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1. Which statement fits with the SAFe Core Value of Built-in Quality?
a) Quality is not part of the SAFe Core Values
b) You cannot scale crappy code
c) Quality depends on the scale of the project and should be implemented from the top down
d) Define goals and then build quality in
2. The SAFe Implementation Roadmap is based on what?
a) The SAFe House of Lean
b) Large Solution implementations based on the SAFe Framework
c) Continuous integration based on Systems Thinking
d) Effective Agile Release Train launches based on SAFe adoption
3. When basing decisions on economics, how are cycle time, product cost, value, and development
expense used?
a) To recover money already spent
b) Identify di ferent parameters of the economic framework
c) To maximize the economic Cost of Delay
d) To reset economic priorities
4. During Inspect and Adapt, teams identified a large number of action items aimed at solving their
biggest problem as a train. How should the team proceed?
a) Load all improvement items into the Program Backlog to ensure the problem is documented and
solved
b) Select an improvement item using WSJF
c) Identify two or three improvement items and load them into the Program Backlog
d) Keep all the items and if there is extra capacity in the PI, load as many as will fit into the
Program Backlog
5. Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
a) Responding to a plan over responding to customer collaboration
b) Responding to a plan over responding to change
c) Responding to change over following a system
d) Responding to change over following a plan
6. What are three components of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline? (Choose three.)
a) Continuous Cadence
b) Continuous Planning
c) Continuous Integration
d) Continuous Improvement
e) Continuous Deployment
f) Continuous Exploration
7. The House of Lean is a classic metaphor describing the mindset essential for Lean thinking. Which
one of the four pillars advocates a "Get out of the office" mindset?
a) Flow
b) Innovation
c) Respect for people and culture
d) Relentless improvement
8. The Agile Release Train passes through four steps in order to deliver Solutions which includes:
defining new functionality, implementing, acceptance testing, and what else?
a) Completing phase-gate steps
b) Deploying
c) Regulatory compliance
d) DevOps testing
9. Which three items are found on a Program board? (Choose three.)
a) Significant dependencies
b) Milestones
c) Tasks
d) Backlog items
e) Features
f) User Stories
10. Implementing SAFe requires buy-in from all levels of the organization. What level of leadership is
most important for effecting cultural change?
a) Release Train Engineers
b) Solution Management
c) Product Owners
d) Executive Management
11. Which two statements describe a Capability? (Choose two.)
a) It is maintained in the Portfolio Backlog
b) It must be structured to fit within a single PI
c) It is written using a phrase, benefit hypothesis, and acceptance criteria
d) It remains complete and becomes a Feature for implementation
e) It is developed and approved without a dependence on the Solution Kanban
12. What is one benefit of unlocking the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers?
a) To decentralize decision-making
b) To strive to achieve a state of continuous flow
c) To provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints
d) To achieve the best value and quality to people and society
13. Lifelong learning is a requirement for Lean-Agile Leaders, and it helps them do what?
a) Provide the personnel, resources, direction, and support to the Enterprise
b) Act as an effective enabler for teams
c) Demonstrate the values they want the teams to embody
d) Commit to quality and productivity
14. When is Pre-PI Planning needed?
a) When Product Owners and Scrum Masters need to coordinate dependencies within the Agile
Release Train *
b) When teams cannot identify and estimate Stories in PI Planning and need more time to prepare
c) When multiple Agile Release Trains working on the same Solution need to align and coordinate
d) When there is only one day to run PI Planning, so more time is needed to prepare to run it
effectively
15. What are the three primary keys to implementing flow? (Choose three.)
a) Manage queue lengths
b) Visualize and limit Work-in-Process
c) Reduce the batch sizes of work
d) Address the systemic problems
e) Increase capacity
f) Frequent context switching
16. Who has content authority to make decisions at the user story level during PI Planning?
a) Scrum Masters
b) Product Owner
c) Agile Team
d) Release Train Engineer
17. Which statement is true about DevOps?
a) Measurements are not a top priority for DevOps
b) DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between development and operations
c) Lean-Agile principles are not necessary for a successful DevOps implementation
d) DevOps automation of testing reduces the holding cost
18. In the Program Kanban some of steps have Work-in-Process limits. Why is this necessary?
a) To help continuous deployment
b) To enable flow in a pull-based system
c) To provide visibility into progress
d) To keep timebox goals
19. What is considered an anti-pattern when assigning business values to Team PI Objectives?
a) Teams making minor scope adjustments after business value is assigned
b) A value of 10 given to all of the PI Objectives
c) Business Owners assigning the business value
d) Agile Teams and Business Owners working together to assign business values
20. Which statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes?
a) They are large initiatives managed in the Portfolio Kanban that require Weighted Shortest Job
First prioritization and a lightweight business case
b) They are a high-level summary of each program's Vision and are updated after every PI
c) They are business objectives that connect the SAFe Portfolio to the Enterprise business strategy
d) They are key elements of the Portfolio used to define the overall company Vision
21. What is the recommended way to express a Feature or Capability?
a) Lean business case
b) User Story voice
c) Functional requirement
d) Feature and benefit statement
22. How often should System Demos occur in the default SAFe cadence?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Every 4 weeks
When requested
Weekly
Every 2 weeks
23. On day two of PI Planning, adjustments are made by the group based on the previous day's
management review and problem solving meeting. What are three possible types of changes? (Choose
three.)
