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SAFe RTE 5.1 Practice Exam
SAFe RTE 5.1 Practice Exam
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1
What are effective ways Business Owners and stakeholders stay current on work that is occurring on the ART?
Connect at Gemba
Consult program dashboards
Read team status reports
Meet weekly with the Release Train Engineer to get updates
2
The (RTE) is to attend multiple reviews and status meetings to discuss the Agile Release Train's progress. What option?
Status available at the end of every other Iteration
Delegate some program reporting and meeting attendance to Scrum Masters
Determine the RTE's capacity for attending meetings and do not exceed it
Encourage interested parties to attend the System Demo
3
The team's draft plan review consists of which item at the end of the first day of the (PI) Planning event?
Iteration Goals
Capacity and load estimates
Velocity Charts
A System Demo
4
Which tool can the Release Train Engineer use to visualize the flow of value? L5-14
Kanban systems
Weighted shorted job first
Velocity trend charts
Team burn-down charts
5
What is the only true objective measure of an Agile Release Train? L6-6
System Demo
Cumulative flow diagram
Team status report
Scrum of scrums
6
Why should an RTE ensure that the SAFe principles are applied appropriately?
The SAFe House of Lean is reflected in standard operating procedure
To maintain a central control of key decision-making
To make sure that no modifications are made by the adopters of SAFe
To build an understanding of why the lean-agile practices work
7
Which event facilitated by the Release Train Engineer is designed to keep the Agile Release Train on the tracks?
Daily stand-up
Iteration review
Solution Demo
Scrum of scrums
8
A RTE build a relationship with which SAFe role in order to effectively assign business value to a team PI Objectives?
Objective Owners
Solution Managers
Lean-Agile Leaders
Business Owners
9
What is an anti-pattern for a Release Train Engineer facilitating a scrum of scrums meeting?
Address the most important questions for Program Increment (PI) execution
Run the meeting in front of the program board
Facilitate the meeting using a focused and visible agenda and timebox
Review individual team performance
10
In an Inspect and Adapt event would differences of planned business value and actual business value be presented?
Problem-solving workshop
Quantitative and qualitative measurement
PI system demo
Retrospective
11
Which practice is most important for the Agile Release Train to best support Release on Demand?
Centralized risk management
Decouple deployment from release
Go-No-Go Meeting
Change board community of practice
12
Which Tuckman stage would an ART be if it is improving engineering practices and fostering more effective communication
Storming
Forming
Performing
Norming
13
The (RTE) cannot facilitate the Program Increment (PI) Planning session due to unexpected circumstances?
Conduct the PI Planning session using the ART portfolio manage
Run the PI Planning session without a facilitator
Leverage the person who worked closest with the RTE during prep
Postpone PI Planning to the next Iteration
14
Which SAFe Principle is being applied when a Release Train Engineer treats Suppliers as partners?
Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
Assume variability; preserve options
Apply systems thinking
Decentralize decision-making
15
What promotes alignment between the business owners and product management? L4-9
Epics supported by Lean Business Cases
Quantification of transaction and holding costs
Prioritized Program Backlog
Applying cadence and synchronization
16
During (PI) execution, the System Team is unclear about how to test some of the larger Features. What should the RTE do?
Escalate the problem to senior management to get the required action
Allow the problem to reach a critical point
Direct Product Management to define the use cases for the Features
Encourage the System Team and Product Management to collaborate a solution
17
Which topic is covered on the first day of the Program Increment (PI) Planning event?
Ishikawa diagrams
Cumulative flow diagrams
Product/Solution Vision
Team velocity Metrics
18
What steps can a (RTE) take to promote facilitation support for a distributed Program Increment Planning event? L4-55
Split up the PI Planning event by location
Arrange and test audio and video connectivity multiple times
Align and arrange a local RTE-proxy
Ask a Scrum Master at the other location to take the event locally
19
What can a Release Train Engineer use to support relentless improvement for the Program Increment?
Product Owner sync
Inspect and Adapt event
Iteration retrospective
Release management meeting
20
What is one way to secure stakeholder commitment to the Agile Release Train?
Have them estimate User Stories for the teams
Provide them a planning schedule outlining a five-year plan for development
Have them attend the Program Increment (PI) Planning event
Send them the Program Increment (PI) Objectives after each Planning event
21
What is the best way for a Release Train Engineer to support teams having challenges with problem identification?
