The Agile Release Train uses which type of teams to get work done?

Management teams

Solution teams

Phased review process teams

Cross-functional teams

What is a Minimal Viable Product?

A minimal product that can validate a hypothesis

A minimal product that can be built to achieve market dominance

A minimal story a team can deliver in an iteration

A minimal Feature that can be released to the market

What is one of the Agile Release Train sync meetings?

Iteration Review

Solution Demo

Iteration Retrospective

Scrum of Scrums

Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?

Customer collaboration over a constant indefinite pace

Customer collaboration over feature negotiation

Customer collaboration over ongoing internal conversation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

What is found on a program board?

Features

User Stories

Epics
Tasks

How is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed?

In the Portfolio Kanban

In the Program Kanban

In the Portfolio Backlog

In the Program Backlog

What is the recommended frequency for updating Lean budget distribution?

Twice annually

Every iteration

On demand

Annually

Which statement is true about DevOps?

Measurements are not a top priority for DevOps

Lean-Agile principles are not necessary for a successful DevOps implementation

DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between development and operations

DevOps automation of testing reduces the holding cost

What is considered an anti-pattern when assigning business values to Team PI Objectives?

Business Owners assigning the business value

Business Owners assign high values to important enabler work

A value of 10 given to all of the PI Objectives

Assigning business values to stretch objectives

Which statement describes aspects of the team's commitment during PI Planning?

A team commits to all the features they put on the Program Board

A team does not commit to stretch objectives

A team commits only to the PI Objectives with the highest business value

Which statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes?

They are large initiatives managed in the Portfolio Kanban that require Weighted Shortest Job First
prioritization and a lightweight business case

They are a high-level summary of each program’s Vision and are updated after every PI

They are business objectives that connect the SAFe Portfolio to the Enterprise business strategy

They are requirements that span Agile Release Trains but must fit within a single Program Increment

What can be used to map the current state of a portfolio?

Portfolio Vision

Portfolio Backlog

Portfolio Kanban

Portfolio Canvas

What is part of the role of Product Management?

To prioritize the Program Backlog

To prioritize Enablers

To facilitate backlog refinement session

To assign business value to features

What are the last three steps of the SAFe Implementation Roadmap?

Launch an Agile Release Train, extend to the portfolio, accelerate

Launch trains, coach Agile Release Train execution, train executives and managers

Train Lean-Agile change agents, identify value streams and Agile Release Trains, extend to the portfolio

Launch more Agile Release Trains and Value Streams, extend to the portfolio, sustain and
improve
When basing decisions on economics, how are lead time, product cost, value, and development expense
used?

To recover money already spent

To identify different parameters of the economic framework

To take into account sunk costs

To limit WIP through the system

What is the foundation of the SAFe House of Lean?

Value

Leadership

Flow

Relentless Improvement

How are stories estimated in SAFe?

Feature points

Ideal time

Story points

Agile prescribes a No Estimation concept to speed delivery

What is one component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

Continuous Planning

Continuous Improvement

Continuous Cadence

Continuous Exploration

What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe?

Teams allow batch sizes across multiple intervals

Teams align their iterations to the same schedule to support communication, coordination, and
system integration
Teams meet twice every PI to plan and schedule capacity

Teams decide their own iteration length

In the Program Kanban some steps have Work-in-Process limits. Why is this necessary?

To help continuous deployment

To ensure large queues are not being built

To keep timebox goals

To enable multitasking

When is a Pre-PI Planning event needed?

When teams cannot identify and estimate Stories in PI Planning and need more time to prepare

When Product Owners and Scrum Masters need to coordinate dependencies within the Agile Release
Train

When multiple Agile Release Trains working on the same Solution need to align and coordinate

When there is only one day to run PI Planning, so more time is needed to prepare to run it effectively

When does a Roadmap become a queue?

When it is longer than one Program Increment

When it is fully committed

When it includes no commitments

When it contains Features and not Epics

Which statement is a principle of the Agile manifesto?

Measure everything

Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths

Respect for people and culture

Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential

What is SAFe’s release strategy?

Release continuously

Release on cadence

Release every Program Increment

What are the three primary keys to implementing flow? (Choose three.)

Manage queue lengths

Address the systemic problems

Frequent context switching

Reduce the batch sizes of work

Visualize and limit WIP

Increase capacity

Which core competency of the Lean Enterprise helps drive built-in quality practices?

Lean Portfolio Management

Team and Technical Agility

DevOps and Release on Demand

Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering

What is the last step in Kotter's approach to change management?

Anchor new approaches in the culture

Generate short-term wins

Consolidate gains and produce more wins

Sustain and improve

Which is an aspect of system thinking?

Cadence makes routine that which is routine

Mastery drives intrinsic motivation

The length of the queue impact the wait time

What is the best measure of progress for complex system development?

System Demo

Iteration Review

Refined Backlog

ROAMing Risks

Which statement is true when continuously deploying using a DevOps model?

It alleviates the reliance on the skill sets of Agile teams

It removes the need to automate processes

It increases the transaction cost

It lessens the severity and frequency of release failures

What is a valid reason for moving a PI objective to stretch?

The team has no more time in the capacity but the objective has high business value

The team does not have the knowledge or skills to deliver the objective

The team has high uncertainty about a third-party delivery needed for the objective

The team is unsure how to estimate the related stories using story points

Which practice helps with a test-first mentality?

WIP

BDD

MVP

MMF

What is one benefit of unlocking the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers?

To centralize decision-making

To lower WIP limits

To strive to achieve a state of continuous flow

What is the recommended way to express a Feature?

Phrase, benefit hypothesis, and acceptance criteria

Functional requirement

Lean business case

Epic hypothesis statement

What is one guardrail on Lean budget spend?

Spending caps for each ART

Continuous Business Owner engagement

Participatory budgeting

Learning milestones as objective measurements

What must management do for a successful Agile transformation?

Change Scrum Masters in the team every two weeks

Commit to quality and be the change agent in the system

Send someone to represent management, and then delegate tasks to these individuals

Strive to think of adoption as an area they can control

What can be used as a template for putting SAFe into practice within an organization?

SAFe Implementation Roadmap

SAFe Core Values

SAFe Principles

SAFe House of Lean

Which statement is true about the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?

The Scrum Master can decide if the IP Iteration is necessary

It is used as a weekly sync point between the Scrum Masters

It is used annually when the team needs to refocus on work processes

Product Management has content authority over the Program Backlog. What do Product Owners have
content authority over?

Team Backlog

Portfolio Vision

Value Streams

Portfolio Backlog

What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making?

Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time

Removing accountability from leaders

Ensuring strategic decisions are not made in a vacuum

Creating better visualization

On day two of PI Planning, management presents adjustments based on the previous day's management
review and problem solving meeting. What is one possible type of adjustment they could make?

Business priorities

User Stories

Adjustment to PI Objectives

Change a team’s plan

Which statement fits with the SAFe Core Value of Built-in Quality?

Quality should only be worked on during the Innovation and Planning Iteration

You cannot scale crappy code

Quality is not part of the SAFe Core Values

Quality depends on the scale of the project and should be implemented from the top down
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?

Relentless improvement

Respect for people and culture

Innovation

Flow

Who has content authority to make decisions at the user story level during PI Planning?

Development Team

Scrum Masters

Product Owner

Release Train Engineer

Who is responsible for the Solution Backlog?

Product Management

Product Owners

Solution Train Engineer

Solution Management