If you decided to earn a certificate at Scrum.org or just learn Scrum better, my quizzes should greatly help you:
- Professional Scrum Master™ (PSM I™) preparation quiz – learning mode | real mode
- Professional Scrum Product Owner™ (PSPO I™) preparation quiz – learning mode | real mode
- Scaled Professional Scrum™ (SPS™ aka Nexus™) preparation quiz – learning mode
When I decided to pass PSM I exam, I found no good free practice quizzes. The open assessments at Scrum.org are fine, but the number of available questions is too small. I decided to help all the Scrum learners by creating these free quizzes. You will learn the Scrum Guide by heart and get an idea of the real assessments.
There are two quiz modes:
- Learning Mode – Each question has an immediate explanation. No time limit. All quiz questions are available. Pass it several times and you will be prepared well for the real assessment.
- Real Mode – It is very similar to the real assessment. No correct answers and explanations. There are 80 randomly selected questions and 60 minutes. Try it and get the feeling of the real assessment!
All the quizzes based on the Scrum Guide v2017.
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Hello Sir,
Thanks a lot for the test, this is super helpful. I attempted the quiz for PSM – I today and I felt a few answers contradict the scrum guide 2020. Could you kindly check those & help provide more clarity around those. Thanks again:
1. Who is responsible for the “Definition of Done”?
I thought it is the scrum team because the scrum guide says “If it is not an organizational standard, the Scrum Team must create a Definition of Done appropriate for the product.” and also that “If there are multiple scrum teams working together on a product, they must mutually define and comply with the same Definition of Done”. The given answer is “The Development Team”.
2. Imagine you are a scrum master in a small organization trying to adopt scrum. There are 10 developers and a product owner. How can they be divided into teams?
I guess “1 team of 10 people” is not allowed as an option because the recommendation on scrum guide is typically 10 or lesser people and that includes scrum master and product owner. But in the case above we have 11 people including product owner? Is my understanding correct?
In your answer description you have mentioned “Number of people in a development team should be between 3 and 9”; but I don’t find such a mention in the scrum guide. Am I missing to read some other relevant blogs?
Thanks for posting the above. I also was confused on some of the answers, probably because this quiz is based on the Scrum Guide v2017, which is revised in 2020. Hence many of the answers on this quiz are not accurate.
1.https://www.agilesocks.com/definition-of-done-2020-scrum-guide/ – In the 2020 Scrum Guide, the Definition of Done is created by the SCRUM TEAM. In previous versions of the Scrum Guide, this responsibility was explicitly owned by the Development Team. I will explain the intention of the change and what it means for Scrum Teams.
2. Again, the 2020 Scrum Guiide RECOMMENDS – The Scrum Team is small enough to remain nimble and large enough to complete significant work within a Sprint, typically 10 or fewer people.
Test question 63 is wrong/outdated. If the org has no DoD the Scrum Team creates it. Source: https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html#:~:text=the%20Scrum%20Team%20must%20create%20a%20Definition%20of%20Done
Hi Mikhail! Thanks for creating these quizzes. There’s a PSM I question that needs updating:
What provides guidance to the Development Team on why it is building the increment?
A. The sprint backlog
B. The sprint goal
C. The Scrum Master
D. The Product Owner
The system has the answer set to “the sprint goal,” and an explanation explaining this is the correct answer. This answer is not correct. The sprint goal is a commitment by the developers. It creates focus and coherence, and encourages the scrum team to work together. It also serves to create transparency around whether or not the current sprint has become obsolete or is still relevant.
The sprint goal does not contain any guidance on “why” they are building the increment. It is a goal, which is an accomplishment to achieve during the sprint. It is the “what” they are building, not the why and not the how. The why is the domain of the product owner accountability. The how is the developer accountability domain. The “what” is the increment and is the domain of the entire scrum team.
Also, the product owner is not a “what” but rather a “who.” Recommend changing the question to “From where does the scrum team receive guidance on the why behind the current sprint?” The answer would be “The product owner.” Where is directional and good English which could include both what’s and who’s as options.
Hi Rob,
I do not agree with you :
The Sprint Backlog is composed of the Sprint Goal (why), the set of Product Backlog items selected for the Sprint (what), as well as an actionable plan for delivering the Increment (how). Extract of the Scrum Guide 2020.
So on the question where it asks, “Who is allowed to attend the Daily Scrum?” Isn’t the Scrum Master technically allowed to attend? It even says in your description of the answer that if anybody DOES attend, the Scrum Master must make sure they do not disrupt the meeting. Wouldn’t it be more accurate to not use the word “allowed” or specify “allowed to participate”? It’s just kind of contradicting, at least in my opinion.
The following answer is wrong about the 2020 guide, it was right in the 2017 version, but is not mandatory anymore to include process improvement in to the sprint.
Imagine the following situation. At the Sprint Retrospective meeting the Scrum Team identified some improvements that can be done. What should the Scrum Team do? Select the best option.
Make sure the Sprint Backlog for the next Sprint includes at least one high priority process improvement.