1. Which statement is a principle of the Agile manifesto?
1. Measure everything.
2. Respect for people and culture.
3. Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths.
4. Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.
Answer: 4
2. What must management do for a successful Agile transformation?
1. Change Scrum Masters in the team every two weeks.
2. Send someone to represent management, and then delegate tasks to these individuals.
3. Strive to think of adoption as an area they can control.
4. Commit to quality and be the change agent in the system.
Answer: 4
3. Which statement is true when continuously deploying using a DevOps model?
1. It alleviates the reliance on the skill sets of Agile teams.
2. It increases the transaction cost.
3. It lessens the severity and frequency of release failures.
4. It removes the need to automate processes.
Answer: 3
4. What is one benefit of unlocking the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers?
1. To provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints.
2. To lower WIP limits.
3. To centralize decision-making.
4. To strive to achieve a state of continuous flow.
Answer: 1
5. What is the recommended frequency for updating Lean budget distribution?
1. Every iteration.
2. Annually.
3. On demand.
4. Twice annually.
Answer: 3
6. What can be used as a template for putting SAFe into practice within an organization?
1. SAFe Implementation Roadmap.
2. SAFe Principles.
3. SAFe House of Lean.
4. SAFe Core Values.
Answer: 1
7. What are the last three steps of the SAFe Implementation Roadmap?
1. Launch an Agile Release Train, extend to the portfolio, accelerate.
2. Launch more Agile Release Trains and Value Streams, extend to the portfolio, accelerate(sustain and
improve).
3. Launch trains, coach Agile Release Train execution, train executives and managers.
4. Train Lean-Agile change agents, identify value streams and Agile Release Trains, extend to the
portfolio.
Answer: 2
8. What is the best measure of progress for complesystem development?
1. System Demo.
2. Refined Backlog.
3. Iteration Review.
4. ROAMing Risks.
Answer: 1
9. Which is an aspect of system thinking?
1. Mastery drives intrinsic motivation.
2. Optimizing a component does not optimize the system.
3. Cadence makes routine that which is routine.
4. The length of the queue impact the wait time.
Answer: 2
10. Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
1. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation.
2. Customer collaboration over ongoing internal conversation.
3. Customer collaboration over a constant indefinite pace.
4. Customer collaboration over feature negotiation.
Answer: 1
11. Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
1. Limit work in process
2. Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
3. Respect for people and culture
4. Respond to change
Answer: 4
12. What is SAFe’s release strategy?
1. Release on demand.
2. Release continuously.
3. Release every Program Increment.
4. Release on cadence.
Answer: 1
13. The House of Lean is a classic metaphor describing the mindset essential for Lean thinking. Which
one of the four pillars advocates a "Get out of the office" mindset?
1. Innovation.
2. Relentless improvement.
3. Flow.
4. Respect for people and culture.
Answer: 1
14. How are stories estimated in SAFe?
1. Story points.
2. Ideal time.
3. Agile prescribes a No Estimation concept to speed delivery.
4. Feature points.
Answer: 1
15. How is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed?
1. In the Portfolio Backlog.
2. In the Program Backlog.
3. In the Portfolio Kanban.
4. In the Program Kanban.
Answer: 3
16. Who is responsible for the Solution Backlog?
1. Product Owners.
2. Solution Train Engineer.
3. Product Management.
4. Solution Management.
Answer: 4
17. The Agile Release Train uses which type of teams to get work done?
1. Phased review process teams.
2. Management teams.
3. Cross-functional teams.
4. Solution teams.
Answer: 3
18. Which statement describes aspects of the team's commitment during PI Planning?
1. A team does not commit to stretch objectives.
2. A team commits only to the PI Objectives with the highest business value.
3. A team commits to all the features they put on the Program Board.
4. A team commits to all stories they put on their PI plan.
Answer: 1
19. What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making?
1. Ensuring strategic decisions are not made in a vacuum.
2. Creating better visualization.
3. Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time.
4. Removing accountability from leaders.
Answer: 3
20. 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?
1. Change a team’s plan.
2. User Stories.
3. Adjustment to PI Objectives.
4. Business priorities.
Answer: 3
21. Who has content authority to make decisions at the user story level during PI Planning?
1. Scrum Masters.
2. Development Team.
3. Release Train Engineer.
4. Product Owner.
Answer: 4
22. Which statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes?
1. They are large initiatives managed in the Portfolio Kanban that require Weighted Shortest Job First 2.
prioritization and a lightweight business case.
