PAL-I Practice Exam Questions and Answers

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.

A.  

"We value predictability above everything."

B.  

"Most projects fail because they did not focus enough on planning."

C.  

"Successful projects finish on-time, on-budget, and deliver the agreed-upon features."

D.  

"Managing to the plan is the mark of a great project manager."

E.  

"Projects fail because people lack initiative and do not take ownership."

F.  

"Unexpected things will happen. If we learn from them, it is acceptable."

G.  

"I dislike surprises; they are a sign someone has not done their homework."

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.

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.  

Understand customer requirements.

B.  

Understand how to break down work and assign it to teams.

C.  

Identify sources of waste and activities that do not add value in a process.

D.  

Enable a Portfolio view of your “Epics.”

E.  

Understand how to break down epics into smaller user stories.

A.  

Sprint Planning.

B.  

The Daily Scrum.

C.  

The Sprint Retrospective.

D.  

Refinement.

E.  

The Sprint Review.

A.  

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.

B.  

They consist of people who have mostly deeply specialized skills.

C.  

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

D.  

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.

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.

A.  

Reducing cross-team dependencies.

B.  

Automating delivery processes.

C.  

Synchronizing release schedules across teams.

D.  

Product Backlog refinement.

A.  

Delivering all “MUST HAVE” requirements.

B.  

Controlling cost.

C.  

Improving efficiency.

D.  

Meeting schedule commitments.

E.  

Improving customer satisfaction.