Certification Flashcards
What is one Guardrail on Lean Budget spend?
a) Investment horizons
b) Lean Portfolio Metrics
c) Customer participation in PI Planning
d) Centralized decision-making
Answer: a) Investment horizons
Which two areas are part of the SAFe Core Values? (Choose two)
a) Program execution
b) Responding to change over following a plan
c) Build-in questioning
d) Transparency
e) Working software over comprehensive documentation
Answer: a) Program execution and d) Transparency
What is this statement defining: “A series of activities that have proven to be effective in successfully implementing SAFe?
a) The Scaled Agile Framework
b) The SAFE Implementation Roadmap
c) SAFe’s CALMR approach to DevOps
d) A PI Planning agenda
Answer: b) The SAFE Implementation Roadmap
What is one key purpose of DevOps?
a) DevOps focuses on automating the delivery pipeline to reduce transaction cost
b) DevOps joins development and operations to enable continuous delivery
c) DevOps enables continuous release by building a scalable Continuous Delivery Pipeline
d) DevOps focuses on a set of practices applied to large systems
Answer: b) DevOps joins development and operations to enable continuous delivery
Who is responsible for managing the Portfolio Kanban?
a) Epic Owners
b) Lean Portfolio Management
c) System Team
d) Solution Management
Answer: a) Epic Owners
According to SAFe Principle #10, what should the Enterprise do when markets and customers demand change?
a) Create a Agile Release Train to focus on value
b) Reorganize the network around the new value flow
c) Create a reliable decision-making framework to empower employees and ensure a fast flow of value
d) Apply development cadence and synchronization to operate effectively and manage uncertainty
Answer: a) Create a Agile Release Train to focus on value
What is the primary focus of Lean Portfolio Management?
a) Establish lean budgets
b) Align Lean-Agile development with business strategy
c) Create enterprise strategy
d) Ensure program and portfolio execution
Answer: a) Establish lean budgets
Why is it important to decouple deployment from release?
a) To release only on a cadence
b) To enable deploying upon demand
c) To enable releasing upon demand
d) To deploy only on a cadence
Answer: c) To enable releasing upon demand
During the PI Planning event, when are planning adjustments communicated back to the Agile Release Train?
a) During the draft plan review
b) During the breakout sessions
c) At the beginning of day two
d) At the end of day one
Answer: c) At the beginning of day two
Who facilitates Solution Train events?
a) Release Train Engineer
b) Solution Management
c) Agile PMO
d) Solution Train Engineer
Answer: d) Solution Train Engineer
What is one tool used to focus on users in Design Thinking?
a) Role definitions
b) Indirect customer market analysis
c) Solution spaces
d) Story Maps
Answer: d) Story Maps
Where are Strategic Themes in the SAFe Big Picture?
a) Portfolio Level
b) Team Level
c) Program Level
d) Large Solution Level
Answer: a) Portfolio Level
How does SAFe recommend using a second operating system to deliver value?
a) Create teams to focus on innovation and growth and break down the existing organizational structures
b) Build a small entrepreneurial network focused on the Customer instead of the existing hierarchies
c) Organize the Enterprise around the flow of value while maintaining the hierarchies
d) Leverage Solution with economies of scale
Answer: a) Create teams to focus on innovation and growth and break down the existing organizational structures
A team has just adopted the SAFe Implementation Roadmap and is in the process of training executives, managers, and leaders. What is their next step?
a) Coach ART execution
b) Identify Value Stream and Agile Release Trains
c) Train teams and launch Agile Release Trains
d) Train Lean-Agile change agents
Answer: c) Train teams and launch Agile Release Trains
What statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
a) Individuals and interactions over contract negotiation
b) Individuals and interactions over tools and documentation
c) Individuals and interactions over teams and contracts
d) Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Answer: d) Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
At the end of PI Planning after dependencies are resolved and risks are addressed, a confidence vote is taken. What is the default method used to vote?
a) Planning estimates
b) Planning poker
c) Majority voting
d) Fist of five
Answer: d) Fist of five
What are the top two reasons for adopting in an organization? (Choose two)
a) Reduce changes
b) Enable changing priorities
c) Centralize decision-making
d) Reduce project cost
e) Accelerate product delivery
Answer: b) Enable changing priorities and e) Accelerate product delivery
What are the two ways to describe a cross-functional Agile Team?(Choose two)
a) They deliver value every six weeks
b) They can define, build and test a Feature or component
c) They release customer products to production continuously
d) They are optimized for communication and delivery of value
e) They are made up of members, each of who can define, develop, test, and deploy the system
Answer: b) They can define, build and test a Feature or component and
d) They are optimized for communication and delivery of value
Which two types of decision should remain centralized even in a decentralized decision-making environment (Choose two)
a) Decision that require local information
b) Decision that deliver large and broad economic benefits
c) Frequent decisions
d) Time-critical decisions
e) Decisions unlikely to change in the short term
Answers: b) Decision that deliver large and broad economic benefits and d) Time-critical decisions
Which core competency of the Lean Enterprise helps drive Built-in Quality practices?
