Professional Scrum Master III PSM III Exam Questions and Answers

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After completing the Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) and Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II) exams, you may need to continue to take the Professional Scrum Master III (PSM III) exam. The Scrum PSM III exam tests your ability as a Scrum Master in a variety of complex team and organizational situations. To help you learn more, we have the PSM III exam dumps with actual questions and answers for preparation. We provide great PSM III exam questions to help you prepare for the Professional Scrum Master III exam well.

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1. The Product Owner of your team has noticed several developers from the Scrum team are working together on backlog items. He expresses concern that this "pair programming" will negatively impact the amount of work being done.

What do you do?

All of the above.

Make a note to possibly address this during the Sprint Retrospective.

Suggest the Product Owner find a suitable moment to show interest and ask the developers why they use this approach.

Teach the Product Owner that the Scrum team decides how best to do their work.

Teach the Product Owner that the amount of work being done should not be the primary measure of progress.

2. In 2020 was released a new version of the Scrum Guide, and now it presents the term accountability. The Scrum Guide says " The entire Scrum Team is accountable for creating a valuable, useful Increment every Sprint. Scrum defines three specific accountabilities within the Scrum Team: the Developers, the Product Owner, and the Scrum Master.".

In case a Sprint Goal becomes obsolete, who has the authority to cancel the Sprint?

Developers

Product Owner

Scrum Master

Scrum Team

3. A team decides their current Sprint length of 30 days is too short. They are overhauling an entire platform and some work just takes more time. They increase their Sprint length to two months.

From Scrum's perspective, what are the first most likely consequences of this decision? (choose the 4 best answers)

Transparency will likely decrease.

The Product Owner will likely be less available.

Technical debt will likely increase.

The Scrum Values will likely be less embodied by the team.

The Increment is likely to deviate further from stakeholder expectations.

The team is no longer doing Scrum.

The team's improvement will slow down.

4. 1.Which of these are Scrum Artifacts and which one posses commitment? (choose the 3 answers)

For the Increment, its commitment is the Definition of Done.

For the Sprint, its commitment is the Scrum Values.

For the Sprint Goal, its commitment is the Definition of Done

For the Sprint Backlog, its commitment is the Sprint Goal.

For the Product Backlog, its commitment is the Product Goal.

5. In Scrum, we use the term "Forecast" when planning.

Why is that?

Using the term Forecasting raises transparency because it is a term common to project and process methodologies.

It brings awareness to the fact that when planning, the team is looking ahead and not everything is certain. The team cannot commit to the plan not changing, it's a prediction based upon what is known today.

It emphasizes the difference between Scrum and plan-driven approaches.

Forecasting is part of the Scrum Framework, emphasizing its importance and preventing those new to Scrum from leaving it out.

6. It has been a year, a new product is under development and you joined the Scrum Team as their Scrum Master. The product is working software that has been delivered each sprint, but not released to the market. Recent pressure from within the organization and Stakeholders is forcing a release two months from now. The Product Owner feels this is premature as the work to be done before she has confidence in a release, is forecast to take at least six months. She appears quite distressed.

What advice or help, in line with Scrum, can you offer? (choose the 2 best answers)

Advise the Product Owner to create more teams to work on the product. The new teams can lean on expertise from the original team.

Advise the Product Owner that the whole of the organization must respect her decisions. Stick to the current product vision and six-month timeline.

Advise the Product Owner to sit with the team and rescope the work planned. What can be delivered in two months that will meet customer needs? What would we need if we had to release this sprint?

Advise the Product Owner to work with the Stakeholders.

7. Can Scrum work in an organization where products are built with time, scope and budget being determined beforehand? (choose the 3 best answers)

Yes, though the Scrum Master should teach the organization about the drawbacks of this approach when building complex products.

Yes, Scrum is designed to help to build products and managing projects of any kind.

Yes, but it may be less effective.

Yes, Scrum acknowledges that time and money are finite, and aims to build the highest value product within those constraints.

Yes, by translating the available time and budget to a number of sprints until the product is finished.

Yes, apply Scrum as much as possible to obtain the benefits where possible.

8. Agility often requires a change in organizational culture and how individuals, teams, and those around them behave.

Which of the following statements would enable positive change? (choose all that apply)

Enabling self-management within Scrum Teams

The Product Owner should focus on Value, Flow and Quality

The Scrum Master of the team acts as a subject matter expert and provides technical solutions to the team.

The Scrum Team forecasts to the Sprint Goal and commits the Sprint Backlog

Guiding the Scrum Team members to discover what works best for them.

Coaching people in Scrum and positive team behavior by gradually embodying the Scrum Values

The Product Owner should focus on quality by expanding the definition of "Done" every Sprint Retrospective.

9. Can a Scrum Master or a Product Owner also serve as a Developer on a Scrum Team?

Never

Yes

10. When the Scrum Values are embodied and lived by the Scrum Team, the Scrum pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation come to life. This increases something fundamental to all Scrum implementations.

What is it? (choose the best answer)

Value

Trust

Agility

Empiricism

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11. You are the Scrum Master on a newly formed Scrum Team.

