Final

Question 1

a methodology that involves the client or end user in the design and development of an application, through a succession of collaborative workshops

Answer 1

Joint Application Development (JAD)

Question 2

What is the name of the 15-minute meeting held each day of a sprint?

Answer 2

Daily Scrum (ch.2)

Question 3

When estimating is done for a project, the development team should __________________.

Answer 3

Be fully involved in the estimating process

Question 4

independent procedures that are used together for checking that a product, service, or system meets requirements and specifications and that it fulfills its intended purpose 

Answer 4

Verification and validation

Question 5

a list of action or event steps, typically defining the interactions between a role (known in the Unified Modeling Language as an actor) and a system, to achieve a goal. The actor can be a human, an external system, or time. 

Answer 5

Use case

Question 6

is intended to ensure a product, service, or system results in a product, service, or system that meets the operational needs of the user

Answer 6

Validation

Question 7

Teams A and B work in different divisions of the same company. If Team A’s velocity is higher than Team B’s velocity, then Team A is more productive than Team B.

Answer 7

False, velocity is team dependent based off that team’s specific scale (Ch.7/8)

Question 8

A Scrum Master must be a _____________ leader.

Answer 8

servant

Question 9

Which of the following comes at the end of a sprint? (Check all that apply.)

Answer 9

Sprint Retrospective is last, Sprint Review is next to last(ch.4)

Question 10

The sprint review focuses on _______________ , while the sprint retrospective focuses on _______________.

Answer 10

The sprint review focuses on the product, while the sprint retrospective focuses on the process. (Ch.21/22)

Question 11

Who provides the definition of done on a backlog item?

Answer 11

Product Owner(?) (ch.4)

Question 12

What is the purpose of the sprint retrospective?

Answer 12

An opportunity to inspect and adapt the process. (ch.2)

Question 13

assessment based on an outline design of system requirements, to determine whether the company has the technical expertise to handle completion of the project.

Answer 13

Technical feasibility

Question 14

example of a design pattern

Answer 14

Abstract factory creational design pattern

Creates an instance of several families of classes

Question 15

is a hierarchical and incremental decomposition of the project into phases, deliverables and work packages. It is a tree structure, which shows a subdivision of effort required to achieve an objective; for example a program, project, and contract.

Answer 15

Work breakdown structure (WBS)

Question 16

The reason for holding regular sprint retrospectives is __________________________.

Answer 16

To continually give feedback to improve the process (?) (Ch.21/22)

Question 17

Who has the responsibility of determining whether a given backlog item is done?

Answer 17

Product Owner(?) (Ch.21/22)

Question 18

Which of the following are elements of a sprint review? (Select all that apply.)

Answer 18

Prework, Overview, Demonstrate, Adapt, Discuss (Ch.21/22)

Question 19

Which of the following is a responsibility of a Scrum Master? (Check all that apply.)

Answer 19

coach, servant leader, process authority, interference shield, impediment remover, change agent (ch.10)

Question 20

Which of the following are Scrum roles? (Check all that apply.)

Answer 20

Product Owner, Development Team, ScrumMaster (ch.2)

Question 21

is intended to check that a product, service, or system meets a set of design specifications

Answer 21

Verification

Question 22

the ability to prevent certain aspects of a class or software component from being accessible to its clients, using either programming language features (like private variables) or an explicit exporting policy

Answer 22

Information hiding

Question 23

A language construct that facilitates the bundling of data with the methods (or other functions) operating on that data; the features of this are supported using classes in most object-oriented programming languages

Answer 23

Encapsulation

Question 24

a process followed for a software project, within a software organization. It consists of a detailed plan describing how to develop, maintain, replace and alter or enhance specific software. The life cycle defines a methodology for improving the quality of software and the overall development process.

Answer 24

Software development life cycle (SDLC)

Question 25

the manner and degree of interdependence between software modules; a measure of how closely connected two routines or modules are; the strength of the relationships between modules

Answer 25

Coupling

Question 26

One of the tasks of a Scrum Master is to remove ________________.

