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PSM II Exam Prep: Study Materials & Mock Tests, Professional Scrum Master II Certification | SPOTO

Conquer the Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II) exam with our all-encompassing exam prep resources. This advanced-level certification assesses your ability to lead Scrum Teams and solve complex challenges. Our platform provides a variety of tools to ensure your success, including practice tests, free tests, exam practice questions, online exam questions, sample questions, and simulated mock exams. Sharpen your skills with our question bank featuring the latest practice tests and exam questions with answers. Feel confident and prepared as you approach the PSM II exam.
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Question #1
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.)
A. There is no direct relationship between velocity and value
B. Standardizing velocity across teams is a good way to understand which teams are producing the most value
C. Providing incentives based on velocity can increase the Scrum Team’s motivation to produce more value
D. Velocity is the amount of business functionality that a Scrum Team creates in a Sprint
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Correct Answer: D
Question #2
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.
A. True
B. False
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Correct Answer: A
Question #3
What would be the best two ways to identify that a Development Team is self-organizing? (Choose two.)
A. Management is able to know which members are working on which items
B. Creativity thrives and new possibilities are explored
C. The Development Team members are cross-functional and knows what it needs to do to deliver the all tasks committed to the Sprint Planning
D. The Development Team is able to resolve internal conflicts between members in order to continue working
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Correct Answer: AD
Question #4
What action can the Scrum Master take to ensure communication between the Development Team and Product Owner is effective?
A. Ensure all communication goes through the Scrum Master first
B. Teach the Product Owner to talk in terms of technology and technical requirements
C. Observe the communications between them and facilitate discussions if needed or by request
D. Translate the technologies used by the Development Team in order for the Product Owner to make decisions
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Correct Answer: A
Question #5
On a project where multiple Scrum Teams are working from the same Product Backlog, how should the work be distributed between teams?
A. The Scrum Team with the highest capacity will pull items from the Product Backlog first
B. Each Scrum Team must have an equal amount of User Stories per Sprint
C. The Product Owner separates the Product Backlog items for each team
D. The Development Teams pull in work from a shared Product Backlog in agreement with the Product Owner and the other teams
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Correct Answer: B
Question #6
What action should a Scrum Master take if the Development Team has decided that Retrospectives are no longer necessary?
A. Start facilitating more productive and useful Retrospectives
B. Suggest reducing the frequency of the Retrospectives
C. Extend the Sprint time-box in order to fit the Retrospectives
D. Comply with the team’s decision
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Correct Answer: AB
Question #7
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.
A. True
B. False
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Correct Answer: C
Question #8
What guideline should the Scrum Master provide if the Product Owner asks how estimations should be made in Scrum?
A. Estimates must be made in Story Points
B. Estimates must be in relative units
C. The Development Team is responsible for estimates
D. Estimates are made by the Product Owner
E. Estimates must follow the Fibonacci Sequence
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Correct Answer: B
Question #9
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?
A. Agree – this is an appropriate solution to the problem
B. Disagree – as the root cause may not be that the team is too big
C. Unsure – dividing a team into two cannot be decided based on this information
D. Agree – You agree that dividing the team into two is a good strategy to allow the teams to learn how to run Daily Scrums quickly and effectively
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Correct Answer: B
Question #10
How should a Scrum Master coordinate the work when more than one Scrum Team is working on one product?
A. Teach them that it’s their responsibility to coordinate with the other teams to integrate and create a shippable product Increment at the end of every Sprint
B. Identify and manage the dependencies between Scrum Teams
C. Have the Product Owner work with the tech leads of each team to parse the Product Backlog and minimize overlap in User Stories
D. Merge the teams and work from a single Sprint Backlog
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Correct Answer: D
Question #11
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?
A. Consulting with the Development Team
B. Prioritizing the list and working on them in order
C. Arranging a triage meeting with all project managers
D. Alerting management to the impediments and their impact
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Correct Answer: C
Question #12
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
A. He explains how a team uses the velocity of a Sprint primarily to forecast work for the next Sprint, not to perfectly predict future productivity
B. He informs the director of organizational impediments he is aware of that prevent the team from being more productive
C. He educates his director how it is part of a team’s self-organization to improve velocity
D. He helps the director understand that it typically takes a few Sprints for a team to gradually increase the velocity up to the level expected
E. He tells the director that this is not his responsibility in Scrum
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Correct Answer: BC
Question #13
Which approach would you recommend to ensure that the Product Backlog items discussed at Sprint Planning are well understood, actionable, and easier to forecast?
