CMMI Associate Exam UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
The identification of defects in Peer Reviews (PR) has a relationship to defects found in what other
Practice Area - CORRECT ANSWER Verification & Validation
Practice levels enable an organization to focus on improvement within individual Practice Areas -
CORRECT ANSWER True
What Practice Area includes practices that would help provide an understanding between the acquirer
and supplier to maximize the success of agreed-on efforts and deliverables? - CORRECT
ANSWER SAM
What Practice Area provides business value by verifying process adherence to help ensure a more
consistent process implementation? - CORRECT ANSWER PQA
To successfully adopt the CMMI, the Implementation Infrastructure (II) Practice Area requires that an
organization must have a process for each Capability Area. - CORRECT ANSWER Trur
Which of the following is an example activity associated with the Implementation Infrastructure (II)
Practice Area? - CORRECT ANSWER Level 1
II 1.1Perform processes that address the intent of the Level 1 practices.
Level 2
II 2.1Provide sufficient resources, funding, and training for developing and performing processes.II
2.2Develop and keep processes updated, and verify they are being followed.
Level 3
II 3.1Use organizational processes and process assets to plan, manage, and perform the work.II
3.2Evaluate the adherence to and effectiveness of the organizational processes.II 3.3Contribute
process-related information or process assets to the organization.
Level 4
II 4.1Develop the organizational capability to understand and apply statistical and other quantitative
techniques to accomplish the work.
,When should DevSecOps teams perform causal analysis? - CORRECT
ANSWER Incrementally throughout the iteration.
Which of the following is an example of a work product associated with the Process Quality
Assurance (PQA) Practice Area? - CORRECT ANSWER Noncompliance Reports.
In the CMMI Model, which of the following are KEY considerations in the implementation of
DevSecOps - CORRECT ANSWER Processes and frameworks
Who is responsible for security in DevSecOps? - CORRECT ANSWER Everyone on the Team
To achieve optimum impact to business value, organizational directives or policies should include
information about objectives and business strategy. - CORRECT ANSWER TRUE
contains practices that would be a useful start for an organization that develops complex financial
software applications in-house? - CORRECT ANSWER EDP
Ensuring Quality - CORRECT ANSWER Capability Area that includes PA's important to both
quality assurance quality control. Includes - peer reviews, process quality assurance, requirements
development and management, verification and validation
Engineering and Developing Products - CORRECT ANSWER Capability Area that focuses on
engineering, developing and delivering products and product components. Includes Product
Integration and Technical Solution
CMMI Performance Solutions Ecosystem - CORRECT ANSWER Contains five components:
model, appraisal method, training and certification, systems & tools, adoption guidance
View - CORRECT ANSWER CMMI component that selects a set of model components
important to and selected by the end user; CMMI Development, CMMI Services, CMMI Data, CMMI
Managing Security and Safety Capability Area, CMMI Planning and Mangin Work Capability Area
, Practice Areas - CORRECT ANSWER A collection of similar practices that together achieve
the defined intent, value and required information described in that practice area (PQA, CAR, DAR)
Practice Group - CORRECT ANSWER Level 1, Level n , Organizing structure for practices
within a practice area, organizes similar info and practices
Practice - CORRECT ANSWER I.e PQA 2.1 ; Information necessary to understand the full
intent and value of the practice along with explanatory information
Informative Material - CORRECT ANSWER Includes everything else in the model except the
required information in the practices; explanatory information is part of the informative material
(overview, appendices, glossary, references)
Domain - CORRECT ANSWER Type of view within CMMI - Data, DEV, PPL< SAF, SEC<
SVC, SPM, VRT
Capability Area - CORRECT ANSWER Group of related PA's that can provide performance in
the skills and activities of an organization or project
Categories - CORRECT ANSWER Logical groups or views of related capabilities areas that
address common problem encountered by business when producing or delivering solutions.
Doing - CORRECT ANSWER Capability Areas for producing and delivering quality solutions
Managing - CORRECT ANSWER CA for planning and managing implementation of solutions
Enabling - CORRECT ANSWER CA for supporting solution implementation and delivery,
focuses on analyzing causes, making decisions, maintaining integrity of work products and data, and
communicating to stakeholders.
