PAL-I Professional Agile Leadership Certification Exam Questions and Answers

They consist of team members who are shared across multiple initiatives at a time, since then they can take advantage of time otherwise spent waiting to do productive work.

They consist of people who have mostly deeply specialized skills.

They consist of team members who work only on one product and team at a time, so that they can focus.

They consist of team members who have broad enough skills to do many kinds of work, but who are not deeply specialized in any one area.

Encouraging specialization

Rewarding outstanding individual performance

Enforcing organization-level technology standards

Rewarding high utilization

Managing to: fixed-scope, schedule, and budget goals

All the above

Empirical approaches work fine for small teams and simple problems, but cannot scale to large, complex problems.

Projects succeed when they spend additional time defining and reviewing requirements.

Projects succeed when they spend additional time identifying and mitigating risk.

Delivering a solution and gathering feedback provides valuable information to plan the next step.

Yes, this is cause for concern - the Scrum Master for this team is not making this team as productive as the others.

No, this is not cause for concern - velocity is not a meaningful measurement of the value delivered by agile teams.

Yes, this is cause for concern - the Product Owner for the team in question is not pushing the team hard enough.

Yes, this is cause for concern - the team in question has not calibrated their story points with the rest of the teams.

Yes, this is cause for concern - the team in question is performing worse than the rest.

No, this is not cause for concern - the team in question will probably increase their velocity over time.

Creating a centralized team to handle all product releases.

Reducing the size of each release to deliver fewer features.

Splitting the product into components that are developed in parallel.

Establishing a common release schedule for all products.

Comparing team performance often leads to unhealthy behaviors. Instead, focus on identifying and eliminating impediments that hinder team performance.

The one with the highest velocity is performing the best.

You need to normalize the estimates across the Scrum Teams and, based on that, create a balanced scorecard.

You need to look at several trends of different measures such as velocity, defects, and technical debt to get a picture of how the team is performing.

To improve a team’s focus.

To improve the exchange of expertise within the Scrum Team.

To improve team collaboration.

To improve utilization.

To make forecasting more consistent.

True

False

Ask the Product Owner to implement the feature anyway since it will close a deal.

Reach out to Developers who you think may support your position, in the hope of gaining more support for the idea.

Support the Product Owner’s decision to focus on broader market needs in the long run, even though it may mean loss of short-term business.

Lobby other stakeholders to express support for adding the feature, to put more pressure on the Product Owner.