Agile SAFe Q & A

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Question: 1
What are two of the SAFe Core Values? (Choose two.)
A. Transparency
B. Program execution
C. Flow
D. Culture
E. Relentless improvement
Answer: A B
Question: 2
The analyzing step of the Portfolio Kanban system has a new Epic with a completed Lean business
case. What best describes the next step for the Epic?
A. It will remain in the analysing step until one or more Agile Release Trains have the capacity
to implement it
B. It will be moved to the Portfolio Backlog if it receives a 'go' decision from Lean Portfolio
Management
C. It will be implemented if it has the highest weighted shortest job first (WSJF) ranking
D. It will be implemented once the Lean business case is approved by the Epic Owner
Answer: B
Question: 3
What is the goal of the House of Lean?
A. Lean-Agile Leadership as an organizational culture

B. Building a Grow Lean Mindset as opposed to Fixed Mindset
C. Value with the shortest sustainable lead time
D. Aligning principles and values to a fixed cause
Answer: C
Question: 4
Which statement is true about batch size?
A. When there is flow it means there are small batch sizes

B. Large batch sizes ensure time for built-in quality
C. When stories are broken into tasks it means there are small batch sizes
D. Large batch sizes limit the ability to preserve options
Answer: A
Question: 5
Why do Business Owners assign business value to team PI Objectives?
A. To determine the highest value using WSJF

B. To provide guidance on the business value of the team objectives
C. To override the decisions made in WSJF prioritization
D. To ensure the teams do not work on architectural Enablers
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Answer: B
Question: 6
When should new approaches be anchored in an organization's culture?
A. Culture change comes last as a results of changing work habits

B. Culture change needs to happen before the SAFe implementation can begin
C. Culture change comes right after a sense of urgency is created in the organization
D. Culture should not be changed because SAFe respects current culture
Answer: A
Question: 7
What is one output of enterprise strategy formulation?
A. Portfolio Vision
B. Portfolio Budgets
C. Portfolio Canvas
D. Portfolio Governance
Answer: B
Question: 8
What does the Continuous Delivery Pipeline enable?
A. Delivery of large batches

B. Ongoing learning
C. Increased technical debt
D. Continuous refactoring
Answer: B
Question: 9
Why is it important to decouple deployment from release?
A. To enable releasing functionality on demand to meet business needs

B. To allow inspection of Agile maturity based on different cycle times
C. To make deploying of assets a business decision
D. To remove the need to respond quickly to production issues
Answer: A
Question: 10
How does SAFe describe Customer Centricity?
A. As a set of practices employed to make products focused on the Customer

B. As a way of working to include the Customer in daily work processes and planning
C. As a strategy to meet the needs of an ever-changing Customer market
D. As a mindset focused on Customer behaviours that produce the best innovations
Answer: D
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Question: 11
According to SAFe Principle #10, what should the Enterprise do when markets and customers
demand change?
A. Reorganize the network around the new value flow

B. Apply development cadence and synchronization to operate effectively and manage
uncertainty
C. Create a reliable decision-making framework to empower employees and ensure a fast flow
of value
D. Create an Agile Release Train to focus on value
Answer: A
Question: 12
How does SAFe recommend using a second operating system to deliver value?
A. Reorganize the hierarchies around the flow of value

B. Organize the Enterprise around the flow of value while maintaining the hierarchies
C. Leverage Solutions with economies of scale
D. Build a small entrepreneurial network focused on the Customer instead of the existing
hierarchies
Answer: B
Question: 13
The primary need for SAFe is to scale the idea of what?
A. Business Agility
B. Lean Portfolio Management
C. Organizational and Functional Alignment
D. Technical Solution Delivery
Answer: A
Question: 14
Which statement is true when continuously deploying using a DevOps model?
A. It alleviates the reliance on the skill sets of Agile Teams

B. It lessens the severity and frequency of release failures
C. It increases the transaction cost
D. It ensures that changes deployed to production are always immediately available to end-
users
Answer: B
Question: 15
Who decides the Team PI Objective Business Value scoring after negotiation?
A. Business Owner
B. The Agile Team
C. The Scrum Team
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D. Product Manager
Answer: A
Question: 16
Which core competency of the Lean Enterprise helps drive Built-in Quality practices?
A. Lean Portfolio Management

B. Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering
C. DevOps and Release on Demand
D. Team and Technical Agility
Answer: D
Question: 17
Who is responsible for managing the Portfolio Kanban?
A. Solution Management
C. Release Train Engineer
D. Product Management
Answer: B
Question: 18
During the PI Planning event, when are planning adjustments agreed upon?
A. During breakout sessions

B. During Scrum of scrums
C. During the management review and problem-solving
D. During the draft plan review
Answer: C
Question: 19
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?
A. A vote by every person then normalized for the train

B. A vote by team then a vote of every person for the train
C. A single vote by every person for the train
D. A vote by team normalized for the train
Answer: ??
Question: 20
Optimizing flow means identifying what?
A. Activities that lack innovation

B. Predictability issues of the train
C. Key performance indicators
D. Delays
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Answer: D
Question: 21
How can trust be gained between the business and development?
A. Deliver predictability
B. Release new value to production every day
C. Maintain Iterations as a safe zone for the team
D. Automate the delivery pipeline
Answer: A
Question: 22
What else does the SAFe principle, unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers, require
besides purpose and mission?
A. Minimum possible constraints

B. Transparency
C. Incentive-based compensation
D. Innovation
Answer: D
Question: 23
During the final plan review, Program risks are addressed using ROAM. What do the letters in ROAM
represent?
A. Owned, Mitigated, Active, Resolved

B. Resolved, Assigned, Mitigated, Owned
C. Owned, Mitigated, Resolved, Accepted
D. Resolved, Owned, Approved, Mitigated
Answer: C
Question: 24
Which two types of decisions should remain centralized even in a decentralized decision-making
environment? (Choose two.)
A. Decisions that require local information

B. Decisions that come with a high cost of delay
C. Decisions unlikely to change in the short term
D. Decisions that are made frequently
E. Decisions that deliver large and broad economic benefits
Answer: C E
Question: 25
What is one component of a Guardrail in Lean Portfolio Management?
A. Determining if business needs meet the Portfolio Threshold

B. Participatory budgeting forums that lead to Value Stream budget changes
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C. Capacity allocation of the Value Stream compared to process mapping

D. Allocation of centralized vs decentralized decisions in the Enterprise
Answer: C
Question: 26
Which pathway would a LACE use on the Agile growth lifecycle?
A. The Scaled Agile Framework

B. The SAFe Implementation Roadmap
C. Agile Maturity Roadmaps
D. The 7 Core Competencies of Business Agility
Answer: D
Question: 27
What is one key purpose of DevOps?
A. DevOps focuses on automating the delivery pipeline to reduce transaction cost

B. DevOps joins development and operations to enable continuous delivery
C. DevOps enables continuous release by building a scalable Continuous Delivery Pipeline
D. DevOps focuses on a set of practices applied to large systems
Answer: B
Question: 28
What are the top two reasons for adopting Agile in an organization? (Choose two.)
A. Reduce project cost

B. Enable changing priorities
C. Accelerate product delivery
D. Centralize decision-making
E. Reduce changes
Answer: B C
Question: 29
What is an example of applying cadence and synchronization in SAFe?
A. Conducting a PI Planning meeting

B. Using a Portfolio Kanban system
C. Allocating budgets to Agile Release Trains
D. Creating cross-functional teams
Answer: A
Question: 30
Which role serves as the servant leader for the Agile Release Train?
A. Business Owner
B. Agile Coach
pg. 6
D. Scrum Master
Answer: C
Question: 31
Which pillar in the House of Lean focuses on the Customer being the consumer of the work?
A. Respect for People and Culture

B. Flow
C. Innovation
D. Value
Answer: A
Question: 32
Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
A. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

B. Individuals and interactions over contract negotiation
C. Customer collaboration over following a plan
D. Customer collaboration over a constant indefinite pace
Answer: A
Question: 33
What are the three dimensions of Lean-Agile Leadership? (Choose three.)
A. Mindset and principles

B. Support organizational change
C. Lead the change
D. SAFe Core Values
E. Lead by example
F. Emotional intelligence
Answer: A C E
Question: 34
What are two ways to describe a cross-functional Agile Team? (Choose two.)
A. They can define, build, and test an increment of value

B. They deliver value every six weeks
C. They release customer products to production continuously
D. They are made up of members, each of whom can define, develop, test, and deploy the
system
E. They are optimized for communication and delivery of value
Answer: A E
Question: 35
What is one example of differentiating business objectives?
A. Solution Intent
pg. 7
B. Enterprise Goals
C. Portfolio Vision
D. Strategic Themes
Answer: D
Question: 36
An Enterprise has just adopted the SAFe Implementation Roadmap and is in the process of training
executives, managers, and leaders. What is their next step?
A. Train Lean-Agile change agents to push out the roadmap and build consensus
B. Train the leaders in Portfolio and Product Management to solve problems before fixing
symptoms
C. Perform process mapping on the current state
D. Identify Value Streams and Agile Release Trains to start alignment of the organization
Answer: D
Question: 37
Which statement is true about ART events?
A. ART events run inside the team events, and the team events create a closed-loop system
B. The daily stand-up is an ART event that requires the scrum of scrums and Program Owner
sync involvement in the closed-loop system
C. The Inspect and Adapt is the only ART event required to create a closed-loop system
D. Team events run inside the ART events, and the ART events create a closed-loop system
Answer: D
Question: 38
Which team type is 'organized to assist other teams with specialized capabilities and help them
become more proficient in new technologies'?
A. Platform team
B. Complicated subsystem team
C. Stream-aligned team
D. Enabling team
Answer: D
Question: 39
What is part of the role of the Scrum Master?
A. To prioritize and identify what is ready for Iteration Planning

B. To escalate ART impediments
C. To facilitate all team events
D. To coach the interactions with the Scrum Framework
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Question: 40
Which statement is true about a Value Stream that successfully uses Devops?
A. It has a technology stack without legacy code

B. It has a closed loop process of learning
C. It has a lower threshold of defects approved to production
D. It has objective measurements with automation
Answer:
Question: 41
The program board shows which two items? (Choose two.)
A. Epics
B. Significant dependencies
C. Risks
D. Features
E. Capacity and Load
Answer: B D
Question: 42
What is one of the tools associated with Design Thinking?
A. Divergent Feature Decomposition

B. Solution Canvas
C. Empathy maps
D. Behavior driven development
Answer: C
Question: 43
SAFe's first Lean-Agile Principle includes "Deliver early and often" and what else?
A. Apply systems thinking

