Practice Exam Flashcards by Christoph Bissig

What is the best measure of progress for complex system development?

(A) Inspect and Adapt
(B) System Demo
(C) Prioritized backlog
(D) Iteration Review

(B) System Demo

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How is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed?

(A) In the Program Kanban
(B) In the Portfolio Kanban
(C) In the Program Backlog
(D) In the Portfolio Backlog

(B) In the Portfolio Kanban

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

(A) SAFe Principles
(B) SAFe House of Lean
(C) SAFe Implementation Roadmap
(D) SAFe Core Values

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

(A) Increase capacity
(B) Manage queue lengths
(C) Reduce the batch sizes of work
(D) Address the systemic problems
(E) Frequent context switching
(F) Visualize and limit work in process (WIP)

(B) Manage queue lengths
(C) Reduce the batch sizes of work
(F) Visualize and limit work in process (WIP)

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What is found on a program board?

(A) User Stories
(B) Epics
(C) Tasks
(D) Features

(D) Features

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What is used to capture the current state of the Portfolio and a primer to the future state?

(A) Portfolio Backlog
(B) Portfolio Kanban
(C) Portfolio Vision
(D) Portfolio Canvas

(D) Portfolio Canvas

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

(A) Scalability
(B) Desirability
(C) Marketability
(D) Sustainability
(E) Reliability

(B) Desirability

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When basing decisions on economics, how are lead time, product cost, value, and development expense used?

(A) To limit work in process (WIP) through the system
(B) To take into account sunk costs
(C) To identify different parameters of the economic framework
(D) To recover money already spent

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

(A) Teams allow batch sizes across multiple intervals
(B) Teams decide their own Iteration length
(C) Teams align their Iterations to the same schedule to support communication, coordination, and system integration
(D) Teams meet twice every Program Increment (PI) to plan and schedule capacity

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What are the last three steps of the SAFe Implementation Roadmap?

(A) Launch trains, coach Agile Release Train execution, train executives and managers
(B) Train Lean-Agile change agents, extend to the portfolio, accelerate
(C) Train Lean-Agile change agents, identify Value Streams and Agile Release Trains, extend to the portfolio
(D) Launch more Agile Release Trains and Value Streams, extend to the portfolio, accelerate

(D) Launch more Agile Release Trains and Value Streams, extend to the portfolio, accelerate

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What is the foundation of the SAFe House of Lean?

(A) Value
(B) Leadership
(C) Flow
(D) Relentless improvement

(B) Leadership

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What is one of the Agile Release Train sync meetings?

(A) Scrum of scrums
(B) Solution Demo
(C) Iteration Review
(D) Iteration Retrospective

(A) Scrum of scrums

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

(A) Portfolio Vision
(B) Portfolio Backlog
(C) Team Backlog
(D) Value Streams

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Which statement correctly describes one aspect of the team’s commitment at the end of PI Planning?

(A) A team commits to all the Stories they put on their PI plan
(B) A team commits to all the Features they put on the program board
(C) A team does not commit to uncommitted objectives
(D) A team commits only to the PI Objectives with the highest business value

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Which statement is a principle of the Agile Manifesto?

(A) Simplicity “the art of maximizing the amount of work not done” is essential
(B) Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths
(C) Measure everything
(D) Respect for people and culture

(A) Simplicity “the art of maximizing the amount of work not done” is essential

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Which is an aspect of systems thinking?

(A) Optimizing a component does not optimize the system
(B) Mastery drives intrinsic motivation
(C) Cadence makes routine everything that can be routine
(D) The length of the queue impacts the wait time

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(A) Optimizing a component does not optimize the system
(C) Cadence makes routine everything that can be routine

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What can be used to script the change to SAFe?

(A) The portfolio canvas
(B) The Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) charter
(C) The Program Kanban
(D) The Implementation Roadmap

(D) The Implementation Roadmap

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Which statement fits with the SAFe Core Value of Built-in Quality?

(A) Quality is not part of the SAFe Core Values
(B) Quality should only be worked on during the Innovation and Planning Iteration
(C) You cannot scale crappy code
(D) Quality depends on the scale of the project and should be implemented from the top down

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What is the impact of Customer Centricity?

(A) To interpret market rhythms
(B) To build small, partial systems just in time
(C) To understand the Customer’s needs
(D) To design custom-built Customer Solutions

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What is the last step in Kotter’s approach to change management?

