DASSM Online Practice Questions and Answers

An organization uses a lean startup model to quickly validate ideas and narrow down on candidate projects to pursue. Which of the DA life-cycles would be most suitable for this setup?

A. Continuous delivery Agile

B. Agile

C. Exploratory

D. Lean

E. Continuous Delivery Lean

F. Program

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

A. Evolve Way of Working (WoW)

B. Address Risk

C. Improve Quality

D. Secure Funding

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

A. Incremental

B. Valuable

C. Tangible

D. Satisfactory

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

A. Everybody knows what is happening

B. It improves team morale

C. It delays breaking bad news to customers

D. Customers appreciate and expect transparency

The desire of senior management to evolve your organization to be more responsive to changes in your marketplace or environment is best captured by which concept?

A. Increased collaboration

B. Guided continuous improvement (GCI)

C. Disciplined Agile

D. Business agility

What are Disciplined Agile milestones based on?

A. Documentation

B. Lean governance

C. Continuous integration

D. Lifecycle

The primary advantage of breaking a project into phases is that:

A. It makes the transition from waterfall to agile easier

B. You can bring in new teams in each phase depending upon the skills needed for it

C. It allows the team to perform mini-waterfalls in each phase

D. It enables teams to focus on critical themes and ease of governance

We can identify our challenges

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

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

A. Delight customers.

B. Be a servant leader.

C. Enterprise awareness.

D. Accelerate delivery.

E. Be pragmatic.

What is a value stream?

A. A value stream is the funding plan for an Agile software development team

B. A value stream is the sequence of step that an organization undertakes to deliver a product or a service to customers

C. A value stream is the funding plan for the beginning-to-end process of service to a customer

D. A value stream is the sequence of activities followed by an Agile software development team