a) Lean Portfolio Management
b) DevOps and Release on Demand
c) Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering
d) Team and Technical Agility
Answer: d) Team and Technical Agility
Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
a) Customer collaboration over ongoing internal conversation
b) Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
c) Customer collaboration over feature negotiation
d) Customer collaboration over a constant indefinite pace
Answer: b) Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
What is defined as the ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative solutions?
a) Organizational Agility
b) Team and Technical Agility
c) Business Agility
d) Lean Portfolio Management
Answer: c) Business Agility
The analyzing step of the Portfolio Kanban system has a new Epic with a completed Lean business case. What best describes the next step for the Epic?
a) It will be moved to the Portfolio Backlog if it receives a “go” decision from Lean Portfolio Management
b) It will remain in the analyzing step until one or more Agile Release Trains have the capacity to implement it
c) It will be implemented if it has the highest weighted shortest job first (WSJF) ranking
d) It will be implemented once the Lean business case is approved by the Epic Owner
Answer: a) It will be moved to the Portfolio Backlog if it receives a “go” decision from Lean Portfolio Management
If small batches go through the system faster with lower variability, then which statement is true about batch size?
a) Batch sizes cannot influence behavior
b) Good infrastructure enables large batches
c) Large batches can cause projects to miss targets
d) Low utilization increases variability
Answer: c) Large batches can cause projects to miss targets
Optimizing flow means identifying what?
a) Delays
b) Activities that lack innovation
c) Key performance indicators
d) Predictability issues of the train
Answer: a) Delays
What SAFe Principle includes working with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints?
a) Organize around value
b) Base Milestones on an objective evaluation of working systems
c) Build projects around motivated individuals
d) Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
Answer: d) Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
What is part of the role of the Scrum Master?
a) To escalate ART impediments
b) To prioritize the Team Backlog
c) To facilitate ART events
d) To coach the Agile Team
Answer: d) To coach the Agile Team
Why do Business Owners assign business value to team PI Objectives?
a) To ensure the teams do not work on architectural Enables
b) To provide guidance on the business value of the team objectives
c) To override the decisions made in WSJF
d) To determine the highest value using WSJF
Answer: b) To provide guidance on the business value of the team objectives
What are the three dimensions of Lean-Agile Leaderships? (Choose three)
a) Lead the change
b) SAFe Core Values
c) Lead by example
d) Support organizational change
e) Emotional intelligence
f) Mindset and principles
Answers: a) Lead the change and c) Lead by example and f) Mindset and principles
What is the SAFe House of Lean foundation?
a) Program Execution
b) Business Agility
c) Lean-Agile Leadership
d) Built-in Quality
Answer: c) Lean-Agile Leadership
What statement is true about program events?
a) Team events run inside the program events, and the program events create a closed-loop system
b) The Inspect and Adapt is the only program event required to create a closed-loop system
c) The daily stand-up is a program event that requires the scrum of scrums and Program Owner sync involvement in the closed-loop system
d) Program events run inside the team events, and the team events create a closed-loop system
Answer: a) Team events run inside the program events, and the program events create a closed-loop system
How does SAFe describe Customer Centricity?
a) As a strategy
b) As a priority
c) As a way of working
d) As a mindset
Answer: d) As a mindset
Which statement is true when continuously deploying using a DevOps model?
a) It increases the transaction costs
b) It removes the need to automate processes
c) It lessens the severity and frequency of release failures
d) It alleviates the reliance on the skill sets of Agile Teams
Answer: d) It alleviates the reliance on the skill sets of Agile Teams
How can trust be gained between the business and development?
a) Automate the delivery pipeline
b) Deliver predictability
c) Maintain iterations as a safe zone for the team
d) Release new value to production every day
Answer: c) Maintain iterations as a safe zone for the team
The program board shows which two items? (Choose two)
a) Epics
b) Risks
c) Features
d) Stories
e) Significant dependencies
Answers: c) Features and e) Significant dependencies
Which role serves as the servant leader for the Agile Release Train?
a) Business Owner
b) System Architect
c) Scrum Master
d) Release Train Engineer
Answer: c) Scrum Master