Why is it important to decouple deployment from release?

To enable releasing upon demand

When should new approaches be anchored in an organization's culture?

Culture change comes last as a result of changing work habit

What is one key purpose of Devops?

DevOps joins development and operations to enable CI/CD

What are the top 2 reasons for adopting Agile in the Organization?(choose 2)

Enable changing priorities, Accelerate product delivery

What is an attribute of an application built with DevOps in mind?

It overlays measurements with events(deployments,releases)

Next step after analyzing for Epic in the portfolio kanban with a completed Lean Business Case

Moved to Portfolio Backlog if it receives a "GO" from LPM

Why do business owners assign business value to Teams' PI Objectives?

To provide the teams with guidance of value to the business

two types of decision that should be centralized?

Decisions with significant economies of scale, Infrequent decisions

Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?

working software over comprehensive documentation

Describe a cross-functional agile team in two ways

They are optimized for communication and delivery of value, they can define, build, test a feature or component

Next step in Safe Implementation roadmap after training executives, managers and leaders

Identify value streams and agile release trains

What is the primary focus of Lean Portfolio Management?

Align Lean-Agile development with business stratergy

a series of activities that have proven to be effective in successfully implementing SAFe

The SAFe Implementation Roadmap

What is an example of applying cadence and synchronization in SAFe?

Conductiong a PI Planning Meeting

Which statement is a principle from the Agile Manifesto?

Working software is the primary measure of progress?

What do letters in ROAM represent?

Owned, Mitigated, Resolved, Accepted

Which Principles includes providing autonomy with purpose, mission and minimum constraints?

unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers

Which statement is true about Program events?

Team events run inside the program events

What is the difference between a PI Roadmap and a Solution Roadmap?

PI Roadmap - Nearer Term, Solution Roadmap - Longer term

Weighted shortest Job First gives preference to jobs with which Characteristics(choose two)

Shorter Duration, Higher Cost of Delay

Which Statement is true about Lean Portfolio Management(LPM) and budgeting?

LPM empower to adapt the current backlog and roadmap context

Which statement is true about batch size?

large batches result in severe project slippage

What are two items that appear on the Program Board?(choose 2)

Features, Significant dependencies

What are stretch objectives?

