Scrum Master interview questions

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Scrum Master interview questions:

Of all the Scrum ceremonies, which one you can never skip and why?
Which is the most useful ceremony in Scrum which you would like to tell and why?
If one of the team members does not want to participate in the Scrum ceremonies, then how do you handle such situations?
You have identified one good process for the team, which you think is good for the team, but then the team does not want to follow - what will you do as an SM here?
If one of the team members is unable to complete his user stories, Consistently impacting the velocity of the team. How will you, as SM, address the issue?
If team members get sick in between the Sprint, then as an SM, how will you handle his stories?
What is the benefit of estimating user stories in story points overestimating it in time?
As a scrum master, how will you make your team cross-functional and self-organized?
Due to time crunch, if there is an event, need to go away, what would that be?

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How will you handle a scope change?

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What is Technical debt? How will you deal with it?
What is Spike? Are there points or hours applicable for it? If so, how to calculate the efforts?
What is the minimum time for a sprint?
What is Sprint 0 in Scrum?
The Scrum team finished all PBIs in the Sprint, 2 days before. The team can’t take any new PBIs in the current Sprint because the PBIs are large. How will you handle this situation as a Scrum Master?
How will you plan Sprint if programmers can do more programming, but QA cannot complete the testing due to the scope of testing is high?
Consider a story where the change is one line of code but impacts the entire application what could be the story points?
In a matrix organization where team members have set/defined roles (e.g., Programmer, QA, Database Architect, UX Developer, and so on), how will you make them understand the concept of cross-functional teams working culture in a scrum team?
What is the difference between Agile and Scrum?
When will you use the different hats of coaching, mentoring, teaching, and consulting? Give some examples.
What are some of the impediments you helped your teams eliminate?
If the PO is absent for a couple of Sprints, will you take up the Proxy PO role? Justify your answer.

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