The primary purpose of creating a minimally viable product (MVP) is to:
- A . Commit to continuous improvement by adding value
- B . Establish the validity of a hypothesis by putting a prototype in front of customers
- C . Finalize the product design through a series of experiments
- D . Create a marketable product complete with useful features
Which artifact collects all the work flowing to the team?
- A . Business backlog
- B . Iteration backlog
- C . Product backlog
- D . Release roadmap
DevOps refers to:
- A . Automating the testing effort in the team
- B . Creating a smooth flow of work from development to operations
- C . Involving operational teams in the development work
- D . Using development team members to solve operational problems
Usually the first step in deciding the team’s way of working is to:
- A . Connect the dots
- B . Analyze the context
- C . Make some initial choices
- D . Coach setting the stage
True or False: Fulfilling the requirements means that we delighted our customer
- A . True
- B . False
Which of the following is NOT a desirable practice in design thinking?
- A . Be conscious about the constraints in the solution space
- B . Being empathetic to the customers
- C . Look for solutions appropriate for the situation
- D . Make design choices early in the project
Which of the following is one of the process goals in the transition stage?
- A . Produce a potentially consumable solution
- B . Develop common vision
- C . Ensure production readiness
- D . Address risk
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?
- A . Be awesome
- B . Choice is good
- C . Context counts
- D . Optimize around products/services
- E . Delight customers
The principle "Organize around products/services" means that:
- A . Customers should be asked to pick from the available products or services
- B . Building dedicated cross-functional teams focused on customer offerings
- C . Project teams are best equipped to deliver products
What is Disciplined Agile (DA) best described as?
- A . A process-decision toolkit
- B . An Agile/Lean methodology
- C . A process-decision framework
- D . An Agile methodology
Which is a supporting role a Disciplined Agile (DA) team?
- A . Stakeholder
- B . Team Lead
- C . Specialist
- D . Architecture Owner
True or False: Disciplined agile projects try to maximize the work-in-progress so that it can get more work done
- A . True
- B . False
Why is the coordination meeting important for a project team?
- A . It provides a demo of the product to keep everyone up to date.
- B . It allows the stakeholders to see how well the team is working together.
- C . It allows the team to reassess the backlog to meet their needs.
- D . It provides an opportunity for the team to help itself stay in sync.
True or False: The FLOW view for Disciplined Agile means that there are no starts and stops in any DA project
- A . True
- B . False
An organization uses a lean startup model to quickly validate ideas and narrow down on candidate projects to pursue.
Which of the DA life-cycles would be most suitable for this setup?
- A . Continuous delivery Agile
- B . Agile
- C . Exploratory
- D . Lean
- E . Continuous Delivery Lean
- F . Program
Which of the following is NOT a tactical scaling factor for a team?
- A . Team size
- B . Geographic distribution
- C . Team maturity
- D . Organization distribution
What is the role of the product owner?
- A . Coordinate the product
- B . Organize the product team
- C . Inspect the product
- D . Build the right product
True or False: All the process goal diagrams need to be explored while determining the initial way of working.
- A . True
- B . False
The concept of Lean was developed around eliminating the three types of deviations that shows inefficient allocation of?
- A . Resources
- B . Meetings
- C . Deadlines
- D . Data
All of the following are key principles to keep in mind as the team chooses and evolves it’s
Way of Working (WoW) except:
- A . Pragmatism
- B . Delight customers
- C . Choice is good
- D . Context counts
What are two of the ways that Disciplined Agile provides a solid foundation for business agility?
- A . Enforces adherence to organizational standards.
- B . Provides guidance to streamline processes in a context-sensitive manner.
- C . Creates awesome teams that foster joy.
- D . Describes the trade-offs associated with a range of options.
- E . Defines a framework for agility at scale.
One of the differences between a MVP and a MBI is that:
- A . MVP is a collection of MBI’s
- B . MBI is the initial release that is sent to the customer
- C . MVP represents a product that is released to the customer
- D . MBI is typically built incrementally on top of an existing product
Which role on the delivery team builds the product right.
- A . Team Member
- B . Team Lead
- C . Product Owner
- D . Architecture Owner
The following process goal usually requires a lot of tailoring:
- A . Form team
- B . Prove architecture early
- C . Accelerate value delivery
- D . Improve quality
One of the important changes in the Finance processes in Agile teams is that:
- A . You will have less oversight over spending as teams are self-organized
- B . Teams will have a definite budget allocated and will manage to it
- C . The organization has to be structured around functions like Sales, Development, etc.
