PSM I Practice Questions & Answers

Empiricism and Scrum values

A delivery team holds frequent inspection meetings, but its dashboard counts work as complete before the required quality checks finish. Stakeholders use that dashboard to choose the next investment. Which action most directly repairs the empirical decision process?

1. Add another inspection meeting using the existing completion figures.
2. Make the actual completion state visible before interpreting the results and adapting investment.
3. Keep the dashboard unchanged so that historical trend lines stay comparable.
4. Choose the next investment from the original plan until every uncertainty disappears.

Reference basis: The Scrum Guide — November 2020. These are original learning questions, not questions reproduced from the references.

Scrum Team accountabilities

A product’s largest customer asks for a feature, while other evidence suggests a different improvement may create more value. Who remains accountable for maximizing the product’s value and effective Product Backlog management?

1. The customer because it supplies the largest share of revenue.
2. The Scrum Master because it is a conflict between stakeholders.
3. The Product Owner, while considering evidence and stakeholder needs.
4. The Developers because implementation effort determines product value.

Reference basis: The Scrum Guide — November 2020. These are original learning questions, not questions reproduced from the references.

Events and inspection opportunities

During a Sprint, a newly discovered reliability problem affects the work. The Sprint Goal remains valuable. Which TWO responses are consistent with Scrum? Select TWO.

Select all answers that apply.

1. Clarify and renegotiate scope with the Product Owner as more is learned, while protecting the Sprint Goal.
2. Reduce required quality measures so all originally selected items can still be counted Done.
3. Let Developers adapt their plan using the new information.
4. Treat every originally selected item as unchangeable even when learning changes the appropriate work.

Reference basis: The Scrum Guide — November 2020. These are original learning questions, not questions reproduced from the references.

Artifacts, commitments and Done

A Scrum Team completes a usable Increment on Wednesday and satisfies its Definition of Done. Its Sprint Review is scheduled for Friday. Which TWO statements are consistent with the Scrum Guide? Select TWO.

Select all answers that apply.

1. The Increment may be delivered before Friday’s Sprint Review.
2. The Sprint Review must approve the Increment before any delivery is allowed.
3. The team can create another Increment during the same Sprint.
4. Releasing on Wednesday removes the need for a Sprint Review.

Reference basis: The Scrum Guide — November 2020. These are original learning questions, not questions reproduced from the references.

Self-management and coaching

A newly formed Scrum Team is told that a department manager must decide who performs each task and how to perform it. The team already understands its product objective and applicable constraints. Which change best supports Scrum self-management?

1. Keep all task decisions external but rename the manager a facilitator.
2. Let the Scrum Team internally decide who does what, when and how within its accountabilities and constraints.
3. Remove the product objective so every person can work on an unrelated preference.
4. Transfer all task assignment to the Product Owner because value accountability includes deciding each technical step.

Reference basis: The Scrum Guide — November 2020. These are original learning questions, not questions reproduced from the references.

Product value, backlog and stakeholders

A Product Goal concerns helping customers complete a booking successfully. Which TWO observations would more directly help investigate that outcome than a task-completion count? Select TWO.

Select all answers that apply.

1. The number of backlog items split into smaller tasks.
2. Observed booking-completion behavior together with its relevant context and limitations.
3. The number of meetings scheduled for the delivery team.
4. Customer feedback about obstacles encountered while attempting a booking.

Reference basis: The Scrum Guide — November 2020. These are original learning questions, not questions reproduced from the references.

Facilitate decisions without replacing accountability

A Scrum Team finds that stakeholder access is restricted by an organizational meeting policy. Several key stakeholders can participate in a suitable Review arrangement if the policy barrier is addressed. Which TWO Scrum Master services are relevant? Select exactly TWO.

Select all answers that apply.

1. Permanently take Product Backlog ordering away from the Product Owner to simplify meeting access.
2. Replace the Review with an internal status meeting and defer stakeholder discussion until the product release.
3. Facilitate stakeholder collaboration as needed and help remove barriers between stakeholders and the Scrum Team.
4. Help ensure that the Review takes place as a productive inspection and adaptation opportunity within its timebox.
5. Replace all Reviews with one-way status slides and claim the interaction purpose is unchanged.

Reference basis: The Scrum Guide — November 2020. These are original learning questions, not questions reproduced from the references.

Refine work and forecast with explicit assumptions

A Scrum Team has completed between five and seven similarly sized backlog items in each of its last four Sprints. Two Developers will be unavailable during the next Sprint. A stakeholder asks for a guaranteed date for twelve remaining items. What is the most defensible next conversation?

1. Explain the observed range and changed capacity, then discuss an updated forecast and the uncertainty behind it.
2. Promise twelve items in two Sprints because the historical average was six items per Sprint.
3. Keep the previous delivery forecast unchanged because stakeholder expectations should remain stable.
4. Ask the Scrum Master to assign a fixed item quota to each available Developer.

Reference basis: The Scrum Guide — November 2020. These are original learning questions, not questions reproduced from the references.

Empiricism and Scrum values

A team reports only the items it expects to finish and removes blocked items from its visible Sprint Backlog. The Sprint Goal is now at risk, but stakeholders see a healthy-looking list. What is the most appropriate response?

1. Freeze the visible list until the Sprint Review so stakeholders are not distracted.
2. Move the blocked work into a private spreadsheet and update it more frequently.
3. Expose the current work and impediments so Developers can inspect progress and adapt the plan.
4. Replace the Sprint Goal with a list of whichever items remain easy to finish.

Reference basis: The Scrum Guide — November 2020. These are original learning questions, not questions reproduced from the references.

Empiricism and Scrum values

An appointment service has little evidence about whether customers will use a proposed reminder workflow. The team can deliver a small usable slice and inspect its results. Which approach best reflects empiricism?

1. Approve the entire workflow because the initial proposal was detailed.
2. Wait until a prediction can guarantee that customers will use it.
3. Use the number of tasks completed as proof that customers received value.
4. Make a bounded change, inspect what happens and adapt the next decision from the observations.

Reference basis: The Scrum Guide — November 2020. These are original learning questions, not questions reproduced from the references.