1.

What type of objectives are used to identify work that can be

variable within the scope of a PI?
Uncommitted objectives are used to identify work that can be variable within the scope of a PI. The work
is planned, but the outcome is simply not certain. Teams can apply uncommitted objectives whenever
there is low confidence in meeting the objective.

2. What is one new SAFe 5.0 tool used to express Strategic Themes?
Objectives and key results

3. In what situation would a team use uncommitted objectives?

The team has a dependency on an external contractor who has been unreliable in the past

4. Built-in Quality is a dimension of Team and Technical Agility and

what else?
A SAFe Core Value

5. In SAFe's CALMR approach to DevOps, what does the "R"

represent?
Recovery

6. What is the foundation the customer-centric enterprise?

Market and user research

7. Why was the Dev Team removed from SAFe 5.0?

To better relate to business teams

8. When should Continuous Exploration activities take place?

Every iteration

9. Which of the seven core competencies addresses the other

solutions that are necessary to deliver complete enterprise value?
Lean Portfolio Management

10. Which Continuous Delivery Pipeline event(s) should happen

every Iteration?
Continuous Exploration, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment

11. Which tool or process supports customer centricity?

Design thinking
 12. Which backlog contains user stories a team may be working
on?
The Team Backlog

13. The Product Owner is involved in which activity?

ART sync

14. When is the System Demo conducted during Program

Execution?
At the end of every iteration
 15. What do Burn-up charts show in the Iteration progress?

Planned Vs Actual

16. In SAFe®, which two items belong in the Team Backlog?

(Choose two.)
1. user / enabler Stories 2. Spikes
17. What does SAFe Principle #3, "Assume variability; preserve
options," enable?
Better economic results

18. What is the primary purpose of Strategic Themes?

Connect the portfolio to the enterprise business strategy

19. An Epic spanning two PIs was approved for implementation. What
is the optimum implementation path from a Lean-Agile
perspective?
Demonstrate the progress to key stakeholders after first PI and make a decision how to proceed with the
Epic in the second PI

20. What is the primary goal of decentralized decision-making?

Minimize work-in-progress

21. Which statement is most accurate about the Program Vision?

It expresses the strategic intent of the Program

22. What is the connection between feedback and optimum

batch size?
Lack of feedback contributes to higher holding cost

23. What are two goals of the Feature section of the Program
Kanban? (Choose two.)
Facilitate Feature readiness

Visualize the state of each feature

Which statement is true about Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

in SAFe?
MBSE allows a team to explore solution options earlier

What are two reasons organizational leaders should “take a systems

view”? (Choose two.)
To optimize the system as a whole

Because some systemic changes that could dramatically improve teams' environments can only be made
by the leaders

Which three statements are true about the role of Lean-Agile Leaders?
(Choose three.)
They lead by example

They lead the change

They exemplify the lean-agile mindset, values, and principles

Communities of Practice best solve which problem in a Lean-Agile

Enterprise?
Optimizing by cross-functional teams

Which two areas do Capabilities live in the SAFe Requirements Model?

(Choose two.)
Under Epics

Above Features

Which three roles are most responsible for ensuring successful execution
at the Large Solution Level? (Choose three.)
Solution Train Engineer

Solution Management

Solution architect/Engineer

What do Work-in-Process constraints create?

Forced capacity matching

Which role accepts Capabilities as done?

Solution Management

What is a SAFe-recommended approach to implement a crosscutting

Epic that spans multiple PIs?
All agile release trains and solution trains demonstrate their work with respect to the epic at every PI
boundary

What is the goal of Lean?

sustainable shortest lead time, best quality, and value
 Who facilitates the Scrum of Scrums?
Release train engineer

The three pillars of Scrum are transparency, inspection, and what else?
Adaptation
Who defines the final scope of a committed Iteration?
The agile team

What is the main reason for the System Demo?

To enable faster feedback by integrating across teams

Who participates in the backlog refinement event?

The scrum master and product owner

The Scrum Master facilitates which three events in SAFe? (Choose

three.)
Iteration planning

Daily stand-up

Retrospective

Every Iteration each team plans, builds, tests, integrates, and what?
reviews their work

What are two inputs to PI Planning? (Choose two.)

Top-10 features

Product/Solution Vision

Which two options are considered Agile practices? (Choose two.)

 Test-Driven Development
 Timeboxing
What is one of the most important tasks of a Scrum Master?

 Fostering collaboration
Which two statements describe the design of the Team Kanban board? (Choose two.)

 It has a WIP limit for every stage that is adjusted by what is happening
 It is designed by the team with coaching from the Scrum Master, and it
is based on the team's workflow
 What benefit does cadence development provide?

 Limits variability

What does an Improvement Backlog capture?

 New practices the team wants to adopt

What are two examples of an organizational structure anti-pattern? (Choose two.)

 The team’s manager is also the Product Owner

 There are two Product Owners for the team

What are two actions a team can take to improve economic outcomes? (Choose two.)

 Create a Research Enabler

 Automated testing

What is a typical measurement in Kanban?

 Average WIP

Which two statements describe the design of the Team Kanban board? (Choose two.)

 It is designed by the team with coaching from the Scrum Master, and it
is based on the team's workflow
 It has a WIP limit for every stage that is adjusted by what is happening

What does an Improvement Backlog capture?

 New practices the team wants to adopt

What are two reasons the 5 Whys technique is effective? (Choose two.)

 It reveals the nature of the problem through repeating "why" five times
 It explores the cause and effect relationship underlying a particular
problem

Within the Continuous Exploration aspect of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline, what helps

gather more feedback about customer needs?

 Research
How is completeness and accuracy of a particular step in a Value Stream measured?

 Percent of work that the next step can process as is

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/continuous-delivery-pipeline/

SAFe synchronizes which three critical elements of a complex technology development

program? (Choose three.)

 Alignment
 Delivery
 Collaboration
What is supported by flexible system designs?

 Changing requirements
What are three Solution Train roles at the Solution level? (Choose three.)

 Solution Architect
 Solution Management
 Solution Train Engineer

What is the foundation of Lean?

Leadership

The concept of self-organizing teams is extended to which type of group?

 Teams-of-Agile-Teams, applying Lean thinking to understand and

relentlessly improve the systems that support their critical work
What is the purpose of a program vision?

 To describe to the teams the value the system is delivering to the

customer
How could this hypothesis be validated: Adding a "Buy Now" button will get quicker sales, as

measured by the time from item selection to payment"?

 Add telemetry to track the amount of time

What is one fundamental difference between Agile Software Engineering and Waterfall?

 Agile supports test-first development

How do story maps align a team and their backlog?
 By creating a shared understanding of the stories needed to complete
a system feature
The SAFe principle "Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning" relates to which

SAFe value?

 Alignment

What is the purpose of dynamic models?

