SAFe Scrum Master Practice Test
According to the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, what is a team's ultimate competitive advantage? - Transparency - Teamwork - Accountability - Commitment
- Teamwork
Who is responsible for prioritizing the iteration backlog?
- The product owner
When does the plan-do-check-adjust cycle occur in scrum? - at the iteration review -in the daily scrum - at all formal scrum events - as part of the iteration retrospective
- at all formal scrum events
Good coaches do not give people the answer, but instead they do what? - They hold them to their commitments - They make the decisions - They guide people to the solution - they limit the number of questions
- They guide people to the solution
Why do teams have an iteration Retrospective?
- To Adjust and identify ways to improve
Who commits to the plan at the end of iteration planning? - team - scrum master - product owner - solution owner
team
What three attributes summarize DevOps? - A shared culture - A set of technical practices - A high performing devOps team - Strong organizational structure - A mindset - Combined deployment and release
- A shared culture - A set of technical practices - A mindset
Features lend themselves to the Lean UX process model. hey include a description, benefit hypothesis, ?? - Scope and context - Content readiness - Acceptance criteria - IP outcomes
- Acceptance criteria
Who can change the backlog during an iteration? - Agile Team - Scrum master - Release Train Engineer - Senior Management
- Agile Team
During PI planning who owns the planning of stories into iterations? - Agile teams - product management -system architect -scrum master
- Agile teams
An effective SAFe scrum master helps the team improve on their journey towards excellence through continuous integration, continuous development and what else? - Continuous exploration - continuous release - wip limits -state of the art build tools
- Continuous exploration
Each PI planning meeting evolves over time, and ending PI planning with a Retrospective will help to do what? - Fine tune the Economic Framework - Meet compliance more rapidly - Lengthen the Architectural Runway - Continuously improve
- Continuously improve
Scrum masters are effective by using scrum methods, supporting safe principles and practices and what else? - Serving as a customer proxy - Writing stories and enablers - Managing architectural runway - Delivering through agile practices
- Delivering through agile practices
Which type of enabler does a System Architect review during a System Demo? - Enabler Capabilities - Enabler Features - '' Stories - '' Portfolio Epics
- Enabler stories
Becoming a coach requires a shift from old behaviors to new ones. What are three examples of old behaviors? - Focusing on deadlines - Focusing on business value delivery - Asking the team for the answers - Driving toward specific outcomes - Fixing problems for the team - Facilitating team problem solving
- Focusing on deadlines - Driving toward specific outcomes - Fixing problems for the team
What is the basis for most team conflicts? - Lack of leadership - Ideological differences - Lack of common goals - Unexamined assumptions
- Ideological differences
During PI planning, which two tasks are part of the scrum master's role in the first team breakout? - Provide clarifications necessary to assist the team with their story estimating and sequencing - review and prioritize the team backlog as part of the preparatory work for the second team breakout - Be involved in the program backlog refinement and preparation - identify as many risks and dependencies as possible for the management review - facilitate the coordination with other teams for dependencies
- Provide clarifications necessary to assist the team with their story estimating and sequencing - facilitate the coordination with other teams for dependencies
Scrum masters help remove impediments, foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics and what else? - Relentlessly improve - Continuously deliver - Form and re-form teams - Estimate stories
- Relentlessly improve
Which meeting should the Scrum Master attend (not facilitate)? - Iteration Review - Scrum of Scrums - Daily Stand-Up - PO sync
- Scrum of Scrums
What is one truth about teams? - Development teams can manage daily interruptions - Products are more robust when individuals on teams have specific skill sets - Changes in team composition do not impact productivity - Teams are more productive than the same number of individuals
- Teams are more productive than the same number of individuals
What is the purpose of the plan-do-check-adjust cycle? - To provide regular, predictable dev cadence to produce an increment of value - To give the ART members a process tool to keep the train on the tracks - To create a continuous flow of work to support the delivery pipeline - To allow the team to perform some final backlog refinement for upcoming iteration planning
- To provide regular, predictable dev cadence to produce an increment of value
What are two common PI planning anti-patterns? - Too much time spent analyzing each story - Too much time spent prioritizing features - Team decides which changes need to happen and when - Part-time scrum masters do not have time to plan as part of the team - Stories are created for the PI planning iterations
- Too much time spent analyzing each story - Part-time scrum masters do not have time to plan as part of the team
What is one example of a servant leader behavior pattern? - Understands and empathizes with others - Focuses on individual task metrics - Thinks about the day-to-day activities - Uses authority rather than persuasion when necessary
- Understands and empathizes with others
What is the main reason why some teams never reach stage 4 in the stages of high performing teams? - because no one guides them - '' leadership is spontaneous - '' team is not structured correctly - '' there is too much conflict
- because no one guides them
the skills of a good safe scrum master include which three attributes?
