DASSM Practice Exam 1 - Results

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Question 1: Incorrect
Jane has worked as a business analyst on various teams. She asked the team
lead that unit testing should not be part of her role in the current team that is
formed to develop a web-based application. The team is at a stage of
 Norming
 Storming
(Correct)
 Forming
(Incorrect)
 Performing
Explanation
The team is at the stage of storming where people show their individuality and
raise concerns arise about the team hierarchy and role and responsibilities.
Question 2: Correct
Kate has recently stepped up as a senior Scrum Master after facilitating agile
practices for a team of developers for several years. Her role includes
 Work in situations with complex scaling factors and variations

(Correct)
 Make high-level business decisions for the team
 Work only at Disciplined Agile Delivery layer
 do planning, creating metrics, and reporting team performance to
the product owner

Explanation
A DASSM is qualified to work in a variety of situations, with more complex scaling
factors and variations.
Question 3: Correct
The role of a senior scrum master, while working with team members, includes
all except following
 Helps the team focus on creating high-value increments that meet
the definition of done.

 Helps remove impediments to the team's progress

 Helps team members to find techniques for effective product goal
definition and backlog management

(Correct)
 Coaches team members in self-management and cross-
functionality

Explanation
A DASSM helps the product owner, NOT the team, to find techniques for effective
product goal definition and backlog management.
Question 4: Correct
During the storming stage, the team didn’t involve one of the team members in
a meeting to finalise the test strategies who had a different perspective on it to
get an agreement on test strategies
 Sometimes, a few of the team members can be missed to swiftly
pass from the storming stage
 As long as there is an agreement between the rest of the team
members, it’s fine.
 The team lead should ensure that decision are made while
considering the opinion of the missing team member
(Correct)
 This was a wise decision and helped the team to reach an
agreement quickly
Explanation
If team members are not asked for their opinions, the team runs the risk of
alienating certain members or even missing an important perspective that could
help avoid pitfalls later in the project.
Question 5: Incorrect
A servant leader showed emotional intelligence as he managed his emotions
when deadlines were tight and supported others when conflicts arise. Following
is an attribute of emotional intelligence professional.
 Is always optimistic
 Builds relationships
(Correct)
 Shows happiness at a critical time
 Always remain calm
(Incorrect)
Explanation
An emotionally intelligent leader builds relationships and inspires others. All
others are different personality traits and are not part of emotional intelligence.
Question 6: Correct
A team during the storming stage of the Bruce Tuckman model is called.
 Potential team.
 Skilled team.
 Pseudo team.
(Correct)
 Working group.
Explanation
During the storming stage, the team is just a pseudo team.
Question 7: Correct
A team during the forming stage of the Bruce Tuckman model is also called.
 Highly performing team.
 Pseudo team.
 Working group.
(Correct)
 Potential team.
Explanation
When a team is just formed. It is also called a working group.
Question 8: Correct
Pete is reluctant to install some key updates to a testing tool as he didn’t install it
in the first place and thinks that this task must be completed by the same team
member who initially was given the task. He is a part of the team that is at the
stage of
 Performing
 Storming
(Correct)
  Norming
 Forming
Explanation
The team is at the stage of storming. At this stage Team members resist task
demands. They also look for the reasons not to do it.
Question 9: Correct
Which of the following statement is correct: Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability.
 To learn and relearn.
 To relearn only.
 To learn, unlearn and relearn.
(Correct)
 To learn only.
Explanation
Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to learn, unlearn and re-learn. When we
learn something new, our brains form new pathways and connections. Once we
build stronger, healthier thought circuits, our old negative ones fade away.
Question 10: Incorrect
The purpose of a value stream layer is to break the silos between development
team and other areas in the organization
 True
(Incorrect)
 False
(Correct)
Explanation
False: Value stream helps to organize teams around products or product lines,
visualizes the full workflow, allowing improvements while maintaining an
enterprise perspective.

Question 11: Correct

Julie is a part of a team that is using the DA toolkit for their solution delivery. She
contacted her previous teammates to get advice either they should perform
“daily stand-ups” or not. The team is at the stage of
 Performing
 Forming
(Correct)
 Storming
 Norming
Explanation
At forming stage, team members may look outside the team for guidance and
direction.
Question 12: Correct
Team members showed great politeness in a retrospective and didn’t share their
thoughts when one of the team members said that he knows how to reduce risks
in a project and can manage them by himself. In which stage of team
development are they?
 Storming
 Norming
 Forming
(Correct)
 Performing
Explanation
At forming stage, team members may be overly polite and can be reluctant to
share their thoughts during retrospectives or other problem-solving activities.
Question 13: Correct
How will someone who is low in assertiveness and great in collaboration deal
with conflict as per the Thomas-Killman conflict model?
  Collaborate
 Avoid
 Accommodate
(Correct)
 Compromise
Explanation
The correct answer is D. Person with low assertiveness and great collaboration
will deal with conflict by accommodating others.
Question 14: Correct
Following are the quadrants of the emotional intelligence model except.
 Self-Management.
 Social Awareness.
 Social Skills.
 Self-skills.
(Correct)
Explanation
Self-Awareness is the fourth quadrant but not Self-skills.
Question 15: Correct
A team is working on a new product where many requirements are expected to
be evolved over period of time due to uncertainty and complexity of the domain
and use of a new technology. Which release planning strategy should be applied
by the team?
 High level plan
 Detailed release plan
 Annual release plan
 Rolling wave release plan
(Correct)
Explanation
The correct answer is D. Rolling wave release planning should be done when
requirements are flexible and uncertain.
Question 16: Correct
The team evolved to an Agile- Continuous delivery life cycle and adding business
value daily, however, the team lead has provided little or no support to the team
except regularly reminding the team about the product vision.

In what phase of development is the team?

 Forming
 Storming
 Norming
 Performing
(Correct)
Explanation
During the performing stage, the team become highly productive. During this
stage, the team leader needs not interrupt and delegate most of the work to a
self-organized and motivated team.
Question 17: Correct
Daniel Goleman described emotional intelligence in terms of
 Two main components.
 Four main components.
 None of the above.
 Five main components.
(Correct)
Explanation
Daniel Goleman described emotional intelligence in terms of five main
components:

Emotional self-awareness, Self-regulation, Motivation, Empathy, Social skills.

Question 18: Correct

A DA Senior Scrum Master or team lead helps the product owner to find
techniques for effective product goal definition and backlog management. He
can also help the team to understand the need for clear and concise backlog
items (user stories and others).
 Yes, he can lead, train, coaches and assists the organization and
its different departments in agile adoption only however
implementation requires a dedicated Scrum Master.
 Yes, he can assist the organization and its different departments
in their agile adoption and implementation.

(Correct)
 He needs the guidance for an enterprise-level agile coach to work
with the marketing team.
 No, he should only focus on his team to effectively deliver a
solution.

Explanation
A DA Senior Scrum Master assists the organization in its agile adoption but also
Plans advises and assists agile implementation within the organization.
Question 19: Correct
The team members agreed to adopt Test Driven Development (TDD) instead of
Test First Development (TFD) during the retrospective of sprint 0. The Scrum
master supported and proactively taken part to ensure that retrospective is run
properly by the team members

In what phase of development is the team?

 Norming
(Correct)
 Forming
 Storming
 Performing
Explanation
During the norming stage, Scrum Master demonstrates support and active
participation to realize the team their full potential.
Question 20: Correct
Following are the examples of self-management except.
 Adaptability.
 Drive and motivation.
 Self-control.
 Self-confidence.
(Correct)
Explanation
Self-confidence is an example of self-awareness.
Question 21: Correct
Most of the teams look strong on paper but they underperform because they
focus more on the following issue than others
 Skills
 Content
 (Correct)
 Process
 Feelings
Explanation
Most teams concentrate almost exclusively on content, as a detriment of process
and feelings, which explains why teams that are strong on paper can under-
perform.
Question 22: Correct
During the product demo, the client and all other stakeholders unanimously
approved the work and confirm that funds will be released straight away. Later,
the Team lead received an email from the client that funds will not be approved
because work was not of quality. The team lead wrote a confronting email to
question the decision, but later she paused and put the email in the draft and
went for a coffee break. She demonstrated the following attribute.
 Conscientiousness.
 Self-control.
(Correct)
 Adaptability.
 Drive and motivation.
Explanation
Self-control is the ability to act responsibly alongside your emotions. You can use
techniques such as Pause and think before giving an extreme reaction.
Question 23: Correct
Emotional intelligence has following pillar(s) or dimension(s).
 “Self and Recognize” and “Others and Regulate”
 All of the above
 “Self and Regulate” and “Others and recognize”
 “Self and Others” and “Recognize and Regulate”
(Correct)
Explanation
“Self and Others” and “Recognize and Regulate” are two pillars of EI as per the
blended model, developed based on the views of psychologists Daniel Goleman
and Reuven Bar-On.
Question 24: Correct
Devops practices can be accelerated by adopting an infrastructure as code (IaC)
strategy.
 False
 True
(Correct)
Explanation
Correct answer is A (TRUE). A key component of any DevOps strategy is
automation of operational functionality to monitor and control running systems.
In combination with automating your continuous integration (CI)/continuous
deployment (CD) pipeline, this is often referred to as an “infrastructure as code”
strategy. It helps in value delivery and accelerate Devops practices.

Question 25: Correct

A team during the performing stage of the Bruce Tuckman model is called.
 Potential team.
 Expert team.
 Working group.
 None of the above.
(Correct)
Explanation
During the performing stage, the team has become a high performing team. It
doesn’t mean that it has become a team of experts.
Question 26: Correct
Which measurement strategy is fit-for-purpose approach to metrics focused on
outcomes and helps team to identify to their own objective.
 OKRs
(Correct)
 Popular metrics
 GQM
 Team Velocity
Explanation
Correct answer is D( OKRs) . OKRs are used by teams to define their objectives
and how they will reach those objectives.
Question 27: Correct
A DA senior scrum master is helping the team to understand one of the user
stories for the next sprint
Yourbacklog planning
Product manager handed over the Product and
Definition of Done? Can you use it?
estimation
scope document to be used as a in the absence of the
product owner. What is true about this statement?
 The team is self-organized and don’t need help from Scrum Master
during iteration backlog planning and estimation.
 It’s a product owner who can help the team to understand the
need for clear and concise user stories.

 He can only do this in the presence of the Product owner who is

the owner of the backlog

 He is doing right because a DASSM can help the team understand

the need for clear and concise backlog items

(Correct)
Explanation
A DA Senior Scrum Master or team lead helps the product owner to find
techniques for effective product goal definition and backlog management. He
can also help the team to understand the need for clear and concise backlog
items (user stories and others).
Question 28: Correct
Your Product manager handed over the Product scope document to be used as a
Definition of Done? Can you use it?
 False
(Correct)
 True
Explanation
False: The Acceptance criteria of completion plus other quality requirements can
be used to begin with as Definition of Done (DoD)

Question 29: Correct

The team leader always put the product vision statement on the task board to
keep team members motivated by keeping the end goal in mind. This is an
example of
 Self-awareness
 Self-management
 Social skills
(Correct)
 Social awareness
Explanation
Create drive and motivation is an example of Social skills.
Question 30: Correct
You can exhibit better self-management skills if you have.
 Social awareness.
 Self-awareness.
(Correct)
 Social skills.
 You can build self-management skills anyway.
Explanation
Once you are aware of emotions, you can handle and manage them productively
and healthily.
Question 31: Incorrect
A disciplined agile delivery team has conducted a very effective workshop to
write user stories. The team has seen improvement as compared to their last
meeting. A variety of technical issues are resolved and acceptance criteria for
each story are written with some support from the team leader. They
acknowledged that team working agreement developed at the start of the week
was very helpful in organising such a good workshop.

In what phase of development is the team?

 Performing
(Incorrect)
 Forming
 Storming
 Norming
(Correct)
Explanation
During the norming stage, the team isn’t quite at the high-performing stage, but
some of the issues are being worked out within the group and good things are
starting to happen.
Question 32: Correct
Following are the key attributes of an emotionally intelligent team leader except.
 Acknowledge others.
 Happy and calm.
(Correct)
 Intelligently manage emotions in a positive and constructive way.
 Show empathy.
Explanation
Acknowledge, and intelligently manage your emotions positively and
constructively, and showing empathy are examples of emotional intelligence.
However, happiness and calmness are different personality traits.
Question 33: Correct
A team charter is formed with consensus to help a smooth transition from one
stage of team development to the next. Team charter helps.
 The transition from Norming to Performing
 The transition from Storming to Norming
(Correct)
 The transition from Norming to Storming
 The transition from Forming to Storming
Explanation
Something that might help project teams accelerate through the storming stage
to norming stage is creating internal and external working agreements that all
members agree to.
Question 34: Correct
Kate is a senior DA team member with a strong background in testing. She has
been given responsibilities of a team lead to interacting with and serving the
core team and an independent tester for a release that requires detailed
exploratory tests. Will she be effective in serving the team to be successful
because
 She is a generalising specialist and will have superior people
skills.
 She might not be successful if she does not have superior people
skills

(Correct)
 She got a good testing background and will ensure that
exploratory tests are done appropriately.

 She is very senior and knows the project quality requirements

inside out therefore she will be successful.

Explanation
DA Senior Scrum Master or team lead is the one and who interact and serve the
team and other support roles such as independent testers. DASSM role needs
superior people skills to be effective. In absence of these skills, they may not be
able to perform the role appropriately. All other options are not compulsory for a
Team Lead role.
Question 35: Correct
A senior Team leader participates in several enterprise-level activities in different
departments and divisions. Is it the right approach for him?
 The team leader can identify allies and coordinate with other
teams to improve the value stream

(Correct)
 The team leader can only work with the IT operations team as a
part of DA DevOps

 Team lead scope of work includes at DA foundation and DevOps

layers only.
 The team leader should focus on his DAD teamwork and should not
attend other departments’ activities

Explanation
The team lead can identify allies and coordinate with other teams to improve the
value stream.
Question 36: Correct
Grace is a part of a long-standing product team and is fantabulous at writing unit
and functional tests. Her team members asked her for help in conducting
exploratory testing as one of the team members is away. She promised to learn
and do it. Later she found out this type of testing is very unique and she needs to
take weeknight training to learn it. It is proven very tough, however, she learnt
and successfully conducted the exploratory testing of the product. She
demonstrated the following attribute.
 Drive and motivation
 Self-control.
 Conscientiousness.
(Correct)
 Adaptability.
Explanation
Conscientiousness is a skill that helps you to focus on the end goal, keep your
commitments, be trustworthy, and avoid distractions.
Question 37: Correct
Emotional Intelligence is important for team performance because of all of the
following except.
 Foster an environment of open and transparent communication.
 You provide support to provide team members with what they
need to be successful.
 You show skills of agreeableness with other team members.
(Correct)
 You know how to manage your emotions in a positive and
constructive way.
Explanation
Emotional intelligence doesn't mean agreeableness with counterparts.
Question 38: Correct
Following is one issue that is not as vital as others in determining how well teams
perform:
 Feelings
 Content
 Process
 Team members Skills
(Correct)
Explanation
According to Bruce Tuckman that three issues determine how well teams
perform: 1) Content relates to what the team does, 2) Process relates to how the
team works towards its objectives, 3) Feelings applies to how team members
relate to one another.
Question 39: Correct
What is not correct about Emotional Quotient and/or Intelligence Quotient?
 IQ needs not to improve as you become more experienced.
 EQ will improve with time.
(Correct)
 EQ develops in early adult age and throughout life through
learning and practice.
 IQ peaks in early adult age.
Explanation
EQ improves with time if we work on it deliberately otherwise it doesn’t improve
without learning and practice. This is also called Neuroplasticity.
Question 40: Correct
A DA coach asked team members to review the need for SCRUM ceremonies,
being conducted in the project from the last six sprints. He told the team that
only those ceremonies should be conducted who has the following features
except?
 Productive
 Positive

 Within time box

 Attended by all the team members

(Correct)
Explanation
Not all the team members need to attend all the ceremonies.
Question 41: Correct
You are a part of a self-organizing team. How does self-organisation help your
team to plan a release?
  Helps to produce a realistic plan that is acceptable to all the
stakeholders.
(Correct)
 Helps to avoid the need for a facilitator because the team runs
itself.
 Helps to select a technique with a low-cost option as fewer team
members are involved
 Helps to Produce a plan that is acceptable to senior management
Explanation
Self-organization helps to produce a realistic plan that is acceptable to all the
stakeholders.
Question 42: Correct
A team decided to use roman voting because of its advantages. One of the
following is not the advantage of roman voting.
 It provides the opportunity for decision refinement.
(Correct)
 It is easy to implement.
 It helps in making a decision quickly
 It doesn’t need a tool to make decisions.
Explanation
Simple/Roman voting “For” or “Against” by a show of hands is easy, but it misses
the opportunity for decision refinement. It strives for a result too quickly and can
miss a better alternative.
Question 43: Correct
A Product Manager joined a project as a replacement on a team. During initial
meetings, the Product Manager realized there are many differing opinions about
how to address technical decisions. Team members do not respect each other's
ideas, and the environment is becoming counterproductive. However, the team
developed processes and procedures.

In what phase of development is the team?

 Forming
 Performing
 Storming
(Correct)
 Norming
Explanation
During Storming, the team begins to address the project work, technical
decisions, and the project management approach. If team members are not
collaborative or open to differing ideas and perspectives, the environment can
become counterproductive.
Question 44: Correct
During retrospectives, Melissa built negative emotions about one of the team
members. Later, she channelled her negative emotions towards more positive by
looking inwardly and understanding her emotions. She demonstrated.
 Emotional self-awareness.
(Correct)
 Accurate self-assessment.
 Social skills.
 Social awareness.
Explanation
She demonstrated emotional self-awareness that is a part of the self-awareness
quadrant of EI.
Question 45: Correct
A DA coach told her team choosing a new way of working for an artificial
intelligence-based product that Emotional intelligence is essential and the best
predictor of success in life. What is true about this statement?
 DA coach is wrong because EI is essential but IQ the best
predictor.
 DA coach is wrong because EI is important but not the best and
essential predictor of success.
(Correct)
 DA coach is right and Emotional Intelligence is essential and the
best predictor of success.
 DA coach is wrong because EI is best but IQ is the essential
predictor.
Explanation
It’s a misconception about EI that it is the best and essential predictor of success
in life. However, EI is important along with IQ and many other personality traits.
Question 46: Correct
George worked as a business analyst with several agile teams and has built
some testing skills. He is now part of the project team as a full-time tester. The
project team is large and George is afraid that he might not do the testing job
and it will be a shame in front of a large team. He is showing.
 Lack of adaptability.
 Imposter syndrome.
(Correct)
 Lack of Accurate self-assessment.
 Lack of emotional Self-awareness.
Explanation
Imposter syndrome is getting no confidence in your skills and worrying about
what others think of you.
Question 47: Correct
The disciplined agile team has evolved to a continuous life cycle using a lean
approach and delivering business increments on regular basis. The business
stakeholders are highly satisfied, but the team leader came to know that Grace,
one of the team member, is losing interest in her work. He discussed the matter
in the sprint retrospective and the team agreed that Grace should do something
different in the upcoming iteration.

In what phase of development is the team?

 Forming
 Performing
(Correct)
 Norming
 Storming
Explanation
The team doesn’t need much at this stage, but the team needs to make sure the
team stays intact and motivated. Fostering enthusiasm and giving challenging
work is a wise practice at this stage.
Question 48: Correct
A team leader has put together a project team. During initial meetings, the team
leader observes that team members are getting to know each other, feeling
excited and positive about the project, and have not been told the specific
details of the project.

In what phase of development is the team?

