, a Scrum Master, has been hired by an organization that is new to Scrum. He has been invited to meet the IT and product management team to kick-off the project. During the meeting the Product Owner asks how many Sprints will be needed to address the entire architecture and infrastructure before working on the features for the new product. What are the two best responses for Steven to explain how such work is handled in Scrum? (Choose two.)

The director of engineering in your organization always stresses the importance of meeting deadlines in order for the engineering department to be seen as a reliable source for the product management department. The director has calculated that the team’s velocity needs to increase an additional 15% to meet the commitment he made to management for the release date of the product. He asks Steven, the team’s Scrum Master, to increase his team’s velocity. Which would be the best two responses for Steven to tak

How should a Scrum Master coordinate the work when more than one Scrum Team is working on one product?

What would be the best two ways to identify that a Development Team is self-organizing? (Choose two.)