DISCIPLINED AGILE SCRUM MASTER DASM
COMPREHENSIVE TEST PAPER 2026
COMPLETE ANSWERS ACCURATE
⫸ What are the three phases of DAD's delivery life cycle? Answer:
Inception, Construction, Transition
⫸ Which is not a feature of a user story? Answer: Achievable
⫸ What is the purpose of an iteration retrospective? Answer: To transfer
knowledge and improvements to the next iteration
⫸ In Team Estimation Answer: you first estimate the relative sizes of all
stories, then assign numbers to them
⫸ What are the three phases common across project life cycles?
Answer: Inception, Construction, Transition
⫸ Why is the retrospective an important agile ceremony? Answer: It
allows the team time to focus on how they can better work together
moving forward.
,⫸ A team is about to being work on a project that will face rapidly
changing with releases only every six months or so. The teams does not
have an agile mindset, and does not want to release often. Which
lifecycle should the scrum master select? Answer: Lean
⫸ What goal diagrams should a team select first? Answer: Goals that
are most relevant to the team's context and life cycle
⫸ What is epic? Answer: Large stories that take a lot of effort, often
multiple iterations, to complete.
⫸ What are two of the ways Disciplined Agile provides a solid
foundation for business agility? Answer: Provides guidance to
streamline processes in a context-sensitive manner
Enforces adherence to organizational standards
⫸ Which is a supporting role a Disciplined Agile (DA) team? Answer:
Specialist
⫸ What is the role of management in Lean? Answer: Provide minimum
viable products to the team
⫸ Which of these tools or techniques should be used to sequence work
to deliver value quickly? Answer: Minimum business increment (MBI)
, ⫸ Which of the following process goals require most of the effort when
tailoring your agile strategy? Answer: Improve quality
⫸ What are the attributes of a leader? Answer: Inspires trust
Focuses on goals
Takes risks
⫸ Which of the following roles would fall under that of a "specialist" on
a Disciplined Agile Delivery Team? Answer: Business Analyst
⫸ Although most team members will be generalizing specialists, or at
least striving to be so, we sometimes have specialists on teams when
called for. User experience (UX) and security experts are specialists who
may be on a team when there is significant user interface (UI)
development or security concerns respectively. (Choose your WoW,
People First:Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities, page 46) Answer:
Being as effective as you can and continuously improving
⫸ What are Disciplined Agile milestones based on? Answer: Lifecycle
⫸ How does a value stream map help the team to minimize waste?
Answer: By helping the team to identify problem areas in the path for
realizing value.
⫸ Select two tactical scaling factors that must be considered when
analyzing the team's context Answer: Team size
COMPREHENSIVE TEST PAPER 2026
COMPLETE ANSWERS ACCURATE
⫸ What are the three phases of DAD's delivery life cycle? Answer:
Inception, Construction, Transition
⫸ Which is not a feature of a user story? Answer: Achievable
⫸ What is the purpose of an iteration retrospective? Answer: To transfer
knowledge and improvements to the next iteration
⫸ In Team Estimation Answer: you first estimate the relative sizes of all
stories, then assign numbers to them
⫸ What are the three phases common across project life cycles?
Answer: Inception, Construction, Transition
⫸ Why is the retrospective an important agile ceremony? Answer: It
allows the team time to focus on how they can better work together
moving forward.
,⫸ A team is about to being work on a project that will face rapidly
changing with releases only every six months or so. The teams does not
have an agile mindset, and does not want to release often. Which
lifecycle should the scrum master select? Answer: Lean
⫸ What goal diagrams should a team select first? Answer: Goals that
are most relevant to the team's context and life cycle
⫸ What is epic? Answer: Large stories that take a lot of effort, often
multiple iterations, to complete.
⫸ What are two of the ways Disciplined Agile provides a solid
foundation for business agility? Answer: Provides guidance to
streamline processes in a context-sensitive manner
Enforces adherence to organizational standards
⫸ Which is a supporting role a Disciplined Agile (DA) team? Answer:
Specialist
⫸ What is the role of management in Lean? Answer: Provide minimum
viable products to the team
⫸ Which of these tools or techniques should be used to sequence work
to deliver value quickly? Answer: Minimum business increment (MBI)
, ⫸ Which of the following process goals require most of the effort when
tailoring your agile strategy? Answer: Improve quality
⫸ What are the attributes of a leader? Answer: Inspires trust
Focuses on goals
Takes risks
⫸ Which of the following roles would fall under that of a "specialist" on
a Disciplined Agile Delivery Team? Answer: Business Analyst
⫸ Although most team members will be generalizing specialists, or at
least striving to be so, we sometimes have specialists on teams when
called for. User experience (UX) and security experts are specialists who
may be on a team when there is significant user interface (UI)
development or security concerns respectively. (Choose your WoW,
People First:Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities, page 46) Answer:
Being as effective as you can and continuously improving
⫸ What are Disciplined Agile milestones based on? Answer: Lifecycle
⫸ How does a value stream map help the team to minimize waste?
Answer: By helping the team to identify problem areas in the path for
realizing value.
⫸ Select two tactical scaling factors that must be considered when
analyzing the team's context Answer: Team size