Answer 26

impediments (ch.10)

Question 27

Which of these are an input into sprint planning?

Answer 27

product backlog, team velocity, constraints, team capabilities, initial sprint goal (ch.19)

Question 28

Put the following sprint activities into chronological order.

Answer 28

Product Backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Execution, Potentially Shippable Increment, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective (ch.2)

Question 29

measures the strength of relationship between pieces of functionality within a given module. For example, in in this type of system, functionality is strongly related

Answer 29

Cohesion

Question 30

Which of the following are components or examples of technical debt? (Select all that apply.)

Answer 30

unfit (bad) design; Defects; Insufficient test coverage; excessive manual testing; poor integration and release management; lack of platform experience;(Ch.7/8)

Question 31

Why are sprints timeboxed? (Check all that apply.)

Answer 31

Establishes a WIP limit, Forces prioritization, Demonstrates progress, Avoids unnecessary perfectionism, Motivates closure, Improves predictability (ch.4)

Question 32

By the end of sprint planning, the ________________ is finalized.

Answer 32

commitment or sprint backlog/goal (ch.19)

Question 33

Which of the following would be used to help verify that a backlog item was done?

Answer 33

acceptance tests (ch.4)

Question 34

In software engineering, this is a general repeatable solution to a commonly occurring problem in software design. It is a description or template for how to solve a problem that can be used in many different situations

Answer 34

Pattern (define the term generally, and describe at least one specific pattern)

Question 35

a computer programming mechanism in which the method being called upon an object or the function being called with arguments is looked up by name at runtime

Answer 35

dynamic binding

Question 36

breaking a complex problem or system into parts that are easier to conceive, understand, program, and maintain

Answer 36

Factoring (decomposition)

Question 37

Sprints should be of short duration. Which of the following is a benefit of the short duration?

Answer 37

Ease of planning, Fast feedback, Bounded error, Improved return on investment, Rejuvenated excitement, Frequent checkpoints (ch.4)

Question 38

assessment to determine the positive economic benefits to the organization that the proposed system will provide

Answer 38

economic feasibility

Question 39

written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory

Answer 39

Package

Question 40

a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior (small changes)

Answer 40

refactoring

Question 41

Sprint planning should take place before every sprint.

Answer 41

True / takes place at the beginning of the sprint (ch.19)

Question 42

allocates a fixed time period, called a time box, to each planned activity. It often involves having deliverables and deadlines, which will improve the productivity of the user.

Answer 42

Timeboxing

Question 43

Which of the following is an activity of a Scrum Master? (Check all that apply.)

Answer 43

Acts as coach, removes impediments that inhibit team productivity, is a facilitator (ch.2)

Question 44

a programming language's ability to process objects differently depending on their data type or class. More specifically, it is the ability to redefine methods for derived classes

Answer 44

Polymorphism

Question 45

Difference between functional and nonfunctional requirements

Answer 45

A functional requirement describes what a software system should do, while non-functional requirements place constraints on how the system will do so. An example of a functional requirement would be that a system must send an email whenever a certain condition is met. A related non-functional requirement for the system may be that emails should be sent with a latency of no greater than 12 hours from such an activity.

Question 46

Difference between a class and an object

Answer 46

a class is a static piece of code that consists of attributes which don't change during the execution of a program; an object is an actual instance of a class. Every object must belong to a class

Question 47

_____ (amount) coupling often correlates with _____ cohesion, and vice versa

Answer 47

Low coupling, high cohesion

Question 48

Who is involved in sprint planning?

Answer 48

Product Owner, Dev team, ScrumMaster (ch.19)

Question 49

is a framework for managing the effect of new business processes, changes in organizational structure or cultural changes within an enterprise (the people side of change management). A systematic approach to this is beneficial when change requires people throughout an organization to learn new behaviors and skills

Answer 49

Organizational change management