NAD OVERVIEW

1. APW POD is an entry point for all NAD users with access that is policy driven and as per role
defined
2. Automated development pipeline is available in which PoD- DiCD
3. BDD stands for Behavior driven development
4. CaaS stands for Capability as a service
5. Capability as a Service enables the Project Manager to Plan for resources and infrastructure
6. Collection of loosely coupled services, which implement business capabilities, is called-Portfolio
7. FMO stands for Future Mode of Operation
8. Following is not a prototyping tools – HTML
9. Gamification is a key feature in APW
10. How many POD’s are there in #NAD? – 6
11. If an associate wants to upskill himself on new age tools he would approach UaaS
12. In which POD user stories and features are defined – DTaS
13. Key Benefits of New Age Delivery are smart planning, Reduction in project cycle time,
Improved customer experience.
14. NAD platform is hosted on AWS
15. NAD will enable Delivery transformation in terms of which factors- Quality and Time
16. New Age Delivery is a Platform
17. New skill units will be designed by UaaS
18. On CAST analysis, TQI score of 3.62 indicates Low Risk
19. Partner onboarding is one of key features in CaaS and UaaS
20. Portfolio consists of Set of colonies where reusable assets are stored
21. Proactive early warnings will be given by APW
22. Prototyping can be done as a part of DTaS
23. Rapid prototyping with continuous delivery contributes to which theme -Speed of delivery
24. Reusable data lakes are part of CaaS
25. Schedule variance/technical debt is a new age metric.
26. Skill unit represents Skills required for the scrum team for Full-stack design and development
27. Smart planning is a feature of CaaS POD.
28. The #NAD prototype is available to all on nad.techmahindra.com
29. The following below are not NAD tools- Microsoft project
30. What are the concepts of “Factory of Future” – Reusability and BizDevOps
31. What are traits of a portfolio -set of colonies, reusable assets, tagged for industry, domain
32. What does NAD stands for New Age Delivery
33. What is DiCD?- Digital Inside Continuous Delivery
34. Which among these roles are available in NAD? Project Manager
35. Which development procedure is followed to develop micro services in NAD- Behavior Driven
development
36. Which is the entry point for the project in NAD- APW
37. Which of the below 2 PODs are part of #NAD? DTaS, DiCD
38. Which of the below is not a health parameter of CAST analysis – Designability
39. Which of the below is not a learning platform- hackerrank
40. Which of the below tools help in process measurements of the code? Sonar and CAST
41. Which of the following is an assessment platform- Mettl
42. Which of the POD provides automated Governance in #NAD? APW
43. Which of these is a collaboration tool?-Mattermost
44. Which one is the feature of CaaS? Planning for user story, SKU-RU, infra,environment
45. Which out of these is not a feature of #NAD- Telecommuting
46. Which POD is responsible for implementing Continuous Integration- DiCD
47. Which PoD is responsible for Smart planning- CaaS
48. Which POD provides a single view to all stakeholders? APW
49. Which POD uses design thinking principles and Rapid prototyping- DTaS
50. Who all can contribute to the platform – customer, partner, college students

SCRUM FUNDAMENTALS
1. A Development Team is not cross functional
2. A scrum master guides the team
3. A SCRUM master is a servant leader
4. Agile manifesto is a public declaration of agile software development policy
5. An agile customer will typically get business value delivered early
6. Definition of Done means the user stories selected for delivery with in a sprint
7. During the sprint review: The team demonstrates the product increment to the product owner
and other stakeholders and gets feedback
8. Empirical data relies on observations and experiences
9. Following is not a quality of product vision- unclear and not frequently visited
10. Following is not an agile methodology- Rational Unified Process
11. How frequent are SCRUM project status meetings recommended to be held?- Daily
12. How often should the work remaining in s sprint backlog be tracked- at least once in a sprint
13. In scrum, when does the team commit how much to deliver in a sprint- during the sprint
planning meeting
14. In the sprint planning meeting the scrum master leads the task breaking activity as he is the
technical leader
15. INVEST stands for: Independent, negotiable, valuable, estimable, small, testable
16. Potentially shippable product increment- suggests that the decision of shipping is a business
decision
17. Priority on the product backlog can be set by product owner
18. Release planning is detailed description of tasks delivered
19. SCRUM is not technique for building products
20. The agile manifesto states responding to a change over following a plan
21. The Product backlog does not contain Product Budget
22. THE product owner is the one who directs the team to work
23. The scrum team is self organized team
24. The three pillars driving SCRUM practices are: Transparency, inspection and adaption
25. What does BDUF stands for Big design up front
26. What does DoD stand for Definition of Done
27. What is a purpose of daily scrum- to synchronize activities of the development team
28. What is a user story- A representation of scenarios in real life defined as who wants what, why
