Scrum PSPO-II Professional Scrum Product Owner II Online Training
Scrum PSPO-II Online Training
The questions for PSPO-II were last updated at Nov 26,2024.
- Exam Code: PSPO-II
- Exam Name: Professional Scrum Product Owner II
- Certification Provider: Scrum
- Latest update: Nov 26,2024
True or False: Goals are set only during the annual planning cycle. (choose the best answer)
- A . False
- B . True
A
Explanation:
Something important that the organization would like to achieve. This goal is so big and far away, with many uncertainties along the journey that the organization must use empiricism. Because the Strategic Goal is aspirational and the path to it is uncertain, the organization needs a series of practical targets called Intermediate Goals. Intermediate Goals are achievements of which will indicate that the organization is on the path to its Strategic Goal. The path to the Intermediate Goal is often still somewhat uncertain, but not completely unknown. Both your goals and your improvement experiments will likely evolve as you learn more about customers, competitors, and your organization’s capabilities. Goals can change because of outside events, and your tactics to reach your goals may need to be reconsidered and revised. Was the Intermediate Goal the right goal? Is the Strategic Goal still relevant? If you achieved the Intermediate Goal, you will need to choose a new Intermediate Goal. If you did not achieve it, you will need to decide whether you need to persevere, stop, or pivot toward something new. If your Strategic Goal is no longer relevant, you will need to either adopt it or replace it.
Which of the following is the most effective way of improving the Time-to-Market of a product? (choose the best answer)
- A . Increasing project funding
- B . Removing low performing people.
- C . Understanding and removing impediments to faster delivery
- D . All of the above.
- E . Working harder to go faster.
- F . Hiring more team members
C
Explanation:
A variety of things can reduce the Time-to-Market: everything from removing internal communication bottlenecks to improving delivery pipeline automation to improving application maintainability and removing technical debt; anything that reduces time spent waiting or time spent performing work. Understanding and removing impediments to faster delivery is essential to delivering at faster cycles.
The Product Owner has the final say on if an Increment is Done. Choose the best answer
- A . True
- B . False
B
Explanation:
All Scrum Team is responsible. If the Definition of Done for an increment is part of the standards of the organization, all Scrum Teams must follow it as a minimum. If it is not an organizational standard, the Scrum Team must create a Definition of Done appropriate for the product.
Experiments include which of the following aspects?
- A . Running the experiments
- B . Adapting your goals or your approach based on what you learned
- C . Inspecting results
- D . All of these apply
- E . Forming a hypothesis for improvement.
D
Explanation:
Experiments include all of these aspects. Run experiments that involve forming hypotheses that are intended to advance the organization toward their current Intermediate Goal. As they run these experiments and gather results, they use the evidence they obtain to evaluate their goals and determine their next steps to advance toward these goals. Experimentation Loop. Forming a hypothesis for improvement, Running your experiments, Inspecting your results. Adapting your goals or your approach based on what you learned.
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)
- A . Split funding equally between both products.
- B . Invest funding in Product B, because it has more future potential for the company
- C . Split funding proportionally based on product revenues.
- D . Invest funding in Product A, because your company’s success depends on its continued success.
B
Explanation:
Customers are happy with Product A as it is; adding more features may actually decrease customer satisfaction. The best time to invest in new products is when you have a secure source of profits from existing products.
User satisfaction gap lies in the difference between: (choose the best two answers)
- A . The user’s actual experience.
- B . The total market size.
- C . The user’s desired experience.
- D . The current market share of the product.
A,C
Explanation:
Empiricism asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is known. Scrum employs an iterative, incremental approach to optimize predictability and control risk. The Scrum Team does work based on perceived value. Only after the work is released to the users, can we measure and validate the perceived value against the actual value. This is considered the customer or user satisfaction gap; the difference between a customer or user’s desired experience and their current experience. A key-value measure of Unrealized Value.
True or False: A benefit of using an agile approach is managing business risk more effectively.
- A . False
- B . True
B
Explanation:
Unmanaged risk can reduce the long-term ability of an organization to deliver value to its customers.
What would be the best way to have multiple teams get started on a multi-product initiative? (choose the best answer)
- A . Ensure that all features are assigned to the most suitable teams before getting started.
- B . Let the teams know what time of reporting the business will be needing.
- C . Have them start with what they have as they’ll self-organize and eventually figure out what to do.
- D . Explain to them the goal of the initiative, how success will be measured, and together agree with how they will provide transparency.
D
Explanation:
As a manager, your responsibility is to provide the team with direction and as a servant, you provide assistance when or if required. Transparency will help those inside and outside the team adjust accordingly in order to stay aligned towards the direction.
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)
- A . Innovation Rate
- B . Release Frequency
- C . Usage Index
- D . Lead Time
C
Explanation:
Understanding how your customers are using your product will help you to understand how you can better serve their needs, which will help you to improve the product’s performance. Current Value: Measurement of usage Index, by feature, to help infer the degree to which customers find the product useful and whether actual usage meets expectations on how long users should be taking with a feature.
What are the most important characteristics of a strategic goal? (choose the best two answers)
- A . It is specific
- B . It is realistic
- C . It is actionable
- D . it is measurable
A,D
Explanation:
In a complex world, a good goal is specific and measurable but does not need to be actionable, realistic, or time-bound. It should not be assigned to people or a team as performance measures. Goals may change over time as the organization learns more. Organizations must define specific measures that will indicate that the goal is achieved