PSPO-II Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which are properties of the Daily Scrum? (Choose four.)

A. It consists of the Scrum Master asking the Developers the three questions

B. It is for the Developers; the Product Owner and Scrum Master are not required to attend

C. It is facilitated by the team lead

D. It is a 15-minute event

E. It is free form and designed to promote conversation

F. A Product Owner or Scrum Master actively working on Sprint Backlog items participate as Developers

G. Its location and time should remain consistent

Given only the information in the following three statements:

1.

Product A has a greater potential market than Product B.

2.

Product A has lower customer satisfaction than Product B.

3.

Product B produces more revenue at the present time. Which investment strategies should you consider for these two products?

A. For Doth products, continually measure the impact of any new investments or marketing

B. Invest in Product A to increase its market share, customer satisfaction, and revenue

C. Investigate an increase in marketing for Product B to grow its market share

D. All of the above

Complete this sentence: The more uncertain you are about customer needs or market desires _____________ (Choose two.)

A. the more likely it is that you should invest in a different product.

B. the more important a risk management plan becomes.

C. the smaller each release should be.

D. the more you should focus on validating customer needs.

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 Product Owner it is ultimately your decision.

You think both perspectives have merit, but you cannot do both. How should you proceed?

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

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

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

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

Your executive leadership team believes that your product can achieve higher market share.

1.

The Sales Leader is pressuring you to reduce the price of the product to attract more customers.

2.

The Director of Finance is concerned that reducing the price will merely reduce the product's profitability.

What sources of information should you consider when deciding whether to drop the price as the Sales Leader is suggesting? (Choose four.)

A. Channel sales strategy

B. Customer satisfaction

C. Competitor pricing

D. Market share

E. Unmet customer needs

F. Company earnings targets

If burndown charts are used to visualize progress, what do they track?

A. Accumulated cost

B. Individual worker productivity

C. Work remaining across time

D. Accumulated business value delivered to the customer

You have been a Product Owner at a new company for a few weeks. It has become clear to 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 three.)

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

B. 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

C. 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

D. 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

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

Your product's Current Value is low and your most recent three releases have failed to improve the Current Value, but the Unrealized Value of the product is high.

1.

Your product cost ratio is 85%, meaning that you have a very low capacity to deliver new features.

2.

Your time-to-market is also quite long.

As a Product Owner focused on the long-term viability of your product, which strategy should you pursue?

A. Seek out and eliminate the sources of waste to improve your Product Cost Ratio and Time to Market building a foundation for future innovation

B. Drop the product: since you have not been able to improve customer satisfaction, it is better to focus on some other opportunity

C. Focus on identifying and delivering high-value features with the limited capacity you have trying to win customers and increase revenue

When the Product Owner is too busy to work with all of the teams in a multi-team product development effort, which strategy will help them?

A. Add component team Product Owners.

B. Communicate a clear Product Goal and delegate some activities to the Developers

C. Enlist the Program Management Office to help coordinate work

D. Assign sub-Product Owners to each Scrum Team

E. All of the above

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

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

B. It enhances focus

C. It communicates the target future state of the product

D. It has the approval of all stakeholders

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

F. It is a commitment contained in the Product Backlog