Guidewire Associate Exam 2025 With 140 Prep Questions
and Correct Answers/ Guidewire Developer Fundamentals
Test 2025/ Guidewire Insurance Suite (Brand New!)
What are the Product Owner's Responsibilities on a Guidewire project? (Select 3)
- ANSWERs the development team's questions promptly and with authority
- Facilitates the agile process
- Acts as a key stakeholder representing the voice of the customer
- Signs off on user stories and defects - ANSWER-1, 3, &4
- ANSWERs the development team's questions promptly and with authority
- Acts as a key stakeholder representing the voice of the customer
- Signs off on user stories and defects
What are the benefits of implementing InsuranceSuite using the base configuration?
- Transform business operations with innovation
- Keep current with technology trends in the industry
- Leverage product documentation, best practices, standards, and tools
- Leverage Guidewire consultants and expertise
- Leverage industry best practice built into InsuranceSuite applications - ANSWER-All of the Above
What are the potential impacts of reinventing legacy systems or features?
- Increased development time
- Decreased cost
- Performance Issues
- Increased maintenance responsibilities
- Limitations and challenges with upgrades - ANSWER-1, 3, 4, &5
- Increased development time
- Performance Issues
- Increased maintenance responsibilities
- Limitations and challenges with upgrades
,Identify strategies and tools you can use to avoid reinventing legacy systems and and features when
implementing InsuranceSuite applications.
- Prepare for elaborating requirements by reviewing Inception Notes
- Use the legacy system requirements as a starting point
- Compare system changes to business objectives for alignment
- Leverage the benefits of sticking to the base configuration
- Refer to the Strategic Value Map to identify the value of the change
- Demonstrate standard functionality in the InsuranceSuite application that will accomplish the same
results
- Point out the impacts to budget development time and maintenance management
- Refer to the process they are familiar with in their current system - ANSWER-1, 3, 4, 5, 6, &7
- Prepare for elaborating requirements by reviewing Inception Notes
- Compare system changes to business objectives for alignment
- Leverage the benefits of sticking to the base configuration
- Refer to the Strategic Value Map to identify the value of the change
- Demonstrate standard functionality in the InsuranceSuite application that will accomplish the same
results
- Point out the impacts to budget development time and maintenance management
Identify the Business Objective or Business Strategy that this requirement is aligned with:
Succeed Insurance wants users to be able to collect additional information about a business
premises. It is important to know details about previous damage to buildings on the property, and
any precautionary measures taken to protect the property, prior to issuing new insurance. This would
include location, age of structure, evidence of subsidence, details of any structural damage that have
occured since constructed, and added monitoring systems such as smoke detectors and burglar
alarms. (Select one)
- Bring product and product changes to market faster
- Decrease reliance on IT for product maintenance
- Improve efficiency through increased straight-through processing
- Make changes to base configuration to gain competitive advantage
- Maintain Underwriting excellence with reduced loss experience - ANSWER-- Maintain
Underwriting excellence with reduced loss experience
, Which of the Guiding Principles below would you reference when making a decision about whether
to implement the follow requirement:
For simple, small business that may be very budget conscious, Succeed Insurance currently offers
customers the option of splitting their down payment into two payments. Succeed would like for the
new system to automatically split a customer's large down payment into two payments. (Select all
that apply)
- We are not bound by the way we have always done things in the past
- We will challenge current processes
- We will leverage best practices built into the Guidewire software
- We will drive adherence to product alignment to reduce total cost of ownership
- We will strive for common workflows, processes, and systems across the organization
- We will automate that which can and should be automated
- We will limit scope as far as practical to accelerate time-to-market - ANSWER-When marking a
decision to change an InsuranceSuite application, weighing the impacts against ALL of the Guiding
Principles can help ensure the decision is correct.
Which of the following describes the unique approach Guidewire recommends for elaborating
requirements when leveraging standard features?
- Leverage functional requirements already available in user story cards for standard Guidewire
products as a starting point
- Refer to the functional requirements that were used to implement the legacy system
- After everyone agrees to a solution for the requirement, functional requirements are documented
from scratch - ANSWER-Leverage functional requirements already available in user story cards for
standard Guidewire products as a starting point
Identify the common pitfalls to avoid when elaborating requirements to maximize the value of
InsuranceSuite (Select all that apply)
- Referring to the standard user story cards for InsuranceSuite
- Suggesting requirements be placed on the backlog
- Allowing personal filters to influence requirements or solutions
- Accepting a solution offered as a requirement
and Correct Answers/ Guidewire Developer Fundamentals
Test 2025/ Guidewire Insurance Suite (Brand New!)
