What is typical work for a Product Owner in a Sprint?(choose the best two answers)

Collaborate with stakeholders, user communities and other Product Owners.

Work with the Developers on Product Backlog refinement.

Collaborate with stakeholders, user communities and other Product Owners.

Work with the Developers on Product Backlog refinement.

Attend every Daily Scrum to answer functional questions about the Sprint Backlog.

Create financial reporting upon the spent hours reported by the Developers.

Update the work plan for the Developers on a daily basis.

What might indicate to a Product Owner that they need to work more with the Scrum Team?(choose the best answer)

The Increment presented at the Sprint Review does not reflect their expectations.

People frequently leave the Scrum Team.

They are not working full time with the Scrum Team.

The acceptance criteria for the Product Backlog items do not appear to be complete.

The Increment presented at the Sprint Review does not reflect their expectations.

Which of the following statements about the Product Backlog are true?(choose the best two answers)

The Product Backlog is ordered by the Product Owner.

The Product Backlog should be visible to the Scrum Team and stakeholders.

The Product Backlog is ordered by the Product Owner.

The Product Backlog should be visible to the Scrum Team and stakeholders.

All Product Backlog items must be expressed as user stories.

All Product Backlog items must be identified before the first Sprint begins.

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

The Product Backlog represents the input of all stakeholders and eliminates any need for the Developers to speak to stakeholders.

An effective Product Owner must:(choose the best answer)

Ensure that every stakeholder need is met.

Be the 'expert' opinion for all Product Backlog items.

Ensure that the team is as productive as possible.

Be the single point of contact for all stakeholders.

Sharing people with unique skills across multiple teams will likely result in which of the following conditions?(choose the best answer)

Teams may wait more often, impeding the delivery of value.

Teams do not have to develop deep technical skills.

Costs are lower since expensive resources are shared.

More work gets done since people are better utilized.

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

They enable teams to inspect and adapt more frequently.

They help teams better understand and meet customer needs.

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

Smaller, more frequent releases are less risky.

You are the Product Owner at a small company with a single product. You have authority over pricing, promotion, and how much is invested in new features or capabilities. Your product has:. High Current Value - as indicated by high customer satisfaction.. High Unrealized Value - as indicated by low market share.Using those two data points, what is the first action you should take to increase the business performance of the product?(choose the best answer)

Improve the marketing of the product to attract a greater number of customers.

Increase the number of product features to attract a greater number of customers.

Release an identical product to market, but give it a new product name.

Drop the price for the product to attract a greater number of customers.

Improve the marketing of the product to attract a greater number of customers.

The Developers inform the Product Owner during the Sprint that they are not likely to complete everything they forecasted. What would you expect a Product Owner to do?(choose the best answer)

Reduce the scope of the Sprint, if possible, to still meet the Sprint Goal.

Skip Product Backlog refinement activities.

End the Sprint, since the goal cannot be achieved.

Change the Sprint Goal to match what the Developers can deliver.

Inform management that more resources are needed.

Which of the following is true about Scrum?(choose all that apply)

Each component of Scrum serves a specific purpose and is essential to the successful usage of Scrum for building complex products.

Scrum is a framework for generating value through adaptive solutions for complex problems.

Each component of Scrum serves a specific purpose and is essential to the successful usage of Scrum for building complex products.

Scrum is a framework for generating value through adaptive solutions for complex problems.

Scrum is a methodology, where you can 'pick and choose' which parts of Scrum you think will work for your environment.

Scrum is like traditional processes but with self-management to replace Project Managers.

The environment in which a product will be used changes and emerges continually. What is the effect on the Product Backlog?(choose the best answer)

The Product Backlog evolves to reflect what the product needs to be most valuable.

The requirements specification document, describing the Product Backlog items, must be updated to ensure stability.

The Product Backlog evolves to reflect what the product needs to be most valuable.

There is no effect, the Product Backlog must stay the same until the end of the project.

The Product Backlog is archived and a new Product Backlog is created to take its place

You started measuring product feature usage in your last release. You are surprised to learn that a sizable percentage of the features you thought were very important are never or rarely used.Which of the following actions could you take to further evaluate this unexpected result?(choose all that apply)

Spend more time talking to users to identify the impact they seek.