Which of the following activities would probably help the Scrum Team be more productive in the first Sprint? (choose all that apply)

Have the Product Owner discuss the product or project, its history, goals, and context, as well as answer questions.

Ensure the Scrum Team members are compatible.

Have the development managers for each Developers introduce their direct reports and go over their responsibilities on the Scrum Team

Have the Scrum Team members introduce themselves to each other and give a brief background of their skills and work history.

Ensure the definition of "done" is known and understood.

Have the Developers identify and discuss the process for turning the Product Backlog Item into an increment of potentially shippable software.

12. At the seventh Sprint Review, the stakeholders are disappointed and angry. They have determined that the product or system being built will not meet their needs and will cost more than they are willing to spend.

Which of the following statements could be true? (choose all the apply)

The Scrum Master has not ensured that the project is transparent

The stakeholders haven't been using the Sprint Reviews to inspect and evaluate progress in the prior Sprint Reviews.

The Product Owner has not been keeping the stakeholders aware of the progress of the project.

The PMO has not been engaged adequately.

The stakeholders haven't been attending prior Sprint Reviews.

13. A Project Manager working with your Scrum Team has raised concerns about progress and money spent.

What are the best responses? (choose all that apply)

Scrum doesn’t have Project Managers so disregard their concerns Promote transparency by sharing the Product Backlog and ensuring the Project Manager has access Show the Earned Value Analysis (EVA) report Share the last stakeholder briefing document prepared by the Product Owner Have a discussion with the Project Manager; share the current impediments and forecast for the Sprint

14. Which statements regarding Backlog Refinement are correct? (choose the 2 best answers)

During Product Backlog refinement, items are reviewed and revised.

The Product Owner is responsible for organizing Backlog Refinement.

Backlog Refinement takes place before Sprint Planning.

No more than 10% of Scrum Team capacity is used for Refinement.

Product Backlog refinement is the act of adding detail, estimates, size, and order to items in the Product Backlog.

15. A Senior Software Engineer and you have a talk over coffee. She tells you she thinks Scrum is really cool, but that it doesn't work for projects that require complex architecture decisions upfront. Being a Scrum ambassador, you respond by telling her that in Scrum:

Architecture can receive more attention during early sprints, as long as a working piece of software is delivered.

Architecture is of little concern, as long as working valuable software is delivered.

Architecture typically emerges as part of the work being done.

Architecture is kept to a bare minimum. Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.

Architecture is handled in any self-managing way the cross-functional Scrum Team sees fit.

16. During a meeting at the start of a brand new software development initiative with Scrum, a stakeholder tells all those assembled, that he doesn't "believe" in Scrum. Traditional project management limits business risk by setting a deadline and budget. He says Scrum does not offer any of this and is, therefore, a high-risk approach he is not willing to take.

What is your reply?

Explain that in complex product development, discoveries are made along the way. No guarantees can be given. Risk is inherent to building software.

Explain that those traditional approaches always went over budget, time while delivering low value, unmaintainable products.

Yell "OK Sir." while insisting he go "live with the dinosaurs".

Explain that Scrum limits risk by frequent inspection and adaptation mechanism, and in every Sprint, a product Increment is created by the Scrum Team, and by doing so, we become able to respond to change and address risk when it occurs.

17. What does the Scrum Team do with Product Backlog items that weren’t completed, or done, in the Sprint?

Put it on the Product Backlog for the Product Owner to decide what to do with it

Do not include the item in the Increment this Sprint

If the stakeholders agree, the Product Owner can accept it and release it to the users

Review the item, add the “Done” part of the estim te to the velocity and create a Story for the remaining work.

18. What are relevant boundaries that promote self-management according to the Scrum framework? (choose all that apply)

Time-boxing all effort to allow regularly checking the validity of any chosen path and thus limit the risk of going off-track. I know time boxing events definitely help teams fulfilling the Sprint goals they committed to during the sprint planning.

The clear definition of sub-responsibilities and hand-overs within the Scrum Team.

Having an even number of members in a Scrum Team in order to be able to do pair programming and be more productive.

Creating an integrated usable Increment by the end of each Sprint.

19. Mid-sprint the developers of the Scrum team detects that they will likely not meet the Sprint Goal with the work planned. They have a conversation and determine a different way to meet the Sprint Goal, making changes in the work planned in the Sprint.

What Scrum Values are in evidence here?

Courage, Commitment

Build, Measure, Learn

Commitment, Focus

Inspection, Adaptation

Respect, Trust

Courage, Focus

20. Which of the following statements are correct about the Sprint Goal? (choose all that apply)

The Sprint Goal provides the Developers with a target, focus, and overarching direction for the Sprint

The Developers commits to the Sprint Goal and forecasts the Sprint Backlog

The Sprint Goal is crafted by the Product Owner in collaboration with the stakeholder

The Sprint Goal is the outcome of the Product Backlog Refinement meeting and it helps the team with effective Sprint Planning

The Scrum Team forecasts the Sprint Goal and commits the Sprint Backlog.

The Sprint Goal is the glue that binds individuals into a team by giving them a shared purpose.

Professional Scrum Master III PSM III Exam Questions and Answers