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MCDE EXAM 2026 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
◉ Agile Development Practices. Answer: Procedures and techniques
used to conduct Agile software development.
◉ Agile Project Management. Answer: The style of project
management used to support Agile software development. Scrum is
the most widely used Agile project management practice.
◉ Agile Software Development. Answer: The development of
software using Agile development practices and Agile project
management. Features of Agile software development include a
heavy emphasis on collaboration, responsiveness to change, and the
reduction of waste throughout the development cycle.
◉ Alignment. Answer: Organizations with production dependencies
across department boundaries run the risk of falling out of phase (or
alignment). Alignment includes any actions or policies that exist so
that a process or activity in one section of the organization is
congruent with the organization's or business unit's governing
mission.
, ◉ Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Answer: a continuous
process of managing the life of an application through governance,
development and maintenance.
◉ Backlog. Answer: A collection of stories and tasks the Sprint team
will work on at some point in the future.
◉ Backlog Grooming. Answer: the process of adding new user
stories to the backlog, re-prioritizing existing stories as needed,
creating estimates, and deconstructing larger stories into smaller
stories or tasks.
◉ Backlog Item. Answer: A unit of work, usually a story or a task,
listed on the project backlog.
◉ Bottleneck. Answer: Any resource or process whose capacity is
less than or equal to the demand placed on it, thus constraining the
flow of work or information through the process.
◉ Branching. Answer: The duplication of objects under revision
control (such as a source code file, or a directory tree) in such a way
that the newly creeated objects initially have the same content as the
original, but can evolve independently of the original.
MCDE EXAM 2026 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
◉ Agile Development Practices. Answer: Procedures and techniques
used to conduct Agile software development.
◉ Agile Project Management. Answer: The style of project
management used to support Agile software development. Scrum is
the most widely used Agile project management practice.
◉ Agile Software Development. Answer: The development of
software using Agile development practices and Agile project
management. Features of Agile software development include a
heavy emphasis on collaboration, responsiveness to change, and the
reduction of waste throughout the development cycle.
◉ Alignment. Answer: Organizations with production dependencies
across department boundaries run the risk of falling out of phase (or
alignment). Alignment includes any actions or policies that exist so
that a process or activity in one section of the organization is
congruent with the organization's or business unit's governing
mission.
, ◉ Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Answer: a continuous
process of managing the life of an application through governance,
development and maintenance.
◉ Backlog. Answer: A collection of stories and tasks the Sprint team
will work on at some point in the future.
◉ Backlog Grooming. Answer: the process of adding new user
stories to the backlog, re-prioritizing existing stories as needed,
creating estimates, and deconstructing larger stories into smaller
stories or tasks.
◉ Backlog Item. Answer: A unit of work, usually a story or a task,
listed on the project backlog.
◉ Bottleneck. Answer: Any resource or process whose capacity is
less than or equal to the demand placed on it, thus constraining the
flow of work or information through the process.
◉ Branching. Answer: The duplication of objects under revision
control (such as a source code file, or a directory tree) in such a way
that the newly creeated objects initially have the same content as the
original, but can evolve independently of the original.
