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1. Push is when work is:

Expedited to meet a deadline.

Delayed until later.

Given to people.

Outsourced to a vendor.

2. How should iterations for an agile project be planned?

Throughout the project by using iteration reviews to continuously improve quality.

Iteratively by the product owner to ensure global optimization.

At the beginning of each iteration by pulling from product backlog.

At the retrospective meetings to ensure nothing is missed from one iteration to the next.

3. What are the eight principles of Disciplined Agile?

Customer Satisfaction, Market Awareness, Be Awesome, Pragmatism, Quick Decisions, Fail Fast, Choice is Good, Customer Satisfaction.

Delight Customers, Be Awesome, Pragmatism, Context Counts, Choice Good, Optimize Flow, Enterprise Awareness, Organize around products/services.

Customer Satisfaction, Market Awareness, Be Awesome, Pragmatism, Context Counts, Minimize Cost, Choice is Good, Use Logic.

Delight Customers, Be Awesome, Use Logic, Fail Fast, Enterprise Awareness, Optimize Process, Choice is Good, Organize around products/services.

4. Identify three principles of the Disciplined Agile mindset. (Choose three)

Delight customers.

Accelerate delivery.

Enterprise awareness.

Be a servant leader.

Be pragmatic.

5. Which is not a feature of a user story?

Testable

Estimable

Negotiable

Achievable

6. A team has completed the work in their iteration backlog earlier than expected. There still three days left of the iteration, what should the team do now?

Report the differences in completion time so the next iteration can be planned more efficiently.

Wait for the other groups to complete their work prior to doing anything else.

Work with the product owner to pull more work from the product backlog into their iteration backlog.

Work on noncritical tasks until the product owner can them more work.

7. What does a well-written user story describe?

A fixed outcome.

The expectations of the product owner.

The needs of all users.

The customers' perspective.

8. What is the definition of Disciplined Agile (DA)?

It is an approach that frequently assesses the change within an organization to ensure all associated projects, programs, and portfolios are aligned

It is a methodology that explores the various approaches to conducting agile and waterfall-based practices to project management.

It is an agile set of practices that promotes autonomy within a project management office.

It is a process-decision tool kit that provides straightforward guidance to help people, teams, and organizations to streamline their processes in a context-sensitive matter.

9. Which approach is described as an agnostic hybrid technique that draws upon many different Ideas?

Disciplined Agile

Lean

Iterative

Agile

10. When should an iteration backlog be created?

When planning the Kanban board or other pull method.

When defining the MBI (Minimum Business Increment).

At the beginning of each sprint.

At the beginning of each project.

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11. The concept of Lean was developed around eliminating the three types of deviations that shows inefficient allocation of?

Resources

Meetings

Data

Deadlines

12. Which artifact collects all the work flowing to the team?

Iteration backlog

Business backlog

Product backlog

Release roadmap

13. Which method extends the Kaizen loop strategy to help teams identify techniques that are likely to work in their context?

Guided continuous improvement

Cross-team learning

Explicit workflow policies

Communities Of practice

14. What are the three phases of DAD's delivery life cycle?

Inception, Construction, Transition.

Introduction, Substance. Alteration.

Initiation, Foundation, Conversion.

Commencement, Creation, Evolution.

15. What is the main role of the team lead?

Build the product

Coordinate the building of the product.

Ensure that the team builds the right product

Ensure that the team builds the product right

16. What is the role of the product owner?

Organize the product team

Inspect the product

Coordinate the product

Build the right product

17. Select two tactical scaling factors tut must considered when analyzing the team’s context. (Choose two)

Dynamics.

Best Practices.

Demographics.

Team Size.

Budget.

18. Which role on the delivery team builds the product right

Team Member

Product Owner

Team Lead

Architecture Owner

19. Which of the following roles would fall under that of a "specialist' on a Disciplined Agile Delivery Team?

Product Owner

Project Manager

Stakeholder

Business Analyst

20. Which characteristic describes a good user story according to the I.N.V.E.S.T. mnemonic?

Tangible

Valuable

Satisfactory

Incremental

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21. How does a value stream map help the team to minimize waste?

By helping the team to apply the Five Whys root cause method to all parts of the stream.

By helping the team to identify problem areas in the path for realizing value.

By helping the team to reduce delays in the workflow process.

By helping the team to focus on the construction phase.

22. Which of these tools or techniques should be used to sequence work to deliver value quickly?

Minimum business increment (MBI)

Minimum viable product (MVP)

Work in process (WIP) limits

Planning Poker

23. What are the three phases common across project life cycles? (Choose three)

Modulation

Transition

Construction

Inspiration

Inception

24. What is Epic?

Great way to visually work through the analysis of a high-level requirement or strategy.

