Free Professional Scrum Product Owner II PSPO-II Exam Questions

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Professional Scrum Product Owner II PSPO-II Exam Questions are newly available which test your skill of Understanding and Applying the Scrum Framework, Managing Products with Agility and Evolving the Agile Organization. The Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO II) certification validates your understanding of advanced Professional Scrum Product Ownership, the Scrum framework and delivering valuable products. After studying Professional Scrum Product Owner II PSPO-II Exam Questions, you will pass your Scrum PSPO-II exam easily.

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1. True or False: A benefit of using an agile approach is managing business risk more effectively.

False

True

2. What is a benefit of frequent product releases? (choose the best answer)

They help teams better understand and meet customer needs.

They help teams to learn how to correct and eliminate errors.

All of the above

Smaller, more frequent releases are less risky

None of the above.

They enable teams to inspect and adapt more frequently

3. As a Product Owner you become aware that the quality assurance criteria, defined in the Definition of Done, were not met for the latest increment.

Which of the following statements are true? (choose the best four answers)

The indication of progress on the Product Backlog is not transparent.

The incomplete Sprint Backlog ítems should be returned to the Product Backlog.

The Scrum Team should not reléase the increment.

The next Sprint may be interrupted when quality issues are encountered.

The Product Owner cannot effectively update the plan.

4. As a Product Owner, who can you invite to the Sprint Review? (choose the best answer)

Your product's investors/sponsors.

Your clients/customers

Your end users.

Your internal stakeholders

All of the above.

5. Why should there be only one Product Owner per product? (choose the best answer)

It is clear for the accountable person for the success of the product. The Developers acknowledge who determines priorities, and it helps to improve communication and make decisions faster.

It's more effective to have more than one Product Owner per product.

The Product Owner is not actually needed for the product.

The Developers know who they can request tasks from, and they can determine who manages the development's work.

6. Who participates at the Sprint Review? (choose all that apply)

The Key Stakeholders

The Product Owner

The Developers

The Organization CEO

The Scrum Master

7. Management has asked you for advice on which product to fund. Each product is focusing on different markets. Given the following information: -Product A is the main driver of both revenue and profit for your company. -Product A has very happy customers (high Current Value) and low Unrealized Value. - Product B is relatively new. -Product B has low Current Value and high Unrealized Value. Both Product Owners of the two products are requesting significant additional funding to improve their products.

What funding advise would you give management? (choose the best answer)

Split funding equally between both products

Split funding proportionally based on product revenues.

Invest funding in Product B because it has more future potential for the company.

Invest funding in Product A because your company's success depends on its continued success

8. Andy is a new Product Owner on a new Scrum Team. Andy has projected a product completion date based on an estimated velocity of 25 completed points per Sprint. After the first 3 Sprints, the team has determined that their maximum velocity is 14 points and they are unable to create shippable increments at the end of each Sprint.

What is the best way to proceed?

None of the above

Extend the Sprint's length in order to complete the Sprint Backlog items

The Scrum Master should coach the Developers on how to improve the estimation and commitment to complete the Sprint Backlog.

The Scrum Master would request the organization, the Human Resource, specifically, to add more team members in order to increase the team’s velocity and capacity.

Inform Andy that the projected completion date is not correct. The Developers would estimate the remaining work to produce a shippable Increment and suggest making it “Done” before working on new features. Based on empirical data, Andy can decide the solution.

All of the above

9. What are the attributes of a good Product Vision and Strategy? (choose all that apply)

It describes how the product compares to competitor products

It describes how the product will generate revenue

It describes how people will use the product to achieve outcomes.

It describes who will use the product and what they would like to achieve

10. Which activities will a Product Owner likely engage in during a Sprint? (choose the best three answers)

Run the Daily Scrum

Reorder items in the Product Backlog

Update the Sprint burndown chart.

Answer questions from the Developers about items in the current Sprint.

Gather information and opinions from Stakeholders

Prioritize the Developer's tasks.