 They are used when there are numerous and complex interactions
When is Test-Driven Development (TDD) executed?

 During coding
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/test-driven-development/
NEXT

Which two actions can slow the delivery of value? (Choose two.)

 System delays
 Loopbacks

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/continuous-delivery-pipeline/
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/blog/enabling-technical-agility-in-the-
lean-enterprise-vlog-series-accelerating-flow/
Which two concepts are included in internal quality? (Choose two.)

 Modifiability
 Testability

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/built-in-quality/
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/blog/enabling-technical-agility-in-the-
lean-enterprise-vlog-series-built-in-quality/
Which two responsibilities do Enterprise Architects have in value stream coordination? (Choose

two.)

 Technical guidance for NFRs for the portfolio Solution set

 Foster flow by identifying runway
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/enterprise-architect/
 In addition to automation, what does DevOps strongly advocate?

 Monitoring

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/devops/
A set of values and practices that support the active evolution of the design and architecture of a

system while implementing new system capabilities describes which SAFe concept?

 Agile Architecture
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/agile-architecture/

What are three characteristics of Strategic Themes? (Choose three.)

 Driving Portfolio innovation and differentiation

 Providing business context for decision-making
 Differentiating business objectives that connect a Portfolio to
enterprise strategy

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/strategic-themes/

What are three practices for building large Solutions? (Choose three.)

 Build and integrate the Solution with a Solution Train

 Capture and refine system specifications as fixed/variable Solution
Intent
 Build Solution components and capabilities with ARTs
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/large-solution-safe/

What does Agile Architecture balance?

 Emergent design and intentional architecture

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/agile-architecture/
A Feature planned for the current PI was not completed and a third of the work remains to be

done. What should happen?

 The remaining work needs to be estimated and that size is used in

WSJF
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/story/
 https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/wsjf/

An event that is focused on overall program execution and impediment escalation. What is this

statement describing?

 Scrum of Scrums

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/program-increment/

What should the RTE do if the average of the confidence votes is less than three fingers?

 Rework the plan until a high level of confidence is reached

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/pi-planning/
The RTE ensures that PI Objectives are used during which two occasions? (Choose two.)

 Scrum of Scrums
 System Demo
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/release-train-engineer-and-solution-
train-engineer/
The System Team is starting to see an increase in the volatility of the Continuous Integration (CI)

environment. As component teams are evolving the system interfaces, an increasing number of

CI jobs are not being triggered for the changes being introduced and dependencies are becoming

less visible to developers. What is the best course of action for the RTE to take?

 Work with Engineering Management to ensure CI is included in the

Definition of Done
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/release-train-engineer-and-solution-
train-engineer/
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/continuous-integration
How can RTEs network and interact with one another to improve job skills and knowledge?

 Join or form an RTE Community of Practice

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/communities-of-practice/
Which Guardrail is used to balance architecture and feature investment when planning Program

Increments?

 Capacity Allocation
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/program-increment/
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/program-and-solution-backlogs/
As a Product Manager doing Continuous Exploration, what is one of the best ways to
 gain feedback on products or services?

 Gemba walks
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/continuous-exploration/

What does Solution Intent describe?

 The behavior of the solution

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/solution-intent/

Which Question

provides understanding of the value of the market segment?

 How much is being spent?

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/continuous-delivery-pipeline/
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/continuous-exploration/

What is one reason to capture dimensions and magnitude of value?

 To improve value capture for internal products and pricing models, and
marketing for external products
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/organize-around-value/

The role of the Product Manager is most similar to what other role in SAFe?

 Solution Manager
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/product-and-solution-management/
What would a User Experience professional use to develop a persona?

 Case studies
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/lean-ux/
What is the primary purpose of a Customer Journey Map?

 Understand and design the customer's experience

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/design-thinking/

Which Guardrail is used to balance architecture and feature investment when planning Program

Increments?

 Capacity Allocation
 https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/program-increment/
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/program-and-solution-backlogs/

Non-functional requirements are key architecture concerns and system qualities that are

sometimes known as what?

 The “ilities”— reliability, usability, scalability, maintainability, etc.

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/nonfunctional-requirements/

How are PI objectives quantified?

 By assigning Business Value

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/pi-objectives/

Which system qualities are typically design constraints or restrictions on the system?

 Non-functional Requirements
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/nonfunctional-requirements/

Who is responsible for accepting stories in the Iteration?

 Product Owner
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/product-owner/
The Daily Stand-up time box recommendation is how many minutes?

 15 minutes
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/scrumxp/

The responsibility of representing the customer to the Agile team belongs to which role?

 Product Owner
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/product-owner/
Which statement is true about the Product Owner (PO) role in the Enterprise?

 The PO works with the team to prioritize the Team Backlog

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/product-owner/

What is one Core Value of SAFe®?

 Program execution
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/safe-core-values/
What are two things a well thought out Vision communicates? (Choose two.)
 What problems are being solved
 What are the non-functional requirements
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/vision/
A Product Manager discusses a Feature with a client. This action is an example of what?

 Customer collaboration
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/product-and-solution-management
What are the three components to Cost of Delay? (Choose three.)

 User business value

 Time criticality
 Risk reduction - opportunity enablement
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/wsjf/

What is a key characteristic of the SAFe® approach to managing programs?

 Fixed cadence and synchronization

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/program-increment/

What is the Product Manager's role in PI Planning?

 Negotiate scope
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/product-and-solution-management/

How is value at the Portfolio Level described?

 Business and Enabler Epics

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/portfolio-level/

Which two Lean Portfolio Management practices will accelerate the flow of value to the

customer?

(Choose two.)

 Control Work in Process with a Portfolio Kanban system

 Organize people around Value Streams/Agile Release Trains
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/lean-portfolio-management/
What are two key inputs to participatory budgeting? (Choose two.)

 Potential Value Stream Epics

 Business context
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/lean-budgets/
 Which item is included in the Portfolio Context?

 Qualitative data
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/portfolio-level/
Why would a single Portfolio create multiple Portfolio Canvases?

 To explore multiple future state possibilities

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/lean-portfolio-management/

What is one of the Agile product management office responsibilities?

 Moving to objective milestones

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/product-and-solution-management/

What does a SAFe Portfolio manage?

 One or more development Value Streams

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/identify-value-streams-and-arts/

What are key outputs of participatory budgeting?

 New value stream budgets and an agreed upon list of Epics

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/lean-budgets/

What is a leadership activity of the Lean Agile Center of Excellence?

 Fostering Communities of Practice

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/communities-of-practice/

What do the ‘C’ and the ‘R’ stand for in a CALMR approach to DevOps?

 Culture and Recovery

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/devops/

Which activity supports the flow of value through the Release on Demand aspect of the

Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

 Release
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/continuous-delivery-pipeline/
 Continuous Deployment includes which two activities? (Choose two.)

 Monitor
 Respond
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/continuous-deployment/

What is an activity ratio?

