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