A simple way to explore the entities and their relationships.

Large stories that take a lot of effort, often multiple iterations, to complete.

A collection of smaller user stories

25. What is the role of management in Lean?

Ensure documentation is completed

Provide minimum viable products to the team.

Create awesome team environments.

Ensure decisions are not made regionally

26. Why is the coordination meeting important for a project team?

It allows the stakeholders to see how well the team is working together.

It allows the team to reassess the backlog to meet their needs.

It provides a demo of the product to keep everyone up to date.

It provides an opportunity for the team to help itself stay in sync.

27. Which of the following process goals require most of the effort when tailoring your agile strategy? (Choose two)

Explore Scope

Align with Enterprise Direction

Improve Quality

Address Changing Stakeholder Needs

28. What are Disciplined Agile milestones based on?

Lean governance

Continuous integration

Documentation

Lifecycle

29. What goal diagrams should a team select first?

Goals that are most relevant to the team's context and life cycle.

The goals that are selected by the customer and stakeholders.

The goals in which the team has the least experience.

The goals that are the easiest to complete.

30. A company is introducing new features to a large, existing product.

Which technique should the product team employ?

Minimum business increment (MBI)

Continuous integration

Minimum viable product (MVP)

Pull system

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31. Why is the retrospective an important agile ceremony?

It prohibits stakeholders who attended the demo from giving additional requests to the team.

It allows the team time to focus on how they can better work together moving forward.

It provides the product owner with the opportunity to see how well the team works together.

It allows the team to organize the product backlog into categories which are meaningful to them.

32. What is the purpose of an Iteration retrospective?

To transfer knowledge and improvements to the next iteration.

To prioritize stories and concrete tasks for the next iteration.

To identify progress and to note encountered impediments.

To showcase what the team accomplished in an iteration.

33. Who defines the amount of work to be completed during an iteration?

The team members based on their understanding of the team's current capacity.

The quality tester based on their estimation of how much completed work can be tested.

The team lead who is responsible for ensuring that the work gets done.

The product owner based on their estimation of what should be done.

34. What are the benefits to having a long-live (stable) team?

Trustworthy

Projectized

Ability to multi-task

Specifically resourced

Highly collaborative

35. What are the three categories of process blades, according to Disciplined Agile (DA)? (Choose three)

Disciplined Project Management Office (PMO)

Disciplined Kanban

Disciplined DevOps

Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)

Disciplined Agile IT

36. What are two of the ways that Disciplined Agile provides a solid foundation for business agility? (Choose two)

Defines a framework for agility at scale.

Enforces adherence to organizational standards.

Describes the trade-offs associated with a range of options.

Creates awesome teams that foster joy.

Provides guidance to streamline processes in a context-sensitive manner.

37. What is the architecture owner responsible for?

Working cross-functionally to deliver the solution

Removing impediments

Mitigating key technical risks

Determining the priorities for the solution

38. The Kaizen feedback loop can summarized as:

Study, Act, React, Demo

Plan, Do, Study, Act

Plan, Implement, Demo, Study

Plan, Do, Monitor, Study

39. Which is a supporting role a Disciplined Agile (DA) team?

Architecture Owner

Stakeholder

Specialist

Team Lead

40. What is the Disciplined Agile principle of being pragmatic characterized by?

Identifying when to be agile.

Being as effective as you can and continuously improving.

Adapting lean methodologies when necessary.

Tailoring the organizational structure to the context.

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41. What are the attributes of a leader? (Choose three)

Assigns tasks

Goes with the flow

Inspires trust

Takes risks

Focuses on goals

42. A scrum master needs to set up a team for a long-term project that has the potential for significant budgeting and tracking overhead.

What type of team should the scrum master set up?

A project team

A long-standing team

A cross-functional team

A shared services team

43. The team lead notices that a team member is falling behind on their work.

What would a good Disciplined Agile team lead do?

Have a one-to-one meeting with the team member about their recent failures.

Redistribute the team member's work across the team to avoid embarrassing the team member.

Have a conversation with the team member to better understand what is getting in their way and look for solutions together.

Provide time management training to the team member.

44. Which of the following statements accurately describes a complex adaptive system?

A System in which a perfect understanding of the individual parts does not automatically convey a perfect understanding of the whole system's behavior.

The process used in agile teams to evolve their ways of working and motivate change in those they interact with outside or the team.

A system algorithm used to predict how people are going to work together or what the results of that work will be.

The process by which a collection of interacting teams and groups adapt their way of working to the organizational context and project requirements.

