SAFe PO Certification

What are the inputs for program increment planning ? 1. Sprint backlog 2. Upcoming planned releases 3. Program board 4. Vision and Top 10 features

Vision and Top 10 features

According to the agile manifesto which of the following statements is TRUE about changing requirments_______ 1. Welcome change in requirements, at early stage of development 2. No change in requirements permitted 3. Requirements change permitted only after completing the development 4. Welcome change in requirements, even late in development

Welcome change in requirements, even late in development

When should a dependency be added to the program risks? 1. When it can be deferred 2.When it can be resolved 3.When it must be accepted 4. When an Enabler can fix it

When it must be accepted

Which situation best indicates the presence of an innovation riptide? 1. When team and Agile Release Train innovations turn into portfolio-level strategic initiatives 2.When teams spend more than half their capacity on innovation 3.When the company's Net Promoter Score exceeds 70% on Customer surveys 4.When innovations are presented during every System Demo

When team and Agile Release Train innovations turn into portfolio-level strategic initiatives

What is the primary focus of an operational Value Stream? 1.Delivering end-user value 2.Orchestrating supply chain networks 3.Lowering operational costs 4.Improving business operations

Delivering end-user value

What are the outputs of PI PLANNING process; 1. Visiting and top 10 features 2. Enterprise vision 3. Value chain streams 4. Team and program PI objectives and program board

Team and program PI objectives and program board

What are the outputs of PI planning process: 1. Vision and top ten features 2.Enterprise vision 3.Value Chain streams 4.Team and program PI objectives and program board

Team and program PI objectives and program board

What is a common anti-pattern related to System Demos? 1.System demo takes more than 15 minutes 2. Different team members conduct the demo each Iteration 3.People from outside the Agile Release Train attend the System Demo 4. Team demos are accepted in place of a System Demo to avoid redundancy

Team demos are accepted in place of a System Demo to avoid redundancy

Who should attend the PO sync? 1.The scrum of scrums participants and the Product Owners 2.The teams and the RTE 3.Everyone on the train 4.The Product Owners, Product Management, and other stakeholders as needed

The Product Owners, Product Management, and other stakeholders as needed

Communicating the Vision to the Agile Release Train during Program Increment Planning supports which SAFe Core Value? 1. Program Execution 2. Built-in Quality 3. Transparency 4.Alignment

Alignment

PI Planning

Aligns the entire ART on a common vision and goal

The recommended structure for writing User Stories is? 1.Given..., When...., Then... 2. As a..., I want..., So that... 3. want..., When..., So that... 4. As a..., When..., Then...

As a..., I want..., So that...

Which one of the following is NOT a type of enabler story? 1. Exploration 2.Architecture 3.infrastructure 4.Compliance 5. Business features

Business features

Lean-agile leadership

Enterprise leaders take responsibility for Lean-Agile adoption and success

Product Management is responsible for which three activities? (Choose three.) 1.Prioritizing Features for optimum economic value 2.Developing Story acceptance criteria ---3.Establishing Features and benefit hypotheses 4.Prioritizing Capabilities and Enablers ---5.Assigning Agile Release Trains to a common technological and Architectural Vision ---6. Defining Program Backlog content 1,4 and 5 is wrong togther 1,3 and 4 is wring togther 4,3,6 wrg 3, 1, 4- wrg 3,5,6 wrong

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Features are sized or split to fit what duration? 1.A release -wrong 2.A Program Increment 3.An Iteration- WRONG 4.A Solution Epic

A Program Increment

What is meant by an increment of value"?"

A piece of value from a user or customer perspective.

