Scrum

SAFe-RTE
Certified SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE)

QUESTION & ANSWERS

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 Question: 1

The IP iteration can contain user value stories

A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Answer: A

Question: 2

DevOps is a set of tools that enable communication, automation and integration among Development and Operations
A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Answer: A

Question: 3

Which of the following have their own Definition of Done in SAFe?

A. Release

B. Team Increment

C. Epic

D. System Increment

Answer: A,B,D

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 Question: 4

Who is responsible for delivering solution value?

A. This is collective responsibility of the teams of the ART

B. The System Team

C. The System Architect

D. The RTE

Answer: A

Question: 5

What type of leader is the RTE?

A. Transformational

B. Strategic

C. Command and control

D. Servant

Answer: D

Question: 6

During iteration execution there is a smaller PDCA cycle. Which meeting represents this?
A. Daily Standup

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B. System Demo

C. Iteration Retrospective

D. Iteration Review

Answer: A

Question: 7

Which of the following are parts of the Inspect & Adapt event?
A. Quantitative Measurement

B. Problem-solving workshop

C. PI System Demo

D. Confidence Voting

Answer: A,B,C

Question: 8

When does management review and problem soliving meeting take place in PI Planning?
A. At the beginning of Day 1

B. At the beginning of Day 2

C. At the end of Day 1

D. At the end of Day 2

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 Answer: C

Question: 9

What are the consequences of not having IP iteration?

A. Lack of delivery capacity buffer which impacts predictability

B. Technical debt increase

C. Lack of innovation

D. People burn out

Answer: A,B,C,D

Question: 10

WIP limits are initially a hypothesis. They will evolve over time as the teams learn
A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: A

Question: 11

How many teams typically form an ART?

A. 15-20

B. 3 to 5

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C. 5 to 12

D. 25-35

Answer: C

Question: 12

Who facilitates the management review and problem solving meeting at the end of Day 1 of PI Planning?
A. System Architect

B. RTE

C. Chief Product Owne

D. Business Owner

Answer: B

Question: 13

What is the output of the problem-solving workshop of the Inspect & Adapt event?
A. Detailed report of the PI

B. Actionable items for improvements

C. New program artifacts

D. PI metrics sheet

Answer: B

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 Question: 14

Which is the key problem from the 5 team dysfunctions which leads to the other 4?
A. Lack of Commitment

B. Inattention to Results

C. Fear of Conflict

D. Absence of Trust

Answer: D

Question: 15

Who does the team demo to on the Team demo?

A. System Architect

B. Enterprise Architect

C. Product Owner

D. Business Owners

Answer: C

Question: 16

The Program Kanban board has implicit policies of how work is managed in each state
A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Answer: A

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 Question: 17

Which of the following areas is the main concern of the RTE role?
A. Program Execution

B. Technology

C. Content Management

D. Human Resource

Answer: A

Question: 18

Due to uncommitted objectives, it is possible for a team to achieve more than 100% on their PI Team Performance Report
A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Answer: B

Question: 19

Which program level event is used to discuss problems or opportunities with feature development and to assess any
scope adjustments?
A. Scrum of Scrums

B. PO Sync

C. System Demo

D. ART Sync

Answer: B

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 Question: 20

At which Tuckman stage the ART is established as a community?

A. Norming

B. Performing

C. Forming

D. Storming

Answer: A

Question: 21

Each team's planned vs. actual business value is rolled up to the program predictability measure during the Inspect &
Adapt event
A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: A

Question: 22

Which artifact shows the progress being made toward the Program Increment timebox?
A. PI burndown chart

B. WIP Limits

C. Cumulative Flow Diagram

D. Lead time diagram

Answer: A

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 Question: 23

Program risks are outside of the team's control

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: A

Question: 24

PI Objectives are following which format?

A. STAR

B. WSJF

C. SMART

D. ROAM

Answer: C

Question: 25

Which artifact shows the sequence of inter-team dependencies for delivering the features?
A. SoS radiator

B. Release Burndown Chart

C. Team Kanban Board

D. Program Board

Answer: D

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 Question: 26

Which component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline focuses on creating alignment on what needs to be built?
A. Continuous Integration

B. Continuous Exploration

C. Continuous Deployment

D. Release On Demand

Answer: B

Question: 27

Which of the following is benefit from having Iteration Goals?

A. Alignment to the Program Increment Objectives

B. Providing context for understanding and addressing cross-team dependencies

C. Alignment of team members and the Product Owner to the mission

D. All of the above

Answer: D

Question: 28

Which meeting aligns all team members to the common goals of the team as defined by the Team PI Objectives?
A. Iteration Review​

B. Iteration Retrospective

C. Inspect & Adapt

D. Iteration Planning

Answer: D

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 Question: 29

What is the main concern of having too much preparation for PI Planning?
A. This will reduce exploration and affect interaction and emergent design

B. The PI Planning event will be too short to fill the typical timebox

C. People will get bored during PI Planning

D. The PI Planning event will become redundant

Answer: A

Question: 30

Which of the following is not responsibility of the RTE?

A. Managing and optimizing the flow of value through the ART

B. Removing impediments for the ART

C. Fostering collaboration between the ART teams

D. Removing team level impediments

Answer: D

Question: 31

Which ART event drives relentless improvement?

A. The ART Inspect and Adapt

B. IP Iteration

C. PI System Demo

D. PI Planning

Answer: A

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 Question: 32

PI Objectives need to be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and ?

A. Time-bound

B. Totally clear

C. Testable

D. Task-oriented

Answer: A

Question: 33

How is the Program Backlog prioritized?

A. Business features take preference

B. An economic balance of business features and enablers is sought

C. Enablers take preference

D. Long term architectural concerns take the highest priority

Answer: B

Question: 34

Which of the following is not one of the SAFe Lean-Agile principles?

A. Apply design thinking

B. Decentralize decision making​

C. Take an economic view

D. Organize around value

Answer: A

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 Question: 35

It is recommended to use the same layout and colours for planning boards in order to create shared understanding and
transparency.

A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Answer: B

Question: 36

The teams in the ART are synchronized on a common cadence called

A. Program Increment (PI)

B. Iteration

C. Product Increment (PI)

D. Portfolio Increment (PI)

Answer: A

Question: 37

Which of the following is anti-patterns for the IP iteration?

A. Working on infrastructure improvements during the IP iteration

B. holding hackathons during the IP iteration

C. working on innovation spikes during the IP iteration

D. planning work for the IP iteration during PI Planning

Answer: D

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 Question: 38

Which of the below is not part of the 8 behaviors of servant leaders?

A. Persuades using authority

B. Listens an d supports teams in problem identification and decision-making

C. Creates an environment of mutual influence

D. Understands and empathizes with others

Answer: A

Question: 39

What is the PDCA cycle?

A. Plan, Do, Check, Accept

B. Prepare, Do, Check, Adjust

C. Prepare, Do, Check, Accept

D. Plan, Do, Check, Adjust

Answer: D

Question: 40

Which of the following is not one of the four stages which are characteristic for team development?
A. Integrating

B. Storming

C. Forming

D. Performing

Answer: A

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 Question: 41

Who attends the Scrum of Scrums?

