IIBA-AAC Online Practice Questions and Answers

When decomposing stories, the concept of "breadth before depth" signifies progressively breaking down:

A. Estimates and resources required to accomplish the story

B. Backlog items to the lowest level of detail upfront

C. Business goals into user stories representing smaller increments of value

D. Tests to align with usable functionality delivered through each story

The delivery team is in a meeting identifying cycle time improvement opportunities for delivery of the final product. They decide to apply the following technique:

A. Backlog management

B. Value stream mapping

C. Story decomposition

D. Story mapping

The team is expanding and refining customer scenarios as the solution components are being developed. This is an application of the following agile business analysis principle:

A. Understand what is doable

B. Avoid waste

C. Stimulate collaboration and continuous improvement

D. Get Real Using Examples

While quality checking the written user stories, the team ensures one of the components included in the attributes of a user story is:

A. The explanation of the story's cost

B. The stakeholder responsible for testing

C. The benefit or business value received by the user when the story is implemented

D. The title describing the goal of the delivery cycle

The delivery team is reviewing information that starts with a broad view of the solution components and drills down to a level of granularity, including acceptance criteria, that supports solution build activities. The team is using the following technique:

A. Story elaboration

B. Real options

C. Detailed story

D. Backlog management

The team demonstrates they value customer collaboration over contract negotiation by:

A. Constantly refining their understanding of the need based on stakeholder feedback

B. Learning what works by trying things out

C. Making people the center of the work

D. Updating the backlog based on the solution created

A team has been delivering a steady stream of small value increments and has completed several solution components, with some still remaining. The solution owner examines the reactions to the delivered components from customers, and decides that the need has been met and the remaining potential components won't deliver enough additional value to justify doing them. The solution owner will:

A. Request Strategy Horizon input about what action to take

B. Accept the work is complete and cancel remaining work

C. Fully document the working initiative

D. Ask the team to come up with new, more valuable, solution components for the initiative

The delivery team wants to ensure stakeholders contribute value on an ongoing basis to delivering the solution. This is an example of the following agile analysis principle:

A. Retrospective input and observations

B. Avoiding waste and unused functionality

C. Stimulate collaboration and continuous improvement

D. Value of assessing problems in a timely manner

The team discusses the agile principle of avoiding waste and decide it's important because it allows the team to:

A. Verify that the budget is aligned with spending

B. Focus on items that contribute to satisfying the need

C. Ensure clear and effective communication

D. Demonstrate ongoing quality backlog refinement

The standard format for documenting Behavioural Driven Development scenarios helps to maintain focus on:

A. Verifiable conditions, events, and actions

B. The user need and expected value.

C. Alignment of iterations with known user concerns.

D. The layers of modernist analysis

When recommending solution options at the Initiative Horizon, the team decides that their goal is to provide decision makers with:

A. The exact cost and timeframe options will take to complete

B. Just enough information to make an informed and accurate decision

C. The list of stakeholders that are allowed to have input

D. Everything known about the resource team doing the delivery

Strategic decision makers are considering large amounts of complex information covering many different areas. To reduce the information to a manageable level of complexity, they decide to use the following:

A. Reduction

B. MoSCoW approach

C. Models

D. Filtering

The product owner has found the overall goals of an initiative need to change and discusses the revisions with the team. The estimate of the revised work is greater than the original, which will likely cause the team to miss the fixed release date. The team works actively together to understand the new information about what is valuable and what is not, and find ways to eliminate work that does not directly relate to the newly expressed value. The team is demonstrating which agile value?

A. Contract negotiation

B. Customer collaboration

C. Comprehensive documentation

D. Processes and tools

The team is open to receiving feedback on the product it's creating and the processes it uses to create those products. Furthermore, they're using this feedback to improve every aspect of the work. This shows the team has embraced the concept of:

A. Acting on changes while working on the solution

B. Listening to customers at predefined intervals

C. Documenting customer driven feedback

D. Uncovering better ways of delivering solutions

Good analysis practices at the Strategy Horizon facilitate the transfer of relevant knowledge between teams to:

A. Better understand what features will be delivered

B. Cancel initiatives that no longer provide value

C. Stimulate collaboration and continuous improvement.

D. Prioritize and sequence features for delivery