What is the role of release train engineer in agile release train? 1. Acts as the chief scrum master for the train 2. Program manager for agile release train 3. Project manager for agile release train 4. Same as scrum master

Acts as the chief scrum master for the train

How can Product Management leverage market rhythms? 1. Improve the scheduling of Program Increment Planning 2.Adjust the delivery of Features to better meet market needs 3.Adjust the timing of marketing campaigns 4. Improve the prioritization of Features

Adjust the delivery of Features to better meet market needs

Product Management is expected to collaborate in planning the amount of upcoming Enabler work by establishing what? 1.Team Backlog prioritization 2.Completed Epic acceptance criteria 3Capacity allocation 4 Accurate User Story sizing

Capacity allocation

Which statement is false; 1. Value delivery is inhibited by hand offs and delays 2. Political boundaries can prevent cooperation 3. Silos encourage geographic distribution of functions 4. Communication across silos is easy

Communication across silos is easy

The team is struggling to agree on the Story point sizing of a new User Story. The Product Owner was previously a related domain expert and feels the team is wasting time. What should she do? 1. Make the team aware of her expertise and decide the size for them 2. Suggest the team stop the sizing of the User Story and add it to the next Iteration as-is 3.Instruct the Scrum Master to resize the Story 4.Continue to support the team's decision on sizing

Continue to support the team's decision on sizing

How is safe agile release trains organized ? 1. Cross functional agile release trains comprising of cross functional agile teams. 2. All the required silos built in to agile release train 3. Cross functional for project matrix organization, silos for non matrix organizations. 4. There are no recommended guidelines

Cross functional agile release trains comprising of cross functional agile teams.

Which of the following is not an advantage of building cross-functional agile teams: 1. Cross functional teams encourage silos 2. Cross functional teams optimized for communication 3. Cross functional teams optimized for value deleivery 4. Cross functional teams are self organizing entities

Cross functional teams encourage silos

Which of the following is a SAFe Lean agile principle : 1. Decentralize decision making 2. Centralize decision making 3. All decisions must be approved by PO 4. All decisions must be approved by the scrum master

Decentralize decision making

IP iteration

Dedicated time for innovation, continuing education, PI planning, and inspect and adapt.

Which of the following is false about the development team role; 1. Defines and accepts stories 2. Develop and commit to PI objective and iteration plans 3. Three to nine members 4. Define/build/test/deliver stories

Defines and accepts stories

_____Contains the steps and the people who develop the business Solutions created by the operational Value Streams

Development Value Streams

When should a Product Owner establish Team Objectives? 1. During PI Planning 2.Following the confidence vote 3.During Backlog Refinement 4.Following the Management Review and Problem Solving Meeting

During PI Planning

How do SAFe Continuous Delivery Pipeline activities map to the teams' work each Iteration within the Program Increment (PI)? 1.Early Iterations focus on exploring, the later Iterations focus on integrating and deploying, and releasing 2. Each Iteration in the PI, teams are exploring, integrating, deploying, and potentially releasing new value 3.Each Iteration in the PI, teams are exploring, integrating, deploying, but releasing only occurs at the end of the PI 4.Features are explored in one PI, given to the teams in later PIs for integrating and deploying, and then released in a future PI

Each Iteration in the PI, teams are exploring, integrating, deploying, and potentially releasing new value

What is not true about estimating poker? 1. Estimating poker provides a random estimation that can be used as guess for estimation. 2 All team members can participate 3. Increases accuracy by including all perspectives 4. Creates shared commitment

Estimating poker provides a random estimation that can be used as guess for estimation

The most efficient way of conveying information to and within a development team is _________ 1. Having an onsite-offshore team coordinator 2. Face to face conversation 3. Virtual meetings as much as possible to save teams time 4. Cancel meetings as they kill time

Face to face conversation

What is the relationship between features and stories ? 1. Features are decomposed in to stories 2. Stories are decomposed in to features 3.There is no relation between features and stories 4. Birth features and stories can be used interchangeably

Features are decomposed in to stories

Which two statements are true about the SAFe backlog model? (Choose two.) 1.Capabilities are in the Program Backlog 2.Stories are in the Solution Backlog 3.Features are in the Program Backlog 4.Epics are in the DevOps Backlog 5.Stories are in the Team Backlog

Features are in the Program Backlog;Stories are in the Team Backlog;

Which of the following statements is true about features and stories? 1.Features fit in to one PI for one ART, stories fit in to one iteration for one team. 2. Stories fit in to one PI for one ART, features fit in to one iteration for one team. 3.Both features and stories need to fit in to one PI for one ART. 4.Both features and stories fit in to one iteration for one team.

Features fit in to one PI for one ART, stories fit in to one iteration for one team.

