DASSM Online Practice Questions and Answers

One of the important changes in the Finance processes in Agile teams is that:

A. You will have less oversight over spending as teams are self-organized

B. Teams will have a definite budget allocated and will manage to it

C. The organization has to be structured around functions like Sales, Development, etc.

D. You will not need to monitor cash flows to large extent

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

A. True

B. False

What is the role of the product owner?

A. Build the right product

B. Organize the product team

C. Inspect the product

D. Coordinate the product

Your organization wants to set up mechanisms so that teams can share their learnings with other teams. Which process blade is most likely to offer potential techniques to address this?

A. Support

B. Continuous Improvement

C. Governance

D. Portfolio Management

True or False: Enforcing adherence to organizational standards is an important aspect of Lean governance.

A. True

B. False

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

A. Creating forums for sharing knowledge

B. Making decisions about funding

C. Administer rewards and recognition

D. Complete freedom to the team to make decisions

E. Ensuring compliance with a regulatory standard

F. Having defined process for decision making

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

A. True

B. False

In a complex adaptive system, understanding the individual parts does not automatically convey a perfect understanding of the whole system's behavior Y/N?

A. Yes

B. No

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

A. Do the best you can

B. Stick to a method once you discover it

C. Always try to get better

D. Start where you are

Why is the retrospective an important agile ceremony?

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

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

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

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

How should iterations for an agile project be planned?

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

B. Iteratively by the product owner to ensure global optimization.

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

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

For an Agile or Lean project team, which best describes the aim of the Inception phase?

A. The team develops a plan to build a minimum business increment (MBI) that meets the needs of their stakeholders

B. The team performs sufficient work to develop a plan for performing initial requirements modeling, architecture modeling, risk assessment and business case development

C. The team develops a plan to build a consumable solution that meets the needs of their stakeholders

D. The team performs sufficient work to initiate the endeavor and obtain agreement as to the overall vision with their stakeholders

What are Disciplined Agile milestones based on?

A. Documentation

B. Lean governance

C. Continuous integration

D. Lifecycle

A company is introducing new features to a large, existing product. Which technique should the product team employ?

A. Continuous integration

B. Pull system

C. Minimum business increment (MBI)

D. Minimum viable product (MVP)

In Team Estimation...

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

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

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

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