Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) PSD-I Practice Exam Questions Updated

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Scrum PSD-I practice exam questions are an invaluable resource for anyone preparing for the Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) exam. They are regularly updated to reflect the latest exam changes, help you study and prepare with ease, increase your chances of passing on your first attempt, and ultimately achieve brilliant exam results. With PSD-I practice exam questions, you’ll be well on your way to become certified. They are designed to help you study and prepare for the exam with ease, ensuring that you’re confident and ready when the exam day arrives.

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1. Which principle is included in SOLID? (pick all that apply)

Interface Segregation Principle.

Open-Closed Principle.

Liskov Substitution Principle.

Dual Interface Principle.

Single Responsibility Principle.

2. Who is responsible for the documentation?

Development Team.

Scrum Master.

Document Writer.

Tech Lead.

3. True or False: One of the outcomes of using TDD is creating an automated Regression Test suite

True.

False.

4. True or False: When multiple teams work together on the same Product each team should maintain a separate Product Backlog

False.

True.

5. The Definition of Done describes the work that must be completed for every Product Backlog Item before it can be deemed releasable.

What should the Development Team do when during the Sprint it finds out that a problem outside of their control blocks them from doing all this work?

Complete the work that can be done on as much scope as possible and use the Sprint Review to plan the rest with the Stakeholders.

Complete the work that can be done on as much scope as possible and complete the rest during the "hardening" Sprints at the end of the release.

Cancel the Sprint.

Immediately raise the issue to the Scrum Master as an impediment.

Stop using Scrum.

6. Which statement describes how often the build should be executed?

Whenever the Quality Assurance group becomes uncertain that the system works.

As often as possible and certainly prior to the end of the Sprint.

Once per day.

Whenever new or changed code is checked into version control.

7. Which one is true about the Daily Scrum? Pick 3

All Scrum Team members should participate in it.

It is a feedback loop.

It is a 15 minutes time-box event.

The Development Team monitors Sprint progress toward the Sprint Goal.

8. What does cross-functionality mean in a Scrum Team?

The Development Team should collaborate with all other functional departments of the organization.

Each Development Team member should have all required skills to create potentially releasable Increments without any dependency to others outside the team.

The Development Team should have all required skills to create potentially releasable Increments without any dependency to others outside the team.

Each Developer who has a special skill and works with all Scrum Teams of the organization is cross-functional.

9. Continuous Integration (CI) provides the following advantages: (select all that apply)

Stop waiting to find out if your code’s going to work.

Less back-tracking to discover where things went wrong so you can spend more time building features.

Automatically eliminates all integration issues.

Allows teams to detect problems early.

10. Which of the following describe Test Driven Development? (choose two answers)

Creating a manual test script before writing code.

A predictable way to develop working well-organized code.

Having Testers in the development process.

A Software Development technique based on automated tests.

An Increment and emergent approach to Software Design.

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11. Who has the final say on the order of the Product Backlog? (choose the best answer)

The Developers.

The Stakeholders.

The Product Owner.

The Scrum Master.

The CE

12. True or False: The Definition of Done is a mandatory part of Scrum

False.

True.

13. True or False: The purpose of a Sprint is to produce a valuable and useful Increment of working Product

False.

True.

14. When tests should be added in the development process?

At the end each Sprint.

From the beginning of the project.

In special Sprints called “Test Sprint”.

At the end of each release.

15. Who writes tests in a Scrum Team? (choose the best answer)

The Developers.

The Scrum Master.

Quality Assurance Specialists.

Coders.

16. Pair Programming is implemented by?

Developer and Scrum Master.

Tester and Developer.

Two persons working on the same PB

Frontend and Backend Developers.

17. True or False: Through the Sprint Review the Scrum Team tries to hand-off the Increment to the Customer formally

False.

True.

18. Which four are benefits of Test Driven Development?

It reduces the cost of maintenance over time.

It ensures no defects are present in the code.

It promotes good design and separation of concerns.

It causes you to construct a test harness that can be automated.

It improves quality and reduces bugs.

