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In agile practices, the Definition of Done (DoD) is a shared, transparent quality bar that applies to every increment; it often includes coding standards, peer reviews, automated tests, integration, documentation, and compliance steps required for a potentially shippable increment. It is typically established by the team (and may incorporate organizational standards) to ensure consistency and transparency of quality. Acceptance criteria, by contrast, are specific to an individual backlog item (e.g., a user story) and describe functional and sometimes nonfunctional conditions that must be satisfied for that item to be accepted by the Product Owner. Option B reverses the nature of these concepts. Option C improperly narrows DoD to testing only; DoD spans all work necessary to consider an increment complete. Option D misstates accountabilities; the DoD is not dictated unilaterally by the Product Owner—teams collaborate to set and evolve it. CAPM’s agile domain stresses clear quality definitions and validation practices to reduce ambiguity, prevent partial completion, and enable predictable velocity by ensuring that “done” means “releasable,” not merely “coded.”