Answers to questions can be found in the Agile for Dummies and DevOps for Dummies books.

1. What are the basic benefits of using continuous integration?

2. What do agile approaches value?

3. Describe the approach that best determines an iteration (timebox) length?

4. What are characteristics of an agile leader?

5. In an agile development approach who is responsible for prioritizing the product backlog?

6. What are the key principles of DevOps?

7. What phase of the SDLC includes four main activities: requirements modeling, data and process modeling, object modeling, and consideration of development strategies.

8. What is the working culture of an agile team?

9. What is the agile approach to doing design early in a project?

10. What is the purpose of the daily standup meeting?

11. What should the team do if the customer representative is too busy to be available?

12. What are the traits that need to exist among the members of an agile software team?

13. What does a burn-down chart show?

14. What are the key features that you would expect to find in an Agile project?

15. In an interview, what type of questions limit or restrict responses?

16. What is a sustainable work pace?

17. How are agile processes managed as far as meetings and reports?

18. During an iteration (Sprint) the developers have what type of contact with customers?

19. Once a project is underway, what are the approaches to planning (this deals with the who/when/how of planning)?

20. When preparing a representative sample from a list of 200 customers who complained about errors in their statements, what type of sampling ensures that the sample is balanced geographically by selecting five customers from each of four zip codes?

21. What is the type of modeling within SDLC that involves fact-finding to describe the current system and identification of requirements for the new system?

22. What are the principles outlined in the Agile Software Development Manifesto?

23. What is the risk that an agile leader takes in empowering the team?

24. What is the end result of an agile development project (answer this in general terms, don’t overthink this)?

25. Characterize the quality of deliverables obtained from an Agile Project.

26. What best represents the agile approach to planning?

27. What is the reason for holding regular retrospectives?

28. When studying an information system, examples of actual documents should be collected using what process?

29. If a timebox (iteration) plan needs to be reprioritized in a hurry, who should re-prioritize it?

30. Who should attend the stand-up meetings?

31. What is a “sprint”?

32. What is the most important element in a JAD session

33. What does DevOps focus on?

34. Name the meeting during which the team demonstrates to the product owner and any other interested parties what the team was able to accomplish during the sprint?

35. Describe the role (and associated activities) of customers in agile projects.

36. Who should be the main judge of business value of developed/delivered software?

37. When is an iteration over (i.e., completed)?

38. Describe characteristics of agile customers.

39. What are the key questions answered by each team member at each daily Scrum meeting?

40. The product owner is responsible for what activities?

41. What is the agile approach to documentation?

42. Describe the Agile approach to teams working?

43. Agile Modeling (AM) provides guidance to practitioner during which software tasks?

44. What does a DevOps reference architecture support/enable?

45. In agile software processes what are the highest priorities to satisfy for customers?

46. Shift-Left-Testing is defined how?

47. What are Systems of Record and Systems of Engagement? How do they differ? How are they related?

48. Do all agile process models conform to the principles stated in the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development”?

49. What is the most critical of the essential DevOps techniques?

50. In agile development what is relationship of building software that meets the customers’ needs today versus features that might be needed in the future?