45. Which of the following is a primary role on a Disciplined Agile Delivery team?

Domain Expert

Architecture Owner

Integrator

Specialist

46. During which iterative ceremony should someone obtain feedback?

Iteration planning.

Retrospective.

Daily stand-up/coordination meeting.

Iteration demo.

47. A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a product with just enough features to satisfy early customers and?

Is not yet ready to be sold.

Provide feedback for future product development.

Is used for demonstration only.

Will be the last iteration of development.

48. Which phase of the project life cycle develops a consumable solution in a collaborative and incremental manner?

Inception

Execution

Construction

Transition

49. A team is about to begin work on a project that will face rapidly changing with releases only every six months or so. The team does not have an agile mindset, and does not want to release often.

Which lifecycle should the scrum master select?

Lean

Traditional

Program

Agile

50. In Team Estimation…

Members of a group define what criteria will be used for determining the "Definition of Done”.

You estimate what roles will be necessary in order to complete user stories.

You first estimate the relative sizes of all stories, then assign numbers to them.

Each team is ranked in order of importance for completing a task.

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51. Who is responsible for determinng the WoW for a Disciplined Agile team?

Customer

Architecture owner

Team lead

Team members

Product Owner

52. The primary purpose of creating a minimimally viable product (MVP) is to:

Create a marketable product complete with useful features

Finalize the product design through a series of experiments

Commit to continuous improvement by adding value

Establish the validity of a hypothesis by putting a prototype in front of customers

53. Guided Continuous Improvement is essential when:

The team finds itself in a method prison

There are no more improvement opportunities left to explore

The team is looking for help in identifying viable improvement options and avoid risky ones

The team cannot figure out improvement opportunities on their own

54. The lean life-cycle in Disciplined Agile need not follow timeboxed iterations

FALSE

TRUE

55. True or False: Enterprise awareness means trying to standardize the processes across all similar teams in the organization

FALSE

TRUE

56. True or False: Any step in the value stream that is not necessary for creating the product is waste

FALSE

TRUE

57. Which of the following is a process goal relevant to the construction phase of a project?

Prove architecture early

Develop test strategy

Form team

Explore scope

58. The primary function of the "Business Operations" process blade is:

To monitor and guide teams to remove any barriers that they may experience

To provide services to customers and support your products

To ensure cash flow in the organization ensuring that the money is spent well

To monitor the competitive landscape and come up with appropriate promotional strategies

59. True or False: Process goals are meant to prescribe how to achieve a particular objective for a team

FALSE

TRUE

60. Limiting the work-in-progress is an important factor in optimizing flow.

How does reducing work-in-progress help?

Respect the timebox

Create focus

Preventing priority changes

Pursue multiple goals at a time

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61. A senior management team is monitoring the work in various areas of the organization, providing guidance and resolving any escalated issues.

This is an example of which process blade?

Business Operations

Governance

Product management

Portfolio management

Finance

62. True or False: The FLOW view for Disciplined Agile means that there are no starts and stops in any DA project

TRUE

FALSE

63. Which of the following life-cycle models is based on continuous flow of work?

Continuous Delivery Agile

Exploratory

Lean

Waterfall

Agile

Program

64. Which of the following milestones represent a DA project moving from Construction to Transition stage?

Sufficient functionality

Stakeholder vision

Continued viability

Proven architecture

Production ready

65. A team decided to skip the daily standup meetings as they were co-located and meeting daily was not adding value. This is an example of:

Context counts

Choice is good

Being awesome

Enterprise awareness

66. True or False: In general, it is preferable to have long standing product teams rather than ad-hoc or project based teams

FALSE

TRUE

67. Which of the following is not one of the responsibilities of the architecture owner?

Work to improve the supportability of the product

Evaluate the team member's performance and administer rewards

Mentoring and coaching the team on technical practices

Work with the product owner to define the technical roadmap

Evolving the design and architecture for the product

68. Which process blade provides strategies to ensure successful interactions with the external world about your organization, products and offerings?

