What must leaders do in a SAFe environment?

Know what they must do to support the transformation

Why should Story Point Estimating be a whole-team exercise?

To create shared commitment and understanding

What is one of the 3 components of Cost of Delay? (3 choices)

Business Value, Time Criticality, Opportunity Enablement / Risk Reduction

What role may be part of the Agile Portfolio Operations part of LPM? (2 Correct Answers)

RTE and SM CoP, (Lean) Agile Center of Excellence

Job Size is a proxy for Duration EXCEPT...

When you must consider Lead Times

What are the last 2 steps of the SAFe Implementation Roadmap?

Extend to the Portfolio, Sustain and Improve

What roles would likely be in the Strategy &Investment Funding of LPM? (2 Correct Choices)

Enterprise Executives, Business Owners

Which of these statement supports the Core Value of Built-In Quality?

You can't scale crappy code (or hardware, or anything else)

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1
Which role in Lean Portfolio Management supports program execution?
Strategy & Investment Funding
Lean Governance
Agile Portfolio Operations
2
Who assigns Business Value to PI Objectives?
Business Owner
Product Manager
Team - Self Assessed
Product Owner
3
When does a Feature leave the Continuous Exploration phase?
At the PI Planning event
After End-to-End Testing
When it is released
When a new Epic is created
4
True or False: A long-term Solution Roadmap creates a queue.
true
false
5
What is one responsibility of a Scrum Master?
Develop Code
Write User Stories
Facilitate the Daily Standup
Provide Status Updates
6
Feature Toggles Enable the separation of ___ and Release.
Development
Deployment
Integration
7
Once an MVP has been evaluated, you can either ___ or ___
Perform Additional Testing | Move on to a New Project
Release Immediately | Hold Until Beneficial to Release
Transition to Sustaining | Decommission
Pivot | Persevere
8
A full System Demo occurs...
Once Per Program Increment
Every 2 Weeks
When Features Complete
After End-to-End Testing
9
Which Program Role facilitates the PI Planning event?
Product Manager
Release Train Engineer
Business Owner
System Architect/Engineer
10
In a set based approach what is an example of an integrated learning point
System Demo
GoNoGo
Retrospective
Status Call
11
Who votes when estimating story points?
Only Development Leads
Scrum Masters
Product Owners
Developers and Testers
12
True or False: Teams on the ART can set their own iteration cadence.
true
false
13
Which batch is most important
Handoff Batch
All Batches
First Batch
The highest cost batch
14
What must leaders do in a SAFe environment?
Know what they must do to support the transformation
Lead better
Give better orders
Manage the change
15
What is one practice you could use to Collaborate & Research during Continuous Exploration?
Threat Modeling
WSJF
Gemba Walks
Create Detailed AIS
16
PI Planning occurs...
During the IP Iteration
On an As-Needed Basis
Once a Quarter
Twice Annually
17
True or False: The traditional V-Model of testing delays feedback.
true
false
18
True or False: ART's do NOT require Funding Guardrails.
true
false
19
Calculate Iteration capacity for a 7 person Team with 3 Dev, 2 Testers, 1 PO and 1 SM.
40
24
48
56
20
Reducing… Is the fastest way to reduce time to market
Lead Time
Risk
Delays
Resource Utilization
21
Which role in Lean Portfolio Management coordinates continuous compliance?
Strategy & Investment Funding
Lean Governance
Agile Portfolio Operations
22
Why should Story Point Estimating be a whole-team exercise?
To create shared commitment and understanding
To determine who should work on the story through bidding
To be able to provide a detailed, committed delivery plan
To measure the skill-level of each team member
23
What is one of the 3 components of Cost of Delay? (3 choices)
Business Value
Time Criticality
Job Duration / Job Size
Opportunity Enablement / Risk Reduction
24
What role may be part of the Agile Portfolio Operations part of LPM? (2 Correct Answers)
Product Leadership
System Architects
RTE and SM CoP
(Lean) Agile Center of Excellence
25
WSJF favors features with a shorter duration.
