Scrum PAL-I Professional Agile Leadership (PAL-I) Online Training
Scrum PAL-I Online Training
The questions for PAL-I were last updated at Mar 28,2025.
- Exam Code: PAL-I
- Exam Name: Professional Agile Leadership (PAL-I)
- Certification Provider: Scrum
- Latest update: Mar 28,2025
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 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.
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.
You manage a development organization. The organization currently rewards individual performance bonuses to only a few top-performers on a yearly basis. As a result, only one member of a team might get a bonus, while all others get nothing. Some of your teams feel that this is unfair since everyone on a team contributes to the success or failure to achieve goals. They would like to move toward team bonuses.
What do you think needs to be done? (choose the best answer)
- 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.
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.
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.
What measure does NOT provide relevant or useful information about a team’s ability to deliver value to the user/customer in the future? (choose the best answer)
- A . Story points delivered trends.
- B . User/customer satisfaction trends.
- C . Technical debt trends.
- D . Consistent achievement of Sprint Goals.
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.
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.
What is the primary benefit of an agile approach as compared to a traditional up-front approach? (choose the best answer)
- A . To maximize value.
- B . To utilize resources efficiently.
- C . To deliver on-time, on-budget, and on-scope.
- D . To minimize risks.