- communicate, coordinate, cooperate
what is the statement describing? Agile team continuously adapt to new circumstances and enhance the methods of value delivery - continuous integration - '' improvement - '' delivery - '' deployment
- continuous integration / improvement?????
What are two good scrum master facilitation practices? - create an environment of safety so that everyone feels comfortable contributing to the discussion - allow unproductive conflict to encourage open communication -allow for deep meaningful conversations even if it is outside the scope of the agenda - ensure all voices are heard -do not enforce accountability as it creates an environment of distrust
- create an environment of safety so that everyone feels comfortable contributing to the discussion - ensure all voices are heard
An effective Safe scrum master is a team-based servant leader who helps the team do what? - manage the team's own backlog - understand and operate within lean budgets - embrace relentless improvement through iteration retrospectives - develop better and more specialized skill sets
- embrace relentless improvement through iteration retrospectives
What are two critical areas that differentiate agile from waterfall dev? - Architectural runway - Staggered integration - Face-to-face interaction - incremental delivery of value - fast feedback
- incremental delivery of value - fast feedback
Which statement is true about scrum? - It is a software technical practice - It is an ideal method for static design requirements - it is based on empirical process control theory - it is a Lean system Engineering technique
- it is a Lean system Engineering technique ??
How are the 3 Whys used? - to identify a root cause of a problem - to brainstorm ideas - to coach a team through powerful questions - to define acceptance criteria for a story
- to identify a root cause of a problem
what is an anti-pattern for the IP iteration? - to plan work for the IP iteration during PI planning - to allow for sufficient capacity in the program roadmap - to ensure all stories and teams' PI plans are completed prior to the IP iteration - to minimize lost capacity when people are on vacation or holidays -to wait for the IP iteration to fix defects
- to plan work for the IP iteration during PI planning -to wait for the IP iteration to fix defects
There are two primary aspects of a lean-agile mindset lean thinking and what? - feature enablement -lean systems -systems engineering -embracing agility
-embracing agility
the business must depend on the team for what in order for the business to do any meaningful planning? - a cross-functional skill set - commitment to the plan -measurements -team capabilities
-measurements????? it's the same % whether or not I put either.?????
What is the recommended duration of a SAFe iteration?
2 weeks
What is the recommended frequency range for PI planning in SAFe?
8~12 weeks
A servant leader knows that his or her own growth comes from what? - Management support - Facilitating growth of others - Effective training - Implementing a CALMR approach to SAFe
Facilitating growth of others
Cadence and what other action are the key constructs to delivering continuous value?
Synchronization
What are the three pillars of Scrum?
Transparency, inspection, adaptation
What is one time when a scrum master participates but does not necessarily facilitate? - During team breakout sessions at PI planning - If the entire team is present during the daily stand-up - when using ad-hoc teams for inspect and adapt - when the agile release train does not require any team coordination
When using ad-hoc teams for inspect and adapt
The program board highlights feature delivery dates, milestones, and what else for the agile release train teams?
dependencies
What is the name of the event where all team members determine how much of the team's backlog they can commit to delivering during an upcoming iteration? - iteration planning -solution planning -solution demo - backlog refinement
iteration planning
Participating in PI planning enables teams to gain alignment and commitment around a clear set of what? - team dependencies - prioritized objectives - user stories - features and benefits
prioritized objectives
In SAFe, who owns the decision for releasing changes into production? - product management - system architect -release train engineer -solution owner
product management
which demo is performed in the IP iteration
the integrated demo from the agile release train's final iteration