 Lead process time divided by lead time

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/continuous-delivery-pipeline/

What is the ultimate goal of DevOps in SAFe?

 To enable Agile Release Trains to deliver value more frequently

https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/devops/

What is BDD?

 Behavior-Driven Development
https://v5.scaledagileframework.com/behavior-driven-development/

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1. Besides Inspection and transparency, which one is third pillar of Empiricism? –

Adaptation

2. What are the two ways to describe a cross-functional Agile Team? (Choose Two)
 They can define, build, and test a feature or component
 They are optimized for communication and delivery of value
3. Which statement ts with the SAFe Core Value of Built-in Quality?
  You cannot scale crappy code

4. 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?

 INNOVATION

5. Which SAFe Core Value best supports why teams and stakeholders attend PI
Planning?

 ALLIGNMENT

6. What is the foundation of the SAFe House of Lean?

 LEN- AGILE LEADERSHIP

7. Which one of the following is the goal of lean?

 Sustainable shortest lead time, best quality and value

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

 Built-in Quality

 Alignment

9. What is the ROOF of the Scaled Agile Framework House of Lean?

 VALUE

10. How does SAFe extend the Agile Manifesto foundation to the level of team of teams?

 By applying Lean thinking to understand and improve the systems that support the teams

11. Which pillar of the House of lean can help explain why projects often block enterprise
Agility?

 Respect for People & Culture

12. What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making to the customer?

 Delivering value in the sustainably shortest lead time

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

 Reduce the batch sizes of work

 Visualize and limit Work-in-Process

 Manage queue lengths

14. What is one benefit of unlocking the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers?
  To provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints

15. The SAFe Principles should be implemented in sequential order rather than
concurrently

 FALSE

16. Which of these Lean-Agile Principles is one of the 9 SAFe principles?

 Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles

17. The SAFe Principle “Assume variability; preserve options” enables------------

 Better economic results

18. SAFe first Lean-Agile Principle includes "Deliver early and often" and what else?
 Deliver value incrementally

19. Which three types of decisions should remain centralized even in a decentralized
decision-making environment? (Choose Three)
 Long lasting decisions

 Long lasting decisions

 Decisions with significant economies of scale

20. A system is observing faster and lower variability with the small batch size. Then which
two statements are true about batch size? (Choose Two)
 Co-Location enables small batch size

 Severe project slippage is the most likely result of large batches

21. Which SAFe Principle includes providing autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum
constraints?
 Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers

22. Optimizing the solution result in identifying and reducing what?

 Delays

23. The SAFe Implementation Roadmap is based on what?

 Effective Agile Release Train launches based on SAFe Adoption

24. What are the first three steps of the SAFe Implementation Roadmap?
 Reach the tipping point, train Lean-Agile change agents, and then train executives, managers and leader

25. In what scenario would all levels of SAFe most likely be needed?
 When a Portfolio consists of multiple Value Streams with multiple ARTs
26. What is the statement defining "A series of activities that have proven to be effective in
successfully implementing SAFe"?
 The SAFe implementation Roadmap

27. What is the key ingredient for a successful SAFe implementation in a strong organization
culture?
 New work habits must be created

28. What next after training of executives, managers, & leaders in new SAFe
implementation?
 Identify Value Stream and Agile Release Trains

29. In the Program Kanban some of steps have Work-in-Process limits. Why is this necessary?
 To enable flow in a pull-based system

30. Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?

 Responding to change over following a plan

31. What is the most effective way to avoid waterfalling a sprint?

 By splitting Stories into smaller Stories and working on them serially

32. How can an organization gain trust between the business and development?
 Deliver predictably

33. What are the top two reasons for adopting Agile in an organization? (Choose two)
 Accelerate product delivery

 Enhance ability to manage changing priorities

34. What is an example of cross-functional iterations?

 Iteration 1: Define, Build, Test, Define, Build, Test

35. Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?

 Working Software over comprehensive documentation

36. What can be the benefit of increasing or enhancing enterprise agility?

 It allows for a faster response to changing market opportunities

37. Which two are part of Scaled Agile Core Values?

 Program Execution

 Transparency

38. Which two decisions should remain centralized even in a decentralized decision-making
environment?
  Decisions that deliver large and broad economic benefits

 Decisions unlikely to change in the short term

39. What is the example of applying cadence and synchronization in SAFe?

 Conducting a PI planning

40. Optimizing flow means identifying what?

 DELAYS

41. What is this statement defining : "A series of activities that have proven to be effective in
successfully implementing SAFe?"
 The SAFe implementation Roadmap

42. What is the meaning of shift left?

 Applying quality practices early and continuously

43. Which statements are principes from the Agile Manifesto? (choose two)
 Responding to change

 Customer collaboration

44. If small batches go through the system with lower variability, then which statement is
true about batch size?
 Large batches can cause projects to miss targets

45. How can trust be gained between business and development?

 Deliver predictably

46. A team has just adopted the SAFe Implementation Roadmap and is the process of
training executives, managers and leaders. What is their next step?
 Identify Value Streams and Agile Release Trains

47. When basing decisions on economies, how are lead time, product cost, value and
development expense used?
 To identify different parameters of the economic framework

48. Which competency of the Lean Enterprise helps drive built-in quality practices?
 Team and Technical Agility

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

 Anchor new approaches in the culture

50. When does a roadmap become a queue?

 When it is fully committed
51. What is a minimal viable product?
 A minimal product that can validate a hypothesis

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

 Teams align their iterations the same schedule to support communication, coordination and system integration

53. Which statement is a principle of the Agile Manifesto?

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

54. What is the recommended way to express a Feature or Capability?

 Feature and Benefit

55. SAFe requires Epics to be estimated in order to forecast

 True

Reason: Epics are broken into Features, estimated in story points and then totaled to forecast
the epic's size

56. The Program and Value Stream Backlogs are the short-term holding areas for ___________
and ____________.

 Features and Capabilities

Reason: Features are intended to address user needs and deliver business benefits for a
single Agile Release Train (ART). Capabilities can span multiple ARTs and is
intended to advance the Solution

57. Which one of the following statements about Enabler Features is true?

 Future business Features influence the cost of delay of current Enabler Features

Reason: If cost of delay of future feature (ex., regulatory requirement) is unacceptably high,
then the enabler will be prioritized high and be implemented.

58. Which three items are found on a Program board? (Choose three.)

 Features

 Significant dependencies

 Milestones

Reason: The following are highlighed in Program Board 1. Features being delivered in this PI
2. Feature dependencies between teams 3. Relevant Milestones

59. During the final plan review, Program risks are addressed using1/1 ROAM. What do the
letters in ROAM represent?

 Owned, Mitigated, Resolved, Accepted

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

 A value of 10 given to all of the PI Objectives

Reason: Business Owners use a scale from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest) to rate each objective.
They need not be ‘normalized’ across teams; every team has some highest
priority (rated 10) items.