What are two ways in which the SAFe House of Lean might influence a Product Owner? (Choose two.) 1.Develop Roadmaps that guide future activities 2.Help Agile Teams gain a clear understanding of their Customers 3.Collaborate with Agile Teams to develop Stories with clear acceptance criteria 4. Write code when the Agile Team is facing a lot of work 5.Defer improvements so that the team can spend more time creating Stories

Help Agile Teams gain a clear understanding of their Customers AND Collaborate with Agile Teams to develop Stories with clear acceptance criteria

SAFe recommends separating deployment from release. What can help with this practice? 1. Hide all new functionality under Feature toggles 2. Manually test Features and nonfunctional requirements 3. A staging environment that emulates testing 4. Deploying to staging every 4 to 8 weeks

Hide all new functionality under Feature toggles

What does assigning business value to a team's PI Objectives influence? 1.How the Kanban work in process limits are set 2.How teams plan the implementation 3.How to achieve objectives 4.How often the teams deploy

How teams plan the implementation

What does INVEST stand for :

Independent Negotiable Valuable Estimable Small Testable

What are three elements of INVEST? (Choose three.) 1.Simple 2.Independent 3.Nimble 4.Valuable 5.Elegant 6. Testable

Independent Valuable Testable

Which statement is true about WSJF? 1.The item with the highest cost of delay is 2.prioritized first- not this one 3.It is equal to the cost of delay 4.It identifies minimum economic outcomes 5.It includes cost of delay and the unit of size

It includes cost of delay and the unit of size

Why is the problem-solving workshop more effective than traditional lessons-learned documents? 1.Collaboration over documentation is a key recommendation of the Agile Manifesto 2.Workshops are more engaging than document writing 3. It makes improvements actionable through backlog items for the next Program Increment 4.It involves more participants

It makes improvements actionable through backlog items for the next Program Increment

which of the following is a SAFE lean agile principle; 1. Limit WIP, reduce batch sizes 2. Limit WIP, increase batch size 3. Increase WIP, reduce batch size 4. Increase WIP, increase batch size

Limit WIP, reduce batch sizes

The first three elements of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline work together to support delivery of small batches of new functionality which are released in accordance with what? Program Backlog prioritization Operational support Release management governance Market needs

Market needs

The SAFe definition of DevOps includes which three concepts? (Choose three.) 1. Clear separation of responsibilities between Dev and Ops 2. Technical practices 3.Mindset 4.Well-defined handoffs between Dev and Ops 5.The scale cube 6. Culture

Mindset, Technical practices and Culture

Which two statements are true about estimating Features using Story points? (Choose two.) 1. More than one team may be involved in the estimation 2. Story point estimation is done on cadence during backlog refinement 3. Story points are accurate and provide leadership data 4. User Stories can be estimated from the top-down 5. WSJF is the best way to estimate Stories

More than one team may be involved in the estimation AND Story point estimation is done on cadence during backlog refinement

System Demo

Objective evidence provided by a working solution; the primary measure of progress.

__________ Contains the steps and the people who deliver end-user value using the business Solutions created by the development Value Streams

Operational Value Streams

What is the product manager role in agile release train? 1. Provides program management direction for agile release train 2. Provides technical support to agile release train 3. Architects the product 4. Owns, defines, and prioritizes the program backlog

Owns, defines, and prioritizes the program backlog

Inspect and Adapt

Planned time to reflect, collect data, and solve problems

Which two responsibilities belong to the Product Owner? (Choose two.) 1.Estimating Stories 2.Prioritizing the Team Backlog 3.Drafting Iteration Goals 4.Accepting Features 5.Driving PI Objectives

Prioritizing the Team Backlog;Drafting Iteration Goals

During the Program Increment Planning meetings the Product Owner coordinates with other Product Owners, shared resources, and who else? 1. Product Management 2. The Customer 3. The System Architect/Engineer 4.The Solution Train Engineer

Product Management

Who provides Agile Release Train context and Vision during PI Planning? 1.Product Owner 2.Product Management 3.System Architect 4.Business Owner

Product Management

Who typically participates as the train's Business Owners to approve the team's PI Objectives? 1.Product Owners 2.Scrum Masters 3.System Architects 4. Product Management

