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PAL-I Professional Agile Leadership Certification Exam Question and Answers

Question # 4

You manage a product development organization and have several agile teams working on one product. How can you find out which team is performing the best? (choose the best answer)

A.

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

B.

The one with the highest velocity is performing the best.

C.

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

D.

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.

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Question # 5

One of the newest and least experienced Scrum Teams in your organization has 7 members: 3 are in London (UK), 1 is in Paris (FR), and 3 are in Mumbai (IN). What outcome would you expect? (choose the best answer)

A.

The team will likely need help with communication and knowledge sharing challenges.

B.

Each location should have an on-site Scrum Master.

C.

The cost of delivering the product will be significantly lower than if all team members were together in London (UK).

D.

Having team members in multiple locations actually increases productivity because the work can “follow the sun.”

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Question # 6

You manage a product development organization. You are looking at the progress reports from a number of Scrum Teams in your organization, when you notice that while most teams have a velocity of 35-40 story points per Sprint, one team consistently delivers only 15-20 per Sprint. Is this cause for concern? (choose the best answer)

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

E.

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

F.

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

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Question # 7

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.

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Question # 8

Which Scrum event most helps a Scrum Team to continuously improve? (choose the best answer)

A.

Sprint Planning.

B.

The Daily Scrum.

C.

The Sprint Retrospective.

D.

Refinement.

E.

The Sprint Review.

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Question # 9

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.

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Question # 10

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.

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