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

 There is a risk that the tyranny of the urgent outweighs all innovation activities

Reason: Focus on one thing—delivery—can lead to a lack of focus on another—innovation. To

address this, SAFe provides dedicated innovation and planning iterations.

62. What SAFe practice best supports capacity-based planning?

 Using common story point estimating across teams

Reason: In SAFe, however, story point estimation must be normalized, so that estimates for
features or epics that require the support of multiple teams, are based on the same
story point definition, allowing a shared basis for economic decision-making.

63. Uncommitted objectives are technical or functional spikes needed to uncover knowledge
or reduce risk in the next PI.

 False

Reason: Uncommitted objectives are goals built into the plan, but are not committed by the
team because of too many unknowns or risks. They are NOT extra things to do in
case if they have time.

64. Business Owners assign business value to the Teams’ PI Objectives to create alignment
on priorities

 True

65. Why do Business Owners assign business value to Teams' PI Objective?

 To provide the teams with guidance value to the business

Reason: Business owner assigns business value to each PI objective. Teams understand the
business value of the objective being committed.

66. 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

Reason: Fist of Five" Voting is a simple process one can use to check-in, learn, gain
consensus, and/or vote to understand where people stand on an issue or idea.

67. When are team planning adjustments made during PI planning?

  At the beginning of day two

Reason: Day 1 of PI planning ends with "Draft Plan review" and "Management review and
problem solving". Management has time till day 2 morning to present changes to
planning scope, people and resources as part of "Planning adjustments"

68. What are the two problems that can be understood from the Program Board? (Choose
Two)

 Too many dependencies leading to a single program milestone

 A significant dependency leading to a Feature

Reason:The following are highlighed in Program Board 1. Features being delivered in this PI 2.
Feature dependencies between teams 3. Relevant Milestones

69. When does the team agree on PI objectives?

 During PI Planning

Reason: PI Objectives is the outcome of PI Planning. Team agrees and commits to PI

Objectives that they can develop by end of PI.

70. A team observed that they have to finish all the functionality in a PI as per the
organization regulatory compliance. As a result, the team has not identified any
uncommitted objective on day two of PI planning. Which one of the following could be the
next step for action?

 Split the team's scope into committed and uncommitted objectives based on implementation
risk.

71. When are the planning adjustments communicated back to the Agile Release Train after
the management reviews?

 At the beginning of day two

Reason: Day 1 ends with draft plan review, ""Management Review and Problem Solving""
workshop. Management works on resolving the issues raised by the team during draft
plan review. On day 2 beginning, management communicates the planning
adjustments to resolve the issues raised during ""Draft plan review"" meeting.

72. What are uncommitted objectives?

 Objectives that are planned but not committed, however will be pulled if there is time later in
the PI

Reason: The PI objectives typically include ‘uncommitted objectives,’ which are goals built
into the plan (e.g., stories that have been defined and included for these objectives),
but are not committed to by the team because of too many unknowns or risks.
Uncommitted objectives are not extra things to do in case there is time. Instead, they
 increase the reliability of the plan and give management an early warning of goals
that the ART may not be able to deliver.

73. During which event are the team PI objectives agreed upon?

 PI Planning

Reason: During the PI planning meeting, team gets agrees upon "Team PI Objective" that
they can commit to. They are summarized as "Program PI Objectives".

74. On day two of PI planning, management presents adjustments based on the previous
day's management review and problem solving session. What type of adjustment they could
make?

 Change a team's plan

Reason: On day 2, the event begins with management presenting any changes to planning
scope, people, and resources. Teams continue planning based on their agenda from
the previous day, making the appropriate adjustments. They finalize their objectives
for the PI, to which the Business Owners assign business value.

75. Which statement describes aspects of the team's commitment during PI planning?

 A team plans, however doesn’t commit to uncommitted objectives

Reason: During this process, teams identify risks and dependencies and draft their initial
team PI objectives. The PI objectives typically include ‘uncommitted objectives,’
which are goals built into the plan (e.g., stories that have been defined and included
for these objectives), but are not committed to by the team because of too many
unknowns or risks. Uncommitted objectives are not extra things to do in case there is
time. Instead, they increase the reliability of the plan and give management an early
warning of goals that the ART may not be able to deliver.

76. What is the valid reason for moving a PI objective to uncommitted?

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

Reason: The PI objectives typically include ‘uncommitted objectives’, which are goals built
into the plan (e.g., stories that have been defined and included for these objectives),
but are not committed to by the team because of too many unknowns or risks.
Uncommitted objectives are not extra things to do in case there is time. Instead, they
increase the reliability of the plan and give management an early warning of goals
that the ART may not be able to deliver.

77. Which one of the following is the main purpose of DevOps?

 It joins development and operations to enable continuous deployment

Reason: SAFe enterprises implement DevOps to break down silos and empower each
Agile Release Train (ART) and Solution Train to release Features on demand to
their end users. Over time, the separation between development and
operations is significantly reduced, and trains operate with an automated
Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
78. Applications which are incorporating DevOps, what attributes they should have? (choose
two)
 Overlay measurement with events (deploys, releases
 Generate logs to enable analysis
Reason: The goal is to build applications that: Collect data on business, application,
infrastructure, and client layers Store logs in ways that enable analysis Use different
telemetry for different stakeholders Broadcast measurements that are hyper-
transparent Overlay measurements with events (deploys, releases, etc.) Continuously
improve telemetry during and after problem-solving.

79. 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
Reason: SAFe describes four activities associated with continuous integration: 1. Develop
describes the practices necessary to implement stories and commit the code and
components to the trunk 2. Build describes the practices needed to create deployable
binaries and merge the development branches into the trunk 3. Test end-to-end
describes the practices necessary to validate the solution 4. Stage describes the
practices necessary to host and validate the solution in a staging environment before
production.

80. What do the three continuous cycles on the Continuous Delivery Pipeline enable?
 Continuous Learning Cycles
Reason: The Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP) represents the workflows, activities, and
automation needed to shepherd a new piece of functionality from ideation to an on-
demand release of value to the end user. The pipeline consists of four aspects: 1.
Continuous Exploration (CE) 2. Continuous Integration (CI) 3. Continuous Deployment
(CD) and 4. Release on Demand

81. Which statement is true about program events?

 Team events run inside the Program events, and the Program events create a closed
loop system

Reason: When it comes to PI execution for a single ART, a sequence of ART events create a
closed-loop system to keep the train on the tracks.

82. What are the two characteristics of jobs to get preference from Weighted Shortest Job
First? (Choose two)

 Shorter Duration

 Higher Cost of Delay

Reason: WSJF = Cost of Delay / Duration (Job Size)

83. What is an example of applying cadence and synchronization in SAFe?

 Conducting a PI planning Meeting

Reason: Cadence is a rhythmic pattern of events that provides the steady heartbeat of the
development process. It makes routine everything that can be routine, so developers
can focus on managing the variable part of solution development. Synchronization
 allows multiple solution perspectives to be understood, resolved, and integrated at
the same time.

