1.
1 / 60 Which statement describes what stream
aligned teams do?
a.
Promote a better flow of communications between leadership, ARTs, and teams
b.
Use process
mapping to identify and eliminate process bottlenecks
c.
Build and deliver Customer value with minimal dependencies on other teams
d.
Analyze
Value Streams and transform them using Lean
Agile Principles
2.
2 / 60 Why is it important for the Release Train Engineer (RTE) to understand
Tuckman's group
dynamic stages?
a.
An ART is a team of teams and will likely progress through the Tuckman stages
b.
The T
uckman four stages should be reflected in the design of the ART Kanban
c.
The Tuckman dynamic nature of the stages requires that we assume variability
and
preserve options
d.
Tuckman helps RTEs to better understand Team and ART topologies
3.
3 / 60 What behavior
is an important part of the Release Train Engineer (RTE) role?
a.
Manage dependencies for teams
b.
Drive teams to specific outcomes
c.
Encourage teams to self
organize
d.
Provide teams with answers about Features
4.
4 / 60 What does an ART planning board support?
a.
Dep
endency review
b.
Problem
solving
c.
Feature delivery
d.
ART predictability
5.
5 / 60 Which statement is true about the definition of done (DoD)?
a.
The DoD is used as a method to manage technical debt across the ART
b.
The DoD should evolve as system capabilities
evolve
c.
At the higher levels there is only one DoD for everything that passes through the
ART
to a Solution increment or a release
16.
16/60 What is one benefit of the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?
a.
It allows for building in quality and compliance
b.
It provides an opportunity to integrate and perform end
to
end testing
c.
It allows for additiona
l planned work
d.
It provides an estimating guard band
17.
17 / 60 Which SAFe tool might the Release Train Engineer (RTE) use to identify
areas for an ART
to improve how its Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP) functions?
a.
Agile Product Delivery core competency ass
essment
b.
Conduct empathy interviews with system architects/engineers
c.
Facilitate a CDP sync every Iteration
d.
Architectural Runway ART Backlog Enablers
18.
18/60 How can Release Train Engineers (RTEs) network and interact with one
another to improve
job skills
and knowledge?
a.
Join or form an RTE community of practice
b.
Add an RTE lessons learned section to the latest ART Readiness Workbook
c.
Maintain a contact list of RTEs in the Value Stream
d.
Participate in an RTE rotation program
19.
19/60 What information is covered
during the final plan review?
a.
Changes to capacity and load, final PI Objectives, ART PI Risks, and
impediments
b.
Planned Features, uncommitted objectives, and ROAMed risks
c.
Changes to Iteration Goals, measured velocity, and dependencies
d.
Team Features, Sto
ries, and team
level Enablers
20.
20 / 60 How can a Release Train Engineer (RTE) stay informed about employee
satisfaction?
a.
Address and resolve any problems areas
b.
Conduct an employee Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey
c.
Survey full
time employees
d.
Gather employee
metrics immediately after the ART launches
21.
21 / 60 A group of developers, Scrum Master/Team Coaches (SM/TCs), and
Product Owners
(POs) are interested in sharing knowledge and learning more about DevOps
concepts. How can
the Release Train Engineer (RTE) hel
p them collaborate to gain knowledge about DevOps?
a.
Schedule a DevOps bi
weekly synchronization
b.
Help them launch a DevOps Community of Practice (CoP)
c.
Provide DevOps training
d.
Align them with the System Team
22.
22 / 60 What are the three measurement domains sup
porting Business Agility?
a.
Outcomes, Competency, and Flow
b.
PI Objectives, ART predictability measure, and KPIs
c.
ART predictability measure, SAFe outcomes, and Competency
d.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), PI Objectives, and Flow
23.
23 / 60 Who can the Release
Train Engineer (RTE) work with to help eliminate policies and
procedures that demotivate employees?
a.
Lean
Agile Leaders
b.
Product Management
c.
Portfolio Managers
d.
Business Owners
24.