A. RTE

B. Product Owners

C. Scrum Master representatives from each team

D. System Architect

Answer: A,C

Question: 42

As the ART matures, teams typically migrate from __________ teams to ___________ teams
A. component, feature

B. cross-functional, self-organizing

C. smaller, bigger

D. feature, component

Answer: A

Question: 43

Which of the following is not a primary responsibility of the Business Owner?

A. Communicating business objectives

B. Agreeing business objectives with key stakeholders on the train

C. Assigning business value to PI objectives

D. Creating the Vision and the Roadmap for the ART

Answer: D

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 Question: 44

Distributed PI Planning meetings require significantly less preparation and facilitation

A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Answer: A

Question: 45

According to systems thinking, optimizing a component always leads to optimizing the system
A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Answer: A

Question: 46

What happens if during PI Planning the confidence vote of a team or overall is low?
A. Mark the risk as Accepted, using ROAM

B. Do another confidence voting

C. Rework the plan

D. Cancel the PI

Answer: C

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 Question: 47

Which of following are key program level events?

A. PO Sync

B. ART Sync

C. Scrum of Scrums

D. Business Owners Sync

Answer: A,B,C

Question: 48

Which level of Definition of Done is concerned with capabilities completed by all trains meet acceptance criteria?
A. Portfolio Increment DoD

B. Team Increment DoD

C. Solution Increment DoD

D. System Increment DoD

Answer: C

Question: 49

Who accepts the final plan at the end of PI Planning?

A. senior management

B. RTE

C. product management

D. Business Owners

Answer: D

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 Question: 50

How long is typically the PI Planning event?

A. 1 week

B. 4 hours

C. 1 day

D. 2 days

Answer: D

Question: 51

The Continuous Delivery Pipeline is part of which of the seven core competencies for business agility?
A. Enterprise Solution Delivery​

B. Organizational Agility

C. Team and Technical Agility

D. Agile Product Delivery

Answer: D

Question: 52

Program PI Objectives are the synthesis of each team's PI Objectives.

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: A

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 Question: 53

Which artifact shows a series of areas representing the amount of work in the different Kanban states?
A. Cumulative Flow Diagram

B. Lead time diagram

C. WIP Limits

D. PI burndown chart

Answer: A

Question: 54

The ___________ of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline is an Enabler that helps the RTE identify and remove bottlenecks
A. Fishbone analysis

B. value stream mapping

C. process mapping

D. Pareto Analysis

Answer: B

Question: 55

Which of the below are not part of the CALMR approach to DevOps?
A. Large batches

B. Automation

C. Measurement

D. Culture

Answer: A

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 Question: 56

Which of the following is not a primary responsibility of the RTE?

A. Understanding the customer needs

B. Facilitating PI Planning

C. Tracking and removing impediments for the ART

D. Managing the flow of value through the ART

Answer: A

Question: 57

How do Business Owners assign value to PI Objectives?

A. On a scale from 1 to 10

B. Using the Fibonacci sequence

C. In T shirt size

D. In monetary terms

Answer: A

Question: 58

Which of the following roles are involved into the preparation of the Program Backlog for PI Planning?
A. RTE

B. Enterprise Architect

C. Product management

D. Epic Owners

Answer: A,C

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 Question: 59

Which of the following is not a role at the ART level?

A. RTE

B. System team

C. Epic Owners

D. Product management

Answer: C

Question: 60

Which team event expresses the “Check” step of the PDCA cycle?
A. Team Demo

B. Iteration Retrospective

C. Daily Standup

D. Iteration Planning

Answer: A

Question: 61

Coaching the members of the ART to embrace learning and relentless improvement is a key task for the RTE.
A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: A

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 Question: 62

Implementing Conway's law to design systems which mirror the communication structure is a good practice when
organizing the ART
A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: B

Question: 63

On which part of the Inspect & Adapt event the teams on the train work together to systematically address the larger
impediments that are limiting program velocity by using root cause analysis?
A. Confidence Voting

B. Iteration Retrospective

C. Problem-solving workshop

D. PI System Demo

Answer: C

Question: 64

When is the IP iteration?

A. The last iteration in the PI

B. Every second iteration is IP iteration

C. The first iteration in the PI

D. Annually

Answer: A

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 Question: 65

Which of the following is not an RTE tool used in preparation for PI Planning?
A. ART events calendar

B. Roadmap

C. Facilities checklist

D. PI Planning meeting template

Answer: B

Question: 66

What is the timebox for daily standup meeting?

A. 45 mins

B. 30 mins

C. 15 mins

D. 1 hour

Answer: C

Question: 67

How many people are typically into an ART?

A. 50 to 125+

B. 10 to 25

C. 30 to 40

D. 250 to 300

Answer: A

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 Question: 68

Where are the actions which are outcome of the problem-solving workshop during Inspect & Adapt stored?
A. in the risk sheet

B. in the team backlog

C. in the program backlog

D. in a database

Answer: C

Question: 69

The RTE presents the planning adjustments which are output of the management review and problem solving meeting to
the teams at the beginning of Day 2 of PI Planning
A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: B

Question: 70

Which of the following is not responsibility of the System Team?

A. Supports and performs solution performance testing

B. Supports and performs end to end integration of the solution

C. Creates and maintains infrastructure

D. Prioritizes and manages the Enablers in the Program Backlog

Answer: D

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 Question: 71

What is shown on the horizontal axis of the Pl burn-down chart?

A. Team names

B. Iterations

C. Story Points

D. Kanban states

Answer: B

Question: 72

Which of the following are true for the System demo?

A. Architectural Runway work in process is scaffolded and toggled

B. It happens once per PI, at the end of the PI

C. It is not mandatory to have all the functionalities tested before the demo

D. Features are functionally complete or "toggled" so as not to disrupt demonstrable functionality

Answer: A,D

Question: 73

Which artifact aligns expectations among key ART roles, teams, and stakeholders regarding what 'done' actually means?
A. Acceptance Criteria

B. Functional Specification

C. Definition of Done

D. Definition of Ready

Answer: C

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 Question: 74

Team risks are presented during Day 1 of PI Planning

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: B

Question: 75

The RTE collects and aggregates the agreed-upon ART Metrics once per PI, at the end of the PI
A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Answer: A

Question: 76

What happens if the teams need to rework their plans due to low confidence level after confidence vote?
A. This is one occasion when the timebox is less important than achieving alignment and the teams should take the
required time they need to rework the plan

B. The low confidence is marked as risk using ROAM and the PI starts as planned

C. The PI starts as expected as timebox is important to be fulfilled

D. The PI is cancelled

Answer: A

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 Question: 77

Which of the following is recommended for the IP iteration?

A. Leaving testing or bug fixing to the IP Iteration

B. Leaving integration of the whole system to the IP Iteration

C. Working on innovation spikes, hackathons, and infrastructure improvements

D. Planning work for the IP Iteration in Pl Planning

Answer: C

Question: 78

Which of the below are not part of the CALMR approach to DevOps?
A. Measurement

B. Continuous Improvement

C. Automation

D. Lean Flow

Answer: B

Question: 79

What is the correct sequence of the 4 stages of team development?