84. What is the best measure of complex system development?

 System Demo

Reason: The System Demo is a significant event that provides an integrated view of new
Features for the most recent Iteration delivered by all the teams in the Agile Release
Train (ART). Each demo gives ART stakeholders an objective measure of progress
during a Program Increment (PI).

85. What is another name for technical or functional spikes needed to uncover knowledge or
reduce risk in the next PI?

 Exploration enablers

Reason: An Enabler supports the activities needed to extend the Architectural Runway to
provide future business functionality. These include exploration, architecture,
infrastructure, and compliance. Enablers are captured in the various backlogs and
occur throughout the Framework.

86. Strategic Themes are differentiated business objectives which helps guide Solutions.
Where are the Strategic Themes found in the SAFe big picture?

 Portfolio

Reason: Strategic Themes are differentiating business objectives that connect a portfolio to
the strategy of the Enterprise. They influence portfolio strategy and provide business
context for portfolio decision-making. Strategic themes offer a way to align the
business strategy of an Enterprise or Government agency with a SAFe portfolio.
Working together, enterprise executives and portfolio stakeholders analyze various
inputs to establish a set of strategic themes.

87. When is the best time to release software in SAFe?

 Whenever the business needs it

Reason: Release on Demand is the process that deploys new functionality into production
and releases it immediately or incrementally to customers based on demand.

88. What period of time should the Program and Value Stream Roadmaps usually cover?

 2 to 3 PIs

Reason: Program roadmap has roadmap for approx. 3 PIs

89. Why is Test-First important?

 User story implementation is more likely to meet the Product Owner’s acceptance
criteria

 There is less likelihood of defects from the implementation of a user story

 The cost of implementation will likely be much lower

  All of the above

Reason: All the mentioned points are the results of TDD approach

90. Why do we prioritize with Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)?

 To deliver the best economic outcome from a constrained capacity system

Reason: While this continuous flow model speeds the delivery of value and keeps the system
Lean, priorities must be updated continuously to provide the best economic
outcomes. In a flow-based system, job sequencing, rather than theoretical, individual
job return on investment, produces the best result. To that end, WSJF is used to
prioritize backlogs by calculating the relative CoD and job size (a proxy for the
duration).

91. A crosscutting Epic that spans multiple PIs is approved for implementation. What is a
SAFe-recommended approach for implementation?

 Trains will demonstrate their work only if they have managed to integrate and test it
—if not, they can demo in the next PI

92. The importance of this event cannot be overstated. It is a high- profile event, and the
harbinger of near-future Value Stream and portfolio investment decisions. It is the only true
measure of progress, and it is the primary mitigator of investment risk for the Value Stream.
What event is this?

 Solution Demo

Reason: During the solution demo, development teams demonstrate the solution’s new
Capabilities, its compliance with Nonfunctional Requirements (NFRs), and its overall
fitness for purpose. The solution demo provides essential input to near-term Value
Stream and Portfolio Level investment decisions. As the only tangible measure of
progress, it mitigates investment risk.

93. Which is the most accurate statement about Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)?

 The Feature with the highest WSJF is sequenced first

94. During the System Demo, it turns out that each team demonstrates their own branch of
code and the system is not truly integrated. When RTE asks about the reasons behind this,
the teams explain that they underestimated the integration effort and now they can't afford
integration in every sprint and still accomplish the originally planned PI scope. What should
the RTE suggest to the teams?

 Integrate the existing branches and produce the System Demo; based on the amount
of effort involved, make scope corrections for the remaining sprints in the PI

Reason: The System Demo is a significant event that provides an integrated view of new
Features for the most recent Iteration delivered by all the teams in the Agile Release
Train (ART). Each demo gives ART stakeholders an objective measure of progress
during a Program Increment (PI). A system demo is a critical event. It’s the method
for assessing the Solution’s current state and gathering immediate, ART-level
feedback from the people doing the work, as well as critical feedback from Business
Owners, sponsors, stakeholders, and customers. The demo is the one real measure of
value, velocity, and progress of the fully integrated work across all the teams.
95. During the Inspect & Adapt, teams identified a considerable amount of action items
aimed at solving their current biggest problem as a train. What is the best way for the
teams to proceed?

 Pick any one or two improvement items for the next PI

Reason: All ART stakeholders participate along with the Agile Teams in the I&A event. The
result is a set of improvement backlog items that go into the Program Backlog for the next PI
Planning event.

96. A single Agile Release Train can have software, firmware and hardware engineers on
board

 True.

Reason: ARTs are cross-functional and have all the capabilities—software, hardware,
firmware, and other—needed to define, implement, test, deploy, release, and where
applicable, operate solutions.

97. What is the focus of the Daily Stand-up meeting?

 Iteration goals versus what got done

Reason: Daily standup is done by the Agile team to focus on iteration goals and measure the
progress towards it.

98. What are three components of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline? (Choose three.)

 Continuous Integration

 Continuous Exploration

 Continuous Deployment

Reason: The Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP) represents the workflows, activities, and
automation needed to shepherd a new piece of functionality from ideation to an on-demand
release of value to the end user. The pipeline consists of four aspects: Continuous
Exploration (CE), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD), and Release on
Demand.

99. Which statement is true about DevOps?

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

100. What are two of the Agile Release Train Sync meetings? (Choose two.)

 Scrum of Scrums

 Product Owner Sync

Reason: The following are the ART events conducted during PI execution. 1. Scrum of Scrum
2. Product Owner Sync 3. System Demo 4. Prepare for next PI planning 5. Inspect &
Adapt

101. What does the Program Roadmap do in the Scaled Agile Framework?
  It describes the program commitment for the current and roadmap for next two
program increments

102. Which two statements are true about DevOps? (Choose two)

 It reduces risk and improves innovation by making it safer to experiment

 It lessens the severity and frequency of release failures

103. What is a minimum viable improvement step for implementing a Continuous Delivery
Pipeline?

 Eliminate inter-Iteration waterfalls

104. How often should System Demo occur in the default SAFe cadence?

 Every 2 weeks

Reason: The system demo occurs at the end of every iteration. It provides an integrated,
comprehensive view of the new Features delivered by the ART over the past iteration.

105. What does continuous delivery pipeline enable?

 Ongoing learning

Reason: The Continuous Delivery Pipeline is a mechanism for continuous learning and value
delivery. Since CD pipeline enables very frequent releases, it enables continuous and
ongoing learning.