a) Adjustment to PI Objectives
b) Business priorities
c) User Stories
d) Planning requirements reset
e) Movement of people
f) Changes to scope
24. What are two of the Agile Release Train Sync meetings? (Choose two.)
a) Product Owner Sync
b) System Demo
c) Solution Demo
d) Scrum of Scrums
e) Inspect and Adapt
25. Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
a) Customer collaboration over a constant indefinite pace
b) Customer collaboration over feature negotiation
c) Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
d) Customer collaboration over ongoing internal conversation
26. What is a minimum viable improvement step for implementing a Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
a) Eliminate inter-Iteration waterfalls
b) Relax the Definition of Done
c) Reduce Work-in-Process limits on the testing column
d) Assume all products are Minimum Viable Products
27. Which role accepts Capabilities as complete?
a) Solution Management
b) Product Management
c) Solution Architect/Engineer
d) Solution Train Engineer
28. What does the Program Roadmap do in the Scaled Agile Framework?
a) It provides visibility into the Portfolio Epics being implemented in the next year
b) It describes technical dependencies between Features
c) It communicates the delivery of Features over a near term timeline
d) It describes the program commitment for the current and next two Program Increments
29. Product Management has content authority over Features. What do Product Owners have content
authority over?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Team Backlog
Portfolio Backlog
Portfolio Vision
Value Streams
30. What are the first three steps of the SAFe Implementation Roadmap?
a) Train Lean-Agile change agents, train executives, managers and leaders, and then prepare for
Agile Release Train launch
b) Reach the tipping point, Train Lean-Agile change agents, and then train the identified support
personnel
c) Charter a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence, Train Lean-Agile change agents, and then train
executives, managers and leaders
d) Reach the tipping point, train Lean-Agile change agents, and then train executives, managers
and leaders
31. What is the foundation of the SAFe House of Lean?
a) Leadership
b) Relentless Improvement
c) Value
d) Flow
32. The Agile Release Train uses which type of teams to get work done?
a) Management teams
b) Solution teams
c) Phased review process teams
d) Cross-functional teams
33. What is the focus of the Daily Stand-up meeting?
a) PI objectives versus outcomes
b) Iteration goals versus what got done
c) Scrum Master goals versus Development Team goals
d) Plan objectives versus Program Owner objectives
34. What should the team focus on in order to optimize flow?
a) Costs
b) Requests
c) Delays
d) Results
35. Which statement is true about the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?
a) The Scrum Master can decide if the IP Iteration is necessary
b) There is a risk that the tyranny of the urgent outweighs all innovation activities
c) It is used quarterly when the team needs to refocus on work processes
d) It is used only to inspect the outcome of the PI System Demo
36. During the final plan review, Program risks are addressed using ROAM. What do the letters in
ROAM represent?
a) Owned, Mitigated, Resolved, Accepted
b) Relegated, Owned, Approved, Managed
c) Accepted, Redesigned, Ordered, Mitigated
d) Managed, Resolved, Ordered, Accepted
37. Which statement describes aspects of the team's commitment during PI Planning?
a) A team does not commit to stretch objectives
b) A team commits to resolve all the risks identified during PI Planning
c) A team commits to all Stories they put on their PI plan
d) A team commits only to the PI Objectives with the highest business value
38. Which two statements are true about DevOps? (Choose two.)
a) It alleviates the reliance on the skill sets of Agile teams
b) It lessens the severity and frequency of release failures
c) It reduces risk and improves innovation by making it safer to experiment
d) It increases the Mean Time to Recovery
e) It removes the need to automate processes
39. What is the recommended way to estimate Epics?
a) Split an Epic into Features, split Features into Stories, estimate each Story in normalized story
points and roll up all estimates to the Epic
b) Split an Epic into potential Features, estimate each potential Feature in normalized story points,
and add up the estimates
c) Find the smallest Epic in the Backlog, give it 1 point, and estimate everything else relative to
that
d) Estimate an Epic directly in normalized story points
40. Peter Drucker defines knowledge workers as individuals who know more about the work they
perform than who?