By changing team composition
By providing solution ideas
By listening to the team
By escalating to senior management
22
In what way is a value stream map different from a process flow?
A value stream map uncovers local problems in functional organizations
A value stream map can be operational or developmental
A value stream map measures the flow of value and identifies bottlenecks
Process flows are only operational
23
How can a Release Train Engineer support dependencies and decentralized decision making? L5-10
Update team Program Increment Objectives when shipping a critical release
Evaluate the strategy for the Value Stream
Change the cadence of the Agile Release Train
Empower workers manage their dependencies with other teams Scrum Of Scrum
24
Which action must the (RTE) take when facilitating the Program Increment (PI) Planning event? L4-33
Purchase sugary snacks
Wear the RTE visor
Prioritize the Features
Distribute the PI Planning agenda to the Agile Teams
25
Which core competency best describes Scrum, Kanban, and the Builtin Quality practices that are needed to manage the flow
Enterprise Solution Delivery
Lean Portfolio Management
Agile Product Delivery
Team and Technical Agility
26
What way fosters accountability on an Agile Release Train (ART)?
Use KPIs to measure team performance
Two people occupying a single role
Stakeholders' presence in the System Demo
Roles Responsibility Matrix
27
Teams reporting high level of success through their individual quantitative measurements system results say otherwise?
Retrospective technique, ensure team are defining a systems view approach
Work with the team that is struggling the most
Diagnose difference between the measurement and the result and improvement
Take a System view approach
28
A Release Train Engineer primarily establishes a relationship with which two roles?
Release management
Agile Team
Internal stakeholders
Product Management
29
During the Storming stage of the ART development, in which area should a Release Train Engineer mentor Scrum Masters
Conflict resolution techniques
Establishing program events
Engineering practice improvements
Creating effective flow of knowledge across teams on the trai
30
Which item should be kept under version control?
Test data
ROAM Risks
Scrum of scrum results
Weighted shortest job first outcomes
31
Which tool helps the Agile Release Train evaluate the current health of Customer Centricity and Design Thinking?
Team performance self-assessment
Agile Release Train performance Metrics
Agile Product Delivery self-assessment
Program Increment (PI) Planning engagement Inventory
32
Business Owners are frequently unhappy with Solutions presented in the System Demos. What action can an RTE take? L5-12
Include the Business Owners in the Product Owner sync meeting
Reduce the number of Enabler Stories in the teams' Iteration Backlogs
Create a user experience team
Develop a more detailed product Roadmap
33
Which tool is useful in facilitating scrum of scrums meetings?
Program board
Microsoft Project Schedule
Team velocity comparison report
Agile lifecycle management software
34
Smart objectives what does the r stand for?
Rationalized
Required
Random
Realistic
35
Which core competency helps foster faster lead time, faster recovery, fewer defects, and more frequent deployments L1-14
Lean-Agile Leadership
Team and Technical Agility
Agile Product Delivery
Enterprise Solution Delivery
36
Product Managers showed up to the planning area with a priority list of items. What is the most likely anti-pattern?
There is strong alignment between business and marketing
Planning decisions have been centralized
There is no social network that Solution development relies on
Prioritization by Product Management was performed not collaboratively
37
Which statement describes the three elements that the Innovation and Planning Iteration provides?
Estimating techniques, training, and innovation
Iteration Planning, User Story refinement and estimating
Releasing, Continuous Integration, and planning
Innovation, planning, and an estimating guard band
38
What is a responsibility of the Release Train Engineer as chief Scrum Master for the Agile Release Train (ART)?
Break down Features into Stories
Escalate ART impediments
Provide the go/no-go decision for large initiatives
Analyze Epics in the Portfolio Kanban
39
What is the function of capacity allocation in SAFe? L4-7
Plan for unintended capacity dependencies between teams and ARTs
WIP limits are not exceeded by the capacity of the teams or the ART
Facilitate working on the capacity to apply between different types of work
Capacity is fully utilized across the ART towards the aims of stakeholders
40
Customer-centric approach to defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products? L1-14
Team and Technical Agility
Enterprise Solution Delivery
Lean Portfolio Management
Agile Product Delivery
41
Whats the best way for the RTE to show progress of work in the current Program Increment to management? L6-6
Conduct a retrospective
Arrange for a separate meeting with Business Owners
Conduct a System Demo
Generate a velocity trend report
42
Which SAFe tool might the RTE use to identify area for an ART to improve how its Continuous Delivery Pipeline functions?
