Professional Scrum Product Owner II PSPO-II Exam Questions Online

dumps2022-11-29T07:13:33+08:00

The Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO-II) is the second exam for Scrum Professional Scrum Product Owner certification, which tests your knowledge of Scrum, Product Ownership, delivering value and how you would handle real-world situations. Candidates for passing PSPO-II exam should answer 40 questions in 60 minutes. The passing score is 85%. To pass the Professional Scrum Product Owner II PSPO-II exam successfully, you can have the valid PSPO-II exam questions online as the best study materials. Below are the Scrum PSPO-II free demo questions.

Page 1 of 8

1. True or False: Goals are set only during the annual planning cycle. (choose the best answer)

False

True

2. Which of the following is the most effective way of improving the Time-to-Market of a product? (choose the best answer)

Increasing project funding

Removing low performing people.

Understanding and removing impediments to faster delivery

All of the above.

Working harder to go faster.

Hiring more team members

3. The Product Owner has the final say on if an Increment is Done. Choose the best answer

True

False

4. Experiments include which of the following aspects?

Running the experiments

Adapting your goals or your approach based on what you learned

Inspecting results

All of these apply

Forming a hypothesis for improvement.

5. Product A is the main driver of both revenue and profit for your company; it has very happy customers (high Current Value) and low Unrealized Value. Product B is relatively new; it 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 do you do? (choose the best answer)

Split funding equally between both products.

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

Split funding proportionally based on product revenues.

Invest funding in Product A, because your company’s success depends on its continued success.

6. 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.

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

False

True

8. 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.

9. 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

10. What are the most important characteristics of a strategic goal? (choose the best two answers)

It is specific

It is realistic

It is actionable

it is measurable

Page 2 of 8

11. 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, credit card, 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 an overall Product Owner to oversee all the products.

Ensure that the PMO manages the inter-product dependencies.

All of the above.

12. You cannot get your stakeholders to agree on which features might provide the most value.

How should you resolve this disagreement? (choose the best answer)

All of the above.

Deliver a small part of a feature to customers and gather insights.

Organize an activity where stakeholders can vote and "buy a feature".

Find someone who has higher authority than the stakeholders to make a decision.

13. Which Key Value Area best measures market potential?

Unrealized Value

Current Value

Time-to-market

Ability to Innovate

14. A Visionary Product Owner tends to: (choose the best answer)

Know all about the details, and about every bug in the software or system.

Support people in their own discovery process, whether it’s about defining goals, clarifying PBIs or analyzing customer needs.

Know all about the Developers's velocity and predictability and maximizing output in order to deliver all features.

Focus on the future, on changing the status quo and helping people to see what could be, instead of what is.

15. Which of the following are preferred stances of the Product Owner? Select all that apply

The Decision Maker

The Collaborator

The Business Analyst

The Visionary

The Founder

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

Leading indicator

Lagging indicator

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

Decide when to release the product increment

Establish a Product Goal

Accept work done during the Sprint

Dictate the Sprint Goal

18. The Product Backlog: (choose the best two answers)

only contains items defined by the Product Owner.

is visible to the Scrum Team and stakeholders.

is ordered by the Product Owner.

is managed by the Scrum Master.

must be finalized before the first Sprint can start.

is only described through User Stories.

19. You want to know the potential value that your product could, but does not yet, deliver.

Which of the following is the most helpful? (choose the best answer)

All of the above.

Competitor research and their market shares.

Testimonials about why your customers choose your product.

None of the above.

Asking your customers what they like about the product.

Interviewing users who tried your product but did not buy.

20. 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.

Page 3 of 8

21. Experimentation can help a Product Owner to: Select all that apply

Decide whether we should invest and build something

Understand Product / Market fit and if we can create a business around a Product

Have complete certainty as to the future success of a Product

Reduce waste

22. Your organization wants to become better at responding to market changes and new opportunities that may arise.

Which measure is LEAST helpful in understanding how to improve its ability to respond? (choose the best answer)

Revenue per employee

Technical Debt

Velocity

Cycle time

On product index

23. Your department has several teams working on different products at the same time.

Which of the following would be the best approach if managers want to understand the status of each team? (choose the best answer)

Ask the teams to collaborate and develop a common way to share their goals and achievements toward their goals for each planning period.

Have a common status reporting tool that each team will fill out and can be shared with the managers.

Have the teams created a comprehensive project plan and track their work against the plan.

Have the teams standardize their estimation practices across all teams to make it easier to compare the performance of each team.