Run experiments to increase your understanding of what customers find valuable.

Examine whether the rarely used features solve the intended problem.

Spend more time talking to users to identify the impact they seek.

Disable the features that have never been used and listen for feedback.

Run experiments to increase your understanding of what customers find valuable.

Examine whether the rarely used features solve the intended problem.

You have been a Product Owner at a new company for a few weeks. It has become clear to you that many people, both inside and outside the Scrum Team, expect close involvement in the decisions that you, as a Product Owner, are accountable for.As a result, you find that it takes too long to make decisions. Which of the following are reasonable options you could take?(choose the best three answers)

Create and share a delegation board that displays your decision-making areas and work with your Scrum Team to clarify decision making accountability and responsibility.

Work with your Scrum Master to better understand what next steps you can take to move the company's understanding of product ownership up in the maturity curve towards Entrepreneur.

Demonstrate, with the help of data, how long it is taking you to make decisions and the impact that the long decision-making cycle has on delivering value to the customer.

Start making all the decisions without consulting the others who have expressed interest.

Allow other members of the Scrum Team and stakeholders to continue making decisions they are not accountable for; documenting which decisions do not deliver the intended value.

Create and share a delegation board that displays your decision-making areas and work with your Scrum Team to clarify decision making accountability and responsibility.

Work with your Scrum Master to better understand what next steps you can take to move the company's understanding of product ownership up in the maturity curve towards Entrepreneur.

Demonstrate, with the help of data, how long it is taking you to make decisions and the impact that the long decision-making cycle has on delivering value to the customer.

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

The market share of the product.

The most important thing a Product Owner can do is:(choose the best answer)

Maximize the value delivered by the product.

Determine the release schedule and contents.

Ensure that all stakeholder needs are met.

Function as the single source of truth for all requirements.

Maximize the value delivered by the product.

You are a Product Owner for a product that publishes customer usage rates by feature.An influential stakeholder does not believe the data showing the usage rates, and insists that a particular feature is essential, despite data showing low usage rates. The stakeholder believes that measuring feature usage is a waste of time.As Product Owner you have confirmed that the data is accurate and believe that the data is valuable to help you and your team. What should you do?(choose the best answer)

Continue to measure and publish the data, to provide openness and transparency, and use it to inform your decisions.

Continue measuring feature usage and use it to inform your decisions, but do not publish it.

Continue to measure and publish the data, to provide openness and transparency, and use it to inform your decisions.

Stop measuring feature usage to appease the stakeholder.

What is the role of the Product Owner in crafting the Sprint Goal?(choose the best answer)

The Product Owner collaborates as a member of the Scrum Team to define a Sprint Goal.

The Product Owner defines the scope for a Sprint and therefore also the Sprint Goal.

The Product Owner must work with stakeholders to set each Sprint's Goal.

The Product Owner collaborates as a member of the Scrum Team to define a Sprint Goal.

The Product Owner has no role in it. This is the Developers responsibility.

The Product Owner should come to the Sprint Planning with a clearly defined Sprint Goal.

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 next Sprint may be interrupted when quality issues are encountered.

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

The Scrum Team should not release the Increment.

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

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

The project manager cannot effectively update the plan.

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

The Scrum Team should not release the Increment.

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

Managing a Product Backlog involves which of the following activities?(choose all that apply)

Reducing or eliminating dependencies between Product Backlog items.

Reviewing the Product Backlog with stakeholders.

Breaking large Product Backlog items into multiple smaller Product Backlog items.

Forecasting the effort of Product Backlog items.

Reducing or eliminating dependencies between Product Backlog items.

Reviewing the Product Backlog with stakeholders.

Breaking large Product Backlog items into multiple smaller Product Backlog items.

You are the Product Owner for a product with diverse stakeholders with differing opinions that sometimes conflict.Your Director of Marketing strongly believes that you should add a major new feature to reach a new market. Your CEO believes that the new feature is too expensive and thinks you should focus on other features to make existing customers happier. The CEO says that as ProductOwner it is ultimately your decision.You think both perspectives have merit, but you cannot do both. How should you proceed?(choose the best answer)

Devise an experiment that will help the company to better understand the new market and its potential.

Trust the Director of Marketing's opinion and add the features; when revenues increase, you will be vindicated.