B. Decentralize decision-making
C. Deliver value incrementally
D. Apply cadence
Answer: C
Question: 44
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Question: 46
What is the recommended frequency for updating Lean budget distribution?
A. Every iteration
B. Annually
C. On Demand
D. Twice Annually
Answer: A
Question: 47
Which is an aspect of system thinking?
A. Mastery drives intrinsic motivation

B. Optimizing a component does not optimize the system
C. Cadence makes routine that which is routine
D. The length of the queue impact the wait time
Answer: B
Question: 48
Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
A. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

B. Customer collaboration over ongoing internal conversation
C. Customer collaboration over a constant indefinite pace
D. Customer collaboration over feature negotiation
Answer: A
Question: 49
When is a Pre-PI Planning event needed?
A. When there is only one day to run PI Planning, so more time is needed to prepare to run it
effectively
B. When Product Owners and Scrum Masters need to coordinate dependencies within the
Agile Release Train
C. When multiple Agile Release Trains working on the same Solution need to align and
coordinate
D. When teams cannot identify and estimate Stories in PI Planning and need more time to
prepare
Answer: C
Question: 50
What is SAFe’s release strategy?
A. Release on Demand
B. Release continuously
C. Release every Program Increment
D. Release on cadence
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Answer: A
Question: 51
The House of Lean is a classic metaphor describing the mindset essential for Lean thinking.
Which one of the four pillars advocates a "Get out of the office" mindset?
A. Respect for people and culture

B. Innovation
C. Relentless improvement
D. Flow
Answer: B
Question: 52
How are stories estimated in SAFe?
A. Story points
B. Ideal time
C. Agile prescribes a No Estimation concept to speed delivery
D. Feature points
Answer: A
Question: 53
Who is responsible for the Solution Backlog?
A. Product Owners
B. Solution Train Engineer
C. Product Management
D. Solution Management
Answer: B
Question: 54
Which statement describes aspects of the team's commitment during PI Planning?
A. A team does not commit to stretch objectives

B. A team commits only to the PI Objectives with the highest business value
C. A team commits to all the features they put on the Program Board
D. A team commits to all stories they put on their PI plan
Answer: D
Question: 55
Who has content authority to make decisions at the user story level during PI Planning?
A. Scrum Masters
B. Development Team
D. Product Owner
Answer: D
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Question: 56
Which practice helps with a test-first mentality?
A. WIP
B. BDD
C. MMF
D. MVP
Answer: D
Question: 57
What is a Minimal Viable Product?
A. A minimal story a team can deliver in an iteration

B. A minimal product that can be built to achieve market dominance
C. A minimal product that can validate a hypothesis
D. minimal Feature that can be released to the market
Answer: C
Question: 58
What is a valid reason for moving a PI objective to stretch?
A. The team has high uncertainty about a third-party delivery needed for the objective
B. The team has no more time in the capacity but the objective has high business value
C. The team does not have the knowledge or skills to deliver the objective
D. The team is unsure how to estimate the related stories using story points
Answer: A
Question: 59
What can be used to map the current state of a portfolio?
A. Portfolio Vision
B. Portfolio Kanban
C. Portfolio Canvas
D. Portfolio Backlog
Answer: B
Question: 60
In the Program Kanban some steps have Work-in-Process limits. Why is this necessary?
A. To keep timebox goals

B. To ensure large queues are not being built
C. To enable multitasking
D. To help continuous deployment
Answer: A
Question: 61
When does a Roadmap become a queue?
A. When it is longer than one Program Increment

B. When it is fully committed
pg. 12
C. When it includes no commitments

D. When it contains Features and not Epics
Answer: C
Question: 62
What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe?
A. Teams allow batch sizes across multiple intervals

B. Teams align their iterations to the same schedule to support communication,
coordination, and system integration
C. Teams meet twice every PI to plan and schedule capacity
D. Teams decide their own iteration length
Answer: C
Question: 63
What is the recommended way to express a Feature?
A. Phrase, benefit hypothesis, and acceptance criteria

B. Lean business case
C. Functional requirement
D. Epic hypothesis statement
Answer: A
Question: 64
What is found on a program board?
A. Features
B. User Stories
C. Tasks
D. Epics
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Question 1:
Who defines the Final Scope of Iteration to commit?
A. The Scrum Master

B. The Agile Team
C. The Solution Manager
D. The Product Owner
Answer: B
Question 2:
Why Development Team has been removed since SAFE 5.0?
pg. 13
A. To simplify the SAFe Big picture

B. To provide more focus on Product Owner & Scrum Masters
C. To shift focus from Team Agility to Organization agility
D. To better relate to Business Teams
Answer: D
Question: 3
Which continuous Deliver Pipeline event(s) is happening in every iteration?
A. Continuous integration
B. Continuous exploration, Continuous integration, Continuous deployment
C. Continuous integration and Continuous deployment
D. Continuous exploration, Continuous integration, Continuous deployment and Release on
demand.
Answer: B
Question 4:
What are the two items can we find in Team backlog?
A. Epics
B. Enabler features
C. Tasks
D. User stories
E. Spikes
Answer: D E
Question 5:
Continue the sentence “Strategic Themes …”
A. Define the sequence of steps use to deliver value to Customer

B. Connect to portfolio to the enterprise Business strategy
C. Determine the order in which epics should be executed
D. Drive incremental implementation across the enterprise
Answer: B
Question 6:
How is the Management defined in SAFE?
A. Project Manager replace the management

B. Only them can change the system
C. There is no Management
Answer: B
Question 7:
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Within the SAFE Principles (10), what is related to this Principle: #3. “Assume variability, preserve
options”?
A. Up front design of systems

B. Specification traceability
C. Better Economic result
D. Stronger Definition of Done.
Answer: C
Question 8:
Why are you adapting Agile?
A. Introduce Scrum Master position.

B. Accelerate Product Delivery
C. More Productivity, less resource.
D. Eliminating Management Positions
Answer: B
Question 9:
How is Feedback connected to the Optimum Batch Size?
A. Lack of Feedback contribution higher holding cost.

B. Small Batch sizes enable faster feedback with lower transaction cost.
C. Large batches reduce transaction cost and provide a higher return on investment
D. Feedback and Batch size are generally not connected.
Answer: B
Question 10:
What is showing Burn-up charts during iteration process?
A. Estimated versus Technical debt.

B. Delayed versus deferred
C. Estimated versus Planned
D. Planned versus Actual
Answer: D
Question 11:
What are the necessary solution to deliver a complete enterprise value within the seven code
competencies?
A. Enterprise Solution Delivery

B. Lean portfolio Management
C. Organizational agility
D. Agile Product Delivery
Answer: B
Question: 12:
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Select an activity where is the Product owner involved?
A. Story estimation
B. Scrum of Scrums
C. ART Sync
D. Strategic theme definition
Answer: C
Question 13:
The Product Backlog contains 60 story points. The Team velocity is around 20 story points per
iteration. How many iterations would it take to finish the backlog?
A. 3 Iterations
B. 2 Iterations
C. 4 Iterations
D. 1 Iterations
Answer: A
Question 14:
Every iteration, the Team build, tests, plans, integrates for an increment. What is missing?
A. Clears out the backlog

B. Sets new objectives
C. Reorganizes
D. Reviews their work.
Answer: D
Question 15:
How is Supported Customer centricity?
A. Market research
B. Whole Product development
C. User research
D. Design thinking
Answer: D
Question 16:
In which backlog can we find user stories?
A. The System Backlog

B. The Team Backlog
C. The Product Backlog
D. The Program Backlog
Answer: B
Question 17:
Select the actors in the backlog refinement event?
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A. All the people on the train

B. The development team
C. All train stakeholders
D. The Agile Team
Answer: D
Question 18:
What is SAFE?
A. SAFE is based of proven, integrated Lean practices and principles, Agile and Devops.
B. SAFE is a tool for budget management
C. SAFE is a framework to implement Devps
Answer: A
Question 19:
What kind of items is describing behaviours in Large solution view?
A. User stories
B. Benefits
C. Features
D. Capabilities
Answer: D
Question 20:
What are the three Inputs to start PI Planning?
A. Top 10 features
B. Business context
C. Solution Roadmap
D. A Set of PI Objectives
E. Production/Solution Version
F. Ready Stories
Answer: A B E
Question 21:
What is an Agile Team? (Choose Two)
A. Containing a Project Manager who Manages the Team

B. Self-organized
C. Containing Silos
D. Cross-functional
Answer: B D
Question 22:
Select Two Agile Practices? (Choose Two)
pg. 17
A. Batching work for Test efficiency

B. Making sure the requirements are Complete prior to development
C. Test-driven development
D. Timeboxing
E. Building GNATT Charts
Answer: C D
Question 23:
What is the implementation path to approve an Epic in a Lean-agile prospective?
A. Implement the Epic across the same number of PIs as it took to develop
B. Demonstrate the progress to key stakeholders after first PI and make a decision how to
proceed with the Epic in the second PI.
C. Report percentage completed to the key stakeholders at every PI boundary.
D. Demonstrate the progress to the key stakeholders after two PIs and have them accept the
epic.
Answer: B
Question 24:
What is the foundation of the customer-centric?
A. Whole product solution

B. Customer Value
C. Market and User research
D. Product Lifecycle
Answer: C
Question 25:
What is the impact of shorter Queue length?
A. Lower Quality
B. Longer cycle times
C. Less variability
D. Increased risk
Answer: C
Question 26:
Do we have variation in SAFE implementation?
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
Answer: A
Question 27:
Select the Three events facilitated by Scrum Master?
A. Scrum of Scrums
pg. 18
B. Retrospective
C. Iteration Planning
D. System Demo
E. Daily stand up
F. Portfolio sync
Answer: B C E
Question 28:
What are the Three Pillars of Scrum: transparency, inspection..?
A. Collaboration
B. Adaptation
C. Respect
D. Self-organization
Answer: B
Question 29:
When is the System Demo happening during program Execution period?
A. Upon request from stakeholders

B. When Stories are completed
C. Just after the backlog is refined
D. At the end of every iteration
Answer: D
Question 30:
Who is facilitating the Scrum of Scrums?
A. Business Owners
B. Scrum Master
C. Product Owner
D. Release Train Engineer
Answer: D
Question 31:
What is defining the best Program vision?
A. It expresses the strategic intent of the program.