24. You are planning to release a large product update several months from now. Because the release will contain many product changes (new features, enhancements, and fixes), a large amount of effort will be

needed from the team. During beta testing of the latest increment, you learn that one of the anticipated features does not meet the needs of the users and is rarely used.

Which of the following is the best response? (choose the best answer)

Disregard the feedback as beta testing is not a good reflection of the broader market.

Add a more valuable feature to the release.

Remove the feature from the increment and release the other features and changes earlier.

Push the release to a later date until you are able to improve the feature.

25. A company wants to hire you to lead their agile transformation. They have learned about the benefits of being agile but want to know how to measure the success of the initiative.

What advice would you provide? (choose the best answer)

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

The improvement in customer outcomes.

All of the above.

The average team velocity will continuously improve.

The level of agility is proportionate to the number of teams doing Scrum.

26. Which best describes testing responsibilities in the Developers? (choose the best two answers)

Everyone in the Developers is responsible for the quality of the product.

Ensuring all test cases created at Sprint Planning have been passed

Sub-team formations (or hierarchies) in the Scrum Team are not allowed.

Increments must be approved by the Tester before it can be deemed releasable

There should be a testing phase at the end of each Sprint

27. Team A has a velocity of 50 with a Product Backlog of 140 points ordered by business value as perceived by stakeholders.

Delivery is expected in 6 Sprints. Will this project deliver the anticipated impact? (choose the best answer)

We do not know

Yes

28. 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

29. For which type of problem domain is an empirical approach most helpful? (choose the best answer)

Complex problems, in which the relationship between cause and effect are only understandable with experience.

Complicated problems, in which the relationship between cause and effect can be understood through some analysis.

Simple problems, in which the relationship between cause and effect is known.

Chaotic problems, in which the relationship between cause and effect is not clear.

30. Management has asked you for advice on which product to fund. Each product is focusing on different markets. Given the following information: -Product A has very high user satisfaction scores and high market share. -Product B has low user satisfaction scores, low market share, but is in a growing market in which no other competitor has significant market share.

Which product would you suggest funding? (choose the best answer)

Product B

Product A

Page 4 of 8

31. Team Tigers completed 40 "points" of work in two weeks. Team Lions completed 20 "points" of work in one week.

Which team delivered more value? (choose the best answer)

The amount of work completed is a measure of effort, not the delivered value.

Team Tigers, since they finished more units of work.

32. Your product is used by businesses of various sizes. A very large company, that is interested in your product, would like a set of features implemented if they were to purchase your product. As a customer, this company would significantly increase your revenue. They also tell you that the features would improve your product and would win more customers. The requested features will be expensive and require extensive redesign. Also, you have not heard any similar feedback from any other customers or leads.

What is the most appropriate action? (choose the best answer)

Create experiments to better understand their needs and possible alternatives.

Implement the features in line with the request as they are an influential customer.

Devise workarounds that will satisfy their request without needing a product redesign.

Perform market research to evaluate the demand for the features within the broader market.

33. 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

34. 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.

Rapidly identify and prioritize all uncertainties.

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

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

35. You release your product to customers once every month, which is better than any competitor. Most of the features you deliver are simply minor changes or corrections to existing features, but customer satisfaction remains low.

What Key Value Area should be your primary focus to improve the competitiveness of your product? (choose the best two answers)

Unrealized Value.

Ability to Innovate.

Current Value.

Time to Market.

36. 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

37. 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

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

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

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

All Product Backlog items must be expressed as user stories

The Product Backlog is ordered by the Product Owner

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

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

39. A team works on 4 different products, splitting their time between them because none of the products has enough work to warrant a dedicated team.

What strategy on how they use their time would potentially deliver the most value to customers over time? (choose the best answer)

Work a little on each product all the time, releasing when needed.

Either strategy will deliver the same value.

Focus on one product at a time, release it, then move to the next product.

40. An organisation has a large number of products and is unsure about how to allocate funding across the products.

Which of the following is the best way for them to proceed?

Allocate funding evenly based on the revenue share for each product

Allocate funding equally across all products

Fund small incremental changes for each product and measure outcomes and repeat

Let the Finance Director decide

Page 5 of 8

41. Which two statements are the most accurate in regards to scaling Scrum for large projects that require multiple Scrum Teams? (choose the best two answers)

A person focusing on the Sprint Backlog of a single Scrum Team is often more productive than that same person working on multiple Scrum Teams at the same time.

A well-structured Product Backlog can minimize and often eliminate Developers members working on multiple Scrum Teams during a Sprint.