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11. You are a Product Owner and the most recent report is showing a downward trend in your product's users. A stakeholder (Subject Matter Expert) informs you that you need to release more features in order to win new customers. Based on the data you have collected, you have confirmed that the loss of customers is due to market changes rather than the lack of features. The stakeholder is afraid that if you don't increase the number of features in your next release, you risk missing the window of opportunity and losing the most valuable customers.

As a Product Owner, which two actions are most appropriate? (choose the best two answers)

Acknowledge the stakeholder's viewpoint but decline to increase the number of features in the next release

Collaborate with other stakeholders to gather additional ideas and take a poll on which ideas you should pursue

Acknowledge the stakeholder's viewpoint and increase the number of features in the next release

Run a small experiment, in collaboration with the stakeholder, to validate their feedback.

12. For the last few releases, your product's sales have not improved and not met your revenue projections.

Which measure would be most helpful in understanding the problem? (choose the best answer)

Innovation Rate

Release Frequency

Usage Index

Lead Time

13. When value can be measured infrequently, it becomes a … Choose the best answer

Leading indicator

Lagging indicator

14. True or False: When many agile teams are working on different products, they should create a common status reporting dashboard of work performed in order for management to understand the status of each team.

False

True

15. Your CEO thinks your organization needs to deliver more quickly. There is no shortage of opinions about how you should go about this. Some managers think they need to hire more people, some engineers think the answer is automation. You can’t pursue every idea, and some ideas may not be worth pursuing.

What could best help you understand the problem and where to improve? (choose the best answer)

Conduct a customer satisfaction survey to find areas of dissatisfaction.

All of the above.

Hire more people to handle the workload while also working to improve automation.

Create a Value Stream Map to understand the current process and its bottlenecks.

Analyze employee utilization rates to understand where efficiency needs to be improved.

16. What is the stance of the Product Owner during the Sprint Retrospective? (choose the best answer)

A peer Scrum Team member

A Project Manager

A Story Writer

A Manager

17. What is an effective Product Vision? (choose the best answer)

It is approved by all stakeholders.

None of the above

It inspires the people who deliver the product.

All of the above

It forms a contract with the business.

18. An Increment is released when (choose the best answer)

The Acceptance Criteria has been met

The Developers confirm it is releasable

The Definition of "Done" is completed

The Product Owner decides to release

19. Which statement best describes the Sprint Review? Choose the best answer

An opportunity to inspect the outcome of the Sprint and determine future adaptations

A demonstration of functionality completed in the Sprint

An inspection of the work completed by the Developers in the Sprint

20. Which of the following are the correct Key Value Areas in Evidence Based Management from Scrum.org? Select all that apply

Unrealized Value

Customer Value

Ability to Innovate

Time to Market

Current Value

Product Quality

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21. The benefit of the Evidence-Based Management framework is:(choose the best answer)

To improve an organization's ability to deliver value.

To be able to better track progress and status.

To accurately predict how a team is performing.

To understand the efficiency of your teams.

22. As an experienced Product Owner, your organization has asked you for your advice on investment strategies for two products. Given the following information: -Product B generates more revenue than Product A -Product B has higher user satisfaction rates than Product A -Product A has bigger potential market opportunities than Product B Which of the following strategies would you advise? (choose the best answer)

For both products, continually measure the impact of any new investments or marketing.

Invest in Product A to increase its market share, user satisfaction, and revenue.

Increase marketing for Product B to grow its market share.

All of the above.

23. Personas can help to: (choose the best answer)

Formulate hypotheses about product value.

Understand the needs of a set of users.

Understand market potential

Discover key buying triggers

E) All of the above.

24. Tommy, a young and talented Product Owner, decided to release continuously new features. He supposed that more frequent releases increase the quality of the value.

What could be the potential problems with his releasing strategy? (choose ALL that apply).

The end-users are confused and getting annoyed with the constant releases.