false
true
26
Job Size is a proxy for Duration EXCEPT...
When the Feature is too small
When the Feature spans 2 or more Program Increments
When Only the Architect sizes the work
When you must consider Lead Times
27
Which of the following is a Modified Fibonacci Sequence used for sizing in SAFe?
1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100
1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34
28
WSJF favors features with a lower Cost of Delay.
true
false
29
(True or False) Knowledge workers have more domain knowledge than their Managers
false
true
30
What is the event that starts the SAFe Transformation?
The Tipping Point
The Leading SAFe Course
The Management Directive
Set up the Agile Center of Excellence
31
What does the "A" in ROAM stand for?
Allowed
Abdicated
Accepted
Adjudicated
32
True or False: DevOps is a Cultural Change
false
true
33
How often should the LPM review Funding Allocations to the Value Streams?
Twice Annually
On Demand
Annually
Every PI
34
True or False: Stretch Objectives are counted in the Actual/Achieved Value.
true
false
35
What Team Role is responsible for working out interdependencies with other Teams?
Development Team
Release Train Engineer
SCRUM Master
Product Owner
36
Multiple… Improve economic results
SCRUM Masters
Project Plans
Design Sets
Columns of Uncertainty
37
True or False: The Lean Governance role in LPM establishes metrics for strategy implementation
false
true
38
What are the last 2 steps of the SAFe Implementation Roadmap?
Management Decision to go SAFe, Launch ART
Extend to the Portfolio, Sustain and Improve
Coach ART Execution, Launch More ARTs and Value Streams
Create the Implementation Plan, Launch ART
39
Which of these is a Program Ceremony?
Inspect & Adapt
Daily Standup
Iteration Retro
Go/No-Go Meeting
40
True or False: The Value Stream contains the workers, systems, and flow of information.
true
false
41
PI Objectives are committed to ____
After PI Planning
Before PI Planning
During PI Planning
42
What is identified as the single source of truth as to the intended & actual solution behavior?
Technical Intent
Technical Specification
Solution Intent
Solution Specification
43
Which one of these is a Scrum Ceremony?
Status Call
Iteration Planning
Feature Refinement
PI Planning
44
Which role in Lean Portfolio Management maintains the portfolio vision and funds Value Streams?
Lean Governance
Agile Portfolio Operations
Strategy & Investment Funding
45
What connects the Enterprise to the Portfolio in SAFe?
Epics
Strategic Themes
Capabilities
Funding Sources
46
What roles would likely be in the Strategy &Investment Funding of LPM? (2 Correct Choices)
Enterprise Executives
Release Train Engineers
Product Owners
Business Owners
47
Shifting testing left enables...
Pair Programming
Earlier Deployments
More Defects
Faster Feedback
48
Stretch Objectives are ____
Planned but not committed
Completed only if the team has time
Completed only if there is budget for overtime
Planned and committed
49
What is one type of Enabler Story? (2 Correct Answers)
Supplier Work
UI/UX Work
Exploration
Infrastructure
50
What tool governs the flow of Epics?
Portfolio Canvas
Portfolio Kanban
Program Kanban
Solution Kanban
51
Which of these statement supports the Core Value of Built-In Quality?
Quality Checks are done at the end of each iteration
Teams must commit to all Features in PI Planning
All End-to-End testing is done in the IP Iteration
You can't scale crappy code (or hardware, or anything else)
52
What role is the Servant-Leader on a Solution Train?
Product Manager
System Architect/Engineer
Release Train Engineer
Business Owner
53
(True or False) A team should be able to decide their own cadence
false
true
54
During the PIP Event, what is the purpose of the SoS Sync?
To allow the SMs to report status
To allow the RTE to give further instruction to the SMs
To resolve Cross-Team Dependencies
To discuss Program Risks
55
How often should a developer integrate their code?
Once per Iteration
Twice per Program Increment
Continuously
Daily
56
What is one benefit of SAFe? (2 Correct Answers)
Higher Employee Engagement
More Lines of Code Produced in Less Time
