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There are more than 25 basic questions about scrum, all these questions are related to Scrum Guide 2020, which could help you prepare for any exams or interview you might take.

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1. Scrum is founded on.

A. Pragmatism and Lean thinking.

B. Empiricism and Critical thinking.

C. Empiricism and Lean thinking.

2. Lean thinking reduces waste and focuses on the essentials.

A. True

B. False

3. Identify the 4 formal events for inspection and adaptation within a containing event, the Sprint.

A. Development, Daily Scrum, Sprint Analysis, and Sprint Retrospective.

B. Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.

C. Sprint Planning, Regular meetings, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.

4. How does Scrum optimize predictability and control risk?

A. By adopting repetitive, Standard approach

B. By adopting iterative, Planned approach

C. By adopting iterative, incremental approach

D. By adopting iterative, Strategic approach

5. Scrum is based on empirical process control.

A. True

B. False

6. What is Scrum?

A. Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems.

B. Scrum is a lightweight methodology that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems.

C. Scrum is a lightweight process that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems.

7. The Scrum framework is complete and is immutable.

A. True

B. False

8. Scrum allow us to use other techniques, methodologies, and practices along with Scrum Framework.

A. True

B. False

9. How is Scrum built?

A. Scrum is built by one person who is competent in Agile practices.

B. Scrum is built upon by the collecting best practices from internet.

C. Scrum is built upon by the collective intelligence of the people using it.

D. Scrum is built by intelligent people using it.

10. Scrum provides detailed instructions; the rules of Scrum guide their relationships and interactions.

A. True

B. False

11. Scrum is based on which 5 core values.

A. Commitment, Courage, Honesty, Focus and Respect

B. Commitment, Courage, Motivation, Openness and Respect

C. Responsibility, Focus, Openness, Respect, and Courage.

D. Commitment, Focus, Openness, Respect, and Courage.

12. Under what circumstances Sprint can get cancelled?

A. If the Marketing team is overloaded with work.

B. If the Scrum team is overwhelmed with meetings

C. If the Scrum team thinks they can’t finish all the work as committed

D. If the Sprint Goal becomes obsolete.

13. What role the management play if they have adopted Scrum to run their projects?

A. Allocate resources as they seem fit.

B. Ask Scrum Team Prioritize the work they assign.

C. Support the Product Owner with insights to build high value product and support the Scrum Master in coaching people and to bring organizational changes.

D. Attend All the Scrum events and review the progress.

14. Can you start the next Sprint immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint?

A. True

B. False

15. When is a Sprint considered as complete?

A. When the timebox expires.

B. When Scrum Master decides and sends an update to everyone

C. When Product Owner says he is not happy with the tasks team is working on.

D. When the Scrum team completes all the backlog items

16. Who is responsible to create the Definition of Done?

A. The Scrum Master creates it in alignment with the organizational standard, which is appropriate for the product.

B. The Product Owner creates it in alignment with the Customers standard.

C. The Developers creates it in alignment with the Customers standard.

D. The Scrum Team creates it in alignment with the organizational standard, which is appropriate for the product.

17. What is the timebox for the Sprint Planning event?

A. 4 hours for a monthly Sprint. For shorter Sprints it is usually shorter.

B. 8 hours for a monthly Sprint. For shorter Sprints it is usually shorter.

C. No time limit, it can take as long as it wants.

D. 10 hours for a monthly Sprint. For shorter Sprints it is usually shorter.

18. The Project Manager and Technical Leads are part of the Scrum Team.

A. True

B. False

19. Daily Scrum is compulsory for?

A. The Developers and Scrum Master.

B. The Developers.

C. The Developers and Product Owner.

D. The Scrum Team.

20. Which are these are called the empirical Scrum pillars?

A. Transparency, inspection, and adaptation

B. Transparency, Commitment, and adaptation

C. Transparency, Focus, and Respect

D. Transparency, Courage, and respect

21. The Sprint Planning event is an opportunity to gain technical or domain advice from experts.

A. True

B. False

22. The time and place of Daily Scrum doesn’t change why?

A. It is in the organization standards.

B. Because meeting rooms are always booked

C. It is the morning coffee time best to do it together.

D. The consistency reduces complexity.

23. The purpose of the Sprint Review is.

A. To inspect the outcome of the Sprint and determine future adaptations.

B. To fill out the organization checklist and to check on the work done.

C. To demo the product at the end of the Sprint for everyone.

D. To pinpoint each other mistakes and make a note of it for the performance review.

24. The recommended size for a Scrum Team is 20 or fewer people.

A. True

B. False

25. People outside the Scrum Team are allowed to participate in which event.

A. The Sprint Review

B. The Daily Scrum

C. The Sprint Retrospective

26. Who all are part of a Scrum Team?

A. Product Owner, Customers, Developers and Scrum Master

B. Product Owner, Stakeholders, Developers and Scrum Master

C. Product Owner, Developers and Scrum Master

D. Product Owner, Project Manager, Developers and Scrum Master

27. High priority process improvement item must be there in every Sprint

A. True

B. False

28. For the Scrum Team Product requirement changes comes from

A. The CEO of the Organization

B. The Key Stakeholders

C. The Product Backlog

D. The Product Owner

This is a part of Decoding Scrum Guide 2020 series.

Article 1 — What is Scrum?

Article 2 — How does Scrum help to achieve continual improvement?

Article 3 — How to make Scrum Successful?

Article 4 — Why everyone despise scrum theory?

Article 5 — Daily Stand-ups are waste of time.

Article 6 — Let’s get rid of Scrum Master.

Article 7 — Who are Product Owners and what do they do?

Article 8 — Who are Developers? What are their Accountabilities?

Article 9 — The notorious Scrum Team.

Article 10 — Why do we need Sprint Planning?

25+ Questions about Scrum

Article 11 — Is your Scrum Team failing in its commitment.

20 Questions about Product Owner/Product

Article 12 — The Sprint Retrospective: Do you really Care?

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