Product Management

Which two options are part of the SAFe Core Values? (Choose two.)You have reached the max number of allowed answers 1.Transparency 2.Program execution 3.Working software 4.Decentralized control 5.Innovation

Program execution and Transparency

What are three elements of Agile Team capacity allocation that ensure a healthy balance of work? (Choose three.) 1.Refactors 2.Maintenance 3.Severity-1 defects 4.Free time for innovation 5.User Stories 6.Dependencies

Refactors;User Stories;Maintenance

A Product Owner is noticing that overall quality is starting to degrade. What might they do to address the problem? 1.Allocate more capacity to Enablers 2.Reinforce the definition of done 3.Add a QA Iteration to address quality issues 4.Spend more time in PI Planning

Reinforce the definition of done

Which of the following statement is false about scrum master role : 1. Scrum master removes impediments 2. Scrum master protects the team from outside influence 3. Scrum master accepts stories 4. Scrum master attends scrum of scrum meetings

Scrum master accepts stories

How is backlog organized for agile release trains (ART); 1. One backlog for each team on ART 2. Single program backlog for ART 3. Single program backlog for ART if teams working on similar projects , but can have different backlogs if projects are not similar. 4. Depends on organization principles

Single program backlog for ART

The Customer is asking for a forecast for when a specific Feature will be available. Where could Product Management find this information? 1.Development Manager 2.System Architecture designs 3.Solution Roadmap 4.Program Backlog

Solution Roadmap

What are two strategies a Product Owner can use during Program Increment Planning to minimize dependencies? (Choose two.) 1.Reprioritize Epics 2.Change the definition of done 3.Move teams to another Agile Release Train 4.Move Stories on their team's backlog to another team 5.Split Stories to eliminate dependencies

Split Stories to eliminate dependencies;Move Stories on their team's backlog to another team;

What best describes the story points? 1. Story points are relative. They are represented in hours 2. Story points are non-relative. They are repressed in hours 3. Story points are relative. They are represented in time metrics 4. Story points are relative. They are not connected to any specific unit of measure

Story points are relative. They are not connected to any specific unit of measure

What are two inputs to the Vision? (Choose two.) Portfolio Backlog 1.Strategic Themes 2.Portfolio Enablers 3.Customer feedback 4. Feature context

Strategic Themes and Customer feedback

Which is a true statement about stretch objectives : 1. Stretch objectives do count in velocity/capacity and they are committed 2.Stretch objectives do count in velocity/capacity but not committed 3.Stretch objectives don't count in velocity/capacity and they are committed 4. Stretch objectives don't count in velocity/capacity and they are not committed

Stretch objectives do count in velocity/capacity but not committed

What is the cadence for the teams in ART? Agile release train 1. Cadence on one week to four week duration, preference on less duration 2. Synchronized on a common cadence, a program increment 3. Common mission to work on annual releases 4. Each team on ART can have different cadence

Synchronized on a common cadence, a program increment

Which two groups should attend every Iteration Review? (Choose two.) 1. The team's Product Owner 2 The team's Scrum Master 3 Product Owners on dependent teams 4 The team members 5 Business Owners

The team's Product Owner and The team members

Which two statements are true about nonfunctional requirements? (Choose two.) 1.They are split into Features and acceptance criteria is established 2.They stay in the Portfolio Backlog until implementation capacity is available 3.They are associated with backlogs at all four levels of SAFe 4.They operate as constraints on the design of the system 5.They provide visibility to large business initiatives

They are associated with backlogs at all four levels of SAFe and They operate as constraints on the design of the system

What happens to improvement items identified during the Iteration Retrospective? 1.They are entered as Stories in the Team Backlog 2.They are ROAMed with the rest of the risks 3.They are given to the Scrum Master who resolves them 4.They are escalated to the Business Owners

They are entered as Stories in the Team Backlog

Iteration Goals serve what purpose? 1.To set preliminary PI Objectives 2.To identify nonfunctional requirements 3.To define the what, the how, and the how much 4.To align team members to a common purpose

To align team members to a common purpose

What is the purpose of Iteration Goals? 1.To provide the baseline required for measuring the team's performance 2. To align the team members and the Product Owner (PO) to the mission 3.To hold the team accountable to their goals 4.To ensure the team accomplishes all the committed Stories each Iteration