Faster Time-to-Market
Better Cost Control
57
The…… Team is instrumental when synchronizing teams
Project Team
System Team
Development Team
Management Team
58
Which of these is part of Inspect and Adapt? (2 Correct)
Problem-Solving Workshop
Go/No-Go decision
Closing out the project
Quantitative Measurement
59
Without the IP Iteration.... (3 Correct)
Capacity is eroded
There is little innovation
More features can be completed
There is no dedicated time to plan together
60
What powers the Solution Train?
Cross-Functional Agile Teams
Value Streams
Agile Release Trains
Portfolios
61
Which SAFe competency Provides Lean Governance across value streams?
Lean Portfolio Management
Team and Technical Agility
Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering
DevOps and Release on Demand
62
What types of teams are used in SAFe?
Cross-Functional Teams
Application Teams
Waterfall Teams
Distributed Teams
63
DevOps helps bridge the gap between ____ features and ____ solutions.
Old, Unstable
Untested, Perfect
New, Stable
Exciting, Boring
64
What is one input to PI Planning? (2 Correct Answers)
Prioritized Features (usually Top 10)
Vision
Program Board
Project Plan
65
What does the "L" stand for in the CALMR approach to DevOps?
Leadership
Leading Indicators
Lean Flow
Lead Time
66
Which of these is part of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
Continuous Ideation
Quarterly Release Schedule
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration
67
What concept transforms unpredictable events into predictable occurrences
Synchronize delivery
Full Stack Development
Delivering on Cadence
Implementing WIP
68
What is a motivator for knowledge workers
Power
Mastery
Vacation Time
Money
69
Product Owners have Content Authority at what level?
Epic
User Story
Capability
Feature
70
What variable reduce optimum batch size?
Batch Size
Transaction Cost
Variability
Holding Cost
71
In its most simple form, what is the Solution Intent.
A document repository
A document
72
What is one configuration of SAFe?
Large Solution
Project Level
Enterprise Level
Program Level
73
What is the 2nd step of the Problem-Solving Workshop?
Brainstorm Solutions
Apply Root Cause Analysis (Fishbone diagram)
Run a full regression test on the system
Assign Blame
74
True or False: A PI Roadmap is Committed 3 PIs out
false
true
75
WSJF Prioritization is completed during PI Planning
true
false
76
What is one of the Core Competencies in SAFe? (2 Correct Answers)
Relentless Improvement
Lean Portfolio Management
Team and Technical Agility
Project Management
77
Why is limiting WIP important
It increases flow
It helps promote the concept of failing fast
It creates bottlenecks
It makes people work harder
78
What is the most important factor in prioritizing Features?
Cost of Implementation
Executive's Priorities
ROI
Cost of Delay
79
What does the traditional Change Control process cause?
Increased Cost of Delay
High trust between Leadership and Agile Teams
Decreased Cost of Delay
High confidence that the solution will meet all NFR's
80
WSJF Estimation is done using ____
Strategic Themes
Summing up User Story Points
Relative Estimation
Domain Driven Estimates
81
In Full SAFe, an Epic breaks down into ___ (2 Correct)
Tasks
Features
Capabilities
User Stories
82
How does SAFe recommend funding be set up?
Fund one Epic at a time
Cost-Center Funding
Fund the Value Stream
Fund Projects
83
What tool would you use to define the Portfolio in SAFe?
Portfolio Canvas
Strategic Themes
Portfolio Backlog
Portfolio Kanban
84
In SAFe, the cost per Program Increment should be ____
Decreasing over time
Based off of Feature Sizing Estimates
Fixed (Stable)
Variable
85
What is an example of an objective mile stone
Requirements Completed
Daily Standup
System demo
Design Phase
86
what is a trade off Parameter that’s considered when making economic decisions
Total Cost
WSJF
Lead Time
Resource Utilization
87
Which one of these practices would be part of the Continuous Exploration phase of the CDP?
Stage
Release
Monitor
Hypothesize
88
Product Managers have Content Authority at what level?
Epic
User Story
Feature
Capability
89
Agile Release Trains are composed of ___
