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Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) Exam Questions and Answers

Question 1

True or False: The lean life-cycle in Disciplined Agile need not follow timeboxed iterations

Options:

A.

True

B.

False

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Question 2

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

Options:

A.

The team develops a consumable solution in a collaborative and incremental manner

B.

The team develops software, releasing it into production every two weeks

C.

The team develops new software every two weeks, demoing it to their stakeholders who may decide to release it into production

D.

The team develops software in a collaborative and regular manner

Question 3

True or False: If you are following scrum, you cannot use Disciplined agile.

Options:

A.

True

B.

False

Question 4

Which of the following is the least suitable way to adopt disciplined agile delivery (DAD)?

Options:

A.

Use any of the prescribed methods and follow to the letter

B.

Take advise from the Choose your WoW book

C.

Start with DAD

D.

Work with an experienced coach

Question 5

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

Options:

A.

Introduction, Substance. Alteration.

B.

Initiation, Foundation, Conversion.

C.

Commencement, Creation, Evolution.

D.

Inception, Construction, Transition.

Question 6

True or False: Agile teams can deliver non-software projects as well

Options:

A.

True

B.

False

Question 7

The primary purpose of creating a minimally viable product (MVP) is to:

Options:

A.

Commit to continuous improvement by adding value

B.

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

C.

Finalize the product design through a series of experiments

D.

Create a marketable product complete with useful features

Question 8

The primary benefit of DevOps is that:

Options:

A.

Decision to release can be taken by anybody in the team

B.

Creating strong business justification for products

C.

Reduced cost of deployments

D.

Increased mean time between successive deployments

Question 9

How do you know that you are finished estimating your user stories using the "Team Estimation" technique?

Options:

A.

There are no more user stories left to estimate, and no team member wishes to move a card

B.

You have spent the one hour set aside for planning

C.

The Product Owner is done estimating all the user stories

Question 10

A team should consider entering into the transition phase when:

Options:

A.

When a new MBI has been developed

B.

The product meets all the stakeholder's expectations

C.

When the operational teams are ready

D.

When the MVP is ready

Question 11

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

Options:

A.

By helping the team to focus on the construction phase.

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

Question 12

Which role on the delivery team builds the product right.

Options:

A.

Team Member

B.

Team Lead

C.

Product Owner

D.

Architecture Owner

Question 13

The following process goal usually requires a lot of tailoring:

Options:

A.

Form team

B.

Prove architecture early

C.

Accelerate value delivery

D.

Improve quality

Question 14

DevOps is an important competency for a disciplined agile team. This involves:

Options:

A.

Creating a smooth flow of work from development to operations

B.

Using development team members to solve operational problems

C.

Automating the testing effort in the team

D.

Involving operational teams in the development work

Question 15

What is the definition of Disciplined Agile (DA)?

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

Question 16

What is the role of the product owner?

Options:

A.

Coordinate the product

B.

Organize the product team

C.

Inspect the product

D.

Build the right product

Question 17

What is the role of management in Lean?

Options:

A.

Ensure documentation is completed

B.

Provide minimum viable products to the team.

C.

Create awesome team environments.

D.

Ensure decisions are not made regionally

Question 18

When should an iteration backlog be created?

Options:

A.

At the beginning of each project.

B.

When defining the MBI (Minimum Business Increment).

C.

When planning the Kanban board or other pull method.

D.

At the beginning of each sprint.

Question 19

True or False: A disciplined agile team will spend a considerable amount of time in the beginning to lock down the architecture and design of the product

Options:

A.

True

B.

False

Question 20

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

Options:

A.

MVP is a collection of MBI's

B.

MBI is the initial release that is sent to the customer

C.

MVP represents a product that is released to the customer

D.

MBI is typically built incrementally on top of an existing product

Question 21

True or False: Disciplined Agile roles cover all the possible roles in an organization

Options:

A.

True

B.

False

Question 22

Your organization wants to provide employees and customers with more information about its products and services so that they better understand how to take advantage of what the organization offers.

Options:

A.

Which process blade is most likely to offer potential techniques to address this?

B.

Agile Documentation

C.

Support

D.

Reuse Engineering

E.

Enterprise Architecture

Question 23

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

Options:

A.

True

B.

False

Question 24

Which of the following is a disadvantage of having a feature team as opposed to component teams?

Options:

A.

One team delivers a feature from top to bottom

B.

There are lesser hand-offs across teams

C.

Require cross-functional team members

D.

There is a temptation to build everything from scratch

Question 25

What is a "definition of done"?

Options:

A.

A checklist that tells the team when they can consider the user story done

B.

A checklist that tells the team when they are done with the iteration

C.

A checklist that tells the team when they are done estimating user stories

Question 26

Your team has written user stories to capture customer requirements, but they are concerned that the development team does not understand the overall business process. Which process goal is most likely to offer potential techniques to address this?

Options:

A.

Enterprise Architecture

B.

Ensure Production Readiness

C.

Explore Scope

D.

Improve Quality

Question 27

True or False: All the process goal diagrams need to be explored while determining the initial way of working.