A. Storming,Norming, Forming, Performing

B. Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing

C. ​Forming, Norming,Storming, Performing

D. Storming, Forming, Norming, Performing

Answer: B

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 Question: 80

What is meant by Realistic in the SMART model used for PI Objectives?

A. factors are out of control

B. none of the above

C. all factors are under full control

D. factors that cannot be controlled are recognized

Answer: D

Question: 81

How does the PI Planning first day begin?

A. With explanation of the business context

B. With Q & A session

C. With System Demo

D. With team breakouts

Answer: A

Question: 82

Which of the following are responsibility of the RTE?

A. Prioritizing the Program backlog

B. Removing team level impediments

C. Facilitating PI Planning

D. Tracking ART metrics

Answer: C,D

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 Question: 83

The product increment that the team demos to the Product Owner on the team demo does not necessarily need to have
been tested by the team.
A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Answer: A

Question: 84

Which level of Definition of Done is concerned with stories completed by all teams in the ART are integrated?
A. Portfolio Increment DoD

B. System Increment DoD

C. Solution Increment DoD

D. Team Increment DoD

Answer: B

Question: 85

A servant leader is opened and appreciates openness in others

A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Answer: B

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 Question: 86

Which of the following events are facilitated by the RTE?

A. Scrum of Scrums

B. Inspect & Adapt

C. ART Sync

D. PI Planning

Answer: A,B,C,D

Question: 87

Which of the following is not true for the RTE role?

A. influences without authority

B. uses empathy

C. coaches the teams

D. directs and manages the teams

Answer: D

Question: 88

In SAFe the smallest cadence at which the team delivers potentially shippable work product is called
A. Program Increment

B. Iteration

C. Product Increment

D. Portfolio Increment

Answer: B

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 Question: 89

The most important thing to visualize on the Program Board is when features are expected to be delivered.
A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: A

Question: 90

In SAFe releases happen once per PI, at the end of the PI.
A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: B

Question: 91

Which of the following areas is the main concern of the System Architect/Engineer?
A. Technology

B. Content Management

C. Human Resource

D. Program Execution

Answer: A

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 Question: 92

Who has the primary responsibility to assign business value to PI objectives?

A. RTE

B. Product management

C. Business Owners

D. Epic Owners

Answer: C

Question: 93

Which of the following are true for the Program Kanban Board?
A. Visualizes the individual teams progress at user story level of detail

B. It helps visualize PI Planning readiness and PI execution progress

C. RTE and stakeholders have easy access to Program flow measurements

D. It is a useful tool for the SoS, PO sync , and ART sync meetings and problem solving

Answer: B,C,D

Question: 94

Which from the below are typical program measures of a cumulative flow diagram?
A. WIP limits

B. Throughput

C. Business value

D. Lead time

Answer: A,B,D

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 Question: 95

What is the primary concern when prioritizing the Program Backlog?

A. Building the easiest solution

B. Developing team members T-shaped skills

C. Maximizing the customer value

D. Utilizing every skill set of the team

Answer: C

Question: 96

DevOps is part of which Business Agility core competency?

A. Lean-Agile Leadership

B. Agile Product Delivery

C. Enterprise Solution Delivery

D. Continuous Learning

Answer: B

Question: 97

Which of the following are inputs to the management review and problem solving meeting at the end of Day 1 of PI
Planning?
A. PI Objectives

B. PI Risks

C. ART

D. PI Problems

Answer: B,C,D

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 Question: 98

According to systems thinking, a system can evolve faster than its slowest integration point
A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Answer: A

Question: 99

Which Program Level event is used to create visibility into how well the ART is progressing toward meeting the program
Pl Objectives?
A. System Demo

B. PO Sync

C. ART Sync

D. Scrum of Scrums

Answer: B

Question: 100

In SAFe, to organize the teams around value, the teams are organized around
A. technical competencies

B. features

C. components

D. customers

Answer: B,C

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 Question: 101

Which of the following is not a primary responsibility of the System Architect?

A. Fostering built-in quality

B. Fostering collaboration

C. Defining subsystems and interfaces

D. Supporting the implementation of Enablers

Answer: B

Question: 102

Which of the following is input for Iteration Planning?

A. Program Backlog

B. PI Objectives

C. Team backlog

D. Program risks

Answer: C

Question: 103

What is the risk framework recommended to be used for Program Risks?

A. STAR

B. SMART

C. ROAM

D. WSJF

Answer: C

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 Question: 104

Which of the following is an indicator of whether achievements fall into an acceptable process control Band?

A. Process Map

B. PI burn down chart

C. Program predictability measure

D. Cumulative Flow Diagram

Answer: C

Question: 105

Which of the following are roles at the ART level?

A. System Team

B. Business Owners

C. System Architect

D. Product Owner

Answer: A,B,C

Question: 106

Which of the following are good practices for distributed PI Planning?

A. Have a common understanding of how plans will be shared (video, wiki , email,etc)

B. Test audio , video, and presentation-sharing connectivity before the meeting

C. Establish team-based audio/video communication for breakout sessions

D. Have a dedicated RTE-proxy person in each location .

Answer: A,B,C,D

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 Question: 107

Which is step from the PDCA cycle is expressed by the Iteration Retrospective?
A. Check

B. Adjust

C. Accommodate

D. Adapt

Answer: B

Question: 108

Which of the following are true for teams?

A. Teams are far more productive than the same number of individuals

B. Peer pressure is a weak motivator

C. Teams work best when not interrupted

D. Changes in team composition don't impact productivity

Answer: A,C

Question: 109

PI Objectives are created top down, e.g team objectives are created from the PI objectives
A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Answer: A

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 Question: 110

The RTE should move from facilitating team problem-solving towards fixing problems rather than helping others fix them
A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: A

Question: 111

How many are the SAFe Lean Agile principles?

A. ten

B. twelve

C. eight

D. five

Answer: A

Question: 112

Which level of requirements are stored in the Program Backlog?

A. Enablers

B. User stories

C. Tasks

D. features

Answer: A,D

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 Question: 113

What is displayed above each Kanban column of the Program Kanban and is used to improve flow?
A. WIP limits

B. Number of blocked issues

C. Aggregated business value of the items in this column

D. WSJF Score

Answer: A

Question: 114

Which component 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 needs?
A. Continuous Deployment

B. Continuous Exploration

C. Release On Demand

D. Continuous Integration

Answer: C

Question: 115

What is the primary goal of assigning business value to PI Objectives?

A. none of the above

B. to have Business Owner buy-in

C. to show economic impact to the customer

D. to help the teams on the train prioritize work

Answer: D

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 Question: 116

Which component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline focuses on taking features from the Program backlog and
implementing them?
A. Continuous Exploration

B. Release On Demand

C. Continuous Deployment

D. Continuous Integration

Answer: D

Question: 117

Which event helps the teams keep on track and facilitate early identification of risks?
A. Inspect and Adapt

B. IP iteration

C. Daily Scrum

D. Scrum of Scrums

Answer: D

Question: 118

Who validates the program risks are outside of team control?