To align the team members and the Product Owner (PO) to the mission

What is the purpose of a Program Epic? 1.To align Strategic Themes to portfolio investments 2.To capture Agile Release Train initiatives that cannot be completed in a single Program Increment 3. To support Lean Portfolio Management in funding Value Streams 4. To align multiple Agile Release Trains to a common objective

To capture Agile Release Train initiatives that cannot be completed in a single Program Increment

What is the purpose of the Solution Context? 1.To identify critical aspects of a Solution's operational environment 2.To enable marketing to create better marketing campaigns 3.To assist sales and service organizations in configuring complex solutions 4.To guide Product Management in prioritizing Features

To identify critical aspects of a Solution's operational environment

What is an input to the Program Increment Planning process that highlights how Product Management plans to accomplish the Vision? 1. Business context wrong 2. Top ten Features 3. Program board 4. Team Backlogs

Top ten Features

What is the cadence of program increment (PI) planning ; 1. Four hours program increment planning every two weeks 2. Eight hours program increment planning every four weeks 3. Two hours program increment planning every one week 4. Two days every 8-12 weeks (10 weeks typical)

Two days every 8-12 weeks (10 weeks typical)

________ represent the series of steps an organization uses to implement Solutions that provide a continuous flow of value to a Customer.

Value Streams

What is one of the questions the Product Management team must answer in order to create a Vision? 1.How many Features have already been released to the Customer 2.Which problem will the Solution solve 3.Which themes are on the Roadmap 4.What are the team's skills

Which problem will the Solution solve

Which design-thinking tool is most likely to help an Agile Release Train (ART) during Program Increment (PI) Planning to ensure that the PI will deliver a Solution that is differentiated from competitive offerings? 1.Whole-product thinking 2.Personas 3 Customer journey maps 4 Prototypes

Whole-product thinking

What is the primary measure of progress: 1. Report generated by product owner, scrum master by collecting the metrics from Agile management tool 2. Working software 3. requirements traceability matrix with a status of all requirements passed/failed. 4. Daily burn-down chart

Working software

What are two benefits of Program Increment (PI) Objectives? (Choose two.) 1.To promote the achievement of business outcomes over the completion of Features 2 To provide a mechanism for organizing around value 3 To promote Business Agility by giving teams options on how they might deliver Features 4 To provide the proper allocation of capacity 5 To define when the Solution will be released 1 and 2 tog are wrong 1,4 2 and 3---wrong 4 and 2-----wrong

_________________________

Key principles of _____ 1.Individuals and interactions over processes and tools 2.working software over comprehensive documentation 3.customer collaboration over contract negotiation 4.Responding to change over following a plan

agile manifesto

Safe core values are :

built in quality, program execution, alignment and transparency

Good product owners are:

continuously planning

Which of the following statement is false about the Product owner role? 1. Defines and accepts storie 2. Acts as the customer for developer questions 3. Works with the management to plan program increments (PI) 4. define/build/test/deceive stories

define/build/test/deceive stories

Which of the following does not represent the safe principle "take an economic view"; 1. Deliver early and often 2. Deliver value incrementally 3 early deleiveryhas higher value 4. deliver all features at once

deliver all features at once

Which statement is true about estimating and forecasting the portfolio backlog? 1. feature estimates are rolled up into epic estimates 2. WSJF is used to assign epics to value streams 3. Refinement is necessary when estimating the effort needed to implement an epic 4. Epic forecasting is based on cost estimate

feature estimates are rolled up into epic estimates

What is true about stretch objectives : 1.They are extra things teams do just in case you have time 2.they aren't extra things teams do just in case you have time 3.Stretch objectives are for teams that are external (supplier teams) 4.They are planned for future sprints

they aren't extra things teams do just in case you have time

What is the size of agile release train (ART) ; 1. A team of 5 to 9 members 2. Virtual organization of 5-12 members (50-125+ teams) 3. No restriction on size of ART 4. virtual organizations of 5-12 teams (50-125+ individuals )

virtual organizations of 5-12 teams (50-125+ individuals )