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SAFe recommends separating development from release. What can help with this practice?

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Hide all new functionality under Feature toggles.

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When should a dependency be raised as a program risk?

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When it must be accepted

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The recommended structure for writing User Stories is?

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As a…, I want…, So that

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Which situation indicates the presence of an innovation riptide?

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When team and Agile Release Train innovations turn into portfolio-level strategic initiatives

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A product owner is noticing that overall quality is starting to degrade. What might they do to address the problem?

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Reinforce the definition of Done

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What is a benefit of Program Increment (PI) Objectives

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To promote business agility by giving teams option on how they might deliver features

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What is the primary focus of an Operational Value Stream?

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Delivering end-user value

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Features are sized or split to fit what duration

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A program increment

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Which design-thinking tool is most likely to help an ART during PI planning to ensure that the PI will deliver solution that is differentiated from competitive offerings?

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Empathy Interviews

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Product Management is responsible for which activity?

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Defining Program Backlog content

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What is the purpose of the Solution Context

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To identify critical aspects of solution’s operational environment

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Why is the problem solving workshop more effective than traditional lessons learned documents?

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It makes improvements actionable through backlog items for the next PI

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What is one of the questions the Product Management team must answer in order to create a vision?

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Which problem will the solution solve

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Product Management is expected to collaborate in planning the amount of upcoming enabler work by establishing what?

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Capacity allocation

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The team is struggling to agree on the Story point sizing of a new User Story. The product owner was previously a related domain expert and feels the team is wasting time. What should she do?

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Continue to support that team’s decision on sizing

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The team is struggling to agree on the Story point sizing of a new User Story. The product owner was previously a related domain expert and feels the team is wasting time. What should she do?

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Continue to support that team’s decision on sizing

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What is a common anti-pattern related to System Demos?

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Team demos are accepted in place of a system demo to avoid redundancy

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The SAFe definition of DevOps includes which concept?

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Culture

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The first three elements of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline work together to support delivery of small batches of new functionality which are released in accordance with what

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Market needs

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What is the purpose of a Program Epic?

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To capture Agile Release Train initiatives that cannot be completed in a single Program Increment

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What is a Strategy a Product Owner can use during Program Increment Planning to minimize dependencies?

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Move stories on their team’s backlog to another team

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What happens to improvement items identified during the Iteration Retrospective?

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They are entered as Stories in the team backlog

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. What is an input to the Program Increment Planning process that highlights how Product Management plans to accomplish the Vision?

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Business context

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What is one way in which SAFe House of Lean might influence a Product Owner

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Help Agile teams gain a clear understanding of their customer

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What does assigning business value to a team’s PI Objectives influence?

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How teams pan the implementation

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Agile team capacity allocations often include which major category of work?

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User Stories

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27
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Which responsibility belongs to the Product owner?

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Assigning PI Objectives

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Who typically participates as the ART’s Business Owners to approve the team’s PI Objectives?

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Product Management

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Who should attend the PO Sync?

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The Product Owners, Product Management, and other stakeholders as needed

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How can Product Management leverage market rhythms?

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Adjust the delivery of Features to better meet market needs

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What are there elements of INVEST? (Choose three

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Testable,Valuable,Independent

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Which statement is true about nonfunctional requirements?

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They operate as constrains on the design of the system

33
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Which statement is true about the SAFe backlog model?

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Features are in the Program Backlog

34
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Which two options are part of the SAFe Core Values? (Choose two)

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Transparency and Program execution

35
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What is the purpose of Iteration Goals?

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To align the team members and the Product Owners to the mission

36
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The Customer is asking for a forecast for when a specific Feature will be available. Where could Product Management find this information?

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Solution Roadmap

37
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Communicating the Vision to the Agile Release Train during Program Increment Planning supports which SAFe Core Value?

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Alignment

38
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Which of the following should always attend the Agile Team’s Iteration Review?

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The team’s Product Owner

39
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Iteration Goals serve what purpose?

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To align team members to a common purpose

40
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Who provides Agile Release Train context and vision during PI planning

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Product Manager

41
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What is an input to the Vision

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Customer feedback

42
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Which statement is true about WSJF?

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It includes cost of delay and the unit size

43
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During Program Increment Planning, the Product Owner coordinates primarily with their Agile Team, other Product Owners and who else?