106. Why is it important to decouple deployment from release?

 To enable releasing upon demand

Reason: Development should be on cadence and release should be based on demand. More
often the release is a decoupled, on-demand activity, occurring for specific users,
timed for when they need it, or when it makes the most economic sense for the
enterprise

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

 To help continuous deployment

Reason: The program Kanban facilitates the flow of features through the continuous delivery
pipeline. WIP limit will limit the number of features being built in parallel, which will
help in delivering the limited features in a shorter time.

108. Who is responsible for managing the Portfolio Kanban?

 Lean Portfolio Management. Reason: LPM manages all portfolio backlog.

109. Which one of the following is true about Lean Portfolio Management and budgeting?

 It empowers stakeholders to adapt the current backlog and roadmap context

110. Strategic Themes are differentiated business objectives which helps guide Solutions.
Where are the Strategic Themes found in the SAFe big picture?
  Portfolio

Reason: Its is part of Portfolio layer. Click on Full SAFe tab.

111. What is the primary focus of Lean Portfolio Management?

 Align Lean-Agile development with business strategy

112. The analysing step of the Portfolio Kanban system has a new Epic with a completed
Lean business case. What best describes the next step for Epic?

 It will be moved to the Portfolio Backlog if it receives a "Go" decision from Lean
Portfolio Management

Reason: It is based on 6 step kanban flow Funnel -> Review -> Analysis -> Portfolio Backlog
-> Implementing -> Done

113. In an Enterprise, who allocates the budget to the Value Stream and Agile Release
Trains?

 Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) Team

114. Who owns Portfolio Kanban System?

 Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) Team

115. Which of the following is NOT a step in the Portfolio Kanban?

 Prototype

Reason: Funnel, Review, Analysis, PORTFOLIO BACKLOG, Implementing & Done are six steps
in Portfolio Kanban towards implementing large epic.

116. Which one of the following is true about Strategic Themes?

 Strategic Themes represent the key direction for the portfolio, providing a link
between Enterprise business strategy and economic decision-making within the
portfolio

117. The analysis state of the Portfolio Kanban system has a new Epic with a completed
lightweight business case. What best describes the next step for the Epic?

 It will be moved to the Portfolio Backlog if it receives a “Go” decision from PPM

118. What is the recommended frequency for updating Lean budget distribution?

 Twice annually

119. When large solution be needed?

 When large solutions exceed the typical size of an Agile Release Train

120. What is defined by Solution Context when defining large solutions?

 The environment in which the Solution Operates

121. When is Pre-PI Planning needed?

 When multiple ARTs working in the same Value Stream need to align and coordinate

122. After what event should there be agreement on the PI Objectives to be implemented by
the end of the PI and demoed at the next Solution Demo?

 Post-PI Planning

123. Which of the following is an output from Pre- and Post-PI Planning?

 Value Stream planning board

124. Solution management has to prioritize the capabilities. During, Pre-PI Planning, they
realized that three capabilities require services of a supplier who has proven ability to deliver
but usually takes longer to coordinate and execute. What could be the best Solution
Management decision?

 Solution Management has to make adjustments to the denominator of the WSJF value
for each of these Capabilities, as it will take longer to implement them

125. Which two statements describe a Capability? (Choose two.)

 It is written using a phrase, benefit hypothesis, and acceptance criteria

 It must be structured to t within a single PI

126. What is one guardrail on lean budget spend?

 Investment horizons

Reason: Lean Budget Guardrails describe the policies and practices for budgeting, spending,
and governance for a specific portfolio. There are 4 guardrails in Lean Portfolio. 1.
Guiding investments by horizon 2. Applying capacity allocation to optimize value and
solution integrity 3. Approving significant initiatives 4. Continuous Business Owner
engagement

127. 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?

 It will be moved to the Portfolio backlog if it receives a "Go" decision from Lean
Portfolio Management

Reason: During the analysis state, the following activities typically occur: Identification and
review of solution alternatives Definition of the Minimal Viable Product (MVP) Cost
estimates for the MVP and the anticipated scope of the entire epic Creation of the
Lean Business Case Go/no-go decision by LPM based on the Lean business case.
Approved epics in the analyzing state that have the highest WSJF are pulled into the
next state, portfolio backlog, as soon as space is available.

128. Who facilitate solution train events?

 Solution Train Engineer

Reason: The Solution Train Engineer (STE) is a servant leader and coach for the Solution
Train, facilitating and guiding the work of all ARTs and Suppliers in the Value Stream.

129. Which statement is true about Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) and budgeting?

 LPM empowers stakeholders to adapt the current backlog and roadmap context

130. What is the difference between PI roadmap and Solution roadmap?

 A PI roadmap for nearer term planning and Solution roadmap is for long term
planning

Reason: SAFe defines two types of roadmaps: 1. A near-term PI roadmap and 2. A longer-
term solution roadmap. A PI roadmap includes near-term commitments for an Agile
Release Train (ART) or Solution Train for the planned, upcoming Program Increment
(PI) and offers a forecast into the deliverables and milestones for the next two to
three PIs. The solution roadmap provides a longer-term—often multiyear—view
showing the key milestones and deliverables needed to achieve the solution Vision
over time.

131. What can be used to map the current state of a Portfolio?

 Portfolio Kanban

Reason: As part of defining vision, current state of a Portfolio is defined as a Portfolio

Canvas. The portfolio canvas defines the value streams that are included in a SAFe
portfolio, the value propositions and the solutions they deliver, the customers they
serve, the budgets allocated to each value stream, and other key activities and
events required to achieve the portfolio vision.

132. What describes the policies and practices for spending for a specific portfolio?

 Lean budget Guardrails

Reason: Lean Budget Guardrails describe the policies and practices for budgeting, spending,
and governance for a specific portfolio. Establishing guardrails help ensure that the
mix of investments addresses both near-term opportunities and long-term strategy,
that investments in technology, infrastructure, and maintenance aren’t routinely
ignored, and that large investments are approved appropriately.

133. Measure and Grow is the way portfolios evaluate their progress towards what?

 Business Agility

Reason: Measure and grow describes how to measure the state of Business Agility and how
to grow to improve overall economic outcomes. This article is not meant to represent
a way to ascertain somebody else’s Portfolio’s performance, but rather for portfolio
leaders as well as for the Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE), to self-assess their
progress on this journey.

134. What makes up the Portfolio vision?

 The gap between the current and future state portfolio canvas

Reason: First step of portfolio vision is to capture the current state of the portfolio. The next
step is to envision the future state.
135. Who serves as the Servant Leader(s) for the Agile Release Train?

 Release Train Engineer

136. What role accepts Capabilities?

 Solution Manager

137. What is the primary role of the SAFe portfolio?

 To finance and nurture a set of Solutions-development activities

138. Feature teams are beneficial because they have less dependencies on each other than
component teams.

 True.

139. The Team Backlog contains the Stories that the Product Owner has committed to
delivering

 False

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

 Cross-functional teams

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

 Product Owner

142. We need a safe environment for learning, growth, and mutual influence. Which one of
the following leadership style supports the same?

