Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) - Full Practice Exam 1

1. A backlog contains many obsolete requests after a strategy change. What should the Product Owner do?
2. A company appoints three Product Owners with equal authority over one product backlog. Which Scrum principle is violated?
3. A facilitator notices only two voices determine every Retrospective action. What intervention best supports team participation?
4. A feature is technically Done, but an experiment shows it harms the desired outcome. What should guide the next decision?
5. A manager asks when a fixed set of features will finish. What is the most empirical response?
6. A manager requests a Daily Scrum report focused only on whether each person is busy. Why is this insufficient?
7. A new Scrum Team asks how much work to select for its first Sprint. What should inform the forecast?
8. A one-month Sprint includes a Review and Retrospective. What are their maximum timeboxes respectively?
9. A Product Backlog item is too large to be Done within a Sprint. What is an appropriate next step?
10. A Product Owner orders a small experiment above a large feature because it can test a risky assumption cheaply. What supports this decision?
11. A Product Owner wants to release a usable Increment before Sprint end. What does Scrum require?
12. A recurring external approval delay prevents the team from producing Done work. What should the Scrum Master do?
13. A Retrospective repeatedly becomes a blame session and quieter members stop speaking. What should the Scrum Master encourage?
14. A Scrum Master and Product Owner are actively working on Sprint Backlog items. How do they participate in the Daily Scrum?
15. A Scrum Team contains specialist subteams with separate goals and internal hierarchies. What does Scrum emphasize instead?
16. A stakeholder asks the Developers to add urgent work halfway through the Sprint. What should happen?
17. A stakeholder wants to change Product Backlog ordering. What is the appropriate route?
18. A team calls an item Done but different members mean different quality levels. Which commitment needs clarification?
19. A team finishes coding an item but has not completed required integration tests. How should the item be treated?
20. A team improves a process during the Sprint rather than waiting for its Retrospective. Is this consistent with Scrum?
21. A team meets its output forecast but stakeholders learn that the market need changed. What should the Sprint Review support?
22. A team uses all Scrum events but hides incomplete testing until release week. Which empirical pillar is most directly weakened?
23. An item is partly complete at Sprint end and has not met the Definition of Done. What happens next?
24. An organization rewards individual output even when integration fails. What should the Scrum Master help make visible?
25. Customer usage remains low despite many completed features. What should the Product Owner inspect?
26. Developers ask the Scrum Master to assign tasks because that is how their previous manager worked. What is the best coaching response?
27. Developers discover that a task is unnecessary to achieve the selected item and Sprint Goal. What should happen?
28. During a Sprint, Developers learn that a chosen implementation will not work. What should guide their adaptation?
29. During a Sprint, which actions are consistent with Scrum? Select 2 answers.
30. For a one-month Sprint, what is the maximum Sprint Planning timebox?
31. Multiple Scrum Teams work on the same product. Which statement about the Definition of Done is correct?
32. One specialist is the only person able to perform release verification. Which improvement reduces this dependency?
33. The organization has a mandatory minimum Definition of Done. What must the Scrum Team do?
34. The Product Goal has been achieved. What should the Scrum Team do before taking on another Product Goal?
35. The Product Owner pressures Developers to skip a required security check to meet a forecast. What should Developers do?
36. The team is large enough that communication overhead is increasing. What does the Scrum Guide suggest considering?
37. True or false: A new Sprint begins immediately after the previous Sprint concludes.
38. True or false: A Scrum Team should be small enough to remain nimble and large enough to complete meaningful work within a Sprint.
39. True or false: A Sprint can produce more than one usable Increment.
40. True or false: A Sprint may be extended when additional testing is needed to meet the Definition of Done.
41. True or false: A stakeholder can demand that an unfinished item be counted as an Increment because its business deadline is urgent.
42. True or false: Product Backlog refinement is a formal Scrum event with a prescribed timebox.
43. True or false: Scrum requires a separate hardening Sprint before an Increment can be released.
44. True or false: Scrum requires user stories and story points.
45. True or false: Self-management means the Scrum Team never needs organizational support or boundaries.
46. True or false: The Daily Scrum must use the same three questions in every team.
47. True or false: The Product Goal describes a future state of the product that can guide planning.
48. True or false: The Product Owner may delegate backlog-management activities while remaining accountable.
49. True or false: The Scrum Master is accountable for assigning daily tasks to each Developer.
50. True or false: The Scrum Master must personally solve every impediment without involving others.
51. True or false: The Sprint Review is the only time a Done Increment may be released.
52. True or false: When Scrum events work as intended, the Scrum Team never communicates outside them.
53. Two Developers disagree on implementation. The Scrum Master lacks the technical expertise to decide. What is an appropriate response?
54. Two Scrum Teams deliver one product. What product-management structure does Scrum require?
55. What does cross-functional mean for a Scrum Team?
56. What is required of an Increment?
57. What is the best reason to involve stakeholders regularly rather than only at final release?
58. What is the Daily Scrum primarily intended to accomplish?
59. What is the main purpose of Sprint Planning?
60. What is the purpose of the Sprint Retrospective?
61. What is the Scrum Master's accountability for team effectiveness?
62. What makes a Product Backlog item ready for selection in Sprint Planning?
63. What should a Sprint Review enable?
64. Which commitments belong to Scrum artifacts? Select 3 answers.
65. Which event concludes the Sprint?
66. Which inputs can help Developers forecast Sprint work? Select 2 answers.
67. Which responsibilities belong to Developers? Select 3 answers.
68. Which Scrum values are demonstrated by openly admitting uncertainty and respectfully challenging a risky assumption? Select 2 answers.
69. Which statement best describes the Sprint Backlog?
70. Which statements about the Product Backlog are correct? Select 2 answers.
71. Which statements about the Sprint Goal are correct? Select 2 answers.
72. Which three ideas form the empirical foundation of Scrum? Select 3 answers.
73. Which ways can a Scrum Master serve the organization? Select 2 answers.
74. Which ways can a Scrum Master serve the Product Owner? Select 2 answers.
75. Who has the authority to cancel a Sprint when its goal becomes obsolete?
76. Who is accountable for creating the Sprint Backlog?
77. Who is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the Scrum Team's work?
78. Who is responsible for sizing Product Backlog items?
79. Who must participate in the Daily Scrum as its primary participants?
80. Why does Scrum use a short, consistent Sprint length of one month or less?

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