Question:

How do leaders build-in instability?

 They provide a high degree of freedom as to how teams meet requirements

Question:
What is one component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

 Continuous Exploration

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

 Without the IP Iteration, there is a risk that the tyranny of the urgent outweighs all
innovation activities 6-52

Question:
When basing decisions on economics, how are cycle time, product cost, value, and
development expense used?

 To identify different parameters of the economic framework 3-10

Question:
What is the recommended way to express a Feature?

 Phrase, benefit hypothesis, and acceptance criteria 6-17

Question:
What is found on a program board?

 Features 5.42
 Dependencies

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

 Product Owner 5.28

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

-Visualize and limit WIP 3-31

-Manage queue lengths 3-31
-Reduce the batch sizes of work 3-31
Question:
What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making?

 Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time •

Question:
What is the focus of the Daily Stand-up meeting?

 Iteration goals versus what got done

Question:
During the final plan review, Program risks are addressed using ROAM. What do the
letters in ROAM represent?

 Owned, Mitigated, Resolved, Accepted 5.46

Question:
Which statement is true about DevOps?

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

operations 6-30

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

 Agile Team Backlog

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/product-owner/

Question:
Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?

 Customer collaboration over contract negotiation 2-13

Question:
When is a Pre-PI Planning event needed?

 When multiple Agile Release Trains working on the same Solution need to
align and coordinate
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/pre-and-post-pi-planning/

Question:
The Agile Release Train uses which type of teams to get work done?
  Cross-functional teams 4-6

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

o -Business Owners assign high values to important enabler work

o A value of 10 given to all of the PI Objectives
o Business Owners assigning the business value
o Assigning business values to stretch objectives

Question:
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?

o Business priorities 5-39

Question:
What is a Minimal Viable Product?

o -A minimal product that can validate a hypothesis

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/continuous-delivery-pipeline/

Question:
What is one of the Agile Release Train sync meetings?

 Scrum of Scrums 6-8

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

 Teams align their iterations to the same schedule to support

communication, coordination, and system integration 3-44

Question:
The Agile Release Train passes through four steps in order to deliver Solutions which
includes: defining new functionality, implementing, acceptance testing, and what else?
 Deploying 4-6

Question:
What is SAFe's release strategy?
  Release on demand 6-4

Question:

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

o -System Demo
Refined Backlog
ROAMing Risks
Iteration Review

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

 To provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/unlock-the-intrinsic-motivation-of-knowledge-
workers/

Question:
What must management do for a successful Agile transformation?

o Strive to think of adoption as an area they can control

o Change Scrum Masters in the team every two weeks – NO
o Send someone to represent management, and then delegate tasks to these
individuals – NO
o Commit to quality and be the change agent in the system

Question:

Which statement describes a Capability?

 It must be structured to fit within a single Program Increment (sized to fit

within PI, often take multiple ARTs to implement)

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/features-and-capabilities/

Question:
What should the team focus on in order to optimize flow?
 Delays 3-14

Question:
What is the recommended way to estimate Epics?

o Split an Epic into potential Features, estimate each potential Feature in

normalized story points, and add up the estimates 8-31
Question:
When does a Roadmap become a queue?

o When it is longer than one Program Increment 6-15

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

o A team does not commit to UNCOMITTED objectives 5-8

Question:
What is another name for technical or functional spikes needed to uncover knowledge
or reduce risk in the next PI
– Enabler stories

Question:
Which leadership style helps create a safe environment for learning, growth, and mutual
influence?

 Leader as the developer of people

Question:
Scrum is built on transparency, inspection, and what else

 Adaption

Question:
During which event are the Team PI Objectives agreed upon
 PI Planning

Which role serves as the Servant Leader for the Agile Release Train

 Release Train Engineer

Question:
Optimizing flow means identifying and reducing what?
 Delays

Question:
Which statement is true about Program events?
 Team events run inside the Program events, and the Program events create
a closed loop system
Question:
How can trust be gained between the business and development
 Deliver predictability

Question:
When are planning adjustments communicated back to the Agile Release Train after the
management review
 At the beginning of day two

Question:
Why do Business Owners assign business value to Teams' PI Objectives

 To provide the teams with guidance of value to the business

Question:

What is this statement defining: "A series of activities that have proven to be effective in
successfully implementing SAFe"?

 The SAFe Implementation Roadmap

Question:
What is an example of cross-functional Iterations?

 Iteration 1: Define, Build, Test; Define, Build, Test

Question:
What are two ways to describe a cross-functional Agile team? (Choose two.)

 They are optimized for communication and delivery of value

They can define, build, and test a feature or component

Question:
What are two items that appear on the program board? (Choose two.)

 Features
 Significant dependencies

Question:
Which two areas are part of the Scaled Agile Framework Core Values? (Choose two.)

 Built-in Quality
Alignment
 Transparency
Question:
Which statement is true about stretch (uncommitted PI Objectives)Team PI Objectives?
 They are part of the load but are not part of the commitment PI

Question:
What is an example of applying cadence and synchronization in SAFe?
 Conducting a PI Planning Meeting

Question:
Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
 Working software over comprehensive documentation

Question:
Why is it important to decouple deployment from release?
 To enable deploying upon demand

Question:
What are the top two reasons for adopting Agile in an organization? (Choose two.)
 Enable changing priorities
Accelerate product delivery

Question:
When would Large Solution SAFe be needed?
 When there are more than two Agile Teams

Question:
If small batches go through the system faster with lower variability, then which
statement is true about batch size?
 Severe project slippage is the most likely result of large batches

Question:
If a program repeatedly shows separate feature branches rather than a true System
Demo, which practice should be reviewed to address the issue?
 Continuous Integration

Question:
Which statement is a principle from the Agile Manifesto?
 Working software is the primary measure of progress

Question:
At the end of PI Planning after dependencies are resolved and risks are addressed, a
confidence vote is taken. What is the default method used to vote?
 Fist of Five

Question:
What is a benefit of enhancing enterprise agility?
 It allows for a faster response to changing market opportunities

Question:
Weighted Shortest Job First gives preference to jobs with which two characteristics?
(Choose two.)
 Shorter duration
Higher Cost of Delay

Question:
What does the Continuous Delivery Pipeline enable?
 Continuous learning cycles

Question:

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

 System Demo

Question:
Which three types of decisions should remain centralized even in a decentralized
decision-making environment? (Choose three.)
 Long lasting decisions
 Infrequent decisions
 Decisions with significant economies of scale

Question:
Which SAFe Principle includes providing autonomy with purpose, mission, and
minimum constraints?
 Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers

Question:
SAFe's first Lean-Agile Principle includes "Deliver early and often" and what else?

 Deliver value incrementally

Question:

What is one key purpose of DevOps?

 DevOps joins development and operations to enable continuous delivery

Question:

When should new approaches be anchored in an organization's culture?

  Culture change comes last as a results of changing work habits

Question:
What is an attribute of an application built with DevOps in mind?

 It ensures continuous integration with manual deployment