SAFe Practice Exam
The Agile Release Train uses which type of teams to get work done?
Cross-functional teams
Lifelong learning is a requirement for Lean-Agile Leaders, and it helps them do what?
Demonstrate the values they want the teams to embody (pg 157)
What are three components of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
Continuous Deployment Continuous Integration Continuous Exploration
The Agile Release Train passes through four steps in order to deliver Solutions which includes: defining new functionality, implementing, acceptance testing, and what else?
Deploying
Which statement is true about DevOps?
DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between development and operations
*What is the recommended way to express a Feature or Capability?
Feature and benefit statement
Which three items are found on a Program board?
Features Significant dependencies Milestones
Which statement describes aspects of the team's commitment during PI Planning?
A team does not commit to stretch objectives
What is considered an anti-pattern when assigning business values to Team PI Objectives?
A value of 10 given to all of the PI Objectives
On day two of PI Planning, adjustments are made by the group based on the previous day's management review and problem solving meeting. What are three possible types of changes?
Business priorities Movement of people Changes to scope
Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
What should the team focus on in order to optimize flow?
Delays
What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making to the customer?
Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time
What is a minimum viable improvement step for implementing a Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
Eliminate inter-Iteration waterfalls
How often should System Demos occur in the default SAFe cadence?
Every 2 weeks
Implementing SAFe requires buy-in from all levels of the organization. What level of leadership is most important for effecting cultural change?
Executive Management
When basing decisions on economics, how are cycle time, product cost, value, and development expense used?
Identify different parameters of the economic framework * updated to cost of delay (pg 36)
During Inspect and Adapt, teams identified a large number of action items aimed at solving their biggest problem as a train. How should the team proceed?
Identify two or three improvement items and load them into the Program Backlog
The House of Lean is a classic metaphor describing the mindset essential for Lean thinking. Which one of the four pillars advocates a "Get out of the office" mindset?
Innovation
What does the Program Roadmap do in the Scaled Agile Framework?
It communicates the delivery of Features over a near term timeline
Which two statements are true about DevOps?
It reduces risk and improves innovation by making it safer to experiment It lessens the severity and frequency of release failures
Which two statements describe a Capability?
It remains complete and becomes a Feature for implementation It must be structured to fit within a single PI
What is the focus of the Daily Stand-up meeting?
Iteration goals versus what got done
The SAFe Implementation Roadmap is based on what?
Large Solution implementations based on the SAFe Framework
What is the foundation of the SAFe House of Lean?
Leadership (page 23)
What is the recommended frequency for updating Lean budget distribution?
On Demand - PI (page 191)
During the final plan review, Program risks are addressed using ROAM. What do the letters in ROAM represent?
Owned, Mitigated, Resolved, Accepted
What are two of the Agile Release Train Sync meetings?
PO Sync Scrum of Scrums
Who has content authority to make decisions at the user story level during PI Planning?
Product Owner
What are the first three steps of the SAFe Implementation Roadmap?
Reach the tipping point, train Lean-Agile change agents, and then train executives, managers and leaders
Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
Responding to change over following a plan
Which role accepts Capabilities as complete?
Solution Management
Which statement describes the connection between Features and Capabilities in a large Solution?
Some Features may not have parent Capabilities
What is the recommended way to estimate Epics?
Split an Epic into potential Features, estimate each potential Feature in normalized story points, and add up the estimates
What must management do for a successful Agile transformation?
Strive to think of adoption as an area they can control
Product Management has content authority over Features. What do Product Owners have content authority over?
Team Backlog
What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe?
Teams align their iterations to the same schedule to support communication, coordination, and system integration
Peter Drucker defines knowledge workers as individuals who know more about the work they perform than who?
Their bosses (pg 161)
Which statement is true about the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?
There is a risk that the tyranny of the urgent outweighs all innovation activities
Which statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes?
They are business objectives that connect the SAFe Portfolio to the Enterprise business strategy (pg 177)
In the Program Kanban some of steps have Work-in-Process limits. Why is this necessary?
To help continuous deployment- to enable flow in pull based system
What is one benefit of unlocking the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers?
To provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints
What are the three primary keys to implementing flow?
Visualize and limit Work-in-Process Reduce the batch sizes of work Manage queue lengths
When is Pre-PI Planning needed?
When multiple Agile Release Trains working on the same Solution need to align and coordinate
Which statement fits with the SAFe Core Value of Built-in Quality?
You cannot scale crappy code