 Leader as the developer of people

143. According to the Harvard Business Review article titled, "The New Product Development
Game," what does it mean to create built-in stability?

 Provide challenging requirements, a high degree of freedom to meet the

requirements, and get out of the way

144. Peter Drucker defines knowledge workers as individuals who know more about the work
they perform than who?

 Their bosses

145. Lifelong learning is a requirement for Lean-Agile Leaders, and it helps them do what?

 Act as an effective enabler for teams

146. What must management do for a successful Agile transformation?

 Commit themselves to quality and they must be the change agent in the system

147. Implementing SAFe requires buy-in from all levels of the organization. What level of
leadership is most important for effecting cultural change?

 Executive Management
148. What is part of the role of Scrum Master?

 To coach Agile Teams

Reason: Scrum Masters are servant leaders and coaches for an Agile Team. They help
educate the team in Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Kanban, and SAFe, ensuring
that the agreed Agile process is being followed.

149. What are the two ways to define a cross-functional Agile team? (choose two)

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

 They are optimized for communication and delivery of value

Reason: In SAFe, Agile teams are cross-functional groups of 5-11 individuals who define,
build, test, and deliver an increment of value in a short time box. They can: Define –
Independently elaborate and design features and stories to accomplish their mission
Build – Contain all skills necessary to create the artifacts to meet their mission Test –
Ensure an artifact’s quality and performance Deliver – Validate that results address
the intended business need They are optimized for communication and delivery of
value

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

 Culture change comes last as a result of changing work habits

Reason: Sound organizational change management (OCM) practices are still important and
highly recommended in a SAFe transformation. One of the most respected voices in
OCM, Dr. John Kotter, described the eight steps in implementing successful change
as: 1. Establish a sense of urgency 2. Create the guiding coalition 3. Develop the
vision and strategy for change 4. Communicate the change vision 5. Empower
employees for broad-based action 6. Generate short-term wins 7. Consolidate gains
and produce more change 8. Anchor new approaches in the culture.

151. What is the role of Product Management?

 To prioritize the program backlog

Reason: One of the key responsibilities of Product Management is to manage and prioritize
the flow of work. Manage and prioritize the flow of work: Product management
supports the flow of work through the program Kanban and into the program backlog,
responsible for ensuring enough features are ready in the backlog at all times.
Because judicious selection and sequencing of features is a key economic driver for
each ART, the backlog is reprioritized with Weighted Short Job First (WSJF) before
each Program Increment (PI) Planning session.

152. Coordinating Trains and Suppliers is part of which SAFe Core Competency?

 Enterprise Solution Delivery

Reason: It is part of Enterprise Solution Delivery Competency

153. Team and Technical Agility has 3 dimensions: Agile Teams, Teams of Agile Teams and
what else?
  Built-in Quality; Reason: The third dimension is "Built-in Quality"

154. Which two disciplines are necessary for a learning organization? (Choose two)

 Mental Models

 Personal mastery

Reason: The transformation into a learning organization requires five distinct disciplines, as
described by Senge. They are 1. Personal Mastery 2. Shared Vision 3. Team Learning
4. Mental Models 5. Systems Thinking

155. What is the impact of Customer Centricity?

 To understand the customer's needs

Reason : Customer centricity is a mindset: Whenever a customer-centric enterprise makes a

decision, it deeply considers the effect it will have on its end users. This motivates us
to: 1. Focus on the customer 2. Understand the customer’s needs 3. Think and feel
like the customer 4. Build whole product solutions 5. Know customer lifetime value

156. Which is one way an organization can show respect for people and culture?

 Build a generative culture

Reason: The driving force behind this new behavior is a generative culture, which is
characterized by a positive, safe, performance-centric environment. Achieving this
culture requires the enterprise and its leaders to change first. The principle of respect
for people and culture also extends to relationships with Suppliers, partners,
customers, and the broader community that supports the Enterprise.

157. Which design thinking tool helps the team understand how the stories in the Team
Backlog support user objectives?

 Story Maps

Reason: Features that represent a workflow are captured through story maps, which
organize a sequence of stories according to the tasks a user needs to accomplish
their goal.

158. Which are the three dimensions of Agile Product Delivery? (choose three)

 Customer Centricity & Design Thinking

 DevOps and CD pipeline

 Develop on Cadence and Release on demand

Reason: These are the three dimensions of Agile Product Delivery.

159. Which are the three SAFe core competencies in the below list?

 Agile Product Delivery

 Organizational Agility

 Lean-Agile Leadership
Reason: These are the 3 out the 7 core competencies of SAFe

160. Which are the two mandatory competencies required to run a single Agile Release Train
successfully

 Team and Technical Agility

 Agile Product Delivery

Reason: These are the minimum competencies to build to run a successful Agile Release
Train.

161. What is one tool used to focus on users in Design Thinking?

 Personas

Reason: In an indirect customer market, which is common in B2C solutions, product teams
need a way to maintain a connection with their target customer. So, they develop
‘personas’, fictional consumers and/or users derived from customer research. They
depict the different people who might use a product or solution in a similar way,
providing insights into how real users would engage with a solution.

162. How does SAFe describe Customer Centricity?

 As a mindset

Reason: Customer centricity is a mindset and a way of doing business that focuses on
creating positive experiences for the customer through the full set of products and
services that the enterprise offers.

163. Which SAFe competency includes fostering an innovation culture?

 Continuous Learning Culture

Reason: Innovation is one of the four pillars of the SAFe House of Lean. But the kind of
innovation needed to compete in the digital age cannot be infrequent or random. It
requires an innovation culture. An innovation culture exists when leaders create an
environment that supports creative thinking, curiosity, and challenging the status
quo.

Design Thinking identifies at least four new ways to measure success. What are two of those
ways? (Choose two.)

Sustainability

Desirability
What can be used to script the change to SAFe?

Implementation roadmap

What is one issue when organizing around hierarchical functions?

Ref - Principle #10 – Organize around value

Which is an aspect of systems thinking?

Optimizing a component does not optimize the system.

Which of the core competencies of the Lean Enterprise helps align strategy and execution?

Lean Portfolio Management

What is Business Agility?

The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and
emerging opportunities with innovative business solutions
Product Management has content authority over the Program Backlog. What do Product
Owners have content authority over?

Team backlog

What is the basic building block when organizing around value?

In SAFe, it starts with the basic building block of Agile Teams

What can be used as a template for putting SAFe into practice within an organization? SAFe
Implementation Roadmap
When is a pre-PI Planning event needed?