Only technical resources
Application Teams
Separate development and test resources
Cross-Functional Agile Teams
90
Early delivery has…… Value
Lower
Limited
Unlimited
Higher
91
Which Program Role owns, maintains, and refines the Program Backlog of Features?
System Architect/Engineer
Business Owner
Release Train Engineer
Product Manager
92
Shorter cycles yield… Learning
Integrated
Accelerated
Slower
Deeper
93
A Vision should be...
Showcasing our current state
Showcasing how we are similar to our competition
Aspirational, but unlikely
Aspirational, yet achievable
94
The Innovation and Planning Iteration occurs...
Annually
As the last iteration of each PI
When the Scrum Master thinks it's necessary
When an Outage Occurs
95
One of the most important parts of the Epic Hypothesis Statement is the ___
Return On Investment Estimate
Market Analysis
Differentiators (Unlike ... Our Solution ...)
Customer Research Summary
96
All Epics need a ___ to gain approval from Lean Portfolio Management to proceed.
Lean Business Case
Work Breakdown Structure
Business Justification
Domain Driven Estimate
97
What does a little’s law address
Time to market
Batch Sizes
Wait Times
Processing Time
98
What is the end goal of DevOps?
To create a better corporate culture
To release multiple times per day
To deliver value faster and more reliably
To create a solution that never fail
99
What is an anti-pattern of PI Planning?
It occurs every 8-12 weeks for 2 days
Teams edit and/or create and plan Stories into iterations
Product Managers present refined, prioritized Features
Only Team Leads Attend In-Person
100
A Feature must fit inside one ____ (timebox)
Quarter
Program Increment
Iteration
Year
101
Which of these is a Team Ceremony
Iteration Planning
Project Status Call
PI Planning
Inspect & Adapt
102
Frequent Demos at the Team, Program, and Solution Level provide...
No Value
Risk Reduction
Early Validation of a Working System/Solution
Great Marketing Videos
103
Features have a benefit hypothesis and ____
A Roadmap
Acceptance Criteria
User Stories
Specifications
104
When does an Epic go into Implementing on the Portfolio Kanban?
When an Executive commits to a date
As soon as the Lean Business Case is approved
When an ART commits to Features for it at PI Planning
After the Go/No-Go Decision
105
What is one output of PI Planning? (2 Correct Answers)
Project Plan
Program Board
Vision
PI Objectives
106
What tool facilitates the flow of Features through the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
Portfolio Kanban
Program Kanban
Release Calendar
rogram Board
107
Release validated solutions on ___________
PI
Demand
Command
Cadence
108
What is one challenge with Silos? (2 Correct Answers)
Value Release can accelerate out of control
Political Boundaries can prevent cooperation
Too many people working on the solution
Value delivery is inhibited by hand-offs and delays
109
What is the last scheduled activity on Day 1 of the PI Planning Session?
Planning Adjustments
Management Review
ROAM Risks
Draft Plan Review
110
True or False: PI Objectives are business summaries of what a team intends to deliver.
false
true
111
How is an MVP evaluated to determine whether to pivot or persevere?
Using Return on Investment Actuals
By looking at our stock price
Using Leading Indicators
Using Customer Surveys
112
True or False: An Epic can span multiple Program Increments
false
true
113
What is one issue with phase gate milestones
Uses a set based approach
No Solid Plan
Forces Decisions to be made too early
Lack of Detail
114
Which of these is a Program Sync?
Scrum of Scrums
Daily Stand-Up
Project Kickoff
System Demo
115
What is one problem with Cost-Center Budgeting?
You can only estimate large projects accurately
People are dedicated to the work
You have to move the people to the work
Cost-Center Budgeting is perfect!
116
Decisions that are infrequently made /long lasting /span across the enterprise should be.....
Decentralized
Centralized
117
What do smaller batch sizes yield? (2 Correct Answers)
Lower Utilization
Higher Variation
Low Variation
Higher Utilization

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