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10 original practice questions · Untimed · Follow each question’s response instructions
1. Halfway through a Sprint, Developers learn that their planned integration approach will not work. At the next Daily Scrum, what should be the central purpose of their discussion?
psm-q-0092. A Product Owner is actively working on selected Sprint Backlog items alongside other Developers. A colleague says the Product Owner is prohibited from participating in the Daily Scrum in any capacity. What does the Scrum Guide say?
psm-q-0393. A team uses a two-week Sprint. Someone asserts that its Sprint Review must last exactly two hours because the Guide gives four hours for a one-month Sprint. Which explanation is accurate?
psm-q-0434. An executive disagrees with the Product Owner ordering and asks Developers to quietly substitute a different set of product work. Which response best preserves transparency and the relevant accountability?
psm-q-0385. 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?
psm-q-0056. A ticketing product has an organizational Definition of Done requiring a security check. One Scrum Team agrees that a particular low-risk change can skip that check to meet a requested launch date. Which response best respects the Scrum Guide?
psm-q-0137. A Scrum Team notices repeated handoff delays that reduce quality. Which event is specifically intended to inspect how the team worked and plan improvements in quality and effectiveness?
psm-q-0118. At Sprint Review, one stakeholder wants faster onboarding and another wants a reporting extension. The discussion produces new usage evidence. What should happen to this input?
psm-q-0239. A cross-department access policy repeatedly prevents Developers from verifying usable product changes. The Scrum Team cannot resolve the policy itself. What is an appropriate Scrum Master response?
psm-q-00710. A team needs a small product-related experiment to reduce an integration uncertainty. A manager says research and experimentation must always occur outside Sprints because only feature coding counts as Scrum work. Which response fits the Guide?
psm-q-035Answers & reasoning
1. Inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and adapt the upcoming work accordingly. · Choice B
The Daily Scrum gives Developers an opportunity to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and adapt their Sprint Backlog. A failed integration approach is relevant because it changes their plan for achieving the objective. The event is not a daily individual approval meeting, a release gate or a replacement for the Retrospective. Developers may need more detailed follow-up discussion outside the event to replan the technical work.
psm-q-0092. The Product Owner participates as a Developer while actively working on Sprint Backlog items. · Choice B
The Guide explicitly says that a Product Owner or Scrum Master actively working on Sprint Backlog items participates in the Daily Scrum as a Developer. The condition in this case therefore matters more than a general role label. The event remains a Developer inspection of progress toward the Sprint Goal and an actionable plan. PO status collection, a replacement private meeting and managerial approval of every plan do not express participation as a Developer under this condition.
psm-q-0393. Four hours is the maximum; shorter Sprints do not impose exact proportional halving. · Choice B
The Review section specifies a maximum of four hours for a one-month Sprint and says that, for shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter. That does not state an exact proportional formula or a required two-hour duration. The event still needs to fulfill its purpose effectively within the applicable timebox. Distinguish the source maximum and usual pattern from a local scheduling choice.
psm-q-0434. Bring the evidence and requested change to the Product Owner rather than silently replacing the visible product ordering. · Choice C
The organization must respect Product Owner decisions, visible through Product Backlog content and ordering and the inspectable Increment. People seeking a change can try to convince the Product Owner with relevant information. This keeps disagreement and decision evidence visible without silently transferring accountability. The answer does not require ignoring executive input; it routes the input through a transparent product decision rather than replacing the artifact with hidden priorities.
psm-q-0385. The Product Owner, while considering evidence and stakeholder needs. · Choice C
The Product Owner remains accountable for maximizing value and effective Product Backlog management. Stakeholder input and Developers’ knowledge are important evidence, but neither customer size nor technical effort transfers that accountability. The case does not give enough information to select the feature itself. It asks who must remain accountable while the competing evidence is considered, not whose opinion should always win.
psm-q-0056. Keep the organizational requirement as a minimum when assessing whether the change is Done. · Choice A
The scenario explicitly makes the security check part of the organizational Definition of Done. That standard remains a minimum for every Scrum Team. A value or scheduling decision does not turn unfinished quality work into a Done Increment. The team can discuss scope and delivery options, but it must not claim that the unchanged quality boundary has been met. No conclusion about the actual technical risk of this fictional change is required.
psm-q-0137. Sprint Retrospective · Choice A
The Sprint Retrospective specifically inspects how the Scrum Team worked and plans improvements to quality and effectiveness. Repeated handoff delays can be investigated there when they affect collaboration or work quality. The other choices address upcoming Developer planning, product-outcome inspection with stakeholders, or ongoing clarification of backlog work. Any conversation could reveal an improvement, but the question asks which event has this particular defined purpose. An actionable improvement matters more than recording a complaint.
psm-q-0118. Use the collaborative evidence to inform adaptations, with the Product Owner remaining accountable for backlog ordering. · Choice C
The Review supports collaborative inspection and future adaptation. Stakeholder requests and new usage evidence can inform Product Backlog changes, while the Product Owner remains accountable for effective management and ordering. The requests are not automatically selected for the next Sprint; selection and planning require further consideration. Keeping the old order simply because it existed earlier would remove the value of learning from the event.
psm-q-0239. Help cause removal of the impediment by working with the people able to change the policy. · Choice B
The Scrum Master helps the team become effective and causes impediments to its progress to be removed. In this case the obstacle crosses the team’s authority, so working with the relevant organizational decision makers is appropriate. This does not require personally solving every access task or assuming Product Owner accountability. It also does not authorize bypassing legitimate controls; the intervention should address the impediment through an appropriate route.
psm-q-00710. Product work can include research, but unusable output does not automatically constitute a Done Increment. · Choice B
The Guide describes Scrum Team responsibility broadly, including experimentation, research, verification, maintenance and other product-related activities. It does not limit Sprint work to feature coding. This does not mean every research activity is itself a usable Increment: the Increment and Definition of Done remain separate requirements. Inspect why the experiment is needed and how it supports product progress without inventing a prohibition or automatically relabeling learning as a completed product result.
psm-q-035Original source-grounded practice. Content and reasoning checks are separate from professional educator review, which remains pending. Not an official exam paper.