L2 Which responsibility belongs to the Product Owner in the team?

To sequence backlog items to program priorities, events, and dependencies

L3 Why is the modified Fibonacci sequence used when estimating?

It reflects the uncertainty in estimating larger items

L4 What is the purpose of the Iteration review?

Measure the team's progress by showing working stories stakeholder feedback

L5 Which practices are demonstrated during the Inspect and Adapt event?

Reflect, problem solve, and identify improvement actions

L2 What is the role of the System Architect/Engineer?

To guide the teams and support the Architectural Runway

L5 What is an important outcome of Inspect and Adapt?

Identify improvement items for the next PI

L2 What is the role of the Release Train Engineer?

To serve as the chief Scrum Master for the Agile Release Train

L2 What is the role of the Scrum Master?

Act as a servant leader who helps teams self-organize and self-manage

L3 The "3 Cs" is a popular guideline for writing user stories. What does each of the three Cs represent?

Card; Conversation; Confirmation

L4 An Agile Team collects the Iteration Metrics they have agreed upon during which part of the team retrospective?

During the quantitative part of the team retrospective

L5 Which statement is true about the PI Planning event?

It involves everyone in the program over a two-day period

L4 A cumulative flow diagram focuses on which curves?

Arrival curve ("to-do") and departure curve ("done")

L1 Why is Agile development more beneficial than waterfall development?

It allows businesses to deliver value to the market more quickly

L4 Which statement describes one element of the CALMR approach to DevOps?

Establish a work environment of shared responsibility

L4 What is critical to successfully implementing quality in a Lean-Agile environment?

Making quality everyone's responsibility

L4 What is the benefit of separating release elements from the Solution?

It allows the release of different Solution elements at different times

L4 Quality is first and foremost a function of what in a Lean-Agile concept?

Culture of shared responsibility

L1 What are the SAFe Core Values?

Built-in Quality, Program Execution, Alignment, Transparency

L4 How do Agile Teams strive to continuously integrate assets?

Integrate vertically sliced user stories

L2 When should a component team be used?

Obtain high technical specialization focus on nonfunctional requirements

L3 How can a technical exploration Enabler be demonstrated?

Show the knowledge gained by the exploration

L2 Why is transparency so important in SAFe?

Transparency creates trust, and trust is required for risk-taking

L2 Which statement describes the responsibilities of the Product Owner?

To own and manage the Team Backlog

L2 What is typically included in the definition of done for the team increment?

Stories are accepted by the Product Owner

L2 What is something an Agile Team would develop?

Program Increment (PI) Objectives

L2 What visibility should Scrum Masters provide during the Agile Release Train Sync?

Visibility into progress and impediments

L4 What does the Iteration review provide into the program?

How the team did on the Iteration

L3 During Iteration execution, a team's velocity tends to be most affected by what?

Changing team size, team makeup, and technical context

L5 Which activity is key to successfully implementing the Scaled Agile Framework?

