Scrum PAL-I Übungsprüfungen
Zuletzt aktualisiert am 26.04.2025- Prüfungscode: PAL-I
- Prüfungsname: Professional Agile Leadership (PAL-I)
- Zertifizierungsanbieter: Scrum
- Zuletzt aktualisiert am: 26.04.2025
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.
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.
Who is responsible for managing the progress of work during a Sprint? (choose the best answer)
- A . The Scrum Master.
- B . The Product Owner.
- C . The Team Lead.
- D . The Project Manager.
- E . The Developers.
- F . All the above.
You manage a development organization. The Scrum Master of one of the Scrum Teams you are responsible for requests that you only communicate with the team through her.
What do you do? (choose the best answer)
- A . Agree to her request, yet indicate that there may be occasions where you may still communicate directly with the Scrum Team. As a leader, it is your responsibility to help the team retain focus.
- B . Do not agree to her request. Explain that management holds you accountable for the Scrum
Team’s results, and that you need access to the team to fulfill your responsibilities.
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
You are a Product Owner. The Developers are close to the end of a Sprint and ask you for 3 extra days to complete their work. They feel that if they do not get the extra time, they might look bad in front of stakeholders, who are already skeptical of using an agile approach.
What should you do? (choose the best answer)
- A . Cut back on testing, or leave some items incomplete, so long as the Developers can "substantially meet" their goal.
- B . Agree to extend the Sprint but ask the team to be more realistic when they plan Sprints in the future.
- C . Ask the Developers to work longer hours to meet their goal.
- D . Ask the Developers to commit to what was agreed and find a solution for the problem.
- E . Do not extend the Sprint and stick to the original timebox. Work with the stakeholders to explain why transparency and openness are important.
Which statement best describes a responsibility of the Scrum Master? (choose the best answer)
- A . Helping the Scrum Team to improve their ability to deliver.
- B . Managing the project and ensuring that the work meets the commitments to the stakeholders.
- C . Optimizing the value of the work the Scrum Team performs.
- D . Keeping stakeholders informed and happy.
- E . Directing the Developers.
A new agile initiative is being mobilized, and you are the manager tasked with staffing the teams.
How do you decide which team each member should belong to? (choose the best answer)
- A . Bring together interested people, discuss product goals, remind teams that they need to balance skills and experience, and let the teams self-organize.
- B . Group people together who have a similar skill set to maximize efficiency and utilization.
- C . Assign people to teams in such a way that balances skills, experience, and seniority as evenly as possible.
- D . Group people together who already know each other from previous teams.
- E . Group people together based on which components of the system they are most familiar with.
You are a manager responsible for a product being developed by a Scrum Team. A sales representative wants a particular feature in the product. They believe that it will help close a deal. The Product Owner understands the need but believes that there are more valuable things on the Product Backlog that will lead to more long-term business. The sales representative appeals to you to intervene.
How do you respond? (choose the best answer)
- A . Ask the Product Owner to implement the feature anyway since it will close a deal.
- B . Reach out to Developers who you think may support your position, in the hope of gaining more
support for the idea. - C . 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.
- D . Lobby other stakeholders to express support for adding the feature, to put more pressure on the Product Owner.
An organization has many Agile teams working on different products.
How can managers understand the status of each team? (choose the best answer)
- 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.