Better understand the positions of other stakeholders to gather more information, then make a decision.

Trust the CEO's opinion and focus on current customers, since you cannot afford unhappy customers.

Which of the following activities should a Product Owner never do?(choose the best answer)

Decide when to release the product Increment.

Accept work done during the Sprint.

Which of the following are characteristics of a Product Goal?(choose all that apply)

It communicates the target future state of the product.

It is a commitment contained in the Product Backlog.

It provides a long-term objective for the Scrum Team to plan against.

It communicates the target future state of the product.

It is a commitment contained in the Product Backlog.

It has the approval of all stakeholders.

It provides a long-term objective for the Scrum Team to plan against.

It forms a contract with the business, allowing change to be better managed.

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

Improve the value experienced by the customer.

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

Improve the value experienced by the customer.

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

Add more features to make the product more attractive.

The smallest product Increment that is valuable enough to release is one that:(choose the best answer)

Delivers a single new or improved outcome.

Delivers all 'must do' Product Backlog items.

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

How often your customers use your product.

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

The average cost of your product release.

The on-schedule performance of the Scrum Team.

How often your customers use your product.

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.

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

Invest equally in both products.

A 'cone of uncertainty' can be used to do what?(choose the best answer)

Visualize the uncertainty of the potential value that a Scrum Team delivers over time.

Represent the relative level of difficulty for predicting the velocity of individual team members.

Rapidly identify and prioritize all uncertainties.

Determine whether to cut quality, similar to the 'Iron Triangle' of project management.

Visualize the uncertainty of the potential value that a Scrum Team delivers over time.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The project plan must be updated prior to the Sprint Retrospective.

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

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

Personas can help to:(choose the best answer)

Understand the needs of a set of users.

Formulate hypotheses about product value.

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

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

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

It describes what value means in the context of the product, and how it can be measured.

It describes how the product compares to competitor products.

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

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

It describes what value means in the context of the product, and how it can be measured.

If burndown charts are used to visualize progress, what do they track?(choose the best answer)

Accumulated business value delivered to the customer.

Individual worker productivity.

The Developers have struggled to get all of their forecasted work done during the last three Sprints. As a Product Owner what steps could you take to help the Developers improve their ability to deliver a done Increment?(choose the best two answers)

Ask the Scrum Master to help the Developers learn techniques for improving their ability to forecast work.

The Product Owner can spend more time with the Developers.

Ask the Scrum Master to help the Developers learn techniques for improving their ability to forecast work.

The Product Owner can spend more time with the Developers.

Ensure that all Developers are top performers.

Add more people to the team so they can get more done.

What percent of the time should a Product Owner dedicate to the Scrum Team?(choose the best two answers)

Enough time to avoid the waste that is created by delaying answers to the Developers.

Enough time to ensure that the product Increment is valuable and useful.

Enough time to avoid the waste that is created by delaying answers to the Developers.

As much as the stakeholders want to budget. Business analysts take over the role the rest of the time.

40%, or more if the stakeholders agree.

Enough time to ensure that the product Increment is valuable and useful.

Just enough time to keep the Developers from complaining.

You work for a large financial institution. Your products have many interdependencies: you have mobile, web, and ATM product interfaces to financial products like savings, checking, spending, electronic payments, credit cards, and investments. When any of these financial products change, the changes ripple throughout the mobile, web, and ATM clients, and maintaining consistency is challenging. What should you do to reduce this problem?(choose the best answer)

Form products that are as independent as possible and let each product determine their own release plans, but ensure coordination.

Create a centralized, coordinated cross-product Development Plan to ensure consistency.

Appoint a Project Lead to oversee all the products.

Ensure that the PMO manages the inter-product dependencies.

As an investor or shareholder, which of the following measures might give you insight about whether a product is delivering value?(choose all that apply)

The average selling price as compared to close competitors.

The weekly velocity of the Developers.

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Which of the following would likely be the least effective way to enhance the agility of your future product development?

(choose the least effective approach)

Consider whether there is a significantly large enough market for your product.

Form a holistic view of how the customer sees your product.

Clearly understand the producer, buyer/consumer relationship.

Lean on your organizational efficiency and existing architecture to build your product aligned to the current organization.

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