SCRUM The Scrum Master Role 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A Scrum Master notices the Daily Scrum regularly runs 35 minutes. What is the most appropriate action?
- Coach the Developers to keep it within the 15-minute timebox (Correct answer)
- Cancel the Daily Scrum for a week
- Take over and run the meeting personally
- Report the team to management
Correct answer: Coach the Developers to keep it within the 15-minute timebox
The Scrum Master coaches the team to respect the 15-minute timebox while letting Developers own the event.
Question 2: How does the Scrum Master primarily serve the Product Owner?
- By writing all the Product Backlog items
- By helping with effective Product Backlog management techniques (Correct answer)
- By approving the release plan
- By prioritizing the backlog for the Product Owner
Correct answer: By helping with effective Product Backlog management techniques
The Scrum Master helps the Product Owner find techniques for effective Product Backlog management, not do the work for them.
Question 3: A stakeholder repeatedly contacts Developers directly with new requirements mid-Sprint. The Scrum Master should:
- Allow it to keep stakeholders happy
- Coach the stakeholder on Scrum and protect the team from disruption (Correct answer)
- Add every request to the current Sprint
- Tell Developers to ignore all stakeholders
Correct answer: Coach the stakeholder on Scrum and protect the team from disruption
The Scrum Master removes impediments and coaches stakeholders on how to interact with the team appropriately.
Question 4: Which best describes the Scrum Master's authority over the Developers?
- Direct managerial authority to assign tasks
- A servant-leader who has no command-and-control authority (Correct answer)
- Authority to hire and fire team members
- Authority to set individual performance ratings
Correct answer: A servant-leader who has no command-and-control authority
The Scrum Master is a servant leader, not a manager with command-and-control authority over the Developers.
Question 5: During Sprint Planning the team struggles to define a clear Sprint Goal. The Scrum Master should:
- Define the Sprint Goal for them
- Facilitate the conversation so the team crafts the goal (Correct answer)
- Skip the Sprint Goal this Sprint
- Ask the Product Owner to dictate the goal
Correct answer: Facilitate the conversation so the team crafts the goal
The Scrum Master facilitates Scrum events so they are productive, helping the team reach a Sprint Goal themselves.
Question 6: What is the Scrum Master's responsibility regarding organizational adoption of Scrum?
- Only the team's process matters, not the organization
- Lead and coach the organization in its Scrum adoption (Correct answer)
- Force every department to use Scrum immediately
- Delegate adoption entirely to HR
Correct answer: Lead and coach the organization in its Scrum adoption
The Scrum Master serves the organization by leading and coaching it in adopting Scrum.
Question 7: A new Scrum Master finds the team has no Definition of Done. What should they do?
- Ignore it since it is optional
- Help the team and organization create a Definition of Done (Correct answer)
- Write the Definition of Done alone and impose it
- Wait until management provides one
Correct answer: Help the team and organization create a Definition of Done
The Scrum Master helps establish a Definition of Done if organizational standards are missing.
SCRUM The Scrum Master Role 2
A Scrum Master notices the Daily Scrum regularly runs 35 minutes.
What is the most appropriate action?