1 /60
What are two main reasons why the program predictability measure is important? (Choose
two.)
It focuses the Agile Release Train on predictable value delivery
It demonstrates the need to fix the scope at the beginning of the Program Increment (PI)
It identifies under-performing teams
It indicates whether the Solution is ready to be released
It allows the business and other stakeholders to plan effectively
2 /60
Which role should the Release Train Engineer play related to a hackathon event?
Ensure the teams have allocated story points in the Innovation and Planning Iteration during
the Program Increment to account for the effort
Allow the teams as much flexibility as possible to promote innovation
Work with development leaders to make sure they give clear and detailed guidance to the
developers on what is expected
Get approval for work to be done in the hackathon
3 /60
Why is it important for the RTE to understand Tuckman's group dynamic stages?
Tuckman helps to better understand Team and ART topologies
The Tuckman dynamic nature of the stages requires that we assume variability and preserve
options
The Tuckman four stages should be reflected in the design of the Program Kanban
An ART is a team of teams and will likely also progress through the Tuckman stages
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What best describes what stream-aligned teams do?
Promote better flow of communications between leadership, trains, and teams
Use process-mapping to identify and eliminate process bottlenecks
Analyze value streams and transform them using lean-agile principles
Build and deliver customer value with minimal dependencies on other teams
5 /60
Several Scrum Masters seem to be deadlocked in a disagreement on what to do about a shared
issue. What is an appropriate coaching technique for the RTE to use?
Asking powerful questions to invite creativity and new possibilities
Bringing fresh emphasis to lean-agile's respect for people and culture
Driving an empirical assessment of the problem using metrics
Being the final "decision making authority" once all views have been heard
6 /60
What is a key characteristic lean-agile leaders need to have when implementing SAFe?
Keeping roadmaps to no more than a single PI
Ensuring compliance with process standards
Understanding and exhibiting the values, principles, and practices
Emphasizing the enterprise objectives and KPIs
7 /60
The Agile Release Train (ART) is near the end of the final Iteration of their first Program
Increment. Integration into staging is more challenging than estimated. They add a week to the
Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration for integration and testing. Why is this a bad idea?
It substantially decreases the predictability of the Solution Intent
It decreases job satisfaction by removing autonomy and purpose
Overall train velocity goes up and the time-to- market goes down
It reduces the overall predictability established through cadence and synchronization
8 /60
What practice can help to identify bottlenecks in the flow of work?
Measuring lead time for all work in progress
Visualizing the flow of all work and track progress of individual items
Comparing transaction costs, holding costs and business value realization
Modeling overall process flow during value stream identification
9 /60
Which SAFe core value creates an environment where facts are always friendly?
Innovation
Respect for People and Culture
Transparency
Flow
10 /60
At the end of day two of the Program Increment (PI) Planning event, the team's final plan
review covers what information?
Team Features, Stories, and team-level enablers
Changes to capacity and load, final PI objectives, program risks and impediments
Changes to iteration goals, measured velocity, and dependencies
Planned Features, uncommitted objectives, and ROAMed risks
11 /60
During the management review and problem-solving meeting, one team raises the risk of not
finishing a Feature before the end of the Program Increment (PI) How can the management
team help ensure they complete the Feature within the PI?
Negotiate a reduction in scope of the Feature
Use buffer resources as a guard band
Redefine the definition of done for Features
ROAM the risk appropriately
12 /60
How can a Release Train Engineer be aware of employee satisfaction?
Gather employee Metrics immediately after the Agile Release Train launches
Address and resolve any problems areas
Conduct an employee Net Promoter Score survey
Survey full-time employees
13 /60
Which core competency describes the ability to deliver continuous value?
Agile Product Delivery
Organizational Agility
Business Agility
Lean Portfolio Management
14 /60
What are two benefits of having a team definition of done? (Choose two.)