  Norming
 Performing
 Forming
(Correct)
 Storming
Explanation
The Forming phase is where the team members meet and learn about the project
and their formal roles and responsibilities. Team members tend to be
independent and not as open in this phase.
Question 49: Incorrect
Claire sought support from the team lead when she observed that she is not
liking that she is working on more user stories than her colleagues. The team
leader asked her to stop comparing with others, and hold firm to her ambitions.
She did accordingly, hence demonstrated.
 Social skills.
 Accurate self-assessment.
(Correct)
 Social awareness.
 Emotional self-awareness.
(Incorrect)
Explanation
By seeking support, she wants to do an accurate self-assessment that is part of
the self-awareness quadrant of emotional intelligence.
Question 50: Incorrect
A team decided to use thumbs up, down, or sideways voting. One of the
following is not the advantage of this type of voting.
 It doesn’t need a tool and is easy to implement.
 It helps in making a decision quickly.
 It provides a wide range of agreement and disagreement options.
(Correct)
 It provides the opportunity for decision refinement.
(Incorrect)
Explanation
Though this technique provides some opportunity to refine decision by asking
the persons with thumb side-ways why they could not make up their mind,
however, the range is not wide enough.
Question 51: Correct
During decision making, the ‘Fist of five’ method is used for the first time by the
team. Two team member showed their fist. What’s the meaning of showing fist?
 Showing Fist means they are totally against the decision
 Different teams use the ‘fist of five’ method differently.
(Correct)
 Showing first means undeterred support for the decision
 Showing first means they are indecisive
Explanation
Different teams use the ‘fist of five’ method differently. The team should first
decide what the meaning of each sign is.
Question 52: Correct
One of the team members is trying her best to define the work that needs to be
done by the team while sitting in a separate room. She is a part of a team that is
at the stage of
 Storming
 Performing
 Forming
(Correct)
  Norming
Explanation
At forming stage, team members may be attempting on their own to define the
job to be done without interacting or discussing with other team members.
Question 53: Correct
A team during the norming stage of the Bruce Tuckman model is called.
 Pseudo team.
 Potential team.
(Correct)
 Working group.
 Skilled team.
Explanation
During the norming stage, the team has become a potential team.
Question 54: Correct
Peter has shown self-confidence and trusted in his knowledge and abilities
throughout the difficult times in a project. This trait is an example of which
quadrant of emotional intelligence.
 Self-awareness.
(Correct)
 Social skills.
 Social awareness.
 Self-management.
Explanation
Self-confidence is an example of Self-awareness.
Question 55: Correct
Following is an example of tactical scaling factor (for scaling agile at team
level) ?
 Time to Market
 Program Teams
 Funding Model
 Technical Complexity
(Correct)
Explanation
Correct answer is: C. Technical complexity is one example of tactical scaling
factor.
Question 56: Incorrect
You are using TDD that is a combination of test-first programming to add any
new functionality and refactoring to improve the quality of existing functionality.
What is preferred way to capture benefits of TDD?
 Opportunity cost
 Cost of Delay
 Business Case
(Incorrect)
 Expected Outcomes
(Correct)
Explanation
Correct answer is Expected Outcomes that helps to realize the benefits of TDD.
Question 57: Correct
Which of the following is NOT emotional intelligence domain?
 Problem solving skills
(Correct)
 Self Management
 Social Awareness
 Social Skills
Explanation
The correct answer is C. Problem solving skills is not the part of Emotional
intelligence quadrants
Question 58: Correct
Maria and Lisa were working as business analyst and tester respectively on a
Scrum lifecycle-based project. Maria got a senior role in a very good organisation
and moved on. Lisa was asked by the team to take over Maria’s role immediately
because of changing stakeholder requirements. What Lisa should do.
 Show self-control and wait to respond as she is upset because of
the situation.
 Show conscientiousness and focus on her current role and avoid
distractions.
 Stay on course because testing work is her passion and drives her
motivation.
 Adapt and pivot and adjust to the situation and take on new
responsibility.
(Correct)
Explanation
Adaptability is the ability to be flexible, change the approach when warranted,
and adjust to new situations as they arise. You should be willing to pivot and
adjust to new situations and take on new responsibilities if asked. The question
doesn’t’ tell Lisa is upset and loves her own speciality only.
Question 59: Incorrect
Karan is the team lead that is exploring Artificial Intelligence tools for
implementing a state of the art application to record minutes of meeting and
convert the speech into text. He has to direct team members on several
technical and interpersonal issues. At which stage the team is at
 Performing
 Norming
 Storming
(Incorrect)
 Forming
(Correct)
Explanation
DASSM/ team lead should direct and guide team members in the forming stage
on technical and interpersonal issues.
Question 60: Correct
Gareth is a DA coach and he is doing a lot of coaching and conflict resolutions in
the team who is confused in defining the structure of user stories and their
acceptance criteria. His team is at the stage of
 Norming
 Performing
 Storming
(Correct)
 Forming
Explanation
A DA coach should demonstrate coaching, conflict management and decision
making skills during the storming stage to help the team in defining user stories
and their acceptance criteria.
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Attempt 4
All questions
Question 1: Correct
Which level of scope looks at a short and detailed view for planning?
 Iteration

(Correct)

 Solution
 Release
 Daily
Explanation
Correct answer is A Iteration Planning where we do planning for 1-to 4 weeks
(short) but in details.
Question 2: Correct
The DA-lean life cycle is flow-based whereas Agile lifecycle requires time boxing.
 FALSE: It’s not compulsory and can be either way.
 TRUE: Yes Lean doesn’t require iterations and agile is based on
sprints.

(Correct)

Explanation
Agile based life cycles are time-boxed and iterative and the Lean life cycle has a
continuous flow of work. Bottom of Form
Question 3: Correct
DA’s goal-driven approach helps to do work fantastically by providing the
flexibility to experiment and discover the team’s way of working so that an
amazing team can be formed and evolved for better outcomes. This is an
example of
 Delighted customers because we provide them with a continuous
value.
 Enterprise awareness, because it requires the team to build and
evolve.
 Context counts therefore we just need to discover our way of
working.
 Be awesome so that we should be good at what we do.

(Correct)

Explanation
This option is more relevant with the scenario that talks about building and
evolving a team of awesome members.
Question 4: Correct
A team is continuously adding new features to the product to make it useful for
diverse markets. One of the team members said that this MVP will be released
after two iterations. The DA coach corrected the team member that the MVP is
defined as
  It runs as experiments to determine what potential customers
want.

(Correct)

 It contains minimal marketable features.

 It is a marketable product.
 It adds a minimum business increment (MBI).
Explanation
MVP establish the validity of a hypothesis by putting a prototype in front of
customers. This is not for customers but for business to confirm that their idea is
sellable.
Question 5: Correct
A team is working to find out the best strategy for streamlined deployment,
configuration management, and quality assurance in consultation with relevant
stakeholders, such as operations engineers and release managers. This process
goal is called
 Improve quality.
 Accelerate value delivery.

(Correct)

 Choose your wow.

 Coordinate release Plans.
Explanation
Accelerate value delivery is one of the process goals that encompass critical
decision points around deployment, configuration management, and quality
assurance.
Question 6: Correct
A DA Team is developing a consumable solution as per the vision of stakeholders
and are in their first iteration. What process goals could they be in?
 Prove architecture early.

(Correct)

 Develop a common vision.

 Form team.
 Align with enterprise direction.
Explanation
The team will be proving the architecture that is part of the construction phase
and all other process goals are from the inception phase.
Question 7: Correct
A DA team strive to work in an enterprise aware manner and follow appropriate
conventions and controls to streamline the interactions with others in the
organization. Enterprise awareness:
 Can help in becoming an awesome team in the whole organization.
 Can help the team to organise around products and services.
 Can help to understand the technical and business strategies,
relevant to a team situation.

(Correct)

 Can help to standardize the processes across all the teams in the
organization.
Explanation
Enterprise awareness can help us to understand the technical and business
strategies, relevant to a team situation.
Question 8: Correct
A product team is not allowed to have more than nine members and must sit in a
co-located fashion and they never kept part-time team members. This is an
example of:
 Pure Agile team.

(Correct)

 An awesome team.
 This Choice is good.
 Pragmatic team.
Explanation
This example is of the pure agile team. DA promotes Pragmatism over purist
approaches.
Question 9: Correct
A team member recommended that they should understand DA process goals
well before hiring missing team members. Which statement is correct?
 When a team has a good idea about process goals, they can do a
better staffing plan.

(Correct)

 None of the above.

 Process goals provide options about how to achieve a particular
objective, not staffing.
 Process goals provide options for product delivery but not for
human resource management hence it’s needed.
Explanation
When a team has a good idea about process goals such as the scope of the
endeavour, the architectural strategy, and the process the team will be following,
you can do a better staffing plan.
Question 10: Correct
An agile consultant asked senior management to help in motivating team
members to demonstrate “radical transparency” by putting their work in
progress on an information radiator. He commented that it will help the
organization in the following except:
 Increase team collaboration.
 Assess team members’ performance.

(Correct)

 Identify and remove the bottlenecks.

 Help in lean governance.
Explanation
Transparency using information radiator is not meant to assess team members’
performance.
Question 11: Correct
The DA team is demonstrating the evidence of Proven Architecture because:
 Proven Architecture is prioritised by the product owner.
 Proven Architecture is a light risk-based milestone.

(Correct)
  It is a part of team performance measurement.
 It is work assigned by the team leader.
Explanation
Lean governance is based on risk-based milestones and proven architecture is
one example of them.
Question 12: Correct
Which TWO issues should be resolved in the storming phase of a team
formation?
 Establishment of team working agreements

(Correct)

 How to use effective user story

 Team hierarchy and understanding of the roles and responsibilities

(Correct)

 Determine Definition of done

Explanation
The correct answers are A and B:

A. Team hierarchy and understanding of the roles and responsibilities

B. Establishment of team working agreements

Question 13: Correct

A team coach explained that there is no standard around agile terminologies and
Minimal Viable Product (MVP) and Minimum Business Increment (MBI) are two
different concepts, but some of the agility use them interchangeably what’s true
for MBI and MVP?
 MBI is run as experiments to determine what potential customers
want.
 MBIs is typically built incrementally on top of an existing product
and potentially shippable increment to customers.

(Correct)

 MVP is a potentially shippable increment.

 MVP is also a minimum marketable release.
Explanation
MBI is built on top of an existing product that includes one or more features that
can be shipped for customers use and advantage. All other options are not
correct for MVP and MBI.
Question 14: Correct
A team is working on a one-week sprint model. The product owner of a long-
standing team recommended conducting product demos after two sprints as
some key stakeholders may not available each week. Is it ok?
 Yes, we want to be an awesome team for the stakeholders.
 Yes, we want to validate our learnings as late as possible.
 Yes, the team should create effective environments that foster joy
for the stakeholders and team.
 Yes, context counts and we can tailor our ceremonies as per the
needs of the stakeholder.

(Correct)
Explanation
Context counts and we can tailor our ceremonies as per the need of the
stakeholder because one size does not fit all. Awesome team and fostering joy is
not the purpose of changing ceremonies.
Question 15: Correct
What should team lead do in the first meeting?
 Ask each team member to introduce themselves, providing info
about hobbies and personal achievements

(Correct)

 Show metrics to measure team performance

 Review the ground rules and set expectations
 Assign roles and responsibilities to each member
Explanation
The correct answer is A. Team lead make first meeting introductory and ask team
members to talk about themselves
Question 16: Correct
Product development should not be started until all the product team members
are available as it’s a recommended to form a product team by DA process goal
diagrams.
 FALSE: Recommended choices are not ‘must’ choices

(Correct)

 TRUE: We should wait for the team members before starting a

product as per recommendation.
Explanation
Some of the process choices need not be chosen in certain circumstances.
Question 17: Correct
In the DA- supported Lean Life Cycle, WIP must be limited as per the capacity of
the team. It helps in optimizing the workflow and identify the bottleneck. What is
another advantage of it?
 Context switching is reduced.

(Correct)

 The team gets the capability to complete the work within a sprint.
 Less work in progress can’t delight the customer and managers
therefore it should be avoided.
 Limiting Work in Progress reduces the cost immediately because
fewer team members are required to do fewer tasks.

Explanation
Limiting WIP or working in small batches helps the team to focus on the current
work at hand and context switching is not done that is a waste.
Question 18: Correct
Many Agile team members are reluctant to use the DA toolkit because of DA’s
lean governance concept as they’ve had negative experiences with strategies
adopted by the previous governance team. The DA coach explained to the
members that governance is inevitable however lean governance ensures the
following except:
 Lean Governance is context-agnostic.
 (Correct)

 We deserve to be governed well and lean governance supports it.

 Lean governance helps teams to work within the large
organisational settings
 Lean and effective governance enables collaboration.
Explanation
The lean governance mind-set is context-sensitive but not context-agnostic.
Question 19: Correct
The storming stage of the team formation passes quickly when new product
team is created by already existing product team.
 False
 True

(Correct)

Question 20: Correct

The team is working on a variety of directions during the inception phase. DA
coach temporarily stopped the team to work on one of the directions and told
them that it could be done later. What direction it could be?
 Team working agreement.
 Developing Testing strategy.
 How to secure funding.
 Developing release deployment strategy.

(Correct)

Explanation
A deployment strategy can be done later during the construction phase in a JIT
(Just in Time) manner or one to two iterations before transition.
Question 21: Correct
Stakeholders ensured that the team was working towards the agreed vision
throughout the development sprints. Now Stakeholders are inspecting which
milestone will help to confirm the team to go for the transition activities?
 Production-ready is the requirements to confirm the start of the
transition activities.
 Continued viability to confirm that the solution is viable for
transition.
 Sufficient Functionality confirms that the solution is ready for the
transition.

(Correct)

 Proven architecture and it’s a must milestone for solution viability.

Explanation
The project moves into the transition phase when sufficient functionality is built.
Question 22: Correct
A DA coach is working with the senior management to adopt an agile mind-set
and practices across the teams. Which is NOT true about business and teams
agility?
 Agile teams deliver products early and often for better value
realization.
 Individuals and interactions are considered more important than
following the Disciplined Agile process and tools.
 Customer changing needs are preferred overlocking the scope.
  Self-organizing teams need less coordination from the customers.

(Correct)

Explanation
Self-organizing teams do more coordination with the customers.
Question 23: Correct
As an Agile Coach, you are explaining the concepts of “delighted customers”.
 Customers are delighted when teamwork is visible through
information radiators.
 Customers are delighted when a team becomes a long-standing
product team.
 Customers are delighted when product features are shown to
them regularly.
 Customers are delighted when teams’ products and services fulfil
and surpass their needs and expectations.

(Correct)

Explanation
Successful organizations offer great products and services that delight their
customers by fulfilling and surpassing their needs.
Question 24: Correct
A newly formed DA team has a specialised role of an architecture owner. Other
team members were confused why this role exists:
 The architecture owner coaches the team on Disciplined Agile
practices because of its hybrid nature.
 The architecture owner is required to evaluate the team
performance as a part of lean governance.
 The architecture owner replenishes the product backlog based on
the scheduling dependencies in addition to value and risk.
 The architecture owner guides the team through solution design
decisions.

(Correct)

Explanation
An architecture owner guides the team through solution architecture and design
decisions, working closely with the team lead and product owner when doing so.
Question 25: Correct
You are working with Product owner to define the scope of the work item list for
first release. A senior team member self-involved in this process it and changed
the scope a number of times. What is right strategy to deal this challenge?
 Ask the experienced team member to explain their point of view
and then assign backlog items to him.
 Use authority as a leader to convince team member to accept the
functionality as defined by the users.
 Establish ground rules and empower the PO and experience team
member to work collaboratively to decide functionality

(Correct)

 Organize a workshop and ask all the team members to present

their point of view and then decide on functionality by voting.
Explanation
The correct answer is D: Establish ground rules and empower the PO and
experience team member to work collaboratively to decide functionality
Question 26: Correct
What is not true about DA suggestion regarding governance?
 Disciplined Agile teams must be self-organised and should not be
governed.

(Correct)

 Lean governance helps us to make choices as a self-organised

team but within organizational “guard rails.”
 Lean governance focuses on motivating and enabling teams—not
on controlling them.
 Lean governance helps DA teams to be responsible and focused
without creating unnecessary impediments.
Explanation
Agile teams can be self-organised but they will be governed. Lean governance is
based on lightweight milestones that help team to be enterprise-aware without
creating any impediments for them.
Question 27: Correct
Tim is hired as an agile coach for a technology enterprise that wants to get rid of
“method prison” and wants the freedom to choose their way of working.
“Disciplined Agile” advocates that and recommends following role(s) is
responsible find the Way of Working (WoW) for a team?
 Disciplined Agile coach because of his expertise in choosing the
way of working.
 Team members are the ones who choose the way of working.

(Correct)

 Product Owner as she is the representative of the business and

takes care of product backlog.
 Sponsors and senior management as he is paying for the products
to develop.
Explanation
Team members work together to produce the solution. Agile team members
should have the permission to choose, evolve and optimize their Way of Working.
Question 28: Correct
A DevOps team is involved in the automation of operational functionality to
monitor and control the running systems. This process is an example of
 Infrastructure as a Code.

(Correct)

 Continuous Deployment.
 Software as a Service.
 Continuous Integration.
Explanation
DevOps strategy of streamlining and automation includes not only CI/CD but also
automation of operational functionality to monitor and control the running
systems (It is called Infrastructure as a Code).
Question 29: Correct
A team decided to use acceptance criteria to explore quality requirements in the
current release. However, one team member was confused as explicit lists of
quality requirements was used in previous releases. DA coach commented on a
team approach
 Context counts and we can change the tool for exploring
requirements.
 It’s always good to experiment with better techniques to improve
performance.
 Evolve yours WoW as you move forward.

(Correct)

 Always choose your WoW that you can keep on using throughout
different releases.
Explanation
Improving the WoW is a continuous process and one should not be stuck with
one strategy, therefore, "Always choose your WoW that you can keep on using
throughout different releases" is the correct answer and we must choose and
evolve our WOW instead of Choosing our WOW and keep on using it throughout
different releases”.
Question 30: Correct
You are a part of a self-organised team and is planning to experiment with some
new features in your dating app for a new market in Asia, which project lifecycle
is recommended?
 Lean.
 Exploratory.

(Correct)

 DA lifecycle.
 Agile.
Explanation
Exploratory or lean startup lifecycle minimizes up-front investments in
developing new products/services (offerings) in the marketplace in favour of
small experiments.
Question 31: Correct
Security Process blade is a part of the DA DevOps layer and covers the issues
around (choose that is applicable).
 Protecting an organization from both virtual and physical threats.

(Correct)

 It not only secures data but ensures data security.

 Protecting the organization from informational/virtual threats
only.
 Secure data is part of the security process blade whereas ensuring
data security is part of data management.

(Correct)

Explanation
Security process Blade is a part of the DA DevOps layer and talks about
protecting an organization from both virtual and physical threats. Secondly,
secure data is part of security blades whereas ensuring data security is part of
data management.
Question 32: Correct
A team is exploring what should be accomplished for the current release of the
solution as stakeholders want to know what they’re going to get. This is an
example of
 Develop Common Vision.

(Correct)

 Coordinate Activities.
 Identify architecture strategy.
 Align with enterprise direction.
Explanation
The Develop Common Vision process goal provides options for how we will come
to, and communicate, a common vision about the purpose of the team. We are
effectively forming a high-level promise to our stakeholders that are sufficiently
compelling for them to provide the funds required for the initiative.
Question 33: Correct
Sam is a project manager working with a team of cross-functional members to
launch a marketing product for an organization that hired a disciplined agile
coach to support an agile transformation. The coach asked SAM to learn and
choose an agile way of working for a quick value realization for the marketing
project. SAM was reluctant to it, however, the agile coach convinced him by
sharing (Choose the best answer).
 Use SAFe, as it will give you the freedom to choose the best
practices and strategies as per marketing project needs.
 Use SCRUM based lifecycle of DA toolkit, as it works best for the
projects including marketing projects.
 Adopt an Agile mindset and principles that allow all the project
teams to deliver value in an iterative and incremental fashion.

(Correct)

 Disciplined Agile has a prescriptive way of working for Software

and Marketing Projects therefore it will be helpful to realize value
quickly.
Explanation
Agile Mind-set and principles leverage all the teams to choose and evolve their
way of working to deliver value, but not a particular method.
Question 34: Correct
Long-standing product teams have advantages over ad-hoc or project-based
teams however there is one issue
 It can make some team members feel trapped in their current role.

(Correct)

 The product-based team cannot work in project-based lifecycles.

 The team have to wait for team members if they are on leave.
 The organization have to hire staff permanently.
Explanation
Long-standing product teams deliver sustainable value continuously. However, it
can make some team members feel trapped in their current role necessitating
opportunities to transfer between teams over some time.
Question 35: Correct
A DAD team evolved from agile life cycle to continuous delivery-Agile life cycle.
They can evolve because all of the following ‘must have’ reasons except
  DAD team strives to optimize Flow and it could be done through
continuous delivery.
 DAD team has spent six months on the first lifecycle and it’s time
to move to the next as per DA recommended life cycle evolution
paths.

(Correct)

 DAD team learned through their experiences and evolve.

 DAD team learned through experimentation in a purposeful
manner.
Explanation
DAD team has spent six months on the first lifecycle, but it doesn’t mean that
they can shift to the next lifecycle.
Question 36: Correct
A process area in an organization that encompasses a cohesive collection of
process options, such as practices and strategies that should be chosen and then
applied in a context-sensitive manner. It is also called
 Process Goals.
 Process Blade.

(Correct)

 DevOps.
 Value stream.
Explanation
A process blade or area addresses a cohesive process area—such as reuse
engineering, finance, or procurement—in different layers of Disciplined Agile
such as DevOps.
Question 37: Correct
Which of the following is NOT a desirable practice in Design Thinking?
 Make design choices early in the project.

(Correct)

 Be conscious of the constraints in the solution space.

 Being empathetic to the customers.
 Look for solutions appropriate for the context.
Explanation
Making design choices too early in the life-cycle will limit the flexibility to adapt it
in the future.
Question 38: Correct
Lean governance requires capturing relevant team metrics and reports the team
progress to organizational leadership by the team leader or team itself. What can
make performance measurement effective and useful?
 Scalar measures so that senior management can know the
performance on a specific point.
 Performance of each team members so that bottleneck can be
determined.
 Automated measures via dashboard technology, where possible.