19. Which of the following is true about the Definition of Done?

It might be a subject of discussion during Sprint Retrospective.

It can only be extended; nothing can be removed.

It is the sole responsibility of the Developers to define it.

It is synonymous with Acceptance Criteria.

It defines a state when the entire Increment is releasable.

20. Who can tell the Developers what to work on?

The COO CEO and CT

The Product Owner.

The Project Manager.

The Scrum Master.

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21. Which are two benefits of establishing naming conventions for code? (choose best two answers)

To ensure that abandoned functions are not created.

To communicate the identity of the Developer who worked on the code.

To make it easy to distinguish between different Software Products.

To make the code more readable.

To reduce friction in a shared codebase.

22. What is NOT the name of the original program in source control from which branches are taken?

Master.

Feature.

Mainline.

Trunk.

23. When could a release to Production occur if a Scrum Team produced a Done increment multiple times each day? (select all that apply)

Mid Sprint.

Multiple times per day.

Every Day.

Every Sprint.

24. What is a Unit Test?

A way in which units of programmers ensure their code works.

A way for the team to ensure that the system satisfies the user requirements.

A technique for ensuring that units of co-dependent or clustered computers perform correctly.

A test that isolates and verifies individual units of source code.

25. When the Product Owner can see the Development Team work?

Whenever the Development Team is ready.

Just at the Sprint Review.

When the Tech Lead allows the Development Team to show their work.

Anytime the Product Owner asks.

26. In Software Development DRY refers to

Code that has been peer reviewed.

Code that has not been peer reviewed.

Code with minimal duplication.

Code with low Cyclomatic Complexity.

27. A Scrum Master is working with a Development Team that has members in different physical locations. The Development Team meets in a variety of meeting rooms and has much to do logistically (for example set up conference calls) before the Daily Scrum.

What action should the Scrum Master take? (choose the best answer)

Set up the meeting and tell the Development Team that is how it will be done.

Ask the Development Team members to alternate who is responsible for meeting setup.

Allow the Development Team to self-manage and determine for itself what to do.

Inform Management and ask them to solve it.

28. Which two criteria are useful in deciding if something should be documented every Sprint? (choose best two answers)

It has always been documented in the past.

It is required by the Definition of Done.

The Software tool being used requires it.

The documentation is used to enhance and maintain the Software.

The Scrum Master requires it.

29. What is Code Coverage?

The percent of code in version control included in a build.

The number of Developers that understand how the code works.

An insurance policy that covers the code for defects.

The degree to which the system under test has been exercised by tests.

30. What is the recommended size of the Development Team?

5 ± 4.

6 ± 3.

7 ± 2.

9 ± 3.

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31. What is the recommended size for a Scrum Team? (choose the best answer)

7 plus or minus 2.

Minimum of 7.

Typically 10 or fewer people.

32. True or False: 100% Code Coverage of tests guarantees bug-free Software

False.

True.

33. Which is true about Strategic Debt in Technical Debt context?

Debt caused to gain strategic benefits (such as time to market).

This is typically caused by lack of awareness or knowledge.

Short-time gains for instance cutting some corners to make an extra release for increased customer satisfaction.

34. Which types of tests can be automated?

Smoke.

Integration.

Performance.

Functional.

Unit.

Exploratory.

35. True or False: Planning Poker must be used by Scrum Teams

False.

True.

36. What is the primary purpose of Refactoring?

Creating better technical documentation.

Making sure that the code is readable and maintainable.

Removing all bugs that were found during Regression Tests.

Ensuring that all factors are constantly aligned.

37. Which one is a Scrum Team role? (pick all that apply)

The Scrum Master.

The Development Team.

The Project Manager.

The Product Owner.

38. When is implementation of a Product Backlog Item considered complete? (choose the best answer)

When the item has no work remaining in order to be potentially released.

At the end of the Sprint.

When Quality Assurance reports that the item passes all Acceptance Criteria.

When all work in the Sprint Backlog related to the item is finished.

39. How often does the Sprint Planning should be conducted?

Each time that the Product Owner decides.