A. Business Owner

B. RTE

C. System Architect

D. ScrumMasters

Answer: B

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 Question: 119

What does the S in the SMART model for PI Objectives stand for?
A. Special

B. Solid

C. Specific

D. Secondary

Answer: C

Question: 120

What is the timebox for the Inspect & Adapt event?

A. 1 day per PI

B. 1-2 hours per PI

C. 3-4 hours per PI

D. 4-6 hours per PI

Answer: C

Question: 121

In which stage of team development the team resolves initial conflicts and difficulties in establishing a shared
understanding?

A. Storming

B. Performing

C. Forming

D. Norming

Answer: A

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 Question: 122

Which tool is used for root cause analysis?

A. WSJF Score

B. Pareto chart

C. Fishbone

D. Process Map

Answer: C

Question: 123

Results are empirically reviewed at every System Demo and Pl Planning event and this helps to overcome which team
dysfunction?
A. Absence of Trust

B. Fear of Conflict

C. Inattention to results

D. Lack of Commitment

Answer: C

Question: 124

As a servant leader, the RTE decides on the team commitments

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: B

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 Question: 125

The RTE is responsible to create a set of Integrated Program Pl Objectives at the end of PI Planning
A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: A

Question: 126

Who has the primary responsibility to agree the business objectives with the key stakeholders on the ART?
A. Product management

B. Epic Owners

C. RTE

D. Business Owners

Answer: D

Question: 127

Which of the following roles is not necessarily a servant leader?

A. Scrum Master

B. Line Manager

C. Release Train Engineer

D. Solution Train Engineer

Answer: B

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 Question: 128

DevOps enables which ones of the below?

A. Automation

B. Marketing

C. Backlog Prioritization

D. Integration

Answer: A,D

Question: 129

Which artifact aligns the teams in the ART around a common mission?
A. Team Backlog

B. Portfolio

C. Program Backlog

D. Solution Backlog

Answer: C

Question: 130

What is the primary purpose of the daily standup meeting?

A. To provide a status report

B. All of the above

C. To update management

D. To evaluate progress towards the Iteration Goal

Answer: D

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 Question: 131

What does the R in the SMART model for PI Objectives stand for?
A. Rare

B. Reliable

C. Realistic

D. Relatable

Answer: C

Question: 132

When are he boundaries within which teams are planning the PI established?
A. At the end of day 1 of PI Planning

B. At the beginning of day 1 of PI Planning

C. During PI Planning preparation

D. At the beginning of day 2 of PI Planning

Answer: B

Question: 133

Which of the following maximizes the value delivered by the ART?

A. The System team takes preference over the Agile Teams on the ART

B. There needs to be a balance between the System Team and the Agile Teams on the Train

C. The System Team is a bottleneck for the ART

D. The Agile Teams on the ART take preference over the System Team

Answer: B

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 Question: 134

It is acceptable to increase PI Planning to 2.5 or 3 days in the case of different time zones to have enough time
overlapping periods
A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: A

Question: 135

What does the business value assigned to PI objective communicate?

A. the cost of achieving the objective

B. the customer satisfaction of achieving the objective

C. the potential business impact of achieving the objective

D. the monetary gain of achieving the objective

Answer: C

Question: 136

Which level of Definition of Done is concerned with user stories satisfying the acceptance criteria?
A. System Increment DoD

B. Solution Increment DoD

C. Team Increment DoD

D. Portfolio Increment DoD

Answer: C

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 Question: 137

Which part of the Inspect & Adapt event provides a formal approach to demonstrating accumulated value?
A. Problem-solving workshop

B. Quantitative Measurement

C. Confidence Voting

D. PI System Demo

Answer: D

Question: 138

Which of the following are SAFe Lean-Agile principles?

A. Visualize and limit WIP,increase batch sizes, and manage queue lengths

B. Assume variability; persevere options

C. Unlock the extrinsic motivation of knowledge workers

D. Apply systems thinking

Answer: B,D

Question: 139

What is shown on the vertical axis of the Pl burn-down chart?

A. Story Points

B. Iterations

C. Kanban states

D. Team names

Answer: A

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 Question: 140

In SAFe, what provides for cadence-based planning and is an estimating guard band for cadence-based delivery?
A. IP Iteration

B. Inspect & Adapt

C. Iteration

D. Iteration Review

Answer: A

Question: 141

Which of the following areas is the main concern of Product Management?

A. Program Execution

B. Content Management

C. Technology

D. Human Resource

Answer: B

Question: 142

Relentless Improvement is at the base of the House of Lean

A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Answer: A

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 Question: 143

Who is responsible to follow up on the action items of the problem-solving workshop of the Inspect & Adapt event?
A. System Architect

B. Scrum Masters

C. RTE

D. Product Owners

Answer: C

Question: 144

Which of the following is not part of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

A. Continuous Integration

B. Continuous Testing

C. Continuous Deployment

D. Continuous Exploration

Answer: B

Question: 145

What is used to make process policies and decisions visible to the entire ART?
A. Program Kanban Board

B. Team Kanban Board

C. Solution Kanban Board

D. SoS Information Radiator

Answer: A

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 Question: 146

The ART building the system is a system, too

A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Answer: B

Question: 147

Which of the following is the recommended approach to create T-shaped skills on the ART?
A. Cross-training

B. Pair-programming

C. All of the above

D. rotating team members between different teams

Answer: C

Question: 148

The number of items that can be finished per unit of time is called
A. lead time

B. velocity

C. cycle time

D. throughput

Answer: D

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 Question: 149

Which component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline takes the changes from the staging environment and deploys them
to production?
A. Continuous Integration

B. Continuous Deployment

C. Release On Demand

D. Continuous Exploration

Answer: B

Question: 150

The iteration in SAFe is typically how long?

A. one week

B. four weeks

C. three weeks

D. two weeks

Answer: D

Question: 151

The planned total in the PI Team Performance Report does not include uncommitted objectives. They are included in the
actual total.
A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: A

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 Question: 152

Which of the following is added to the Program Board during PI Planning?

A. Features

B. All of the above

C. Dependencies

D. Milestones

Answer: B

Question: 153

Which of the following is output of iteration planning?

A. Team PI Objectives

B. PI Objectives

C. Iteration Goal

D. Team Backlog

Answer: C

Question: 154

Which of the following are recommended approaches used to maximize velocity?