B. It drives the allocation of budget for the Agile Release train
C. It provides an outline of the features for the next three program Increment.
D. It summarizes the Team the PI objectives for the current Program increment
Answer: A
Question: 32
When is Continuous exploration happening?
A. Every Iteration
pg. 19
B. On demand, based on Market rhythms and events

C. During the IP iteration in preparation for PI Planning
D. In the first PI iteration to prepare to work in iteration 2 and deployment in iteration 3
Answer: A
Question: 33
What is System Demo Goal?
A. To provide an optional Quality check

B. To fulfil PI planning requirement
C. To enable faster feedback by integrating across Teams
D. To give Product Owners the opportunity to provide feedback on the team increment
Answer: C
Question: 34
Who is the owner of the value stream budget allocation?
A. Program Portfolio Management

B. Release Train Engineer
C. Solution Manager
Answer: A
Question: 35
What is the main Role of the SAFe Portfolio?
A. To hold PI planning meeting

B. Nurture Solution Development Activities
C. Execute solution development activities
D. Finance and nurture a set of solution development activities
Answer: D
Question: 36
How to connect Features and Capabilities?
A. Some features may have more than one parents Capabilities

B. Every feature has a parent Capabilities
C. Some features may have parent Capabilities
D. Some Capabilities may not have child Features
Answer: C
Question: 37
What is the best prioritization when feature requires participation of Lazy suppliers?
A. Reserve Capacity for such Program backlog items
pg. 20
B. Make adjustment to the size (duration) denominator of the WSJF

C. Increate time critical component of each feature resulted in high COD
Answer: B
Question: 38
Are SAFe Principles implemented in sequential order rather than concurrently?
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
Answer: B
Question: 39
When do you need Pre-PI Planning?
A. When multiple ARTs working in the same value Stream need to align and coordinate
B. When PO and PM cannot plan content
C. When teams cannot plan Stories in PI planning
D. When stakeholders ask for
Answer: A
Question: 40
What does “Build incrementally with fast, integrated leaming” mean?
A. Baseline requirement with epics

B. Delivering incremental value
C. Phase Gate approach
Answer: C
Question: 41
Suppose you are increasing or enhancing Enterprise Agility. What is the benefit?
A. It enables forecasting from the portfolio backlog

B. It requires less planning and forecasting
C. It allows for a faster response to changing Market opportunities
D. It does not require “what if” analysis of various implementations
Answer: C
Question: 42
Who is responsible of capabilities?
A. Solution Architect/Engineer
B. Value Stream engineer
C. Product Manager
D. Solution Manager
E. Release Train Engineer
Answer: D
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Question: 43
What is true about Strategic Themes?
A. It allocates Budget for Value streams

B. Strategic Themes are a high level summary of each program’s vision
C. It links Enterprise Business strategy with the SAFe portfolio
D. Strategic Themes represents the larger Business initiatives that required WSJF prioritization
and a lightweight Business case
Answer: C
Question:44
Select the Main purpose of DevOps?
A. It solely focuses on the set of practices applied to large system

B. It joins development and operations to enable continuous deployment
C. It’s primarily about test automation
D. It enables the architectural runway
Answer: B
Question: 45
What is the value part of the Agile Manifesto?
A. Documentation not required, only working software

B. Documentation is needed more than working software
C. Working software is valued more than comprehensive documentation
Answer: C
Question: 46
Select an example of applying cadence and synchronisation
A. Allocating Budgets to Agile Release trains

B. Creating Cross-functional Teams
C. Conducting the PI Planning Meeting
D. Using the Portfolio Kanban system
Answer: C
Question: 47
You are using cumulative flow diagram, select what is defining the average Lead time?
A. A Measure the horizontal distance between arrival and departure lines on a Cumulative flow
Diagram (CFD)
B. Measure the vertical distance between arrival and departure lines on a Cumulative Flow
Diagram (CFD)
Answer: A
Question: 48
In Implementation Roadmap, what is the next step after training of executives, managers & leaders?
pg. 22
A. Create Implementation Roadmap

B. Train Lean-agile change Agent
C. Identify Value stream and Agile Release trains
Answer: C
Question: 49
Solution Demo helps in:
A. Mitigating Investment risk for the Value stream

B. Identifying the Solution vision
C. Limiting WIP for ART
Answer: A
Question: 50
Select one of the purpose of Lean?
A. Innovation
B. Relentless Improvement
C. Respect of people and culture
D. Sustainable shortest lead time, best quality and value
Answer: D
Question: 51
Which frequency to update Lean Budget distribution?
A. Twice Annually
B. On demand
C. Annually
D. Every PI boundary
Answer: D
Question: 52
What is happening when you operate a full utilization of product development process?
A. All of the above

B. Benefit to budget
C. Product success
D. Economic disaster
Answer: D
Question: 53
How can help the Decentralised decision?
A. Reduce Risks
pg. 23
B. Reducing Defects
C. Limiting WIP
D. Getting better Economic Value
Answer: D
Question: 54
During PI Planning what is the Good Answer about the team commitment?
A. A Team commits to all PI objectives

B. A team does not commit to stretch objectives
C. A team commits to the PI objectives with the highest Business Value
D. A team commits to all stories they put their PI Plan.
Answer: B
Question: 55
Which is NOT a step in the Portfolio Kanban?
A. Prototype
B. Funnel
C. Analysis
E. Implementation
F. Review
Answer: A
Question: 56
What is the format of User Stories?
A. Given .. when … then

B. As… I want … so that …
C. If you .. I will …
Answer: B
Question: 57
Select the pillars of House of Lean?
A. Flow
B. Relentless Improvement
C. Cost and budget
D. Value and Lean Agile Leadership
E. Respect for people and culture
F. Innovation
Answer: A B E F
Question: 58
pg. 24
Whenever an Enterprise makes a decision, it deeply considers the effect it will have on its end
users. What is this statement describing?
A. Continuous Exploration
B. Customer Centricity
C. Release on demand
D. Design Thinking
Answer: B
Question: 59
When mapping Value streams what is often the most influential factor to long lead times?
A. Long delays between steps

B. Inefficiencies in the steps of the Value Streams
C. Low percent complete and accurate
D. Long process times
Answer: A
Question: 60
During which stage of the continuous Delivery pipeline should Features be verified in Production
before the business needs them?
A. Continuous Integration
B. Release on demand
C. Continuous Deployment
D. Continuous Exploration
Answer: C
Question: 61
What is the goal of psychological safety?
A. To create an environment for responsible risk-taking

B. To ensure that everyone is trained in the values, principles, and practices of Lean and Agile
C. To positively influence and motivate others to engage in the Organizational change
D. To communicate why change is needed
Answer: A
Question: 62
Developing Software or Systems on a cadence helps manage what?
A. Deployment
B. Consistency
C. Variability
D. Release
Answer: C
Question: 63
pg. 25
Which Design Thinking tool helps team understand what a specific user is thinking, hearing and
seeing as they use the product?
A. Empathy maps
B. Personas
C. Customer journey maps
D. Customer experience
Answer: A
Question: 64
The accelerate step for the implementation roadmap is the beginning of another journey that is
based on foundation of what?
A. Relentless improvement
B. Agile Product Delivery
C. Customer Centricity
D. Continuous Delivery
Answer: A
Question: 65
How do Lean-thinking people and Agile Teams enable Organization agility?
A. By applying Lean system engineering to build really big system

B. By inspiring others through modelling desired behaviours
C. By aligning strategy, funding and execution
D. By optimising business processes, evolving strategy, and quickly adapting the Organization.
Answer: D
Question: 66
Which SAFe House of Lean pillar addresses moving from Project to Products?
A. Respect from People and Culture

B. Flow
C. Relentless improvement
D. Innovation
Answer: B
Question: 67
Which level no longer exists in SAFe 5.0?
A. Team level
B. Essential level
C. Portfolio level
D. Large Solution level
Answer: A
Question: 68
pg. 26
What are two ways empathetic design impacts Customer Centricity? (Choose two)
A. It supports designing for the broader market.

B. It emphasizes user research and Gemba walks.
C. It motivates Teams to understand and experience the customer’s prospective.
D. It validates the Enterprise’s Solution hypothesis
E. It enables solution to be built based on functional needs.
Answer: B C
Question: 69
What is one way trains and suppliers can be aligned to a shared Business and technology mission?
A. Build and integrate solution component and Capabilities with Agile Release Trains
B. Build and use a continuous Delivery Pipeline model
C. Use coordinated Vision, backlogs and Roadmaps in a Solution train.
D. Apply Lean-agile practices to coordinate all activities necessary to build a system.
Answer: C
Question: 70
Which Team Role was removed from SAFe 5.0?
A. Test Team
B. Value stream Leader
C. Scrum Team
D. Dev Team
Answer: D
Question: 71
Who is responsible for Strategy and Investment funding?
A. Business Owners
B. Epic Owners
C. Lean portfolio Management
D. Lean Agile Leaders
Answer: C
Question: 72
What is the purpose of Lean Implementation Roadmap?
A. To provide a Strategy for a SAFe transformation based on proven patterns

B. To coach an Agile Research Train launch
C. To move from ad-hoc Agile Teams to a team of Agile Teams
Answer: A
Question: 73
When expressing Strategic Themes as objectives and key results what are the key results?
pg. 27
A. A set of key performance indicators that measure the performance of Value streams
B. A set of metrics that measure the progress towards the Strategic Theme
C. A memorable description that the portfolio wants to achieve Strategic Themes
D. A set of Lean metrics use to measure the performance of the Portfolio
Answer: B
Question: 74
What are the steps of Iterative PDCA Cycle?
A. Plan, Do, Check, Adapt

B. Plan, Decide, Check, Adjust
C. Plan, Do, Check, Adjust
D. Plan, Do, Confirm, Adjust
Answer: C
Question: 75
How does SAFe provide time and space for innovation?
A. By reserving capacity each iteration for innovation

B. By evaluating the proposed innovation ideas in ART sync
C. By including an Innovation and Planning iteration
D. By discussing innovation plans during PI Planning event
Answer: C
Question: 76
What aspect of strategy and investment funding involves developing and communicating the
Strategic themes throughout the portfolio?
A. Build portfolio canvas

B. Connect the portfolio to the enterprise strategy
C. Fund Value streams
D. Establish Portfolio flow
Answer: B
Question: 77
Agile Release Trains are organized around the ability to deliver what?
A. Product Features
B. Infrastructure Enablers
C. Customer Solutions
D. Tested Non-functional Requirements
Answer: C
Question: 78
What is One way Lean-Agile leaders lead by example?
pg. 28
A. By modelling SAFe Lean-Agile mindset , values, principles and practices

B. By mastering the Seven Code Competencies of the Lean enterprise
C. By applying empathetic design and focusing on customer Centricity
D. By using the SAFe Implementation Road map to script the way for change
Answer: A
Question: 79
Which SAFe competency helps live systems evolve?
A. Lean Agile Leadership

