Public transportation tickets in Washington DC / arriving at Dulles Airport (IAD)

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As for your first question - From the city to Dulles by 5A should be payable by SmarTrip - (See Metrobus5A info document) states:

Exact Fare Required

$7 using SmarTrip® and cash

$3.50 for seniors and people with disabilities

So you can just use the SmarTrip card you've been using in DC.

Your second question is kind of hard to answer, since we don't know how much you'll be taking the metro once you're in DC. A 7 day pass costs $59.25, and single SmarTrip fares by metro are anywhere between $1.75 (minimum off-peak fare) and $5.90 (maximum peak fare). On this linked page you can also see exact fares between stations, so you'll be able to find out if the 7 day pass will be worth it to you.

You can buy them in Rosslyn (and any other station), when you enter the station there will be banks of vending machines both for issuing new SmarTrip cards and topping up existing cards.

Since March 2016, WMATA has stopped issuing paper tickets and only works with SmarTrip cards, so I guess before March you could buy a 7 day Fast Pass without buying a SmarTrip card? Anyway, the question has become moot, since paper tickets have been phased out.

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You can purchase a SmarTrip card online straight from the source, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), for $10. It comes with $8 in stored value. This card should be enough to pay the $7 fare on the 5A Metrobus to get you from Dulles Airport to the Rosslyn Metro station, where you can add more value to your SmarTrip card using one of the automated fare machines.

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