There is no problem with Tommy's releasing strategy.

The stakeholders are unhappy because the budget is consumed too quickly

The Developers notifies that technical debt is accumulating.

25. Which approaches could help the Product Owner reduce waste in managing Product Backlog (choose the best two answers).

Create another Product Backlog dedicated to Product Backlog Items that are near the top.

Describe the Product Backlog Item in a precise, explicit way as expected outcomes.

Delegate 50% of the total amount of Product Backlog Items to the Developers.

Only write full details for Product Backlog Items that are near the top of the Product Backlog

26. Which of the following is the Product Owner accountable for maintaining and communicating? (choose the best answer)

The Sprint burndown chart.

Developers utilization.

The Product Vision

The Definition of Done

27. Over a million customers use ZARA company's product. ZARA recently implemented and released a particular feature that they believed would be widely adopted by the users.

After gathering enough data from the test, it is concluded that the feature functions as intended however the usage rate was surprisingly low.

What should ZARA do? (choose the best answer)

Enlarge the sample size by extending the length of the original experiment.

Deem the new feature unsuccessful and proceed to implement the next feature.

Devise a new experiment to learn whether usability issues are causing the problem.

28. Which of the following measures might help you determine whether your product is delivering value to your customers? (choose the best answer)

None of the above

How often your customers use your product.

All of the above.

The average cost of your product release.

The number of "must-do" Product Backlog items delivered in a release.

The on-schedule performance of the Scrum Team

29. What type of indicator does value become if it is measured infrequently? (choose the best answer)

A Lagging indicator

A Leading indicator

30. The "cone of uncertainty" can be used to ______ (choose the best answer)

Make the scope of work clearer after a certain number of Sprints.

Calculate the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) before the project begins.

Shows the remaining amount of work remaining on a project

Predict the completion date of the project, tell the user the exact Sprint project completes.

Identify uncertainties.

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31. Your organization's portfolio consists of several products. Management has decided to place the lead revenue generating product into maintenance mode, taper off its investment, and seek other opportunities for future growth.

What may have lead to this? (choose the best answer)

Your organization has stopped using Scrum

The organization has decided to reduce operational overhead and to focus on products that generate better Product cost Ratios.

The innovation rate for the product is low.

The product has been losing customers, revenues are down, and the Unrealized Value is low (even though the Current Value is high).

32. User satisfaction gap lies in the difference between: (choose the best two answers)

The user's actual experience.

The total market size.

The user's desired experience.

The current market share of the product.

33. Which statements about the Product Backlog are correct? (choose the best two answers)

All Product Backlog Items must be identified before starting the first Sprint.

The Product Backlog eliminates any need for the Developers to speak to stakeholders.

All Product Backlog items must be displayed under the User Stories form.

The Product Backlog is ordered by the Product Owner

Only the Product Owner can place items on the Product Backlog.

The Product Backlog is visible to stakeholders and the Scrum Team.

34. An organization is currently having difficulties delivering new releases of their products in a timely manner. When asked, the teams say that they need to share team members across different teams and

products in order for a team to get their work done. At least one team needs help from a member of another team at any point in time.

Which of the following would be the most appropriate response? (choose the best answer)

None of the above.

All of the above.

Create project plans for each of the products to include how to coordinate between teams and team members.

Reduce the number of products in order to help improve focus and reduce dependencies between teams.

Work with HR to hire more people to increase the capacity of the teams.

35. The current product is making a profit; however, the Sale Manager advises James, a Product Owner, to reduce the price to attract more customers. The Financial Director argues that this may harm the company revenue.

What are the reliable sources that help Jame decide the product's pricing strategy? (choose the best two answers).

Company profit reports

Competitor's pricing

Sale channel strategy

Market share

36. Which of the following statements is true about the Product Vision? (choose the best answer)

It is the shared responsibility of the Scrum Team to develop and evolve

None of the above

All of the above.

It evolves as the Scrum Team learns more about customers and their needs.

