PSM-1 CERTIFICATION EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
CORRECT
These two things are considered Agile practices? - ANSWER-1. Timeboxing
2. Test-Driven Development
The Scrum Master facilitates these three events in SAFe? - ANSWER-1. Retrospective
2. Daily stand-up
3. Iteration Planning
Who participates in the backlog refinement event? - ANSWER-The Agile Team
members & other Subject Matter Experts
3 pillars of Scrum - ANSWER-Adaption, Transparency, Inspection
Empiricism - ANSWER-Deriving knowledge through experience
12 Principles of Agile - ANSWER-1. Satisfy customer (earlier the better)
2. Welcome changing requirements
3. Deliver working products frequently (2 week sprints)
4. Product Owner & developers should work together throughout the project
5. Build around motivated individuals
6. Face-to-face is most effective conversation
7. Working product is the Primary measure of progress
8. Agile process should promote sustainable development.
9. Technical excellence enhances agile
10. Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential
11. Best products come from self-organizing teams
12. Reflect at regular intervals (retros)
Responsible for removing impedements - ANSWER-Scrum master
Product Backlog - ANSWER-Requirements for a system, expressed as a prioritized list
of product backlog Items:
functional and non-functional customer requirements
During a Sprint planning meeting, backlog items are moved from the product backlog
into a sprint, based on the product owner's priorities.
CCFOR - ANSWER-courage, commitment, focus, openness, respect
, Scrum Teams - ANSWER-Self-organizing & Cross Functional
Scrum Team Model - ANSWER-Designed to optimize flexibility, creativity, & productivity
Scrum Roles - ANSWER-Product Owner
Scrum Master
Development Team
Product Owner role - ANSWER-Maximizes the value of the product
Development Team role - ANSWER-deliver a potentially releasable increment of "Done"
product at the end of each sprint
Scrum Master role - ANSWER-promotes and supports Scrum theory, practices, rules,
and values
Scrum Artifacts - ANSWER-Product Backlog
Sprint Backlog
Increment
Scrum Events - ANSWER-Sprint Planning
Sprint
Daily Scrum
Sprint Review
Sprint Retrospective
Facilitation - ANSWER-Fluid process using a variety of tools, techniques, and activities
to:
empower participants
create clarity
invite collaboration
increase commitment
maximize productivity
Release Burndown Chart - ANSWER-A release's progress. It shows how much work
was left to do at the beginning of each sprint comprising a single release. The scope of
this chart is a single release; however, a product burndown chart spans all releases.
Sprint Backlog - ANSWER-Defines the work for a sprint, represented by the set of tasks
that must be completed to realize the sprint's goals, and selected set of product backlog
items.
Sprint Retrospective - ANSWER-Time-boxed event of 3 hours, or less, held at the end
of every sprint after the sprint review meeting. The team and ScrumMaster meet to
discuss what went well and what to improve in the next sprint.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
CORRECT
These two things are considered Agile practices? - ANSWER-1. Timeboxing
2. Test-Driven Development
The Scrum Master facilitates these three events in SAFe? - ANSWER-1. Retrospective
2. Daily stand-up
3. Iteration Planning
Who participates in the backlog refinement event? - ANSWER-The Agile Team
members & other Subject Matter Experts
3 pillars of Scrum - ANSWER-Adaption, Transparency, Inspection
Empiricism - ANSWER-Deriving knowledge through experience
12 Principles of Agile - ANSWER-1. Satisfy customer (earlier the better)
2. Welcome changing requirements
3. Deliver working products frequently (2 week sprints)
4. Product Owner & developers should work together throughout the project
5. Build around motivated individuals
6. Face-to-face is most effective conversation
7. Working product is the Primary measure of progress
8. Agile process should promote sustainable development.
9. Technical excellence enhances agile
10. Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential
11. Best products come from self-organizing teams
12. Reflect at regular intervals (retros)
Responsible for removing impedements - ANSWER-Scrum master
Product Backlog - ANSWER-Requirements for a system, expressed as a prioritized list
of product backlog Items:
functional and non-functional customer requirements
During a Sprint planning meeting, backlog items are moved from the product backlog
into a sprint, based on the product owner's priorities.
CCFOR - ANSWER-courage, commitment, focus, openness, respect
, Scrum Teams - ANSWER-Self-organizing & Cross Functional
Scrum Team Model - ANSWER-Designed to optimize flexibility, creativity, & productivity
Scrum Roles - ANSWER-Product Owner
Scrum Master
Development Team
Product Owner role - ANSWER-Maximizes the value of the product
Development Team role - ANSWER-deliver a potentially releasable increment of "Done"
product at the end of each sprint
Scrum Master role - ANSWER-promotes and supports Scrum theory, practices, rules,
and values
Scrum Artifacts - ANSWER-Product Backlog
Sprint Backlog
Increment
Scrum Events - ANSWER-Sprint Planning
Sprint
Daily Scrum
Sprint Review
Sprint Retrospective
Facilitation - ANSWER-Fluid process using a variety of tools, techniques, and activities
to:
empower participants
create clarity
invite collaboration
increase commitment
maximize productivity
Release Burndown Chart - ANSWER-A release's progress. It shows how much work
was left to do at the beginning of each sprint comprising a single release. The scope of
this chart is a single release; however, a product burndown chart spans all releases.
Sprint Backlog - ANSWER-Defines the work for a sprint, represented by the set of tasks
that must be completed to realize the sprint's goals, and selected set of product backlog
items.
Sprint Retrospective - ANSWER-Time-boxed event of 3 hours, or less, held at the end
of every sprint after the sprint review meeting. The team and ScrumMaster meet to
discuss what went well and what to improve in the next sprint.