2. They are a high-level summary of each program’s Vision and are updated after every PI.
3. They are requirements that span Agile Release Trains but must fit within a single Program Increment.
4. They are business objectives that connect the SAFe Portfolio to the Enterprise business strategy.
Answer: 4
23. What is considered an anti-pattern when assigning business values to Team PI Objectives?
1. Business Owners assign high values to important enabler work.
2. Assigning business values to stretch objectives.
3. Business Owners assigning the business value.
4. A value of 10 given to all of the PI Objectives.
Answer: 4
24. Which practice helps with a test-first mentality?
1. WIP.
2. BDD.
3. MMF.
4. MVP.
Answer: 2
25. What is a Minimal Viable Product?
1. A minimal story a team can deliver in an iteration.
2. A minimal product that can be built to achieve market dominance.
3. A minimal product that can validate a hypothesis.
4. A minimal Feature that can be released to the market.
Answer: 3
26. Which statement is true about the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?
1. The Scrum Master can decide if the IP Iteration is necessary.
2. It is used as a weekly sync point between the Scrum Masters.
3. It is used annually when the team needs to refocus on work processes.
4. Without the IP Iteration, there is a risk that the tyranny of the urgent outweighs all innovation
activities.
Answer: 4
27. What are the three primary keys to implementing flow?
1. Reduce the batch sizes of work items.
2. Address the systemic problems.
3. Frequent context switching.
4. Increase capacity.
Answer: 1
28. What is a valid reason for moving a PI objective to stretch?
1. The team has high uncertainty about a third-party delivery needed for the objective.
2. The team has no more time in the capacity but the objective has high business value.
3. The team does not have the knowledge or skills to deliver the objective.
4. The team is unsure how to estimate the related stories using story points.
Answer: 1
29. What can be used to map the current state of a portfolio?
1. Portfolio Vision.
2. Portfolio Kanban.
3. Portfolio Canvas.
4. Portfolio Backlog.
Answer: 3
30. What is one component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
1. Continuous Planning.
2. Continuous Exploration.
3. Continuous Improvement.
4. Continuous Cadence.
Answer: 2
31. Product Management has content authority over the Program Backlog. What do Product Owners
have content authority over?
1. Team Backlog.
2. Portfolio Vision.
3. Portfolio Backlog.
4. Value Streams.
Answer: 1
32. What is the foundation of the SAFe House of Lean?
1. Relentless Improvement.
2. Leadership.
3. Value.
4. Flow.
Answer: 2
33. In the Program Kanban some steps have Work-in-Process limits. Why is this necessary?
1. To keep timebogoals.
2. To ensure large queues are not being built.
3. To enable multitasking.
4. To help continuous deployment.
Answer: 4
34. Which statement fits with the SAFe Core Value of Built-in Quality?
1. Quality is not part of the SAFe Core Values.
2. Quality should only be worked on during the Innovation and Planning Iteration.
3. Quality depends on the scale of the project and should be implemented from the top down.
4. You cannot scale crappy code.
Answer: 4
35. When does a Roadmap become a queue?
1. When it is longer than one Program Increment.
2. When it is fully committed.
3. When it includes no commitments.
4. When it contains Features and not Epics.
Answer: 1
36. What is one of the Agile Release Train sync meetings?
1. Solution Demo
2. Iteration Retrospective
3. Iteration Review
4. Scrum of Scrums
Answer: 4
37. What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe?
1. Teams allow batch sizes across multiple intervals.
2. Teams align their iterations to the same schedule to support communication, coordination, and
system 3. integration.
3. Teams meet twice every PI to plan and schedule capacity.
4. Teams decide their own iteration length.
Answer: 2
38. Which statement is true about DevOps?
1. DevOps automation of testing reduces the holding cost.
2. Measurements are not a top priority for DevOps.
3. Lean-Agile principles are not necessary for a successful DevOps implementation.
4. DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between development and operations.
Answer: 4
39. When basing decisions on economics, how are lead time, product cost, value, and development
expense used?
1. To limit WIP through the system.
2. To recover money already spent.
3. To identify different parameters of the economic framework.
4. To take into account sunk costs.
Answer: 3
40. What is the last step in Kotter's approach to change management?
1. Generate short-term wins.
2. Consolidate gains and produce more wins.
3. Sustain and improve.
4. Anchor new approaches in the culture.
Answer: 4
41. Which core competency of the Lean Enterprise helps drive built-in quality practices?
1. DevOps and Release on Demand.
2. Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering.