A. maximizing hand-offs

B. minimizing dependencies

C. compromising quality

D. minimizing hand-offs

Answer: B,D

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 Question: 155

Which program level event is focused on overall program execution and impediment escalation?
A. ART Sync

B. Scrum of Scrums

C. System Demo

D. PO Sync

Answer: B

Question: 156

Which of the below are not part of the CALMR approach to DevOps?
A. Measurement

B. Authentication

C. Culture

D. Lean Flow

Answer: B

Question: 157

Which team event ensures that relentless improvement - one of the pillars of SAFe's Lean-Agile Mindset - is happening at
the Team Level?
A. Iteration Retrospective

B. Iteration Review

C. System Demo

D. Inspect & Adapt

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Question: 158

The actions that are planned to resolve inter-team dependencies are marked visually with different colour on the
program board, e.g red
A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: A

Question: 159

Who has design authority and prioritizes the architectural work at an ART level?
A. System Team

B. Enterprise Architect

C. RTE

D. System Architect

Answer: D

Question: 160

When is the first formal integration point among teams on the Agile Release Train (ART)?
A. I&A event

B. Integrated system demo

C. During the IP Iteration

D. Team demo

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Question: 161

Relevant stakeholders present the planning adjustments which are output of the management review and problem
solving meeting to the teams at the end of Day 2 of PI Planning
A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Answer: A

Question: 162

What is the output of the management review and problem solving meeting at the end of Day 1 of PI Planning?
A. PI Objectives

B. Refined and prioritized Program Backlog

C. Planning Adjustment to be communicated to the teams

D. Iteration Goal

Answer: C

Question: 163

What should the RTE do if impediments cannot be solved with the ART?
A. Nothing – the RTE is responsible only for the ART level

B. Hold a Scrum of Scrums event

C. Facilitate the escalation of impediments further beyond the ART

D. Add the impediments to the risk sheet and ROAM them

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Question: 164

What is ART sync event at program level?

A. Sync of all people on the ART

B. There is no such event in SAFe

C. Sync between the ScrumMasters and the Business Owners

D. Combined PO Sync and Scrum of Scrums

Answer: D

Question: 165

PI objectives do not need to be written down and verbal expression is enough

A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Answer: A

Question: 166

Uncommitted objectives are in the team plan and capacity

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: A

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 Question: 167

Which role is a servant leader for the ART?

A. Release Train Engineer

B. Scrum Master

C. Solution Train Engineer

D. Business Owner

Answer: A

Question: 168

What is the ROAM risk framework?

A. Resolved, Owned, Accepted, Mitigated

B. Risk, Opportunity, Alternative, Must

C. Realistic, Obsolete, Advanced, Moderate

D. Recent, Objective, Alarming, Medium

Answer: A

Question: 169

Whose primary responsibility is to finalize the Program Backlog for PI Planning?

A. Business Owners

B. RTE

C. System Architect

D. Product management

Answer: D

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 Question: 170

Who manages the Program backlog in SAFe?

A. Business Owners

B. RTE

C. Product Owner

D. Product Management

Answer: D

Question: 171

What does Accepted mean in the context of the ROAM risk framework?

A. nothing else can be done and the risk may interfere with the release

B. there is a plan to mitigate the risk

C. the risk has been addressed and is no longer a concern

D. someone has taken responsibility

Answer: A

Question: 172

The ART vision and events are established during which of the Tuckman stages?
A. Performing

B. Norming

C. Storming

D. Forming

Answer: D

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 Question: 173

PI Planning Retrospective is a long and elaborate event to ensure that all possible improvement actions are captured
A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Answer: A

Question: 174

What is the primary goal of PI Planning preparation?

A. To have every detailed planned in advance to save time during PI Planning event

B. To maximize the value of the interactions during the PI Planning event

C. To eliminate the need for exploration

D. To establish designs and solutions in advance

Answer: B

Question: 175

Which of the following is not one of the 5 dysfunctions of a team?

A. Fear of Conflict

B. Lack of Empathy

C. Absence of Trust

D. Lack of Commitment

Answer: B

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 Question: 176

Which of the following Kanban states are to the left of the Backlog column on the Program Kanban?
A. Funnel

B. Analyzing

C. Releasing

D. In Review

Answer: A,B

Question: 177

How many aspects / components form the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

A. seven

B. three

C. four

D. five

Answer: C

Question: 178

Which of the following are acceptable measures expressed by the M in the SMART model for PI Objectives?
A. quantitative measures

B. a range

C. descriptive measures

D. All of the above

Answer: D

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 Question: 179

Which of the below are consequences if there is no Definition of Done?

A. Lack of Consistency

B. Faster implementation

C. More difficult integration and lower maintainability

D. Unfinished work which leads to technical debt

Answer: A,C,D

Question: 180

Which of the following is not a primary responsibility of Product Management?

A. Facilitating PI Planning

B. Understanding the customer needs

C. Owning and managing the Program Backlog

D. Developing the Vision and Roadmap for the ART

Answer: A

Question: 181

How many people are typically into an ART?

A. ​10 to 25

B. ​250 to 300

C. ​50 to 125+

D. ​30 to 40

Answer: C

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 Question: 182

What happens if the teams need to rework their plans due to low confidence level after confidence vote?
A. ​This is one occasion when the timebox is less important than achieving alignment and the teams should take the
required time they need to rework the plan

B. The low confidence is marked as risk using ROAM and the PI starts as planned

C. ​The PI starts as expected as timebox is important to be fulfilled

D. ​The PI is cancelled

Answer: A

Question: 183

Which level of Definition of Done is concerned with capabilities completed by all trains meet acceptance criteria?
A. Team Increment DoD​

B. Solution Increment DoD

C. System Increment DoD

D. Portfolio Increment DoD​

Answer: B

Question: 184

Which of the below are not part of the CALMR approach to DevOps?
A. Measurement

B. ​Continuous Improvement

C. ​Automation

D. ​Lean Flow

Answer: B

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 Question: 185

The ___________ of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline is an Enabler that helps the RTE identify and remove bottlenecks
A. Pareto Analysis​

B. Fishbone analysis​

C. Value stream mapping

D. Process mapping​

Answer: C

Question: 186

Which component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline focuses on creating alignment on what needs to be built?
A. ​Continuous Integration

B. Continuous Deployment​

C. Continuous Exploration

D. Release On Demand

Answer: C

Question: 187

Who validates the program risks are outside of team control?

A. ​Business Owner

B. ​System Architect

C. ​Scrum Masters

D. ​RTE

Answer: D

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 Question: 188

How many are the SAFe Lean Agile principles?

A. ​twelve

B. ten

C. five

D. ​eight

Answer: B

Question: 189

How many teams typically form an ART?

A. 25-35

B. 3 to 5​

C. 15-20​

D. 5 to 12​

Answer: D

Question: 190

Which of the following is input for Iteration Planning?

A. ​Program Backlog

B. ​Team backlog

C. ​Program risks

D. ​PI Objectives

Answer: B

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 Question: 191

Which of the following is not a primary responsibility of the RTE?

A. ​Tracking and removing impediments for the ART

B. Managing the flow of value through the ART

C. ​Facilitating PI Planning

D. Understanding the customer needs

Answer: D

Question: 192

PI Objectives are following which format?

A. SMART

B. ROAM

C. ​STAR

D. WSJF

Answer: A

Question: 193

What are the consequences of not having IP iteration? (select 3 answers)

A. People burn out

B. Lack of innovation

C. Lack of delivery capacity buffer which impacts predictability

D. Technical debt increase

Answer: A,B,C

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 Question: 194

Which of the following is not an RTE tool used in preparation for PI Planning?
A. ​Facilities checklist

B. ​ART events calendar

C. ​Roadmap

D. ​PI Planning meeting template

Answer: C

Question: 195

How does the PI Planning first day begin?

A. With explanation of the business context

B. ​With Q & A session

C. ​With System Demo

D. ​With team breakouts

Answer: A

Question: 196

Which of the following is not responsibility of the System Team?

