Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) Exam Questions

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Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) certification is a recognition of your mastery of the Scrum framework. To help you prepare for the SPS certification, the Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) Exam Questions have been recently released. These questions are designed to test your understanding of Scrum and its application in large-scale projects. So, if you are looking to advance your career in Agile and Scrum, consider preparing for the Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) certification. And, don’t forget to take advantage of the Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) Exam Questions to help you achieve your goal. Good luck!

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1. Why would a Nexus choose to have different Sprint length for the teams in a Sprint?

When the increment is low risk

All teams in Nexus must have same Sprint length

When there is risk and uncertainty in the items worked by certain teams

When there are inexperienced members in one team

2. You are working in a Nexus with 3 teams. During the Nexus Sprint Planning, teams ran out of refined product backlog items. The items selected so far can only consume half of the Sprint.

What should the Nexus team do?

Cancel the Sprint

Conclude the Sprint Planning meeting

Pause the Sprint Planning and initiate the Cross-Team Refinement meeting so that more items are available for teams to pick up the work

3. Teams want to integrate the code only before the Nexus Sprint Review.

What can be the result of this? Select all that apply.

There may be too many code conflicts while integration

It will save Nexus members time

There may be too little time to resolve integration issues

Integrated Increment may not be available in time

4. All the development team members need not attend Nexus Daily Scrum. True or False?

FALSE

TRUE

5. How does technical debt impact product development?

Without clearing technical debt, code complexity increases with time

The code written becomes unusable when there is technical debt

Product Owner may not be able to get additional funding if there is technical debt in the project

It makes it difficult for the developers to implement new features or fix bugs

6. What does not happen during the Nexus Sprint Retrospective?

Nexus team may revise their Definition of done

Individual teams conduct their own Scrum of Scrums

Nexus discusses and decides on how to visualize and track the identified actions

Nexus meets to identify the issues that affected multiple teams

7. During Nexus Sprint Retrospective, the team has acknowledged that there is some technical debt accumulated in the product.

What should they do?

The team should deal with technical debt during the hardening Sprint

Technical Debt can be ignored as the end user will not be able to notice it

For the next Sprint, the team can set aside a certain percentage of effort to deal with the rework to eliminate technical debt

8. 5 Scrum teams with 8 members each are working in a Nexus. They are struggling to create a DONE increment every Sprint. The scope is being adjusted often due to newly discovered dependencies and complications.

Which techniques can be use to manage dependencies effectively? Select two best answers

Reorder Product backlog items by factoring in the dependency

Reorganize the team structure if the dependencies are around skills

Merge the teams that often have work with a lot of dependencies

Nexus Integration team should perform additional product backlog refinement

9. How much refinement is needed for Product Backlog items?

Until the Product Backlog Items are sufficiently independent to be worked on by a single Scrum Team without excessive conflict

Until the Stakeholders are satisifed

Until the Product Backlog item is discussed in 3 different sessions

10. At the end of the 12th Sprint in a Nexus, it is observed that most of the teams are unable to complete the planned work in last 3 Sprints.

What is the most likely reason?

NIT is not doing the work they are supposed to

Teams are overestimating and selecting too much work during the planning

Product Owner is having too much expectation and pushing the teams to deliver more

There is technical debt in the product

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11. 5 Teams are working in a Nexus. Andy from Team C informed his teammates that other teams have raised a concern with the coding standards delivered in the previous two sprints.

Which is the Nexus event during which this approach was most likely discussed?

Nexus Sprint Retrospective

Cross-Team refinement

Nexus Daily Scrum

Nexus Sprint Planning

12. Select two correct statements about Scrum of Scrums and Nexus Daily Scrum?

Nexus Daily Scrum is held prior to the individual teams' Daily Scrum

Scrum of Scrums is held after the individual teams' Daily Scrum

Scrum of Scrums is held before the individual teams' Daily Scrum

Nexus Daily Scrum is held after the individual teams' Daily Scrum

13. What is true about Nexus Daily Scrum? Select all that apply.

It is an optional event in Nexus

It is held before teams' Daily Scrum

It is to make integration issues transparent

It helps individual teams to plan their work based on the latest cross-team issues and dependencies

14. During the Nexus Sprint Review of Sprint 2, some users have complained that the system is performing too slow.

What can the Nexus team do to manage user expectations? Select all that apply.

Add the non-functional requirement to Definition of Done

Let the stakeholders use the wireframes and take the feedback

It is too early to judge the performance of the increment

Work with stakeholders and agree on a tangible requirement

15. Who is an appropriate person to represent an individual team in Nexus Daily Scrum?

Product Owner

Scrum Master

A developer working on an item which has cross team dependencies

Customer

16. A Nexus has 5 teams. Kevin and Oscar are the Scrum Masters of Team A and B respectively. They had technical experience in their previous jobs. While forming the NIT, Product Owner felt that it would be ideal to have both of them.

Is it allowed to have 2 individual teams' Scrum Masters in NIT?

Yes, but only one of them can be a NIT Scrum Master

Yes. Even though they are the Scrum Masters of individual teams, they can act as members in NIT

Yes, but neither of them can ever take a role of NIT Scrum Master

No, NIT cannot have Scrum Masters of individual teams

17. During the Nexus Sprint Retrospective, it was discovered that a team has not been conducting their individual Daily Scrum's over the past few weeks. Who is accountable for ensuring the Nexus framework is understood and enacted?

