Exin Agile Scrum Master Exam Practice Test

A Scrum team is in a sprint retrospective at the end of a sprint. The Scrum Master facilitates this meeting and has made a simple board with headings of Keep Start and Stop Team members can post their thoughts for removing impediments.

Most ideas can be grouped together and involve the team's own process. There are some more general suggestions to lift impediments which do not fit into the general groupings. These ideas have to do with the organization's enterprise architecture and data compliance policy

What should the Scrum Master do with these ideas?

A team needs a new Scrum Master. The team has been experiencing some problems in creating a good flow of their work. The task board is not used as it should be Some of the team members find it difficult to speak to coworkers outside of their team although they are very open with each other. The team is very experienced in their job

What is the most important characteristic for this new Scrum Master?

A head office of a chain of department stores has commissioned updates to a software package to improve stock management tor its warehouse and customer services.

The Scrum team is implementing notifications on the time of day an out-of-stock item arrives at a nominated store. The team does not have access to the inventory data which is managed by the information management team. This forms a major roadblock Since this feature has high external value it is important that the roadblock is removed.

What is the best way for the Scrum Master to help the team in this situation?

A Product Owner is refining the product backlog She has provided more details to stones that nave a higher priority after speaking with several customers She has also grouped several user stories with a lower priority into epics

Is this the right way to refine the product backlog?

Red Industries has been creating products for their customers tor years using traditional ways of working up until recently, they have been doing very well However they are currently losing customers to small competitors working in an Agile manner

What is the most likely reason that the smaller competitors are doing better?

A Scrum team is using a bum-down chart to track their progress. During the sprint, the graph looks like this.

What is certain about this sprint?

A team is new to Scrum and is enthusiastic to try it. The company is very open and there is enough trust between management and coworkers.

The Developers on the team used to work in two separate teams with different specialties Previously they were working as competitive teams racing to become team of the month Because they feel they should have all competences represented in the team to be self-sufficient, they will form a team together.

For Scrum to be successful the team must do the following things (in alphabetical order)

- change their assumptions about how to work and how others may be able to help

- make the culture into a true Agile culture because it is only halfway there now

- switch me focus from traditional development methods to delivering value for the customer in cooperation with the customer

- implement and start using a new set of Agile measures to track progress