SAFe test 1

Question 1

What core competency of the Lean Enterprise helps drive Built-in Quality practices?
* Team and Technical Agility
* Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering
* Lean Portfolio Management
* DevOps and Release on Demand

Answer 1

Team and Technical Agility

dimensions include Agile Teams, Teams of Agile Teams and Built-in Quality

Question 2

Which combination in the Agile Manifesto is correct?

• Customer collaboration over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over processes and tools
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Customer collaboration over following a plan

Answer 2

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
The third value of Agile Manifesto states that we value customer collaboration over contract negotiation.

Question 3

Who assigns business value (BV) to the team PI Objectives

• Scrum Master
• Release Train Engineer
• Product Owner
• Business Owner

Answer 3

Business Owner
In SAFe, Program Increment (PI) objectives are an essential component of the PI Planning process. These objectives are used to align the work of all teams within the program and ensure that the overall goals of the program are met. So, Business Owners assign business value to team PI Objectives.

Question 4

Which is among the functions of the Product Owner when working with the team backlog?

• Holding all features that are planned to be delivered by an ART
• Protecting the team from the problem of multiple stakeholders
• Helping surface problems with the current plan
• Investing all their time in developing specific acceptance tests

Answer 4

Protecting the team from the problem of multiple stakeholders
The Product Owner contributes to the Vision and Roadmap, acts as the Customer for team questions, so he protects the team from multiple stakeholders’ intervention, creates, clearly communicates and accepts Stories, and prioritizes the Team Backlog

Question 5

Which is a design thinking tool that helps the teams develop deep and shared understanding of the customer?

• empathy map
• persona
• journey map
• story map

Answer 5

Empathy map
Empathy maps are used to identify with Customers. It is is a tool that helps teams develop deep, shared understanding and empathy for the Customer. It is used it to design better user experiences and Value Streams.

Question 6

Why do we need to decouple deployment from release?
* To enable releasing functionality on demand to meet business needs
* To allow inspection of Agile maturity based on different cycle times
* To remove the need to respond quickly to production issues
* To make deploying of assets a business decision

Answer 6

To enable releasing functionality on demand to meet business needs
Decoupling deployment from the release is significant since it allows one to deploy code upon demand. This enables the rapid deployment of new features and issue fixes, as well as the rapid testing of innovative approaches. It also assists in keeping up with constantly changing client wants and market trends.

Question 7

How can trust be gained between the business and development?
* Deliver predictability
* Release new value to production every day
* Automate the delivery pipeline
* Maintain Iterations as a safe zone for the team

Answer 7

Deliver predictability
SAFe defines Flow Predictability to measure how Teams, ARTs, and Solution Trains deliver business value against their planned objectives. So, in order to gain trust between business and development, we need to deliver predictability because low or erratic predictability makes delivery commitments unrealistic and often highlights underlying problems in technology, planning, or organization performance that need addressing.

Question 8

Which analysis focuses on action and is used to identify strategic options, Epics and other artifacts to create a better future state?
* Strategic theme
* SWOT
* Portfolio
* TOWS

Answer 8

TOWS
TOWS analysis is used primarily for identifying strategic options to create a better future state

Question 9

Which operating system does SAFe represent?
* The dual operating system
* The network
* The hierarchy

Answer 9

The network

SAFe creates a second virtual operating system organized around Developm

around Development Value Streams instead of functional silos (or departments) to form the entrepreneurial network by focusing on customers, products, innovation and growth

Question 10

Which are among the SAFe Core Values? (Choose two.)
* Transparency
* Correct selection
* Program execution
* Culture
* Relentless improvement

Answer 10

Transparency and Program Execution

SAFe core values are Alignment, (Transparency), Built-in Quality and (Pr

Question 11

Which investment horizon represents those core businesses that provide the greatest profits and cash flow?
* Horizon 3
* Horizon 0
* Horizon 2
* Horizon 1

Answer 11

Horizon 1

Horizon 1: reflects the desired state where solutions deliver more value

Question 12

What happens to market value of a feature over time?
* Accumulates
* Decreases
* Stays the same
* Increases

Answer 12

Decreases

Market value of a feature decreases over time.