To measure the team's capacity to load ratio
To improve quality
To increase predictability
To gauge team predictability
To collect team performance Metrics
15 /60
Which statement is true about the retrospective and problem-solving part of the Inspect and
Adapt workshop?
Encourage teams to sit together during the retrospective portion to ensure an effective
outcome
The improvement backlog items resulting from the problem-solving workshop should be items
that only leadership can address
Key Agile Release Train stakeholders, including Business Owners, Customers, and management
can participate along with the teams
The Release Train Engineer gathers the list of problems to be solved during the final scrum of
scrums of the Program Increment (PI)
16 /60
At which two stages will the Agile Release Train (ART) act as a one-team culture? (Choose
two.)
Norming - Teams begin to form communities
Storming - Fostering continuous improvement
Collaborating - Pairing and sharing across the ART
Forming - The leaders will start to emerge
Performing - Creating a flow of knowledge across the teams and the ART
17 /60
Who can the Release Train Engineer work with to help eliminate policies and procedures that
demotivate employees?
Product Management
Business Owners
Lean-Agile Leaders
Portfolio Managers
18 /60
Which two actions can the Release Train Engineer take to facilitate team growth? (Choose two.)
Ensure time is allocated for innovation and planning
Encourage continuous learning
Encourage skill specialization
Facilitate conflict
Provide a team vision
20 /60
What should the Release Train Engineer do during the final plan review on Day two of Program
Increment (PI) Planning?
Verify that each team's uncommitted objectives have lower business value than the committed
PI Objectives in order to reflect proper prioritization
Encourage discussion of each team's product Vision as part of the final plan review
Facilitate the ROAMing of each team's risks
Facilitate all teams when they are presenting their final plans to the entire Agile Release Train
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What can occur as a result of not having an Innovation and Planning Iteration?
Bottlenecks can be hard to identify and resolve
Teams can have no time for fixing bugs
Delivery can be stifled incrementally
Technical debt can grow uncontrollably
22 /60
What action can result in reduced collaboration between teams during the Program Increment
(PI) Planning event?
Overprepare for PI Planning
Skip the Inspect and Adapt event
Include inexperienced team members
Start the Agile Release Train without a System Team in place
23 /60
In addition to Innovation and Planning, what else does the IP Iteration provide time for?
Building in quality and compliance
An opportunity to integrate and perform end-to- end testing
Additional planned work
An estimating guard band
24 /60
What action does a Release Train Engineer take prior to an upcoming Program Increment (PI)
Planning meeting?
Allocate time in the scrum of scrums meeting for Product Management to socialize with the
teams the Features for the upcoming PI
Facilitate Product Management and other stakeholders in prioritization of the Program Backlog
Ensure that at least 30% of the Program Backlog is allocated to Enabler Features
Provide approval and sign-off for draft Team Backlogs
25 /60
What is one primary responsibility of a Release Train Engineer?
Eliminate impediments
Manage and optimize the flow of value through the Agile Release Train
Manage and optimize the Release on Demand process
Support the Product Owner
26 /60
What are two purposes of the System Demo? (Choose two.)
To exercise the performance of the staging area
To conduct the Inspect and Adapt workshop
To demonstrate the full solution in a productionlike context
To demonstrate a team's build
To get feedback from the primary stakeholders
27 /60
Which two key skills does a Release Train Engineer bring to economic prioritization? (Choose
two.)
Coordinate Lean Portfolio Management by providing feedback for cost of delay factors
Do research and data collection for cost of delay factors
Understand and facilitate weighted shorted job first
Determine job size by surveying Scrum Masters of impacted teams
Facilitate stakeholder collaboration
28 /60
Who are two key collaborators with the RTE to support the ART? (Choose two)
Scrum Masters
Release Management
Product Owners
Product Management
System Architects/Engineers
29 /60
How does a Release Train Engineer view the role of functional managers on the Agile Release
Train?