B. Organizational Agility
C. Enterprise Solution Delivery
Answer: C
Question: 80
Which Two SAFe Configurations are enough to achieve Business Agility? (Choose Two)
A. Essential
B. Program
C. Full
D. Large Solution Portfolio
E. Portfolio
Answer: C E
Question: 81
Enterprise Solution Delivery, Agile Product Delivery and which other competency are part of the
execution side of the SAFe Business Agility Overview?
A. Team & Technical Agility

C. Organizational Agility
D. Lean-Agile Leadership
Answer: A
Question: 82
What is defined as the ability to complete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to the
market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business solutions?
A. Enterprise Solution Delivery

B. Business Agility
C. Organizational Agility
Answer: B
Question: 83
pg. 29
What is one way to help establish a future state portfolio canvas?
A. Establish a portfolio canvas system

B. Complete Value stream mapping
C. Write postcard from current portfolio state
D. Create a TOWS analysis
Answer: D
Question: 84
How does SAFe recommend using a Second Operating System to deliver value?
A. Organize the Enterprise around the flow of Value while maintaining the hierarchies
B. Create Teams to focus on innovation and growth and break down the existing organizational
structure
C. Build small networks that focus on the customer needs rather than functional hierarchies
D. Eliminate the functional hierarchies and build the network for efficiency and stability
Answer: A
Question: 85
How should Organization view market change?
A. As opportunities
B. As weakness
C. As strengths
D. As threats
Answer: A
Question: 86
Which dimension of enterprise Solution Delivery competency applies Lean-Agile practices to align
and co-ordinate all the activities necessary to specify, architect, design, implement, test, deploy,
evolve and ultimately decommissions solutions?
A. Co-ordinate trains and suppliers

B. DevOPs and Continuous Delivery Pipeline
C. Lean System and Solution Engineering
D. Evolve Live Systems
Answer: C
Question: 87
Which SAFe Core competency describe a set of values and practices that encourage the whole
enterprise to increase knowledge, competence and innovation?
A. Continuous Learning culture

C. Lean-Agile Leadership
D. Enterprise Solution Delivery
Answer: A
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Question: 88
Which Two options are considered as Agile practices (Choose Two)?
A. Timeboxing
B. Building GNATT charts
C. Test-driven Deployment
D. Batching work for Testing efficiency
E. Making sure requirements are complete prior to development
Answer: A C
Question: 89
What is main reason for system Demo?
A. To provide an optional Quality check

B. To fulfil the SAFe PI Planning requirements
C. To enable faster feedback by integration across Teams
D. To give Product Owner the opportunity to provide feedback on the team increment.
Answer: C
Question: 90
Who facilitates the PO Sync Meeting?
A. Scrum Master
B. Product Owner
C. Business Owner
Answer: D
Question: 91
The Scrum Master facilitates which Three Events in SAFe? Choose Three)
A. System Demo
B. Retrospective
C. Daily Stand-up
D. Scrum of Scrums
E. Iteration Planning
F. LPM Backlog Refinement
Answer: B C E
Question: 92
How many iteration would it take for a Team with a velocity of 20 story points per iteration to finish
a backlog of 60 story points?
A. 1 Iteration
B. 2 Iteration
C. 3 Iteration
D. 4 Iteration
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Answer: C
Question: 93:
What are Two Inputs to PI Planning? (Choose Two)
A. Vision
B. Ready User stories
C. Program Roadmap
D. Top 10 feature list
E. A set of PI Objectives
Answer: A E
Question: 94
Who participates in the Backlog refinement event?
A. All Train Stakeholders

B. All people on the train
C. The Development Team
D. The Agile Team Members and other Subject Matter Experts
Answer: D
Question: 95
The Three pillars of Scrum are transparency, inspection and what else?
A. Respect
B. Adaption
C. Collaboration
D. Self Organization
Answer: C
Question: 96
In the context of a Team increment, every iteration each team plans, builds, tests, integrates, and?
A. Review their work

B. Reorganizes
C. Sets new objectives
D. Clear out the backlog
Answer: A
Question: 97
Why is it important to organize the work for iteration planning?
A. So the team can load balance

B. So the backlog can be prepared
C. So the Scrum Master can prepare workload for the continuous Delivery pipeline
D. So a realistic work scope can be defined
Answer: D
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Question: 98
Who defines the final scope of a committed iteration?
A. The Agile Team

B. The Scrum Master
C. The Product Owner
D. The Solution Owner
Answer: A
Question: 99
A servant leader knows that his or her own growth comes from what?
A. Facilitating the growth of others

B. Management support
C. Effective Training
D. Implementing a CALMR approach to SAFe
Answer: A
Question: 100
What is one truth about teams?
A. Products are more robust when individuals on Teams have specific skillsets
B. Teams are more productive than the same number of individuals
C. Development Team can manage daily interruption
D. Changes in team composition do not impact productivity
Answer: A
Question: 101
What is the recommended frequency range for PI Planning SAFe?
A. Every 12 to 16 weeks
B. Every 8 to 12 weeks
C. Every 4 to 6 weeks
D. Every 6 to 8 weeks
Answer: B
Question: 102
What is one example of servant leader behaviour pattern?
A. Thinks about Day-to-day activities

B. Understands and empathizes with others
C. Uses Authority rather than persuasion when necessary
D. Focuses on individual task metrics
Answer: B
Question: 103
pg. 33
How many dimensions does the Team and technical agility competency have?
A. Three
B. Four
C. Five
D. Seven
Answer: A
Question: 104
Empathic design encourages activities such as …
A. Fishbone analysis
B. Muda elimination
C. Gemba walks
D. Pareto analysis
Answer: C
Question: 105
Releasing is typically coupled with the development cadence
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
Answer: B
Question: 106
Who owns Story planning and high level Estimates?
A. The Agile Team

B. Scrum Master
C. Product Owner
Answer: A
Question: 107
The Teams in Agile Release Train are aligned to a common vision via ….?
A. Solution Backlog
B. Strategic Themes
C. Program Backlog
D. Team Backlog
Answer: C
Question: 108
The bigger the system, the _____________ endemic quality is?
pg. 34
A. Higher
B. Lower
C. More Important
D. Less Important
Answer: D
Question: 109
Which of the following can be used as an Estimation Buffer?
A. IP Iteration
B. I&A Event
C. Iteration Retrospective
D. PI Planning
Answer: A
Question: 110
Which component of the Lean Portfolio Management ensures that the entire portfolio is aligned and
funded to create and maintain the solutions needed to meet business targets?
A. Strategy & Investment funding

B. Lean Governance
C. Agile Portfolio Operations
D. Lean Flow
Answer: A
Question: 111
Market event can be ……..?
A. Customer centric
B. External, such as Government regulations
C. All of the above
D. Internally created, such as Company’s annual user conference
Answer: B D
Question: 112
Architectural runway needs to be continuously maintained
A. True
B. False
Answer: A
Question: 113
Agile Product Delivery is one of the Core competencies of Business Agility
A. TRUE
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B. FALSE
Answer: A
Question: 114
How many are the Core SAFe Values?
A. Three
B. Four
C. Five
D. Seven
Answer: B
Question: 115
Which of the below is not a piller of the SAFe House of Lean?
A. Value
B. Innovation
C. Relentless Improvement
D. Flow
Answer: A
Question: 116
System Train are a Role on the Agile Release Train
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
Answer: B
Question: 117
Which Component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline takes the changes from the staging
environment and deploy them to Production?
B. Release on Demand
C. Continuous Deployment
D. Continuous Integration
Answer: C
Question: 118
Agile Teams are …………..?
A. Self-organising
B. Organized by Scrum Master
C. Organized by Product Owner
D. Organized by Business Owner
Answer: A
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Question: 119
In the context of whole Product thinking, which product goes beyond what is expected and enables
competitors to differentiate their offerings?
A. Expected product
B. Augmented product
C. Potential product
D. Generic product
Answer: B
Question: 120
Business Agility is the ability to complete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to
market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative, digitally-enabled business solutions?
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
Answer: A
Question: 121
Which phase of the Portfolio Kanban is used to sponsor the epic and define its intent and definition?
A. Analysing
B. The funnel
C. Portfolio Backlog
D. Reviewing
Answer: D
Question: 122
A customer journey map illustrates the experience as a user engages with a Company’s operational
value stream, products and services?
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
Answer: A
Question: 123
In the zone between general solutions and customer solutions are ………………………………………..?
A. Multi-segment solutions
B. Deep and narrow solutions
C. Potential solutions
D. Augmented solutions
Answer: B
Question: 124
pg. 37
ARTs apply cadence and synchronization to help manage the internet variability of research and
development?
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
Answer: A
Question: 125
Features are stored in the ………………………………..?
A. Database
B. Team backlog
C. Solution backlog
D. Program backlog
Answer: D
Question: 126
Enterprise Architect is a role on which Dimensions of Lean Portfolio management? (Choose Two)
A. Agile Portfolio operation

B. Lean flow
C. Lean Governance
D. Strategy and investment funding
Answer: C D
Question: 127
Which design thinking tool enable Teams to understand how the stories in the team backlog support
user objectives?
A. Story map
B. Program backlog
C. Empathy map
D. Customer journey mapping
Answer: A
Question: 128
Which of the below are Core competencies for Business Agility? (Choose Four)
A. Lean Agile Leadership

C. Continuous learning culture
D. Team and technical agility
Answer: A B C D
Question: 129
pg. 38
…………………………………. Expresses the strategic intent of the program?
A. The Program Vision

B. The value Vision
C. The Team Mission
D. The Solution summery
Answer: A
Question: 130
How many types of products exists according to whole product thinking?
A. Two
B. Three
C. Four
D. Five
Answer: C
Question: 131
By organizing the second operating system around…………… instead of …………………. SAFe offers a way
for enterprises to focus on customers, products, innovation and growth.
A. Products, features
B. Features, components
C. Departments, value streams
D. Value streams, departments
Answer: D
Question: 132
The WSJF prioritization technique exemplifies which SAFe principle?
A. De-centralize decision making

B. Visualisation and limit WIP
C. Take an economic view
D. Develop an cadence
Answer: C
Question: 133
Which Three attribute summarize DevOps? (Choose Three)
A. A high performing DevOps Team

B. A shared culture
C. A set of technical practice
D. Strong organizational structure
E. Combined deployment and release
F. A mindset
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Answer: B C F
Question: 134
What are three pillars of Scrum
A. Transparency, inspection, adaption