When multiple Agile Release Trains working on the same Solution need to align and coordinate
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SA5 Section 1: Thriving in the Digital Age with Business Agility See the Exam Study Guide
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SA5 Section 2: Becoming a Lean-Agile Leader

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SA5 Section 5: Exploring Lean Portfolio Management

SA5 Section 6: Leading the Change

Response Summary

Question
What must management do for a successful Agile transformation? Commit to quality
and be the change agent in the system

Question

How does SAFe provide a second operating system that enables Business Agility? By
focusing on customers, products, innovation, and growth

Question

What is Business Agility? The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly
responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business
Solutions

Question

What are the last three steps of the SAFe Implementation Roadmap? Launch more Agile
Release Trains and Value Streams, extend to the portfolio, accelerate

Question

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

Question

Which of the core competencies of the Lean Enterprise helps align strategy and execution?
Lean Portfolio Management

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What is the foundation of the SAFe House of Lean? Leadership

Question

The House of Lean is a classic metaphor describing the mindset essential for Lean thinking.
Which one of the four pillars advocates a 'Go See' mindset? Innovation

Question

Which statement fits with the SAFe Core Value of Built-in Quality? You cannot scale
crappy code

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Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto? Respond to change

Question

Which statement is a principle of the Agile Manifesto? Simplicity–the art of maximizing the
amount of work not done–is essential

Question

When basing decisions on economics, how are lead time, product cost, value, and
development expense used? To identify different parameters of the economic framework

Question

Which is an aspect of systems thinking? Optimizing a component does not optimize the
system

Question

What are the three primary keys to implementing flow? (Choose three.) Manage queue
lengths;Reduce the batch sizes of work;Visualize and limit work in process (WIP);

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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

Question

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

provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints

Question

What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making? Delivering value in the

shortest sustainable lead time

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What is the basic building block when organizing around value? Agile Teams

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What is one issue when organizing around hierarchical functions? It is not how value
flows

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

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

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What is part of the role of Product Management? To prioritize the Program Backlog

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Who is responsible for the Solution Backlog? Solution Management

Question

Design Thinking identifies at least four new ways to measure success. What are two of those
ways? (Choose two.) Sustainability;Desirability;

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

All PI Objectives are given a value of 10

Question

What is the impact of Customer Centricity?To understand the Customer's needs

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Which statement describes aspects of the team's commitment during PI Planning? A team
does not commit to uncommitted objectives

Question

When is a pre-PI Planning event needed? When multiple Agile Release Trains working on
the same Solution need to align and coordinate
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?

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What is found on a program board? Features

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Who has content authority to make decisions at the User Story level during Program
Increment (PI) Planning? Product Owner

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In the Program Kanban some steps have work in process (WIP) limits. Why is this necessary?

Question

What is one of the Agile Release Train sync meetings? Scrum of scrums

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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

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What is one component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline? Continuous Exploration

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Which statement is true about DevOps? DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between
development and operations

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 true when continuously deploying using a DevOps model? It lessens the
severity and frequency of release failures

Question

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

Question

Which statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes? They are business

objectives that connect the SAFe portfolio to the Enterprise business strategy

Question

What is a minimum viable product? A minimal product that can validate a hypothesis

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How is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed? In the Portfolio Kanban

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What is one Guardrail on Lean Budget spend? Continuous Business Owner engagement

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What is the last step in Kotter's approach to change management? Anchor new
approaches in the culture

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What can be used to script the change to SAFe? The Implementation Roadmap

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SA5 Section 1: Thriving in the Digital Age with Business Agility See the Exam Study Guide
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SA5 Section 2: Becoming a Lean-Agile Leader

SA5 Section 3: Establishing Team and Technical Agility

SA5 Section 4: Building Solutions with Agile Product Delivery

SA5 Section 5: Exploring Lean Portfolio Management

SA5 Section 6: Leading the Change

Response Summary

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What must management do for a successful Agile transformation? Commit to quality

and be the change agent in the system

Question

How does SAFe provide a second operating system that enables Business Agility? By
focusing on customers, products, innovation, and growth

Question

What is Business Agility? The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly
responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business
Solutions

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What are the last three steps of the SAFe Implementation Roadmap? Launch more Agile
Release Trains and Value Streams, extend to the portfolio, accelerate

Question

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

Question

Which of the core competencies of the Lean Enterprise helps align strategy and execution?
Lean Portfolio Management

Question
What is the foundation of the SAFe House of Lean? Leadership

Question

The House of Lean is a classic metaphor describing the mindset essential for Lean thinking.
Which one of the four pillars advocates a 'Go See' mindset? Innovation

Question

Which statement fits with the SAFe Core Value of Built-in Quality? You cannot scale
crappy code

Question

Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto? Respond to change

Question

Which statement is a principle of the Agile Manifesto? Simplicity–the art of maximizing the
amount of work not done–is essential

Question

When basing decisions on economics, how are lead time, product cost, value, and
development expense used? To identify different parameters of the economic framework

Question

Which is an aspect of systems thinking? Optimizing a component does not optimize the
system

Question

What are the three primary keys to implementing flow? (Choose three.) Manage queue
lengths;Reduce the batch sizes of work;Visualize and limit work in process (WIP);

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

Question
What is one benefit of unlocking the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers? To
provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints

Question

What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making? Delivering value in the

shortest sustainable lead time

Question

What is the basic building block when organizing around value? Agile Teams

Question

What is one issue when organizing around hierarchical functions? It is not how value
flows

Question

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

Question

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

Question

What is part of the role of Product Management? To prioritize the Program Backlog

Question

Who is responsible for the Solution Backlog? Solution Management

Question

Design Thinking identifies at least four new ways to measure success. What are two of those
ways? (Choose two.) Sustainability;Desirability;

Question

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

All PI Objectives are given a value of 10
Question

What is the impact of Customer Centricity?To understand the Customer's needs

Question

Which statement describes aspects of the team's commitment during PI Planning? A team
does not commit to uncommitted objectives

Question

When is a pre-PI Planning event needed? When multiple Agile Release Trains working on
the same Solution need to align and coordinate

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?

Question

What is found on a program board? Features

Question

Who has content authority to make decisions at the User Story level during Program
Increment (PI) Planning? Product Owner

Question

In the Program Kanban some steps have work in process (WIP) limits. Why is this necessary?

Question

What is one of the Agile Release Train sync meetings? Scrum of scrums

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
Question

What is one component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline? Continuous Exploration

Question

Which statement is true about DevOps? DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between
development and operations

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 true when continuously deploying using a DevOps model? It lessens the
severity and frequency of release failures

Question

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

Question

Which statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes? They are business

objectives that connect the SAFe portfolio to the Enterprise business strategy

Question

What is a minimum viable product? A minimal product that can validate a hypothesis

Question

How is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed? In the Portfolio Kanban

Question

What is one Guardrail on Lean Budget spend? Continuous Business Owner engagement

Question

What is the last step in Kotter's approach to change management? Anchor new
approaches in the culture
Question

What can be used to script the change to SAFe? The Implementation Roadmap