As decision makers
As problem solvers
As developers of people
As a content authority for work
30 /60
Which behavior exemplifies servant leadership?
Ensuring appropriate justice is served if things go wrong
Creating an environment of mutual influence
Protecting the teams and train from negative reviews
Looking out for the interests of customers and stakeholders
31 /60
An Agile Release Train (ART) is frequently discovering compatibility issues between the
developed Solution and the Enterprise information architecture. What can the Release Train
Engineer do to prevent this from occurring?
Add data Architects onto the ART
Confirm attendance of architectural representatives at Program Increment (PI) Planning
Conduct the entire data architecture design upfront
Develop more detailed Feature definitions
32 /60
Which two behaviors are an important part of the Release Train Engineer role? (Choose two.)
Coach leaders to increase alignment
Encourage teams to self-organize
Drive teams to specific outcomes
Provide answers about Features
Manage dependencies for teams
33 /60
What are three actions to take to support a Continuous Integration (CI) culture? (Choose
three.)
Purchase a CI tool
Secure senior leadership support before starting CI
Follow up with CI ceremonies
Integrate often
Make integration results visible
Ensure fixing a failed integration attempt is always the top priority
34 /60
Which of the Core Competencies of Business Agility includes aligning strategy with execution?
Lean-Agile Leadership
Lean Portfolio Management
Agile Product Delivery
Organizational Agility
35 /60
What is ultimately intended to be supported by the use of a Program board?
Problem solving
Dependency review
Feature delivery
Program predictability
36 /60
Why would a Release Train Engineer use an Iteration and Program Increment Calendar?
To ensure that key ceremonies don't conflict with non-SAFe ceremonies
To know the cycle time between important team and train events
To create a BVIR of the important team and ART milestones
To visualize the Agile Release Train's cadence and synchronization
37 /60
Program Increment (PI) Planning is a major event that requires preparation, coordination, and
communication. What are two key areas a Release Train Engineer should focus on to support a
successful PI Planning event? (Choose two.)
Operational readiness - Facilitating PI events such as scrum of scrums, Iteration Planning, and
System Demo
Architectural readiness - Defining the Architectural Runway
Facilities readiness - Space and logistics for the event
Process readiness - The operational rhythm that enables SAFe governance
Organizational readiness - Strategic alignment; roles, teams, and train setup
38 /60
Which statement is true about the definition of done (DoD)?
The DoD should evolve as system capabilities evolve
The teams share one common DoD
At the higher levels there is only one DoD for everything that passes through the Agile Release
Train to a Solution increment or a release
The DoD is not used by the teams because it is used as a method to manage technical debt
across the ART
39 /60
What is the most accurate definition of DevOps?
A mindset, culture, and set of technical practices that emphasizes close cooperation to provide
value to the Customer
A set of tools and processes that govern how code is deployed
A process that provides visibility to impediments between writing code and delivering value
A method that ensures Operations works with Development every day to deliver value
40 /60
What are the three key items communicated on the Program Board? (Choose three.)
Feature delivery dates
Milestones
Program risks
Team velocity
PI Objectives
Dependencies between teams
41 /60
Which of the following is true of Iteration Goals in SAFe?
They describe the value of planned Features and Enablers
They provide quantifiable metrics to be used in retrospectives
They enable teams to keep aligned with PI objectives
They provide KPIs for tracking progress and value realization
42 /60
Which activity takes place during Team Breakout #2 on the second day of Program Increment
(PI) Planning?
The Release Train Engineer (RTE) combines all Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives
All Feature delivery and dependencies are visualized on the program board
Business Owners assign business value without team discussion so they can normalize business
value across all teams on the Agile Release Train
The RTE modifies the PI Iteration schedule, if needed, based on the scope of high priority
Features
43 /60
Which of the following is true about the ART sync event?
