SaFe Agile Advanced Scrum Master Exam

Which technique is used to identify root causes during the problem-solving workshop?

5 Whys

What is the SAFe recommended duration of a PI?

8 - 12 weeks

How do Agile Teams ensure their own retrospective improvement actions are implemented?

Add improvement Stories to the team backlog to implement in the next Iteration

What is the first step in the problem-solving workshop?

Agree on the problem to solve

SAFe Scrum Masters interact with which level(s) of Framework?

All Levels

Which SAFe configuration requires having a Vision?

All SAFe configurations

When does the Inspect and Adapt event happen?

At the end of each PI

How does the Scrum Master help teams address the challenges of modern Enterprises?

By actively addressing impediments

How does a Scrum Master lead a team's efforts in relentless improvement?

By facilitating the Iteration Retrospective

How do Kanban teams implement the SAFe Lean-Agile Mindset of relentless improvement?

By using cumulative flow diagrams to objectively measure bottlenecks and variation which could be due to systemic factors

Which two actions enhance an Agile Release Train's performance? (Choose two.)

Collaboration;Team alignment;

A team achieved less than 80% predictability during the quantitative measurement of the Inspect and Adapt event. What would be an unacceptable action for this team's Scrum Master to take?

Decide improvement actions for the team to implement

At the System Demo, each team demonstrates their own work, but the system is not integrated. They say they underestimated the integration effort and cannot integrate every Iteration and also meet the planned scope. What should the Scrum Master suggest?

Discuss removing scope with Product Management to allow for Continuous Integration

During Iteration Review, the team decides to carry forward three Stories to the next Iteration. This is the second time during this PI that some of the team's Stories are carried over. What are two actions the Scrum Master should take? (Choose two.)

Discuss the issue at the Iteration Retrospective;Perform the 5 Whys to find the root cause of the delays;

What are two Release Train Engineer responsibilities? (Choose two.)

Drive relentless improvement through Inspect and Adapt;Facilitate PI Planning readiness and the event itself;

What are two key areas a team should be organized around? (Choose two.)

Enablers;Features;

Considering individual skill sets, an E-shaped person has a combination of what?

Experience, expertise, exploration, and execution

What are the responsibilities of a SAFe Scrum Master on an ART that go beyond basic team facilitation? (Choose three.)

Facilitate preparation for the System Demo;Facilitate team preparation for PI Planning;Participate in the scrum of scrums;

What is a recommended Story-splitting technique for Agile Teams?

Implement the 'happy path' first and the rest of the scenarios afterwards

Where does a team document new practices they want to incorporate into their collective skill set?

Improvement backlog

The Agile Team may need to learn or acquire new skills. Where is this list of skills found?

In the improvement backlog

Which two events explicitly implement the Lean-Agile Mindset of relentless improvement? (Choose two.)

Inspect and Adapt;Iteration Retrospective;

Which statement is true about the phase-gate Milestone model?

It does not mitigate risk as intended

What are two reasons why too much work in process (WIP) is a problem? (Choose two.)

It hides bottlenecks in the workflow;It shows that the overall system is inefficient;

What is the value of periodic resynchronization?

It limits variance to a single time interval

During PI Planning, the scrum of scrums meetings help accomplish which two actions? (Choose two.)

Keeping the planning Milestones on track;Exposing risks, impediments, and dependencies;

What is the connection between feedback and optimum batch size?

Lack of feedback contributes to higher holding cost

What are two typical anti-patterns with Product Owners (POs)? (Choose two.)

POs design the Solution before brining the intent to the team; POs and Product Management are not aligned with business intent

What improves collaboration between Scrum Masters and System Architects, System Teams, and Operations?

Program Kanban

One of the Scrum Master's main responsibilities is to communicate with management and outside stakeholders to help the team in what way?

Protect them from uncontrolled addition of work

Which pillar of the SAFe House of Lean supports not imposing wishful thinking?

Respect for People and Culture

What anti-pattern can emerge during the scrum of scrums?

Scrum Masters report on the teams' task status each day

Who reviews the top Capabilities for the upcoming PI?

Solution Management

Which SAFe organizational construct allows businesses to build large and complex systems which require hundreds of people in a Lean-Agile manner?

Solution Train

What provides objective evidence that the system is iterating?

System Demo

What is the skill type Scrum Masters try to get the Agile Team to achieve?

T-shaped

How does work flow from one state to the next in a team Kanban board?

Team members pull work from the previous state when they can do so without impacting their current state WIP constraint

In complex systems development, what do local integration points ensure?

That each Capability of the system is meeting its responsibilities in contributing to the overall Solution Intent

Who is responsible for assisting to establish Continuous Integration in SAFe?

The System Team

Who participates in the Inspect and Adapt event?

The entire Agile Release Train

Achieving the goals of Release on Demand requires an understanding of how to decouple what?

The release from deployment

What are two examples of tasking anti-patterns? (Choose two.)

The team focuses on task completion over Story completion and acceptance criteria; The team provides updates only on tasks during the daily stand up meeting

Why are SAFe Scrum Masters challenged differently in an Enterprise?

The team is affected by teams and stakeholders beyond their control

Who should vote on root causes?

The team members working on that problem

What are three benefits a community of practice offers? (Choose three.)

To drive craftsmanship;To facilitate the adoption of new methods and techniques;To provide a place to acquire knowledge;

Why should team members continuously and actively engage with other teams during PI Planning?

To manage dependencies and resolve impediments

What is one characteristic of an effective Agile Team?

To provide steady, high quality, incremental value

How can learning Milestones be used?

To test the concept of a new Feature or Capability

What action should be taken on relentless improvement backlog items from the problem-solving workshop?

Use the items as direct input into the PI Planning event that follows

An effective decision-making framework provides which two ultimate outcomes? (Choose two.)

WRONG!!! _////// Unlocks the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers;Improves flow; ///// Improves flow;Reduces WIP limits; // reduces delays as a result of centralized decision making - improves flow /// Unlocks the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers; Reduces delays as a result of centralized decision-making

How should decentralized decision-making be used with respect to system design?

When Agile Teams are empowered, self-organized, and the design is allowed to emerge

What are three Iteration Retrospective anti-patterns? (Choose three.)

When the team's people manager comes in to observe;When only some of the team attends;When the Scrum Master decides what the retrospective topic(s) will be and directs the team on specific improvement items to work on;

A team's Product Owner (PO) takes an unexpected leave of absence for the last week of the Iteration. Three of the team's Stories have been completed and are waiting to be accepted.

Work with the Release Train Engineer to find a solution

One state on the team Kanban board has people waiting while the previous stage is overloaded. What should the Scrum Master consider doing?

Encourage and coach the people in the under-utilized stage to help with the work of the overloaded stage

During Iteration planning, the Product Owner (PO) introduces a new Story to the team. They cannot come to a consensus on the size of the new Story and ask the PO for more details.

No; the team left the Story in the Team Backlog for further refinement with the PO

What is one Extreme Programming (XP) rule adopted in SAFe?

Pair programming

What is one way to improve the skills of a team member?

Pair-work with other team members

What is the most effective way to establish Built-in Quality?

Perform as many types of testing within the Iteration boundaries as possible

What are three distinct traits a group must have to be considered a Community of Practice? (Choose three.)

Practice;Community;Domain;

Which statement describes how Kanban teams handle capacity during PI Planning?

They use throughput as an indication of their capacity