Conduct empathy interviews with system architects/engineers
Facilitate a CDP sync every iteration
Agile Product Delivery core competency assessment
Architectural runway program backlog enablers
43
What is the purpose of a community of practice?
To align tasks across teams
To refine definitions of done
To share knowledge and skills
To approve standards
44
What way would ensure facility readiness when preparing for the Program Increment (PI) Planning event?
Share business value documents
Print program boards
Secure communication channels for remote participants
Print PI Objectives
45
Organizing an Agile Release Train to optimize the flow of work and increase the delivery of value which DevOps practice
Manage and reduce queue lengths
Perform Go-No-Go stage gates
Streamline the pre production development environment
Execute release packaging activities
46
What is the best way to foster flow of value, innovation, and apply Lean budgeting in the Enterprise?
Coordinate all Agile Release Trains to provide feedback for cost of delay
Implement the Lean Portfolio Management core competency
Determine Epic job size using the Lean business case
Launch Agile Release Trains
47
What is a reason why an environment of mutual influence is desirable?
It centralizes decision making
It helps fund Value Streams
It provides guardrails for decision making
It requires discipline for people
48
During (PI) excitement of teams decline as Product Management makes changes to the top ten features. What is the reason?
Lack of training and preparation for PI Planning
Management stakeholders are not involved in changing the system
Cadence and synchronization are not in alignment
People are over-controlled and under-utilised
49
What way can program risks be categorised using (ROAM)? L4-44
Explained
Identified
Resolved
Deferred
50
Which action can be taken immediately during the management review and problem-solving meeting?
Recognize the team with the highest velocity
Hire new people
Change the business priorities
Combine teams to increase velocity
51
Product Managers showed up to the planning area with a priority list of items. What is the most likely anti-pattern?
Planning decisions have been centralized
There is no social network that Solution development relies on
There is strong alignment between business and marketing
Prioritization by Product Management was performed not collaboratively
52
When's the Inspectand Adapt event held?
During 2nd Iteration of the Program Increment (PI)
At the end of the Program Increment (PI)
At the end of every Iteration
After the System Demo
53
Which primary role should emphasize lifelong learning?
Lean-Agile Leaders
Business Owners
Product Management
Scrum Masters
54
A Release Train Engineer (RTE) would like to try a new retrospective technique. How could an RTE get help?
Share and receive feedback from other RTEs in a community of practice
Start a discussion with the Architects
Ask leadership to decide whether or not this technique should be used
Post it in an internal communications forum and inspire others
55
What is one way to develop sufficient Architectural Runway for the Agile Release Train?
Identify future detailed plans and determine the Enablers to achieve them
sk the teams to commit only to Enablers
Ask the Business Owner which Enablers have high business value
Create alignment with the System Architect and Product Management
56
In order to evolve the role of a leader in SAFe, which practices can the Release Train Engineer (RTE) recommend?
Provide the RTE with weekly status reports
Encourage personal development
Develop detailed project plans
Manage up and across the Enterprise
57
When best time to conduct the preperation for the PI Planning event during the Innovation and Planning Iteration? L5-33
When planning for a major release
As early as possible
After the Inspect and Adapt event
On the morning of the first day of PI Planning
58
The (RTE) notices a Feature that is a technology risk. Which of the following could reduce the risk?
Ensure engineering managers are directing the development process
Ask for a presentation of a detailed design before the PI Planning meeting
Coach the teams to create exploration Enablers
Make sure all the technical specifications are written before PI execution
59
Why is the innovation pillar of the House of Lean important to SAFe?
It provides the shorted possible lead time
It avoids the start-stop-start of project delays
It ensures delivery of valuable products
It is the foundation of the House of Lean
60
What action can the Release Train Engineer take to help optimize the Program Backlog readiness?
Lean Portfolio Management function to hold regular Epic review meetings
Product Management and the System Architect to run through Program Backlog
Coach Product Management to include Program Backlog refinement
Compile teams' objectives from PI Planning and send out a summary report
