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Scrum PAL-I Professional Agile Leadership Certification Exam Exam Practice Test

Demo: 10 questions
Total 36 questions

Professional Agile Leadership Certification Exam Questions and Answers

Question 1

What is a primary benefit of an agile approach? (choose the best answer)

Options:

A.

It helps organizations to deliver more quickly.

B.

It helps organizations reduce cost.

C.

It helps organizations to deliver on commitments.

D.

It helps organizations better deliver value and satisfy customers.

Question 2

You manage a product group in an organization. A Scrum Master is concerned with the very low availability of the Product Owner for her team. The Product Owner has subject matter expertise that is very difficult to duplicate or replace, but he has several other important responsibilities as well. The Scrum Master has discussed her concern with the Product Owner, but the Developers are still struggling to deliver value without additional guidance from the Product Owner. The Scrum Master is asking you for some guidance. What is the best way for you to help the Scrum Master? (choose the best answer)

Options:

A.

Help the Product Owner’s manager find a different Product Owner, who can dedicate the time needed, and help this new Product Owner come up to speed on the new product as quickly as possible.

B.

Help the Scrum Master to find a delegate who can join the Scrum Team to work with the Product Owner and represent business priorities when the Product Owner cannot be present.

C.

Recommend to the Scrum Master that she helps the Developers to do their best, document their decisions, and escalate problems to you.

D.

Offer to work with her, the Product Owner, and his manager, to find a way to ensure that the Product Owner's participation level is high enough to ensure that value can be delivered by the Scrum Team.

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT true of cross-functional teams? (choose the best answer)

Options:

A.

The team spends less time waiting on people outside the team to get things done.

B.

Team members have a greater opportunity to deliver product increments that deliver value to users.

C.

Cross-functional teams help team members develop deep technical specializations.

D.

Cross-functional teams encourage team members to step outside their comfort zone to get things done.

E.

Team members have more opportunities to grow their skills by learning from others.

Question 4

You manage a development organization. The organization currently rewards individual performance bonuses to only a few top-performers on a yearly basis. As a result, only one member of a team might get a bonus, while all others get nothing. Some of your teams feel that this is unfair since everyone on a team contributes to the success or failure to achieve goals. They would like to move toward team bonuses. What do you think needs to be done? (choose the best answer)

Options:

A.

Allocate the bonus to the team and let them decide how to split-up the bonus.

B.

Nothing: you value high-performers and want to reward their contributions.

Question 5

You manage a product delivery organization. Your manager asks you to create a plan for the next fiscal year describing what will be delivered. What is the best way to proceed? (choose the best answer)

Options:

A.

Work with the Product Owner(s) to analyze current delivery capabilities against demand, then use that data to build a probabilistic forecast that serves to illustrate what might be achieved.

B.

Use your knowledge to make the plan and later negotiate its implementation with the Scrum Team.

C.

Work with specialists from each team to build an estimated backlog that you can translate into a Gantt chart.

D.

Ask each Scrum Team to estimate the current backlog and make a plan against the story points previously delivered. Then normalize story points across teams to combine the estimates.

Question 6

Agile teams must balance many different objectives. Which one of the following is most important? (choose the best answer)

Options:

A.

Delivering all “MUST HAVE” requirements.

B.

Controlling cost.

C.

Improving efficiency.

D.

Meeting schedule commitments.

E.

Improving customer satisfaction.

Question 7

You manage a product development organization. One of your employees, a subject matter expert and a stakeholder for a product being developed, expresses that he feels that a newly-formed and relatively inexperienced Scrum Team lacks critical skills they will need to be successful. To fill this gap, he recommends replacing some members of the Scrum Team with new members who have better skills in the areas of concern. Based on these conversations, what do you do? (choose the best answer)

Options:

A.

Work with other team managers to trade people between teams to address the skill shortage.

B.

Hire external consultants to fill the Scrum Team’s skills gap.

C.

Recommend that the subject matter expert raise the skills gap concern with the Scrum Team but leave the decision on what to do with the Scrum Team and offer to support them as needed.

D.

Talk to other experts in the subject matter expert’s area of expertise to determine whether the original subject matter expert’s perspective is valid.

Question 8

A Scrum Team is finding it difficult to get work done since team members are distracted by being pulled away to take care of work requested by other teams. The team has been regularly failing to deliver on their Sprint Goals. As a Manager, if the Scrum Team asks you for help, what should you do to solve this problem? (choose the best two answers)

Options:

A.

Work with the Scrum Team and other teams to find ways to re-assign the interrupting work to people outside of the Scrum Team.

B.

Ask for more people on the team to compensate for the interruptions.

C.

Make their Sprints longer to account for the interruptions.

D.

Extend the length of a Sprint if they need more time to complete the Sprint Goal.

E.

Coach the Scrum Team to be more conservative in defining their Sprint Goal, to account for the time team members will need to spend doing other work.

Question 9

Of the following choices, what is the most effective way a Scrum Master can keep a Scrum Team working at its highest level of productivity? (choose the best answer)

Options:

A.

Prevent changes to the backlogs once the Sprint begins.

B.

Keep high value features high in the Product Backlog.

C.

Facilitate Scrum Team decisions and remove impediments.

D.

Ensure the meetings start and end at the proper time.

E.

Run the Daily Scrum.

Question 10

An organization has many Agile teams working on different products. How can managers understand the status of each team? (choose the best answer)

Options:

A.

Ask the teams to show progress toward the Product Goal at least every calendar month.

B.

Standardize story point estimation across teams so that team velocity can be compared.

C.

Instruct each team to fill out a common status reporting dashboard to provide information that can be shared with stakeholders.

D.

Have the team create a detailed forecast for their work, then track plan versus actuals.

Demo: 10 questions
Total 36 questions