B. Collaboration, acceptance, progress
C. Retrospection, inspection, adaption
D. Adaption, transparency, acceptance
Answer: A
Question: 135
Cadence and what other action are the key constructs to delivering continuous value?
A. Execution
B. Synchronization
C. Flexibility
D. Refactoring
Answer: B
Question: 136
What is the recommended duration of a SAFe iteration?
A. Six weeks
B. Three Weeks
C. Two weeks
D. Four weeks
Answer: C
Question: 137
What are two critical areas that differentiate Agile from Waterfall development?
A. Architectural runway
B. Staggered integration
C. Incremental delivery of value
D. Face-to-face interaction
E. Fast feedback
Answer: C E
Question: 138
What is one example of Servant leader behaviour pattern?
A. Understands and empathises with others

B. Use authority rather than persuasion when necessary
C. Focuses on individual task metrics
D. Think about the day-to-day activities
Answer: A
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Question: 139
An effective SAFe scrum master helps the team improve on their journey towards technical
excellence through continuous integration, continuous deployment and what else?
A. State of the art build tools

B. Continuous exploration
C. WIP limits
D. Continuous release
Answer: C
Question: 140
During PI planning, which two tasks are part of the Scrum masters role in the first team breakout?
(Choose two)
A. Review and reprioritise the Team backlog as a part of the preparatory work for the second
team breakout
B. Facilitate the coordination with other teams for dependencies
C. Provides clarifications necessary to assist the team with their story estimating and
sequencing
D. Identify as many risks and dependencies as possible for the management review
E. Be involved in the program backlog refinement and preparation
Answer: B D
Question: 141
Who is responsible for prioritisation of Iteration backlog?
A. The Scrum Master

B. The Product Management Team
C. The Development Team
Answer: D
Question: 142
What is this statement describing?
“Agile Team continuously adapt new circumstances and enhance the methods of value delivery”
A. Continuous Improvement
B. Continuous Delivery
C. Continuous Integration
D. Continuous Deployment
Answer: B
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Question: 143
What are two good Scrum Master facilitation practice? (Choose Two)
A. Do not enforce accountability as it creates an environment of distrust

B. Allow for unproductive conflict to encourage open communication
C. Ensure all voices are heard
D. Create an environment of safety so that everyone feels comfortable contributing to the
discussion
E. Allow for deep, meaningful conversations even if it is outside the scope of the agenda
Answer: C D
Question: 144
What statement is true about Scrum?
A. It is an ideal method for static design requirement

B. It is a Lean system Engineering technique
C. It is based on empirical process control theory
D. It is a software technical practice
Answer: C
Question: 145
What is the main reason why some teams never reach stage 4 (Performing) in the stage of high
performing team?
A. Because leadership is spontaneous

B. Because too much conflict
C. Because the team is not structured correctly
D. Because no one guided them
Answer: D
Question: 146
An Agile release, Train usually contains how any people?
A. 30-40
B. 50-125
C. 80-100
D. 150-250
Answer: B
Question: 147
The sixth SAFe Agile principle advises to visualise and limit what?
A. Impediments
B. Work Inventory potential (WIP)
C. Work in Production (WIP)
D. Work in progress (WIP)
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Answer: D
Question: 148
Which of the below are NOT part of the CALMR approach to DevOps?
A. Authentication
B. Measurement
C. Lean flow
D. Culture
Answer: A
Question: 149
Who accepts the User Stories?
A. The Agile Team

B. The Scrum Master
C. The Release Train Engineer
Answer: D
Question: 150
WSJF stands for?
A. Weighted Sample Job First

B. Weighted Smallest Job first
C. Weighted Single Job first
D. Weighted Simplest Job first
Answer: B
Question: 151
While SAFe advocates for de-centralised decision making, some decision can be centralised. Which
are the common characteristics for these decisions? (Choose Two)
A. They are long lasting

B. They are frequent
C. They are with short time horizon
D. They are infrequent
Answer: A D
Question: 152
Which of the following is a fictional character created to represent a user type that might use a sight,
brand or product in a similar way?
A. Persona
B. Character
C. Prototype
D. Actor
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Answer: A
Question: 153
What does Continuous Delivery Profile enable?
A. Scheduled Release
B. Annual Release
C. Release on Demand
D. Quarterly Release
Answer: C
Question: 154
To lead a successful change, it is key to …………………….. ? (Choose Three)
A. Empower employees
B. Start the change immediately and develop the vision later
C. Create short-term wins
D. Anchor new approaches in culture
Answer: A C D
Question: 155
According to Agile Manifesto, the most efficient and effective method of conveying information to
and within a development team is …………………..?
A. Remote conference call

B. Structured discussion
C. Brainstorming
D. Face-to-face conversation
Answer: D
Question: 156
Design thinking goes beyond the traditional focus on the features and functions of a proposed
product and emphasizes understand the problem to be solved.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
Answer: A
Question: 157
How are PI Objectives measured?
A. In terms of Business Value

B. Using WSJF
C. In terms of Cost
D. In terms of Work hours
Answer: A
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Question: 158
Lean portfolio Management aligns _______________ and ____________ by applying Lean and
System Thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operation and
governance?
A. Budget, execution
B. Strategy, execution
C. Portfolio, program backlog
D. Budget strategy
Answer: B
Question: 159
How many are the pillers of SAFe House of Lean?
A. Three
B. Four
C. Five
D. Seven
Answer: B
Question: 160
Who are the ultimate beneficiaries of the value of the business solutions created and maintained by
the portfolio value streams?
A. Customers
B. Release Train engineers
C. Business Owners
D. Executives
Answer: A
Question: 161
Agile Team must contain all the skills required to deliver the increment, this is an example of what?
A. Collaboration
B. Self-organization
C. Cross-functionality
D. Business Agility
Answer: C
Question: 162
Features can be stored in Team backlog.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
Answer: B
Question: 163
pg. 45
Enterprise must balance their execution focus with a ________________ focus?
A. Economic
B. Architectural
C. Learning
D. Customer
Answer: D
Question: 164
Which of the below is true for Customer-centric teams?
A. They focus on the customer

B. They think and feel like a customer
C. They seek to understand the customer
D. All of the above
Answer: D
Question: 165
The PI Planning event usually spans over __________?
A. 2 Days
B. 3 Days
C. 4 Hours
D. 1 Week
Answer: A
Question: 166
Capabilities are part of which backlog?
A. Program backlog
B. Solution backlog
C. Team backlog
D. Portfolio backlog
Answer: B
Question: 167
Which of the following is a Customer-centric development process that creates desirable products
that are profitable and sustainable over their lifecycle?
A. Complex User Research

B. Simple Architectures
C. Design Thinking
D. Systems Thinking
Answer: C
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Question: 168
Which component of the Continuous Delivery pipeline focuses on creating alignment on what needs
to be built?
B. Continuous Deployment
C. Continuous Integration
D. Continuous Exploration
Answer: D
Question: 169
Which one of the below is NOT a Core SAFe Value?
A. Technical Excellence
B. Alignment
C. Program Execution
D. Transparency
Answer: A
Question: 170
When implementing Test Automation, it is not important to keep test data for automated tests
under version control.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
Answer: B
Question: 171
Which of the below is not a phase on the Portfolio Kanban?
A. Funnel
B. In Test
C. Done
Answer: B
Question: 172
The Second SAFe Lean-Agile principle advises to apply what type of thinking?
A. Design Thinking
B. Analytical Thinking
C. Customer-centric Thinking
D. Systems Thinking
Answer: D
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Question: 173
DevOps is a set of Tool that enable communication, automation among Development and operation.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
Answer: B
Question: 174
A _______________ validates that the stories in the backlog supports the steps needed by the user
to accomplish their objective.
A. Empathy Map
B. Customer Journey Map
C. Mind Map
D. Story Map
Answer: D
Question: 175
How often does the innovation and Planning (IP) iteration occur?
A. After each development iteration

B. Annually
C. Annually
D. Once every half an year
Answer: C
Question: 176
Which of the below includes existing code, hardware components, branding guidelines and enables
near-term business Features?
A. Architectural Runway
B. DevSecOps
C. DevOps
D. Continuous Delivery Pipeline
Answer: A
Question: 177
Which Core Business Agility competency describes the critical skills and Lean-agile principles and
practices that high-performing Agile teams and Team and Agile teams used to create high-Quality
solutions for their customers?
A. Lean-Agile Leadership
B. The Team and Technical Agility
C. Agile Product Delivery
D. Continuous Learning culture
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Answer: B
Question: 178
Good coaches do not give people the answer, but instead they do what?
A. They hold them to their commitments

B. They make the decision
C. They limit the number of Questions
D. They guide people to the Solution
Answer: D
Question: 179
Becoming a Coach requires a shift from old behaviours to the new ones. What are three examples of
Old behaviours? (Choose three) Focusing on deadlines Multiple Selection
A. Focusing on Deadlines
B. Driving towards specific outcomes
C. Fixing problem for the Team
D. Facilitating Team problem solving
E. Asking the Team for the answers
F. Focusing on Business Values Delivery
Answer: A B C
Question: 180
What does Plan-Do-Check-Adjust cycle occur in Scrum?
A. In the Daily Scrum

B. At the Iteration Review
C. At all Formal scrum Events
D. As part of the iteration Retrospective
Answer: B
Question: 181
Who can change the backlog during an iteration?
A. Agile Team
B. Senior Management
D. Scrum Master
Answer: C
Question: 182
According to Five Dysfunctions of a Team, what is a teams ultimate competitive advantage?
A. Teamwork
B. Commitment
C. Transparency
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D. Accountability
Answer: A
Question: 183
Scrum Masters help remove impediments, foster an environment for high performing team
dynamics, and what else?
A. Relentlessly Improve
B. Estimate stories
C. Form and re-form Teams
D. Continuously Deliver
Answer: A
Question: 184
What is the name of the event where all team members determine how much of the team’s backlog
they can commit to delivering during an upcoming iteration?
A. Solution Planning
B. Solution Demo
C. Iteration Planning
D. Backlog refinement
Answer: C
Question: 185
Why do teams have an iteration retrospective?
A. To iterate on stories
B. To identify acceptance criteria
C. To adjust and identify ways to improve
D. To evaluate metrices
Answer: C
Question: 186
What is the recommended frequency range for PI Planning in SAFe?
A. Every 6 to 8 Weeks
B. Every 12 to 16 Weeks
C. Every 4 to 6 Weeks
D. Every 8 to 12 Weeks
Answer: D
Question: 187
Which Demo is performed in the IP Iteration?
A. The Demo from the team’s final iteration

B. The PI System Demo
C. The Integrated Demo from the Agile Release Train’s Final iteration
pg. 50
D. The Demo from All the Agile Release Train’s iteration
Answer: C
Question: 188
What is the purpose of the Plan-Do-Check-Adjust Cycle?
A. To provide a regular, predictable development cadence to produce an increment of Value

