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What is one responsibility of an Agile team?
a) Define and accept stories
b) Attends scrum of scrum meetings
c) Develop and commit to team PI Objectives and iteration plans
d) Works with product management to plan PI

c

Which competency of Lean enterprises helps align strategy and execution?
a) Lean portfolio management
b) Dev ops and release on demand
c) team and technical agility
d) busines solutions and legal systems eng.

a

What are the three configurations of the Scaled Agile Framework?
a) value stream, program, team
b) essential large solution, portfolio
c)framework, delivery, iteration
d) epic, feature, story

b

What is one core value of SaFe?
a) yearly commitment
b)accountability
c)built-in-quality
d)objective milestones

c

Which statement is one of the Values of the Agile Manifesto?
a) responding to change over following a plan
b)respect for people and culture
c) building incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
d)Limit work in progress

a

What is an Agile Release Train (ART)?
a) fix organization of teams
b)a virtual organization of agile teams
c) project teams
d) development teams

b

The Agile Release Team (ART) uses which type of agile teams to deliver work in increments?
a) cross- functional teams
b) phase gate teams
c) solution teams
d) management teams

a

What is one effect of Customer Centricity?
a)to understand the customer's needs and create positive customer experiences
b) to build small, partial systems just in time
c) to design custom-built customer solutions
d) to interpret market rhythms

a

The work for Agile Release Train (ART) is represented as:
a) product vision
b) features
c) stories
d) product backlog

b

In WSFJ what are the three components to Cost of Delay (CoD)? Choose three
a) return on investment
b) job size
c) risk reduction/opportunity enablement
d) marketability
e)user business value
f) time criticality

c, e, f

What is the role of release train engineer?
a) to coach teams to improve their results
b) to ensure the technical integrity of all development
c) to serve as a Scrum Master of the Agile Release Train
d) to serve as the content authority at the Program Level

c

***Product management has content authority over the Program Backlog. What do Product Owners have content authority over?
a) portfolio backlog
b) portfolio vision
c) value streams
d) team backlog

d

**Which statement correctly describes one aspect of the team's commitment at the end of PI planning?
a) a team does not commit to uncommitted objectives
b) a team commits to all the stories they put on their PI plan
c) a team commits only to the PI Objectives with the highest business value
d) a team commits to all the Features they put on the program board

a

What must management do for a successful Agile transformation?
a) send someone to represent management, and then delegate tasks to these individuals
b) change scrum masters in team every two weeks
c) strive to think of adoption as an area they can control
d) commit to quality and be the change agent in the system

d

***When basing decisions on economics, how are lead time, product cost, value and development expense used?
a) to recover money already spent
b) to take into account sunk costs
c) to identify different parameters of the economic framework
d) to limit work in process (WIP) through the system

c

What is the foundation of the SaFe House of Lean?
a) leadership
b)relentless improvement
c) flow
d) value

a

What is the basic building block when organizing around value?
a) hierarchies
b) individuals
c) agile release trains
d) agile teams

d

What are the three primary keys to implementing flow? choose three.
a) manage queue lengths
b) reduce the batch sizes of work
c) address the systemic problems
d) visualize and limit work in process (WIP)
e) increase capacity
f) frequent context switching

a, b, d

**Which is an aspect of systems thinking?
a) the length of the queue impacts wait time
b) cadence makes routine everything that can be routine
c) mastery drives intrinsic motivation
d) optimizing a component does not optimize the system

d

***Which two quality practices apply to Agile teams? choose two.
a) peer review and pairing
b) decentralized decision- making
c) providing architectural runway
d) using nonfunctional requirements
e) establishing flow

a, e

In the Program Kanban some steps have WIP limits. Why is this necessary?
a) to enable multitasking
b) to help Continuous Deploymen t
c) to keep timebox goals
d) to ensure large queues are not being built

d

Which statement fits with the SaFe Core Value of Built-in-Quality?
a) quality is not part of the SaFe core values
b) quality depends on the scale of the project and should be implemented from the top down
c) you cannot scale crappy code
d) quality should only be worked on during the Innovation and Planning Iteration

c

**Which statement is a principle of the Agile Manifesto?
a) simplicity "the art of maximizing the amount of work not done" is essential
b) respect for people and culture
c) measure everything
d) visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths

a

**What is the last step in Kotter's approach to change management?
a) anchor new approaches in the culture
b) generate short term wins
c) consolidate gains and produce more wins
d) sustain and improve

a

If a program repeatedly shows separate Feature branches rather than a true System Demo, which practice should be reviewed to address the issue?
a) test first
b) roadmap creation
c) scrum of scrums
d) continuous integration

d

**The House of Lean is a classic metaphor describing the mindset essential for Lean thinking. Which one of the four pillars advocates a 'Go See' mindset?
a) Flow
b) Innovation
c) respect for people and culture
d) relentless improvement

b

How is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed?
a) program kanban
b) portfolio backlog
c) program backlog
d) portfolio kanban

d

The Agile Release Train uses which type of teams to get work done?
a) cross- functional teams
b) solutions teams
c) phased-review-process teams
d) management teams

a

Who has content authority to make decisions at the User Story level during Program Increment (PI) Planning?
a) release train engineer
b) scrum masters
c) product owner
d) agile team

c

**What is part of the role of Product Management?
a) to prioritize the program backlog
b) to assign business value to Features
c) to facilitate backlog refinement sessions
d) to prioritize enablers