29. What is key characteristic of a cross-functional team? The team has all the skills on board
needed to accept collective ownership for the next product increment
30. What is most important in Agile Projects – Stakeholder satisfaction/working software
31. What is not a job of the project team in SCRUM – manage business relationship, liaise with
various stakeholders and decide priorities of user stories
32. What is not a necessary/recommended trait for a SCRUM master? Soft natured
33. What is NOT a responsibility of the SCRUM Master- Allocate tasks to the team
34. What is SCRUM master responsible for? Ensuring that the team adheres to Scrum theory,
practices and rules
35. What is the duration of a Sprint in SCRUM – 1 to 4 weeks
36. What is the main purpose of sprint review- for the scrum master to show what is done by the
team
37. What is true about the daily Stand-up meeting- Impediment are discussed till a solution is
found
38. What is true for the Product Owner for the daily Stand-Up meeting- Should never attend
39. What is variable in Agile w.r.t Project Constraints – Features
40. What kind of projects can be executed using SCRUM? All kind of s/w development projects
41. Which is not part of the AGILE manifesto- customer satisfaction over delivering highest
business value first
42. Which of the following is an Agile Manifesto- customer collaboration
43. Which of the following is not a SCRUM artifact- user story
44. Which of the following is not artifact in scrum – product requirement definition
45. Which of the following meetings is not part of scrum- product review
46. Which of the following statement is true- Nothing can determine the team self organizing and
self management
47. Which of the following statements about velocity is TRUE? Velocity is a measure of
productivity, the higher the better
48. Which of the following statements is true- SCRUM master should be 100% allocated and
dedicated to team facilitation
49. Which of the following suits the responsibilities of a SCRUM master – the SCRUM master
coaches the team and guides them
50. Which of these best describes the agile approach to team working- the team should strive for a
sustainable pace and a normal working week
51. Which of these is valid role in SCRUM – product owner
52. Which one is not a key event defined by SCRUM- mid sprint status review
53. Which one of these is not a ceremony- Story refinement meeting
54. Which role(s) is/are responsible for managing the product backlog – Product Owner
55. Who estimates for the user stories for a scrum – team members
56. Who is responsible for the Rol in SCRUM? Product Owner
57. Who tells the team how to turn backlog items into shippable increments- product owner
58. Who validates the Product delivered? Product owner and team

MICROSERVICES
1. Agile is used to plan and isolate work into sprints, manage team capacity, and help teams
quickly adapt to changing business needs in microservice world.
2. API gateway is responsible for authentication, load balancing, routing
3. Data owned by each microservice is private to that microservice and can only be accessed via
its API – True
4. Docker tool designed to make it easier to create, deploy, and run application applications by
using containers.
5. Due to the disturbed nature of the micro services centralized logging is going to play a vital role
6. Hystrix tool can be used to monitor micro services
7. Kubernetes is an orchestration tool to schedule and mange containers
8. Microservice based architecture is an ideal choice when the application scope is incrementally
defined, the application needs frequent deployments, individual services with in applications
are required to be scaled up differently
9. Microservices are independently deployable- true
10. Microservices can be written in different programming languages and using different
programming technologies- true
11. Testing a microservices application is complex -true
12. Tests the boundaries of the external services to check the input and output of service calls and
validates whether or not the service meets its contract expectation is contract testing
13. What drives the ongoing merging and testing of code, which leads to finding defects early. Also
include less time wasted on fighting merge issues and rapid feedback for development teams-
continuous integration
14. What refers to replacing siloed Development and operations to create multidisciplinary teams
that now work together with shared and efficient practices and tools – DevOps
15. When a microservice publishes an event when something notable happened and other
microservices subscribes to those events is called as event driven architecture
16. When change is required in a certain part of application, only the related service can be
modified and redeployed. This is possible in Monolithic and Microservices architecture
17. Which contains the network locations of service instances- Service discovery
18. Which of the following are advantages of microservice architecture- increased agility, slow
delivery, easy to scale
19. Which of the following are drawbacks of monolith architecture- Slow down development,
longer the start-up time, grows over time and eventually become monstrous, obstacle to
continuous deployment in the era where need to push changes into production many times a
day, difficult to scale when diff modules have conflicting resource requirements.