Once a Sprint.

Once a Release.

In the middle of each Sprint.

40. True or False: Afferent Coupling measures the number of classes on which a given class depends

True.

False.

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41. Which are four attributes of a good bug report?

Includes code for a proposed fix.

Screenshots or other pictures of the bug in action.

Expected results and observed results.

Explains some new system functionality desired.

Provides simple and repeatable reproduction steps.

Includes build or version number where bug was found.

42. What is the usual comparison of Product Backlog Items average size in the Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog?

Product Backlog Items usually have the same size in both the Product Backlog and the Sprint Backlog.

Product Backlog Items in the Product Backlog are usually larger than the Sprint Backlog.

Product Backlog Items in the Product Backlog are usually smaller than the Sprint Backlog.

Such a comparison does not make sense.

43. Who is responsible for writing tests in a Scrum Team?

The programmer.

The Development Team.

The Tester.

The QA specialist.

44. Which Scrum events can use more time rather than their time-box if there are 9 Developers (the maximum Development Team size) in the Team?

The Sprint Review.

No one.

The Sprint Retrospective.

The Daily Scrum.

45. Which concerns are most important in the scaled Scrum? Pick 2

Increasing all team members utilization.

Creating an integrated releasable Increment at the end of each Sprint.

Having same Sprint duration for all teams.

Minimizing or removing dependencies between teams.

46. To refine Product Backlog Items the following activities will occur implicitly or explicitly: (choose all that apply)

Testing.

Programming.

Decomposition.

Analysis.

Design.

47. Which are potential benefits of Test Driven Development? (choose all that apply)

It causes you to construct a test harness that can be automated.

It promotes good design and separation of concerns.

It improves quality and reduces bugs.

It speeds the overall development process.

48. Who is responsible for the System Architecture of a Product being developed using Scrum? (choose the best answer)

The Corporate Architect.

The Architect chosen by the Scrum Team.

The Software Architect.

The Developers.

49. How much work is required of the Developers to complete a Product Backlog Item selected during the Sprint Planning?

As much as s required to meet the Scrum Team's Definition of Done.

All development work and at least some testing.

As much as they can fit into the Sprint with remaining work deferred to the next Sprint.

A proportional amount of time on analysis design development and testing.

50. True or False: The Scrum Team should choose at least one high priority process improvement identified during the Sprint Retrospective and place it in the Product Backlog

False.

True.

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51. Which work can be done between two Sprints?

Preparing Product Backlog Items for the next Sprint.

Thinking about architectural concerns of the next Sprint.

Nothing. There is no special time between two Sprints.

Resolving some important bugs.

52. When does a Developer become the sole owner of a Sprint Backlog item? (choose the best answer)

Never. All Sprint Backlog items are "owned" by the Developers on the Scrum Team even though each item may be implemented by an individual Developer.

During the Daily Scrum.

Whenever a team member can accommodate more work.

At the Sprint Planning event.

53. What are the typical roles when practicing Pair Programming?

Driver and Navigator.

Frontend and Backend.

Product Owner and Developer.

Business Analyst and Developer.

Tester and Developer.

54. Five new Scrum Teams have been created to build one Product. A few of the Developers on one of the Development Teams ask the Scrum Master how to coordinate their work with the other teams.

What should the Scrum Master do?

Teach them that it is their responsibility to work with the other teams to create an integrated Increment.

Visit the five teams each day to inspect that their Sprint Backlogs are aligned.

Collect the Sprint tasks from the teams at the end of their Sprint Planning and merge that into a consolidated plan for the entire Sprint.

Teach the Product Owner to work with the lead Developers on ordering Product Backlog in a way to avoid too much technical and development overlap during a Sprint.

55. Who creates documentation included with an Increment?

The Product Owner.

The Scrum Master.

Increments do not need documentation.

Technical Writers.

The Developers.

56. Which are three attributes of a bad bug report?

One bug per report.

Simple and repeatable reproduction steps.

Assigning blame.

Generic titles.

Vague statements or untested assumptions.