(Correct)

 Trailing metric provides insight into what has been done.

Explanation
Automated measures wherever possible. This reduces the cost and enhance the
accuracy of the metrics and can enable real-time monitoring by the team.
Question 39: Correct
An early and often delivery of the product features is preferred in Agile for the
competitive advantage of the client. Who is responsible for it?
 Architecture owner as he owns the solution architecture.
 The product owner is responsible for working with stakeholders to
identify the work to be done.
 Team members, work together to produce the solution.

(Correct)

 Team lead as this person leads the team and helping the team to
be successful.
Explanation
Team members work together to produce the solution hence are responsible for
solution delivery. Bottom of Form.
Question 40: Correct
The architecture of a product is usually proven early in the construction phase. It
is important because of all of the following except
 Reduce political risk.
 Increase the chance that the team is aligned.
 Ensure early delivery of the requirements.

(Correct)

 Reduce technical risk.

Explanation
Architecturally risky functionality may be difficult to implement early in the
construction lifecycle but implementing a few easy requirements early in the life
cycle gives the team some quick wins however they are not useful in the long
run. Therefore, it doesn’t mean early delivery of the requirements (features) will
result as a part of proven architecture activity. All other are benefits of proven
architecture milestone.
Question 41: Correct
Some of the new team members have agile experience using the Spotify
method. They questioned the DAD team leader that why don’t the team do a
daily huddle? The DA coach responded.
 DA calls it daily scrum that is the same as a daily huddle.
 DA calls it daily stand-up that is the same as a daily huddle.
 DA doesn’t believe in the daily huddle as it is by Spotify.
 DA calls it a coordination meeting that is the same in nature as a
daily huddle.

(Correct)

Explanation
DA teams call daily huddle (Spotify) as coordination meeting. The daily stand-up
is the term used in SAFe and daily scrum is used in the Scrum method.
Question 42: Correct
Nafay is working as an enterprise coach with a team. He shared his experience
with team members about organisations and their work. What is not true about
organizations?
 Organizations are complex adaptive systems.
  Teams in an organization work together in an adaptable and
constantly changing manner.
 The work done by the teams is unpredictable because
organisations are complex.
 Organizations can be seen as some of their components including
teams and departments.

(Correct)

Explanation
Organizations are complex adaptive systems and bigger than the sum of its
components and is defined by the combination of teams, organization areas
(such as divisions, lines of business, or value streams), and enterprise teams and
the interactions between them. Therefore organizations are more than just sum
of its components.
Question 43: Correct
How should team lead address the conflicts in a team?
 Avoid conflict as much as possible as shows great collaboration
 Provide options to compromise on conflicts and focus on the
outcome delivery
 Address conflict as it arises and resolve it as a team

(Correct)

 Suppress conflicts with authoritative leadership skills as these are

unhealthy
Explanation
The correct answer is D: Team lead should address conflicts as they arise and
resolve them.
Question 44: Correct
A product team is reluctant to carry out the tasks involving Business operations
in a value stream. What could be the reason for their reluctance?
 Any step in the value stream mapping which is not directly adding
customer value is a waste.
 It provides a more holistic view of value generation within the
organization.
 Works well with rolling-wave budgeting processes.
 Any steps in the value stream that is not necessary for creating
the product is waste.

(Correct)

Explanation
The team may think that any steps in the value stream that is not necessary for
creating the product are waste. However, they need to think about how to
optimise the whole but not only product-related work and processes. There will
be steps that are not directly required for product development but to add
overall value to the customers.
Question 45: Correct
DAD teams are capable of working in diverse settings as Disciplined Agile
enables a heterogeneous approach across diverse and complex organizations. It
includes all the following principles except:
 The choice is good.
  Enterprise Awareness.
 Context Counts.
 Framework thinking.

(Correct)

Explanation
"Choice is good", “Context Counts” and “Enterprise Awareness” are fundamental
principles of Disciplined Agile that works in a framework-agnostic setting. Bottom
of Form
Question 46: Correct
A team should strive for value stream-based funding because it includes
 Funding for a team to develop a single release of the solution with
a value stream
 Funding for a team to develop multiple releases of the solution
over time to produce value
 Funding for a Line of Business so that they fund teams according
to their business needs
 Funding for solution development, IT operations of the solution,
and the business operations of the solution.

(Correct)

Explanation
Funding for solution development, IT operations of the solution, and the business
operations of the solution are called value stream funding and it supports a more
holistic view of value generation within our organization. It also works very well
with modern, rolling-wave budgeting processes.
Question 47: Correct
In an enterprise, one team is working using a flow-based lean lifecycle on a
product and all other teams are using a Time-boxed agile life cycle for the same
product. The following lifecycle works best to organize these team.
 Exploratory lifecycle.
 DA Program Lifecycle.

(Correct)

 DA Agile- Continuous delivery.

 Kanban and Agile hybrid.
Explanation
Program Lifecycle helps to organize a team of teams that can use different
lifecycles.
Question 48: Correct
Following is recommended as a best way to deal with conflict resolution for
disciplined agile teams as per the Thomas-Kilmann model.

 Compromise
 Collaboration

(Correct)

 Accommodation
 None of the above
Explanation
The correct answer is A: Collaboration is recommended as a best way to deal
with conflict resolution for disciplined agile teams as per the Thomas-Kilmann
model.
Question 49: Correct
Staffing roadmap provides guardrails for staffing decisions and is a critical input
to following process blade.
 Asset Management.
 Portfolio management.
 Governance.
 People Management.

(Correct)

Explanation
People management covers what are our organization’s strategies around
“human resource” (HR) matters, such as training, education, compensation, roles
and responsibilities, legal constraints, and conflict resolution etc. The staffing
road map is Critical input for anyone taking people management decisions.
Question 50: Correct
A stream aligned team consist of more 100 members that are speeded across
the world and is working on a product with a lot of dependencies. Team has
serious performance issue as key requirements and dependencies are not
communicated properly. What A Senior Scrum Master should do to address this
challenge?
 Split the team into smaller teams and provide them separate
backlogs to work with.
 Introduce effective collaboration and communication tool for
remote team members

(Correct)

 Ask management to offer bonuses to high performers to create an

environment of competition
 Escalate low performers to senior management
Explanation
The correct answer is B: Introduce effective collaboration and communication
tool for remote team members
Question 51: Correct
The team is trying a new strategy using the DA toolkit to discover how well it
works within its current environment
 This is an example of how DA provides guided continuous
improvement to test a strategy in a quick time.

(Correct)

 This is an example of prescriptive methods to run sprints

effectively.
 This is an example of DA DevOps to improve the processes in
development and operations.
 The Team has a long time available to explore options.
Explanation
The team leverages the DA tool kit, to identify potential strategies to consider.
We call this guided continuous improvement (GCI).Bottom of Form
Question 52: Correct
Few of the team members, who are trained on Scrum method, are reluctant to
choose DA toolkit because DA advocates for:
 Transparency
 Self-Management
 Be awesome
 Lean governance

(Correct)

Explanation
Governance is considered a swear word for some pure Agilists as their
experience with traditional governance is bad. However, DA promotes lean
Governance based on light risk-based milestones. DA promotes it as teams still
require governance even if they are self-managed and transparent.
Question 53: Correct
A Disciplined Agile team chose one of the senior, self-managed and skilled
member as a team leader for their next venture. What is not true for a team
leader?
 The team leader helps the team to choose and evolve their WoW.
 The team leader is someone who can work as a scrum master role
in Scrum.
 The team leader creates and maintains the conditions that allow
the team to be successful.
 Team leader refines backlog based on changing stakeholder needs.

(Correct)

Explanation
It is the Product owner who refines product backlog based on changing
stakeholder needs.
Question 54: Correct
In DA, a processing blade or area addresses the following aspects of an
organisation: Enterprise, Goals, Technology, and Mind-set. Which one of the
following is NOT process blade layers?
 Value Streams.
 Disciplined Agile Foundation.

(Correct)

 Disciplined Agile Enterprise.

 Disciplined DevOps.
Explanation
The disciplined Agile Foundation layer doesn’t cover process blades aspects of
DA.
Question 55: Correct
The team is not agreed to work through the inception phase activities as Scrum
Method doesn’t support it. What is not true about the inception phase?
 You will get enough time to finalise your testing and the
architecture and design strategies of the product.

(Correct)
  It will help you to streamline your initiation efforts such as
exploring the scope.
 It asks the team to do just enough work to get organized and
going in the right direction.
 The inception phase is not a part of all the lifecycle, supported by
Discipline Agile.
Explanation
The correct answer is "You will get enough time to finalise your testing and the
architecture and design strategies of the product". As you don’t finalise your
plans or strategies in the inception phase.
Question 56: Correct
A lean coach asked the team members to reduce work in progress (WIP) and
work one item at a time and have smaller production releases. Reducing WIP has
the following advantages except
 Reduced cost.
 Release faster.
 Higher interactions.

(Correct)

 Increased quality.
Explanation
Higher interactions are a waste and increase overall overhead. Reducing WIP
reduces interactions.
Question 57: Correct
As a program manager which of the following strategies and statements are
correct and will help you coordinating activities across multiple teams?
 Senior Scrum master manager guides the overall program and
coordinate efforts among team of teams
 Architecture Owners from each of the sub teams work together
and guide the overall program

(Correct)

 Visualize work and workflow

(Correct)

 Prove architecture early

 Open space or unconference

(Correct)

Explanation
The correct answers are B, C and E:

1. Visualize work and workflow

2. Architecture Owners from each of the sub teams work together and guide the
overall program

3. Open space or unconference

Question 58: Correct

Project-based Teams do a detailed scope exploration at the start of each sprint
during the construction phase. Which one of the process goal is not a part of the
construction phase?
 Address changing stakeholder needs.
 Explore scope.

(Correct)

 Prove architecture early.

 Improve quality.
Explanation
Explore scope is a process goal that teams should address at the beginning of
the life cycle during Inception if following a life cycle that includes an Inception
phaseBottom of Form such as project-based Agile or lean. It means it’s not a part
of the construction phase. In this goal, we explore scope at a high level but not in
detail.
Question 59: Correct
An organization wants to go for agile transformation which focus area will help
them to improve value delivery, governance and budgeting, product
development, reduce waste and programme management?
 Foundation
 Value Stream

(Correct)

 DevOps
 DA Enterprise
Explanation
The correct answer is A: Value Stream helps to improve value delivery,
governance and budgeting, product development, reduce waste and programme
management
Question 60: Correct
A product manager is investigating an initiative that includes the analysis of a
potential product from concept to retirement. It means
 A value stream analysis is being done as it starts and ends at
customers.
 A delivery lifecycles approach is being used as it includes the
development of a product.
 A system or product lifecycle approach is being used.

(Correct)

 A DevOps lifecycle approach is being used as it encompasses the

whole development and operations lifecycles.
Explanation
A full system/product life cycle goes from the initial concept for the solution,
through delivery, to operations and support and often includes many rounds
through the delivery life cycle and then terminates at the retirement of the
product.
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Attempt 2
All knowledge areas
All questions
Question 1: Correct
A delivery team has received defined dates and times, from the release
management team, when it is allowed and not allowed to release into
production. This method is called:
 Release train.
 Unique project releases.
 Release windows.

(Correct)

 Release stream.
Explanation
Release windows, sometimes called release slots, are defined dates and times
when teams are allowed to release into production. Similarly, dates and times
when teams are not allowed to release are sometimes called release blackout
periods.
Question 2: Correct
A value stream
 Starts from a customer and ends at a consumable solution.
 Starts and ends at the customer.

(Correct)

 Starts and ends at business.

 Starts at business and ends at the customer.
Explanation
A value stream starts and ends at the customer.
Question 3: Correct
A DA coach focuses on organizing the teams around products and services. What
can not be a reason for this approach?
 It helps to focus on delivering a collection of offering for one or
more customers.
 It helps to focus on delivering a single offering that defines a
value stream.

(Correct)

 These teams will include people with sales skills, business analysis
skills, and management skills.
 It optimizes the flow in value streams.
Explanation
Organizing around products/services enables us to identify and optimize the
value streams and a collection of related offerings will define a value stream that
we provide to our customers.
Question 4: Correct
On an enterprise level, we can optimise the generation of the value, when we
focus on the following except:
 Align teams to value streams.
 Invest in process or environment improvements.
 Enable diversity among the team and allow them to organize
according to their context.
 Prefer project teams over product teams.

(Correct)

Explanation
A significant productivity improvement in value generation occurs when IT
organizations shift away from the project mindset of bringing people to the work
and instead decide to bring work to the people (the stable teams).
Question 5: Correct
Which process blade includes the “Govern support” decision point?
 Disciplined DevOps Process blade called ‘Support’.

(Correct)

 Disciplined Value stream process blade called Governance.

 Disciplined Value stream process blade called Product
Management.
Explanation
The Support process blade focuses on helping end-users to work with the
solutions produced by delivery teams and it includes how to “Govern support”
related activities.
Question 6: Correct
Agile teams focus on value streams in a self-organised manner and senior
management trust in them and verify. What’s true about this statement:
 Self-managed teams are responsible for their monitoring and
don’t need governance.
 The agile teams work closely with stakeholders therefore they are
already aware of teams’ performance.
 The team uses automated dashboard technology, hence
management needs not to verify what the team is doing.
 Senior management should trust and verify.

(Correct)

Explanation
Effective governance is based on enabling and then trusting your teams to do
the right thing. However, effective teams monitor themselves using automated
dashboard technology and close collaboration, and the metrics that teams collect
should be made visible to senior management and other stakeholders so that
they may monitor what is happening.
Question 7: Correct
For making good decisions at portfolio management, the following are key
factors except:
 Focus on reducing the cost of development.

(Correct)

 Focus on the value generated by the solution.

 Focus on reducing the cost of delay.
  Keep it simple and streamlined.
Explanation
Shifting your mindset from “What is this going to cost?” to “What value will this
generate?” is critical to your success because it helps you to focus on making
better IT investments.
Question 8: Correct
A team is working on the coding bugs. What’s the most appropriate statement
about bugs fixing?
 Fix the Bug.
 Fix the code as the bug is missing code.
 A Bug Is a missing test, find the test, write the code to pass the
test.

(Correct)

 None of the above.

Explanation
A Bug Is a Missing Test. This is a fundamental shift in our understanding.
Question 9: Correct
Open spaces are participant-driven, with the agenda being created at the time
by the people attending the event. They are also called
 Joint application design.
 Unconference.

(Correct)

 Agile modelling sessions.

 Big room planning.
Explanation
Open Space is also known as open space technology (OST) or an “unconference”.
Question 10: Correct
As a team leader, you decided that you will not allow conflicts in the team as
conflicts, in their nature, are destructive to team performance and job
dissatisfaction. Comment on this statement
 False

(Correct)

 True
Explanation
Correct answer is B (False). Conflicts can be healthy that increases chances of
creativity and innovation
Question 11: Correct
The focus of the Support process goal diagram is to enable your organization to
maintain a trustworthy IT ecosystem. Is it a correct statement?
 Yes, this work is focused on the Support process blade.
 No, this work is focused on the IT governance process blade.
 No, this work is focused on the IT operation process blade.

(Correct)

 No, this work is focused on the Asset management process blade.

Explanation
The focus of the IT operations process blade is to enable your organization to
maintain a trustworthy IT ecosystem. The Support process goal diagram focuses
on helping end-users to work with the solutions produced by your delivery teams.
Question 12: Correct
Daily coordination meetings or scrum meetings are useful to:
 Coordinate current work.

(Correct)

 Plan the next increment of work.

 Explore stakeholder needs.
 Work through architecture or design strategies.
Explanation
Daily scrum meetings are quick, and regularly held meetings to coordinate
current work.
Question 13: Correct
All of the following factors create value stream impedance except:
 Big Batch size.
 Short feedback cycles.

(Correct)

 Reduced Quality of the product.

 Lack of visibility of the work and the workflow.
Explanation
A value stream is impacted by Long feedback cycles
Question 14: Correct
Quality requirements can be captured well with the help of the ‘explicit list’
method as compare to other methods When:
 Used independent of any other method such as acceptance
criteria.
 Quality requirements are complex.

(Correct)

 Quality requirements are straightforward.

 Quality requirements don’t cross-cut functional requirement.
Explanation
An explicit list enables us to capture quality requirements in a “reusable manner”
that are complex and Cross-cuts functional requirements. It requires a
mechanism, such as acceptance criteria, to ensure that the quality requirement
is implemented across the appropriate functional requirements.
Question 15: Correct
Refactoring is one of the stages of Test Driven Development strategy
 True

(Correct)

 False
Explanation
Five stages include 1) Read, understand, and process the feature or bug request
2) Translate the requirement by writing a unit test 3) Write and implement the
code that fulfils the requirement 4) Clean up your code by refactoring 5) Rinse,
lather and repeat.
Question 16: Correct
You are assessing a value stream of an organisation who wants to go for agile
transformation. What is NOT a problem in a value stream?
 A lot of communication

 Hand offs
 Multitasking

 Osmotic communication

(Correct)

Explanation
Correct answer is B. Multitasking, A lot of communication and Handoffs are
example of the value streams problems
Question 17: Correct
A delivery team’s developers are spread across floors within the same building
and testing is being done in the nearby city whereas Business analysis work is
outsourced to another country to cover the skills gaps. What’s the best strategy
for coordinating between locations.
 None of the above.
 Gather team physically at critical times.

(Correct)

 Use ambassadors.
 Use boundary spanners.
Explanation
Gather physically at critical times. People come together at a single location,
typically to have a working session to work through an important issue such as
deciding on a strategy for upcoming work.
Question 18: Correct
In an enterprise, value is created by the team and realized by customers when:
 When the organizational structure is hierarchical.
 When the organizational structure is flat.
 Value and information flow vertically in the organization.
 Value and information flow horizontally in the organization.

(Correct)

Explanation
Value is created by team and realized by customers when Value and information
flow horizontally. It doesn’t depend on organization structure but the mindset.

Question 19: Correct

What is true about defects?
 You can’t prevent defects, but you can detect them earlier.
 (Correct)

 You can both detect and prevent them.

 You can’t detect defects, but you can prevent them from start.
 None of the above.
Explanation
The key thing for one to realize is that you can’t prevent defects, but you can
detect them earlier and earlier.
Question 20: Correct
According to Miller’s Law, a team should be split when its size increase from:
 7 +/− 2 members.

(Correct)

 5 +/− 2 members.
 6 +/− 3 members.
 12 members.
Explanation
There are many heuristics for when a team needs to be split, such as Miller’s Law
(teams should be 7 +/− 2 in size) or the two-pizza rule (if you can’t feed the
team with two pizzas, it’s too large). But there is no hard and fast rule.
Question 21: Correct
The status meeting is one way of team coordination. This is an example of:
 Agile planning strategy.
 Look ahead coordination strategy.
 Look back at coordination strategy.

(Correct)

 Just in time coordination strategy.

Explanation
Looking back is a sort of coordination occurs via status meeting, status reporting,
and training metrics.
Question 22: Correct
Sharing information is an important part of coordinate activities process goal in
the DA tool kit. Following is the least preferred method while coordinating
 Non-solo work.
 Formal reviews.

(Correct)

 Collective ownership.
 Informal reviews.
Explanation
Formal reviews are least preferred because of Long feedback cycles, require
significant planning and documentation overhead and expensive.
Question 23: Correct
Product owner has provided DoD. There is disagreement between team members
during the iteration planning meeting to understand the definition of done (DoD)
for the iteration. What should the team lead do?
 Use agile leadership strategies to take team inputs and help them
to reach to a consensus to understand DoD

(Correct)
  Empower two team members to understand DoD for the Iteration
and repeat it for other members for upcoming iterations

 As an awesome and high-performing team we should not have

conflicts.

 As a professional, we should know how to understand DoD.

Explanation
Correct answer is D: collaboration-based approach so let's find the best possible
option based on team discussion and making decisions based on consensus.
Question 24: Correct
Test-Driven Development helps a team to improve the initial design of a solution
as the team will come up with situations in which the test case can fail
 True

(Correct)

 False
Explanation
TDD helps the team come to the best design more quickly than not doing TDD. It
doesn’t mean that you need not to design before writing the tests.
Question 25: Correct
Value stream efficiency is calculated as:
 Total time spent from start to end of a value stream.
 The ratio of value-added time to the total time spent in the value
stream.

(Correct)

 The ratio of non-value-added time to value-added time spent in

the value stream.
 The ratio of non-value-added time to the total time spent in the
value stream.
Explanation
Value stream efficiency is calculated as the ratio of value-added time to the total
time spent in the value stream. Efficiency = Value-Added Time / total Time.
Question 26: Correct
The following role is important when coordinating across the teams:
 Testers.
 Developers.
 Program manager.

