PC-BA-ABA Sample Questions & Answers
Modelling roles, stories and scenarios carries the biggest share, ahead of several evenly tied areas including agile principles, stakeholder engagement, context modelling, goal decomposition, requirements slicing, and iteration planning, with agile philosophy smallest.
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- Question 1Intermediate
Agile Principles · Six Core Agile Values
A newly formed agile team has been working together for three weeks. The Business Analyst notices that team members are frequently arguing over architectural decisions, challenging the Scrum Master's facilitation, and expressing frustration with the Product Owner's priorities. According to Tuckman and Jensen's theory of group development, which stage is this team currently experiencing?
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Correct answer: D
The team is in the 'Storming' phase. In this stage, individuals push against the boundaries established in the forming stage, often leading to conflict, clashes of working styles, and challenges to authority.
stateDiagram-v2 [*] --> Forming Forming --> Storming: Conflict emerges Storming --> Norming: Rules established Norming --> Performing: High efficiency Performing --> Adjourning - Question 2Beginner
Agile Principles · The Agile Manifesto
Which of the following value statements is explicitly stated in the Agile Manifesto?
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Correct answer: D
The Agile Manifesto states four specific values: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools, Working software over comprehensive documentation, Customer collaboration over contract negotiation, and Responding to change over following a plan.
- Question 3Intermediate
Agile Principles · Six Core Agile Values
A software team is building a new e-commerce platform. They decide to first build a simple 'walking skeleton' that allows a user to browse a hardcoded catalog, add an item to a cart, and complete a fake checkout. In subsequent sprints, they flesh out the catalog from a real database, integrate real payment gateways, and add user profiles. Which core agile value does this approach BEST demonstrate?
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Correct answer: C
This scenario perfectly illustrates iterative development and incremental delivery. The team builds a basic end-to-end flow (incremental delivery of a walking skeleton) and then refines and deepens the functionality over successive iterations.
- Question 4Advanced
Agile Principles · Six Core Agile Values
LogiTrans, a logistics firm, recently launched a highly sophisticated route-optimisation tool. The development team strictly followed coding standards, achieved 98% test coverage, and delivered the software with zero known defects. However, after three months, adoption among drivers is only 5% because the interface requires manual data entry while driving, violating safety regulations. In the context of agile values, what is the primary failure in this scenario?
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Correct answer: C
The team built the software perfectly from a technical standpoint (high test coverage, zero defects - doing the thing right), but they built something that users cannot actually use safely (failed to deliver actual business value - doing the right thing). Agile emphasises both, but delivering the right value is paramount.
- Question 5Intermediate
Agile Methods · Scrum
During a sprint, the Scrum Master notices that the team is struggling to identify why the product increment failed user acceptance testing. The Product Owner states that the requirements were clear, but the developers reveal they had hidden technical debt and undocumented workarounds. Which of the three pillars of Scrum has broken down first, leading to this situation?
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Correct answer: D
Transparency requires that emergent process and work must be visible to those performing the work as well as those receiving it. By hiding technical debt and workarounds, the developers compromised transparency, which in turn makes valid inspection and adaptation impossible.
- Question 6Beginner
Agile Methods · XP
Which of the following is NOT one of the five core rules/practices of Extreme Programming (XP) as defined in the syllabus?
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Correct answer: B
While timeboxing is a common agile concept, the five core rules of XP highlighted in the syllabus are: Pair programming, Test-driven development (TDD), Continuous integration, Simple design, and Refactoring.
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