57. Which is NOT true about Efferent Coupling?

It is a Code Quality metric.

Classes with high Efferent Coupling will receive the effects of changes or defects in other classes.

A large Efferent Coupling can indicate that a class is unfocussed and may also indicate that it is unstable since it depends on the stability of all the types to which it is coupled.

Classes with high efferent will affect other classes when changes are made.

58. What would NOT be considered Refactoring?

Extracting methods.

Reordering method parameters to improve readability.

Changing external interfaces or API

Extracting interfaces.

Renaming things to be more logical.

59. Which answer best describes Behavior Driven Development (BDD)?

A way to organize Unit Tests based on class and method structures.

A technique for maintaining Regression Test harnesses.

A development style that accounts for leadership style among team members.

A style of Test Driven Development focusing on user and system interactions.

60. The timebox for the Sprint Review is: (choose the best answer)

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

1 day.

4 hours and longer as needed.

2 hours.

As long as needed.

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61. What are the outputs of the Sprint Planning?

The Sprint Backlog.

The Increment.

The Sprint Goal.

The Release Plan.

62. What is the proper reaction of the Development Team in the middle of the Sprint when they found they have over committed?

They should ask the Product Owner to cancel the Sprint.

They can add new team members to the team.

They negotiate with the Product Owner about the scope of the Sprint Backlog Items.

They extend the Sprint duration.

63. Who knows best about how to create usable and releasable Increments?

The Scrum Master.

The Development Team.

The Technical Manager.

The Product Owner.

64. What are some shortcomings of Code Coverage as a measurement for how well a system or Product is tested? (choose the best three answers)

Could create incentives to write tests that simply increase Code Coverage rather than tests that find bugs without increasing coverage.

It is too complicated to explain to Management.

Code Coverage does not ensure that the most important or highest risk areas of the code are being exercised by tests.

Code Coverage metrics vary by development platform (e.g. .NET Java).

Code Coverage does not necessarily provide functional coverage.

65. What kind of activity can be done in the Product Backlog Refinement?

Develop.

Design.

Ordering.

Adding detail to the items.

66. What is the role of Management in Scrum? (choose the best answer)

Identify and remove people that are not working hard enough.

Continually monitor staffing levels of the Scrum Team.

Support the Product Owner with insights and information into high value Product and system capabilities. Support the Scrum Master to cause organizational change that fosters empiricism self-management bottom-up intelligence and intelligent Product delivery.

Monitor the progress of the Developers on the Scrum Team.

67. When a Continuous Integration build fails who ideally ensures the build is repaired? (choose the best answer)

The Tester responsible for validating builds.

The person who broke the build.

Whoever the Developers agree should fix it.

The next person who needs the build to complete successfully.

The person assigned to the configuration management role within the team.

68. What is the instability index metric calculation formula? (Ca: Afferent Coupling Ce: Efferent Coupling)

(Ca+Ce) / Ca.

Ca / (Ca+Ce).

(Ca+Ce) / Ce.

Ce / (Ca+Ce).

69. What relationship does Scrum have to technical practices?

None.

Scrum requires specific technical practices or it isn't Scrum.

All technical practices must be used to support Scrum.

Scrum Development Teams with excellent technical practices will likely be more successful.

70. What are some disadvantages of Code Coverages as a measurement for how well a system or Product is tested? (choose best three answers)

Developers could stop adding more valuable tests once the target coverage is achieved.

It does not ensure that the most important or highest risk areas of the code are being exercised by the tests.

It only provide insights for programmers.

It is too complicated to explain to Management.

It could create incentives to write tests that simply increase Code Coverage rather than tests that find bugs without increasing coverage.

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71. Which three of the following criteria are most helpful as part of a Scrum Team’s Definition of Done? (choose best three answers)

Code Review is done.

Acceptance Tests pass.

The Product is released at the end of every Sprint.

No impediments exist.

Regression Tests pass.

72. Which three behaviors demonstrate that a team is self-organizing? (choose the best three answers)

Stakeholders walking in at the Daily Scrum to check progress and work with the Scrum Master to optimize the functional scope for the Sprint.

