Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master DASSM Exam Questions

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1. 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?

Continuous delivery Agile

Agile

Exploratory

Lean

Continuous Delivery Lean

Program

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

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

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

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

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

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

True

False

4. What kind of metrics are favored in Disciplined Agile projects according to the Disciplined agile manifesto and principles?

Automated measures helping to make data driven decisions

Subjective measures more than objective measures

Scalar measures over trend indicators

Individual measures over team measures

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

True

False

6. Which of the following life-cycle models is based on continuous flow of work?

Continuous Delivery Agile

Program

Agile

Lean

Waterfall

Exploratory

7. The best way to eliminate waste is to:

Make sure each step is done as quickly as possible

Make sure people know what their job is

Eliminate delays in workflow and feedback

Make sure each step is done correctly

8. Which of the following best describes the idea of Business Agility?

Continuous reduction in the cost of operations over a period of time

All the teams in an organization following an agile process

The ability to rapidly adapt to market and environmental changes

Proven capability to always deliver on the commitments made to the customers

9. Which of the following is false about the Business Operations process blade?

It requires close collaboration with the Sales and Marketing process blades

It involves strategies for providing services to the business

The implementation of this blade will be standard across domains

It should focus on delighting the customers

10. 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

True

False

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11. All of the following are key principles to keep in mind as the team chooses and evolves it's

Way of Working (WoW) except:

Pragmatism

Delight customers

Choice is good

Context counts

12. True or False: Disciplined agile projects try to maximize the work-in-progress so that it can get more work done

True

False

13. Which of the following roles would fall under that of a "specialist' on a Disciplined Agile Delivery Team?

Project Manager

Stakeholder

Product Owner

Business Analyst

14. When changing legacy code, you should:

Add a test first, then change it

Rewrite the code instead of changing it

Delegate the task to someone else

Change the code, then add a test

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

Use any of the prescribed methods and follow to the letter

Take advise from the Choose your WoW book

Start with DAD

Work with an experienced coach

16. In Disciplined Agile, the daily huddle for a team is referred to as:

A daily meeting

A coordination meeting

A Scrum meeting

A Sprint review

17. Which artifact collects all the work flowing to the team?

Business backlog

Iteration backlog

Product backlog

Release roadmap

18. DevOps refers to:

Automating the testing effort in the team

Creating a smooth flow of work from development to operations

Involving operational teams in the development work

Using development team members to solve operational problems

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

Tailoring the organizational structure to the context.

Adapting lean methodologies when necessary.

Identifying when to be agile.

Being as effective as you can and continuously improving.

20. We do Plan Do Study Act (PDSA) to:

Better understand the effectiveness of our actions and to be able to improve our results

Reflect if we're working on the correct things

Improve our plans

Provide justification when something goes wrong

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21. Why is the coordination meeting important for a project team?

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

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

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

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

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

True

False

23. Lean governance practices involve all of the following except:

Regularly create business value

Directing the team with clear tasks

Empowering the team

Provide appropriate RoI

Present accurate and timely information

24. 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?

Evolve Way of Working (WoW)

Address Risk

Improve Quality

Secure Funding

25. A team is trying to explore the purpose, the domain and the usage of a product.

Which process goal is being worked on?

Address changing stakeholder needs

Align with enterprise direction

Explore scope

Identify architecture strategy

26. A company is introducing new features to a large, existing product.

Which technique should the product team employ?

Continuous integration

Pull system

Minimum business increment (MBI)

Minimum viable product (MVP)

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

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

You have spent the one hour set aside for planning

The Product Owner is done estimating all the user stories

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

True

False

29. When would you adopt the Exploratory Life cycle?

We are evolving an existing product or service and the customer requirements are well understood

We are evolving an existing product or service and the customer requirements are uncertain

We are bringing a new product or service to market and the customer requirements are uncertain

All of the above

We are bringing a new product or service to market and the customer requirements are well understood

30. True or False: A project that follows a Scrum or Agile life-cycle still needs the Inception, Construction or Transition phases.

True

False

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

Set appropriate expectations about release timings with the customer

Self-organize

Evolve their way of working

Evolve the architecture with help of architecture owner

32. Who is responsible for determining the WoW for a Disciplined Agile team?

Product Owner

Team members

Customer

Team lead

Architecture owner

33. Who is responsible for choosing the team's lifecycle?

The team's Agile coach

The team members

It depends on the context

The team's manager

34. True or False: Governance is not a critical issue in DA projects because most of the teams are self-organizing.

True

False

35. Which of the following is a TRUE statement in the context of roles in Disciplined Agile?

The team members are expected to be highly specialized

A person may take on more than one role in a team

The Product owner is the facilitator and process coach

The Team lead helps the team discover the technical roadmap

36. What is the role of the product owner?

Build the right product

Organize the product team

Inspect the product

Coordinate the product

37. What are three attributes of a leader?

Takes risks

Goes with the flow

Inspires trust

Assigns tasks

Focuses on goals

38. True or False: Any change or improvement in the process is likely to plateau unless efforts are put into constantly reviewing and revising it.

True

False

39. According to the DA manifesto, Transparency is valued over false predictability. This means that:

It is pointless trying to be predictable

Being open is better than pretending that we can predict the future

Stakeholders don't really need to know about the goals

Predictability is achieved only through transparency

40. What is the role of management in Lean?

Ensure documentation is completed

Provide minimum viable products to the team.

Create awesome team environments.

Ensure decisions are not made regionally

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

Creating forums for sharing knowledge

Making decisions about funding

Administer rewards and recognition

Complete freedom to the team to make decisions

Ensuring compliance with a regulatory standard

Having defined process for decision making

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

Product owner

Team lead

Team members

Gold user

Architecture owner

43. True or False: On an Agile team, the team members accept or reject their own work at the iteration demo

True

False

44. What are two of the ways that Disciplined Agile provides a solid foundation for business agility?

Creates awesome teams that foster joy.

Defines a framework for agility at scale.

Enforces adherence to organizational standards.

Describes the trade-offs associated with a range of options.

45. Usually the first step in deciding the team's way of working is to:

Connect the dots

Analyze the context

Make some initial choices

Coach setting the stage

46. What may NOT be decided during the INCEPTION stage of a Disciplined Agile project?

Test strategy

Deployment strategy

Initial architecture

High level scope

47. The architecture of a product is usually proven in which phase of a project?

Elaboration

Construction

Inception

Transition

48. 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?

Enterprise Architecture

Ensure Production Readiness

Explore Scope

Improve Quality

49. True or False: Enterprise awareness means trying to standardize the processes across all similar teams in the organization.

True

False