It must be completely free from discussions about strategic technology choices.

37. During the product's development effort, the market for which the product is being built has changed and evolved.

What should you do? (choose the best answer)

The Product Backlog should remain unchanged. Move the product to a more suitable market as you have already made investments in product development.

Make changes to the Product Backlog to reflect what is needed to deliver the most value

There is no impact as the commitment is to deliver on the approved project plan.

Replace the current Product Backlog with a new Product Backlog that fits the updated market.

38. What are the accountabilities of a Tester on a Scrum Team? (choose the best two answers)

Checking the work of the Developers.

Everyone on the Scrum Team is accountable for the quality of the product.

Creating code coverage reports for the test manager.

There is no specific tester role

Finding bugs to assure quality

39. Which of the following is a benefit of using Scrum as an agile approach? (choose the best answer)

Managing the business' exposure to risk.

On-time deliver of fixed scope.

Managing team member utilization.

All of the above.

Increasing team velocity.

40. Unrealized Value is measured by a gap between ____________ and ____________ (choose the best

two answers).

The current experience

The desired or actual experience

The total size of the market

The market share

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41. A user satisfaction gap exists when there is a difference between: (choose the best two answers)

The user's actual experience

The user's desired outcome

The market share of the product

The total market size

42. Peter, a young member, has been assigned to a mature Scrum Team. He is surprised why the Product Owner keeps paying attention to the technical debt. He supposes it should be the Developers's responsibility.

What is the best explanation? (choose the best answer).

The Product Owner concerns the technical debt because it might impact the delivering value and the product's cost.

Peter is correct. The Product Owner should not concern the technical debt.

The Product Owner, is used to be a developer, might have a basic understanding of programming. Observing the technical debt could refresh her/his knowledge, and it is useful to develop the product's strategy.

The Product Owner must report the technical debt's status to stakeholders every Sprint Review.

43. For the 4th Sprint, the Product Owner observes that the Developers's velocity is decreasing. She/he decided to delay to start the new Sprint after the previous Sprint.

What could be a reason? (choose the best answer)

The QA team has not inspected the previous Increment.

There is no reason to delay the new Sprint. It starts immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint.

None of the above

The Product Owner needs more time to refine the Product Backlog for the upcoming Sprints.

The stakeholders are upset with the Increment in the previous Sprint Retrospective.

44. Mike, the Product Owner, is surprised about the accumulated technical debt that slows down the product performance. The product is projected not to be able to serve a large number of customers. Ron is shocked that it might need several Sprints to address the scalability issue.

What factors have led to this situation? (choose ALL that apply)

The Developers have not been paying enough attention to technical quality.

The past Sprint Retrospectives had not been utilized for inspection and adaptation.

The Scrum Master has not ensured the transparency of the Scrum Team.

The Product Owner and the Developers are not having conversations about technical debt.

45. Which of the following are considered preferred Product Owner stances? (choose all that apply)

The Story Writer

The Decision Maker

The Collaborator

The Visionary

The Subject Matter Expert

46. Which statement describes the best way to learn from experiments? (choose the best answer)

Running one experiment on the product that is open-ended is the best way to gather the most sufficient and accurate data.

Running multiple experiments on the same product at the same time is the best way to reduce the cost of testing new ideas.

Running multiple experiments on the same product at the same time is the best way to reduce the time and complexity of testing new ideas.

Running one experiment on the product at a time is the best way for you to understand how the results you observed affect your desired outcomes.

47. Management wants to understand whether a team is effective.

Which of the following measures will help them understand the team's performance? (choose the best answer)

All of the above.

The team's planned versus actual budget performance.

The team's ability to meet schedule release dates.

The change in customer satisfaction measured over time.

48. The Developers have the final say on when to release an increment. (choose the best answer)

True. The Developers are accountable for doing the work and owning the release process.

False. The increment is released after it has passed UA

True. The Developers deploy to production when the increment is shippable.

