What is a key benefit of Team Backlog Refinement?

Provides time to resolve dependencies

Which of the following is one of the statements from the Agile Manifesto?

Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation

What could help increase a team's Flow? (2 Correct Answers)

Set a WIP limit where you see a bottleneck, Reduce the batch size for your team

User Stories are created…

During PI Planning, After PI Planning, Before PI Planning

You Have Reached the End of Ch.5

Can we do it again?!, Yay!, Woo Hoo!, On to Ch.6!

During the Standup, the team calls out a new risk that jeopardizes the plan. The PO should…

Help the team escalate immediately

The Innovation and Planning Iteration occurs...

As the last iteration of each PI

Which of these is part of Inspect and Adapt? (2 Correct Answers)

Quantitative Measurement, Problem-Solving Workshop

How could a cost estimate for an Epic be obtained?

Using Average ART Cost/PI and Epic Size Estimate

What is a Benefit Hypothesis?

The proposed measurable benefit to the end user or business

How does Business Value influence a team's plan?

Provides priority for implementation

What is one thing a PO/PM can do to support the CDP? (2 Correct Answers)

Write smaller Stories/Features, Write Acceptance Criteria using BDD format

Without the IP Iteration ___(3 Correct Answers)

More features can be completed, There is no dedicated time to plan together, There is little innovation

Which of the following accurately describes the PO & PM roles? (2 Correct Answers)

PO is team-oriented, PM is market-oriented

How would the size of an Epic be estimated? (2 Correct Answers)

Relatively Estimate Features against previous ones, Teams give rough estimates for Features which are summed up

At the end of Day 1, what might leaders do to resolve Bottlenecks in the ART?

Rebalance Skills among teams by moving People

You Have Reached the End of Ch.1

Woo Hoo!, Yay!, Can we do it again?!, On to Chapter 2!

The Problem-Solving Workshop is designed to solution on ___

Systemic issues impacting delivery of value

As a PO, if the team anticipates a high risk with one of their objectives, what should they do?

Encourage them to move it to Uncommitted Objectives

What is a potential input to the Program Vision? (2 Correct Answers)

Strategic Themes, Customer Feedback

What is one non-economic way to prioritize work? (2 Correct Answers)

Only Consider Return On Investment, Squeaky Wheel (Loudest Person)

Why is a Definition of Done important?