It is a combination of PO-sync and Scrum of Scrums events
It is run after PO-sync and Scrum of Scrum events
It occurs during the Innovation and Planning iteration
Attendance by the entire ART is important
44 /60
The Release Train Engineer (RTE) learns the teams feel the business value does not reflect the
effort and progress. What are two ways the RTE can provide a better understanding of what
the teams have created? (Choose two.)
Educate teams that business value provides the Enterprise with a Metric of how fast the team
executed work during the PI
Coach the Business Owner's review of objectives to see that scoring is against the specific
details negotiated with the team during PI Planning
Work with the team to ensure they are actively involved when the Business Owners score the
business value achieved
Publish the team business values and coach teams that these values are for tracking each Agile
Release Train deliverable
Illustrate the linkage between business values and the market communications/release
objectives tied to the three to six month Enterprise strategy
45 /60
Some teams are having difficulty identifying where they might make process improvements.
How might a RTE support them?
Encourage the team to perform regular self assessments and discuss findings
Observe the team's ceremonies and share observations
Run longer I&A meetings to brainstorm improvement items
Conduct a survey to identify the worst problems the team is having
46 /60
When planning for a distributed Program Increment (PI) Planning event with a large difference
in time zones, what are two key preparation and facilitation focus areas for a Release Train
Engineer (RTE)? (Choose two.)
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
Adjust the PI agenda to 2.5 - 3 days, allowing for overlapping hours
Arrange and test presentation audio and video connectivity in all locations
Have a single RTE and technical support person that acts as a central point of communication
for all locations
Share the outcomes of preparation meetings with local Scrum Masters so they can arrange local
rooms
47 /60
A group of developers, Scrums Masters, and Product Owners are interested in sharing
knowledge and learning more about DevOps concepts. How can the Release Train Engineer
help them collaborate to gain knowledge about DevOps?
Schedule a DevOps bi-weekly synchronization
Align them with the System Team
Help them launch a DevOps community of practice
Provide Devops training
48 /60
Which SAFe Core Competency incorporates guidance on coordinating trains and suppliers?
Lean Portfolio Management
Business Agility
Measure and Grow
Enterprise Solution Delivery
49 /60
What might an RTE do to embrace relentless improvement and a growth mindset as an
individual?
Use personal gemba to find useful improvements
Frequently execute the SAFe individual self-assessment
Identify personal challenges and create personal actions to be taken
Establish personal KPIs to be able to quantify progress
50 /60
What are two responsibilities of the Release Train Engineer during Program Increment (PI)
execution? (Choose two.)
To direct the management of the communities of practice
To make decisions on resource issues for critical bottlenecks
To facilitate the System Demo
To formulate and direct decisions on risks
To escalate and track impediments
51 /60
Which SAFe Core Competency requires exemplifying the principles and values of lean-agile?
Agile Product Delivery
Lean-Agile Leadership
Continuous Learning Culture
Organizational Agility
52 /60
Why is it helpful to communicate newly refined Features and Enablers to the teams during the
current Program Increment (PI)?
Teams can help support overall product integrity and facilitate working agreements during PI
Planning
Teams can establish face-to-face communication across all team members and stakeholders
Teams can review the Features and Enablers so they have an understanding of the Roadmap
for the next PI
Teams can prepare backlogs, give feedback to the Product Owner/Product Management/System
Architect, and begin looking at dependencies, impediments, and knowledge building
53 /60
How can a Release Train Engineer help unlock intrinsic motivation?
Practice healthy conflict resolution between teams and team members
Give tough feedback supportively and be willing to be more vulnerable
Emphasize participation from senior leadership to expedite decisions
Establish good incentives for aligning with the enterprise's goals
54 /60
Product Management wants to prioritize a list of Features likely to be planned in the upcoming
Program Increment (PI) meeting. What should Product Management use as the denominator of
the weighted shortest job first calculation?
The T-shirt sizes for each of the Features
The actual business value of each Feature
Job size based on relative estimation
Feature size expressed in story points
55 /60
In systems thinking, value of a system passes through its what?