A. ​Supports and performs solution performance testing

B. ​Supports and performs end to end integration of the solution

C. ​Creates and maintains infrastructure

D. ​Prioritizes and manages the Enablers in the Program Backlog

Answer: D

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 Question: 197

The teams in the ART are synchronized on a common cadence called

A. Product Increment (PI)​

B. Program Increment (PI)​

C. Iteration​

D. Portfolio Increment (PI)

Answer: B

Question: 198

Which of the following have their own Definition of Done in SAFe? (Choose three)
A. Epic​

B. ​Team Increment

C. System Increment

D. Release

Answer: B,C,D

Question: 199

What is the correct sequence of the 4 stages of team development?

A. ​Forming, Norming, Storming, Performing

B. ​Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing

C. Storming, Forming, Norming, Performing

D. ​Storming, Norming, Forming, Performing

Answer: B

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 Question: 200

Which artifact aligns expectations among key ART roles, teams, and stakeholders regarding what 'done' actually means?
A. ​Definition of Ready

B. ​Acceptance Criteria

C. Functional Specification

D. ​Definition of Done

Answer: D

Question: 201

Who does the team demo to on the Team demo?

A. Business Owners

B. System Architect​

C. Product Owner

D. Enterprise Architect​

Answer: C

Question: 202

Which of the following events are facilitated by the RTE? (Choose three)
A. PI Planning

B. Scrum of Scrums

C. Iteration Retrospective

D. PO Sync

E. ART Sync

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Question: 203

Which artifact shows the sequence of inter-team dependencies for delivering the features?
A. SoS radiator​

B. Program Board

C. Team Kanban Board​

D. Release Burndown Chart

Answer: B

Question: 204

Which of the below is not part of the 8 behaviors of servant leaders?

A. Creates an environment of mutual influence

B. Understands and empathizes with others​

C. Persuades using authority​

D. Listens and supports teams in problem identification and decision-making​

Answer: C

Question: 205

Which of the following areas is the main concern of the RTE role?
A. ​Technology

B. Human Resource

C. Program Execution

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Answer: C

Question: 206

What is the main concern of having too much preparation for PI Planning?
A. ​The PI Planning event will become redundant

B. The PI Planning event will be too short to fill the typical timebox

C. ​People will get bored during PI Planning

D. This will reduce exploration and affect interaction and emergent design

Answer: D

Question: 207

Which of the following are inputs to the management review and problem solving meeting at the end of Day 1 of PI
Planning? (Choose three)
A. PI Risks

B. ​PI Objectives

C. ​ART

D. PI Problems

Answer: A,B,D

Question: 208

The Continuous Delivery Pipeline is part of which of the seven core competencies for business agility?
A. Team and Technical Agility​

B. Organizational Agility

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D. Agile Product Delivery

Answer: D

Question: 209

Which of the following is anti-patterns for the IP iteration?

A. Holding hackathons during the IP iteration

B. Working on infrastructure improvements during the IP iteration​

C. Planning work for the IP iteration during PI Planning

D. Working on innovation spikes during the IP iteration​

Answer: C

Question: 210

What is the risk framework recommended to be used for Program Risks?

A. STAR

B. ​SMART

C. ​ROAM

D. ​WSJF

Answer: C

Question: 211

Which of the following is recommended for the IP iteration?

A. Leaving integration of the whole system to the IP Iteration

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C. ​Working on innovation spikes, hackathons, and infrastructure improvements

D. ​Planning work for the IP Iteration in Pl Planning

Answer: C

Question: 212

Which component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline focuses on taking features from the Program backlog and
implementing them?
A. Release On Demand

B. ​Continuous Integration

C. ​Continuous Exploration

D. Continuous Deployment

Answer: B

Question: 213

When is the IP iteration?

A. ​The first iteration in the PI

B. ​Annually

C. Every second iteration is IP iteration

D. ​The last iteration in the PI

Answer: D

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 Question: 214

Which of the following is not a primary responsibility of the Business Owner?

A. Creating the Vision and the Roadmap for the ART

B. Assigning business value to PI objectives​

C. Communicating business objectives

D. Agreeing business objectives with key stakeholders on the train​

Answer: A

Question: 215

Which is the key problem from the 5 team dysfunctions which leads to the other 4?
A. Lack of Commitment​

B. Fear of Conflict​

C. Inattention to Results​

D. Absence of Trust

Answer: D

Question: 216

What is the timebox for daily standup meeting?

A. ​1 hour

B. 30 mins

C. ​15 mins

D. ​45 mins

Answer: C

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 Question: 217

In SAFe, to organize the teams around value, the teams are organized around.... (Choose two)
A. technical competencies

B. features

C. customers

D. ​components

Answer: B,D

Question: 218

DevOps is part of which Business Agility core competency?

A. Continuous Learning

B. Enterprise Solution Delivery

C. Lean-Agile Leadership

D. ​Agile Product Delivery

Answer: D

Question: 219

Who has the primary responsibility to assign business value to PI objectives?

A. ​Epic Owners

B. ​Product management

C. ​Business Owners

D. ​RTE

Answer: C

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 Question: 220

What is the output of the problem-solving workshop of the Inspect & Adapt event?
A. Actionable items for improvements

B. PI metrics sheet​

C. Detailed report of the PI

D. New program artifacts​

Answer: A

Question: 221

Which of the following is not responsibility of the RTE?

A. Fostering collaboration between the ART teams​

B. Removing impediments for the ART​

C. Removing team level impediments

D. Managing and optimizing the flow of value through the ART

Answer: C

Question: 222

Which artifact shows a series of areas representing the amount of work in the different Kanban states?
A. Lead time diagram

B. PI burndown chart​

C. Cumulative Flow Diagram

D. WIP Limits​

Answer: C

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 Question: 223

Which of the following is not a primary responsibility of the System Architect?

A. ​Fostering collaboration

B. ​Defining subsystems and interfaces

C. ​Fostering built-in quality

D. ​Supporting the implementation of Enablers

Answer: A

Question: 224

Which of the following are parts of the Inspect & Adapt event? (select 3 answers)
A. Problem-solving workshop

B. Confidence Voting​

C. Quantitative Measurement

D. PI System Demo

Answer: A,C,D

Question: 225

Which of the following is benefit from having Iteration Goals?

A. Alignment of team members and the Product Owner to the mission​

B. Providing context for understanding and addressing cross-team dependencies​

C. Alignment to the Program Increment Objectives

D. All of the above (all the other 3)

Answer: D

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 Question: 226

Which of the following are true for teams? (Choose two)

A. Teams work best when not interrupted

B. ​Teams are far more productive than the same number of individuals

C. Changes in team composition don't impact productivity

D. Peer pressure is a weak motivator

Answer: A,B

Question: 227

Which of the following is an indicator of whether achievements fall into an acceptable process control Band?
A. ​Program predictability measure

B. ​Cumulative Flow Diagram

C. ​PI burn down chart

D. Process Map

Answer: A

Question: 228

On which part of the Inspect & Adapt event the teams on the train work together to systematically address the larger
impediments that are limiting program velocity by using root cause analysis?
A. ​Confidence Voting

B. PI System Demo

C. ​Iteration Retrospective

D. ​Problem-solving workshop

Answer: D

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 Question: 229

Who is responsible for delivering solution value?