(Correct)

 Business analysts.
Explanation
Following roles are important while working on programmes: Architecture owner
team, Product coordination team, Product owner team, Program
manager/coordinator.
Question 27: Correct
Following is an example of estimation unit used as relative points
 Hours

 Functional points
 T Shirt Sizing

 Normalized points

(Correct)

Explanation
Correct answer is B: The team uses a common pointing system that is in use by
other teams. Very often implemented as relative points across a program or even
entire IT department
Question 28: Correct
An effective way to structure teams for value realization is
 Get a team member from another team who should only attend
your team coordination meeting.
 Never borrow a team member as information can be shared.
 Borrow a team member as information should be shared and not
lost.

(Correct)

 Only have a core team as they will have all the required skills to
complete a task.
Explanation
A team can borrow a member of another team when needed who can join both
the coordination meetings. It enables the teams to coordinate and avoid lost
information or wasted effort.)
Question 29: Correct
Your team wants to quickly and inexpensively estimate at a high level. Which
estimation unit will you recommend?
 T Shirt Sizing

(Correct)

 Functional points
 Planning Poker

 Normalized points
Explanation
Correct answer is C: T-shirt sizing. The team uses sizes such as Small, Medium,
Large, and Extra Large for a quick estimate
Question 30: Correct
The following can be a disadvantage of ‘optimise the whole’ practice
 It can increase the bureaucracy and cost.

(Correct)

 It can reduce the morale of the team members as they will not
have a narrow focus on work.
 Add in Team/Process Complexity.
 None of the above.
Explanation
‘Optimise the whole’ practice makes it easier for management efforts, but could
also inflict undue costs and bureaucracy on the teams that you’re funding.
Question 31: Correct
Coordinate Activities process goal provides options to coordinate in all of the
following except:
 Internally within the team or externally.
 With other teams within a program who are not virtual.

(Correct)

 With teams across the organization.

 When teams are co-located or virtual.
Explanation
This process goal helps in coordination activities with other teams within a
program either located together or physical distributed.
Question 32: Incorrect
Agile teams build quality in their work. Following are an example of quality
improvement techniques:
 Test Drive development.

(Correct)

 Increased work in process.

 Increased work in progress.
 Long feedback cycles.

(Incorrect)

Explanation
Test-Driven Development is an example of quality efforts.
Question 33: Correct
Which process blade includes “determine production readiness” decision point
 Release Management process blade talks about planning,
coordinating and verifying the deployment of IT solutions into
production.

(Correct)
  IT Operations as the solution needs to got to production where the
IT operations team is responsible.
 None of the above.
 DAD Process blade as DAD teams has the IT solution to put in
production.
Explanation
The release management process goal diagram explores the planning,
coordinating and verifying the deployment of IT solutions into production and
includes “determine production readiness”.
Question 34: Correct
In the DA toolkit, sharing information, and strategies to make artefact ownership
decisions are examples of the following process goal
 None of the above.
 Evolve your WoW.
 Coordinate activities.

(Correct)

 Govern delivery teams.

Explanation
Decision points in ‘Coordinate activities’ provide options for sharing information,
artefact ownership, coordinating within a team, facilitating working sessions,
coordinating release schedules, coordinating across locations, and coordinating
across program (team of teams).
Question 35: Correct
All DA Process blades cover all of the following aspects except:
 Practice options.
 Mindset.
 People.
 Funding.

(Correct)

Explanation
Mindset, People, Value, Practice options are key aspects covered by each of the
DA process blades.
Question 36: Correct
In disciplined agile, coordination meetings can be conducted
 On regular cadence.
 Both ways.

(Correct)

 Just in time manner.

 None of the above.
Explanation
Coordination meetings can be run on a regular cadence, for example daily, or on
an as-needed, just-in-time (JIT) basis.
Question 37: Correct
A delivery team is adding new features to a product so that it should cater for the
new health and safety Act. The team has promised the stakeholders to release
the solution in two months before the Act is applied. The team is using the
following release management strategy
 Unique project release.
 (Correct)

 Continuous deployment.
 Release slots.
 Regular releases.
Explanation
In the unique project release method, the solution is released into production as
a single release at a time. It is often driven by promises to customers, regulatory
needs, or a project mindset.
Question 38: Correct
You are working with the team to choose the right metrics for team performance
measurement. What should the team do?
 The measurements don’t add value in the knowledge work
projects hence a waste.
 Universal metrics

 Select the team-specific metrics

(Correct)

 industry standard agile metrics

Explanation
The correct answer is A: Choose metrics as per team context
Question 39: Correct
Coordinate Activities process goal provides options to coordinate in all of the
following except:
 When teams are collocated or virtual.
 Internally within the team or externally.
 With teams across the organization.
 With other teams within a program if they are co-located.

(Correct)

Explanation
This process goal helps in coordination activities with other teams within a
program either located together or physical distributed.
Question 40: Correct
Four different teams are collaborating on a release schedule using Continuous
deployment to automatically deploy solution through all internal testing
environments and production. This method is also called:
 Release windows.
 Unique project releases.
 Release stream.

(Correct)

 Release train.
Explanation
Continuous deployment (CD) or release stream is a strategy where the solution is
automatically deployed through all internal testing environments and into
production without human intervention.
Question 41: Correct
Senior management, in an agile organisation, practice lean governance through
 Risk-based milestone reviews.

(Correct)

 Test results reviews.

 Artefacts review.
 Architecture models reviews.
Explanation
Traditional governance often focuses on the review of common artefacts such as
requirement documents, architecture models and test results. Agile governance
focuses on addressing common lightweight risk-based milestone such as
verifying that the architectural strategy has been proven to be viable early in the
life cycle, and ensuring the team has produced enough business value for its
stakeholders.
Question 42: Correct
An ineffective value stream results when there are:
 Small batch sizes.
 A lot of automation.
 Shorter feedback cycles.
 A lot of multitasking.

(Correct)

Explanation
Multitasking is considered a waste in the value stream and lean way of working.
Question 43: Correct
Value realization requires a focus on flow and reduction in delay. The value of a
solution is only realized once:
 The solution is transited to production.
 A customer is using the solution.
 The solution is meeting customer needs.

(Correct)

 The solution is developed.

Explanation
Value is only realized once the solution is meeting customer needs.
Question 44: Correct
Acceptance Test-Driven Development may also be called all of the following
EXCEPT:
 Test first development.

(Correct)

 Story Test Driven Development (SDD).

 Specification by Example.
 Behavior Driven Development (BDD).
Explanation
ATDD may also be referred to as Story Test Driven Development (SDD),
Specification by Example or Behavior Driven Development (BDD). These different
terms exist to stress some differences in approach that lead to similar outcomes.

Test first development is the right answer as it is just one component of ATDD.

Question 45: Correct

The decision regarding Artifact Ownership affects how the team will work
together. What is the preferred way to access and change the artefacts?
 Disparate ownership as it supports security and access control
policies within our organization.
 Collective ownership doesn’t require Configuration Management
control.
 Collective ownership as knowledge is quickly spread throughout
the team.

(Correct)

 Collective ownership requires a lot of communication among team

members.
Explanation
Collective ownership as knowledge is quickly spread throughout the team and it
lowers the risks associated with losing skills with people leave the team.
However, it requires people to have the discipline to work with others to update
an artefact if their skills are not sufficient.
Question 46: Incorrect
Test-driven development is a process that depends on following agile practice
 Pair programming.

(Incorrect)

 Short and repetitive iterations.

(Correct)

 Iteration planning.
 Agile modelling.
Explanation
TDD is a process—like most agile—relies on a very short, repeating development
cycle or an iteration. Only in this case, the software’s requirements are turned
into very specific test cases. Then the code is written and refined until it passes
the test.
Question 47: Correct
The enterprise is using the “Intake Process” method by which work is picked up
by technology teams from the business stakeholders. What is not an example
outcomes of this method?
 Multitasking.

(Correct)

 Development.
 Discovery Intake.
 Discovery Intake.
Explanation
Discovery Intake, planning and allocation, development are outcomes of the
intake process.
Question 48: Correct
Acceptance criteria is a Quality-focused approach that captures detailed aspects
of high-level requirements from the point of view of a Stakeholder. What is not
true about acceptance criteria?
 Merges nicely into the acceptance test-driven development (ATDD)
approach.
 Acceptance criteria work best with explicit lists to ensure that the
quality requirements are implemented across the appropriate
functional requirements.
 Many quality requirements are cross-cutting aspects of several
functional stories and acceptance criteria reduce the risk of
missing details of functional requirements in this case.

(Correct)

 Motivates teams to think through detailed requirements.

Explanation
Many quality requirements are cross-cutting aspects of several functional stories,
so relying on acceptance criteria alone risks missing details, particularly in new
requirements identified later in the life cycle.
Question 49: Correct
Minimal Viable Products (MVPs) are run as experiments to determine what
potential customers want. It is most effective when:
 The teams building it are not aligned and don’t work well together.
 You are an established enterprise.
 The value of the product is not yet known.

(Correct)

 You are building enhancements to an existing product or service.

Explanation
In times of innovation and new products, value is not yet known. It is not clear if
the product or service is even viable in the marketplace. This is where the
techniques of the MVP are most helpful.
Question 50: Correct
You are working with an organization to choose the right metrics strategy. You
recommended them

Main beneficiary of the GQM method is

 The Client as they get the right value

 The Agile community as they are able to identify a right strategy

 The team as it helps to measure their performance

 The Organisation as it helps to align team and organizational level

metrics with organizational goals and objectives
 (Correct)

Explanation
The correct is B. The Organisation as it helps to align team and organizational
level metrics with organizational goals and objectives
Question 51: Correct
Stakeholders are writing executable specifications. What is true about it?
 Executable specifications are Long Testing Spreadsheets used for
manual testing.
 Requirements can be written in the executable specifications form
which can be tested manually.
 Requirements can be written in the executable specifications form
which can be tested automatically.

(Correct)

 Executable specifications are ‘requirements’ but not ‘tests’

Explanation
Requirements and tests are just two sides of the same coin. You can’t have a
user story or requirement without acceptance criteria (tests). This two meld into
executable specification that can be tested automatically.
Question 52: Correct
BusDevOps is a concept that aims to streamline
 Solution Development, Security and IT operations

 Solution development, IT and business operations

(Correct)

 Solution Development and IT operations

 Management and solution development as well as IT operations

Explanation
The correct answer is D: BusDevOps aims to streamline Solution development, IT
and business operations. It is extended version of DevPps that focus on Solution
Development and IT operations
Question 53: Correct
The solution is being released by the delivery team on monthly basis. This is an
example of the following release management method:
 Release train.

(Correct)

 Release stream.
 Unique project releases.
 Release windows.
Explanation
Regular releases/release train. The solution is released on a regular schedule
(e.g., quarterly, bimonthly, monthly, biweekly) into production. SAFe uses this
method.
Question 54: Correct
Coordination between individuals occurs continuously on agile teams as a by-
product of working together collaboratively. All of the following are the strategies
of coordination within team except:
 Disparate ownership.

(Correct)

 Visualize work.
 Just-in-time (JIT) planning.
 Just-in-time (JIT) modelling.
Explanation
Just-in-time (JIT) modelling, Just-in-time (JIT) planning, Visualize work are
examplse of team coordination strategies.
Question 55: Correct
Which of the following criteria is used to determine DoD?
 The documentation of a work item must complete before
stakeholders accept it as completed/done work.

 The work meets acceptance criteria for each single functional

story

 The criteria that a work item must meet before stakeholders will
accept it as completed/done work.

(Correct)

 The verification of a work item must complete before stakeholders

accept it as completed/done work.

Explanation
Correct answer is B: The criteria that a work item must meet before our
stakeholders will accept it as completed/done work.
Question 56: Correct
Which of the conflict resolution mode is recommended for DA teams?
 Accommodating to create an environment of an awesome team

 Collaborate to resolve the problems

(Correct)

 Adjust as context counts

  Compromise so that you can focus on work than conflicts

Explanation
The correct answer is D. Collaboration is the right approach for conflict
resolution.
Question 57: Correct
Following are the decision points in the Disciplined DevOps Data Management
Process Goal except
 Specify data structures.
 Secure data.

(Correct)

 Improve data quality.

 Evolve data assets.
Explanation
Secure data is part of the Security process goal.
Question 58: Correct
A team is working to develop design strategies. What type of meeting will be
useful for this purpose:
 Facilitated working session.

(Correct)

 Coordination meetings.
 Open spaces.
 Scrum of scrums (SoS).
Explanation
Facilitated working sessions are used to explore stakeholder needs, work through
architecture or design strategies and, plan the next increment of work.
Question 59: Correct
When the team of teams are working together on a value stream what simplify
and speed up the processes to realize the value.
 Coordination between the teams.

(Correct)

 Dependencies between the teams.

 Handbags between the teams.
 Multitasking within the teams.
Explanation
Coordinating between teams can improve communication, align cadences,
provide visibility and enhance collaboration.
Question 60: Correct
According to the Disciplined Agile toolkit, rolling wave planning should be done
for maximum:
 Six months.

(Correct)

 12 months.
  Three months.
 18 months.
Explanation
Annual planning often begins in earnest mid-year, which means that prioritized
initiatives may not be delivered for up to 18 months. This is not business agility.
Make planning a continuous “rolling wave” activity year-round with more detail
devoted to planning initiatives no longer than six months. Initiatives planned
beyond six months should be described at a very high level.
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Attempt 1
All knowledge areas
All questions
Question 1: Incorrect
A DA Team is using simple tools such as whiteboards and sticky notes so that
everyone can collaborate in the planning and modeling. What modeling practices
are referred here?
 Inclusive.

(Correct)

 Agile Modeling Session.

(Incorrect)

 Just-in-Time (JIT) Model Storming.

 Look-Ahead Modeling.
Explanation
Inclusive practices adopt simple tools, such as whiteboards and paper, and
simple techniques, such as free-form sketches, that allow everyone to
collaborate.
Question 2: Incorrect
Which one of the following Agile modeling practices can be carried out by an
individual agile team member:
 Look-Ahead Modeling.

(Correct)

 Just-in-Time (JIT) Model Storming.

 Agile Modeling Session.
 Inclusive.

(Incorrect)

Explanation
Look-Ahead Modelling: Someone on the team gathers information, explores
requirements, and thinks through the design before implementing the software in
parallel to the development effort, often a few days or weeks before the
information is needed.
Question 3: Correct
At what level, conflicts cannot be resolved?
 Crusade.
 Contest.
 Problem Solving.
 World War.

(Correct)
Explanation
Conflicts that have reached the “World War” level are no longer manageable
Question 4: Incorrect
Three developers were disagreed on when to reduce the technical debt and how
much time it will take to do this work. As a DA coach, you asked the team to
conduct a collaborative session to figure out the schedule for technical debt
removal. You also suggested the team set the rules around the maximum time
available for refactoring the code. This is an example of the following type of
conflict?
 World War.
 Crusade.
 Problem Solving.

(Correct)

 Contest.

(Incorrect)

Explanation
At the problem-solving level, establish some ground rules and work on solving
the problems collaboratively, with thought negotiation.
Question 5: Incorrect
Patrick Lencioni model of Five Dysfunctions of a Team starts and builds from
 Avoidance of accountability.
 Absence of trust.

(Correct)

 Fear of conflict.

(Incorrect)

 Lack of commitment.
Explanation
In Lencioni’s model, dysfunctions start at the base of the pyramid (Absence of
trust) and build on top of each other.
Question 6: Correct
Which leadership strategy is applied at the Forming phase of the Tuckman team
development model?
 Directing and leading

(Correct)

 Delegating the work

 Coaching and conflict management strategy
 Supporting as servant leader
Explanation
The correct answer is A: Directing and leading strategy should be applied during
forming stage.
Question 7: Incorrect
A DA coach has facilitated a workshop focusing on the architectural strategy.
Team members were agreed with the decision and roles were defined well. On
the next day, some of the team members showed concerns with the roles and
decisions. The team had to go through the arguments to affirm the decisions
again. This is an example of:
 Inattention to results.
 Fear of conflict.
 Lack of commitment.

(Correct)

 Avoidance of accountability.

(Incorrect)

Explanation
Lack of commitment—without passionate debate, team members rarely buy in
and commit to decisions, though they may feign agreement during meetings.
Question 8: Incorrect
Team members’ conflict has reached to next level and an external authority was
called in. It resulted in the adjourning of the team without doing any more work.
This is an example of conflict level:
 Crusade.

(Incorrect)

 Contest.
 World War.

(Correct)

 Problem Solving.
Explanation
During the world war, you have to bring in an outside authority to make difficult
decisions. That may result in termination of relationships and adjourning the
team.
Question 9: Correct
What is the most suited ways to improve the power skills such as creativity and
innovation in your teams?


By creating an environment of psychological safety

(Correct)

 Team consensus during decision making

 Through training and coaching workshops
 By developing an performance recognition systems
Explanation
The correct answer is D: By creating psychological safety in the team, team
members are encouraged to share diverse views without feeling punished or
blamed that result in creativity and innovation
Question 10: Incorrect
Following is not a type of Agile planning technique:
 Single source information planning.

(Correct)
  JIT planning.
 Rolling wave planning.

(Incorrect)

 Look-ahead planning.
Explanation
Single source information is not an Agile planning technique but a specification
and documentation strategy.
Question 11: Incorrect
Kate is an agile portfolio manager and is doing planning with her teams. What
type of planning is she doing?
 Daily planning.
 Release planning.

(Incorrect)

 Solution planning.

(Correct)

 Iteration planning.
Explanation
Agile portfolio managers typically focus on portfolio and solution plans.
Question 12: Correct
Teams’ coordination in a program is very good and team members are thinking
to do multiple tasks at a time. What is true about this statement?
 Cadences will be aligned and hence each team member can do
more work than set limits.
 Improved communication helps in multitasking.
 Team coordination doesn’t aim for improved multitasking.

(Correct)

 Work visibility is improved and bottlenecks are identified that will

help team members to do multiple tasks.
Explanation
Multitasking is a waste and team coordination doesn’t mean that team members
should do multiple tasks at a time.
Question 13: Correct
An agile team is brainstorming to identify the practices that can help in better
agile planning and modeling. Which practices team should not choose
 Multiple Models.
 Active Stakeholder Participation.
 Exclusive Models.

(Correct)

 Just Barely Good Enough (JBGE).

Explanation
One of the hurdles modeling presents is that some of the stakeholders don’t
understand or don’t want to learn about the diagrams/models they are seeing. As
a result, developers need to work with more inclusive models.
Question 14: Correct
Following is not an example of an Agile modeling session:
  Retrospective meeting.

(Correct)

 Architecture envisioning meeting.

 Requirements envisioning meeting.
 Iteration Planning meeting.
Explanation
The retrospective meeting is a self-reflection meeting but not an Agile modeling
or planning meeting.
Question 15: Correct
Which one of the following Agile planning practices can be used for high-level
scope exploration?
 Requirements Envisioning.

(Correct)

 Architecture Envisioning.
 Design thinking.
 Iteration Modeling.
Explanation
Requirements Envisioning figures out, on a high level, what the requirements are
early in the project to help come to a common understanding as to the scope of
what is to be accomplished.
Question 16: Correct
A DA coach has explained to the team that the inception phase is important as
we do high-level planning here as planning is important and is of high value.
What is NOT true about the value of planning?
 Value is benefit minus cost, therefore planning value can be
calculated using this formula.

(Correct)

 Planning is one of many activities that go into achieving benefits,

making it difficult to get the value of planning part of the benefits.
 The true cost of planning becomes harder when you consider the
downstream implications of the work required to gather inputs
that are needed to plan.
 Some of the benefits of planning can not provide you with a
monetary figure since they are qualitative.
Explanation
There is no real and concrete way to determine the actual value of planning
therefore option A is correct.
Question 17: Incorrect
An agile coach asked the team to do Agile modeling for a requirement instead of
planning. The team is confused between the two. What’s true about Agile
planning and modeling?
 Planning and modeling are the same in agile.
 Agile modeling is just barely good enough (JBGE) and planning is
in more detail.

(Incorrect)

 Agile planning is brief and modeling is bit more details.

  Agile modelling is building the model of what it would look like
and planning is how to do it.

(Correct)

Explanation
Agile modeling is building the model of what it would look like and planning is
what it would look like.
Question 18: Incorrect
A product owner is part of a continuous-delivery agile-lifecycle-based team. She
is worried about compliance needs such as documentation of the work as it
needs to be submitted to the relevant regulatory authority with each feature of
the work as early as it is produced and transited to operations. Which strategy
will work best?
 Document Continuously.

(Correct)

 Single Source Information as it has all the information in one

place.

(Incorrect)

 Executable Specifications.
 Document Late.
Explanation
Document Continuously: If you want to have potentially shippable software every
sprint, or a potentially consumable solution every iteration, the deliverable
documentation must be in sync with your software/solution throughout the
project to fulfill stakeholders' requirements.
Question 19: Incorrect
A DA team is using a lean-based lifecycle of product development and is working
with business analysts to analyze and design the requirements to implement. A
team does this type of work in the following session:
 Requirements Envisioning.