Interdependencies
Integrations
Interconnections
Interactions
56 /60
The Release Train Engineer ensures that Business Owners assign business value to what during
Program Increment (PI) Planning?
Stories
Features
Program-level PI Objectives
Team-level PI Objectives
57 /60
Which statement is true about using a Program Kanban system?
WIP limits are used to provide any needed buffers
The board tracks features, dependencies, and milestones
Work is pushed through the Kanban to ensure train capacity is utilized
All work is visualized, progress is continually tracked
58 /60
What are two benefits of having a well-executed Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?
(Choose two.)
Shorter lead times before Feature delivery
Occasional buffer time to deliver more predictably
Higher flow of program-level business value
Time for teams to plan, demo and improve together
Improved dependency management between teams
59 /60
Which tool is typically not used during the problem solving workshop?
Pareto analysis
Fishbone diagram
Modified Fibonacci
Dot voting
60 /60
Which two activities take place during Team Breakout #1 on the first day of Program Increment
(PI) Planning? (Choose two.)
Teams use color-coding for their backlog items as a reminder that they are required to have all
backlog item types on their planning boards
All teams' planning boards are visible and use the same color-coding
Draft objectives are written but do not include exploration Enablers
Draft objectives and uncommitted objectives are written
Risks on the teams' planning boards are resolved by the Release Train Engineer
XX/XX
What is one benefit of Program Increment (PI) Planning?
It provides the opportunity to fully define the system architecture
It builds the social network on which the ART depends
It helps define Program Management Review agenda
It creates the Vision and Roadmap
What might an RTE do to embrace relentless improvement and a growth mindset as an
individual?
A. Identify personal challenges and create personal actions to be taken
B. Frequently execute the SAFe individual self-assessment
C. Use personal gemba to find useful improvements
D. Establish personal KPIs to be able to quantify progress
In addition to adopting and exhibiting a new mindset, which core competency also supports
teaching the skill set necessary to practice the goal of delivering value?
Lean-Agile Principles
SAFe House of Lean
Lean-Agile Leadership
Lean Portfolio Management
What occurs when leaders create an environment for risk-taking that supports change without
fear of negative consequences to self-image, status, or career?
Alignment
Emotional intelligence
Decentralized decision-making
Psychological safety
Product Management wants to prioritize a list of Features likely to be planned in the upcoming
Program Increment (PI) meeting. What should Product Management use as the denominator of
the weighted shortest job first calculation?
The T-short sizes for each of the Features
The actual business value of each Feature
Job size based on relative estimation
Feature size expressed in story points
88%
Which SAFe core value creates an environment where facts are always friendly?
Flow
Innovation
Respect for People and Culture
Transparency
How does a Release Train Engineer view the role of functional managers on the Agile Release
Train?
As a content authority for work
As decision makers
As developers of people
As problem solvers
Which core competency describes the ability to deliver continuous value?
Lean Portfolio Management
Enterprise Solution Delivery
Agile Product Delivery
Business Agility
Which SAFe core competency incorporates guidance on coordinating trains and suppliers? (5.1)
Business Agility
Measure and Grow
Enterprise Solution Delivery
Lean Portfolio Management
Which of the core competencies of business agility includes aligning strategy with execution?
Lean-Agile Leadership
Agile Product Delivery
Organizational Agility
Lean Portfolio Management
Which SAFe core competency requires exemplifying the principles and values of lean-agile?
Continuous Learning Culture
Organizational Agility
Agile Product Delivery
Lean-Agile Leadership
Who can the Release Train Engineer work with to help eliminate policies and procedures that
demotivate employees?
Business Owners
Product Management
Portfolio Managers
Lean-Agile Leaders
What is one primary responsibility of a Release Train Engineer?
Manage and optimize the flow of value through the Agile Release Train
Support the Product Owner
Manage and optimize the Release on Demand process
Eliminate impediments
What are two responsibilities of the Release Train Engineer during Program Increment (PI)
execution? (Choose two.)