A Product Owner must work full time on a single Scrum Team.

Customizing the core Scrum framework is necessary to be successful with Scrum at large scale.

42. At the beginning of each year, an organization has an annual meeting to propose and approve projects for the upcoming year.

Managers will typically follow the process of:

a) Presenting ideas of the projects

b) Defining the benefits

c) Producing the estimations

d) Giving the benefit/cost ratios

A set budget is then approved for each project based on the expected returns.

What are the risks of this process? (choose the best answer)

New opportunities might be missed during the year.

Technical work estimations are not accurate because managers are not the best ones to give development estimations.

All of the above.

Cost estimations are not accurate because the scope might not be clear.

Investment decisions could be poor if claimed benefits are overstated.

43. 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

44. The Product Owner ensures a product's success by measuring the following: (choose the best three answers).

The impact on customer satisfaction

The impact on the CEO's mood

The delivery of upfront defined scope compared to the upfront planned time.

The impact on revenue

The impact on cost

45. 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

46. How does the Scrum Master help the Product Owner? (choose the best three answers)

Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed

Finding techniques for effective Product Backlog management

Understanding product planning in an empirical environment

Leading and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption

Introducing cutting edge development practices

47. When should refining of the Product Backlog occur? (choose the best two answers)

The Product Owner must do this as essential work in Sprint 0.

The Product Owner does this between the end of the previous Sprint and the start of the next.

The Product Owner and the Developers do it in the current Sprint if they have been unable to do it in preceding Sprints.

The Product Owner and the Developers can refine the Product Backlog during any Sprint as needed, ideally in advance of the upcoming Sprint.

The Business Analysts prepare items be worked on at least 1 Sprint ahead of development.

48. 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.

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

It is a commitment contained in the Product Backlog

It has clear boundaries.

It communicates the target future state of the product.

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

It has the approval of all stakeholders.

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

50. 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)

Start making all the decisions you are accountable for without consulting the others who have expressed interest.

Create and share a delegation board that display 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 customers.

Allow other members of the Scrum Team to continues as the decision makers, but keep a list of decisions that do not deliver their intended value.

Page 6 of 8

51. Which of the following are true when it comes to scaling the Product Owner accountability?

Select all that apply

A large Product should have a Chief Product Owner

The Product Owner can be assisted by the Developers

Each Product has a Product Owner

There is only 1 Product Backlog per Product

Each Product has one Product Owner

52. You have many customers on different versions of the same product. Most of your time and effort is spent maintaining all of the product variations. This leaves you with little time to invest in product improvements.

Which of the following would best help you improve effectiveness to deliver new value? (choose the best answer)

Examining Unrealized Value measures.

Examining Current Value measures.

All of the above.

Examining Time to Market measures

None of the above.

Examining Ability to Innovate measures.

53. 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.

54. The CEO questions Mike, the Product Owner, on the data showing the usage rates. He believes feature usage is not the right measure. You are the Product Owner, you have confirmed that the data is accurate and determine that the data is valuable to the team and product.

What should you do? (choose the best answer)

Continue to measure the usage feature but not publish the data.

Continue to measure and publish the data and use it to inform your decisions.

Stop measuring to appease the CE

55. Dereck is a Product Owner of a product with a variety of stakeholders. The stakeholders are pressing Yasmine to add all of their feature requests into the next release. Each one says that their feature is urgent. As Product Owner, Yasmine has confirmed that their requests are indeed important.

What should Yasmine do? (choose the best answer)

Iteratively and incrementally release when single outcomes are fullfilled, even though not all features are done.

Delegate prioritization to the Product Director in order to protect the Product Backlog.

Hire additional team members in order to manage the extra work.

Release only when all features have been completed.

56. How can organizations benefit from creating and running experiments? (choose the best answer)

Experiments can help organizations validate assumptions.

Experiments can help organizations test whether features are delivering value.

All of the above.

None of the above.

Experiments can help organizations test how effective an improvement is.

Experiments can help organizations determine the feasibility of a goal.

57. 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.

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

They are not working full time with the Scrum Team.

People frequently leave the Scrum Team

58. Dereck is a Product Owner of a scaled product development effort with multiple Scrum Teams involved. He is stretched thin and is unable to spend enough time with all of the teams.

Which of the following strategies would be the most helpful? (choose the best answer)

Hire Business Analysts to assist the Product Owner.

Move towards a scaled Scrum framework

Delegate some of the Product Owner work to the Scrum Teams.

All of the above.