B. To give the Agile Train Team Members a process Tool to keep the train on the Tracks
C. To create continuous flow of work to support the delivery pipeline
D. To allow the team to perform some final backlog refinement for upcoming iteration planning
Answer: A
Question: 189
What are two PI Planning anti-patterns? (Choose Two)
A. The Team decided which changes need to happen and when

B. Stories are created for the PI Planning iteration
C. Part Time Scrum Master do not have time to plan as a part of the Team
D. Too much Time is spent analysing each story
E. Too much Time is spent in prioritizing features
Answer: C D
Question: 190
Which of the below are dimensions of the Agile Product Delivery competency? (Choose Three)
A. Develop on Cadence, Release on Demand

B. DevOps and the Continuous Delivery pipeline
C. Continually Evolve LIVE Systems
D. Customer Centricity and Design Thinking
Answer: A B D
Question: 191
Which event is Synchronises the ART and is attended by Scrum Masters weekly or more frequently?
A. PO Sync
B. Scrum of Scrum
C. Daily Scrum
D. ART Sync
Answer: B
Question: 192
Features that represent a workflow are captured through ……………………?
A. Story Map
B. Customer Journey Map
C. Empathy Map
D. Program Backlog
pg. 51
Answer: A
Question: 193
Which event is held at the end of every PI and demonstrates and evaluates the current state of the
solution?
A. IP
B. Iteration retrospective
C. Iteration Review
D. I&AD
Answer: D
Question: 194
The System Demo happens after each iteration event?
A. Iteration Review
B. Iteration Retrospective
C. Daily Stand up
D. Iteration Planning
Answer: A
Question: 195
Which one of the below is not one of the core competencies for Business Agility?
A. Lean Agility Leadership

C. Team and Technical Agility
D. Program Agility
Answer: D
Question: 196
DevOps enables which ones of the below? (Choose Two)
A. Automation
B. Backlog prioritization
C. Integration
D. Marketing
Answer: A C
Question: 197
According to the Agile Manifesto, Responding to Change is more important than _______________?
A. Following a Plan
B. Individual and interaction
C. Customer Collaboration
D. Contract Negotiation
Answer: A
pg. 52
Question: 198
Agile Release Trains are organizes around ………………?
A. Operational Value Streams

B. Lean Budgets
C. Development Value Streams
D. Economic Value Streams
Answer: C
Question: 199
How many dimensions does the Lean Portfolio Management have?
A. Two
B. Three
C. Four
D. Five
Answer: B
Question: 200
What is the highest hierarchy level of requirements in SAFe?
A. Epic
B. Feature
C. User Story
D. Capability
Answer: A
Question: 201
All four Release on Demand activities are enabled by __________________?
A. Shared resources
B. Automated testing
C. Continuous exploration
D. DevOps
Answer: D
Question: 202
Which of the below are dimensions of the Team and Technical Agility Competency? (Choose Three)
A. Technical excellence
B. Agile Teams
C. Team of Agile Teams
D. Built-in-Quality
Answer: B C D
pg. 53
Question: 203
In SAFe Built-in-Quality thinking is organized around five specific aspects “Flow, Architecture and
Design Quality, Code Quality, System Quality.
A. Release Quality
B. Deployment Quality
C. Performance Quality
D. Software Quality
Answer: A
Question: 204
The System Demo is demoed from which environment?
A. Client
B. Staging
C. Production
D. Development
Answer: B
Question: 205
Program environment is one of the Core Competencies of Business Agility
A. True
B. False
Answer: B
Question: 206
The Core SAFe Values are Transparency, Alignment, Program Execution and ______________?
A. Customer Centricity
B. High Quality
C. Built-in Quality
D. Business Agility
Answer: C
Question: 207
Which event is synchronizes the ART and is attended by POs and Pms weekly or more frequently?
A. Scrum of Scrums
B. Daily Scrum
C. ART Sync
D. PO Sync
Answer: D
pg. 54
Question: 208
Who are the key stakeholders in Agile Release Train?
A. System Team
B. Business Owners
C. Release Trian Engineer
Answer: B
Question: 209
What does DevOps emphasize?
A. Technical excellence
B. System thinking
C. Second Testing
D. Security Practice
Answer: D
Question: 210
Which of the below is not one of the four activities of Release on Demand?
A. Lean
B. Stabilize and operate
C. Automate
D. Measure
Answer: C
Question: 211
Which od the below are not part of the CALMR approach to DevOps?
A. Measurement
B. Continuous Improvement
C. Lean Flow
D. Automation
Answer: B
Question: 212
Which of the below is not a part of SAFe Economic Framework?
A. Avoid using suppliers

B. Understanding Solution Economic Trade-offs
C. Operating within Lean budgets and guardrails
D. Sequencing jobs for the maximum benefit
Answer: A
pg. 55
Question: 213
What synchronises the Teams in the Agile Release Train in common cadence?
A. Program Increment (PI)

B. Portfolio Increment (PI)
C. Product Increment (PI)
D. Iteration
Answer: A
Question: 214
How many Teams Typically from Agile Release Train?
A. 3 – 4 Teams
B. 5 – 12 Teams
C. 10 – 15 Teams
D. 20 – 25 Teams
Answer: B
Question: 215
The Agile Manifesto favours Customer Collaboration over ___________________?
A. Developer Collaboration
B. Technical Collaboration
C. No Collaboration
D. Contract Negotiation
Answer: D
Question: 216
Which of the below are Core competencies for Business Agility? (Choose Two)
A. Lean Portfolio Management

B. Continuous Integration
C. Continuous Learning Culture
Answer: A C
Question: 217
In SAFe, special time is allocated for innovation and exploration during ___________________?
A. IP Iteration
B. PI Planning
C. I&A Event
D. At the end of each iteration
Answer: A
pg. 56
Question: 218
LACE is part of which dimension of Lean Portfolio Management?
A. Strategy and Investment Funding

B. Lean Flow
C. Lean Governance
D. Agile Portfolio Operation
Answer: D
Question: 219
How many are the SAFe Lean Agile Principles?
A. Four
B. Five
C. Ten
D. Twelve
Answer: C
Question: 220
Who owns Feature priorities?
A. Product Management
B. Product Owners
D. Business Owners
Answer: A
Question: 221
How are the 5 Whys used?
A. To coach a team through powerful questions

B. To identify a Root Cause(s) for a problem
C. To brainstorm ideas
D. To define acceptance criteria for a Story
Answer: B
Question: 222
What is the purpose of the plan-do-check-adjust cycle?
A. To give the ART numbers a process Tool to keep the train on the Tracks
B. To provide regular predictable dev cadence to produce an increment of value
C. To create a continuous flow of work to support the delivery pipeline
D. To allow the team to perform some final backlog refinement for upcoming iteration planning
Answer: B
pg. 57
Question: 223
The program highlights feature, delivery dates, milestones and what else for Agile Release Train
Teams?
A. Dependencies
B. Timeboxes
C. Requirements
D. Objectives
Answer: B
Question: 224
Who commits to the Plan at the end of iteration planning?
A. Solution Owner
B. The Team
D. The Scrum Master
Answer: B
Question: 225
The Business must depend on the Team for what in order for the Business to do any meaningful
planning?
A. Team Capabilities
B. Commitment to the Plan
C. A cross-functional skill set
D. Measurements
Answer: B
Question: 226
During PI Planning, who owns the planning for stories into iterations?
A. System Architect
B. Scrum Master
C. Product Management
D. Agile Teams
Answer: D
Question: 227
Each PI Planning Meeting evolves over time and ending PI Planning with Retrospective will help to do
what?
A. Fine Tune the Economic Framework

B. Lengthen the Architectural Runway
C. Continuously Improve
D. Meet compliance more rapidly
pg. 58
Answer: C
Question: 228
Which type of enabler does a System Architect review during a System Demo?
A. Enabler Features
B. Enabler Capabilities
C. Enabler Portfolio Epics
D. Enabler Stories
Answer: C
Question: 229
Scrum Masters are effective by using Scrum Methods, supporting SAFe Principles and practices and
what else?
A. Identifying and eliminating impediments and facilitating flow

B. Writing stories and enablers
C. Managing Architectural Runway
D. Serving as a Customer proxy
Answer: A
Question: 230
What is the anti-pattern for the IP Iteration? (Choose Two)
A. To wait for the IP Iteration to fix defects

B. To ensure all stories and Teams’ PI plans are completed prior to the IP iteration
C. To plan work for the IP iteration during PI planning
D. To minimize lost capacity when people are on vacation or holidays
E. To allow for the sufficient capacity in the program roadmap
Answer: B C
Question: 231
Features lend themselves to the Lean UX process model. They include a description, a benefit
hypothesis and what else?
A. Content readiness
B. Scope and context
C. Acceptance criteria
D. IP outcomes
Answer: C
Question: 232
What is main reason why some teams never reach stage 4 (Performing) in the stage of high
performing teams?
A. Because Leadership is spontaneous

B. Because no one guided them
C. Because there is too much conflict
pg. 59
D. Because the team is not structured correctly.
Answer: B
Question: 233
There are two primary aspects of Lean Agile mindset – Lean Thinking and what else?
A. Lean Systems
B. Embracing Agility
C. Systems Engineering
D. Feature Enablement
Answer: B
Question: 234
In SAFe who owns the decision for releasing changes into production?
A. Release Train engineer

B. Solution Owner
C. System Architect
Answer: D
Question: 235
Becoming a Coach requires a shift from old behaviours to the new ones. What are three examples of
Old behaviours? (Choose three)
A. Facilitating Team problem solving

B. Asking the Team for the answers
C. Focusing on Deadlines
D. Driving towards specific outcomes
E. Fixing problem for the Team
F. Focusing on Business Values Delivery
Answer: C D E
Question: 236
Scrum Masters are effectively by using Scrum methods, supporting SAFe Principles and practices,
and what else?
A. Eliminating impediments and facilitating flow

B. Writing stories and enablers
C. Managing architectural runway
D. Serving as customer proxy
pg. 60
Answer: A
Question: 237
In the context of whole Product thinking, which products represents everything that might be done
to attract and keep customers?
A. Augmented Product
B. Generic Product
C. Expected Product
D. Potential Product
Answer: D
Question: 238
Who acts as the Customer for Developer requests?
A. The Business Analyst