Objectives that are planned in the capacity but not commited

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1
Why is it important to decouple deployment from release?
To release only on a cadence
To deploy only on a cadence
To enable releasing upon demand
To enable deploying upon demand
2
When should new approaches be anchored in an organization's culture?
Culture should not be changed coz SAFe respects current ****
When starting a SAFe implementation
Right after a sense of urgency is created in organization
Culture change comes last as a result of changing work habit
3
What is one key purpose of Devops?
DevOps enables continuous release by building CI/CD pipeline
DevOps focuses on a set of practices applied to large system
DevOps focuses on automation to reduce transaction cost
DevOps joins development and operations to enable CI/CD
4
Which 2 areas are part of the scaled Agile Framework Core Values?(choose 2)
Decentralize decision making
Alignment
Built-in Quality
Systems Thinking
5
What is the roof of the SAFe House of Lean?
Lean-Agile Leadership
Relentless Improvement
Innovation
Value
6
What are the top 2 reasons for adopting Agile in the Organization?(choose 2)
Reduce project cost
Enable changing priorities
Accelerate product delivery
Centralize decision making
7
What is the default method used for confidence voting?
Planning Poker
Thumbs up or down
Fist of Five
Majority Voting
8
What is an attribute of an application built with DevOps in mind?
It includes mainly legacy code
It overlays measurements with events(deployments,releases)
It has a long manual testing process
It ensures continuous integration with manual deployment?
9
core competencies of the Lean enterprise helps align strategy and execution?
Lean Portfolio Management
Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering
Team and Technical Agility
DevOps and Release on Demand
10
Next step after analyzing for Epic in the portfolio kanban with a completed Lean Business Case
Implemented if it has highest WSJF Ranking
Implemented once the lean business case is approved
remain in analyzing until 1 or more ART has Capacity
Moved to Portfolio Backlog if it receives a "GO" from LPM
11
Why do business owners assign business value to Teams' PI Objectives?
To ensure the teams do not work on architectural enablers
To override the decisions made in WSJF prioritization
To provide the teams with guidance of value to the business
To determine the highest value using WSJF
12
Where are Strategic Themes found in the SAFe Big Picture?
Program Level
Portfolio Level
Team Level
Large Solution Level
13
two types of decision that should be centralized?
Decisions with significant economies of scale
Infrequent decisions
Frequent Decisions
Decision that require local information
14
How can trust be gained between the business and development?
Automate the delivery pipeline
Release new value to production every day
Deliver Predictability
Maintain iterations as a safe zone for the team
15
Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
working software over following a plan
working software over contract negotations
working software over processes and tools
working software over comprehensive documentation
16
Describe a cross-functional agile team in two ways
They are optimized for communication and delivery of value
every member can define, develop, test and deploy the system
they release customer products to production continuously
they can define, build, test a feature or component
17
Next step in Safe Implementation roadmap after training executives, managers and leaders
Extend the Portfolio
Train Lean-agile change agents
Identify value streams and agile release trains
Create the Implementation Plan
18
What is the primary focus of Lean Portfolio Management?
Hold PI Planning
Align Lean-Agile development with business stratergy
Lead Solution Management
Remove Program impediments
19
SAFe first Lean-Agile Principle includes "Deliver early and often" and what else?
Apply systems thinking
Deliver value incrementally
Decentralize decision-making
Apply cadence
20
a series of activities that have proven to be effective in successfully implementing SAFe
The SAFe Implementation Roadmap
The Scaled Agile Framework
An agile release train
The SAFe lean agile principles
21
What is an example of applying cadence and synchronization in SAFe?
Allocating budgets to the Agile Release Trains
Conductiong a PI Planning Meeting
Using a portfolio Kanban ystem
Creating cross-functional teams
22
What is one pillar of the SAFe House of Lean?
Leadership
Continuous Delivery
Value
Flow
23
Which statement is a principle from the Agile Manifesto?
Build incrementally with fast,integrated learning cycles
Limit work in process
Respect for people and culture
Working software is the primary measure of progress?
24
What do letters in ROAM represent?
Managed, Resolved, Ordered, Accepted
Accepted, Redesigned, Ordered, Mitigated
Relegated, Owned, Approved, Managed
Owned, Mitigated, Resolved, Accepted
25
Which Principles includes providing autonomy with purpose, mission and minimum constraints?
unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
Take an economic view
Base milestone on an objective evaluation of working systems
Build projects around motivated individuals
26
Program shows separate feature branches instead of system demo, what is the solution?
Continuous Integration
Scrum of Scrums
Test first
Roadmap Creation
27
During which event are the team PI Objectives agreed upon?
Pre-PI Planning
Iteration Planning
PI Planning
Backlog Refinement
28
Which statement is true about Program events?
Team events run inside the program events
Daily stand up is a program event that requires the SOS
I&A is only program event required to create a closed loop
Program events run inside team events
29
Who is responsible for managing the Portfolio Kanban
Epic Owners
Solution Management
System Team
Lean Portfolio Management
30
Who facilitates Solution Train Events?
Release Train Engineer
Solution Train Engineer
Solution Management
Agile PMO
31
another name for technical or functional spikes needed to uncover knowledge or reduce risk
Epic
Capability
Exploration Enablers
Architecture enablers
32
What does the Continuous Delivery Pipeline enable?
Increase technical debt
Continuous refactoring
Continuous learning cycle
Ongoing development of Team objective
33
What is the difference between a PI Roadmap and a Solution Roadmap?
PI Roadmap is a SAFe Term and Solution Roadmap is not
They are different names for the same thing
solution roadmap - nearer term, PI Roadmap - Long Term
PI Roadmap - Nearer Term, Solution Roadmap - Longer term
34
Which role seves as the Servant Leader for the Agile Release Train?
Release Train Engineer
Product Management
System Team
System Architect
35
Weighted shortest Job First gives preference to jobs with which Characteristics(choose two)
Fixed Date
Shorter Duration
Revenue Impact
Higher Cost of Delay
36
Which Statement is true about Lean Portfolio Management(LPM) and budgeting?
LPM empower to adapt the current backlog and roadmap context
LPM cannot make any changes to the Portfolio
LPM can change budget allocations once every two years
LPM budgets projects and not value streams
37
What is the meaning of Shift Left?
Using test-first methods
Moving Operations to sit on the train
Explore customer needs before committing during PI Planning
WIP limits on exploration part of the Portfolio Kanban
38
Which statement is true about batch size?
Low utilization increases variability
Batch sizes cannot influence behavior
Good Infrastructure enables large batches
large batches result in severe project slippage
39
What is part of the role of the Scrum Master?
To write user stories
To coach the Agile team
To facilitate Scrum of scrums
To prioritize the Team backlog
40
What are two items that appear on the Program Board?(choose 2)
Epics
Features
Significant dependencies
Risks
41
When are planning adjustments communicated after the management review?
During the draft plan review
At the beginning of day two
During breakout sessions
At the end of day one
42
What are stretch objectives?
Objectives that are planned in the capacity but not commited
Objectives that do not require business value assignment
not planned but pulled if there is time later in the PI
Objectives that are commited for the PI
43
Optimizing flow means identifying what?
Delays
Activities that lack innovation
Key Peformance Indicators
Predictability issues of the train
44
What is one guardrail of Lean budget spend?
Customer Participation in PI Planning
Capacity allocation
Lean Portfolio metrics
Centralized decision making
45
What is the best measure of progress for complex system development?
System Demo
Prioritization Backlog
Inspect and Adapt
Iteration Review

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