24 / 60 Which value is used when calculating flow efficiency?
a.
Flow velocity
b.
F
low load
c.
Flow time
d.
Flow distribution
25.
25 / 60 A team is consistently meeting 100% of their PI Objectives. How should
the Release Train
Engineer (RTE) respond?
a.
Praise the team for being high performers
b.
Praise the team for being a cross
functional team
c.
Co
ach the team on their tendency to under
commit
d.
Coach the team on their tendency to size Stories too small
26.
26 / 60 Which activity occurs during Team Breakout #2 on the second day of PI
Planning?
a.
The RTE modifies the PI Iteration schedule, if needed, based on the scope of
high priority
Features
b.
The Release Train Engineer (RTE) combines all Team PI Objectives into ART PI
Objectives
c.
All Feature delivery and dependencies are visualized on the ART pl
anning board
d.
Business Owners independently assign business value to normalize business
value
across all teams
27.
27 / 60 What is one reason an environment of mutual influence is desirable?
a.
It helps fund Value Streams
b.
It demonstrates Respect for People
c.
It centralizes decision making
d.
It provides guardrails for decision making
28.
28 / 60 What is one activity the Release Train Engineer (RTE) performs before
an upcoming PI?
a.
Facilitate ART Backlog prioritization with Product Management and other
stakeholders
b.
E
nsures at least 30% of the ART Backlog is allocated to Enabler Features
c.
Allocates time in the Coach Sync for Product Management to socialize with the
teams on
the Features
d.
Provides approval and sign
off for draft Team Backlogs
29.
29 / 60 What is one benefit
of an Iteration and PI calendar?
a.
Ability to ensure that key events do not conflict with non
SAFe events
b.
Ability to know the cycle time between important team and ART events
c.
Ability to visualize the ART cadence and synchronization
d.
Ability to create a big
visible information radiator (BVIR) of the important team and ART
milestones
30.
30 / 60 Why is it helpful to communicate newly refined Features and Enablers to
the teams
during the current PI?
a.
Teams can help support overall product integrity and facilitate wo
rking agreements
during PI Planning
b.
Teams can review the Features and Enablers so they have an understanding of
the
Roadmap for the next PI
c.
Teams can establish face
to
face communication across all team members and
stakeholders
d.
Teams can prepare backlogs,
give feedback to the Product Owner/Product
Management/System Architect, and begin looking at dependencies,
impediments, and
knowledge building
31.
31 / 60 What is the next step after identifying the root cause during the problem
solving
workshop?
a.
Brainstorm s
olutions
b.
Restate the problem
c.
Identify improvement backlog items
d.
Trace the chain of causality
32.
32 / 60 What is one reason why the ART predictability measure is important?
a.
It indicates where the Solution is ready to be released
b.
It allows the business and other stakeholders to plan effectively
c.
It identifies under
performing teams
d.
It demonstrates the need to fix the scope at the beginning of the PI
33.
33 / 60 A Release Train Engineer (RTE) should build a relationship with which
SAFe
role to
effectively assign business value to a team PI Objective?
a.
Objective Owners
b.
Lean
Agile Leaders
c.
Solution Managers
d.
Business Owners
34.
34 / 60 Some teams need help to identify where they might make process
improvements. How
might a Release Train Engine
er (RTE) support them?
a.
Encourage the team to perform regular self
-
assessments and discuss findings
b.
Run longer Inspect & Adapt (I&A) events to brainstorm improvement items
c.
Conduct a survey to identify the worst problems the team is having
d.
Observe the tea
m's events and share observations
35.
35 / 60 Which action describes the behavior of applying Systems Thinking for a
Release Train
Engineer (RTE)?
a.
Demonstrates appreciation to team members in many ways
b.
Facilitates team decision
making over individual decision
making
c.
Examines what may be missing to make the environment better for the team
d.
Encourages the team to express opinions in all circumstances
36.
36 / 60 What hourly activity helps keep teams on track and facilitates early
identification of risks
during the
Team Breakout portion of PI Planning?
a.
