CAPM - Agile Frameworks/Methodologies (20% of the exam) - Section 3.2

Apply the Scrum framework, including its roles, events, and artifacts such as the product backlog, sprint backlog, and increment.

Apply the Scrum framework: the product owner who orders the product backlog, the scrum master who serves the team and removes impediments, and the developers who build the increment. Identify the timeboxed events - sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective - and the artifacts produced, recognising that a sprint delivers a potentially releasable increment.

ScrumProduct ownerScrum masterProduct backlogSprint

Practice question for this objective

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During the daily scrum for the Larkspur analytics team, a developer says she is blocked because a shared test environment keeps failing. What is the scrum master's most appropriate response?

ANote the impediment and work after the event to help remove it, for example by engaging the team that owns the environment. Correct
BTake over the daily scrum and assign each remaining task to a specific developer so the plan is clear.
CTell the developer to raise the problem in the sprint retrospective in two weeks so it can be discussed properly.
DRecord the blocker in the product backlog as a defect item for the product owner to prioritise next sprint.

The scrum master serves the team by removing impediments while leaving the daily scrum as the developers' own planning event. Scrum makes the scrum master accountable for helping remove impediments to progress, and the daily scrum is timeboxed for the developers to inspect progress and plan, so blocker resolution happens through the scrum master's service outside the event itself.

Why A is correct: Removing impediments that block the developers is a core scrum master service, and doing so outside the timeboxed event keeps the daily scrum focused on the developers' plan.

Why B is wrong: The daily scrum is the developers' event to plan their own work, so taking control and handing out assignments undermines the team's self-management.

Why C is wrong: Deferring an active blocker to the retrospective is tempting because retrospectives cover improvements, but it leaves the impediment unresolved for the rest of the sprint.

Why D is wrong: A blocking environment issue is an impediment to remove now, not a backlog item to schedule later, so filing it away delays resolution and misreads the scrum master's role.

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Exam traps in Agile Frameworks/Methodologies

Answers that look right on this material and are not. Each one is a distractor from a different question in the CAPM bank for this domain.

Direct the developers to stop their current tasks and begin the new feature so the stakeholder is satisfied quickly.
Why it is wrong: This treats the scrum master as an authority who reassigns work on demand, which contradicts the servant-leadership role and bypasses the product owner's ownership of priorities.
The Sprint Review, which lets the team inspect the increment and the process together with management for sign-off.
Why it is wrong: The Sprint Review is about inspecting the increment with stakeholders and adapting the Product Backlog, and the scenario says it has already happened, so this cannot be the event being skipped.
The scrum master, who owns the meeting agenda and speaks for the team's future direction to stakeholders.
Why it is wrong: The scrum master facilitates and coaches but does not own the product backlog or set product direction, so presenting priorities to stakeholders is outside that accountability.

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