Question 13

The Chief Scrum Master for the train is known as:
* Agile Coach
* Business Owner
* Release Train Engineer (RTE)
* System Architect

Answer 13

**Release Train Engineer **acts as the Chief Scrum Master for the train

Question 14

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

• Conducting a PI Planning meeting
• Allocating budgets to Agile Release Trains
• Using a Portfolio Kanban system
• Creating cross-functional teams

Answer 14

Program Increment (PI) Planning is a cadence-based event that serves as the heartbeat of the Agile Release Train (ART), aligning all teams on the ART to a shared mission and Vision

Program Increment (PI) Planning is a cadence-based event that serves as

Question 15

Who has the responsibility to define user stories, plan them into the Iteration, and work out interdependencies with other teams during PI Planning?
* Release Train Engineer
* Scrum Masters
* Agile Team
* Product Owner

Answer 15

Agile Teams have the responsibility to define user Stories, plan them into the Iteration, and work out interdependencies with other teams during the PI Planning. Lesson = Building Solutions with Agile Product Delivery

Question 16

Who has content authority to make decisions at the User Story level during Program Increment (PI) Planning
* Scrum Master
* Product Owner
* Agile Team
* Release Train Engineer

Answer 16

**Product Owners **have the content authority to make decisions at the user Story level.

Question 17

Which of the following is an ART event?
* System Demo
* Iteration Review
* Iteration Planning
* Daily Standup

Answer 17

ART events include system demo, PI planning, PO sync, scrum of scrums, inspect and adapt and prepare for the PI planning. While Team events include iteration planning, iteration review, iteration retrospective, daily standup and backlog refinement.

Question 18

Which of the following are two characteristics for a cross-funcional Agile Team?
* The can work independently without a scrum master
* They can define, build and test
* They meet together weekly for 30–60 minutes
* They are optimized for communication and delivery value

Answer 18

Agile Teams are cross-functional, self-organizing entities that can define, build, test, and where applicable, deploy increments of value. They are optimized for communication and delivery of value. They can deliver value every two weeks. They contain two specialty roles: Scrum Master and Product Owner.

Question 19

Which of the following best describes the impact of Customer Centricity?

• To design custom-built Customer Solutions
• To understand the Customer’s needs
• To interpret market rhythms
• To build small, partial systems just in time
  *

Answer 19

Customer-centric Enterprises deliver whole-product Solutions that are designed with a deep understanding of Customer needs. Customer Centricity is a mindset. Whenever a customer-centric Enterprise makes a decision, it fully considers the effect it will have on its end users.

Question 20

According to SAFe Principle #10, which of the following best describes what the Enterprise should do when markets and customers demand change?

Apply development cadence and synchronization to operate effectively and manage uncertainty
* Reorganize the network around the new value flow
* Create an Agile Release Train to focus on value
* Create a reliable decision-making framework to empower employees and ensure a fast flow of value

Answer 20

Reorganize the network around the new value flow

When markets and customers demand change the Enterprise should reorganize the network around the new value flow. It should reorganize around Development Value Streams.

Question 21

Which one of the four pillars of the House of Lean focuses on the Customer being the consumer of the work?
* Value
* Flow
* Innovation
* Respect for People and Culture

Answer 21

Respect for People and Culture

Respect for people and culture advocates generative culture, people do all the work, your customer is whoever consumes your work, build long-term partnerships based on trust and to change the culture, you have to change the organization

Question 22

What is part of the role of the scrum master?
* To facilitate the scrum of scrums event
* To distribute tasks among team members
* To provide architectural guidance to the team
* To coach the agile team

Answer 22

To coach the agile team

A scrum master supports iteration execution by coaching the Agile Team in self management, helping the team focus on creating increments of value each Iteration, facilitating the removal of impediments to the team’s progress and ensuring that all team events take place, are productive and kept within the timebox.

Question 23

Which of the following statements is true about a Value Stream that successfully uses DevOps?

• It has effective automation to enable flow
• It is an Operational Value Stream
• It has more defects escaping to production
• It is not customer-centric

Answer 23

It has effective automation to enable flow

DevOps helps build the Continuous Delivery Pipeline. The Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP) represents the workflows, activities, and automation needed to deliver new functionality more frequently. Organizations map their current pipeline into this new structure and remove delays and improve the efficiency of each step.

Question 24

________ and _______ are two quality practices that apply to Agile teams (Choose two.)

• Using nonfunctional requirements
• Providing architectural runway
• Peer review and pairing
• Establishing flow
• Decentralized decision-making

Answer 24

Establish flow, Peer review and pairing,

Agile quality practices apply to every team, whether business or technology. They include Establish flow, Peer review and pairing, Collective ownership and standards, Automation, and Definition of done.

Question 25

Whose responsibility is to ensure that all team events are kept within the timebox?

• Product Owner as he/she is the customer representative, so he/she can do anything that ensures adding value to the customer
• Agile Team as they are self-managed and self-organized
• Scrum Master as he/she manages the Scrum framework
• Business Owner as he/she has the ultimate responsibility on the overall business

Answer 25

Scrum Master as he/she manages the Scrum framework

A scrum master supports iteration execution by coaching the Agile Team in self management, helping the team focus on creating increments of value each Iteration, facilitating the removal of impediments to the team’s progress and ensuring that all team events take place, are productive and kept within the timebox.