Creates a common understanding of what "complete" means

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1
What is a key benefit of Team Backlog Refinement?
Creates a contracted scope of work
Forecasts Feature Completion
Ensures Built-In Quality
Provides time to resolve dependencies
2
What tool captures the workflow of a user?
Personas
Customer Journey Map
Story Maps
Kanban boards
3
Which of the following is one of the statements from the Agile Manifesto?
Responding to Change over Contract Negotiation
Early Delivery over Phase Gate Milestones
Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation
Comprehensive Documentation over Working Software
4
What is one output of PI Planning? (2 Correct Answers)
PI Objectives
Program Board
Vision
Project Plan
5
Features in the Program Backlog could usually come from ___
Stories
Epics
Market Research
Executive Projects
6
What is an example of an innovation activity for the IP Iteration? (2 Correct Answers)
Getting Features Accepted
Hackathon
Supplier Showcase
User Acceptance Testing
7
What could help increase a team's Flow? (2 Correct Answers)
Set a WIP limit where you see a bottleneck
Re-prioritize stories to work the smallest stories first
Hire more testers
Reduce the batch size for your team
8
User Stories are created…
During PI Planning
After PI Planning
Before PI Planning
9
Who maintains the Program Roadmap?
Epic Owner
Product Manager
Product Owner
Solution Management
10
How often should a System Demo occur?
On Demand
Once per PI
Twice per PI
After every Iteration
11
Who provides architectural guidance for the ART?
No one
System Architect
Release Train Engineer
Product Manager
12
Market Rhythms are ___ whereas Market Events are ___
Ad-Hoc | Cyclical
Cyclical | Ad-Hoc
13
The Product Manager has content authority at the ___ Level and authors ___
Program, Features
Portfolio, Epics
Team, Stories
Solution, Capabilities
14
You Have Reached the End of Ch.5
Can we do it again?!
Yay!
Woo Hoo!
On to Ch.6!
15
Who accepts Stories and participates in Team Ceremonies?
Product Owner
Epic Owner
Solution Manager
Product Manager
16
Which one of these is a Team Ceremony?
Feature Refinement
Iteration Planning
PI Planning
Status Call
17
Feature Toggles Enable the separation of ___ and Release.
Integration
Development
Deployment
18
Stories should be demo'd…
At the iteration review
When they are completed
At the system demo
During the Standup
19
Shorter cycles yield… Learning
Slower
Deeper
Accelerated
Integrated
20
During the Standup, the team calls out a new risk that jeopardizes the plan. The PO should…
Encourage the team to problem-solve
Help the team escalate immediately
Do not bother leadership with a team issue
Take the risk to the Change Control Board
21
The Innovation and Planning Iteration occurs...
As the last iteration of each PI
Annually
When the Scrum Master thinks it's necessary
When an Outage Occurs
22
True or False: Documentation is NOT required in Agile.
false
true
23
Which of the following is a Core Value of SAFe? (2 Correct Answers)
Alignment
Lean-Agile Leadership
Flow
Transparency
24
What is the most important factor in prioritizing Features?
Executive's Priorities
Cost of Delay
Cost of Implementation
ROI
25
Which of these is part of Inspect and Adapt? (2 Correct Answers)
Quantitative Measurement
Go/No-Go decision
Problem-Solving Workshop
Closing out the project
26
How could a cost estimate for an Epic be obtained?
Using cost-modeling software
You can't get cost estimates in SAFe
Using Average ART Cost/PI and Epic Size Estimate
Detailing task estimates with average burdened cost
27
What might be used to Manage Queue Lengths?
Roadmaps
Capacity Planning
WIP Limits on the Kanban
Backlogs
28
What tool is a representation of an end customer to help guide decisions regarding the product?
Story Maps
Customer Journey Map
Kanban boards
Personas
29
True or False: SAFe includes principles, practices, and competencies for Lean AND DevOps
true
false
30
What is a Benefit Hypothesis?
The proposed measurable benefit to the end user or business
A tool for guiding WSJF and prioritization
Details of the ROI
A general description of a product
31
How does Business Value influence a team's plan?
Encourages restructuring of Agile Teams
Provides goals for perfomance reporting
Provides priority for implementation
Encourages descoping of low-value objectives
32
What is one thing a PO/PM can do to support the CDP? (2 Correct Answers)
Write Stories/Features aligned to Architecture layers
Write smaller Stories/Features
Develop Automation Infrastructure
Write Acceptance Criteria using BDD format
33
Without the IP Iteration ___(3 Correct Answers)
More features can be completed
There is no dedicated time to plan together
Capacity is eroded
There is little innovation
34
Which of the following accurately describes the PO & PM roles? (2 Correct Answers)
PO is team-oriented
PO Authors Features and Drives Program Objectives
PM is market-oriented
PM Authors Stories and drives Iteration Goals
35
How would the size of an Epic be estimated? (2 Correct Answers)
Relatively Estimate Features against previous ones
Using Work Breakdown Structure
Using DDE's
Teams give rough estimates for Features which are summed up
36
Who Contributes to Story Acceptance Criteria?
Scrum Master
Delivery Team
Product Owner
Product Manager
37
PI Objectives are committed to ____
After PI Planning
During PI Planning
Before PI Planning
38
True or False: PO & PM do NOT do anything to support the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
true
false
39
At the end of Day 1, what might leaders do to resolve Bottlenecks in the ART?
Nothing
Redistribute User Stories between teams
Implement Portfolio Kanban WIP Limits
Rebalance Skills among teams by moving People
40
In an Agile Team, who owns and prioritizes the backlog?
Product Owner
Epic Owner
Business Owner
Product Manager
41
What role collaborates and sets expectations with POs, stakeholders, customers, and architects?
Business Owner
Product Owner
Release Train Engineer
Product Manager
42
You Have Reached the End of Ch.1
Woo Hoo!
Yay!
Can we do it again?!
On to Chapter 2!
43
The Problem-Solving Workshop is designed to solution on ___
Emergent design of the system
New Features
Systemic issues impacting delivery of value
Measuring the teams on the ART
44
A Team Backlog may contain… (2 Correct Answers)
Enabler Stories
Epics
Features
User Stories
45
What mght be used to visualize Work In Progress?
Kanban Board
Backlog
Continuous Delivery Pipeline
Roadmap
46
As a PO, if the team anticipates a high risk with one of their objectives, what should they do?
Take ownership of the risk
Designate a SME to guide the work
Encourage them to remove the objective entirely
Encourage them to move it to Uncommitted Objectives
47