- D . You will not need to monitor cash flows to large extent
True or False: Enterprise awareness means trying to standardize the processes across all similar teams in the organization.
- A . True
- B . False
Which artifact collects all the work flowing to the team?
- A . Product backlog
- B . Business backlog
- C . Iteration backlog
- D . Release roadmap
A team is trying to explore the purpose, the domain and the usage of a product.
Which process goal is being worked on?
- A . Address changing stakeholder needs
- B . Align with enterprise direction
- C . Explore scope
- D . Identify architecture strategy
Which of the following life-cycle models is based on continuous flow of work?
- A . Continuous Delivery Agile
- B . Program
- C . Agile
- D . Lean
- E . Waterfall
- F . Exploratory
For an Agile or Lean project team, which best describes the aim of the Transition phase?
- A . The team tests the solution and trains end users in the new features of their consumable solution
- B . The team communicates the coming release to their stakeholders
- C . The team applies continuous deployment (practices and tools to automate deployment)
- D . The team ensures that a solution is ready to be released to their stakeholders and then releases it appropriately
Push is when work is:
- A . Delayed until later.
- B . Given to people.
- C . Expedited to meet a deadline.
- D . Outsourced to a vendor.
Your team wants to work in an Agile manner and has been asked to provide a cost estimate for the project even though management recognizes that the requirements will evolve overtime.
Which process goal is most likely to offer potential techniques to address this?
- A . Project Management
- B . Plan the Release
- C . Explore Scope
- D . Address Changing Stakeholder Needs
Your team is working on the new release of an existing solution and has discovered that it needs to pay down some existing technical debt.
Which process goal is most likely to offer potential techniques to address this?
- A . Evolve Way of Working (WoW)
- B . Address Risk
- C . Improve Quality
- D . Secure Funding
What may NOT be decided during the INCEPTION stage of a Disciplined Agile project?
- A . Test strategy
- B . Deployment strategy
- C . Initial architecture
- D . High level scope
Which of the following is false about the Business Operations process blade?
- A . It requires close collaboration with the Sales and Marketing process blades
- B . It involves strategies for providing services to the business
- C . The implementation of this blade will be standard across domains
- D . It should focus on delighting the customers
True or False: In general, it is preferable to have long standing product teams rather than ad-hoc or project based teams.
- A . True
- B . False
What is the role of the product owner?
- A . Build the right product
- B . Organize the product team
- C . Inspect the product
- D . Coordinate the product
True or False: Disciplined Agile roles cover all the possible roles in an organization
- A . True
- B . False
Which of the following is not one of the responsibilities of the architecture owner?
- A . Work with the product owner to define the technical roadmap
- B . Mentoring and coaching the team on technical practices
- C . Work to improve the supportability of the product
- D . Evaluate the team member’s performance and administer rewards
- E . Evolving the design and architecture for the product
The primary function of the "Business Operations" process blade is:
- A . To provide services to customers and support your products
- B . To monitor the competitive landscape and come up with appropriate promotional strategies
- C . To monitor and guide teams to remove any barriers that they may experience
- D . To ensure cash flow in the organization ensuring that the money is spent well
What goal diagrams should a team select first?
- A . The goals in which the team has the least experience.
- B . The goals that are selected by the customer and stakeholders.
- C . The goals that are the easiest to complete.
- D . Goals that are most relevant to the team’s context and life cycle.
True or False: It is OK if the team’s WoW is initially determined more by the enterprise guidelines or the recommendations of a coach.
- A . True
- B . False
Which of the following is a disadvantage of having a feature team as opposed to component teams?
- A . One team delivers a feature from top to bottom
- B . There are lesser hand-offs across teams
- C . Require cross-functional team members
- D . There is a temptation to build everything from scratch
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:
- A . Enterprise awareness
- B . Being pragmatic
- C . Optimize for flow
- D . Being Awesome
- E . Choice is good
Your organization wants to set up mechanisms so that teams can share their learnings with other teams.
Which process blade is most likely to offer potential techniques to address this?
- A . Support
- B . Continuous Improvement
- C . Governance
- D . Portfolio Management
What is the role of management in Lean?