(Incorrect)

 Architecture Envisioning.
 Daily stand-up
 Iteration Modelling

(Correct)

Explanation
Iteration modeling provides the analysis and design of the requirements being
implemented. We do analysis and design work during iterations not in the
inception or requirements envisioning stage.
Question 20: Correct
Team A needs a team member from Team B to help with a particular task for one
iteration. What do you recommend for the team structure as an Agile coach
 Borrow Team B team member for the iteration, but he should be
attending the meetings of only Team A
 Add Team B team members to the core team of Team A
  Add team B member as a dedicated Team A member for one
iteration

 Borrow Team B team member for the iteration, but he should be

attending the meetings of both Team A and B.

(Correct)

Explanation
The correct answer is C: Borrow Team B team member for the iteration, but he
should be attending the meetings of both Team A and B.
Question 21: Correct
A team member has shown low assertiveness and cooperativeness during a
disagreement and resigned from the job. What type of conflict response did he
show?
 Accommodate.
 Collaborate.
 Compete.
 Avoid.

(Correct)

Explanation
When a person’s assertiveness and cooperativeness are both low, they will tend
to avoid conflict. This avoidance may take the form of diplomatically
sidestepping an issue, postponing an issue until a better time, or simply
withdrawing from the situation entirely.
Question 22: Incorrect
A team member didn’t complete his tasks for the iteration as he was busy with
personal work. The team didn’t bother to address the issue. As a result, the
planned work was not completed within time. This is an example:
 Lack of commitment.

(Incorrect)

 Absence of trust.
 Fear of conflict.
 Inattention to results.

(Correct)

Explanation
Inattention to results—failure to hold one another accountable leads to putting
individual goals ahead of the project.
Question 23: Correct
Following is the Effort versus value graph in Agile planning and modeling.

An agile team did efficient planning that lies in part.

  4
 2
 3
 1

(Correct)

Explanation
Efficient (1): Under-plan because you can always update it later if necessary.
Question 24: Incorrect
A team member was sure that some of the team members are not acting as per
the working agreement that was co-created and accepted by the team after
consensus. However, he didn’t bother to discuss the matter in the team
retrospective. This is an example of:
 Fear of conflict.

(Incorrect)

 Lack of commitment.
  Inattention to results.
 Avoidance of accountability.

(Correct)

Explanation
Avoidance of accountability—people hesitate to call their peers on actions or
behaviors that seem against the good of the team.
Question 25: Correct
Following conflict responding- modes can be defined on Thomas-Kilmann Conflict
Resolution Model.
 4
 5

(Correct)

 3
 2
Explanation
Five different modes for responding to conflict can be defined on two dimensions
of the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Resolution Model: 1) Avoid, 2) compete, 3)
accommodate, 4) collaborate, and 5) Compromise.
Question 26: Incorrect
A software development team believes that Agile Modeling produces better
results than predictive planning as it depends on focusing on the ability to react
to feedback. What is true about Agile modeling?
 Agile Modeling (AM) is a practice-based methodology for effective
modeling and documentation of software-based systems.

(Incorrect)

 Agile Modeling (AM) is a collection of values, principles, and

practices for modeling projects of any kind.

(Correct)

 Agile Modeling (AM) is a set of practices organized by categories.

 Agile Modeling (AM) is a practice-based methodology for effective
modeling and documentation of many different types of systems.
Explanation
Agile Modeling (AM), is a collection of values, principles, and practices for
modeling projects of any kind. It’s not just a set of practices or is not only for
software-based systems.
Question 27: Correct
As a team lead, you are using the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Resolution Model
which has the following number of dimensions.
 2

(Correct)

 4
 5
 3
Explanation
Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Resolution Model has two dimensions: 1) assertiveness
and 2)

Cooperativeness.

Question 28: Correct

An agile team invited a SAFe program consultant to facilitate a formal agile
planning and meeting session. Which technique is the team using?
 Agile Modeling Session.

(Correct)

 Just-in-Time (JIT) Model Storming.

 Consulting SAFe coach is not an appropriate technique as they are
more formal and prescriptive.
 Look-Ahead Modeling.
Explanation
Agile Modeling Sessions is a slightly formal approach to modeling or planning
than others and needs a skilled facilitator.
Question 29: Correct
Team A is waiting for a user story to be completed by Team B in a Scrum of
Scrums settings. This results in:
 Multitasking.
 Handoffs.
 Rework.
 Delays.

(Correct)

Explanation
This is an example of delays. Eliminating dependencies can simplify the value
stream and remove delays.
Question 30: Incorrect
Sam is an agile developer and he is doing planning while sitting alone in a cave.
What’s true about this statement?
 He is doing planning for the next iteration planning.
 He should not plan alone in agile settings.

(Incorrect)

 He is doing daily planning.

(Correct)

 He is developing a release plan.

Explanation
This is planning at the individual level and, as a result, is more concerned with
the day-to-day details. Individuals normally focus on this planning as part of their
daily work.
Question 31: Incorrect
Your team is formed and you are in initial days of your project (incpetion. Which
of the following scope types do DA teams should focus on planning during this
time?
 Product and portfolio planning
 (Incorrect)

 Iteration Planning
 Solution and release planning

(Correct)

 Daily coordination meeting and planning

Explanation
Correct answer is B: During inception, you should be planning what and how to
develop and release the Solution.
Question 32: Incorrect
Two team members realized during iteration planning that the high-level plan
developed during the inception phase needs revision, but the team members are
new to the team and they felt that their suggestion may result in disagreement
and arguments. This is an example:
 Lack of commitment.
 Fear of conflict.

(Correct)

 Absence of trust.

(Incorrect)

 Inattention to results.
Explanation
Fear of conflict: teams that lack trust cannot engage in unfiltered debate.
However Minor disagreement in the pursuit of a better solution is positive and
should be welcomed.
Question 33: Incorrect
A team member was very excited about his learning about a new technique and
shared it with the team. However team decided to keep on using previous
technique and decision was made through rules of thumbs. What emotional
intelligence components the team member should use to go with the team
decision and avoid conflict?
 Self Awareness
 Social Awareness

(Incorrect)

 Self-Management

(Correct)

 Social Skills

Explanation
The correct answer is B: Self-Management
Question 34: Correct
According to Patrick Lencioni, how many pitfalls a team faces as it seeks to grow
together.
 3
 4
 5

(Correct)

 6
Explanation
Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team model are ‘Absence of trust’, ‘Fear
of conflict’

‘Lack of commitment’, ‘Avoidance of accountability, ‘Inattention to results.

Question 35: Incorrect

You are a disciplined agile senior scrum master and have observed that team
members are discussing when to do activities to prove the solution architecture.
Few of them want to do it in sprint 1 where others are interested to leave it to
the next sprint. What level of conflict are they?
 Contest.
 World War.
 Problem to Solve.

(Correct)

 Disagreement.

(Incorrect)

Explanation
At this level, things aren’t personal yet. Everyone is optimistic and collaborative.
The language is clear, specific, and adult. There may be real differences over
goals, values, needs, plans, and information, but people understand one another
and honestly disagree.
Question 36: Incorrect
You suggested your organization to adopt GQM technique for measurement that
promotes a fit-for-purpose approach to metrics focused on outcomes/goals,
Following are the advantages of GQM except

 Results in detailed management under the auspice of helping

employees to achieve their goals.

(Correct)

 It is less abstract than OKRs and KPIs.

 Provides clarity on the process required to deliver.

 Tough to be gamed.

(Incorrect)
Explanation
The correct answer is D: Results in detailed management under the auspice of
helping employees to achieve their goals. Therefore Often perceived as formal
and bureaucratic.
Question 37: Correct
A team is doing more upfront planning for an Agile project because:
 The solution is complex therefore more planning will be useful.

(Correct)

 Access to stakeholders is easy so more planning is better.

 None of the above.
 The team is Skilled and experience so they can do more planning.
Explanation
If the solution is complex then you need more upfront planning.
Question 38: Incorrect
There are five stages of a conflict in a team. Which of the following is not a stage
of conflict.
 Problem to Solve.

(Incorrect)

 Contest.
 Holy-War.

(Correct)

 Disagreement.
Explanation
Five stages of conflict are Problem to solve, disagreement, contest, crusade, and
world war.
Question 39: Incorrect
Following is the Effort versus value graph in planning and modeling.

A traditional team did detailed planning that lies in part.

  4

(Correct)

 2

(Incorrect)

 3
 1
Explanation
Wasteful and risky (4): Traditionalists often over the plan, which makes the team
less flexible to respond to changes.
Question 40: Correct
A team has performed fantastically in the first release. All of the team members
participated collaboratively and the portfolio manager announced an equal pay
rise for all the team members. One of the team members asked for a better pay
rise than his counterparts and argued with the portfolio manager that he was
hired before his colleagues and must be preferred. He showed:
  Accommodate.
 Compete.

(Correct)

 Avoid.
 Collaborate.
Explanation
When a person’s assertiveness is high and their cooperativeness is low, they will
tend to compete. These people operate in a power-oriented mode in which they
use whatever power seems appropriate to win—their ability to argue, their rank,
or economic sanctions.
Question 41: Incorrect
On agile product development, you have to do more upfront planning and
modeling in all of the following cases except:
 Ease of change.

(Correct)

 More Risks.
 Domain complexity.
 The desire for “predictability"

(Incorrect)

Explanation
If ease of change is needed then do less upfront planning and modeling.
Question 42: Correct
Two teams are working on a value stream layer. Team B returned some
deliverables to Team A as they were not completed. This is an example of:
 Multitasking.
 Handbacks.

(Correct)

 Rework.
 Handoffs.
Explanation
The act of handing something back is called handbacks. This example talks
about handing work back to Team A.
Question 43: Incorrect
Two team members don’t want to work together as conflict has reached a
personal level. The product manager talked with both the members separately to
better understand their emotions and it is decided that team members will work
in different squads now. This is an example of the following conflict:
 Crusade.
 Problem Solving.
 World War.

(Incorrect)

 Contest.

(Correct)
Explanation
In a contest, give each person an opportunity to express their feelings and clarify
their interests. After that, we have to bring orders in a structured way.
Question 44: Incorrect
Following is the Effort versus value graph in planning and modeling.

A new agile team planned enough to be comfortable. It belongs to

 4
 3

(Incorrect)

 2

(Correct)

 1
Explanation
Comfortable but wasteful (2): This is where many new to agile aim for.
Question 45: Correct
For the graph given below, which statement is true

 The agile Project management belief system thinks that if you put
less effort into planning then more value will be generated.
 The agile Project management belief system thinks that planning
doesn’t improve even after putting a lot of effort into it.
 None of the above.
 The traditional Project management belief system thinks that if
you put more effort into planning then more value will be
generated.

(Correct)

Explanation
The traditional Project management belief system thinks that if you put more
effort into planning then more value will be generated. Agile Project
management belief-system thinks there is less value in planning.
Question 46: Correct
"Test-first" Programming improves quality by
 Helps to identify the bugs early by identifying the right tests

(Correct)

 Link potential defects to specific user stories

 Reducing the number of defects introduced
 Allowing a rapid programming for quick value realization
Question 47: Correct
A DA team invited an enterprise architect and a database administrator to join
one of their planning session. Which of the following session would the team be
conducting:
 Iteration Modeling.
 Architecture Envisioning.

(Correct)

 Requirements Envisioning.
 Retrospective.
Explanation
Architecture Envisioning figures out, on a high level, what the requirements are
early in the life cycle to cultivate a common vision of your technical strategy
within the team and with critical stakeholders.
Question 48: Correct
Which artifact can be used by a method-agnostic agile team to capture and
prioritize the requirements.
 Work item list.
 Option pool.
 All of the above.

(Correct)

 Product backlog.
Explanation
The most effective way to capture and prioritize requirements is to use a practice
such as a product backlog (Scrum), work item list (DA), and option pool (Lean).
Question 49: Correct
Team members’ conflict has reached to next level and an external mediator was
called in. The team communications were done through the mediator. He used a
variety of techniques to control the situation. It is decided by the mediator that
the team will not work together after the current release. This is an example of
following conflict level?
 World War.
 Contest.
 Problem Solving.
 Crusade.

(Correct)

Explanation
Conflicts that are at the “Crusade” level require safe structures and diplomacy—
likely using an external mediator. Trust is very low. Communication between the
factions will need to go through a third party as you look for possible areas of
agreement. Ultimately, decisions may need to be made by formal authority.
Question 50: Correct
You team is looking for a pragmatic measurement strategy. You told them to
consult all of the following principles except ?
 Manage to the metrics

(Correct)

 Prefer pull over push

 Prefer leading over trailing metrics
 Automate whenever possible
Explanation
Correct answers is B: Don’t manage to metrics, In fact go and talk with team if
you want to know the fact.
Question 51: Incorrect
The team members are talking about user stories and how to ensure that they
are well developed. Two of the team members want to use an explicit list
whereas the rest of the team members are happy with the acceptance criteria for
each story. They chose explicit list and acceptance criteria to use as
complementary techniques at the end. At what stage of conflict are they?
 Contest.
 Problem to Solve.
 (Correct)

 Disagreement.

(Incorrect)

 World War.
Explanation
At this level, things aren’t personal yet. Everyone is optimistic and collaborative.
The language is clear, specific, and adult. There may be real differences over
goals, values, needs, plans, and information, but people understand one another
and honestly disagree.
Question 52: Incorrect
A team member always defends his activities either right or wrong because of
politics in the team. He exhibits
 Avoidance of accountability.

(Incorrect)

 Absence of trust.

(Correct)

 Fear of conflict.
 Lack of commitment.
Explanation
The absence of trust reduces courage and increases unwillingness to be
vulnerable within the group.
Question 53: Correct
Following is an example of estimation unit used as relative points
 Hours
 Similar-sized items.
 Story points

(Correct)

 Functional points

Explanation
Correct answer is C: Story or relative points. This technique Increases the chance
that the team will believe in their estimate because they define the estimation
unit.
Question 54: Correct
A DA team is working on their first project and their understanding of the work is
aligned with stakeholders’ vision. The team has started their construction of the
solution. Most probably, what type of planning and modeling session, they will be
doing?
 Requirements Envisioning.
 Architecture Envisioning.
 Daily stand-up
 Iteration Modelling.

(Correct)
Explanation
Iteration Modeling: At the start of the construction iteration, teams typically plan
(estimate and schedule) the work that they will do that iteration.
Question 55: Incorrect
A team is highly collaborative and has worked together for a long time. The team
completed multiple MMRs together. The portfolio manager announced a bonus
for all. However, one of the team members has asked for two bounces. A
meeting was called to resolve the issue where another team member said that I
will not take a bonus instead the first team member can take two bonuses. The
second member showed:
 Accommodation.

(Correct)

 Avidness.
 Collaboration.
 Competition.

(Incorrect)

Explanation
When a person’s cooperativeness is high and their assertiveness is low, they will
tend to accommodate. This is the opposite of competing. It may take the form of
selfless generosity or charity, obeying the orders of others when they would
prefer not to, or yielding to another’s point of view.
Question 56: Incorrect
Test drive development (TDD) is adopted by the Agile team to produce a
shippable solution. What is not true about TDD?
 TDD leads to specification and not validation.

(Incorrect)

 You write a test before you write just enough production code and
refactor it.
 It is the same as test-first development.

(Correct)

 None of the above.

Explanation
TDD includes both test-first development (test and then code) and refactoring.
Question 57: Incorrect
An enterprise is committed for better value and client satisfaction that is possible
by improving the workflows that can be improved when:
 More work movement is going on to speed the workflow.
 The team structure is developed around the flow of work.

(Correct)

 More interactions between teams are happening.

(Incorrect)

 None of the above.

Explanation
By improving the structure of teams and organizing people around workflow, we
lower the number of interactions and make coordination easier. The goal is to
limit work movement by organizing and allocating people to improve
collaboration.
Question 58: Correct
Multiple teams are working using DA- agile lifecycle. Some user stories were
shifted to the next iteration by Team A as they were dependent on a user story
that needs to be completed by Team B in the current iteration. The product
owner didn’t like it and asked that dependencies must be fully eliminated. What
should teams do?
 Dependencies are a normal part of solution delivery and are a
major obstacle to flow and should be reduced as much as possible.

(Correct)

 Teams should find a best practice to fully eliminate dependencies

as they are a major obstacle to flow.
 Keep on shifting the user stories to the next iteration as
dependencies cannot be removed.
 None of the above.
Explanation
Dependencies are a normal part of solution delivery and are a major obstacle to
flow and should be reduced as much as possible. However, they cannot be fully
removed.
Question 59: Correct
Which of the following strategy is key in the consistency of information.
 ‘Document Continuously’ because you are producing potentially
shippable software every sprint.
 ‘Executable Specifications’ as they result in suitable tests.
 ‘Single Source’ Information as it has all the information in one
place.

(Correct)

 ‘Document Late’ as it results in stabilized information.

Explanation
Single Source Information: it talks about choosing the best artifact to record
information once. This reduces your maintenance and traceability burdens and
increases your consistency of information.
Question 60: Correct
Team A has borrowed a team member from team B while working at a Value
stream layer. It will help in all the following except:
 Reducing delays.
 Reducing handbacks.
 Reducing handoffs.
 Reducing outside dependencies.

(Correct)

Explanation
It is a core team formation that helps to reduce outside dependencies. The core
should as whole as possible with most of the required skills to complete a set of
features. A borrowing team member will not reduce outside dependencies.
DASSM Practice Exam 6 - Results
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Attempt 1
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All questions
Question 1: Correct
A long-standing agile team is using automated dashboards to measure and share
their progress. What is an advantage of automated tools in progress monitoring?
 They are intrusive to the team.
 All of the above.
 Hides unpleasant information.
 Transparency and trust in the team.

(Correct)

Explanation
It’s Increases stakeholders’ trust in the team because of transparency. All others
are not the advantages of automated dashboards.
Question 2: Incorrect
A team is worried about functional dependencies that occur between
requirements. What is not the reason for a functional dependency?
 Team members have driven.

(Correct)

 Requirements Decomposition.

(Incorrect)

 Technology Driven.
 The customer is driven.
Explanation
Functional dependencies occur between requirements and are customer-driven,
requirements decomposition, technology-driven.
Question 3: Correct
A DAD team is deciding to choose the right metrics to measure the team
performance. What should they NOT do?
 Your metrics should provide insights on the achievement of your
outcome.
 Choose some of the top metrics available in the market as they
are already tested.

(Correct)

 You can consult with universal metrics and evolve your way of
working as per your context.
 You should work through a measurement strategy to get your
metrics.
Explanation
The team should not choose top metrics available in the market as its needs are
unique.

Universal metrics can be consulted to find the right metrics as per your context.
The chosen metrics should provide you with insights into your performance to
achieve outcomes.

Question 4: Incorrect
A traditional team has recently adopted agile project methodology for one of
their technology projects and is using the status reports as a measurement of
performance. What are the advantages of status reports?
 It fulfils compliance needs.

(Correct)

 It provides a watermelon view of the project.

 It results in green shifting for senior management satisfaction.
 It results in quantum shifting in no time.

(Incorrect)

Explanation
It fulfils compliance needs. All others are disadvantages of the status report.
Question 5: Incorrect
A DAD team is busy in infrastructure configuration management along with IT
operations and support teams. What process goals are they achieving?
 Release planning.

(Incorrect)

 IT operations.
 Release Management.

(Correct)

 Support.
Explanation
The team is managing the release.
Question 6: Incorrect
You are working using DA Agile based lifecycle with continuous delivery and want
to build the quality in. You have to consider multiple issues. What is not true
about these issues?
 How easy will the solution be to adapt to changing stakeholder
needs.
 The solution conforms to applicable regulations.
 Built the solution according to generally accepted principles.

(Incorrect)

 The solution should meet the needs of the sponsor.

(Correct)

Explanation
The solution should meet the needs of all of the stakeholders not only sponsor
Question 7: Correct
A product owner is interested in measuring sub-Team A and sub-team B velocity
for the third iteration in a program. What will he get out of this figure?
 This figure will not give him any valuable information.

(Correct)

 None of the above.

 He will get the exact figure that helps measure the performance.
 He will be able to rightly compare the performance of both teams.
Explanation
He is preferring an isolated number (scalar) to trends and it will not give any
valuable information. Always prefer trends over scalars while monitoring.
Question 8: Correct
In value streams, we are using lead and cycle time to measure process efficiency.
How we will consider that a metric will be of a value?
 If it can help us to measure how much each team members is
productive.
 If it can help us to measure productivity and how it adds value
without compromising quality without time constraints.
 If it can help us to measure how much busy are the team
members.
 If it can help us to measure productivity and how it adds value as
quickly as possible without compromising quality.

