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  • How does Scrum ensure quality?
    By renegotiating with the Product Owner if too much work is pulled into a sprint
  • Which is more important? Experience and personal expertise using Scrum, or having a Scrum certification?
    Scrum experience and personal expertise is more important than a Scrum certification
  • When a new team member is added to a Scrum Team (as a Developer), what is likely to happen?
    The Scrum Team's performance will fall temporarily, and then rise
  • How should Product Backlog items be ordered?
    In a way that best achieves missions and goals
  • What does a Product Owner optimize?
    The value of the Development Team's work
  • In the November 2017 edition of the official Scrum Guide, what are Scrum time-boxes called?
    Events
  • During sprint planning, who selects items off the product backlog to complete in the new sprint?
    The development team
  • Who may invite other stakeholders to the Scrum Team's Sprint Review?
    The Product Owner
  • A Scrum Master is a mentor, coach, servant-leader, impediment-remover, and what else?
    Scrum champion
  • How long should an organization keep its Product Backlog?
    For as long as there is a product for that Product Backlog
  • Who are the mandatory attendees of the Daily Scrum?
    The Development Team
  • If a sprint is 30 days (that is, 4 weeks) long, how long can the Sprint Planning event be?
    8 hours
  • How long do you have to complete the Professional Scrum Master (PSM) Level One exam once you begin the exam?
    60 minutes
  • Who are optional attendees to the Sprint Planning?
    Stakeholders invited by the Development Team
  • When does Product Backlog Refinement occur?
    With whatever frequency that the Scrum Team wants and needs
  • What is Scrum.org's training approach for its trainers and training materials?
    Scrum.org centralizes training and training materials.
  • A Scrum Team uses two-week sprints.  How long should be their Sprint Review?
    No longer than 2 hours
  • In Scrum, how many people can be on the Development Team?
    Between 3 and 9
  • How does Scrum say value should be expressed on Product Backlog items?
    Scrum doesn't say how value should be expressed
  • Where should bug defects be tracked?
    On the Product Backlog, if they can't be fixed within the current sprint
  • What is Scrum's approach to design work that must occur at the beginning of a project?
    To use an emergent design approach
  • In Scrum, smaller time-boxes are fit inside of a container time-box.  What is that container time-box called?
    A sprint
  • What kind of training does Scrum.org require test-takers to have before taking the Professional Scrum Master (PSM) Level One exam?
    There is no training requirement
  • A Scrum team uses two week-long sprints.  How long should their Sprint Retrospective be?
    No longer than 90 minutes
  • Who can instruct a Development Team to work on a different set of requirements other than the Product Backlog?
    no one can do this
  • If the Development Team has too little work to do at the end of the sprint, what could they do?
    Work with the Product Owner to select new items from off the Product Backlog
  • What does the Sprint Retrospective seek to do?
    Improve the way the Scrum Team works together
  • Who can instruct a Development Team to work on a different set of requirements other than the Product Backlog?
    No one can do this
  • What is the passing score for the Professional Scrum Master (PSM) level One exam?
    85%
  • What are the attributes of every Product Backlog item?
    Description, Order, Value, Estimate
  • For the first sprint, a Scrum Team needs two key inputs.  The first key input is a Product Backlog.  What is the second key input?
    A Development Team's work capacity
  • How long can a sprint time-box be?
    Up to 30 days
  • A Development Team has taken on too much work in a sprint.  What is the best way to handle this situation?
    Renegotiate the work to achieve the Sprint Goal in a different way.
  • Which organization offers certifications to agile practitioners?
    Scrum Alliance
  • Three Scrum teams are working together to build a single product.  How many Product Backlogs should they be using?
    All teams should use a single Product Backlog.