3. Lean Portfolio Management.
4. Team and Technical Agility.
Answer: 4
42. What is the recommended way to express a Feature?
1. Phrase, benefit hypothesis, and acceptance criteria.
2. Lean business case.
3. Functional requirement.
4. Epic hypothesis statement.
Answer: 1
43. What is found on a program board?
1. Features.
2. User Stories.
3. Tasks.
4. Epics.
Answer: 1
44. What is one guardrail on Lean budget spend?
1. Participatory budgeting.
2. Learning milestones as objective measurements.
3. Spending caps for each ART.
4. Continuous Business Owner engagement.
Answer: 4
45. What is part of the role of Product Management?
1. To assign business value to features.
2. To prioritize the Program Backlog.
3. To facilitate backlog refinement session.
4. To prioritize Enablers.
Answer: 2
46. Which two statements are true about uncommitted objectives?
1. Uncommitted objectives are not included in the team's commitment
2. Uncommitted objectives are extra things the team can do in case they have time
3. The work to deliver the uncommitted objectives is not planned into the iterations during PI Planning
4. Uncommitted objectives do not get assigned a planned business value score
Answer: 1
47. What is the basic building block when organizing around value?
1. Individuals
2. Agile Teams
3. Agile Release Trains
4. Hierarchies
Answer: 2
48. Which of the core competencies of the Lean Enterprise helps align strategy and execution?
1. Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering
2. Team and Technical Agility
3. DevOps and Release on Demand
4. Lean Portfolio Management
Answer: 4
49. What can be used to script the change to SAFe?
1. The Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) charter
2. The Program Kanban
3. The Implementation Roadmap
4. The portfolio canvas
Answer: 3
50. What is Business Agility?
1. The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and
emerging opportunities with innovative business Solutions.
2. Applying Lean-Agile principles and practices to the specification, development, deployment,
operation, and evolution of the world's largest and most sophisticated systems.
3. A customer-centric approach to defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable
products and services to customers and users.
4. 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.
Answer: 1
51 How does SAFe provide a second operating system that enables Business Agility?
1. By focusing on customers, products, innovation, and growth
2. By achieving economies of scale
3. By creating stability and hierarchy
4. By building up large departments and matrixed organizations to support rapid growth
Answer: 1
52. Design Thinking identifies at least four new ways to measure success. What are two of those ways?
1. Reliability
2. Desirability
3. Marketability
4. Scalability
Answer: 2
53. If a program repeatedly shows separate Feature branches rather than a true System Demo, which
practice shouldbe reviewed to address the issue?
1. Roadmap creation
2. Test first
3. Continuous Integration
4. Scrum of scrums
Answer: 3
54. What is one issue when organizing around hierarchical functions?
1. It reduces political tensions
2. It moves the decision to where the information is
3. It is not how value flows
4. It creates Agile business teams
Answer: 3
55. Which two quality practices apply to Agile teams?
1. Using nonfunctional requirements
2. Decentralized decision making
3. Providing architectural runway
4. Establishing flow
Answer: 4
56. Which statement correctly describes one aspect of the team's commitment at the end of PI
Planning?
1. A team commits only to the PI Objectives with the highest business value
2. A team commits to all the Features they put on the program board
3. A team does not commit to uncommitted objectives
4. A team commits to all the Stories they put on their PI plan
Answer: 3
57. What is the impact of Customer Centricity?
1. To understand the Customer's needs
2. To interpret market rhythms
3. To design custom-built Customer Solutions
4. To build small, partial systems just in time
Answer: 1
58. Which is an aspect of systems thinking?
1. The length of the queue impacts the wait time
2. Mastery drives intrinsic motivation
3. Optimizing a component does not optimize the system
4. Cadence makes routine everything that can be routine
Answer: 3
59. What is used to capture the current state of the Portfolio and a primer to the future state?
1. Portfolio Vision
2. Portfolio Kanban
3. Portfolio Canvas
4. Portfolio Backlog
Answer: 3
60. When is a Pre-PI Planning event needed?
1. When there is only one day to run PI Planning, so more time is needed to prepare to run it effectively.
2. When Product Owners and Scrum Masters need to coordinate dependencies within the Agile Release
Train.
3. When multiple Agile Release Trains working on the same Solution need to align and coordinate.
4. When teams cannot identify and estimate Stories in PI Planning and need more time to prepare.
Answer: 3
61. What are the three primary keys to implementing flow?
1. Manage queue lengths.
2. Address the systemic problems.
3. Frequent context switching.
4. Increase capacity.
Answer: 1
62. What are the three primary keys to implementing flow?
1. Increase capacity.
2. Address the systemic problems.
3. Frequent context switching.
4. Visualize and limit WIP.
Answer: 4
63. Which two statements are true about uncommitted objectives?
1. Uncommitted objectives are extra things the team can do in case they have time
2. Uncommitted objectives help improve predictability
3. The work to deliver the uncommitted objectives is not planned into the iterations during PI Planning
4. Uncommitted objectives do not get assigned a planned business value score
Answer: 2
64. Design Thinking identifies at least four new ways to measure success. What are two of those ways?
1. Reliability
2. Marketability
3. Sustainability
4. Scalability
Answer: 3
65. Which two quality practices apply to Agile teams?
1. Using nonfunctional requirements
2. Decentralized decision making
3. Providing architectural runway
4. Peer review and pairing
Answer: 4