(A) Generate short-term wins
(B) Sustain and improve
(C) Anchor new approaches in the culture
(D) Consolidate gains and produce more wins

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What is a minimum 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 prototype that can be used to explore user needs
(D) A minimal version of a new product used to test a hypothesis

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(D) A minimal version of a new product used to test a hypothesis

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

(A) Business Owners assigning the business value
(B) Assigning business values to uncommitted objectives
(C) All PI Objectives are given a value of 10
(D) Business Owners assign high values to important Enabler work

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What is the basic building block when organizing around value?

(A) Agile Release Trains
(B) Hierarchies
(C) Individuals
(D) Agile Teams

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(D) Agile Teams

What is one issue when organizing around hierarchical functions?

(A) It creates Agile business teams
(B) It is not how value flows
(C) It reduces political tensions
(D) It moves the decision to where the information is

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(B) It is not how value flows

What is one component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline? (A) Continuous Cadence (B) Continuous Exploration (C) Continuous Improvement (D) Continuous Planning

(B) Continuous Exploration

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

In the Program Kanban some steps have work in process (WIP) limits. Why is this necessary? (A) To keep timebox goals (B) To enable multitasking (C) To help Continuous Deployment (D) To ensure large queues are not being built

(D) To ensure large queues are not being built

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) Respect for people and culture (C) Relentless improvement (D) Innovation

(D) Innovation

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

(D) They are business objectives that connect the SAFe portfolio to the Enterprise business strategy

Which two statements are true about uncommitted objectives? (Choose two.) (A) The work to deliver the uncommitted objectives is not planned into the iterations during PI Planning (B) Uncommitted objectives are not included in the team's commitment (C) Uncommitted objectives help improve predictability (D) Uncommitted objectives are extra things the team can do in case they have time (E) Uncommitted objectives do not get assigned a planned business value score

(B) Uncommitted objectives are not included in the team's commitment (C) Uncommitted objectives help improve predictability

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

(A) Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time

What must management do for a successful Agile transformation? (A) Commit to quality and be the change agent in the system (B) Change Scrum Masters in the team every two weeks (C) Send someone to represent management, and then delegate tasks to these individuals (D) Strive to think of adoption as an area they can control

(A) Commit to quality and be the change agent in the system

Who has content authority to make decisions at the User Story level during Program Increment (PI) Planning? (A) Agile Team (B) Product Owner (C) Release Train Engineer (D) Scrum Masters

(B) Product Owner

Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto? (A) Respond to change (B) Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles (C) Limit work in process (D) Respect for people and culture

(A) Respond to change

Which two quality practices apply to Agile teams? (Choose two.) ``` (A) Peer review and pairing (B) Decentralized decision-making (C) Establishing flow (D) Using nonfunctional requirements (E) Providing architectural runway ```

(A) Peer review and pairing | (D) Using nonfunctional requirements

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 the length of the PI (B) Change a team's plan (C) Adjust business priorities (D) Create new User Stories

The Agile Release Train uses which type of teams to get work done? (A) Management teams (B) Phased-review-process teams (C) Cross-functional teams (D) Solution teams

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

(B) DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between development and operations

How does SAFe provide a second operating system that enables Business Agility? (A) By focusing on customers, products, innovation, and growth (B) By creating stability and hierarchy (C) By building up large departments and matrixed organizations to support rapid growth (D) By achieving economies of scale

(A) By focusing on customers, products, innovation, and growth

If a program repeatedly shows separate Feature branches rather than a true System Demo, which practice should be reviewed to address the issue? (A) Roadmap creation (B) Test first (C) Continuous Integration (D) Scrum of scrums

Which of the core competencies of the Lean Enterprise helps align strategy and execution? (A) DevOps and Release on Demand (B) Team and Technical Agility (C) Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering (D) Lean Portfolio Management

(D) Lean Portfolio Management

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) Without the IP Iteration, there is a risk that the 'tyranny of the urgent' outweighs all innovation activities (C) It is used annually when the team needs to refocus on work processes (D) The Scrum Master can decide if the IP Iteration is necessary

(B) Without the IP Iteration, there is a risk that the 'tyranny of the urgent' outweighs all innovation activities

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

(C) The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business Solutions.

What is one Guardrail on Lean Budget Spend? (A) Spending caps for each Agile Release Train (B) Participatory budgeting (C) Learning Milestones as objective measurements (D) Continuous Business Owner engagement

(B) Participatory budgeting

What is part of the role of Product Management? (A) To prioritize the Program Backlog (B) To assign business value to Features (C) To prioritize Enablers (D) To facilitate backlog refinement sessions

(A) To prioritize the Program Backlog

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