20. Which of the following are driving forces of containerization- service must be independently
deployable and scalable, services are written using a variety of languages, frameworks, and
framework versions, deploy the application as cost-effectively as possible
21. Which of the following are ways with which Micro services can communicate with each other –
REST and Messages based
22. Which of the following is very critical in production environment to find bottlenecks while
execution- service monitoring
23. Which of the following testing simulates actual usage volume as a representative for
performance like a production system – performance testing
24. Which tools can be used for logging in micro services architecture- ELK stack
25. While adopting microservices architecture pattern which of the following are important design
considerations- decomposition, communication, testing, service discovery

DESIGN THINKING
1. A design thinking team must learn to be comfortable with ambiguity
2. At the storyboarding stage, your product should be the center rather than the persona- false
3. Design thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation
4. Design thinking research is qualitative and exploratory
5. Design thinking’s differentiator from traditional ways of problem solving is to begin with what
people need
6. During interview if users get stuck at a question and there is a silence, the best strategy is to
repeat the question
7. During the empathy phase, what users say and what they do is captured in their own language
and words
8. During the ideation stage, it is recommended to openly discuss and evaluate the ideas as they
get generated-true
9. During the interviews it is recommended to challenge user assumptions- true
10. During user interviews, open ended questions are used to make users comfortable
11. How to choose an idea for prototyping- select the idea which best meets user goals
12. In order to create a potential for multiple ideas, the user need in a PoV statement should ideally
be expressed as a verb
13. Integrative thinking means combining logic and creativity
14. One of the differentiator of design thinking from traditional ways of problem solving is to begin
with what people need
15. The empathy map tool is used for inferring user thoughts and feelings
16. The ideal way to brainstorm during ideation is to encourage wild ideas, generate ideas rapidly,
build on the ideas of others
17. The PoV statement generally includes which of the following elements to be able to narrow
down the challenge- persona, need, insights
18. The purpose of creating the design thinking prototype is to validate understanding of needs
19. The purpose of PoV statement is to reframe the challenge
20. The recommended strategy for idea generation is rapidly generate as many ideas as possible
21. The Stanford 5 step design thinking process is ssystematic linear way to solve challenges in a
single iteration- false
22. The sweet spot of design thinking is at the intersection of desirability, feasibility, viability
23. The technique used to enable the user to imagine interacting with the real product during the
test phase is prototyping
24. Users start experiencing issues with an application which was recently updated and deployed
into production. Which of the following can be the first step in problem solving – Data analysis
25. What can be called ultimate indicator of successful innovation when it comes to delivering
value- mass adoption by users
26. What is a design thinking research persona? Real user facing problems
27. What is the significance of design in the digital age- understanding users
28. What is the typical limitation in generating new ideas to solve a problem- incomplete
knowledge of user context
29. Which of the following can be described as a characteristic of a wicked problem- everyone
involved have a different definition of the problem, problem resists solution and transforms
into a new one, multiple stakeholders are involved.
30. Which of the following is a common issue in problem solving which results in waste of time,
money and effort? Incomplete understanding of the problem
31. Which of the following is a method used to capture the emotional needs and insights from a
select group of users? Empathic interviews
32. Which of the following is a typical mistake in problem solving which results in unexpected
outcome- incomplete understanding
33. Which of the following is helpful to take into consideration for solving an issue when traditional
ways of problem solving have failed- context of the situation
34. Which of the following is important to take into consideration while dealing with a design
thinking challenge- context of the situation
35. Which of the following is not true when it comes to an ideal prototype- it is fast and cheap
36. Which of the following is the appropriate mindset for problems in the known-known category?
Following checklist
37. Which of the following is the correct technique for storyboarding- make a list of challenges,
identify key factors, identify environmental factors
38. Which of the following is the most commonly used tool for prototyping – storyboard
39. Which of the following is the most useful trait for having empathic conversation- Listening
40. Which of the following is useful in constructing research objectives- situations to which user
gets exposed, user motivations for certain actions, the goals user is trying to achieve, what
behaviors are exhibited in certain situations
41. Which of the following is useful int evaluating user experience at different stages in the process-
emotions at every touch point
42. Which of the following should be the focus for designing a solution with high chance of
adoptability by the users? What goals users are trying to meet.
43. Which of the following tool helps to get the visualization of the process that the user goes
through in order to fulfil a need? User journey map
44. Why paper and pencil are preferred for initial prototyping rather than software tools- we avoid
getting lost in tiny details of implementation