(Correct)

Explanation
If every member of a team is fully productive, but this productivity does not lead
the team to realize value as quickly as possible, without compromising quality,
then the productivity is of little use.
Question 9: Correct
A DA team is working on a product that has strict compliance requirements for
documentation. BDD is used for solution development however it cannot be
transited to production because documentation was not completed. It is an
example of the following dependency.
 Start to finish.
 Start to start.
 Finish to Finish.

(Correct)

 Finish to start.
Explanation
Finish-to-Finish (FF): one activity cannot finish until another activity has finished
Question 10: Incorrect
As a portfolio manager what you will do to measure the teams' performance on a
programme:
 None of the above.
 Use the same metrics for consistency for all the teams.
 Manage the metrics.

(Incorrect)

 Choose common metrics categories for all the teams.

 (Correct)

Explanation
As a portfolio manager try to have common metric categories across teams.
Leadership can motivate the achievement of organizational goals through
metrics categories.
Question 11: Correct
A DASSM has used a three-step process to resolve the conflict. With the help of
the team, she defined the problem, explored and evaluated alternatives, and
select the best option. What work she did during the problem definition step?
 Acknowledge the conflict, Establish common ground or shared
goals, evaluate the alternatives.
 Acknowledge the conflict, Separate the problems and people,
search and define possible solutions.
 Acknowledge the conflict, Establish common ground or shared
goals, search and define possible solutions.
 Acknowledge the conflict, Establish common ground or shared
goals, Separate the problems and people.

(Correct)

Explanation
Acknowledge the conflict, Establish common ground or shared goals, Separate
the problems and people.
Question 12: Correct
An agile team is gathered in a big room to think about how to achieve minimum
business increments (MBIs). What are they planning for?
 It can be a start-up project or an existing product.
 For a start-up project.
 For an existing product.

(Correct)

 For an MVP.
Explanation
If you planning for something related to an existing product then the minimum
business increment (MBI) is for you.
Question 13: Correct
A new agile team is looking for a concrete technique that can provide metrics to
measure the individual and team goals as per their situation. Which technique
will you recommend as a DASSM?
 Popular metrics as the team is new.
 Goal Question Metric (GQM) as the team is new.

(Correct)

 Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) as the team will measure

objectives.
 Consistent metrics with other teams in the programme.
Explanation
Goal question metric (GQM) technique in which the team identifies the goals
(outcomes) they are trying to achieve, the questions they need to answer to
determine if they are achieving their goals, and then metrics they can gather to
provide insight into the questions.
It is useful on the team and individual levels, especially for new teams. However,
it can be heavyweight and will result in unique metrics.

Question 14: Correct

What should NOT be the purpose of measuring teams’ performance?
 Measure teams performance to motivate them to be an awesome
team.
 Measure to compete against themselves to improve.
 Measure to provide insights to teams to address issues.
 Measure to compare performance to reward the best team.

(Correct)

Explanation
Whenever leadership applies metrics to compare people or teams, even if it’s to
reward them, the likelihood that the metrics will be gamed increases.
Question 15: Correct
What is the preferred response to a conflict?
 Collaborate.

(Correct)

 Avoid.
 Compete.
 Compromise.
Explanation
We want to be assertive and cooperative while dealing with conflicts.
Question 16: Correct
A DAD project team is in the inception phase to schedule the cadences by
estimating the iteration and release lengths. What process goals are they
achieving?
 Accelerate value delivery.
 IT operations.
 Release Management.
 Plan the release.

(Correct)

Explanation
The team is planning for the release by estimating the iteration and release
lengths and schedule the cadences.
Question 17: Correct
A DA recommended team use Wikis to capture and maintain dependencies. This
is an example of the following tool
 Requirements Management Tools
 Backlog/Work Item Management Tools
 Simple Electronic Tool

(Correct)

 Physical Dependency Map

Explanation
Dependencies can be managed using simple electronic tools such as
spreadsheets, word processors or wikis.
Question 18: Incorrect
An experienced agile team is using an abstract measurement technique on
personal and team level. During its use, they found it difficult to execute and
measure their results. Which technique are they using?
 Consistent metrics.
 Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).

(Correct)

 Popular metrics.

(Incorrect)

 Goal Question Metric (GQM).

Explanation
Objectives and key results (OKRs) where desired objectives (outcomes) drive the
identification of measurable key results. However, it is abstract than GQM.
Question 19: Correct
A SAFe program consultant asked the sub-teams to use popular metrics as they
are well tested. What’s the advantage of using popular metrics?
 All of the above.
 A quick way to get metrics in place.

(Correct)

 The metrics are meaningful in every situation.

 Teams will capture all the key information.
Explanation
The only advantage is teams will get a quick way to get metrics in place but they
are highly likely not very useful.
Question 20: Correct
A team lead is pushing the portfolio manager to hire an architecture owner for
the DAD team because there are a lot of ……………. dependencies in the
solution:
 Requirements Decomposition.
 Technology Driven.

(Correct)

 The customer was Driven.

 All of the above.
Explanation
The technology-driven dependencies are the reason why the architecture owner
(AO) role is so important on agile teams.
Question 21: Incorrect
A DASSM told the team that “You get what you measure.” Therefore choose the
right thing to measure. What can be an example of the right measure in solution
development?
 The number of errors fixed.
 All of the above.

(Incorrect)

 The business value generated by the team.

(Correct)
  Team capacity in a given time.
Explanation
Business value generates by the team. If you measure errors that are fixed then
people will produce more errors to show that more errors are fixed. If you
measure capacity then people will look busy and do nothing.
Question 22: Correct
A metric is better that helps to change behaviour, make better decisions or get
better outcomes. Which metric will you prefer?
 A metrics that can provide you with an exact figure on a specific
point.
 A metric that tells you what is going on and what is the trend.

(Correct)

 An automated metric that provides you with the status report.

 A metric that provides you with past performance.
Explanation
Prefer leading over trailing metric and trend over scalar value. A leading metric
provides insight into what is happening, or what is likely to happen, whereas a
trailing metric indicates what has happened.
Question 23: Correct
F2F, S2F, S2S and F2S dependencies can also be called:
 Technical dependencies.
 People-based dependencies.
 Casual dependencies.
 All of the above.

(Correct)

Explanation
F2F, S2F, S2S and F2S are either casual (technical) or people-based.
Question 24: Correct
A team is using the progressive elaboration method. They did detailed planning
to prepare a Scrum artifact. What artifact is prepared?
 Programme Plan.
 Product Backlog.
 Iteration Backlog.

(Correct)

 Solution roadmap.
Explanation
Iteration backlog is a detailed, short-term view of a single iteration.
Question 25: Incorrect
One of the five modes of response to conflict is defined when there is:
 High cooperativeness and Moderate assertiveness.
 Cooperativeness and assertiveness are both moderate.

(Correct)

 Moderate cooperativeness and low assertiveness.

 None of the above.

(Incorrect)
Explanation
When a person’s cooperativeness and assertiveness are both moderate, they will
tend to compromise. This is one of the Mode.
Question 26: Correct
During a team meeting, Errol showed many concerns with Eli’s approach to work.
After the meeting, Eli approached to Team lead and asked him that she will go
and talk with Errol about his concerns and will find a way to resolve the conflicts.
Eli showed:
 Collaboration.

(Correct)

 Avidness.
 Competition.
 Accommodation.
Explanation
When a person’s cooperativeness and assertiveness are both high, they will tend
to collaborate. This is the opposite of avoiding. This collaboration can take the
form of exploring a disagreement to learn from each other’s insights or trying to
find a creative solution to an interpersonal problem.
Question 27: Incorrect
A Product Owner worked with a team to maintain the dependencies by capturing
the user stories on sticky notes and placed them on a whiteboard and indicated
dependencies via physical placement. What technique did PO use?
 Simple Electronic Tool.
 Requirements Management Tools.

(Incorrect)

 Physical Dependency Map.

(Correct)

 Backlog/Work Item Management Tools.

Explanation
Physical Dependency Map is the technique used by PO.
Question 28: Incorrect
A product owner and DA coach asked the team that it is required to use the lead
time metric to measure the production process from the customer's perspective.
However, the team told that they will be measuring cycle time to see the
efficiency of the team members. What’s true about this statement?
 The team should measure cycle time as it is a universal metric.

(Incorrect)

 The team should not measure cycle time as it always provides

inaccurate results.
 The team should not measure cycle time as it will provide wrong
and unwanted result in this context.

(Correct)

 Cycle time costs more than the value of the insights, it provides.
Therefore should not be used.
Explanation
Cycle time is good metrics but not appropriate to measure in this context as we
need to measure the production process efficiency from the customer’s
perspective.
Question 29: Incorrect
An organisation is planning to use some of the system-wide metrics to measure
teams’ performance. What’s true about this approach?
 System-wide metrics can work for things all teams have in
common.

(Correct)

 Consistent Goal Question metrics should be developed by the

organisation for all the teams.
 The organisation must measure outcomes instead of system-wide
consistent metrics across the team.
 The organisation must use metrics categories for things all teams
have in common.

(Incorrect)

Explanation
The only time system-wide metrics work is for things all teams have in common,
such as observed behaviour or internal processes required of all teams.
Question 30: Incorrect
A DASSM asked the team it’s better to use a rolling wave plan and prepare an
item pool with a medium-term view in mind. What type of planning is she asking
about?
 Iteration planning.
 Release planning.

(Correct)

 Portfolio planning.

(Incorrect)

 Solution planning.
Explanation
This scope of planning takes a medium-term view for a single release of a
solution.
Question 31: Correct
A team is using the ATDD approach of development but the tester can’t start
writing tests as acceptance criteria development was not started by the business
analysts. It’s an example of the following dependency.
 Finish to Finish.
 Start to start.

(Correct)

 Finish to start.
 Start to finish.
Explanation
Start-to-Start (SS): A successor activity cannot start until a predecessor
activity has started.
Question 32: Correct
IT operations are waiting for the deployment of a new CRM solution so that they
can close down a legacy CRM solution. It’s an example of the following
dependency.
 Finish to Finish.
 Finish to start.
 Start to start.
 Start to finish.

(Correct)

Explanation
Start-to-Finish (SF): A predecessor activity cannot finish until a successor activity
has started. For example, a new accounts payable system (successor) has to
start before the old accounts payable system can be shut down (predecessor).
Question 33: Correct
Metrics on a team level should be chosen with all of the following characteristics
except:
 Metrics should evolve regularly as team context evolve.
 Unique metrics for each team.
 Measure against team goals.
 Common dashboard for all the team.

(Correct)

Explanation
Each team should have a unique dashboard with unique but regularly evolving
metrics that should be focusing on team goals.
Question 34: Incorrect
A team is choosing the set of universal metrics that are fit for their context.
These metrics will help them:
 To be self-organized but governed by the senior management in
the right way.

(Correct)

 To measure their performance as compared to other teams in the

same program.
 To be fully autonomous so that senior management shouldn’t
bother to govern them.
 All of the above.

(Incorrect)

Explanation
Self-organized teams plan and estimate the work and chose metrics to achieve
the goals and objectives of the organization. They chose metrics that can help
senior management to govern them in a lean but right way.
Question 35: Correct
As a DA coach what you will NOT recommend to a team who is choosing metric
for their product:
 Prefer pull over push metrics.
 Choose only those metrics whose value should not diminish.

(Correct)
  Measure the value of your metrics.
 Educate people on what metrics mean.
Explanation
The value of many metrics diminishes over time so you need not worry about
that.
Question 36: Incorrect
A program manager is working with sub-teams who are working on Scrum based
lifecycle to choose the metrics to measure program-level performance. What is
NOT true about program-level metrics?
 Program goals evolve per iteration.

(Correct)

 Category indicators per sub-team.

 All of the above.

(Incorrect)

 Measure against program goals.

Explanation
Program goals evolve quarterly or per release or similar.
Question 37: Incorrect
GQM helps teams identify metrics that align with their specific priorities and
circumstances. It recommends team generate questions that define those goals
in a:
 Quantitative manner.

(Correct)

 All of the above.

 Either qualitative or quantitative.

(Incorrect)

 Qualitative manner.
Explanation
GQM technique recommends that Generate questions that define those goals as
completely as possible in a quantifiable way.
Question 38: Correct
A portfolio has one program with multiple sub teams and one project team in it.
The portfolio management team chose the metric categories and empowered all
the teams to choose their unique metrics that can be tracked and reported
qualitatively on the portfolio level. What is true for portfolio level measurements?
 All of the above.

(Correct)

 Category or overall indicators.

 Goals evolve slowly.
 Measure against organisation level.
Explanation
All of the above are true when doing portfolio level goal measurements.
Question 39: Correct
A manager is interested to measure the individual performance of a team
member working in agile settings. What is the most suitable example of an
individual performance measure?
 Quality improvement.
 Iteration velocity.
 Time to market.
 Presence in daily standups.

(Correct)

Explanation
Presence in daily standups is a suitable individual performance measure but
should not be chosen by agile teams.
Question 40: Correct
An organization allowed team members to work from home, one day a week.
Sam and Catherine were interested to take Monday as a work from home day. To
resolve the conflict, they discussed and agreed that they will work from home on
alternative Mondays. It shows:
 Avidness.
 Collaboration.
 Compromise.

(Correct)

 Competition.
Explanation
When a person’s cooperativeness and assertiveness are both moderate, they will
tend to compromise. These work to find some expedient, mutually acceptable
solution that partially satisfies all parties. It’s the middle ground.
Question 41: Incorrect
The Just-in-Time technique is also called:
 Start to finish

(Correct)

 Finish to start

(Incorrect)

 Finish to Finish
 Start to start
Explanation
Start-to-Finish is the same as Just in Time. We bring the next inventory as late as
the last inventory is left on the shelf. It means new inventories start to finish the
last inventory.
Question 42: Correct
In the value streams, we develop customer-centred solutions that can provide
value for the customer. How customer defines value?
 A solution business thinks important for customers hence invest in
it.
 A consumable solution that customer like to use.

(Correct)
  A working software with minimum technical debt and loved by the
team.
 A solution whose technical debt is reduced by the team.
Explanation
A consumable solution that customer, like to use, has value in the eyes of the
customer.
Question 43: Correct
An additional team is formed and included in a program to work on a business-
critical aspect of a solution. What type of metrics the team should use?
 Any of the above options are correct.
 Choose metrics as per the team’s context.

(Correct)

 Choose the same set of metrics used by all the teams.

 Choose the same metric as Team B is using.
Explanation
Every team is unique, facing a unique context, and will need to collect metrics
that are appropriate for them. It is important to have more than one metric to
have a full picture of how your team is performing.
Question 44: Correct
A team has recently shifted from the predictive method to the Agile method of
project management. Who will do the planning effort?
 Project manager.
 Team members.

(Correct)

 Project coordinator.
 Project sponsor.
Explanation
Team members are responsible for the planning effort in adaptive or agile
methodology.
Question 45: Incorrect
A dedicated and small DA team is using a lean startup lifecycle. During planning
for MVP, the DA coach advised that team should consider external dependencies.
What’s true about this statement?
 MVP is not for customers but for the business itself to learn about
an idea therefore External dependencies don’t matter.
 None of the above.

(Correct)

 When you are creating an MBI then the team only needs to worry
about external dependencies.
 External dependencies are critical when there is a team of teams
but not in a dedicated and small DA team.

(Incorrect)

Explanation
Dependencies are either internal or external. They occur when requirements are
being worked on by a single team and can occur when requirements are being
addressed by different development teams. Whether you’re doing an MBI or an
MVP, dependencies will come into play, no matter how much you try to avoid
them.
Question 46: Correct
Pragmatic reporting and metrics to measure team performance can be done
though:
 Prefer scalars over trends.
 Automate for real-time monitoring.

(Correct)

 Prefer trailing over leading metrics.

 Prefer push over pull.
Explanation
Automation reduces the cost, improves accuracy, and makes it easy to collect as
we go. It

Enables real-time monitoring. All other are wrong options.

Question 47: Incorrect

A portfolio team is working with DAD teams to choose the performance
measurement tools. What is NOT a principle that the portfolio team should keep
in mind?
 Always verify a team’s performance.
 Choosing consistent metrics across teams.

(Correct)

 Trust a self-organising team in choosing the right metrics for

them.
 Choosing consistent metrics categories across the teams.

(Incorrect)

Explanation
Have common metric categories, and NOT common metrics, across teams.
Leadership can motivate the achievement of organizational goals, without
forcing teams to adopt unnecessarily rigid and irrelevant metrics, by using
metrics categories.
Question 48: Correct
Who is responsible for planning in plan-driven project management
methodology?
 Project manager.

(Correct)

 Project coordinator.
 Project sponsor.
 Team members.
Explanation
A project manager is responsible for the planning effort though he can get help
from team members, project coordinators and subject matter experts.
Question 49: Incorrect
A product manager chose to use automated tools to measure milestones. What
can be a challenge in automation?
 Real-time monitoring.
  Can’t measure everything in an automated way.

(Incorrect)

 Accuracy.
 Cost.

(Correct)

Explanation
Not everything can be automated. There is an upfront cost but that reduces over
time.
Question 50: Correct
Following Functional dependency (ies) are the responsibility of the product owner
(PO)
 The customer is Driven.

 Requirements Decomposition.
 Both of the above.

(Correct)

 None of the above.

Explanation
Customer Driven and Requirements Decomposition dependencies are the
responsibility of the product owner (PO).
Question 51: Incorrect
A team is addressing dependencies. What is true about dependencies?
 If dependencies are internal then the team cannot control them
because the team is internally not healthy.
 Dependencies cannot control either internal or external.

(Incorrect)

 If dependencies are internal then the team can control them.

(Correct)

 If dependencies are external then the team can control them well
as long as the locus of change is internal.
Explanation
If a dependency is internal, it is something that is within the team's control.
External dependencies mean that the team needs something that is out of their
control.
Question 52: Correct
A portfolio manager wants a dashboard that can show the performance of each
team. What is the right strategy?
 The portfolio manager can use consistent metrics across the
teams to get consistent overall result.
 None of the above.
 teams can use relevant and consistent metrics categories that can
be tracked, calculated and tracked in portfolio level dashboard.
 (Correct)

 Each team is unique hence their metrics, therefore it’s not

possible to roll up the performance of all the teams in one
dashboard.
Explanation
Teams can use relevant metrics (metrics categories), and the qualities teams
measure can be collected, tracked and reported on in the portfolio manager’s
dashboard.
Question 53: Correct
A team is confused about how to define the measurement cycle time. A DA
coach explained that a cycle time is:
 The timing of a task appears in your workflow and its final
departure from the system.
 None of the above.
 The time of task’s appearance in your workflow to when you are
ready to work on it.
 The time from starting a task to when it is ready for delivery.

(Correct)

Explanation
Cycle time begins at the moment when the new arrival enters the “in progress”
stage, and somebody is working on it and finishes when work is done.
Question 54: Correct
A product owner is working on functional dependencies to ensure that a
requirement is properly implemented by the team. How much effort a PO should
put on dependencies?
 Little effort.
 All of the above.
 Full effort.
 Just Barely Good Enough.

(Correct)

Explanation
PO should do just enough work to maintain the dependencies.
Question 55: Correct
Server hardware is not purchased on time therefore architectural spike can’t be
started to prove its validity. It’s an example of the following dependency.
 Start to start.
 Finish to Finish.
 Start to finish.
 Finish to start.

(Correct)

Explanation
Finish-to-Start (FS): A successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity
has finished.
Question 56: Correct
The team has chosen a metric that will help them to find how many users have
recommended their product to other people. This metric is called:
 Employee focus factor.
 Net Promoter Score.
 (Correct)

 Internal rate of return.

 Net present value.
Explanation
Net Promoter Score® (NPS). Those who would recommend, and those who
wouldn’t.
Question 57: Correct
All the teams on a programme are asked to use consistent measures to report on
production incidents, cycle time, and velocity. What's the benefit of consistent
metrics?
 Leadership can measure teams consistently.

(Correct)

 Consistent Metrics collection is considered useful by all the teams.

 The metrics are meaningful in every situation.
 Leadership will not miss applicable and requested key
information.
Explanation
Consistent metrics enable leadership to measure teams consistently. All other
are wrong options and are not advantages.
Question 58: Incorrect
A DAD team is working as a part of a program launched by the organisation.
They chose the metrics that are appropriate as per their needs. What is not true
about team-level metrics?
 Unique metrics for each team.

(Incorrect)

 Common dashboard for all the team.

 Metrics should evolve regularly as team context evolve.
 Measure against organisations goals.

(Correct)

Explanation
The team should measure against their team level goals and later roll up to
program level.
Question 59: Correct
A metric is better that can help to change behaviour, make better decisions or
get better outcomes. Which type of metric will you prefer?
 A metric that provides you with past performance.
 A metric that tells you what is going on and what is the trend.

(Correct)

 An automated metric that provides you with the status reports.

