Scrum PAL-I Practice Exams
Last updated on Apr 01,2025- Exam Code: PAL-I
- Exam Name: Professional Agile Leadership (PAL-I)
- Certification Provider: Scrum
- Latest update: Apr 01,2025
Which of the following will NOT help a team increase its frequency of delivery? (choose the best answer)
- A . Reducing cross-team dependencies.
- B . Automating delivery processes.
- C . Synchronizing release schedules across teams.
- D . Product Backlog refinement.
You manage a product development organization. A Scrum Team comes to you with a request to add two more Developers to the Scrum Team in order to increase their capacity to get work done. You have a budget and headcount. The Scrum Team’s case is compelling, and they have a good track record for delivery and making good decisions.
In response to the Scrum Team’s request, you decide to: (choose the best answer)
- A . Let the Scrum Team screen candidates, and pass candidates to you to interview and make the final hiring decision.
- B . Let the Scrum Team know you will write the job description and take care of the initial screening. Then pass along candidates to the Scrum Team to conduct their own interviews and make the final decision.
- C . Offer an introduction to someone from the company’s Talent Management department who can help the Scrum Team recruit, interview, and make a hiring decision.
Your organization wants to improve its Time-to-Market.
Which of the following improvements would help best? (choose the best answer)
- A . Creating a centralized team to handle all product releases.
- B . Reducing the size of each release to deliver fewer features.
- C . Splitting the product into components that are developed in parallel.
- D . Establishing a common release schedule for all products.
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)
- 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.
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)
- 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.
What traditionally "good" behavior can impede the adoption of an agile culture? (choose the best answer)
- A . Encouraging specialization
- B . Rewarding outstanding individual performance
- C . Enforcing organization-level technology standards
- D . Rewarding high utilization
- E . Managing to: fixed-scope, schedule, and budget goals
- F . All the above
Agile teams must balance many different objectives.
Which one of the following is most important? (choose the best answer)
- A . Delivering all “MUST HAVE” requirements.
- B . Controlling cost.
- C . Improving efficiency.
- D . Meeting schedule commitments.
- E . Improving customer satisfaction.
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)
- 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.
You manage a development organization. One of your Scrum Teams is continually interrupted by unplanned work related to production incidents for a legacy application unrelated to their product. A few team members have historical knowledge of the legacy application.
How should the Scrum Team manage the interruption and unplanned work? (choose the best answer)
- A . Work with the Scrum Team to help transfer the knowledge to other teams better aligned with the application support mission.
- B . The Scrum Team should fit the work in, working overtime if that is what it takes.
- C . New development work should be put on hold until the production support work is completed; supporting existing applications is always more important than new work.
What is a primary benefit of an agile approach? (choose the best answer)
- 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.