What are the Product Owner's Responsibilities on a Guidewire project? (Select 3)
- ANSWERs the development team's questions promptly and with authority
- Facilitates the agile process
- Acts as a key stakeholder representing the voice of the customer
- Signs off on user stories and defects - ANSWER-1, 3, &4
- ANSWERs the development team's questions promptly and with authority
- Acts as a key stakeholder representing the voice of the customer
- Signs off on user stories and defects
What are the benefits of implementing InsuranceSuite using the base configuration?
- Transform business operations with innovation
- Keep current with technology trends in the industry
- Leverage product documentation, best practices, standards, and tools
- Leverage Guidewire consultants and expertise
- Leverage industry best practice built into InsuranceSuite applications - ANSWER-All of the Above
What are the potential impacts of reinventing legacy systems or features?
- Increased development time
- Decreased cost
- Performance Issues
- Increased maintenance responsibilities
- Limitations and challenges with upgrades - ANSWER-1, 3, 4, &5
- Increased development time
- Performance Issues
- Increased maintenance responsibilities
- Limitations and challenges with upgrades
,Identify strategies and tools you can use to avoid reinventing legacy systems and and features when
implementing InsuranceSuite applications.
- Prepare for elaborating requirements by reviewing Inception Notes
- Use the legacy system requirements as a starting point
- Compare system changes to business objectives for alignment
- Leverage the benefits of sticking to the base configuration
- Refer to the Strategic Value Map to identify the value of the change
- Demonstrate standard functionality in the InsuranceSuite application that will accomplish the same
results
- Point out the impacts to budget development time and maintenance management
- Refer to the process they are familiar with in their current system - ANSWER-1, 3, 4, 5, 6, &7
- Prepare for elaborating requirements by reviewing Inception Notes
- Compare system changes to business objectives for alignment
- Leverage the benefits of sticking to the base configuration
- Refer to the Strategic Value Map to identify the value of the change
- Demonstrate standard functionality in the InsuranceSuite application that will accomplish the same
results
- Point out the impacts to budget development time and maintenance management
Identify the Business Objective or Business Strategy that this requirement is aligned with:
Succeed Insurance wants users to be able to collect additional information about a business
premises. It is important to know details about previous damage to buildings on the property, and
any precautionary measures taken to protect the property, prior to issuing new insurance. This would
include location, age of structure, evidence of subsidence, details of any structural damage that have
occured since constructed, and added monitoring systems such as smoke detectors and burglar
alarms. (Select one)
- Bring product and product changes to market faster
- Decrease reliance on IT for product maintenance
- Improve efficiency through increased straight-through processing
- Make changes to base configuration to gain competitive advantage
- Maintain Underwriting excellence with reduced loss experience - ANSWER-- Maintain
Underwriting excellence with reduced loss experience
, Which of the Guiding Principles below would you reference when making a decision about whether
to implement the follow requirement:
For simple, small business that may be very budget conscious, Succeed Insurance currently offers
customers the option of splitting their down payment into two payments. Succeed would like for the
new system to automatically split a customer's large down payment into two payments. (Select all
that apply)
- We are not bound by the way we have always done things in the past
- We will challenge current processes
- We will leverage best practices built into the Guidewire software
- We will drive adherence to product alignment to reduce total cost of ownership
- We will strive for common workflows, processes, and systems across the organization
- We will automate that which can and should be automated
- We will limit scope as far as practical to accelerate time-to-market - ANSWER-When marking a
decision to change an InsuranceSuite application, weighing the impacts against ALL of the Guiding
Principles can help ensure the decision is correct.
Which of the following describes the unique approach Guidewire recommends for elaborating
requirements when leveraging standard features?
- Leverage functional requirements already available in user story cards for standard Guidewire
products as a starting point
- Refer to the functional requirements that were used to implement the legacy system
- After everyone agrees to a solution for the requirement, functional requirements are documented
from scratch - ANSWER-Leverage functional requirements already available in user story cards for
standard Guidewire products as a starting point
Identify the common pitfalls to avoid when elaborating requirements to maximize the value of
InsuranceSuite (Select all that apply)
- Referring to the standard user story cards for InsuranceSuite
- Suggesting requirements be placed on the backlog
- Allowing personal filters to influence requirements or solutions
- Accepting a solution offered as a requirement