Improving - CORRECT ANSWER CA for sustaining and improving performance
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
The identification of defects in Peer Reviews (PR) has a relationship to defects found in what other
Practice Area - CORRECT ANSWER Verification & Validation
Practice levels enable an organization to focus on improvement within individual Practice Areas -
CORRECT ANSWER True
What Practice Area includes practices that would help provide an understanding between the acquirer
and supplier to maximize the success of agreed-on efforts and deliverables? - CORRECT
ANSWER SAM
What Practice Area provides business value by verifying process adherence to help ensure a more
consistent process implementation? - CORRECT ANSWER PQA
To successfully adopt the CMMI, the Implementation Infrastructure (II) Practice Area requires that an
organization must have a process for each Capability Area. - CORRECT ANSWER Trur
Which of the following is an example activity associated with the Implementation Infrastructure (II)
Practice Area? - CORRECT ANSWER Level 1
II 1.1Perform processes that address the intent of the Level 1 practices.
Level 2
II 2.1Provide sufficient resources, funding, and training for developing and performing processes.II
2.2Develop and keep processes updated, and verify they are being followed.
Level 3
II 3.1Use organizational processes and process assets to plan, manage, and perform the work.II
3.2Evaluate the adherence to and effectiveness of the organizational processes.II 3.3Contribute
process-related information or process assets to the organization.
Level 4
II 4.1Develop the organizational capability to understand and apply statistical and other quantitative
techniques to accomplish the work.
,When should DevSecOps teams perform causal analysis? - CORRECT
ANSWER Incrementally throughout the iteration.
Which of the following is an example of a work product associated with the Process Quality
Assurance (PQA) Practice Area? - CORRECT ANSWER Noncompliance Reports.
In the CMMI Model, which of the following are KEY considerations in the implementation of
DevSecOps - CORRECT ANSWER Processes and frameworks
Who is responsible for security in DevSecOps? - CORRECT ANSWER Everyone on the Team
To achieve optimum impact to business value, organizational directives or policies should include
information about objectives and business strategy. - CORRECT ANSWER TRUE
contains practices that would be a useful start for an organization that develops complex financial
software applications in-house? - CORRECT ANSWER EDP
Ensuring Quality - CORRECT ANSWER Capability Area that includes PA's important to both
quality assurance quality control. Includes - peer reviews, process quality assurance, requirements
development and management, verification and validation
Engineering and Developing Products - CORRECT ANSWER Capability Area that focuses on
engineering, developing and delivering products and product components. Includes Product
Integration and Technical Solution
CMMI Performance Solutions Ecosystem - CORRECT ANSWER Contains five components:
model, appraisal method, training and certification, systems & tools, adoption guidance
View - CORRECT ANSWER CMMI component that selects a set of model components
important to and selected by the end user; CMMI Development, CMMI Services, CMMI Data, CMMI
Managing Security and Safety Capability Area, CMMI Planning and Mangin Work Capability Area
, Practice Areas - CORRECT ANSWER A collection of similar practices that together achieve
the defined intent, value and required information described in that practice area (PQA, CAR, DAR)
Practice Group - CORRECT ANSWER Level 1, Level n , Organizing structure for practices
within a practice area, organizes similar info and practices
Practice - CORRECT ANSWER I.e PQA 2.1 ; Information necessary to understand the full
intent and value of the practice along with explanatory information
Informative Material - CORRECT ANSWER Includes everything else in the model except the
required information in the practices; explanatory information is part of the informative material
(overview, appendices, glossary, references)
Domain - CORRECT ANSWER Type of view within CMMI - Data, DEV, PPL< SAF, SEC<
SVC, SPM, VRT
Capability Area - CORRECT ANSWER Group of related PA's that can provide performance in
the skills and activities of an organization or project
Categories - CORRECT ANSWER Logical groups or views of related capabilities areas that
address common problem encountered by business when producing or delivering solutions.
Doing - CORRECT ANSWER Capability Areas for producing and delivering quality solutions
Managing - CORRECT ANSWER CA for planning and managing implementation of solutions
Enabling - CORRECT ANSWER CA for supporting solution implementation and delivery,
focuses on analyzing causes, making decisions, maintaining integrity of work products and data, and
communicating to stakeholders.
Improving - CORRECT ANSWER CA for sustaining and improving performance