Business Owner feedback meeting
b.
Coach Sync
c.
Iteration Review
d.
ART planning board inspection
37.
37 / 60 What is the most accurate definition of DevOps?
a.
A method that ensures operations works with development every day to
deliver value
b.
A mindset, culture, and set of technical practices that emphasizes close
cooperation to
provide value to the Customer
c.
A process that provides visibility to impediments between writing code and
delivering
value
d.
A set of tools and processes t
hat govern how code is deployed
38.
38 / 60 What is a key characteristic Lean
Agile leaders need to have when implementing SAFe?
a.
Understanding and exhibiting the values, principles, and practices
b.
Emphasizing the Enterprise objectives and KPIs
c.
Keeping roadma
ps to no more than a single PI
d.
Ensuring compliance with process standards
39.
39 / 60 What is one technique for building a one
team culture across the ART?
a.
Rotate team members to new teams to facilitate relationship building
b.
Foster an environment in which the
whole ART succeeds and fails together
c.
Ensure the team leader does not show vulnerability
d.
Review each teams' predictability measure with the ART
40.
40 / 60 The Release Train Engineer (RTE) collaborates with which other two
roles to drive the
train's success
?
a.
Product Management and System Architect
b.
Enterprise Architect and Solution Management
c.
Solution Architect and Enterprise Architect
d.
Solution Management and Solution Architect
41.
41 / 60 Following Value Stream mapping, what is one way to optimize the Value
S
tream?
a.
Calculate the metrics and share them with the ART
b.
Focus on one component to optimize
c.
Move from bottleneck to bottleneck, eliminating as many as possible
d.
Identify methods for developers to code faster
42.
42 / 60 Which statement describes flow velocit
y?
a.
The amount of Architectural Runway items in the backlog
b.
The system throughput
c.
The number of Features committed to during PI Planning
d.
The number of Story points the combined ART plans for within each Iteration
43.
43 / 60 The Release Train Engineer (RTE)
learns the teams feel the business value needs to
reflect the effort and progress. What is one technique the RTE can use to provide
the Business
Owners a better understanding of the value the teams have created?
a.
Educate teams that business value provides t
he Enterprise with a metric of how fast the
team executed work during the PI
b.
Illustrate the link between business values and the market
communications/release
objectives tied to the three to six
month Enterprise Strategy
c.
Work with the team to ensure they a
re actively involved when the Business Owners
score the business value achieved
d.
Publish the team business values and coach teams that these values are for
tracking
each ART deliverable
44.
44 / 60 What is one risk of eliminating an Innovation and Planning (IP)
Iteration?
a.
Technical debt can grow uncontrollably
b.
Delivery can be blocked
c.
Bottlenecks can be hard to identify and resolve
d.
Teams have no time for fixing bugs
45.
45 / 60 Which skill do Release Train Engineers (RTEs) have the opportunity to
regularly practic
e
and improve?
a.
Continuous Integration
b.
Return
on
investment (ROI) projections
c.
Servant leadership
d.
Test
driven development
46.
46 / 60 What occurs without a shared understanding of the principles?
a.
Business outcomes improve significantly
b.
Measures that were on
ce beneficial become problematic
c.
Lean
Agile mindset is achievable
d.
Practices are systematically adapted to local context
47.
47 / 60 What is one purpose of the System Demo?
a.
To demonstrate a team's build
b.
To demonstrate the full Solution in a production
like co
ntext
c.
To plan the Inspect & Adapt (I&A) event
d.
To flow, dependencies, and risks
48.
48 / 60 What is one method for developing a sufficient Architectural Runway for
the ART?
a.
Ask the Business Owner which Enablers have high business value
b.
Work with Product
Management and System Architects to identify future Features and
determine the Enablers to achieve them
c.
Create alignment with the System Architect and Product Management that the
first PI is
all about Enablers to plan for creating business value in the sec
ond PI
d.
Ask the teams to commit only to Enablers as their PI Objectives during the PI
Planning
and address Features as uncommitted objectives for the first PI
49.
