Broadcom Rally Technical Specialist (250-612) Certification Sample Questions

02. A portfolio manager opens Rally Insights for a program team and sets Work Item Type to Portfolio Items to see how the team's features compare with other teams. The SDPI scores do not appear.
What is the reason?
a) Scores for portfolio items show only for a full quarter
b) SDPI scoring is specific to user stories and defects
c) Portfolio item scores need workspace administrator access to view
d) Features need Preliminary Estimate values before they are scored

03. A workspace administrator has defined the State values for the Initiative type and wants the Portfolio Kanban columns for initiatives to appear in a different left-to-right order.
What determines that column order?
a) The order in which the values were first created
b) The WIP limit configured on each column
c) The alphabetical order of the value names
d) The Rank of each State value

04. A developer accidentally deleted a child user story. A teammate restored it from the Recycle Bin the same afternoon. The product owner then notices that the restored story no longer appears beneath its parent story, which was never deleted.
What should the product owner do?
a) Set the parent association again on the restored child story by hand
b) Restore the parent story from the Recycle Bin to reconnect the child
c) Wait for Rally to relink the child the next time the parent is edited
d) Widen the project scope so the parent story's project is included

05. A release began two weeks ago, and the teams in the project are now delivering user stories into it. The release coordinator opens the release to update its State field so that it reflects this.
Which State value describes a release that is currently in progress?
a) Planning
b) Active
c) Accepted
d) Committed

06. A workspace uses the default portfolio item types. Three Single Release capacity plans have been built at the Feature level, one for each release in the coming year, and the portfolio director wants them connected into one longer-term plan.
At which level should the Plan of Plans be created?
a) At the Feature level, matching the child plans
b) At the Theme level, the very top of the hierarchy
c) At any level at all, since the child plans set its type
d) At the Initiative level, one level above the child plans

07. A developer wants to use an @mention on a user story to bring a teammate into the conversation about it.
In which fields of the story can the @mention be used?
(Choose three.)
a) Description
b) Name
c) Notes
d) Blocked Reason
e) Discussion

08. An initiative was given a Preliminary Estimate of L during early planning. Since then, each of its four features has received its own Preliminary Estimate, and the teams have entered Plan Estimates on all of the user stories beneath those features.
The planner expects the initiative's Preliminary Estimate to reflect this newer sizing.
What will she find?
a) The initiative's size has been recalculated from its features' Preliminary Estimates
b) The initiative still shows L, because nothing from its children rolls into that field
c) The initiative shows the total of its stories' Plan Estimates in place of L
d) The L is converted to story points and matched against the stories' Plan Estimates

09. A Scrum Master adds an Iteration Planning Board widget to the team's custom view so that she can schedule work by dragging cards from the Backlog column into each sprint's column. The product owner asks which kinds of work can be scheduled this way.
Which set of work item types does the widget support?
a) Features, user stories, defects and test cases
b) User stories, defects, tasks and test folders
c) User stories, defects, defect suites and test sets
d) User stories, defects, test cases and milestones

10. Midway through a release, a release manager's Release Burndown widget shows the remaining work rising for two weeks, even though the teams keep getting stories accepted. She needs to find out whether work items were added to or removed from the release during that time.
Which widget answers this most directly?
a) Velocity/Throughput
b) Release Burnup
c) Iteration Planning Board
d) Scope Change for Work Items