- A . Ensure documentation is completed
- B . Provide minimum viable products to the team.
- C . Create awesome team environments.
- D . Ensure decisions are not made regionally
True or False: On an Agile team, the team members accept or reject their own work at the iteration demo
- A . True
- B . False
Which of the following is the least suitable way to adopt disciplined agile delivery (DAD)?
- A . Use any of the prescribed methods and follow to the letter
- B . Take advise from the Choose your WoW book
- C . Start with DAD
- D . Work with an experienced coach
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:
- A . Being awesome
- B . Enterprise awareness
- C . Context counts
- D . Choice is good
Which method extends the Kaizen loop strategy to help teams identify techniques that are likely to work in their context?
- A . Cross-team learning
- B . Guided continuous improvement
- C . Explicit workflow policies
- D . Communities Of practice
Which characteristic describes a good user story according to the I.N.V.E.S.T. mnemonic?
- A . Incremental
- B . Valuable
- C . Tangible
- D . Satisfactory
What is the primary advantage of working in an agile team?
- A . We can guarantee timely delivery of the product
- B . We can specialize in an area of our choice
- C . We can adjust quickly to changing customer needs
- D . Customers will not need to bother much due to self-organized teams
Which process blade provides strategies to ensure successful interactions with the external world about your organization, products and offerings?
- A . Portfolio management
- B . Product Management
- C . Sales
- D . Business Operations
- E . Marketing
What is a "definition of done"?
- A . A checklist that tells the team when they can consider the user story done
- B . A checklist that tells the team when they are done with the iteration
- C . A checklist that tells the team when they are done estimating user stories
What are the three categories of process blades, according to Disciplined Agile (DA)? (Choose three)
- A . Disciplined Project Management Office (PMO)
- B . Disciplined Kanban
- C . Disciplined DevOps
- D . Disciplined Agile IT
- E . Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)
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
- A . True
- B . False
Which of these tools or techniques should be used to sequence work to deliver value quickly?
- A . Planning Poker
- B . Minimum business increment (MBI)
- C . Work in process (WIP) limits
- D . Minimum viable product (MVP)
Which of the following process goals require most of the effort when tailoring your agile strategy? (Choose two)
- A . Improve Quality
- B . Align with Enterprise Direction
- C . Explore Scope
- D . Address Changing Stakeholder Needs
Which of the following is a process goal in the Construction stage?
- A . Explore scope
- B . Develop test strategy
- C . Prove architecture early
- D . Form team
- E . Ensure production readiness
The architecture of a product is usually proven in which phase of a project?
- A . Elaboration
- B . Construction
- C . Inception
- D . Transition
What are two of the ways that Disciplined Agile provides a solid foundation for business agility?
- A . Creates awesome teams that foster joy.
- B . Defines a framework for agility at scale.
- C . Enforces adherence to organizational standards.
- D . Describes the trade-offs associated with a range of options.
True or False: Any change or improvement in the process is likely to plateau unless efforts are put into constantly reviewing and revising it.
- A . True
- B . False
Which of the following is an advantage of a project team as opposed to long standing product teams?
- A . Greater motivation to learn and evolve the WoW
- B . Greater focus on delivery and short term goals
- C . Creates a long term focus
- D . Brings work to the team rather than team to the work
What is the main role of the team lead?
- A . Ensure that the team builds the product right
- B . Ensure that the team builds the right product
- C . Build the product
- D . Coordinate the building of the product.
Which of the following is one of the 4 views of Disciplined Agile?
- A . Mindset
- B . Enterprise
- C . Technology
- D . Goals
Which is not a feature of a user story?
- A . Achievable
- B . Estimable
- C . Testable
- D . Negotiable
Which of the following is not a role for the team lead in a Disciplined Agile team?
- A . Guiding the team through improvement actions
- B . Helping the team collaborate
- C . Providing timely decisions on priority and product roadmap
- D . Helping the team evolve their WoW
Using Lean thinking, we should be managing
- A . The value stream
- B . Each step of the work
- C . Our people
- D . By letting people figure out what they need to do
Which of the following milestones represent a DA project moving from Construction to Transition stage?
- A . Production ready
- B . Sufficient functionality
- C . Proven architecture
- D . Continued viability
- E . Stakeholder vision
True or False: Delight customers as a principle means never to exceed expectations of the customers but to just about meet them
- A . True
- B . False