Use a cadence-based PI Planning process

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1
L4 Which statement is true about work in process (WIP) limits?
Lower WIP limits improve flow
Lower WIP limits result in fewer Stories being completed
Higher WIP limits provide richer feedback
Higher WIP limits result in lower utilization
2
L2 Which responsibility belongs to the Product Owner in the team?
To sequence backlog items to program priorities, events, and dependencies
To facilitate team meetings and drive Agile behavior
To foster adoption of Agile technical practices
To foster normalized estimating within the team
3
L1 What is the goal of the SAFe House of Lean model?
Innovation
Value
Flow
Relentless Improvement
4
L5 What is an example of a art (program) event?
Daily stand-up
Scrum of scrums
Iteration review
Innovation and Planning
5
L5 If the PI System Demo shows the current state of the Solution, then who is this demo intended for?
The Product Owner
The Scrum Masters
The Agile Team
The Business Owners
6
L3 Why is the modified Fibonacci sequence used when estimating?
It serves as a way to estimate large ranges
It results in greater precision
It reflects the uncertainty in estimating larger items
It can be used to predict unit test coverage
7
L4 What is the purpose of the Iteration review?
Serve as forecasting meeting, work is estimated for the Program Increments
Identify where there is too much work in the system, teams are overloaded
Measure the team's progress by showing working stories stakeholder feedback
Show the backlog items and work on possible Solutions for the backlog items
8
L5 Iteration planning, Iteration review, and backlog refinement are examples of which type of event?
PI event
Sync event
Program event
Team event
9
L2 Agile Release Train aligns teams to a common mission using a single vision and what else?
Team Backlog
Architectural Runway
Burn Down Chart
Program Backlog
10
L4 When are the tests written in a Test-driven Development environment?
Before the code is written
While creating the Product Requirements document
Just before deployment ("Just in Time")
Just before deployment ("Just in Time")
11
L1 Which factor helps unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers?
Parallel development
Pay-for-performance
Pay-for-performance
Autonomy
12
L5 Which practices are demonstrated during the Inspect and Adapt event?
Forward focus, develop, cross-domain plan, and expedite execution
Move forward, analyze future Stories, integrate, and iterate
New start, job sequence, funnel, and enable
Reflect, problem solve, and identify improvement actions
13
L3 What is an example of a modified Fibonacci sequence?
..5, 8, 13, 20, 40...
...1, 1, 3, 5, 5...
...5, 8, 13, 21, 34...
..5, 8, 13, 20, 40...
14
L2 What is the role of the System Architect/Engineer?
To define the design for the system
To implement continuous improvement methods
To guide the teams and support the Architectural Runway
To define the design for the system
15
L5 What is an important outcome of Inspect and Adapt?
Identify all out-of-scope work
Identify improvement items for the next PI
Agree on what will be committed to in the next PI
Analyze and approve Program Epics
16
L2 What is the role of the Release Train Engineer?
To coach teams to improve their results
To serve as the chief Scrum Master for the Agile Release Train
To ensure the integrity of all development in the Agile Release Train
To serve as the content authority at the Program Level
17
L2 What is the role of the Scrum Master?
A stakeholder who has the primary business and technical responsibility
Act as a servant leader who helps teams self-organize and self-manage
To coordinate Portfolio Epics through the Portfolio Kanban system
To facilitate Agile Release Train processes and Solution Train execution
18
L3 The "3 Cs" is a popular guideline for writing user stories. What does each of the three Cs represent?
Concept; Conform; Clarification
Conform; Card; Clarification
Conversation; Concept; Conform
Card; Conversation; Confirmation
19
L4 An Agile Team collects the Iteration Metrics they have agreed upon during which part of the team retrospective?
During the Features agreement retrospective
During the qualitative part of the team retrospective
During the time and materials retrospective
During the quantitative part of the team retrospective
20
L2 What is the recommended size of an Agile Team?
10 - 15 people
5 - 11 people
8 - 12 people
3 - 5 people
21
L2 Who or which group is responsible for providing architectural guidance to the Agile Release Train?
Product Management
System Architect
Enterprise Architect
System Team
22
L5 Which statement is true about the PI Planning event?
It involves only team members who are most qualified to estimate the work
Product Management on the first day and the rest of the teams on day two
It involves everyone in the program over a two-day period
It involves program Portfolio Management to prioritize the Stories
23
L1 How does relentless improvement support value in the SAFe House of Lean?
It allows teams to pivot without mercy or guilt
It optimizes the whole
It uses informed decision-making through fast feedback
It builds long-term partnerships based on trust
24
L4 A cumulative flow diagram focuses on which curves?
Arrival curve ("to-do") and departure curve ("done")
