SAFe Practice Exam Flashcards

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

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

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D.) Teams align their Iterations to the same schedule to support communication, coordination, and system integration

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

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

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A.) You cannot scale crappy code

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Which of the core competencies of the Lean Enterprise helps align strategy and execution?

A.) Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering
B.) Lean Portfolio Management
C.) Team and Technical Agility
D.) DevOps and Release on Demand

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B.) Lean Portfolio Management

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What is the impact of Customer Centricity?

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

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D.) To understand the Customer’s needs

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

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

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C.) All PI Objectives are given a value of 10

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What is one component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

A.) Continuous Improvement
B.) Continuous Cadence
C.) Continuous Planning
D.) Continuous Exploration

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D.) Continuous Exploration

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Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?

A.) Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
B.) Respond to change
C.) Respect for people and culture
D.) Limit Work In Process (WIP)

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B.) Respond to change

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What is one benefit of unlocking the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers?

A.) To lower Work in Process (WIP) limits
B.) To provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints
C.) To strive to achieve a state of continuous flow
D.) To centralize decision-making

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B.) To provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints

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What is part of the role of Product Management?

A.) To assign business value to Features
B.) To prioritize the Program Backlog
C.) To facilitate backlog refinement sessions
D.) To prioritize Enablers

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B.) To prioritize the Program Backlog

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The Agile Release Train (ART) uses which type of teams to get work done?

A.) Management Teams
B.) Solution Teams
C.) Phased-review-process Teams
D.) Cross-functional Teams

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D.) Cross-functional Teams

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In the Program Kanban some steps have work in process (WIP) limits. Why is this necessary?

A.) To ensure large queues are not being built
B.) To keep timebox goals
C.) To enable multitasking
D.) To help Continuous Deployment

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A.) To ensure large queues are not being built

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Which statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes?

A.) They are business objectives that connect the SAFe portfolio to the Enterprise business strategy
B.) They are large initiatives managed in the Portfolio Kanban that require weighted shortest job first prioritization and a lightweight business case
C.) They are a high level summary of each program’s Vision and are updated after every Program Increment (PI)
D.) They are requirements that span Agile Releast Trains (ARTs) but must fit within a single Program Increment (PI)

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A.) They are business objectives that connect the SAFe portfolio to the Enterprise business strategy

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How does SAFe provide a second operating system that enables Business Agility?

A.) By building up large departments and matrixed organizations to support rapid growth
B.) By creating stability and hierarchy
C.) By achieving economies of scale
D.) By focusing on customers, products, innovation, and growth

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D.) By focusing on customers, products, innovation, and growth

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If a program repeatedly shows separate Feature branches rather than a true System Demo, which practice should be reviewed to address the issue?

A.) Scrum of scrums
B.) Roadmap creation
C.) Continuous Integration
D.) Test first

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C.) Continuous Integration

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What is the basic building block when organizing around value?

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

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C.) Agile Teams

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Which statement is true about DevOps?

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

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C.) DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between development and operations

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What can be used to script the change to SAFe?

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

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D.) The Implementation Roadmap

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What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making?

A.) Ensuring strategic decisions are not made in a vacuum
B.) Removing accountability from leaders
C.) Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time
D.) Creating better visualization

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C.) Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time

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How is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed?

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

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D.) In the Portfolio Kanban

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What is the Foundation of the SAFe House of Lean?

A.) Flow
B.) Leadership
C.) Relentless Improvement
D.) Value

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B.) Leadership

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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.) Create new User Stories
C.) Adjust business priorities
D.) Change a team’s plan

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C.) Adjust business priorities

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

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

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A.) Manage queue lengths

C.) Reduce the batch sizes of work

D.) Visualize and limit work in process (WIP)

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

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

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D.) SAFe Implementation Roadmap

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Who has content authority to make decisions at the User Story level during Program Increment (PI) Planning?

A.) Agile Team
B.) Scrum Masters
C.) Release Train Engineer (RTE)
D.) Product Owner

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D.) Product Owner

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

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

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A.) Team Backlog

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What must management do for a successful Agile transformation?

A.) Strive to think of adoption as an area they can control
B.) Commit to quality and be the change agent in the system
C.) Send someone to represent management, and then delegate tasks to these individuals
D.) Change Scrum Masters in the team every two weeks

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B.) Commit to quality and be the change agent in the system

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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

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D.) Innovation

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Which is an aspect of systems thinking?

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

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D.) Optimizing a component does not optimize the system

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What is found on a program board?

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

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D.) Features

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What is one Guardrail on Lean Budget spend?

A.) Continuous Business Owner engagement
B.) Participatory budgeting
C.) Spending caps for each Agile Release Train (ART)
D.) Learning Milestones as objective measurements

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A.) Continuous Business Owner engagement

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

A.) Launch trains, Coach Agile Release Train (ART) 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 (ARTs), Extend to the portfolio
D.) Launch more Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and Value Streams, Extend to the portfolio, Accelerate

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D.) Launch more Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and Value Streams, Extend to the portfolio, Accelerate

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What is one issue when organizing around hierarchical functions?

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

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B.) It is not how value flows

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

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

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B.) Anchor new approaches in the culture

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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

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C.) To identify different parameters of the economic framework

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

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

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D.) System Demo

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

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

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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.) Desireability
B.) Sustainability
C.) Reliability
D.) Marketability
E.) Scalability

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A.) Desireability
B.) Sustainability

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Which statement is true about the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?

A.) It is used annually when the team needs to refocus on work processes
B.) The Scrum Master can decide if the IP Iteration is necessary
C.) Without the IP Iteration, there is a risk that the ‘tyrrany of the urgent’ outweighs all innovation activities
D.) It is used as a weekly sync point between the Scrum Masters

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C.) Without the IP Iteration, there is a risk that the ‘tyrrany of the urgent’ outweighs all innovation activities

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What is Business Agility?

A.) The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business Solutions.
B.) A customer-centric approach to defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services to customers and users.
C.) 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.
D.) Applying Lean-Agile principles and practices to the specification, development, deployment, operation, and evolution of the world’s largest and most sophisticated systems.

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

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Which statement is a principle of the Agile Manifesto?

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

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D.) Simplicity “the art of maximizing the amount of work not done” is essential