Enabler Epics are used to advance what in order to support upcoming Business Epics?

The Architectural Runway

Compliance

Value Stream(s)

The Program Backlog

Which principle of the Agile Manifesto is most aligned with conducting a System Demo?

Welcome changing requirements, even late in development

Working software is the primary measure of progress

The best way to convey information is a face-to-face conversation

At regular intervals the team reflects on how to become more effective

What is included in the Inspect and Adapt agenda?

ROAMing risks

PI Objectives

Quantitative and qualitative measurement

Management review
Which two job roles are good candidates for becoming a Product Owner? (Choose two.)

UX experts

Line managers

Business analysts

Scrum Masters

Subject matter experts

When should a Product Owner (PO) establish team objectives?

 Following the confidence vote

Following the management review and problem-solving meeting

During Program Increment (PI) Planning

During backlog refinement

What is the relationship between a Product Owner (PO) and Product Management (PM)?

The PO and PM spend equal amounts of time on roadmaps and backlogs

The PO and PM collaborate to determine the architectural runway, pricing, and licensing

The PO contributes to the Program Backlog; PM establishes Story acceptance criteria

The PO is team-oriented; PM is market-oriented

Product Management has content authority for the Program Backlog including: the Vision,
the Roadmap, driving the PI Objectives, and what else?

Working with business stakeholders and Solution and System Architects to implement holistic
technology across Value Streams?

Managing risk, helping to ensure value delivery, and driving continuous improvement

Accepting Stories and team increments

Establishing Features and benefit hypotheses?

What two types of dependencies are commonly visualized on the program board? (Choose
two.)

Dependencies related to Features

Dependencies on external suppliers

Dependencies between teams

Epic dependencies

Component dependencies
What are two primary responsibilities of Business Owners in Program Increment (PI)
Planning? (Choose two.)

To ensure that team members plan all of their priorities

To set the business context

To assign business value

To establish the PI budget

To create Lean business cases

Which statement characterizes the perspectives of the definition of done (DoD)?

Product Owners focus on Features while Product Managers focus on Stories

Product Owners focus on the release while Product Managers focus on the team increment

Product Owners focus on the Iteration while Product Managers focus on the release

Product Owners focus on the Solution while Product Managers focus on the team increment
What are two strategies a Product Owner can use during Program Increment Planning to
minimize dependencies? (Choose two.)

Change the definition of done

Split Stories to eliminate dependencies

Reprioritize Epics

Move teams to another Agile Release Train

Move Stories on their team’s backlog to another team

What are personas?

Strategic stakeholders that influence the backlog

Fictional characters that act as a representative user when discussing the backlog

Key end-users the Product Owner leverages for managing the backlog
 External customers that are on the product Roadmap
Which statement is true about estimating and forecasting the Portfolio Backlog?

Refinement is necessary when estimating the effort needed to implement an Epic

Feature estimates are rolled up into Epic estimates

WSJF is used to assign Epics to Value Streams

Epic forecasting is based on the cost estimate

Which role is primarily responsible for working with business teams?

Product Owner (PO)

Product Management (PM)

Enterprise Architect

Release Train Engineer (RTE)

What does assigning business value to a team's PI Objectives influence?

How teams plan the implementation

How often the team deploys

How to achieve objectives

How the Kanban work in process limits are set

What is the primary job of Product Management when considering the Architectural Runway?

Ensuring sufficient capacity is allocated to Enablers

Writing the Enabler Lean business case

Adding Enablers to the Solution roadmap

Prioritizing Enablers using weighted shortest job first (WSJF)

An organization is conducting their first Program Increment Planning session, and the new
teams are asked to provide their capacity. Which three actions are part of the initial capacity
planning process? (Choose three.)

Add the points for all the recently completed Features and use that as a baseline for future
capacity?

Subtract one point for every team member's vacation day, public holiday, or training day

Compare final team capacity across all teams and make individual team adjustments?

Ensure Product Owner/Product Manager approval for all capacity adjustments based on time?

Find a small story that takes about a day to develop and call it a one

Use eight points per person (adjust for part-time employees)

What is one way Kanbans are used in SAFe?

To manage runway cadence

To manage nonfunctional requirements (NFRs) in the backlog

To manage Program Increment (PI) Objectives

To manage queue length

How do Product Owners contribute to the Vision?

By contributing to the portfolio canvas

By establishing Strategic Themes

By communicating emerging requirements and opportunities

By continuously exploring emerging markets

In the first step of SAFe’s Continuous Delivery Pipeline, Product Owners and Managers do
what activity?

