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Final Flashcards

1
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a methodology that involves the client or end user in the design and development of an application, through a succession of collaborative workshops

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Joint Application Development (JAD)

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

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Daily Scrum (ch.2)

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

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Be fully involved in the estimating process

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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 

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Verification and validation

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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. 

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Use case

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

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Validation

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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.

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

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A Scrum Master must be a _____________ leader.

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servant

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

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

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

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

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Who provides the definition of done on a backlog item?

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Product Owner(?) (ch.4)

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What is the purpose of the sprint retrospective?

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

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

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Technical feasibility

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example of a design pattern

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Abstract factory creational design pattern

Creates an instance of several families of classes

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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.

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Work breakdown structure (WBS)

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The reason for holding regular sprint retrospectives is __________________________.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

21
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is intended to check that a product, service, or system meets a set of design specifications

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Verification

22
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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

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Information hiding

23
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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

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Encapsulation

24
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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.

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Software development life cycle (SDLC)

25
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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

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Coupling

26
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One of the tasks of a Scrum Master is to remove ________________.

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impediments (ch.10)

27
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Which of these are an input into sprint planning?

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

28
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Put the following sprint activities into chronological order.

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

29
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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

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Cohesion

30
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Which of the following are components or examples of technical debt? (Select all that apply.)

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

31
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Why are sprints timeboxed? (Check all that apply.)

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

32
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By the end of sprint planning, the ________________ is finalized.

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commitment or sprint backlog/goal (ch.19)

33
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Which of the following would be used to help verify that a backlog item was done?

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acceptance tests (ch.4)

34
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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

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

35
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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

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dynamic binding

36
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breaking a complex problem or system into parts that are easier to conceive, understand, program, and maintain

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Factoring (decomposition)

37
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Sprints should be of short duration. Which of the following is a benefit of the short duration?

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

38
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assessment to determine the positive economic benefits to the organization that the proposed system will provide

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economic feasibility

39
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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

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Package

40
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a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior (small changes)

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refactoring

41
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Sprint planning should take place before every sprint.

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

42
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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.

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Timeboxing

43
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Which of the following is an activity of a Scrum Master? (Check all that apply.)

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

44
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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

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Polymorphism

45
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Difference between functional and nonfunctional requirements

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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.

46
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Difference between a class and an object

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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

47
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_____ (amount) coupling often correlates with _____ cohesion, and vice versa

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Low coupling, high cohesion

48
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Who is involved in sprint planning?

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

49
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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

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Organizational change management

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