Practice Test Flashcards
Design Thinking identifies at least four new ways to measure success. What are 2 of those ways? (Choose 2)
A) Marketability B) Reliability C) Sustainability D) Desirability E) Scalability
C) Sustainability
D) Desirability
How does SAFe provide a second operating system that enables Business Agility?
A) By creating stability and hierarchy
B) By building up large departments and matrixed organizations to support rapid growth
C) By focusing on customers, products, innovation, and growth
D) By achieving economies of scale
C) By focusing on customers, products, innovation, and growth
How is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed?
A) In the Portfolio Kanban
B) In the Program Backlog
C) In the Portfolio Backlog
D) In the Program Kanban
A) In the Portfolio Kanban
If a program repeatedly shows separate Feature branches rather than a true System Demo, which practice should be reviewed to address the issue?
A) Continuous Integration
B) Test first
C) Scrum of Scrums
D) Roadmap creation
A) Continuous Integration
In the Program Kanban some steps have work in process (WIP) limits. Why is this necessary?
A) To help Continuous Deployment
B) To ensure large queues are not being built
C) To keep timebox goals
D) To eable multitasking
B) To ensure large queues are not being built
On day two of PI Planning, management presents adjustments based on the previous day’s management review and problem solving meeting. What is one possible type of adjustment they could make?
A) Create new user stories
B) Change a team’s plan
C) Adjust business priorities
D) Adjust the length of the PI
C) Adjust business priorities
Product Management has content authority over the Program Backlog. What do Product Owners have content authority over?
A) Portfolio Vision
B) Team Backlog
C) Value Streams
D) Portfolio Backlog
B) Team Backlog
The Agile Release Train uses which type of teams to get work done?
A) Phased-review-process teams
B) Solution teams
C) Cross-functional teams
D) Management teams
C) Cross-functional teams
The House of Lean is a classic metaphor describing the mindset essential for Lean thinking. Which one of the four pillars advocates a ‘Go See’ mindset?
A) Rlentless improvement
B) Flow
C) Respect for people and culture
D) Innovation
D) Innovation
What are the 3 primary keys to implementing flow? (Choose 3)
A) Manage queue lengths B) Reduce the batch sizes of work C) Frequent context switching D) Address the systemic problems E) Visualize and limit work in process (WIP) F) Increase capacity
A) Manage queue lengths
B) Reduce the batch sizes of work
E) Visualize and limit work in process (WIP)
What are the last three steps of the SAFe Implementation Roadmap?
A) Launch trains, coach Agile Release Trains execution, train executives and managers
B) Launch more Agile Release Trains and Value Streams, extend to the portfolio, accelerate
C) Train Lean-Agile change agents, extend to the portfolio, accelerate
D) Train Lean-Agile change agents, identify Value Streams and Agile Release Trains, extend to the portfolio
B) Launch more Agile Release Trains and Value Streams, extend to the portfolio, accelerate
What can be used as a template for putting SAFe into practice within an organization?
A) SAFe Core Values
B) SAFe Implementation Roadmap
C) SAFe Principles
D) SAFe House of Lean
B) SAFe Implementation Roadmap
What can be used to script the change to SAFe?
A) The Portfolio Canvas
B) The Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) charter
C) The Implementation Roadmap
D) The Program Kanban
C) The Implementation Roadmap
What is a minimum viable product?
A) A minimal story a team can deliver in an iteration
B) A minimal product that can be built to achieve market dominance
C) A minimal version of a new product used to test a hypothesis
D) A prototype that can be used to explore user needs
C) A minimal version of a new product used to test a hypothesis
What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe?
A) Teams align their Iterations to the same schedule to support communication, coordination, and system integration
B) Teams decide their own iteration length
C) Teams meet twics every program increment (PI) to plan and schedule capacity
D) Teams allow batch sizes across multiple intervals
A) Teams align their Iterations to the same schedule to support communication, coordination, and system integration
What is Business Agility?
A) A customer-centric approach to defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services to customers and users.
B) Applying Lean-Agile principles and practices to the specification, development, deployment, operation, and evolution of the world’s largest and most sophisticated systems.
C) The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business Solutions.
D) How lean-thinking people and agile teams optimize their business processes, evolve strategy with clear and decisive new commitments, and quickly adapt the organization as needed to capitalize on new opportunities.
C) The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business Solutions.
What is considered an anti-pattern when assigning business values to team PI Objectives?
A) Business owners assign high values to important enabler work
B) Assigning business values to uncommitted objectives
C) Business owners assigning the business value
D) All PI Objectives are given a value of 10
D) All PI Objectives are given a value of 10
What is found on a program board?
A) Features
B) Tasks
C) User Stories
D) Epics
A) Features
What is one benefit of unlocking the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers?
A) To centralize decision-making
B) To provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints
C) To strive to achieve a state of continuous flow
D) To lower work in process (WIP) limits
B) To provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints
What is one component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
A) Continuous Exploration
B) Continuous Improvement
C) Continuous Planning
D) Continuous Cadence
A) Continuous Exploration
What is one Guardrail on Lean Budget spend?
A) Spending caps for each agile release train
B) Participatory budgeting
C) Learning milestones as objective measurements
D) Continuous business owner engagement
D) Continuous Business Owner engagement
What is one issue when organizing around hierarchical functions?
A) It moves the decision to where the information is
B) It reduces political tensions
C) It creates agile business teams
D) It is not how value flows
D) It is not how value flows
What is one of the Agile Release Train sync meetings?
