Of the following choices, what is the most effective way a Scrum Master can keep a Scrum Team working at its highest level of productivity?
(choose the best answer)
A. Ensure the meetings start and end at the proper time.
B. Facilitate Scrum Team decisions and remove impediments.
C. Run the Daily Scrum.
D. Keep high value features high in the Product Backlog.
E. Prevent changes to the backlogs once the Sprint begins.

You manage a product development organization. You attend a Sprint Review for one of the Scrum Teams in your organization. The Product Owner explains that the Developers only delivered 5 of the 7 Product Backlog Items they committed to during Sprint Planning, apologizes on behalf of the team, and promises higher productivity in the next Sprint. What do you think about this?
(choose the best answer)
A. The team should not commit to Product Backlog Items, they should commit to a Sprint Goal.
B. It is at least good that the Product Owner accepts responsibility for her team and commits to improving.
C. The team needs to work on improving their estimation ability.
D. The team obviously has trouble living up to their commitments. Look at the results from the Sprint Retrospective to see what they are doing to improve.

True or False: A self-managing team has complete freedom to decide how it works.
A. True
B. False

You manage a product development organization. In the past you used periodic status report meetings and one-on-one meetings with the team members to understand how a team is doing. How can Scrum provide you with this same insight, without creating extra meetings?
(choose the best answer)
A. Talk to the Scrum Master to get his or her view on how the team is performing.
B. Assume that the Scrum Master will ensure that the Scrum Team is working well.
C. Attend Sprint Retrospectives to gain insights into how the team is working together.
D. Stay informed about the Product Backlog items and pay attention to the improvement items that come from the Sprint Retrospectives.

Which of the following will NOT help a team increase its frequency of delivery?
(choose the best answer)
A. Synchronizing release schedules across teams.
B. Product Backlog refinement.
C. Automating the delivery pipeline.
D. Reducing cross-team dependencies.

You manage a development organization. One of your Scrum Teams is continually interrupted by unplanned work related to production incidents for a legacy application unrelated to their product. A few team members have historical knowledge of the legacy application. How should the Scrum Team manage the interruption and unplanned work?
(choose the best answer)
A. Work with the Scrum Team to help transfer the knowledge to other teams better aligned with the application support mission.
B. The Scrum Team should fit the work in, working overtime if that’s what it takes.
C. New development work should be put on hold until the production support work is completed; supporting existing applications is always more important than new work.