a

***What are the last three steps of the SaFe Implementation Roadmap?
a) train lean-agile change agents, identify value streams and agile release trains, extend to the portfolio
b) launch more agile release trains and value streams, extend to the portfolio, accelerate
c) train lean-agile change agents, extend to the portfolio, accelerate
d) launch trains, coach agile release train execution, train executives and managers

b

**What is found on a program board?
a) User Stories
b) Tasks
c) Epics
d) Features

d

What can be used to script the change to SaFe?
a) the lean-agile center of excellence (LACE) charter
b) the implementation roadmap
c)the portfolio canvas
d) the program kanban

b

**What is the minimum viable product?
a) a prototype that can be used to explore user needs
b) a minimal product that can be built to achieve market dominance
c) a minimal version of a new product used to test a hypothesis
d) a minimal Story a team can deliver in an iteration

c

**Design Thinking identifies at least four new ways to measure success. What are two of those ways?
a) marketability
b) scalability
c) reliability
d) sustainability
e) desirability

d, e

How does SaFe provide a second operating system that enables Business Agility?
a) by achieving economies of scale
b) by building up large departments and matrixed organizations to support rapid growth
c) by focusing on customers, products, innovation, and growth
d) by creating stability and hierarchy

c

**What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SaFe?
a) teams align their iterations to the same schedule to support communication, coordination, and system integration
b) teams meet twice every Program Increment (PI) to plan and schedule capacity
c) teams allow batch sizes across multiple intervals
d) teams decide their own Iteration length

a

What is Business Agility?
a) How lean-thinking people and agile teams optimize their business processes, evolve strategy with clear and decisive new commitments, and quickly adapt the organzation as needed to capitalize on new opportunities
b) a customer-centric approach to defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services to customers and users
c) Applying lean-agile principles and practices to the specification, development, deployment, operation, and evolution of the world's largest and most sophisticated systems.
d) the ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business Solutions

d

On day two of PI Planning, management presents adjustments based on the previous day's management review and problem solving meeting. What is one possible type of adjustment they could make?
a) adjust business priorities
b) adjust the length of the PI
c) change a team's plan
d) create new User Stories

a

**What is the impact of Customer Centricity?
a) to design custom-built Customer Solutions
b) to understand the Customer's needs
c) to interpret market rhythms
d) to build small, partial systems just in line

b

What is one issue when organizing around hierarchical functions?
a) it moves the decision to where the information is
b) it creates Agile business teams
c) it is not how value flows
d) it reduces political tensions

c

**What is used to capture the current state of the Portfolio and a primer to the future state?
a) Portfolio Kanban
b) Portfolio Backlog
c) Portfolio Canvas
d) Portfolio Vision

c

**Which two statements are true about uncommitted objectives?
a) uncommitted objectives help improve predictability
b) uncommitted objectives are not included in the team's commitment
c) uncommitted objectives are extra things the team can do in case they have time
d) uncommitted objectives do not get assigned a planned business value score
e) the work to deliver the uncommitted objectives is not planned into the iterations during PI Planning

a, b

**What is the best measure of progress for complex system development?
a) Iteration Review
b) System Demo
c) Prioritized Backlog
d) Inspect and Adapt

b

What is one benefit of unlocking the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers?
a) to provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints
b) to centralize decision - making
c) to lower work in process (WIP) limits
d) to strive to achieve a state of continuous flow

a

Which statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes?
a) They are business objectives that connect the SaFe portfolio to the Enterprise business strategy
b) They are a high- level summary of each program's Vision and are updated after every PI
c) They are requirements that span Agile Release Trains but must fit within a single Program Increment
d) They are large initiatives managed in the Portfolio Kanban that require weighted shortest job first prioritization and a lightweight business case

a

What is considered an anti-pattern when assigning business values to team PI Objectives?
a) business owners assigning the business value
b) All PI Objectives are given a value of 10
c) Business Owners assign high values to important Enabler work
d) Assigning business values to uncommitted objectives

b

Which of the core competencies of the Lean Enterprise helps aligns strategy and execution?
a) business solutions and lean systems engineering
b) DevOps and Release on Demand
c) Team and Technical Agility
d) Lean Portfolio Management

d

Which statement is true about DevOps?
a) Lean- Agile principles are not necessary for a successful DevOps implementation
b) DevOps automation of testing reduces the holding cost
c) Measurements are not a top priority for DevOps
d) DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between development and operations

d

What is one of the Agile Release Train sync meetings?
a) Iteration Review
b) Scrum of scrums
c) Iteration Retrospective
d) Solution Demo

b

**What is one component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
a) Continuous Improvement
b) Continuous Exploration
c) Continuous Cadence
d) Continuous Planning

b

**What is one Guardrail on Lean Budget spend?
a) Spending caps for each Agile Release Train
b) Learning Milestones as objective measurements
c) Participatory budgeting
d) Continuous Business Owner engagement

d

**Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
a) Limit work in progress
b) Respond to change
c) Respect for people and culture
d) Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles

b

What can be used as a template for putting SaFe into practice within an organization?
a) SaFe Core Values
b) SaFe Implementation Roadmap
c) SaFe House of Lean
d) SaFe Principles

b

What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making?
a) Ensuring strategic decisions are not made in a vacuum
b) Creating better visualization
c) Removing accountability from leaders
d) Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time

d

Which statement is true about the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?
a) It is used as a weekly sync point between the Scrum Masters
b) It is used annually when the team needs to refocus on work processes
c) Without the IP Iteration, there is a risk that the 'tyranny of the urgent' outweighs all innovation activities
d) The Scrum Master can decide if the IP Iteration is necessary

c

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