a) Their coworkers
b) Their team
c) Their organization
d) Their bosses *
41. What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making to the customer?
a) Positively impacting economies of scale
b) Ensuring strategic decisions are not made in a vacuum
c) Removing accountability from leaders
d) Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time
42. What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe?
a) Teams align their iterations to the same schedule to support communication, coordination, and
system integration
b) Teams within the same Agile Release Train commit and plan to the same Iteration backlog
c) Teams meet twice every PI to plan and schedule capacity
d) Teams allow batch sizes across multiple intervals
43. What must management do for a successful Agile transformation?
a) Send someone to represent themselves, and then delegate tasks to these individuals
b) Strive to think of adoption as an area they can control
c) Rely on many others to change the system
d) Commit themselves to quality and they must be the change agent in the system
44. What is the recommended frequency for updating Lean budget distribution?
a) Twice annually
b) On Demand
c) Annually
d) Every PI boundary
45. Which statement describes the connection between Features and Capabilities in a large Solution?
a) Some Features may not have parent Capabilities
b) There cannot be more than 5 Features for each
c) Some Capabilities may not have child Features
d) Every Feature has a parent Capability
46. On day two of PI Planning, adjustments are made by the group based on the previous day's
management review and problem solving meeting. What are three possible types of changes? (Choose
three.)Planning requirements resetBusiness prioritiesMovement of peopleUser StoriesChanges to
scopeAdjustment to PI Objectives
a) 2,4 and 5
b) 1,2 and 5
c) 1,3 and 6
d) 2,3 and 5
47 What are two of the Agile Release Train Sync meetings? (Choose two.)
a) Solution Demo
b) Scrums of Scrums
c) System Demo
d) Inspect and Adapt
48 What is this statement defining: "A series of activities that have proven to be effective in
successfully implementing SAFe"?
a) The Safe Implementation Roadmap
49 A team has just adopted the SAFe Implementation Roadmap and is in the process of training
executives, managers, and leaders. What is their next step?
a) Identify Value Stream and Agile Relese train
50 What are the top two reasons for adopting Agile in an organization? (Choose two.)
a) Increase predictability by reducing changes
b) Reduce risk by centralizing decision making
c) Enhance ability to manage changing priorities
d) Accelerate product deliveryReduce project cost
51. The analyzing step of the Portfolio Kanban system has a new Epic with a completed Lean business
case. What best describes the next step for the Epic?
a) It will be remove to the Portafolio Backlog if it recives a “Go” decision from Lean Portafolio
Management
52. In the Program Kanban some of steps have Work-in-Process limits. Why is this necessary?
a) To enable flow in a pull-base system
53. When are team planning adjustments made during PI Planning?
a) At the beginning of day two
54. Which statement is true about Lean Portfolio Management and budgeting?
a) It empowers stakeholders to adapt the current backlog and roadmap context
55. Weighted Shortest Job First gives preference to jobs with which two characteristics? (Choose two.)
a) Higher Cost of Delay
b) Lower Cost of Delay
c) Fixed date
d) Shorter duration
e) Revenue impact
56. What is an example of cross-functional Iterations?
a) Interation 1: Define, Build, Test; Define, Build, Test
57. Why is it important to decouple deployment from release?
a) To enable realeasing upon demand
58. Which two areas are part of the Scaled Agile Framework Core Values? (Choose two.)
a) Alignment
b) Collaboration
c) Decentralize decision making
d) Built-in Quality
e) Systems Thinking
59. A successful SAFe implementation can be challenging because of an organization's strong culture.
What will change the culture?
a) CEO communicates SAFe will be implemented
60. If small batches go through the system faster with lower variability, then which two statements are
true about batch size? (Choose two.)
a) Good infrastructure enables large batches
b) Proximity (co-location) enables small batch size
c) Batch sizes cannot influence our behavior
d) Severe project slippage is the most likely result of large batches
e) Low utilization increases variability
61. What are two problems that can be understood from the Program Board? (Choose two.)
a) Events for future Pis
b) Too many dependencies leading to a single program milestone
c) Too much Work-in-Process in one Iteration
d) Too many Features are placed in a team's swim lane with no strings
e) A significant dependency leading to a Feature
62. According to the Harvard Business Review article titled, "The New New Product Development
Game", what does it mean to create built-in instability?
a) Provide challenging requirements, a high degree of freedom to meet the requirements, and get
out of the way
63. Which statement is true about Solution Context when defining large solutions?
a) It defines the enviroment in which the Solution Operates
64. If a program repeatedly shows separate feature branches rather than a true System Demo, which
practice should be reviewed to address the issue?
a) Continuos Integration
65. Why do Business Owners assign business value to Teams' PI Objectives?
a) To provide the teams with guidance value to the business
66. What are attributes of applications built incorporating DevOps? (Choose two.)
a) Use similar telemetry for different stakeholders
b) Ensure continuous integration with manual deployment
c) Overlay measurements with events (deployments, releases)
d) Generate logs to enable analysis
e) Manage the flow of value through the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
67. How does SAFe extend the Agile Manifesto foundation to the level of team of teams?
a) By applying Lean Thinking to understand and improve the systems that support the teams
68. What is this statement defining: "A series of activities that have proven to be effective in
successfully implementing SAFe"?
a) The SAFe Implementation Roadmap
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