Agile
What is the primary measure of progress for agile teams?
A) Story points delivered
B) Collaboration
C) Number of hours worked
D) Working software
E) Evolving DoD
D) Working software. It is one of the 12 principles behind the Agile manifesto
What does SOMA stand for?
A) Strategic Operational Management Administration
B) Strategic Operational Model Administration
C) Service Operational Modeling & Architecture
D) Strategic Operational Model Architecture
E) Society of Martial Arts
B) Strategic Operational Model Administration
Total number of interventions that potentially can be triggered for RRSP/TFSA withdrawal for both cash and securities
A) Less than 25
B) 25-40
C) 40-50
D) Greater than 50
A) Less than 25
SOMA is the largest Wealth Management program in 2021 (in terms of budget)
A) True
B) False
C) There is another program that is the same size as SOMA
A) True
A technique to scale scrum up for multiple teams working on the same product, allowing teams to discuss progress on their inter-dependencies
A) Program Dependency meeting
B) Scrum of Scrums
C) Product Owner Sync
D) Scrum Master Sync
E) PI Planning
B) Scrum of Scrums (SoS)
Scrum of Scrums is a scaled agile technique that offers a way to connect multiple teams who need to work together to deliver complex solutions. It is generally comprised of an ambassador from each scrum team
What is the name of our book of record owned by IBM
A) OSS
B) GDI
C) R-Broker
D) ODS
E) CDB
A) OSS (Operations Support Systems)
What open-source, front end, JavaScript library is used to build UI for Ops Portal and Unified UI
A) React
B) Angular
C) NodeJs
D) Ruslan’s framework
A) React
When creating an instruction for a RSP withdrawal, why would a “Source of Funds” intervention be triggered?
A) If the withdrawal amount exceeds $100,000
B) If previous business day’s account balance is less than the requested withdrawal amount
C) If the client does not have an NBC account
D) None of the above
B) If previous business day’s account balance is less than the requested withdrawal amount
What does agile metric WIP stand for
A) Wait in progress
B) Work in Progress
C) Women in position
D) Walks & innings pitched
B) Work in Progress (WIP)
WIP limits set the maximum amount of work that can exist in each status of a workflow. Limiting the amount of work in progress makes it easier to identify inefficiency in a team's workflow
Q) Which metric is not USED to measure team efficiency
A) Flow time
B) Cycle time
C) Sprint burndown
D) Story points
D) Story points
Story points are a unit of measure for expressing an estimate of the overall effort. Using story points to measure productivity is a bad idea because it will lead the team to gradually inflate the meaning of a point
Which vendor product is used to authenticate SOMA APIs?
A) The Vault
B) IAM
C) SecureZone
D) Camunda
E) Okta
E) Okta
Which gateway is not supported by Camunda
A) Data-based Exclusive Gateway
B) Parallel Gateway
C) Inclusive Gateway
D) Complex Gateway
E) Event-based Gateway
D) Complex Gateway
What is the name of the Operations team in Montreal who processes the most GDI interventions
A) Account Administration
B) Admin Pro Team
C) Operations Team
D) Interventions Team
E) None of the above
A) Account Administration or Account Admin or Admin des comptes in French
In 2020, which payment method was used by our clients (sorted from least to greatest)
A) Cheque, Wire, Transfer, EFT
B) Cheque, Transfer, Wire, EFT
C) Cheque, Transfer, EFT, Wire
D) Crypto, Cheque, Wire, Transfer, EFT
A) Cheque: 3%, Wire: 13%, Transfer: 29%, EFT: 54%]
What does INVEST refer to in the context of story writing
A) To distribute money in the expectation of some benefit in the future
B) To encourage our clients to invest their money into RRSP and TFSA accounts
C) Independent, Not too big, Valuable, Efficient, Smart, Testable
D) Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, Testable
D) Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, Testable
What is the name of the files that OSS sends us nightly to update our corporate database?
A) RS32 files
B) Batch files
C) TIF files
D) XML files
E) CSV files
C) TIF files
On which type of Database does Camunda reside?
A) Sybase
B) SQL Server
C) MariaDB
D) H2
E) DB2
C) MariaDB
In 2019, for RSP/TFSA Withdrawals, what was the intervention with the highest volume
A) Source of funds
B) Change of Ownership
C) Credit Intervention
D) New bank account
A) Source of funds (more than 35% of the requests)
How many animals does Anne Marie have in her home?
A) 2
B) 3
C) 4
D) Greater than 5
C) 4
Bonus points if you know their names
What are the SCRUM values?
A) Commitment, Courage, Focus, Openness, Respect
B) Systematic Consumer Resolution Unravelling Meeting
C) Creativity, Relationship, Leadership, Innovation
D) Creativity, Courage, Focus, Openness, Relationship
A) Commitment, Courage, Focus, Openness, Respect
What are the three key goals that SOM-A is trying to achieve?
A) User Oriented, Optimized Process, Scalable & Secure
B) User Friendly, Standardize Process, Scalable & Secure
C) User Satisfaction, Automated Process, Scalable & Secure
D) User Adoption, Speedy Process, Scalable & Secure
A) User Oriented, Optimized Process, Scalable & Secure
What is DMN’s default Expression Language
A) FEEL
B) BPMN 2.0
C) XML
D) Javascript
A) Friendly Enough Expression Language (FEEL)
In 2019, what was the % of RSP/TFSA Withdrawals that were processed 100% STP (all LOBs included)
A) Under 20%
B) 21 - 30%
C) 31 – 40%
D) 41 – 50%
E) Greater than 50%
E) Greater than 50% - 57%
STP = Straight Through Processing. When Stanley describes manual processing using the STP acronym, what does it stand for?
A) Standard Tactical Processing
B) Stanley Typing & Processing
C) Sam, Tom, Peter
D) Stanley Thinks & Procrastinates
C) Sam, Tom, Peter
Stanley has a story to explain this!!