Arrival curve ("to do") and evolution curve ("change")
Implementation curve ("movement") and departure curve ("done")
Backlog curve ("work") and departure curve ("done")
25
L1 Why is Agile development more beneficial than waterfall development?
It allows management to track project progress based on metrics
It allows businesses to deliver value to the market more quickly
It increases productivity and employee engagement
It requires phase-gate approvals to ensure that everyone is moving together
26
L1 Why do Lean-Agile leaders try to connect the silos of business, system engineering, hardware, software, test, quality
To enforce organizational boundaries between functions
To allow friction between the teams
To optimize vertical communication
To align around value
27
L4 Which statement describes one element of the CALMR approach to DevOps?
Establish a work environment of shared responsibility
Keep everything under version control
Build cross-functional Agile Release Train with flow of value and Customer
Establish a work environment of shared responsibility
28
L4 What is critical to successfully implementing quality in a Lean-Agile environment?
Making quality everyone's responsibility
A phased-gate rollout
Separation of Dev and Ops
Component teams
29
L4 What is the benefit of separating release elements from the Solution?
It allows the release of different Solution elements at different times
It allows the Agile Release Train to demo value every two weeks
It allows the Systems Team to integrate with ease
It allows the Systems Team to integrate with ease
30
L4 Quality is first and foremost a function of what in a Lean-Agile concept?
Preserving options
Deployment on demand
Culture of shared responsibility
Empowered Solution authority
31
L5 The Inspect and Adapt event always starts with which activity?
Quantitative measurement
The PI System Demo
Agreement on the problems to solve
Retrospective and Problem Solving Workshop
32
L1 What are the SAFe Core Values?
People and Culture, Transparency, Collaboration, Responding to Change
Built-in Quality, Program Execution, Alignment, Transparency
Commitment, Competency, Collocation, Culture
Code Quality, Fast Feedback, Alignment, Trust
33
L3 What replaces detailed requirements documents?
Task Boards
Unit Tests
Pair work
Stories
34
L4 How do Agile Teams strive to continuously integrate assets?
Seek to physically branch software
Integrate vertically sliced user stories
Avoid integrating hardware branches
Leave as much as possible to the System Team
35
L2 When should a component team be used?
Obtain high technical specialization focus on nonfunctional requirements
To develop T-shaped skills together with Continuous Integration
To create each replaceable component with minimized dependencies
To gain the fastest velocity with well defined interfaces
36
L3 How can a technical exploration Enabler be demonstrated?
Demonstrate working systems in the production environment
Show the knowledge gained by the exploration
Show the acceptance tests written for the exploration
Demonstrate working systems in the production environment
37
L1 What is one of the typical Kanban classes of service for Agile teams?
Funnel
Review
Accepted
Fixed-date
38
L2 Why is transparency so important in SAFe?
Moderate improvements are achieved with ongoing transparency
To enable continuous delivery of value
Transparency creates trust, and trust is required for risk-taking
When an organization is transparent it monitors access to information
39
L2 Which statement describes the responsibilities of the Product Owner?
To ensure the team follows Agile principles and practices
To protect the team from external forces
To coach the team
To own and manage the Team Backlog
40
L2 What is typically included in the definition of done for the team increment?
Stories are accepted by the Product Owner
Customer documentation is ready
Regression testing is done
Stories are accepted by Product Management
41
L2 What is something an Agile Team would develop?
Firmware
Work breakdown structures
Program Increment (PI) Objectives
Workflow steps
42
L2 What visibility should Scrum Masters provide during the Agile Release Train Sync?
Visibility into collaboration deployment
Visibility into progress and impediments
Visibility into system Solution Intent
Visibility into single source design decisions
43
L4 What does the Iteration review provide into the program?
How the team did on the Iteration
How the team is increasing empowerment
How the team is demonstrating transparency of decision-making
How the team is responding to the stakeholders
44
L3 During Iteration execution, a team's velocity tends to be most affected by what?
Changing financial planners, a new Scrum Master, and new testers
Product Owner changes, changing estimations, and new Features
Productivity changes, team location, and innovation measures
Changing team size, team makeup, and technical context
45
L5 Which activity is key to successfully implementing the Scaled Agile Framework?
Remove blocks such as portfolio estimation
Use a cadence-based PI Planning process
Use Innovation and Planning Iteration instead of the PI Planning process
Replace the PI Planning process with the Inspect and Adapt workshop

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