False. The Product Owner decides when it is best to release.

49. What would be the best way to have multiple teams get started on a multi-product initiative? (choose the best answer)

Ensure that all features are assigned to the most suitable teams before getting started.

Let the teams know what time of reporting the business will be needing.

Have them start with what they have as they'll self-organize and eventually figure out what to do.

Explain to them the goal of the initiative, how success will be measured, and together agree with how they will provide transparency.

50. A new market opportunity has appeared and your organization will need to react quickly. In order to capture this valuable opportunity, you must accelerate your deliveries. Some managers are proposing extending work hours, some recommend hiring more resources, the Developers suggest automating both testing and releasing efforts.

What would help guide you in solving this problem and where to focus improvements? (choose the best answer)

Work with HR to hire additional members while also including automation to the development effort

Ask the employees what their biggest struggles are

Analyze utilization rates of the team members in order to optimize the work effort.

All of the above.

Create a visualization of the whole process and identify any bottlenecks affecting the flow using Value Stream Mapping (VSM).

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51. True or False: Running multiple experiments on the same product at the same time helps to reduce the cost and complexity of testing new ideas.

False

True

52. In order to justify the price increase of a product, your primary objective should be to: (choose the best answer)

Add more features to make the product more attractive.

Improve the value experienced by the customer

Reduce the number of features to make the product easier to use.

Reduce the price for a period of time before increasing it above the original price.

53. The Evidence-Based Management framework helps you to: (choose the best answer)

Improve the predictability of Scrum Team velocity.

Understand whether your PMO is efficient.

Improve your ability to deliver value.

Better track your progress against plans.

54. Your company is considering investing in a large agile transformation.

What should you measure to know if your initiative is successful? (choose the best answer)

The number of on-time, on-budget, and on-scope projects.

Customer outcomes.

All of the above.

Average team velocity.

The number of teams doing Scrum.

55. Zara company's best selling app has started to have its user base erode by new competing apps that

have newer and more popular features. An important stakeholder believes that Zara's app user base can

be restored by adding several customer requests to the product backlog that would be prioritized over

other planned product initiatives. This set of requested features would take over a year to implement and

release and delay other items in the backlog.

What should Zara do? (choose the best answer)

Implement and measure the result of a single feature in a shortened one month release cycle.

Implement selected suggestions from each stakeholder so as not to upset any of your stakeholders.

Postpone previously planned initiatives and start working on the backlog of customer requests as soon as possible.

Reach out to the customers to learn more about their needs and decide what to do next based on the information.

56. You want to improve your team’s Ability to Innovate.

Which of the following actions might help? (choose the best answer)

Reduce the number of product variants.

Improve the cross-functional skills of your team.

Establish "No Meetings" days to help increase focus.

All of the above.

57. When should the Product Owner update the project plan? (choose the best answer)

Before the Sprint Planning to know how much work will have to be done in the Sprint.

Scrum forbids having a project plan.

The Product Backlog is the plan in Scrum. It is updated as new information and insights emerge.

After the Daily Scrum to ensure an accurate daily overview of project progress.

58. Product A is a big revenue producer; it has:

* High Current Value and Low Unrealized Value. Product B is a new product with a lot of potential; it has:

* Low Current Value and High Unrealized Value.

Using those two data points and taking a long-term view, which of the options below should you pursue? (choose the best answer)

Weight your investment toward Product B; since it has more potential.

Invest equally in both products.

Weight your investment toward Product A; you do not want to risk losing customers.

59. Which of the following activities should a Product Owner never do? Choose the best answer

Order the Product Backlog

Set the Sprint Goal for the Developers without consulting them

Allow Stakeholders to talk directly with the Developers

Show the Increment to Stakeholders outside of the Sprint Review

60. Every product needs a _______ (choose the best answer)

A project management plan includes time, scope and budget.

Deadline

All of the above

System Requirement Specification (SRS)

Product Owner