A. Having a separate group of business analysts and functional testers analyzing high-ordered Product Backlog items before Sprint Planning
B. Having the Product Owner work with stakeholders between the end of the last Sprint and before beginning the next to prepare the Product Backlog items so not to interrupt the Development Team
C. Having the business analysts in the Development Team create the upcoming Product Backlog items during a Sprint and adding them to the next Sprint’s forecast
D. Having the Development Team use some time during each Sprint to help the Product Owner analyze, estimate, and design items at the top of the Product Backlog that is projected to be worked on in the upcoming Sprint
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Correct Answer: AC
Question #14
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. They should be planned in parallel Sprints so not to disrupt the Development Team during feature development
B. They should be handled in a parallel Sprint by a separate security team so that security can be resolved through application enhancements without impacting the functional development
C. A complete list of security-related Product Backlog items needs to be created before starting a new Sprint
D. During the Sprint Retrospective, the Development Team assesses how to add these expectations to their Definition of Done so every future Increment will meet these security requirements
E. They are added to the Product Backlog and addressed throughout the next Sprints, combined with creating the business functionality in those Sprints, no matter how small the business functionality
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Correct Answer: A
Question #15
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?
A. Stop the Sprint and have the Development team work on the infrastructure before continuing
B. Encourage the Product Owner to accept partially done Increments and complete the work in the Hardening Sprint
C. Coach the Development Team to improve its skills, tools and infrastructure over time and establish a Definition of “Done” that is actually possible to achieve given the current circumstances
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Correct Answer: A
Question #16
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.)
A. During the Daily Scrum the members of the Development Team will inform of problems that are hindering their progress, and for which they have no means to resolve
B. Through the short, daily alignment of the Daily Scrum the members of the Development Team grow and improve a shared understanding of the most important work to be undertaken in the next 24 hours to achieve the best possibleprogress toward the Sprint Goal
C. The Development Team members will produce a daily status report indicating how much time was spent working on individual tasks since the last Daily Scrum
D. The Daily Scrum serves for the Development Team to report to Steven, as a Scrum Master, all updates on the assigned tasks in the Sprint Backlog
E. During the Daily Scrum, the Development Team needs to update the Scrum board with their current status and progress, at a task level
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Correct Answer: B
Question #17
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
A. As long as there is still technical debt in the current release, feature development for the next release cannot be started
B. Reducing the Definition of Done will introduce unknown errors as development progresses and functionality is added
C. Releasing the version upon a reduced Definition of Done creates false assumptions about the actual state of the system
D. The amount of technical debt will need to be analyzed in order to understand the impact on subsequent releases in order to allocate additional Sprints at the end of the project
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Correct Answer: ABCD
Question #18
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?
A. Coach the Product Owner on effective ways to communicate this concern to the Development Team and encourage the Product Owner to add the performance issue to the Product Backlog
B. Tell the Product Owner performance is defined by the Development Team
C. Note the issue for the next Sprint Retrospective
D. Notify the team responsible for system performance
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Correct Answer: B
Question #19
What is the most appropriate action for the Scrum Master to take if the Product Owner is having difficulties managing the Product Backlog?
A. Have the Development Team order the work instead of the Product Owner
B. Have the Product Owner order the items based on size, having the Development Team work on the smallest items first
C. Offer the Product Owner help in understanding that the goal of ordering the Product Backlog is to maximize the flow of value
D. Delegate the work to the Assistant Product Owner
E. Delay the Sprint in order for the Product Owner to have enough time to prioritize the Product Backlog
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Correct Answer: BEF
Question #20
In what ways does the Scrum Master keep a Development Team working at its highest level of productivity?
A. By removing impediments that hinder the Development Team and facilitating Development Team decisions
B. By helping the Development Team with user acceptance tests and tracking defects
C. By ensuring each member takes turns speaking at the Daily Scrum and ending the event on time
D. By keeping the Scrum board and burn-down chart updated daily
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Correct Answer: AD
Question #21
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?
A. No, because the state of the Product Increment won’t be transparent and the feedback loop would be too long
B. It depends on the team’s Definition of Done
C. Yes, because the Development Team is a self-organizing team and should not be disrupted during development
D. Yes, because UAT is done in a hardening Sprint before the release Sprint
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Correct Answer: C

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