A) Solution Demo
B) Iteration Retrospective
C) Iteration Review
D) Scrum of scrums
D) Scrum of scrums
What is part of the role of Product Management?
A) To facilitate backlog refinement sessions
B) To assign business vale to fetures
C) To prioritize the Program Backlog
D) To prioritize enablers
C) To prioritize the Program Backlog
What is the basic building block when organizing around value?
A) Agile Release Trains
B) Agile Teams
C) Hierarchies
D) Individuals
B) Agile Teams
What is the best measure of progress for complex system development?
A) Inspect & adapt
B) Prioritized backlog
C) System demo
D) Iteration Review
C) System Demo
What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making?
A) Ensuring strategic decisions ar not made in a vacuum
B) Creating better visualization
C) Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time
D) Removing accountability from leaders
C) Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time
What is the foundation of the SAFe House of Lean?
A) Value
B) Relentless improvement
C) Flow
D) Leadership
D) Leadership
What is the impact of Customer Centricity?
A) To design custom-built customer solutions
B) To understand the Customer’s needs
C) To build small, partial systems just-in-time
D) To interpret market rythms
B) To understand the Customer’s needs
What is the last step in Kotter’s approach to change management?
A) Sustain & improve
B) Consolidate gains and produce more wins
C) Generate short-term wins
D) Anchor new approaches in the culture
D) Anchor new approaches in the culture
What is used to capture the current state of the Portfolio and a primer to the future state?
A) Portfolio Canvas
B) Portfolio Backlog
C) Portfolio Vision
D) Portfolio Kanban
A) Portfolio Canvas
What must management do for a successful agile transformation?
A) Change Scrum Masters in the team every 2 weeks
B) Strive to think of adaption as an area they can control
C) Send someone to represent management, and then delegate tasks to these individuals
D) Commit to quality and be the change agent in the system
D) Commit to quality and be the change agent in the system
When basing decisions on economics, how are lead time, product cost, value, and development expense used?
A) To take into account sunk costs
B) To limit work in process (WIP) through the system
C) To identify different parameters of the economic framework
D) To recover money already spent
C) To identify different parameters of the economic framework
Which is an aspect of systems thinking?
A) Cadence makes routine everything that can be routine
B) Optimizing a component does not optimize the system
C) Mastery drives intrinsic motivation
D) The length of the queue impacts the wait time
B) Optimizing a component does not optimize the system
Which of the core competencies of the Lean Enterprise helps align strategy and execution?
A) Lean portfolio management
B) DevOps and release on demand
C) Team and technical agility
D) Busines solutions and lean systems engineering
A) Lean Portfolio Management
Which statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes?
A)They are business objectives that connect the SAFe portfolio to the Enterprise business strategy
B) They are a high-level summary of each program’s vision and are updated after every PI
C)They are reuirements that span agile release trains but must fit within a single program increment
D)They are large initiatives managed in the portfolio kanban that require weighted shorted job first priorization and a lightweight business case
A) They are business objectives that connect the SAFe portfolio to the Enterprise business strategy
Which statement correctly describes one aspect of the team’s commitment at the end of PI Planning?
A) A team commits to all features they put on the program board
B) A team does not commit to uncommitted objectives
C) A team commits to all the stories they put on their PI plan
D) A team commits only to the PI Objectives with the highest business value
B) A team does not commit to uncommitted objectives
Which statement fits with the SAFe Core Value of Built-in Quality?
A) Quality is not part of the SAFe core values
B) Quality depends on the scale of the project and should be implemented from the top down
C) You cannot scale crappy code
D) Quality should only be worked on during the innovation and planning iteration
C) You cannot scale crappy code
Which statement is a principle of the Agile Manifesto?
A) Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch szes, and manage queue lenghts
B) Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential
C) Measure everything
D) Respect for people and culture
B) Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential
Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
A) Limit work in progress
B) Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
C) Respond to change
D) Respect for people and culture
C) Respond to change
Which statement is true about DevOps?
A) DevOps automation of testing reduces the holding cost
B) Lean-Agile principles are not necessary for a successful DevOps implementation
C) DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between development and operations
D) MEasurements are not a top priority for DevOps
C) DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between development and operations
Which statement is true about the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?
A) Without the IP Iteration, there is a risk that the ‘tyranny of the urgent’ outweighs all innovation activities
B) It is used as a weekly sync point between the scrum masters
C) It is used anually when the team needs to refocus on work processes
D) The scrum master can decide if the IP iteration is necessary
A) Without the IP Iteration, there is a risk that the ‘tyranny of the urgent’ outweighs all innovation activities
Which two quality practices apply to Agile teams? (Choose 2)
A) Providing architectural B) Decentralized decision-making C) Peer review and pairing D) Establishing flow E) Using nonfunctional requirements
C) Peer review and pairing
D) Establishing flow
Who has content authority to make decisions at the User Story level during Program Increment (PI) Planning?
A) Agile Team
B) Release Train Engineer
C) Product Owner
D) Scrum Masters
C) Product Owner
Which two statements are true about uncommitted objectives? (Choose 2)
A) The work to deliver the uncommitted objectives is not planned into the iterations during PI planning
B) Uncomitted objectives are extra things a team can do in case they have time
C) Uncommitted objectives are not included in the team’s commitment
D) Uncommitted objectives help improve predictability
E) Uncommitted objectives do not get assigned a planned business value score
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