B. The Release Train engineer
C. The Scrum Master
Answer: D
Question: 239
How many are the Agile Manifesto Values?
A. Four
B. Five
C. Seven
D. Twelve
Answer: A
Question: 240
Which of the below are pillar of the SAFe House of Lean? (Choose Two)
A. Value
B. Flow
C. Lean Agile Leadership
D. Innovation
Answer: B D
Question: 241
What is the design thinking Tool that promotes Customer identification by helping teams develop
deep, shared understanding for others?
A. Personas
B. Empathy Maps
C. Customer Journey Maps
D. Story Maps
pg. 61
Answer: B
Question: 242
The Agile Manifesto consists of 4 Values and how many principles?
A. Five
B. Seven
C. Ten
D. Twelve
Answer: D
Question: 243
The double diamond of divergent and convergent thinking is characteristics of ………….?
A. Design thinking
B. Architectural runway
C. Continuous delivery pipeline
D. SAFe implementation roadmap
Answer: A
Question: 244
_____________ are in the program backlog and they get decomposed in the user stories?
A. Topics
B. Features
C. Tasks
D. Strategic themes
Answer: B
Question: 245
Divergent and Convergent techniques are applied to understand a problem, design a solution and
deliver that solution to the market when __________________ is applied.
A. Design Thinking
B. Kaizen Thinking
C. System Thinking
D. Holistic Thinking
Answer: A
Question: 246
What are the benefits of Prototypes? (Choose Two)
A. Rick reduction
B. Low cost
C. Fast feedback
D. Higher quality
Answer: A C
pg. 62
Question: 247
___________ takes a holistic approach to solution development, incorporating all aspects of system
and its environment into the design, development, deployment and maintenance of the system
itself.
A. System Thinking
B. Architectural runway
C. Customer-centricity
D. Design Thinking
Answer: A
Question: 248
In the safe hierarchy of requirements, ___________________ are between Epics and User stories.
A. Sub-tasks
B. Topics
C. Features
D. User stories
Answer: C
Question: 249
Establishing a sense of urgency is the key to lead successful change.
A. True
B. False
Answer: A
Question: 250
WSJF is a techniques used for _______________________ of requirements.
A. Identification
B. Validation
C. Testing
D. Prioritization
Answer: D
Question: 251
There are Ten Code competencies of Business Agility.
A. True
B. False
Answer: B
Question: 252
Who coaches the Agile Team in self-organization?
pg. 63
A. The Lead Developer

B. The Scrum Master
D. The Release Team Engineer
Answer: B
Question: 253
At the Base of SAFe House of Lean is ____________________.
A. Value
B. Flow
C. Innovation
D. Lean Agile Leadership
Answer: D
Question: 254
Customer centric enterprises apply __________________ design throughout the Design process
A. Empathic
B. Complex
C. Whole system
D. Holistic
Answer: A
Question: 255
What is the size of Agile Team recommended by SAFe?
A. 3 to 9 people
B. 5 to 11 people
C. 7 to 10 people
D. 10 to 15 people
Answer: B
Question: 256
Which phase of the portfolio Kanban is used to capture all new big business or technology ideas?
A. Portfolio Backlog
B. Analysing
C. Reviewing
D. Funnel
Answer: D
pg. 64
Question: 257
How many elements from the continuous delivery pipeline?
A. Three
B. Four
C. Five
D. Seven
Answer: B
Question: 258
Which are the two primary means by which a Customer drives a Value from Products and Solutions?
(Choose Two)
A. Increased popularity
B. Revenue enhancement
C. Cost reduction
D. Cost increase
Answer: B C
Question: 259
Which of the below is not a dimension of Lean portfolio management?
A. Agile portfolio operation

B. Strategy and investment funding
C. Lean governance
D. Lean Flow
Answer: D
Question: 260
How often typically does the System demo happen?
A. Every Two Weeks

B. Once every PI
C. Every month
D. Every week
Answer: A
Question: 261
Which component of Continuous delivery pipeline focuses on taking features from program backlog
and Implementing them?
B. Continuous integration
C. Continuous Exploration
pg. 65
Answer: B
Question: 262
A SAFe Portfolio is a collection of ___________________?
A. Design thinking Tools

B. Development Value Streams
C. User Stories
D. Operational Value Streams
Answer: B
Question: 263
In SAFe, development delivers valuable functionality quickly to satisfy the customer and quality is
added later via refactoring.
A. True
B. False
Answer: B
Question: 264
DevOps is part of which Business Agility core competency?
A. Continuous learning
B. Enterprise solution Delivery
C. Lean-Agile Leadership
Answer: D
Question: 265
A backlog illustrates the total amount of work in process and the state of each work item.
A. True
B. False
Answer: B
Question: 266
Who facilitates the Scrum of Scrums?
A. Release Train Engineer

B. Scrum Master
C. Product Owner
D. Business Owner
pg. 66
Answer: A
Question: 267
How many dimensions does the Agile Product Delivery have?
A. Three
B. Four
C. Five
D. Seven
Answer: A
Question: 268
A servant leader knows that his or her own growth comes from what?
A. Facilitating the growth of others

B. Effective training
C. Management support
D. Implementing a CALMR approach of SAFe
Answer: A
Question: 269
What is this statement describing?
“Agile Team continuously adapt to new circumstances and enhance the methods of value delivery”
A. Continuous Delivery
B. Continuous Deployment
C. Continuous Improvement
D. Continuous Integration
Answer: C
Question: 270
What is one time when Scrum Master participate but does not necessarily facilitate?
A. During Team breakout sessions at PI Planning

B. When an Agile Release Train does not require any team coordination
C. If the entire team is present during the Daily Stand up
D. When using ad-hoc teams for Inspect and Adopt
Answer: D
Question: 271
Which meeting should the Scrum Master attend (not facilitate)?
A. PO Sync
B. Iteration Review
C. Daily stand up
D. Scrum of Scrum
pg. 67
Answer: D
Question: 272
During PI Planning, which two tasks are part of the Scrum Master’s Role in the first Team breakout?
(Choose Two)
A. Identify as many tasks and dependencies as possible for the management review
B. Facilitate the co-ordination with other teams for dependencies
C. Be involved in the program backlog refinement and preparation
D. Provide clarifications necessary to assist the team with their story estimating and sequencing
E. Review and reprioritize the Team backlog as a part of the preparatory work for the second
team breakout
Answer: A B
Question: 273
Why do Teams have iteration retrospective?
A. To evaluate Metrics
B. To identify Acceptance criteria
C. To iterate on Stories
D. To adjust and identify ways to improve
Answer: D
Question: 274
The Program Board highlights feature Delivery Dates, milestones and what else for Agile Release
Train Teams?
A. Requirements
B. Timeboxes
C. Dependencies
D. Objectives
Answer: C
Question: 275
What is an Anti-pattern for IP Iteration (Choose two)?
A. To plan work for IP Iteration during PI Planning

B. To ensure all stories and teams’ PI Plans are completed prior to IP Iteration
C. To allow sufficient capacity in the program roadmap
D. To wait for the IP Iteration to fix defects
E. To minimize lost capacity when people are on vacation or holidays
Answer: A D
Question: 276
Good Coaches don’t give people the answer, but instead they do what?
A. They hold them to their commitments
pg. 68
B. They guide people to the Solution

C. They make the decision
D. They limit the number of Questions
Answer: B
Question: 277
What is the time when Scrum Master participates but doesn’t necessarily facilitate?
A. If the entire team is present during the Daily stand up

B. When using ad-hoc teams for inspect and adopt
C. During Team breakout session at PI Planning
D. When the Agile Release Train doesn’t require any Team co-ordination
Answer: D
Question: 278
What are the three pillars of Scrum?
A. Collaboration, Acceptance, Progress

B. Retrospective, Inspection, Adaption
C. Transparency, Inspection, Adaption
D. Adaption, Transparency, Acceptance
Answer: C
Question: 279
Business Owner is a Role on which dimension of Lean Portfolio Management? (Choose two)
A. Strategy and Investment Funding

B. Lean Flow
C. Lean Governance
D. Agile Portfolio Operations
Answer: A C
Question: 280
In SAFe, how is long-lived team of Agile teams called?
a. Value stream
b. Agile Delivery Pipeline
c. Shared Resources
d. Agile Release Train
Answer: D
Question: 281
Feature toggles enable what?
A. Continuous Deployment
B. Release on Demand
C. Automated Testing
pg. 69
D. Scheduled Release
Answer: B
Question: 282
The Team in the Agile Release Train do not need to be synchronised on common cadence.
A. True
B. False
Answer: B
Question: 283
Who creates and refines the user stories and the acceptance criteria?
A. The Agile Team

B. The Scrum Master
C. The Business Owner
Answer: A
Question: 284
A Solution which is intended to be used by a Significant number of customers is called ___________?
A. Augmented Solution
B. Custom-built Solution
C. General Solution
D. Universal Solution
Answer: C
Question: 285
A market rhythm is a set of events that occur repeatedly on a predictable cadence
A. True
B. False
Answer: A
Question: 286
The relationship between ______________ and _____________ are in the core of WSJF. (Choose
Two)
A. Processing Rate
B. Cost of Delay
C. Average wait Time
pg. 70
D. Job duration
E. Queue length
Answer: B D
Question: 287
There are _________ Core competencies of Business Agility.
A. Three
B. Five
C. Seven
D. Nine
Answer: C
Question: 288
In context of the whole product thinking, which product is often considered the “minimal offering”
of a Product?
A. Augmented product
B. Potential product
C. Expected product
D. Generic product
Answer: D
Question: 289
According to the Agile Manifesto, the highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and
continuous delivery of _________________ software?
A. Valuable
B. Working
C. Optimal
D. Cheap
Answer: A
Question: 290
Which of the below is NOT a part of the continuous Delivery pipeline?
C. Continuous deployment
D. Continuous Testing
Answer: D
Question: 291
Which of the following are Roles on Agile Release Team? (choose Two)
A. Release Train Engineer

B. Chief Scrum Master
pg. 71
C. System Team
D. Business Owners
Answer: A C D
Question: 292
Small batch sizes enable _____________ feedback with lower transaction Cost.
A. Faster
B. Slower
C. Less detailed
D. More detailed
Answer: A
Question: 293
Which of the below are not a value of Agile Manifesto?
A. Individuals and interactions over Processes and Tools

B. Working Software over Comprehensive documentation
C. Responding to change over Following a plan
D. Contract negotiation over Customer collaboration
Answer: D
Question: 294
Which of the below are key to leading successful change? (Choose Three)
A. Stay with the comfort zone