Product Management

Portfolio management

Marketing

Business Operations

Sales

69. Which life-cycle model is most suitable for running large product development efforts requiring team-of-teams?

Program

Exploratory

Kanban

Scrum

Agile

Lean

70. Which of the following is not one of the reasons that Disciplined Agile teams practice transparency?

Everybody knows what is happening

It improves team morale

It delays breaking bad news to customers

Customers appreciate and expect transparency

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71. A process blade is:

An organizational capability useful in solving problems

A cross-functional team that works on a process

A goal or vision for a particular process

A meeting to discuss and arrive at process choices in a context sensitive way

72. Which of the following is NOT an important part of improving the WoW for a team?

Do the best you can

Stick to a method once you discover it

Start where you are

Always try to get better

73. Which of the following is one of the 4 views of Disciplined Agile?

Technology

Enterprise

Mindset

Goals

74. True or False: All of the process choices presented in a goal diagram may not be viable in a given situation

FALSE

TRUE

75. A team working on a product grew from 8 to 12 team members. The Scrum master felt that they need to split into two scrum teams. After discussion, they decided to stick to one team as it was better for team cohesiveness and delivery. This is an example of:

Enterprise awareness

Being Awesome

Being pragmatic

Optimize for flow

Choice is good

76. Which of the following is not a role for the team lead in a Disciplined Agile team?

Helping the team evolve their WoW

Providing timely decisions on priority and product roadmap

Guiding the team through improvement actions

Helping the team collaborate

77. One of the differences between a MVP and a MBI is that:

MVP is a collection of MBI's

MBI is typically built incrementally on top of an existing product

MVP represents a product that is released to the customer

MBI is the initial release that is sent to the customer

78. What kind of metrics are favoured in Disciplined Agile projects according to the Disciplined agile manifesto and principles?

Subjective measures more than objective measures

Scalar measures over trend indicators

Individual measures over team measures

Automated measures helping to make data driven decisions

79. Lean governance practices involve all of the following except:

Regularly create business value

Empowering the team

Provide appropriate RoI

Directing the team with clear tasks

Present accurate and timely information

80. Which of the following is NOT a desirable practice in design thinking?

Make design choices early in the project

Be conscious about the constraints in the solution space

Being empathetic to the customers

Look for solutions appropriate for the situation

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81. Agile teams can deliver non-software projects as well

TRUE

FALSE

82. What is the primary advantage of working in an agile team?

Customers will not need to bother much due to self-organized teams

We can guarantee timely delivery of the product

We can specialize in an area of our choice

We can adjust quickly to changing customer needs

83. What may be NOT decided during the INCEPTION stage of a Disciplined Agile project?

Initial architecture

Deployment strategy

High level scope

Test strategy

84. DevOps refers to:

Automating the testing effort in the team

Using development team members to solve operational problems

Creating a smooth flow of work from development to operations

Involving operational teams in the development work

85. A team lead works very hard to get the team to collaborate and gel together as a unit. The team lead believes that teamwork will ultimately result in the best results for the business.

Which principle was applied by the hotel?

Optimize around products/services

Context counts

Choice is good

Be awesome

Delight customers

86. True or False: Disciplined agile projects try to maximise the work-in-progress so that it can get more work done

TRUE

FALSE

87. True or False: Delight customers as a principle means never to exceed expectations of the customers but to just about meet them

FALSE

TRUE

88. In Disciplined Agile, the daily huddle for a team is referred to as:

A Sprint review

A coordination meeting

A Scrum meeting

A daily meeting

89. Lean governance mindset includes all of the following except:

Leading by example

Promoting transparency

Being servant leaders

Learn continuously

Let the team manage the risks

90. Which of the following is a process goal in the Construction stage?

Develop test strategy

Ensure production readiness

Explore scope

Prove architecture early

Form team

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91. A team is trying to explore the purpose, the domain and the usage of a product.

Which process goal is being worked on?

Explore scope

Identify architecture strategy

Address changing stakeholder needs

Align with enterprise direction

92. True or False: Governance is not a critical issue in DA projects because most of the teams are self-organizing

FALSE

TRUE

93. A disciplined agile team will spend a considerable amount of time in the beginning to lock down the architecture and design of the product

TRUE

FALSE

94. The primary benefit of DevOps is that:

Decision to release can be taken by anybody in the team

Increased mean time between successive deployments

Reduced cost of deployments

Creating strong business justification for products

95. The following process goal usually requires a lot of tailoring:

Prove architecture early

Accelerate value delivery

Form team

Improve quality

96. True or False: To understand a complex adaptive system, the best way is to develop a perfect understanding of the individual parts

FALSE

TRUE

97. Governance in a DA project means all of the following except:

Administer rewards and recognition

Ensuring compliance with a regulatory standard

Complete freedom to the team to make decisions

Creating forums for sharing knowledge

Making decisions about funding

Having defined process for decision making

98. Who is ultimately accountable for the timely delivery of the product as committed?

Product owner

Gold user

Team members

Team lead

Architecture owner

99. The architecture of a product is usually proven in which phase of a project?

Inception

Elaboration

Transition

Construction

100. True or False: "Choice is good" as a principle means that the team must present multiple products to its customers and let them make the choice

FALSE

TRUE

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