A. The System Architect

B. The RTE​

C. This is collective responsibility of the teams of the ART

D. The System Team​

Answer: C

Question: 230

What is the primary concern when prioritizing the Program Backlog?

A. ​Maximizing the customer value

B. ​Building the easiest solution

C. ​Developing team members T-shaped skills

D. ​Utilizing every skill set of the team

Answer: A

Question: 231

What is the timebox for the Inspect & Adapt event?

A. ​1-2 hours per PI

B. ​3-4 hours per PI

C. ​1 day per PI

D. ​4-6 hours per PI

Answer: B

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 Question: 232

Who accepts the final plan at the end of PI Planning?

A. Product management​

B. Senior management

C. RTE​

D. Business Owners

Answer: D

Question: 233

Which program level event is used to discuss problems or opportunities with feature development and to assess any
scope adjustments?
A. System Demo​

B. ART Sync​

C. ​PO Sync

D. Scrum of Scrums​

Answer: C

Question: 234

Which of the below are not part of the CALMR approach to DevOps?
A. Large batches

B. ​Measurement

C. ​Culture

D. Automation

Answer: A

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 Question: 235

What is displayed above each Kanban column of the Program Kanban and is used to improve flow?
A. ​Aggregated business value of the items in this column

B. ​Number of blocked issues

C. ​WIP limits

D. ​WSJF Score

Answer: C

Question: 236

During iteration execution there is a smaller PDCA cycle. Which meeting represents this?
A. Daily Standup

B. Iteration Review

C. ​Iteration Retrospective

D. System Demo

Answer: A

Question: 237

Which of the following are responsibility of the RTE? (Choose two)

A. ​Facilitating PI Planning

B. Tracking ART metrics

C. Removing team level impediments

D. ​Prioritizing the Program backlog

Answer: A,B

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 Question: 238

Which level of Definition of Done is concerned with stories completed by all teams in the ART are integrated?
A. ​Portfolio Increment DoD

B. ​System Increment DoD

C. Team Increment DoD

D. ​Solution Increment DoD

Answer: B

Question: 239

PI Objectives need to be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and?

A. Totally clear​

B. Time-bound

C. Testable​

D. Task-oriented​

Answer: B

Question: 240

How is the Program Backlog prioritized?

A. An economic balance of business features and enablers is sought

B. ​Enablers take preference

C. Long term architectural concerns take the highest priority

D. ​Business features take preference

Answer: A

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 Question: 241

What does the S in the SMART model for PI Objectives stand for?
A. Secondary

B. ​Solid

C. Special

D. ​Specific

Answer: D

Question: 242

Which of the following are SAFe Lean-Agile principles? (Choose two)

A. Unlock the extrinsic motivation of knowledge workers

B. Apply systems thinking

C. Visualize and limit WIP,increase batch sizes, and manage queue lengths

D. Assume variability; persevere options

Answer: B,D

Question: 243

Which of the following is not one of the SAFe Lean-Agile principles?

A. Organize around value

B. ​Apply design thinking

C. ​Take an economic view

D. ​Decentralize decision making

Answer: B

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 Question: 244

How long is typically the PI Planning event?

A. ​1 day

B. ​1 week

C. ​2 days

D. 4 hours

Answer: C

Question: 245

Which event helps the teams keep on track and facilitate early identification of risks?
A. ​Daily Scrum

B. Inspect and Adapt

C. ​IP iteration

D. ​Scrum of Scrums

Answer: D

Question: 246

Which ART event drives relentless improvement?

A. ​IP Iteration

B. ​PI Planning

C. PI System Demo

D. ​The ART Inspect and Adapt

Answer: D

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 Question: 247

Which team event expresses the “Check” step of the PDCA cycle?
A. Daily Standup

B. ​Iteration Planning

C. ​Iteration Retrospective

D. ​Team Demo

Answer: D

Question: 248

What is the primary goal of assigning business value to PI Objectives?

A. ​to help the teams on the train prioritize work

B. ​to have Business Owner buy-in

C. none of the above

D. to show economic impact to the customer

Answer: A

Question: 249

Who facilitates the management review and problem solving meeting at the end of Day 1 of PI Planning?
A. Business Owner​

B. RTE

C. System Architect​

D. Chief Product Owner

Answer: B

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 Question: 250

As the ART matures, teams typically migrate from __________ teams to ___________ teams
A. ​smaller, bigger

B. ​cross-functional, self-organizing

C. feature, component

D. ​component, feature

Answer: D

Question: 251

Which of the following is added to the Program Board during PI Planning?

A. All of the above

B. Features

C. Dependencies

D. Milestones

Answer: A

Question: 252

Which of the following are recommended approaches used to maximize velocity? (Choose two)
A. minimizing dependencies

B. compromising quality

C. maximizing hand-offs

D. minimizing hand-offs

Answer: A,D

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 Question: 253

In SAFe, what provides for cadence-based planning and is an estimating guard band for cadence-based delivery?
A. Inspect & Adapt

B. Iteration

C. IP Iteration

D. Iteration Review

Answer: C

Question: 254

Whose primary responsibility is to finalize the Program Backlog for PI Planning?

A. Product management

B. System Architect

C. Business Owners

D. RTE

Answer: A

Question: 255

Who has design authority and prioritizes the architectural work at an ART level?
A. RTE

B. Enterprise Architect

C. System Architect

D. System Team

Answer: C

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 Question: 256

Which of the following roles is not necessarily a servant leader?

A. Solution Train Engineer

B. Scrum Master

C. Line Manager

D. Release Train Engineer

Answer: C

Question: 257

What type of leader is the RTE?

A. Command and control

B. Servant

C. ​Strategic

D. ​Transformational

Answer: B

Question: 258

Which of the following areas is the main concern of Product Management?

A. Content Management

B. Human Resource

C. Program Execution

D. Technology

Answer: A

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 Question: 259

The number of items that can be finished per unit of time is called
A. throughput

B. cycle time

C. velocity

D. lead time

Answer: A

Question: 260

Which level of requirements are stored in the Program Backlog? (Choose two)
A. Enablers

B. Tasks

C. User stories​

D. Features

Answer: A,D

Question: 261

Which of the following are key program level events? (Choose three)
A. Business Owners Sync

B. ART Sync

C. PO Sync

D. ​Scrum of Scrums

Answer: B,C,D

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 Question: 262

How do Business Owners assign value to PI Objectives?

A. Using the Fibonacci sequence

B. In T shirt size

C. ​In monetary terms

D. On a scale from 1 to 10

Answer: D

Question: 263

Which of the below are consequences if there is no Definition of Done?

A. Lack of Consistency

B. Faster implementation

C. Unfinished work which leads to technical debt

D. More difficult integration and lower maintainability

Answer: A,C,D

Question: 264

Which component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline takes the changes from the staging environment and deploys them
to production?
A. Continuous Exploration

B. Continuous Deployment

C. Continuous Integration

D. Release On Demand

Answer: B

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 Question: 265

Which from the below are typical program measures of a cumulative flow diagram? (Choose three)
A. Business value

B. Lead time

C. WIP limits

D. Throughput

Answer: B,C,D

Question: 266

What is used to make process policies and decisions visible to the entire ART?
A. Program Kanban Board

B. Team Kanban Board

C. Solution Kanban Board

D. SoS Information Radiator

Answer: A

Question: 267

Which of the following is output of iteration planning?