49 / 60 Which SAFe Core Value creates an environment in which facts are
always friendly?
a.
Flow
b.
In
novation
c.
Respect for People and Culture
d.
Transparency
50.
50 / 60 How can a Release Train Engineer (RTE) support decentralized decision
making?
a.
Evaluate the strategy for the Value Stream
b.
Update team PI Objectives when handling a time
critical release
c.
Change
the cadence of the ART
d.
Empower knowledge workers to manage their dependencies with other teams
51.
51 / 60 When planning for a distributed PI Planning with a significant difference in
time zones,
what is a key preparation and facilitation focus?
a.
Have a single
Release Train Engineer (RTE) and technical support person that acts as a
central point of communication for all locations
b.
Share the outcomes of preparation meetings with local Scrum Masters/Team
Coaches
(SM/TCs) so they can arrange local rooms
c.
Split up the
PI Planning event per time zone and then have the final plan review,
confidence vote, and planning retrospective as one centralized meeting
d.
Adjust the PI agenda to 2.5
3 days, allowing for overlapping hours
52.
52 / 60 Which SAFe Core Competency incorporates
guidance on coordinating trains and
suppliers?
a.
Enterprise Solution Delivery
b.
Measure and Grow
c.
Lean Portfolio Management
d.
Business Agility
53.
53 / 60 During PI Planning, the Release Train Engineer (RTE) sees the team's
excitement decline
as Product Management
changes priorities, including the top ten Features in the ART Backlog. In
addition, Product Management is asking for new estimates, timelines, and scope
changes. What
is the likely reason for this behavior?
a.
Cadence and synchronization are not in alignment
b.
Management stakeholders are not involved in changing the system
c.
People are over
controlled and under
utilized
d.
Lack of training and preparation for PI Planning
54.
54 / 60 What is one benefit of having a well
executed Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?
a.
Higher flow of program
level business value
b.
Occasional buffer time to deliver more predictably
c.
Improved dependency management between teams
d.
Shorter lead times before Feature delivery
55.
55 / 60 Which of the following PI Planning elements creates transpare
ncy and helps engage
Business Owners and stakeholders in the planning process?
a.
ROAMing Risks
b.
Draft objectives
c.
ART planning board
d.
Team Iteration plans
56.
56 / 60 The Release Train Engineer (RTE) ensures that Business Owners assign
business value to
what dur
ing PI Planning?
a.
Team
level PI Objectives
b.
Features
c.
Stories
d.
ART
level PI Objectives
57.
57 / 60 What is one recommended practice when planning across large time
zone differences?
a.
Allow for overlapping hours
b.
Choose one time zone for planning, then rotate for the next PI
c.
Choose the time zone with the most team members
d.
Plan by time zone, then consolidate the plans
58.
58 / 60 What might a Release Train Engineer (RTE) do to embrace Relentless
Improvement and a
grow
th mindset as an individual?
a.
Establish personal KPIs to be able to quantify progress
b.
Identify personal challenges and create an action plan to address them
c.
Frequently execute the SAFe individual self
assessment
d.
Use personal Gemba to find useful
improvements
59.
59 / 60 Several Scrum Masters/Team Coaches (SM/TCs) disagree on what to do
about a shared
issue. What is an appropriate coaching technique for the Release Train Engineer
(RTE)?
a.
Performing an empirical assessment of the problem using metrics
b.
A
sking powerful questions to invite creativity and new possibilities
c.
Bringing new emphasis to Lean
Agile's Respect for People
d.
Being the final decision
maker once all feedback has been heard
60.
60 / 60 What is the Release Train Engineer's (RTE's) role during
the final plan review during PI
Planning?
a.
Facilitate all teams when they are presenting their final plans to the entire ART
b.
Encourage discussion of each team's product Vision as part of the final plan
review
c.
Manage the ROAMing of each team's risks
d.
Verify
that each team's uncommitted objectives have lower business value than the
committed PI Objectives to reflect proper prioritization