B. Establish a sense of urgency
C. Develop the vision and strategy
D. Generate short time wins
Answer: A B D
Question: 295
Which of the following are part of Agile Release Train ART Sync? (Choose Two)
A. Architectural Sync
B. Scrum of Scrums
C. PO sync
D. Product Management Sync
Answer: B C
Question: 296
Which of the below are not a part of CALIMR approach DevOps?
A. Large Batches
B. Culture
C. Measurement
D. Automation
pg. 72
Answer: A
Question: 297
Which Design Thinking Tool helps Teams imagine what a specific persona is thinking, feeling, hearing
and seeing as they use the product.
A. Story map
B. Customer journey map
C. Empathy map
D. Story board
Answer: C
Question: 298
The Team and Technical Agility competency describe the critical skills and ______________
principles and practices that high-performing Agile Teams and Teams of Agile teams used to create
high quality solutions for their customers
A. Lean Agile
B. DevOps
C. SMART
D. Extreme programming
Answer: A
Question: 299
How many are the roles of Agile Release Train?
A. Four
B. Five
C. Three
D. Ten
Answer: B
Question: 300
A Customer journey map illustrates the experience as a user engages with a Company ‘s
____________ Value stream, products and Services
A. Operational
B. Highest priority
C. Development
D. Customer
Answer: A
Question: 301
Which of the below are Core SAFe Values?
A. Shared Ownership
B. Visibility
pg. 73
C. High Quality
D. Alignment
Answer: D
Question: 302
Which of the following is NOT a principle of the Agile Manifesto?
A. Welcome changing requirements, even late in Development. Agile processes harness change
for the Customer’s competitive advantage.
B. Take an Economic View
C. Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, users should
be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
D. The best Architecture, requirements and design emerge from self-organizing teams
Answer: B
Question: 303
Which of the below are rules for building architectural runway? (Choose Three)
A. Time is not the essence. Architecture takes long to implement.

B. Time is of the essence. It should take more than a few iteration to implement and prove the
new technology.
C. Credit goes to working solution, not models and designs
D. Feature terms validate the new architecture.
Answer: B C D
Question: 304
In the context of whole product thinking, which product represents the customer’s minimal
purchase conditions as informed by alternative or competing products?
A. Expected product
B. Augmented product
C. Generic product
D. Potential product
Answer: A
Question: 305
What is a custom-built solution?
A. Solution which is a potential solution for the Customer problem

B. Solution which is intended to be used by a significant number of Customers
C. Solution which is built and designed for an individual customer
D. None of the above
Answer: C
Question: 306
pg. 74
Which 3 of the below need to be taken in to account when assigning Business Value to PI objectives?
(Choose Three)
A. Risk Value
B. Efficiency Value
C. Market Value
D. Future Value
E. Consumer Value
Answer: B C D
Question: 307
A Story Map validates the steps required to be executed by user _________________?
A. True
B. False
Answer: A
Question: 308
Business Agility requires that __________________ use Lean and Agile practices to continually
deliver innovative, high-quality products and services faster than the competition.
A. The developers
B. The Business Owners
C. Business and technology Leaders
D. Everyone involved in delivering Solutions
Answer: D
Question: 309
A market event is one time future event, which has a high probability of manually effecting one or
more solutions.
A. True
B. False
Answer: A
Question: 310
What do Work in Progress (WIP) constraints create?
A. Enhanced Product ROI

B. Forced Capacity matching
C. Better Customer Outcomes
D. Increased pressure to Deliver
Answer: B
Question: 311
What is a SAFe recommended approach to implement a crosscutting Epic that spans multiple PIs?
pg. 75
A. The work will be demonstrated by the PPM in the Portfolio Demo.

B. Trains will demonstrate their work on that Epic when it is finished.
C. All trains and value streams will demonstrate their work with respect to the Epic at every PI
Boundary.
D. Trains will demonstrate their work only if they are managed to integrate and test it, if not
they can demo in the next PI
Answer: C
Question: 312
Which statement is true about Model-based system engineering (MBSE) in SAFe?
A. MBSE allows a team to explore solution options earlier

B. MBSE is a technique defining Acceptance criteria for Enablers.
C. MBSE is used to create a comprehensive design view of the solution
D. MBSE can’t conduct cost effective experiments without changing the product.
Answer: A
Question: 313
Which of the below are not one of the Core competencies of business agility?
B. Continuous Learning culture
C. Lean portfolio management
D. Agile product delivery
Answer: A
Question: 314
Which design thinking tool illustrate the experience as a user engages with a Company’s operational
value stream, products and services?
A. Empathy Map
B. Story Map
C. Customer Journey Map
D. Acceptance Criteria
Answer: C
Question: 315
What is the Seven core competencies of Business Agility?
A. The Developer
B. The Economic Belt
C. The Customer
D. The Business
Answer: C
Question: 316
pg. 76
Features and PI Objectives always map 1:1?
A. True
B. False
Answer: B
Question: 317
What ensures that every element and every increment of the solution reflects quality standards
throughout the development lifecycle?
A. Built-in Quality
B. Product Owner acceptance
C. Sign off by Executives
D. Definition of Ready
Answer: A
Question: 318
How is a functional model of the feature or product that are to be built called?
A. Persona
B. Prototype
C. Archetype
D. Proof of concept
Answer: B
Question: 319
Which event id usually 2 days long and happens at the beginning of every PI?
A. Iteration Planning
B. Inspect & Adapt
C. PI Planning
D. Iteration review
Answer: C
Question: 320
Which of the below is not a characteristic of generative culture?
A. Low cooperation
B. Innovation implemented
C. Collaboration encouraged
D. Responsibilities shared
Answer: A
Question: 321
SAFe Lean-Agile principles support centralized decision-making.
A. True
pg. 77
B. False
Answer: B
Question: 322
Customer Centricity and Design Thinking is a dimension of which Business Agility core competency?
A. Team and Technical Agility

C. Enterprise Solution Delivery
D. Lean-Agile Leadership
Answer: B
Question: 323
The teams in an Agile Release Train and aligned around common vision and execute and deliver on a
cadence?
A. True
B. False
Answer: A
Question: 324
Which of the below are not part of the CALMR approach to DevOps?
A. Lean flow
B. Automation
C. Release on demand
D. Culture
Answer: C
Question: 325
Which are a set of directives which describe the Goal that needs to be achieved by an Agile Release
Train?
A. Business Objectives
B. Iteration goal
C. OKRs
D. PI Objectives
Answer: D
Question: 326
Enabler stories can capture ________________ ? (Choose Three)
A. System requirements
B. Infrastructure requirement
C. End user requirement
D. Architecture requirement
pg. 78
Answer: A B D
Question: 327
Which of the following are the purpose of the IP Iteration? (Choose Four)
A. Enable Continuous learning

B. Allow time for innovation
C. Advance development infrastructure
D. Serve as estimation buffer.
Answer: A B C D
Question: 328
The architectural runway is built of _______ ?
A. End user stories

B. Strategic themes
C. Enabler stories
D. Tasks
Answer: C
Question: 329
The Continuous delivery pipeline is a part of which business agility competency?
C. Lean portfolio Management
D. Continuous Learning Culture
Answer: B
Question: 330
The Continuous delivery pipeline is a part of which Business Agility competency?
A. Agile Delivery
C. Continuous Learning Culture
D. Continuous Learning Culture
Answer: A
Question: 331
Empathetic design guides the development of solutions that move beyond functional needs, also
addressing:
A. Ergonomic needs, such as the placement of physical features

B. Am understanding of how the solution may impact the solution context
C. Aesthetic and emotional needs
D. All of the above
Answer: D
pg. 79
Question: 332
Agile teams have well defined responsibilities
A. True
B. False
Answer: A
Question: 333
Which design thinking tool conveys the problems customers face in the context and triggers of why
they use the product?
A. Whole product thinking

B. Story maps
C. Customer journey maps
D. Personas
Answer: D
Question: 334
Epics in the analysing state that have the highest WSJF are pulled into the _____________ , as soon
as space is available?
A. Database
B. Team backlog
C. Portfolio backlog
D. Program backlog
Answer: C
Question: 335
Persona is a fictional character created to represent a single user who might use a site, brand or
product is a specific, unique, different than the majority way.
A. True
B. False
Answer: B
Question: 336
______________ help companies recognise and capitalize or opportunities that are predictable and
require longer term planning.
A. Empathic design
B. Market rhythms
C. Market events
D. User research
Answer: B
Question: 337
pg. 80
Which components of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline is the ability to make value available to
Customers all at once, or in a staggered fashion based market and business need?
A. Release on demand
C. Continuous exploration
Answer: A
___________________________________________
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Leading SAFe 5.

1 Agilest – Certification Dump

What are two of the SAFe Core Values? (Choose two.)

What is the goal of the House of Lean?

A. Lean-Agile Leadership as an organizational culture

Which statement is true about batch size?

A. When there is flow it means there are small batch sizes

Why do Business Owners assign business value to team PI Objectives?

A. To determine the highest value using WSJF

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

A. Culture change comes last as a results of changing work habits

What is one output of enterprise strategy formulation?

What does the Continuous Delivery Pipeline enable?

A. Delivery of large batches

Why is it important to decouple deployment from release?

A. To enable releasing functionality on demand to meet business needs

How does SAFe describe Customer Centricity?

A. As a set of practices employed to make products focused on the Customer

A. Reorganize the network around the new value flow

A. Reorganize the hierarchies around the flow of value

The primary need for SAFe is to scale the idea of what?

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

A. It alleviates the reliance on the skill sets of Agile Teams

A. Lean Portfolio Management

Who is responsible for managing the Portfolio Kanban?

A. During breakout sessions

A. A vote by every person then normalized for the train

Optimizing flow means identifying what?

A. Activities that lack innovation

How can trust be gained between the business and development?

A. Minimum possible constraints

A. Owned, Mitigated, Active, Resolved

A. Decisions that require local information

What is one component of a Guardrail in Lean Portfolio Management?

A. Determining if business needs meet the Portfolio Threshold

C. Capacity allocation of the Value Stream compared to process mapping

Which pathway would a LACE use on the Agile growth lifecycle?

A. The Scaled Agile Framework

What is one key purpose of DevOps?

A. DevOps focuses on automating the delivery pipeline to reduce transaction cost

A. Reduce project cost

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

A. Conducting a PI Planning meeting

A. Respect for People and Culture

Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?

A. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

What are the three dimensions of Lean-Agile Leadership? (Choose three.)

A. Mindset and principles

A. They can define, build, and test an increment of value

What is one example of differentiating business objectives?

Which statement is true about ART events?

What is part of the role of the Scrum Master?

A. To prioritize and identify what is ready for Iteration Planning

A. It has a technology stack without legacy code

The program board shows which two items? (Choose two.)

What is one of the tools associated with Design Thinking?

A. Divergent Feature Decomposition

A. Apply systems thinking