Split the Product Backlog and add a Product Owner to each in order to spread the work

59. Which of the following statements is true: (choose the best answer)

The more time spent defining and reviewing project requirements helps to increase the chances of success.

Empirical approaches are best suited for simple problems.

Spending more time identifying and mitigating risk helps to increase the chance of success.

Delivering a solution and gathering feedback provides valuable insights for what to do next.

60. When the Product Backlog is updated? (choose the best answer)

Before the Sprint Planning to know the total amount of work that needs to complete within a Sprint.

All of the above.

It is updated as either the new information or the insights emerge.

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

The Product Owner should not do that. It's the Developers's responsibility.

Page 7 of 8

61. The Product Owner is also accountable for effective Product Backlog management, which includes (choose ALL that apply).

Estimating the size of the Product Backlog Items at the high-level.

Decomposing large Product Backlog Items into workable smaller Product Backlog Items.

Eliminating or reducing dependencies between Product Backlog Items.

Spending time to discuss and review the Product Backlog with stakeholders.

Ordering the Product Backlog.

62. A Product Owner at ABC company has various types of stakeholders that provide feedback and ideas for the product. At times they have ideas that run counter to one another.

At a recent meeting, the Sales Manager insists that a new feature be added in order to reach untapped new customers. The CFO contends that this new feature is not cost-effective and suggests focusing on

other features to improve the satisfaction of existing customers. The PO sees merit in both stakeholder perspectives.

How should the PO proceed? (choose the best answer)

Gather the opinions of all stakeholders, then make a decision on which request to pursue based on this information.

Implement a small part of the Sales Manager's proposal in order to gather more information to better understand its potential.

Implement the CFO's request to prevent customer churn.

Agree with the Sales Manager's proposal by implementing the requested features as it will help to boost the sales team's revenue.

63. 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.

64. When there are multiple Scrum Teams working on the same product, each team should demonstrate its individual Increment in a separate branch of the code.

False

True

65. 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

66. What can an organization benefit from the short iterations? (choose the best answer).

None of the above.

Validate the hypotheses faster.

Minimize and control risk better.

Understand the customer's needs better.

Get feedback from stakeholders faster.

All of the above.

67. True or False? A product with High Current Value and low Unrealized Value. Some say you should maintain the product, but gradually reduce the investment then start seeking another opportunity for future growth.

False

True

68. 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.

69. You have 20 teams working on a single release that will deliver 30 different features to your customers. It is estimated that this release will be completely finished in 4-5 months.

How can you improve your Time to Market? (choose the best answer)

As soon as a feature is ready, deliver it in its own smaller release.

Automate parts of the development and testing process to reduce waste.

Add more developers to increase the overall development capacity.

70. 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.

Page 8 of 8

71. 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

72. In Scrum, how would budgeting and financial forecasting be performed? (choose the best two answers)

Fixed budgets are not allowed in Scrum.

Frequently inspect the outcomes of the delivered Sprint Increments to understand how much value is being produced per investment spent.

Budgeting is not necessary as the only funding necessary is the operational costs of the Scrum Teams.

A single release may be funded with several Sprints where every Sprint is producing shippable increments.

73. Evidence-Based Management is ...

A management framework to ensure the delivery of maximum value.

Mandatory practice for Product Owners using Scrum.

Mandatory practice for Scrum Masters to apply for a Scrum Team.

A framework organizations can use to help them measure, manage, and increase the value they derive from their product delivery

A methodology organization can use to help them m increase the value of their product.

74. What best illustrates a GO product roadmap? (choose the best two answers)

It provides an overview of all user stories ordered by a sequence of releases.

It focuses on what is being done now, what will be done next and what will be done later.

It focuses on the goals rather than the features

It supports value steering

75. True or False: Michael, a new Product Owner, has been assigned to work in the Finance industry, which is new to him. He is unsure about the market desires and customer needs. The Product Manager advised Michael to conduct experiments, validate customer needs, start doing smaller releases more often.

True

False

76. Every Scrum Team must have a Product Owner and Scrum Master (choose the best answer)

Yes, and they must be 100% dedicated to each team.

Yes, and each Scrum Team's performance may be affected by how much they participate during the Sprint as a Scrum Master or Product Owner.

77. Which of the following measures would help you understand the potential market for your product? (choose the best answer)

All of the above.

Usage Index.

Quarterly revenue trends.

Net Promoter Score (NPS).

Market Share trends.

Professional Scrum Product Owner II PSPO-II Exam Questions Online

Professional Scrum Product Owner II PSPO-II Exam Questions Online

Share this post

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Related Posts