Nexus Integration Team

Scrum Master on the Nexus Integration Team

Product Owner

Developers

18. What are the possible side effects of teams not integrating their work often? Select two best answers

Increase in Technical Debt

Increase in Nexus Integration Team's workload

Increase in code conflicts

Decrease in productivity

19. Scrum Master who is part of Nexus Integration Team can be a Scrum Master for any of the individual teams. True or False?

TRUE

FALSE

20. Requirement number 22 is being worked by Team C in a Nexus. Stakeholders are expecting this key feature to be demonstrated in the upcoming Nexus Sprint Review. Just 2 days prior to the review, the team identified a defect in one of the testing scenarios. It has been determined that Team C doesn't have the skillset to resolve the defect in such a short time. Select two BEST possible options the Nexus team can take to resolve the situation.

If a resource in other teams in Nexus has the skillset to resolve the issue, they should be brought in to NIT and the whole NIT can work on the issue

Find the resources who have the skills and extend the Sprint to provide sufficient time to resolve the issue

Postpone the requirement to next Sprint

NIT Scrum Master can look for specialists outside the Nexus who have the skills to resolve the issue

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21. Nexus Sprint Goal replaces the Individual Teams' Sprint Goal. True or False?

TRUE

FALSE

22. Select all the true statements about Nexus.

There is always one Scrum Master in a Nexus

There should be separate Product Owner per team

There is always one Product Owner in a Nexus

There is always one Product backlog in a Nexus

23. Every team member of all the Scrum Teams must attend the Cross-Team Refinement event. True or False?

TRUE

FALSE

24. Select two correct statements about the Scrum Master in Nexus Integration Team.

The Scrum Master of an individual team can act as a Scrum Master in NIT

The NIT Scrum Master must coach the other NIT members to become self-organizing

The NIT Scrum Master must be a Scrum Master for at least one of the Scrum Teams

The same person can act as a Scrum Master for many Scrum Teams in a Nexus

25. 5 teams are working in a Nexus. Team C realized that they have selected too much work during the Planning and would like to return some of the product backlog items.

Which artifacts should be adjusted due to this change? Select TWO best answers.

Sprint Backlog of Team C

Product Backlog

Product Backlog Tree map

Nexus Sprint Backlog

26. A new Project Manager accountability has been added to Nexus. True or False?

TRUE

FALSE

27. Select two best statements that describe the Nexus Sprint Review?

It is held at the end of the Sprint to provide feedback on the done Integrated Increment

It is held after Nexus Sprint Retrospective

Nexus Sprint Review replaces individual Scrum Team Sprint Reviews

It is held at the end of the Sprint to demo the released Integrated Increment

28. Select the valid activities performed by the Nexus Integration Team

Validate the work done by developers against the Definition of Done

Developing tools that may help the developers in integrating their work

Merging the individual teams' increment into integrated increment

Coach the developers on techniques and best practices

29. What is true about Nexus Sprint Goal? Select all that apply.

It is the objective for the Sprint

It is the sum of all the work and Sprint Goals of the Scrum Teams within the Nexus

Every Nexus member should understand the Nexus Sprint Goal and should work towards achieving it

It replaces the Sprint Goal of individual team

30. Who do the developers report the Daily Scrum status to?

Product Owner

Nexus Integration Team

Scrum Master

None of the listed options

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31. 5 teams are working in a Nexus to develop a new product. So far, their Sprint length has been 2 weeks. Going forward, work done by Team C has high risk and uncertain aspects.

What should the team do to ensure success?

Increase the Sprint length to four weeks for Team C

Reduce the Sprint length of all the teams to one week

Reduce the Sprint length to one week for Team C

Add additional members to Team C

32. All the development teams must have same Sprint length. True or False?

TRUE

FALSE

33. During which event the Definition of Done is most likely to be adjusted?

Nexus Sprint Retrospective

Nexus Daily Scrum

Nexus Sprint Review

Nexus Sprint Planning

34. Select the valid commitments in Nexus

Product Goal

Definition of Done

Nexus Sprint Goal

Integrated increment

35. How many Scrum Masters can there be in Nexus?

There is no need of Scrum Master in Nexus

Max 1 Scrum Master per team

Only one Scrum Master for whole Nexus

Min 1 Scrum Master per team

36. Which is the main concern of developers when working in a Nexus?

Making sure there is no risk

Managing dependencies

Cross-team refinement

37. What is the purpose of the Nexus Sprint Retrospective?

To craft the Sprint Goal

To identify issues that have affected more than one team

To refine the product backlog

To decide on how the remaining retrospective should be conducted

38. There can be two product backlogs in a Nexus. True or False?

TRUE

FALSE

39. Which are the events present in Nexus but not in Scrum? Select all that apply.

Nexus Daily Scrum

Sprint Retrospective

Nexus Sprint Review

Sprint Review

Nexus Sprint Planning

40. Which events are present and mandatory in Nexus but not in Scrum? Select all that apply. Daily Scrum

Sprint Retrospective

Sprint Review

Cross-Team Refinement (Correct)

Nexus Sprint Planning (Correct)

Explanation:

Nexus has five additional Events: Cross-Team Refinement, Nexus Sprint Planning, Nexus Daily Scrum, Nexus Sprint Review, and Nexus Sprint Retrospective.