The Development Team members are working within the boundaries of their functional description and nicely handing off work from analyst to Developer to Tester to integration.

The Development Team has all the skills needed to create a releasable Increment.

The Product Owner doesn't need to be at Sprint Retrospectives.

The Development Team inviting external people to the Sprint Planning to ask them how to turn a Product Backlog Item into an Increment via a complete and detailed Sprint Backlog.

The Scrum Master is no longer needed.

Development Team members collaboratively selecting their own work during the Sprint.

The Development Team creating their own Sprint Backlog reflecting all work that is part of the Definition of Done.

73. Which of the following are benefits of Continuous Integration? (choose the best two answers)

The build is executed once every night and at least once each weekend.

It eliminates bugs completely.

It leads to higher transparency and rapid feedback to the team.

Causes team members to consider each other's work and context.

74. Who owns the Sprint Backlog? (choose the best answer)

The Product Owner.

The Scrum Team.

The Scrum Master.

The Development Team.

75. What activities would a Product Owner typically undertake in the phase between the end of the current Sprint and the start of the next Sprint? (choose the best answer)

Refine the Product Backlog.

There are no such activities. The next Sprint starts immediately after the current Sprint.

Work with the Quality Assurance departments on the Increment of the current Sprint.

Update the project plan with Stakeholders.

76. The practice of decomposing a requirement into failing tests is called

Acceptance Test Driven Development.

Regression Testing.

Object oriented requirements definition.

Behavior Driven Development.

77. True or False: Only technical writers can create documentation during a Sprint

True.

False.

78. True or False: The Product Owner makes sure the team selects enough from the Product Backlog for a Sprint to satisfy the Stakeholders

False.

True.

79. Which two of the following are true about the Scrum Master role? (choose the best two answers)

The Scrum Master is responsible for updating the Sprint Burndown.

The Scrum Master helps those outside the team interact with the Scrum Team.

The Scrum Master assigns tasks to Development Team members when they need work.

At the Sprint Review the Scrum Master identifies what has been "Done" and what has not been "Done".

The Scrum Master teaches the Development Team to keep the Scrum meetings to their time-box.

80. Which expression is NOT used for KISS principle?

Keep it simple stupid.

Keep it simple silly.

Keep it small and simple.

Keep it safe and same.

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81. In the Sprint Planning meeting, the Product Owner and the Development Team were unable to reach a clear understanding about the highest order Product Backlog Items. Because of this, the Development Team couldn't figure out how many Product Backlog Items it could forecast for the upcoming Sprint.

They were able to agree on a Sprint Goal, however.

Which of the following two actions should the Scrum Master support? (choose the best two answers)

Continue the Sprint Planning meeting past its time-box until an adequate number of Product Backlog Items are well enough understood for the Development Team to make a complete forecast. Then start the Sprint.

Cancel the Sprint. Send the entire team to an advanced Scrum training and then start a new Sprint.

Discuss in the upcoming Sprint Retrospective why this happened and what changes will make it less likely to recur.

Ask everyone to take as much time as needed to analyze the Product Backlog first and then reconvene another Sprint Planning meeting.

Forecast the most likely Product Backlog Items to meet the goal and create a Sprint Backlog based on a likely initial design and plan. Once the time-box for the Sprint Planning meeting is over start the Sprint and continue to analyze decompose and create additional functionality during the Sprint.

82. True or False: Through Depth of Inheritance metric a low number for depth implies less complexity but also the possibility of less code reuse through inheritance

False.

True.

83. How do you know that a Development Team is cross-functional? (choose the best answer)

There are no conflicts within the Development Team.

Development Team has all the skills to create a potentially releasable increment by the end of every Sprint.

A few of the Development Team members pair program and do Test Driven Development.

Every member of the Development Team is able to perform every task.

84. Who is required to attend the Daily Scrum? (choose the best answer)

The Scrum Team.

The Developers and Product Owner.

The Developers and Scrum Master.

The Scrum Master and Product Owner.

The Developers.

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