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ScrumStudy SMC Exam Questions
- Topic 1: Agile Overview: The Scrum Master Certified (SMC) exam delves into the heart of Agile project management. Scrum Masters will gain a profound understanding of the Agile Manifesto and its core values, as well as the principles and methodologies that guide Agile practices.
- Topic 2: Scrum Overview: The topic of Scrum principles, aspects, and processes is essential for aspiring Scrum Masters. It offers a deep dive into the foundational guidelines and key components that define the Scrum framework.
- Topic 3: Scrum Roles: The SMC exam topic explores the core and non-core roles within a Scrum team. Scrum Masters who take the exam will learn about the responsibilities and interactions of the Scrum Master, Product Owner, Development Team, and other vital roles.
- Topic 4: Scrum Phases: For Scrum Masters aspiring to attain the Scrum Master Certified (SMC) accreditation, a profound understanding of the four key phases in the Scrum process is essential. These are the Initiate, Plan and Estimate, Implement, and Review and Retrospect phases.
- Topic 5: Scaling Scrum: Understanding the scalability and broad application of Scrum is vital for Scrum Masters. This topic explores how Scrum can be applied to programs and portfolios, and the role of Scrum of Scrums (SoS) meetings in coordinating large-scale efforts. Additionally, applicants will grasp the significance of executive support in ensuring the successful implementation and continuation of Scrum practices within an organization.
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Note: Premium Questions for SMC were last updated On Oct. 29, 2026 (see below)
As a Scrum Master, you must be familiar with the Risk Assessment Techniques that are used to assess the likelihood and impact of risks on a project. Select the inappropriate Risk Assessment Technique pairing with its salient qualities.
Option C incorrectly describes the Probability Impact Grid. In SBOK, the Probability Impact Grid evaluates each individual risk by assigning values to both probability and impact. Those ratings are then combined---commonly by multiplication---to derive a risk-severity or PI score for prioritization.
The wording in C---calculating an overall impact from the values of multiple possible events or outcomes---is more closely associated with Probability Trees, where potential outcomes are represented by separate branches with associated probabilities and impacts.
Option A is correct. Expected Monetary Value equals the monetary impact of a risk multiplied by its probability of occurrence. Option B is correct because Pareto Analysis ranks risks according to magnitude, enabling attention to be focused on the most consequential risks. Option D also correctly describes Probability Trees, where each potential outcome is represented graphically through branching alternatives.
Thus the mismatched technique-description pairing is C.
Study Guide reference: Risk -> Risk Assessment Techniques -> Probability Trees, Pareto Analysis, Probability Impact Grid, Expected Monetary Value.
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Which of the following is a key responsibility of a Scrum Master with respect to the business justification aspect of a Scrum project?
The Product Owner has primary accountability for project-level business justification, including ensuring value delivery and maintaining the project's business rationale. The Scrum Master's role is facilitative: helping ensure that desired outcomes are understood, coordinating with the Product Owner and Scrum Team, and supporting Continuous Value Justification throughout execution.
SBOK's responsibility model assigns the Product Owner responsibility for value delivery and maintenance of project business justification, while the Scrum Master supports continuous justification and ensures that the project's desired outcomes are communicated and understood by the Scrum Team.
Therefore, A is incorrect because creation and confirmation of project business justification belong principally to the Product Owner. B likewise represents Product Owner accountability. D is also primarily assigned to the Product Owner, who is responsible for maximizing and ensuring project value.
Option C best represents the Scrum Master's supporting role. Through Sprint execution, risk/change facilitation, communication, and coordination with the Product Owner, the Scrum Master helps verify that continued investment remains aligned with the expected business outcomes.
Study Guide reference: Business Justification -> Summary of Responsibilities; Continuous Value Justification; Product Owner and Scrum Master roles.
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To enable the Scrum Team to develop an Effort Estimated Task List, the Scrum Master should facilitate a Sprint Planning Meeting. How can the Scrum Master help the Team achieve this objective in the meeting?
The Scrum Master facilitates planning rather than performing the team's estimates. Consequently, acting as the moderator and impediment remover is the correct responsibility.
During task estimation, the Scrum Team determines the effort necessary to accomplish tasks associated with committed User Stories. The resulting Effort Estimated Task List provides the estimated work associated with Sprint tasks and supports creation or updating of the Sprint Backlog. SCRUMstudy confirms that task estimation is performed by the Scrum Team and that the Scrum Master supports and facilitates the relevant meetings rather than imposing estimates.
Option B is not the objective of Scrum Master facilitation; diverse perspectives can naturally emerge, but they are not something the Scrum Master artificially ensures. Option C incorrectly suggests that the Scrum Master determines how tasks should be decomposed or estimated. That authority rests with the self-organizing Scrum Team. Option D is logically defective and reflects an obvious wording problem in the supplied question.
The Scrum Master therefore enables effective planning by maintaining the process, facilitating discussion, removing obstacles, and ensuring that the team---not the facilitator---owns the estimates.
Study Guide reference: Plan and Estimate -> Estimate Tasks -> Effort Estimated Task List; Sprint Planning Meeting; Scrum Master facilitation.
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Clara is a Scrum Master on a project that involves offshore oil drilling. The Product Owner on her project has identified that there is a probability of getting new orders in the future, which might depend on the performance of the project. How would this risk be labelled?
SBOK defines risk as an uncertain event or set of events that can affect project objectives. Importantly, risk is not necessarily negative. Risks with potentially favorable consequences are classified as opportunities, whereas risks capable of producing adverse outcomes are called threats. SCRUMstudy explicitly distinguishes these two categories.
In this scenario, additional orders have not yet materialized, so they remain uncertain. However, if they occur, they would generate a positive business consequence attributable to successful project performance. That makes the event a positive risk---an opportunity.
An issue differs from a risk because an issue has already occurred and therefore is no longer uncertain. ''Weakness'' may be used in analytical techniques such as SWOT Analysis but is not the correct risk classification in this scenario. A threat would apply if the uncertain event could negatively affect objectives.
Because future orders represent uncertainty with a beneficial potential impact, the correct classification is Opportunity.
Study Guide reference: Risk -> Definition of Risk -> Opportunities and Threats; Risk Identification and Assessment.
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A Product Owner is prioritizing user Stories to create a Prioritized Product Backlog for a project to design a
banking portal. All of the following User Stories will be evaluated while prioritizing EXCEPT:
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