 A metrics that can provide you with an exact figure on a specific
point.
Explanation
Prefer leading over trailing metric and trend over scalar value. A leading metric
provides insight into what is happening, or what is likely to happen, whereas a
trailing metric indicates what has happened.
Question 60: Correct
The team is considering discretionary dependencies in the schedule of
implementing user stories. What’s true about discretionary dependencies?
 Mandatory dependencies may or may not be considered while
planning and scheduling tasks in a sprint.
 Mandatory dependencies are inherited and don’t impact the cost
or schedule.
 Discretionary dependencies shouldn’t be considered as they don’t
impact cost or schedule.
 If a team doesn’t consider discretionary dependencies then it
might impact cost or schedule.

(Correct)

Explanation
Mandatory dependencies are something you must have, while discretionary ones
are something you should have, but if you don’t there might be a costly and/or
time-consuming way forward.
DASSM - Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master
Practice Test 1 - Results
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Pie chart with 3 slices.
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Attempt 1
All knowledge areas
All questions
Question 1: Correct
A disciplined agile team is asking for guidance about adopting an
estimation unit. What advice stould the scrum master offer?

 Use story points because they can provide a better cost estimation
than T-shirt sizes.
 Use standardized points that reflect inchustry norms for
estimating sizes.
 Use relative points because it increases the team's confidence in
their estimate.

(Correct)

 Use level of effort in order to sequence based on corplexity.

Explanation
Correct ans is C. We will go with Process of Elimination. The DA tool kit provides
different options for estimation. You can remove easily choice B and D as they do
seem to be relevant. T-shirt sizes are better estimates than Story Points. So, it
leaves choice C which is the correct one.
Question 2: Incorrect
Which level of scope looks at a short detailed view for planning?

 Daily

(Correct)

 Iteration

(Incorrect)

 Solution
 Release

Explanation
Correct ans is A. Daily Planning is a short detailed view of planning.
Question 3: Correct
The data team for a project requires an IT support team member to help
with a particular task in a few specific Iterations. How should the teams
be structured in order to optimize value creation?

 Add the IT support team member to the core team so that the
team member is readily available during the identified iteration.
  Have the data team borrow the IT support team member, but have
the IT support member attend coordination meetings for both
teams.

(Correct)

 Reassign the IT support team member to the data team for the
duration of the iteration.
 Keep the IT support team member with the IT support team, but
have the IT support team member focus solely on the data team
meetings during the iteration.

Explanation
Correct ans is B. We will go with Process of Elimination. The choice D is not a
valid one, choice C is not an option as per DA toolkit. And since it is required for
sporadic period, Choice B is the better one.
Question 4: Correct
Why is the value stream layer of the disciplined agile tool kit important?

 It visualizes the full workflow. allowing improvements while

maintaining an enterprise perspective.

(Correct)

 It is the foundation layer used to provide the conceptual

underpinning of the disciplined agile tool kit.
 It shows the value delivered for each iteration. producing a
consumable solution.
 It sets the context for teams to improve their own performance by
eliminating waste.

Explanation
Correct ans is A. The rest of the answers do not talk about Value Streams. It is
not the Foundational Layer, It is not the value for each iteration but a MBI and
the last choice is about Choose your WoW and not really Value Stream.
Question 5: Correct
Which option(s) from the coordinate activities process are considered
useful in coordinating efforts across multiple teams?

 Open space or unconferences where agendas are set real time by

participants""
 Visualize work and workflow, perhaps leveraging Kanban boards
or digital tools such as Jira.
 PIan releases with relative sizing or planning poker concepts.
 Both A and B

(Correct)

Explanation
Correct Ans are A and B. We will go with Process of Elimination. The question is
about coordinating activities with other teams or stakeholders, and the Planning
and Proving architecture early may not be the best fits
Question 6: Correct
How can a team increase the diversity of opinions expressed by team
members?
  Through coaching sessions.
 By creating psychological safety in the team.

(Correct)

 Through brainstorming sessions.

 By praising team members' contributions.

Explanation
Correct ans is B. This is straight forward; And physological safety enables diverse
opinions. Recall 5 levels of Trust deficit.
Question 7: Correct
What is the rote of the leadership in team formation?

 To create an effective environment that fosters Joy through a focus

on content, process, and feelings

(Correct)

 To develop an effective environment by allowing the team to

identify the content focus
 To provide an efficient environment by focusing the team on
selecting the right processes.
 To foster joy in the team by focusing on their feelings through the
Tuckman model.

Explanation
Correct ans is A. This is straight forward again and the answer choice nicely
summarizes the answer
Question 8: Correct
An organization is moving to goal question metric (GQM). What primary
benefit should they expect from this move?

 Team specific metrics and insights.

(Correct)

 Consistently agile metric application.

 Measurement consistency across the teams
 Similar metrics across organization, team and personal levels.

Explanation
Correct ans is A. Teams are unique and their goals. GQM is not there to build
consistency
Question 9: Incorrect
Which concern is resolved in the storming phase of team formation?

 Technical expertise gaps

 Establishment of rules

(Correct)

 Structure of team story

 Knowing about each other
 (Incorrect)

Explanation
Correct choices is B. The Stroming phase will help to establish the rules.
Question 10: Correct
Which approach can a team use with relative estimation?

 Resources
 Cyclomatic Complexity Points
 Function Points
 Story Points

(Correct)

Explanation
Correct choice is D. Hours and Story Points are the best options available and
commonly used.
Question 11: Correct
In which of these situations will the storming stage of team formation
take the shortest time?

 New team composed of internal staff and highly skilled

consultants
 New team composed of highly skilled internal staff
 New team composed exclusively of highly skilled contractors
 New team split from a previous product team

(Correct)

Explanation
The best choice is D. Since people already know each other, the Stroming phase
generally will be shorter among the other choices.
Question 12: Correct
During a team meeting, the following complain are raised:<br />Tester -
'The latest series of codes failed the tests. This development team
always starts with the same mediocre code structure and only improves
after multiple failures. I don't have the time to keep pointing out the
same base defect in code, every iteration.<br />Developer - *Our base
code is not defective, but it is only a starting point for further
development. Using the base code allows us to move forward with
feature specific code efficiently. If we were providedwith the test
passing requirements to begin with, we wouldn't need to go through so
many iterations.<br />What should the Team Lead say to de-escalate
the situation?

 We should focus on the code and not be complaining. The purpose

of testing is to find defects in the code. Let's move on to the next
meeting topic
 Let's start by acknowledging that conflict is an important part of
the team dynamics and we should not avoid it. Testers, what else
could the development team improve on?
 Everyone here wants to get to a defect free code as efficiently as
possible. Let's discuss how we can modify our Way of Working to
reach that point.
 (Correct)

 We know there are always bugs when the development team

hands off their first code iteration. there is no reason to get upset
about it now.

Explanation
The best choice is C. This is the best way to summmarize and how Disciplined
Agile helps to improve continously. The statement from Team Lead is also
positive to help resolve the solution.
Question 13: Correct
The following disagreement arises during a team meeting:<br />Tester:
'I think we need to use a different algorithm for this next iteration. The
original model doesn't really fit the data we are seeing. Developer: Let's
not make assumptions. Before we start modifying the algorithm. We
should look at the data details. There may be some outliners that
should be removed from the data before we determine how well the
model fits.<br />How Should the Team Lead respond?

 We can't have any disagreements diverting the focus of the team.

Let's stick to the Plan and move on with the next iteration
 I know the testing team may be feeling pressured to pass the
model so we can move on to the next feature. But that is no
reason to throw out our existing work. Let's clean the data set and
move on.
 You've both made some good points. We all want the model to be
accurate. Anyone else have an opinion on what our next step
should be?

(Correct)

 The development team is always overly cautious If the algorithm

isn't fitting the data, let's move on to the next model.

Explanation
The best choice is C. This is the best response from the Team Lead. He is trying
to resolve the situation and involving the team to find a proper solution. The rest
of the choices are kind of dismissing the conflict or the problem itself.
Question 14: Correct
Which of the following are tactical scaling factors in scaling agile at the
team level?

 Geographic distribution
 Domain complexity
 Team size
 All of the above

(Correct)

Explanation
Correct choices are A, B and C. This is straight forward question and answer.
Question 15: Correct
A scrum master is on a project team that is part of a larger program of
work. This program involves teams that are widely distributed around
the globe<br />What is the area of focus to help ensure effective
collaboration?

 Monitoring the performance of other teams to ensure that the

team is above the average.
 Monitoring the performance of each team member and visualizing
results on a central location to ensure that other teams can
mitigate risk.
 Check the Vellocity of different teams
 Regular conversations and a shared work visualization.

(Correct)

Explanation
Correct ans is D. The rest of the choices are not about collaboration.
Question 16: Correct
The last line of defence for any organization where you need to have
strategies to enhance the goodwill of the organization. Which process
blade focuses on helping end users to work with the solutions produced
by your delivery teams?

 Data management
 Support

(Correct)

 IT Operations
 Release Management

Explanation
The correct ans is B.
Question 17: Correct
What addresses the Data management issues in DevOps?

 DevSecOps
 DataDevOps

(Correct)

 BizDevOps
 None of the above

Explanation
The correct ans is B.
Question 18: Correct
A process goal is also Process Capability in Disciplined Agile

 TRUE

(Correct)

 FALSE

Explanation
The correct ans is True.
Question 19: Incorrect
The DA associates team is developing some point specific requirements
such as Call to Action, for their website. The team is not sure which test
strategy will be the best fit in the given scenario. They approach the
DASSM Team Lead and asks for his suggestion. The DASSM lead
recommends them the preferred option, given their current context.
What test strategy do you think the DASSM lead recommended to the
team?

 Acceptance Criteria
 Technical Stories

(Correct)

 Explicit List
 All of the above

(Incorrect)

Explanation
The correct ans is B.
Question 20: Correct
What are the?set of actions?that take place to add value for a
customer?from the initial request through the realization?of value by
the customer?

 Business Agility
 Lean
 Value Stream

(Correct)

 All of the above

Explanation
The correct ans is C. This is the precise definition of Value Stream
Question 21: Correct
The Value stream helps to do the following:

 Minimize Waste
 Bring visibility to org goals
 Produces alignment with the goals
 All of the above

(Correct)

Explanation
The crrect ans is D. Value stream helps in providing all these things
Question 22: Incorrect
This is the a qualitative measure of the resistance faced by the work in
a value stream.

 ToC (Theory of Constraint)

(Incorrect)
  Kanban system
 VSI (Value Stream Impedeance)

(Correct)

 None of the above

Explanation
The correct ans is C.
Question 23: Correct
Product, Portfolio and Program Management are part of the Value
Stream

 TRUE

(Correct)

 FALSE

Explanation
The correct ans is True.
Question 24: Incorrect
The following Process Blade intersects between DA Enterprise layer and
Value Stream Layer

 Legal
 Portfolio Management
 Strategy

(Correct)

 All of the above

(Incorrect)

Explanation
The correct ans is C.
Question 25: Correct
Organization DA associates is working on a large program. The Program
team wants to coordinate the releases across the organization. What is
NOT a way to coordinate the release for Organization DA?

 Release Slots
 Unique Project Releases
 Release Stream
 None of the above

(Correct)

Explanation
Correct ans is D. All are possible release options to coordinate. Also, Regular
release or Release Train is another option.
Question 26: Correct
A daily Scrum of Scrums (SoS) is a common approach to co-ordinate
among various product teams
  TRUE

(Correct)

 FALSE

Explanation
Correct ans is True. This is the most common approach adopted
Question 27: Incorrect
A team within the organization DA asscoiates wants to share
experiences about applying a specific agile option which led to achiving
a WoW for their team. They organized a facilitated meeting or multiday
conference where participants focus on this specific agenda. Which
type of meeting are we attending?

 Scrum Meeting
 Open Space

(Correct)

 Facilitated Working Session

(Incorrect)

 Scrum of Scrums (SoS)

Explanation
Correct ans is B. Open spaces are participant driven, with the agenda being
created at the time by the people attending the event. Also known as open space
technology (OST) or an ?unconference.?
Question 28: Incorrect
A team from the DA associates India location wants to use the expertise
on project management skill from the USA location team for a certain
cadence of 2 months. How best can this be achieved?

 Make the USA team member fly down to India location and stay
put in India for 2 months, and become a dedicated memebr of
India team

(Incorrect)

 The USA team members stays in USA and works with India team,
and attends the coordination of both the teams

(Correct)

 The USA team members lends his expertise and transitions to a

member in the India team
 Both the teams work on need basis, whenever a query arises

Explanation
Correct ans is B. This moves dependencies from between teams to within a team.
This lowers the number of handoffs, handbacks and delays.
Question 29: Correct
The team from PT.com wants to create a AI data driven application
which will help revolutionize how content is being read. They need new
skill sets and also specialized skill sets during certain frequent times
such as release to production. How can the situation be best managed?

 Create an in-house team with most of the skills needed and take
some other specialized skills from other teams or outside as
needed.

(Correct)

 Outsource the project to a different team and manage the vendor

 Work with different teams and use automated solutions.
 Recruit freshers and develop a new team from scratch

Explanation
Correct ans is A. Core teams reduce outside dependencies
to a few people. Using Kanban boards creates greater visibility on when these
capabilities will be available.
Question 30: Correct
Rohan and Vishnu are having a conflict and this is distrubing the entire
team performance. The leadership is concerned that the conflict will
hamper the delivery and it will have significant impact on their stategic
goals. The conflict needs to be addressed. What's the ready resolution
you would recommend?

 Rohan and Vishnu need to agree on the situation that needs to be

addressed.

(Correct)

 Rohan and Vishnu need to listen to the Team lead and agree on
Compromise
 Either of Rohan and Vishnu needs to go out of the team to
maintain the harmony.
 None of the above

Explanation
Correct ans is A. Always the situation has to be agreed by the conflicting parties
and is a first step to resolve the conflict.
Question 31: Correct
The DA associates is growing and this is a result of adopting Agility
practices. The leadership is very pleased with the continuous
improvement the team has exhibited in achieving the project goals. The
team wants good team members to take the DA associates to the next
level. In interviewing candidates to recruit in your Agile team, you are
ideally looking for

 Work independently without asking others for help

 Resolve conflicts between others
 Interact ably with Stakeholders
 Understand and influence the emotions of others

(Correct)
Explanation
Correct ans is D. This is one of the best answers as this is an important aspect of
Emotional Intelligence
Question 32: Incorrect
The defintion of done is

 Provided by the Product Owner

 Determined by the Team Lead and Team

(Incorrect)

 Defined by the customer and Team lead

 Ageeed upon by the Team and the Product Owner

(Correct)

Explanation
Correct ans is D. The Product owner is a representative of customer and
stakeholders, and knows about what is a minimum they want and the team can
dtermine what they can give, given the constraints.
Question 33: Incorrect
Your project team is pretty disturbed and you are trying to find out the
level of conflict with the another team. You notice statements like ' The
Legal always get it wrong' are becoming commonplace. What level of
conflict would you say the team is experiencing?

 Level 1
 Level 2
 Level 3

(Correct)

 Level 4

(Incorrect)

Explanation
Correct ans is C. This statements suggest over-generalization. The level 2 does
not go in this mode. One key word is always to suggest level 3.
Question 34: Correct
Agile modeling aims to:

 Capture the intent of the design in a barely sufficient way

(Correct)

 Capture the modeling techniques of Agile

 Capture the design and actual solution in a better way
 It is Agile planning with focus on actionables

Explanation
Correct ans is A. These agile modelling is barely suffiencient without wasting
much effort and just barely, to produce a high value benefits
Question 35: Correct
This is NOT part of emotional intelligence:
  The ability to identity, assesss and influence our emotions
 The ability to control our own emotions
 The ability to control other people's emotions

(Correct)

 The ability to identify, assess and influence other people's

emotions.

Explanation
Correct ans is C. You can influence but cannot control other people's emotions.
Question 36: Correct
The project team is figuring out the requirements early in the project to
help come to a common understanding, as to the scope of what is to be
accomplished. What are they doing?

 Iteration Modeling
 Requirements Envisioning

(Correct)

 Architecture Envisioning
 None of the above

Explanation
Correct ans is B. This is Session Types for Agile Modeling
Question 37: Correct
The project team is working on a complex project. The requirements in
this project keeps on changing and that has created a lot of frustration
among the project team members and even some of the stakeholders.
The project team wants to wait till the information is stabilized and
then begin writing the documentation. Which specification strategy are
they using?

 Single Source Information

 Executable Specification
 Document Continously
 Document Late

(Correct)

Explanation
Correct ans is D. Defer the creation of all deliverable documentation as late as
possible, creating them just before you need to deliver them
Question 38: Correct
The team from DA associates were finding a lot of issues to produce
deliverables. There was a perpetual delay happening, releasing the
deliverables to production. The Team lead suggested of an evolutionary
approach to the development team, that to write a test before the
development of code. He think this will lead to proper specification and
that there would be no need to validate the code. This looks like an
amazing approach which can save the time to production. What is the
team lead talking about?

 Prioritized Requirements
  Test Driven Development

(Correct)

 Acceptance Test Driven Development

 All of the above

Explanation
Correct ans is B. This is Related Techniques for Agile Modeling and this is your
TDD.
Question 39: Correct
The Agile team is taking on the planning with Agile modeling. Who is
responsible for Planning from the team?

 Product Owner
 Team Lead
 Team Member

(Correct)

 All of the above

Explanation
Correct ans is C. The team member is responsble for planning of work.
Question 40: Correct
The project team is working on a mobile development app for predicting
articifical intelligence for ecommerce site. They wanted to measure
stakeholder satisfaction for the phase 1 of the project. One of the
metrics is NOT the correct stakeholder satisfaction metric. Which is the
one?

 Net Promoter Score (NPS)

 Time in app
 User Retention
 UAT issues

(Correct)

Explanation
Correct ans is D. The others are Stakeholder Satisfaction for a development
project. UAT issues is Quality metric.
Question 41: Correct
A start up compnay decided to invest in the new automation tools and
see whether it is working for them. They wanted to check if the
productivity is increasing for the team. Which metric they should use to
understand the same?

 Cost of the tool

 Return on Investment
 Velocity

(Correct)

 Status Report
Explanation
Correct ans is C. The Velocity will give a good picture of the trend and hence, the
productivity increase or decrease.
Question 42: Correct
Ramesh has been highly productive in managing a lot of projects for his
organization. One of the skills which the management appreciate of
Ramesh is that he is a great listener and understands other
perspectives, and accordingly takes decisions. The team also respects
him for the same. Which emotional attribute are we talking about?

 Motivation
 Conscientious
 Empathy

(Correct)

 None of the above

Explanation
Correct ans is C. This is great example of walking in someone's else shoes
Question 43: Incorrect
Vimal is known for keeping to his commitments and being trustworthy.
He is fun to work with as well, and many like to have him in his team.
Which emotional attribute we are talking about?

 Empathy
 Conscientious

(Correct)

 Motivation
 Self-Confidence

(Incorrect)

Explanation
Correct ans is B. This is a good example of Conscientious
Question 44: Incorrect
The Covid was disaster year for DA associates. And despite the
setbacks, the team stood united and stood the course. Which emotion
are we talking about?

 Empathy
 Conscientious

(Incorrect)

 Motivation

(Correct)

 Self-Confidence

Explanation
Correct ans is C.
Question 45: Correct
DA associates is using a DevOps strategy to streamline operations and
development. Many stakeholders are not sure what are the perceived
benefits of this DevOps strategy. As a DASSM expert, can you please
educate the stakeholders?

 Uses to reduce time to market

 Minimizes waste such as hand-offs, handbacks
 Uses automation techniques always
 All of the above

(Correct)

Explanation
Correct ans is D. DevOps as a strategy does all things mentioned - it enhances
the value to the customer by streamlining operations and development
Question 46: Correct
The stakeholders of Pro Associates are becoming worried day by day.
There has been many defects during the testing cycles. It seems that
the Development team is getting it all wrong. Or is it the stakeholders
not specifying the requirements correctly. The team is not sure on how
to resolve the problem. The DASSM expert is suggesting a resolution.
Pick up the right one.

 Add more capacity to the team to find defects early and reduce
the time to market
 Hold coaching and mentoring sessions for the team to gel well and
reduce the errors
 Have the test specs done before the coding to reduce the time to
market

(Correct)

 Talk with stakeholders early and ensure that they do not change
the requirements

Explanation
Correct ans is C. This is exactly the Test Driven Development wherein you cut the
cycle of verification which is done afetr development and helps to reduce the
time to market
Question 47: Incorrect
There are 2 ways of finding the defects in the code. One is detection
and the other is ______________. Fill in the blank

 Verification
 Validation

(Incorrect)

 Prevention

(Correct)

 All of the above

Explanation
Correct ans is C. The other is prevention. Testing s verification and stakehodlers
validate
Question 48: Correct
The leadership team of DA Associates is deciding on a methodology to
measure their agile teams performance. The leadership team wants
every team to identify the outcomes that fit their context. The
leadership team wants that the teams should identify the key metrics
so that they can drive performance.<br />Based on the govern delivery
team process goal, which type of measurement strategy will meet the
leadership teams needs?