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Product Manager

44
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Which statement is true about estimating Features using Story points?

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More than one team may be involved in the estimation

45
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How do SAFe Continuous Delivery Pipeline activities map to the teams’ work each Iteration within the Program Increment (PI)?

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Each Iteration in the PI, teams are exploring, integrating, deploying, and potentially releasing new value

46
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When should a Product Owner (PO) develop preliminary Iteration Goals?

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Prior to iteration planning

47
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What is an input to the Program Increment Planning process that highlights how Poduct Management plans to accomplish the visions

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Top 10 features

48
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What is the purpose of the Solution Context

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To identify critical aspects of a solution’s operation environment

49
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What is one way in which the SAFe House of Lean might influence a Product Owner

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Help Agile Teams gain a clear understanding of their Customer

50
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Which statement is true about non functional requirements?

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They operate as constraints on the design of the system

51
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Which design-thinking tool is most likely to help an Agile Release Train (ART) during Program Increment(PI) planning to ensure that the PI will deliver a solution that is differentiated from competitive offerings?

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Whole product thinking

52
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How can Product Management leverage market rhythms?

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Adjust the deliver of Features to better meet market needs

53
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Essential Level

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Aligns strategy with execution and organizes Solution development around the flow of value

54
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Large Solution Level

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Is used for building complex Solutions that require coordination across hundreds of people

55
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Portfolio Level

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Contains various roles and artifacts that may apply to one or more levels of SAFe

56
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Spanning Palette

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Provides the minimal elements necessary to be successful with SAFe

57
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Core Competencies

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Principles, Values, Mindset, and implementation guidance to drive change

58
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Foundation

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A set of related knowledge, skills, and behaviors which enable Business Agility

59
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Business Agility requires that only software teams use Lean and Agile practices to continually deliver innovative, high-quality products and services faster than the competition.

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False

60
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What is Business Agility?

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The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative, digitally-enabled business Solutions.

61
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The basic building block for all SAFe configurations and the most straightforward starting point for SAFe implementation requires a significant degree of expertise across four of the Seven Core Competencies.

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True

62
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PI Planning

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Aligns the entire ART on a common Vision and goal

63
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System Demo

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Objective evidence provided by a working Solution; the primary measure of progress

64
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Inspect & Adapt

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Planned time to reflect, collect data, and solve problems

65
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IP Iteration

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Dedicated time for innovation, continuing education, PI Planning, and Inspect & Adapt

66
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Lean-Agile Leadership

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Enterprise leaders take responsibility for Lean-Agile adoption and success

67
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Which operating system does SAFe represent?

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Dual operating system

68
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What are the 10 critical success factors?

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What are the 10 critical success factors?

69
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What are the Core Competencies?

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A set of related knowledge, skills, events, and behaviors, which together enable organizations to achieve Business Agility.

70
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What is the Scaled Agile Framework?

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The world’s leading framework for scaling Agile across the Enterprise that provides a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles and practices to support Business Agility.

71
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Which configuration of SAFe provides the minimal elements necessary to be successful with SAFe?

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Essential

72
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Deliver early and often and apply an economic framework are two practices essential to which SAFe® Lean-Agile Principle?

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Take an economic view

73
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Match the SAFe® Lean-Agile Principle on the left with the phrase that most closely describes it on the right.

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Apply systems thinking –Taking a holistic approach to solution development
Assume variability; preserve options —Considering multiple design choices at the start and eliminating weaker options over time.
Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles—Allowing for faster Customer feedback and mitigating risk
Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems—-Demonstrating the working system regularly
Organize around value—-Enabling quicker delivery and the ability to change course when needed

74
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PI planning and timeboxed iterations where all teams participate in events together at regular intervals are two SAFe® concepts that support which SAFe® Lean-Agile Principle?

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Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning

75
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Big visual information radiators that show clearly the work of teams across an organization is an example of which SAFe Core Value?

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Transparency

76
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Which of the following team practices can be used to foster a culture of respect for people?

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Develop working agreements

77
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What are the SAFe Core Values? (Choose four.)

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Relentless improvement, Alignment, Transparency, Respect for people

78
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Which of the following SAFe events allows teams to regularly reflect and adapt their practices?

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Retrospectives

79
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Everyone working toward a common goal via shared objectives is a way to achieve which SAFe Core Value?

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Alignment

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