Ensure the architecture team has sufficient capacity

Hypothesize on what would create value to their Customers

 Prioritize the backlog

Negotiate Supplier contracts to ensure projected capacity requirements are met

When should innovation activities be conducted by teams on the Agile Release Train?

Throughout the Program Increment

Only when innovation Stories rise to the top of the backlog

At a consistent time each day during the Iteration

Only during the Innovation and Planning Iteration

What is one way to establish a team's velocity?

Look at the average Story points completed from the last Iterations

Add the Story points for all the stories planned for the Iteration

Calculate the percentage planned versus actual Stories completed during an Iteration

Add the Story points for all Features completed in the Iteration
How do Business Owners quantify the value of PI Objectives?

By assigning business value

By assigning Story points

By estimating return on investment

By totaling the Epic budget

What is the primary purpose of PO sync?

To align with the scrum of scrums participants on the status of the Program Increment

To conduct backlog refinement

To assess progress of the Program Increment and adjust scope and priority as needed

To build objectives for the Program Increment

When tracking team progress, what can a Kanban board show the team?

A burndown chart of the work completed in the Iteration

Which team member is behind in their work

How many defects the team is creating

Where the team has too much work-in-process (WIP)

What is a benefit of capacity allocation?

It aligns Business Owners to the objectives

It allocates developers and testers to an initiative?

It assigns Architects to backlog items

It ensures different types of backlog items are not compared against one another?

What is the purpose of Iteration Goals?

To hold the team accountable to their goals

To ensure the team accomplishes all the committed Stories each Iteration

To align the team members and the Product Owner (PO) to the mission

To provide the baseline required for measuring the team's performance

Which Agile Team event supports relentless improvement?

Backlog refinement

Iteration Planning

Iteration Review
 Iteration Retrospective
What is an input to the Program Increment Planning process that highlights how Product
Management plans to accomplish the Vision?

Program board

Business context

Top ten Features

Team Backlogs

Epics are decomposed into what?

Requirements

Stories

Features

Enablers

Which function is responsible for ensuring that the Agile Release Train has the content
needed to successfully engage in Program Increment Planning?

Lean-Agile Center of Excellence

Product Management?

Release Train Engineer?

Product Owner
What is a recommended time horizon of the Program Increment Roadmap?

2-4 years

1-3 years

Less than 1 year

 2 or more years

What are two different types of Enabler Stories? (Choose two.)

Exploration

Impediment

Feature

Defects

Infrastructure
What are the minimum requirements for a Feature?

Whatever the Agile Release Train determines is required

Acceptance criteria, data models, and priority

Name, benefit hypothesis, and acceptance criteria

Benefit hypothesis, acceptance criteria, and priority

What is a recommended time horizon of the Solution Roadmap?

1 year

2 or more years

2-4 years

1-3 years
The goal is a fast delivery process, ideally requiring little manual effort. What is one
capability used to achieve this?

Soft launches

Quiet releases
 Feature toggles

Nonfunctional requirements
A Product Manager is working for an insurance company and is responsible for the internal
systems used for managing claims. This is an example of what kind of Value Stream?

Operational Value Stream

Claims processing Value Stream

Customer journey Value Stream

Development Value Stream

In the SAFe work item hierarchy, Features are decomposed into what?

Capabilities

Tasks

Spikes

Stories
Which two aspects of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline require the most involvement from
Product Managers?

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

Continuous Exploration and Release on Demand

Continuous Integration and Release on Demand

Continuous Exploration and Continuous Deployment

Product Management works with which other role to define and maintain nonfunctional
requirements?

Lean UX

System Team

System and Solution Architect/Engineering

 Portfolio Managers
The role of the Product Owner is most closely aligned with which Agile Manifesto principle?

Build projects around motivated individuals

Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project

Welcome changing requirements, even late in development

The highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable
software
An Agile Release Train (ART) has implemented a completely automated Continuous
Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline that can deploy code as it is checked into
the source-code repository.
How might a Product Owner (PO) adjust team events to take advantage of this capability and
promote the flow of value?

Identify Stories that are cleared for automatic delivery during Iteration Planning

Release Stories that have been included in the team demo

Review and accept Stories as they are completed

Implement Feature toggles to control which Stories are released

What is enabled by the key components of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

End-to-end testing

Accelerated release of value

Predictable release cadence

Hyper-transparent measurements
What is the importance of the definition of done?

It creates standardized work between all Agile Teams

It creates a clear understanding of when items are complete

It provides a way for Scrum Masters to enforce quality

It prioritizes the work of testers on the team