 Goal Question Metrics (GQM)

 Objectives and Key Results (OKR)

(Correct)

 Consistent Metrics
 Popular Metrics

Explanation
Correct ans is B. The OKR talks about desired results that the team wants to
achieve and as per their context.
Question 49: Correct
________________ is one of the causes of Value Stream Impedance (VSI).
Fill in the Blank

 Too little automation

(Correct)

 Too much automation

 Scrum Master
 None of the above

Explanation
Correct ans is A. This is one of the causes for VSI - the others are not.
Question 50: Correct
_____________ is an exploratory approach that should be used to
iteratively explore a problem space and identify potential solutions for
it. Fill in the Blank

 Disciplined Agile
 Design Thinking

(Correct)

 Scrum
 Hybrid Modeling

Explanation
Correct ans is B. Source - PMI Study Material
DASSM - Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master
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Question 1: Correct
A team member from company ABC asks the Product Owner to explain
what the Product Owner needs, and everyone including the team
members, Product Owner and even some stakeholders gather around a
whiteboard to share their ideas. Which method they are using to
coordinate?

 Scrum Meetings
 JIT Modeling

(Correct)

 Status Meeting
 Regular Conversations

Explanation
Correct ans is B. Requirements or design details are explored as needed, often in
an impromptu and simple manner. Also known as model storming, JIT analysis, or
JIT design.
Question 2: Incorrect
Project Insight organization had arranged formal modeling sessions, led
by a skilled facilitator, with defined rules to have stakeholders and team
members nteract with one another. Which sessions we are talking
about?

 Open Space meets

(Incorrect)

 Big Room Planning sessions

 Joint Application Design sessions

(Correct)

 None of the Above

Explanation
Correct ans is C.
Question 3: Correct
The project team of DA associates has started working on the
development and testing in parallel so that they can quickly deliver the
increment to the stakeholders. Which dependency are they following
for this work?
  Finish to Start
 Start to Start

(Correct)

 Finish to Start
 Start to Finish

Explanation
Correct ans is B. Since both the activities are started in parallel, the dependency
is SS or Start to Start
Question 4: Correct
The project team cannot start developing the user website without the
government approval. Which dependency are we talking about?

 Finish to Start

(Correct)

 Start to Start
 Finish to Finish
 Start to Finish

Explanation
Correct ans is A. Unless we finish the 1st activity, we cannot start the next
activity. It is Finish to Start or FS
Question 5: Incorrect
The project team of DA associates does not have the requisite skills and
have to depend on external vendor to fulfill this requirement. They
refer to the organization's Procurement standards and initiate a RFP
process to source it from vendor. The vendor is evalauted and selected
for the project. Which is this type of dependency?

 Mandatory Dependency

(Incorrect)

 Discretionary Dependency
 External Dependency

(Correct)

 None of the Above

Explanation
Correct ans is C. Since the project team has to depend on someone external to
the project, this is an external dependency.
Question 6: Correct
The project team of DA associates were working on their requirements
and understanding the dependencies between the requirements to
deliver the mimimum increment to the business. One of the
dependencies was to figure which technology would be more suited to
carry out the mobile app on AI. Who should be responsible to sort out
these dependencies?
  Product Owner
 Architecture Owner
 Both A and B

(Correct)

 None of the Above

Explanation
Correct ans is C. This is a technical dependency and Product owner may not be
able to figure out the underlying technical things. And he would need
Architecture Owner's help. The AO and the PO on a DA team work very closely
together.? AOs help POs to better understand the implications of the
technologies being used.
Question 7: Correct
Which of the following are the options to manage and maintain
functional dependencies in a project?

 Physical Dependency Map

 Simple Electronic Tool
 Work Item Management Tool
 All of the Above

(Correct)

Explanation
Correct ans is D. All of these are good examples of maintaining the functional
dependencies. Requirement Management tools are the other way to maintain the
dependency.
Question 8: Correct
Which is NOT an Universal Metric out of the following?

 Cycle Time
 Net Promoter Score (NPS)
 Net Present Value (NPV)
 None of the Above

(Correct)

Explanation
Correct ans is D. All the others are universal metrics
Question 9: Correct
The NPV (Net Present Value) for Project A is INR 10 million while the
NPV for Project B is INR 5 million. Which project should be considered
as priority by the management?

 Project A

(Correct)

 Project B
 Information is insufficient
 Both Project A and B

Explanation
Correct ans is A. The project with better NPV is one to consider, assuming other
things are not mentioned.
Question 10: Correct
What is Value as per Disciplined Agile?

 What the customer considers important

 What the business invests in
 What is most useful to the customer upon release
 All of the Above

(Correct)

Explanation
Correct ans is D. This clearly defines Value
Question 11: Correct
The system-wide metrics work in a particular situations for project
teams. A great example of system-wide metrics can be the following:

 Standard entry time for all employees

 Follow a set pattern to induct a new employee
 Both A and B

(Correct)

 None of the Above

Explanation
Correct ans is C. Both A and B work as the system wide metrics work for teams
which have common things such as Observed Behaviour or Internal processes
Question 12: Incorrect
The team Robot is working on getting a CRM installed for managing
their data and leads. The project has started and they are discussing
which metric is suitable to measure 'Time to Market'. Can you suggest
the team on a suitabe metric?

 Net Promoter Score (NPS)

 Cycle Time

(Incorrect)

 Schedule Variance

(Correct)

 UAT Issues

Explanation
Correct ans is C. The Schedule variance is good metric for Time to market. Cycle
time may not be a great metric in package installation. And UAT issues may not
be good to measure time to market but Quality or Stakeholder satisfaction
Question 13:
Skipped
The Portfolio Manager is one of the key persons to:

 Manage the entire set of Projects Portfolio

  Manages the Finance Portfolio for the organization
 Responsible for the benefits realized to the organization
 Identifies, prioritizes, organizes and governs initiatives for the
organization to maximize value

(Correct)

Explanation
Correct ans is D. This is the correct definition and the work for Portfolio Manager.
The C talks primarily about the role of Program Manager. The A and B choices are
not so relevant.
Question 14: Incorrect
The DA principle 'Organizing around products/services' enables us to
identify and optimize ___________. Fill in the blank

 Team
 Value

(Incorrect)

 Value Stream

(Correct)

 Flow and Workflows

Explanation
Correct ans is C. This is the best ans.
Question 15: Incorrect
The main job of DASSM is:

 Discovery
 Product Management
 Implementation

(Correct)

 All of the Above

(Incorrect)

Explanation
Correct ans is C. A DASSM works primarily in ensuring the implementation part
and liasons with all concerned. The Discovery part in the orgnization is generally
handled by Portfolio Manager
Question 16: Correct
Pro Associates are working in a multi-cultural and a global
environment. They are working with different departments to deliver
the value to the customer. They are using the process goal of
'Coordinate Activities'. How it will help to realize value sooner by
coordinating effectively?

 Reducing Handbacks
 Reducing Multitasking
 Reducing Rework
  All of the Above

(Correct)

Explanation
Correct ans is D. Yes, all of the above is the correct choice as corodinating helps
to reduce all these wastes
Question 17: Correct
What are the 2 ways to optimize the flow?

 Coordinate work between teams and Reduce Dependencies

(Correct)

 Coordinate work between teams and Deliver Value sooner

 Deliver Value sooner and Reduce Dependencies
 Increase Value and Reduce Dependencies

Explanation
Correct ans is A. This is the best answer choice.
Question 18: Incorrect
Pro associates are facing a lot of issues dealing with their teams to
deliver value sooner. The impact is lower revenue and lower customer
satisfaction. After a series of long discussons, they decide to organize
their teams around the workflow they are performing. By realigning the
team structure, what is / are benefits you can see immediately?

 Lower number of interactions

 Higher Motivation

(Incorrect)

 Limit work movement

 A&C

(Correct)

Explanation
Correct ans is D. By improving team structure, you can limit work movement
which leads to improved collaboration and lower number of interactions
increases coordination. Higher Motivation may not be a benefit.
Question 19: Incorrect
One of the DA principles is ___________. Fill in the Blank

 Be Practical
 Be Pragmatic

(Correct)

 Optimize the Whole

(Incorrect)

 All of the Above

Explanation
Correct ans is B. Optimize the Flow is the principle and Be Practical is not the
correct choice.
Question 20: Correct
___________ is one of the Dysfunction of the Team as per Patrick
Lencioni's model. Fill in the Blank

 Lack of Responsibility
 Avoidance of Work
 Lack of Commitment

(Correct)

 Goal Focused

Explanation
Correct ans is C. The rest of choices are not correct and made up answers.
Question 21: Incorrect
___________ is one of the Session Types Agile Modelling techniques. Fill in
the Blank

 (JIT) Model Storming

(Incorrect)

 Architecture Envisioning

(Correct)

 Active Stakeholder Participation

 All of the Above

Explanation
Correct ans is B. (JIT) Model Storming is Modelling Sessions and Active
Stakeholder Participation is a Modeling technique. Architecture Envisioning is the
only Session Type. The other Session types are Iteration Modeling and
Requirements Envisioning
Question 22: Incorrect
__________ is a type of planning that is performed on an as-needed basis
for a small batch of work. Fill in the Blanks.

 JIT
 JIT Planning

(Correct)

 JIT Modelling
 All of the Above

(Incorrect)

Explanation
Correct ans is B.
Question 23: Incorrect
________ is one of the milestones of Disciplined Agile in the Transition
phase. Fill in the Blank.

 Sufficient Functionality & Production Ready

(Incorrect)

 Delighted Stakeholders & Production Ready

(Correct)

 Sufficient Functionality and Delighted Stakeholders

 All of the Above

Explanation
Correct ans is B.
Question 24: Correct
In a team's 'Forming' stage, what is one of the first things the team
should do as part of establishing its initial Way ot Working (WoW)?

 Deliver value by producing a consumable solution.

 Select a lifecycle that best fits current needs.

(Correct)

 Measure existing WoW.

 Conduct a retrospective.

Explanation
Correct ans choice is B. Since the team is in the forming stage, first you need to
select the Lifecycle before you measure the existing WoW or conduct a
retrospective.
Question 25: Correct
A new team has instituted test-driven development. One of the team
members is very eager to show the benefits of test-driven
development. What its the preferred way to capture these benefits?

 Business case
 Expected outcomes

(Correct)

 Vision statement
 Business canvas

Explanation
The correct ans is B. Expected Outcomes is one of the possible options of TDD
Question 26: Incorrect
The team lead has recently been assigned to a Disciplined Agile project.
The Line managers provided the Team Lead with Developers and
Business Subject Matter Experts. What should the Team Lead do in the
first team meeting?

 Ask each team member to introduce themselves, providing

information about hobbies and personal achievements.
 (Correct)

 Ask each team member to introduce themselves, describing their

technical knowledge and skills.
 Assign roles and responsibilities to each member of the team and
tasks for the first couple of sprints.
 All of the Above

(Incorrect)

Explanation
Correct ans is A. This is the start to the project and the idea is to break the ice.
Start casually and find a common ground, and proceed to esablish some ground
rules.
Question 27: Correct
What strategies are applied at the storming phase of the Tuckman team
development model?

 Coaching and conflict management

(Correct)

 Recognizing behavior of individuals on the team

 Establish clear objectives
 Focus on achieving common goals

Explanation
The correct choice is A. Coaching and conflict Management are most effective
strategies at this stage of Team Development.
Question 28: Correct
What strategy can help the team move out of 'storming to the 'norming'
state?

 Interesting work challenges

 Encouragement
 Internal and external working agreements

(Correct)

 Clear objectives

Explanation
The correct choice is C. A good internal and external agreement will help to
establish good working conditions and take it to Norming stage.
Question 29: Incorrect
Which criteria can be used as a DoD (definition of done)?

 The iteration timeline

 The developer's criteria for completion
 Product scope document

(Incorrect)

 Passed peer review

 (Correct)

Explanation
The correct ans is D. The definiton of Done is the minimum criteria that signifies
the requirement is Done. One of the criteria is passed peer review
Question 30: Correct
In the last few iterations/sprints. the velocity has dropped due to poor
communication between team members, resulting from team size and
geographical distribution.<br />Which two actions could the team take
to improve performance?

 Ask management to provide a larger space to colocate the team.

 Introduce a new, more effective collaboration tool for remote
workers.

(Correct)

 Ask management to offer bonuses to high performing developers.

 None of the above

Explanation
Correct choices are B. The focus is to improve the communication and
producitivty by collaborating effectively.
Question 31: Correct
Which option describes the second stage of Tuckman's team formation
process?

 With hard work and structured processes, the team is likely

achieve its goals efficiently.
 People start to push against the established boundaries. Conflict
or friction can also arise between team members and their
preferred ways of working.

(Correct)

 People start to resolve their differences, appreciate one anOthed's

strengths, and respect your authority as a leader.
 Individuals will be unsure of the team's purpose, how they fit ih,
and whether they'll work well with one another.

Explanation
The choice B is the best option. The rest are depcting other stages,e.g., D is
Forming, C is Norming and A is Performing
Question 32: Incorrect
What are results of fostering healthy conflict?

 Increased innovation within the team.

(Incorrect)

 Decreased chance that people will hold back ideas or information.

(Correct)

 Practice negotiating conflicting stakeholder priorities.

  Decreased job satisfaction of some team members.

Explanation
Correct choice is B. This is the most approproate from the given choices.
Question 33: Correct
While every context is different, what type of planning is preferred to
enable business agility?

 Critical Path
 Detailed Planning
 High Level
 Progressive Elaboration

(Correct)

Explanation
The correct ans is D. Progressive Elaboration is the right choice. You never know
what is the sufficient planning as every team's context is different. Detailed
Planning may not be appropriate and at the same time, High Level Planning may
give more risks. Critical Path is founf in Traditional Project Management and
requires Detailed Planning.
Question 34: Correct
Which is the best approach to forming a team in order to ensure a rapid
progression to the performing stage?

 A project team resourced from various business units in

consultation with line managers.
 A team that has delivered a product that is now in the
Maintenance and Support phase

(Correct)

 An ad hoc team composed of highly skilled professionals

delivering work without well-defined boundaries
 An external team that will be engaged on a fixed price contract.

Explanation
The best choice is B&gt; If people know each other, you can expedite to
Performng Stage.
Question 35: Correct
What does DevOps try to streamline?

 IT operations and business operations

 Solution development and IT operations

(Correct)

 Security and data management

 Governance and solution development

Explanation
The best choice is B. DevOps is a treamlining of Operations and Development so
that a seamless flow can reduce waste and deliver value sooner.
Question 36: Correct
A new product owner (PO) has joined a team and wants to introduce
collaboration software to make it easier for them to report senior
management. However, the team is performing very well using sticky
notes on a Kanban Board. The team discusses the proposal in the
retrospective and concludes that a new tool will not improve the team
velocity. The PO accepts the team's assessment and the team continues
to use their Kanban Board. The PO provides a celebration at the end of
the retrospective:<br />Which emotional intelligence domain did the PO
apply?

 Self awareness
 Social skills

(Correct)

 Social awareness
 Self management

Explanation
The best choice is B. Social Skills talks about team and collaboration, ability to
inspire leadership.
Question 37: Incorrect
A team is considering using the self-organizing team technique to
formulate a release plan. What positive outcome can the team expect
from selecting this technique?

 Avoiding the need of a facilitator because the team runs itself.

(Correct)

 Producing a plan that is acceptable to senior management and

stakeholders.
 Producing a realistic plan that is acceptable to the people who
have to execute on it.

(Incorrect)

 Selecting a technique with a reasonably low-cost option as fewer

people are involved.

Explanation
The best choice is A. Follow the Process of elimnation. A self organizing team is
not producing a plan to please stakeholders, or selecting a low cost option. The
choice A seems to be the only reasonable option for a Self Organizing team
Question 38: Correct
A team is using disciplined agile. The team is having difficulties
understanding emotional intelligence and how it can improve
delivery.<br />What are is one of the 2 dimensions of emotional
intelligence that intersect to generate the four areas the team needs to
understand?

 Team as Individual
 Regulate V/s Recognize

(Correct)
  Outiook vs Resilience
 Respect as Courage

Explanation
Correct choices are B. Kindly refer the Emoitional Inteliigence Chapter.
Question 39: Correct
The DA Associates team has all new team members. They are not able
to come to conlusion on how to explore Quality requirements. They are
also unsure of the options they may have. They want the best possible
option to explore the Quality requirements. What can be the different
options for exploring Quality Requirements?

 Acceptance Criteria
 Technical Stories
 Explicit List
 All of the Above

(Correct)

Explanation
Correct Ans is D.
Question 40: Correct
The DA Associates' project team went ahead and chose Acceptance
Criteria as one of the options for exploring Quality Requirements. The
Architecture Owner of the project team disapproved of this option and
suggested that it will be challenging in the current circumstances.
What's the risk of having Acceptance Criteria as a prefered method for
exploring Quality Requirements?

 They test only a part of the functionality

 It is a traditional way of testing things
 relying on acceptance criteria alone risks missing requirements
identified later in development

(Correct)

 None of the Above

Explanation
Correct ans is C
Question 41: Correct
A Definition of Done (DoD) defines the minimum criteria that a work
item must meet before our stakeholders will accept it as completed.?

 TRUE

(Correct)

 FALSE

Explanation
Correct ans is True.
Question 42: Correct
The following is NOT a Process Blade in the Disciplined Agile DevOps
Layer:
  Support
 Release Management
 Data management
 Business Management

(Correct)

Explanation
Correct ans is D. The other blades are IT Operations, Security and DA Delivery
(DAD)
Question 43: Incorrect
The following Process Blades are NOT part of intersection of Enteprise
layer and Value Stream layer:

 Information Technology

(Correct)

 Business Operations
 Governance
 Marketing

(Incorrect)

Explanation
Correct ans is A. Information Technology is part of Enterprise layer
Question 44: Correct
Your company Noxdorf Pharma is an established organization and
building an enhancement to an existing product, which reduces blood
clotting in patients. This will be a path breaking discovery and the
company's share prices can hit the roof if the product is successful.
What you will propose the company as a DASSM expert?

 MVP
 MBI

(Correct)

 Just in Time
 All of the Above

Explanation
Correct ans is B. MVP is not suitable for an established company and for an
enhancement
Question 45: Incorrect
Mobeen Infra is a start up which is exploring a product to reduce IT
infrastructure for organizations. This will enable to reduce the
infrastructure costs by millions of dollars and the company is already in
discussion with many venture capatilists to fund the venture. Which
lifecycle of DA they should adopt?

 Agile

(Incorrect)
  Lean
 Exploratory

(Correct)

 Program

Explanation
Correct ans is C. Exploratory is the right life cycle to test and discover.
Question 46: Incorrect
Which of the following 2 process goals will have User Experience (UX)
as an option or decision point?

 Explore Scope and Develop Test Strategy

 Align With Enterprise Direction and Develop Test Strategy

(Correct)

 Explore Scope and Align with Enterprise Direction

 All of the Above

(Incorrect)

Explanation
Correct ans is B.<br /><br />This is a tough question. And probably, we should
use a Process of elimination. We will rule out 'Explore Scope' process goal and it
talks about discovering the scope and here, the UX interface will not come in
play. And hence, go with the other remaining option, where 'Strategy' is in
discussion.<br /><br />&nbsp;
Question 47: Incorrect
Team Uday is a new team formed and exploring which lifecycle is most
suitable for them. They will be executing a project to develop a AI
product for the organization. They need guidance and looking out for
some help. As a DASSM, you are requested to suggest a suitable lifecyle
for them as part of Choose your WoW. Kindly suggest the best option
for Team Uday:

 Agile

(Correct)

 Lean
 Exploratory

(Incorrect)

 Program

Explanation
Correct ans is A. This is the best life cycle which fits the team as the team is new
and they are working on project.
Question 48: Incorrect
The project of Team Uday has 8 team members and working across 3
different countries. The project also involves many different functions
such as Technology team, Operations team, Marketing team among
others. There is disparate ownership with regards to artifacts updates.
What is 'Disparate Ownership'?

 All different functions will collectively own the various artifacts

 Access, and update rights, to certain team artifacts are restricted

(Correct)

 All the artifacts are owned and shared by the entire team

(Incorrect)

 The team leader is the owner for the artifacts

Explanation
Correct ans is B. This is the correct definition for Disparate Ownership.
Question 49: Correct
One of the key teams in XYZ organization has adopted 'look back'
option of co-ordinating within the team. What are the types of 'Look
back' option for coordination within the teams?

 Status Meetings
 Trailing Metrics
 Both A and B

(Correct)

 None of the Above

Explanation
Correct ans is C. Looking back is Status Reporting and Trailing Metrics - mostly
used in traditional types of organization
Question 50: Incorrect
In an unordered list, to choose an option in a Goal Diagram;

 you can select only one option at a time

(Incorrect)

 You can select more than one option at a time

(Correct)

 You can select the top most option first

 You should select the bold option first

Explanation
Correct ans is B. This is the correct choice. Although bold options are good places
to start, you can choose any option