A. Team PI Objectives

B. Iteration Goal

C. PI Objectives

D. Team Backlog

Answer: B

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 Question: 268

Which of the following is not one of the four stages which are characteristic for team development?
A. Performing

B. ​Forming

C. ​Storming

D. ​Integrating

Answer: D

Question: 269

When does management review and problem solving meeting take place in PI Planning?
A. At the beginning of Day 1​

B. At the beginning of Day 2

C. ​At the end of Day 1

D. At the end of Day 2

Answer: C

Question: 270

Which level of Definition of Done is concerned with user stories satisfying the acceptance criteria?
A. Portfolio Increment DoD

B. Solution Increment DoD

C. Team Increment DoD

D. System Increment DoD

Answer: C

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 Question: 271

What does the business value assigned to PI objective communicate?

A. the customer satisfaction of achieving the objective

B. the monetary gain of achieving the objective

C. the potential business impact of achieving the objective

D. the cost of achieving the objective

Answer: C

Question: 272

Which artifact shows the progress being made toward the Program Increment timebox?
A. Cumulative Flow Diagram

B. ​PI burndown chart

C. Lead time diagram

D. ​WIP Limits

Answer: B

Question: 273

Which Program Level event is used to create visibility into how well the ART is progressing toward meeting the program
Pl Objectives?
A. ART Sync

B. ​System Demo

C. ​PO Sync​

D. Scrum of Scrums

Answer: C

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 Question: 274

Which of the following areas is the main concern of the System Architect/Engineer?
A. Content Management

B. ​Human Resource

C. ​Technology

D. Program Execution

Answer: C

Question: 275

Where are the actions which are outcome of the problem-solving workshop during Inspect & Adapt stored?
A. in the risk sheet

B. in a database

C. ​in the program backlog

D. ​in the team backlog

Answer: C

Question: 276

Which of the following is not one of the 5 dysfunctions of a team?

A. Lack of Commitment

B. Lack of Empathy

C. Fear of Conflict

D. Absence of Trust

Answer: C

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 Question: 277

Which of the following maximizes the value delivered by the ART?

A. The System Team is a bottleneck for the ART

B. The Agile Teams on the ART take preference over the System Team

C. There needs to be a balance between the System Team and the Agile Teams on the Train

D. The System team takes preference over the Agile Teams on the ART

Answer: C

Question: 278

In SAFe the smallest cadence at which the team delivers potentially shippable work product is called ___
A. Program Increment

B. Portfolio Increment

C. Product Increment

D. ​Iteration

Answer: D

Question: 279

What is the output of the management review and problem solving meeting at the end of Day 1 of PI Planning?
A. Iteration Goal

B. Refined and prioritized Program Backlog

C. Planning Adjustment to be communicated to the teams

D. PI Objectives

Answer: C

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 Question: 280

Which program level event is focused on overall program execution and impediment escalation?
A. ART Sync

B. Scrum of Scrums

C. System Demo

D. PO Sync

Answer: B

Question: 281

Which meeting aligns all team members to the common goals of the team as defined by the Team PI Objectives?
A. Iteration Review

B. ​Iteration Planning

C. Iteration Retrospective

D. Inspect & Adapt​

Answer: B

Question: 282

The ART vision and events are established during which of the Tuckman stages?
A. Performing

B. Storming

C. Norming

D. Forming

Answer: D

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 Question: 283

What happens if during PI Planning the confidence vote of a team or overall is low?
A. ​Rework the plan

B. Mark the risk as Accepted, using ROAM

C. ​Do another confidence voting

D. ​Cancel the PI

Answer: A

Question: 284

How many aspects / components form the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

A. three

B. four

C. five

D. seven

Answer: B

Question: 285

Which role is a servant leader for the ART?

A. Release Train Engineer

B. Scrum Master

C. Solution Train Engineer

D. Business Owner

Answer: A

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 Question: 286

Which of the following is not a role at the ART level?

A. Product management​

B. Epic Owners

C. System team​

D. RTE​

Answer: B

Question: 287

Results are empirically reviewed at every System Demo and Pl Planning event and this helps to overcome which team
dysfunction?
A. Fear of Conflict

B. Lack of Commitment

C. Inattention to results

D. Absence of Trust

Answer: C

Question: 288

Which of the following is the recommended approach to create T-shaped skills on the ART?
A. Cross-training

B. Pair-programming

C. All of the above

D. Rotating team members between different teams

Answer: C

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 Question: 289

In which stage of team development the team resolves initial conflicts and difficulties in establishing a shared
understanding?
A. Forming

B. Storming

C. Performing

D. Norming

Answer: B

Question: 290

Which of the below are not part of the CALMR approach to DevOps?
A. Lean Flow

B. Measurement

C. Culture

D. Authentication

Answer: D

Question: 291

What should the RTE do if impediments cannot be solved with the ART?
A. Hold a Scrum of Scrums event

B. Add the impediments to the risk sheet and ROAM them

C. Nothing – the RTE is responsible only for the ART level

D. Facilitate the escalation of impediments further beyond the ART

Answer: D

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 Question: 292

What is ART sync event at program level?

A. Combined PO Sync and Scrum of Scrums

B. Sync between the ScrumMasters and the Business Owners

C. Sync of all people on the ART

D. There is no such event in SAFe

Answer: A

Question: 293

Which team event ensures that relentless improvement - one of the pillars of SAFe's Lean-Agile Mindset - is happening at
the Team Level?
A. Iteration Review

B. Iteration Retrospective

C. Inspect & Adapt

D. System Demo

Answer: B

Question: 294

At which Tuckman stage the ART is established as a community?

A. ​Performing

B. ​Norming

C. Storming

D. ​Forming

Answer: B

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 Question: 295

What is the PDCA cycle?

A. ​Prepare, Do, Check, Adjust

B. ​Plan, Do, Check, Adjust

C. Prepare, Do, Check, Accept

D. ​Plan, Do, Check, Accept

Answer: B

Question: 296

When is the first formal integration point among teams on the Agile Release Train (ART)?
A. During the IP Iteration

B. Team demo

C. Integrated system demo

D. I&A event

Answer: C

Question: 297

Which of the following roles are involved into the preparation of the Program Backlog for PI Planning? (Choose two)
A. RTE

B. ​Product management

C. Enterprise Architect

D. ​Epic Owners

Answer: A,B

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 Question: 298

Which of the following is not true for the RTE role?

A. coaches the teams

B. influences without authority

C. directs and manages the teams

D. ​uses empathy

Answer: C

Question: 299

What is shown on the horizontal axis of the Pl burn-down chart?

A. Story Points

B. Team names

C. Kanban states

D. ​Iterations

Answer: D

Question: 300

Who attends the Scrum of Scrums? (Choose two)

A. Product Owners​

B. RTE

C. Scrum Master representatives from each team

D. System Architect

Answer: C,D

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