What is a potential input to the Program Vision? (2 Correct Answers)
Strategic Themes
Organizational and Team Structure
System Demo's
Customer Feedback
48
What is a pattern for breaking Features into Stories?
Front End and Back End
Development, QA, Deployment
Work Flow Steps
UI/UX, Middleware, and Back Office
49
Multiple… Improve economic results
Project Plans
SCRUM Masters
Columns of Uncertainty
Design Sets
50
What is one non-economic way to prioritize work? (2 Correct Answers)
Pareto Analysis
Only Consider Return On Investment
Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)
Squeaky Wheel (Loudest Person)
51
Why is a Definition of Done important?
Standardizes Story Points across teams
Communicates goals to leadership
Prioritizes the work
Creates a common understanding of what "complete" means
52
What is one anti-pattern a PO must be careful to avoid regarding Iteration Planning?
Encourage the teams to confront new challenges
Supporting commitment to Iteration Goals
Pressuring the team to overcommit
Support incorporating Retrospective action items in the plan
53
During PI Planning, if a team want to negotiate scope of a Feature, who do they speak with?
Scope is not negotiable
Product Manager
Release Train Engineer
System Architect
54
What source might feed a Team Backlog? (2 Correct Answers)
Executive Projects
Team Context (Tech Debt, Maintenance, etc)
Features
Strategic Themes
55
What concept transforms unpredictable events into predictable occurrences
Implementing WIP
Full Stack Development
Delivering on Cadence
Synchronize delivery
56
What phase on the Kanban would fall into Continuous Exploration?
Implementing
Releasing
Analyzing
Validating on Staging
57
Who Has content authority over Stories?
Product Manager
Solution Management
Epic Owner
Product Owner
58
How does the Business Ower communicate value of PI Objectives?
Story Points
Ranking with estimated ROI
Business Value
Funding Allocation
59
Where would a stakeholder look to get a forecast for when a Feature will be complete?
Portfolio Roadmap
Program Kanban
Program Backlog
Program Roadmap
60
A vision is aspirational and describes…
The limitations of the Solution
The Future State
The In-Scope Features for the next PI
The Current State
61
What is an example of an integrated learning point?
Status Call
GoNoGo
System Demo
Retrospective
62
WSJF Prioritization is completed during PI Planning
false
true
63
How long should a typical Program Roadmap be?
Only 1 Program Increment
About 3 Program Increments
4 Major Releases
About 3 years
64
How can story mapping help with designing the User Experience?
Through creating detailed wireframes
By doing Proof-of-Concepts
By encouraging the writing of larger Stories
By creating design prototypes
65
You Have Reached the End of Ch.2
Can we do it again?!
Yay!
On to Chapter 3!
Woo Hoo!
66
You Have Reached the End of Ch.3
Woo Hoo!
Can we do it again?!
Yay!
On to Ch.4!
67
Why is limiting WIP important
It increases flow
It helps promote the concept of failing fast
It makes people work harder
It creates bottlenecks
68
Who accepts Features as Done?
Product Manager
Epic Owner
Product Owner
Solution Manager
69
Product Managers and System Architects partner on planning time for Enabler work using what?
Capacity Allocation
Accurate User Story Sizing
Team Backlog Prioritization
Dedicated Enabler Teams
70
True or False: The Value Stream contains the workers, systems, and flow of information.
true
false
71
What tool can be used to a User's Experience while engaging with a Company?
Customer Journey Map
Personas
Kanban boards
Story Maps
72
How does the Product Owner participate in Story Pointing exercises?
Vote on story sizing
Facilitate the activity
Provide clarification on story scope and intent
73
True or False: Iteration Planning occurs only at PI Planning
true
false
74
True or False: The PO only comes to the Standup when requested.
false
true
75
The Current PI is ___ and Future PI's are ___
Approved, Pending Approval
Committed, Committed
Funded, Seeking Funding
Committed, Forecasted
76
What is an anti-pattern you might see regarding System Demos? (2 Correct Answers)
Ensure the right stakeholders are invited
PO/PM sees work for the first time at the demo
Rotate team members to present at demo
Demo is conducted in a non-integrated environment
77
WSJF favors features with a lower Cost of Delay.
false
true
78
Which of these is part of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
Quarterly Release Schedule
Continuous Integration
Continuous Ideation
Continuous Delivery
79
Who participates in every PO Sync? (2 Correct Answers)
Scrum Master
Product Owner
Epic Owner
Product Manager
80
You Have Reached the End of Ch.4
Can we do it again?!
On to Ch.5!
Woo Hoo!
Yay!
81
During what part of I&A Workshop would PO/PM be likely to present to external stakeholders?
Quantitative Measurement
System Demo
Problem-Solving Workshop
82
What is one attribute of a good Product Manager? (2 Correct Answers)
Strong Technical Background
Short-term vision
Solid understanding of current Solution
Continuous exploration of Customer Needs
83
What does a PO/PM use to communicate the scope of a Feature or User Story?
Requirements Doc
Acceptance Criteria
Kanban Board
System Spec
84
What is one type of Enabler Story? (2 Correct Answers)
UI/UX Work
Exploration
Supplier Work
Infrastructure
85
The goal of metrics is to show evidence of ___
The health of the Working Team (ART, Agile Team, etc)
Customer Engagement
Quality of the Product
Velocity increasing over time
86
What is one of the 3 components of Cost of Delay? (3 choices)
Opportunity Enablement / Risk Reduction
Business Value
Time Criticality
Job Duration / Job Size
87
What are two inputs to PI Planning?
Due Dates
Program Board
Project Plan
Prioritized Features (usually Top 10)
88
A feature should always have a ____ and Acceptance Criteria
Benefit Hypothesis
Project Plan
Work Breakdown Structure
Lean Business Case
89
Why should a team create Iteration Goals?
To get scope approval from management
To align to a common purpose
To report their loaded capacity to management
To refine their backlog
90
True or False: Iteration Plans can change after PI Planning
true
false
91
WSJF favors features with a shorter duration.
false
true
92
What should a Product Manager do to prepare for PI Planning? (2 Correct Answers)
Keep new Features under NDA
Arrange facilities for the event
Create/Update the Vision
Socialize Features with the Agile Teams
93
True or False: a DoD for a Feature is ONLY that the DoD for all Stories has been met
false
true
94
Who has content authority over Features?
Product Manager
Epic Owner
Solution Management
Product Owner
95
What does a PO use to communicate with management?
Requirements Doc
User Stories
Iteration Goals
Story Points

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