Options:

A.

True

B.

False

Question 28

True or False: Fulfilling the requirements means that we delighted our customer

Options:

A.

True

B.

False

Question 29

True or False: The principle of pragmatism means that we will always do what the customer wants.

Options:

A.

True

B.

False

Question 30

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

Options:

A.

Projectized

B.

Specifically resourced

C.

Highly collaborative

D.

Trustworthy

E.

Ability to multi-task

Question 31

We can identify our challenges

Options:

A.

By visualizing our workflow to identify what blocks it

B.

By holding retrospectives

C.

By finding where we are frustrated

D.

By trying good practices and seeing where they don't work

Question 32

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

Options:

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

Question 33

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

Options:

A.

We can guarantee timely delivery of the product

B.

We can specialize in an area of our choice

C.

We can adjust quickly to changing customer needs

D.

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

Question 34

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

Options:

A.

Guiding the team through improvement actions

B.

Helping the team collaborate

C.

Providing timely decisions on priority and product roadmap

D.

Helping the team evolve their WoW

Question 35

A team has a lot of difficulty in performing system integration testing. What is the best way to address this?

Options:

A.

Do integration tests more often

B.

Add team members to testing

C.

Do the testing only once at the end

D.

Find a way to do less integration testing

Question 36

What goal diagrams should a team select first?

Options:

A.

The goals in which the team has the least experience.

B.

The goals that are selected by the customer and stakeholders.

C.

The goals that are the easiest to complete.

D.

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

Question 37

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

Options:

A.

Product owner

B.

Team lead

C.

Team members

D.

Gold user

E.

Architecture owner

Question 38

The best way to eliminate waste is to:

Options:

A.

Make sure each step is done as quickly as possible

B.

Make sure people know what their job is

C.

Eliminate delays in workflow and feedback

D.

Make sure each step is done correctly

Question 39

Your team is working on the new release of an existing solution and has discovered that it needs to pay down some existing technical debt. Which process goal is most likely to offer potential techniques to address this?

Options:

A.

Evolve Way of Working (WoW)

B.

Address Risk

C.

Improve Quality

D.

Secure Funding

Question 40

Why is the coordination meeting important for a project team?

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

Question 41

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

Options:

A.

Planning Poker

B.

Minimum business increment (MBI)

C.

Work in process (WIP) limits

D.

Minimum viable product (MVP)

Question 42

The final step in the Choose your WoW process is:

Options:

A.

Guided continuous improvement

B.

Make some choices

C.

Connect the dots

D.

Select the best-fit life-cycle

Question 43

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

Options:

A.

True

B.

False

Question 44

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

Options:

A.

Disciplined DevOps

B.

Disciplined Agile IT

C.

Disciplined Agile Delivery (DA

D.

Disciplined Kanban

E.

Disciplined Project Management Office (PMO)

Question 45

In Disciplined Agile, is the role of DevOps Engineer filled by the operations person assigned to an Agile or Lean team?

Options:

A.

Yes

B.

No

Question 46

When would you adopt the Continuous Delivery Lean life cycle?

Options:

A.

We have an experienced team working on a product or service where the requirements will evolve at a reasonable pace

B.

We have an experienced team working on a product or service where the requirements change frequently, potentially daily

C.

All of the above

D.

We have team that is new to Lean working on a product or service where the requirements change frequently, potentially daily

E.

We have team that is new to Lean working on a product or service where the requirements will evolve at a reasonable pace

Question 47

Select two tactical scaling factors that must be considered when analyzing the team's context.

Options:

A.

Demographics.

B.

Best Practices.

C.

Budget.

D.

Team Size.

E.

Dynamics.

Question 48

Which of the following is not a responsibility of the team members in a disciplined agile team?

Options:

A.

Set appropriate expectations about release timings with the customer

B.

Self-organize

C.

Evolve their way of working

D.

Evolve the architecture with help of architecture owner

Question 49

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

Options:

A.

True

B.

False

Question 50

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

Options:

A.

Tailoring the organizational structure to the context.

B.

Adapting lean methodologies when necessary.

C.

Identifying when to be agile.

D.

Being as effective as you can and continuously improving.

Question 51

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

Options:

A.

Architecture Owner

B.

Domain Expert

C.

Specialist

D.

Integrator

Question 52

Who decides how much is moved from the product backlog to the iteration backlog?

Options:

A.

Team members

B.

Product Owner

C.

Stakeholders

D.

Team manager

E.

Project Manager

Question 53

Which of the following may not help in improving predictability?

Options:

A.

Estimate in hours instead of points

B.

Reduce technical debt

C.

Reduce feedback cycles

D.

Respect WIP limits

E.

Adopt a test-first approach

Question 54

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

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

Question 55

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

Options:

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

Question 56

One of the promises of DA is to ensure psychological safety. This means:

Options:

A.

Providing a hygienic work environment

B.

Being able to work without fear

C.

Never criticizing team members

D.

Providing counselling to all team members

Question 57

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

Options:

A.

Mindset

B.

Enterprise

C.

Technology

D.

Goals

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