To make decisions on resource issues for critical bottlenecks
To direct the management of the communities of practice
To facilitate the System Demo
To formulate and direct decisions on risks
To escalate and track impediments
Which two behaviors are an important part of the Release Train Engineer role? (Choose two.)
Manage dependencies for teams
Provide answers about Features
Encourage teams to self-organize
Coach leaders to increase alignment
Drive teams to specific outcomes
In system thinking, value of a system passes through its what? (5.1)
Interactions
Interdependencies
Interconnections
Integrations
How can a Release Train Engineer help unlock intrinsic motivation?
- Give tough feedback supportively and be willing to be more vulnerable
- Establish good incentives for aligning with the enterprise's goals
- Emphasize participation from senior leadership to expedite decisions
- Practice healthy conflict resolutions between teams and team members
Why would a Release Train Engineer use an Iteration and Program Increment Calendar?
- To create a BVIR of the important teams ART milestones
- To know the cycle time between important team and train events
- To ensure the key ceremonies don't conflict with non-SAFe ceremonies
- To visualize the Agile Release Train's cadence and synchronization
What best describes what stream-aligned teams do?
- Analyze value streams and transform them using lean-agile principles
- Build and deliver customer value with minimal dependencies on other teams
- Promote better flow of communications between leadership, trains and teams
- Use process-mapping to identify and eliminate process bottlenecks.
Who are two key collaborators with the RTE to support the ART? (Choose two.)
Product owners
Scrum masters
Product Management
Release Management
System Architects/Engineers
Product Management wants to prioritize a list of Features likely to be planned in the upcoming
planning meeting.
What should Product Management use as the denominator of the weighted shortest job first
calculation?
Job size based on relative estimation
The T-shirt sizes for each of the Features
Feature size expressed in story points
The actual business value of each feature
Which two key skills does a Release Train Engineer bring to economic prioritization? (Choose
two.)
Facilitate stakeholder collaboration
Understand and facilitate weighted shorted job first
Coordinate Lean Portfolio Management by providing feedback for cost of delay factors
Determine job size by surveying Scrum Masters of impacted teams
Do research and data collection for cost of delay factors
What action does a Release Train Engineer take prior to an upcoming Program Increment (PI)
Planning meeting?
Provide approval and sign-off for draft Team Backlogs
Allocate time in the scrum of scrums meeting for Product Management to socialize with the
teams the Features for the upcoming PI
Ensure that at least 30% of the Program Backlog is allocated to Enabler Features
Facilitate Product Management and other stakeholders in prioritization of the Program Backlog
Why is it helpful to communicate newly refined Features and Enablers to the teams during the
current Program Increment (PI)?
- Teams can establish face-to-face communication across all team members and stakeholders
- Teams can prepare backlogs, give feedback to the Product Owner/Product
Management/System Architect, and begin looking at dependencies, impediments, and
knowledge building
- Teams can help support overall product integrity and facilitate working agreements during PI
Planning
- Teams can review the Features and Enablers at the start of PI Planning, so they have an
understanding of the Roadmap for the next PI
What action can result in reduced collaboration between teams during the Program Increment
(PI) Planning event?
Overprepare for PI Planning
Start the Agile Release Train without a System Team in place
Include inexperienced team members
Skip the Inspect and Adapt event
Program Increment (PI) Planning is a major event that requires preparation, coordination, and
communication. What are two key areas a Release Train Engineer should focus on to support a
successful PI Planning event? (Choose two.)
- Operational readiness - Facilitating PI events such as scrum of scrums, Iteration Planning, and
System Demo
- Architectural readiness - Defining the Architectural Runway
Facilities readiness - Space and logistics for the event
- Organizational readiness - Strategic alignment; roles, teams, and train setup
- Process readiness - The operational rhythm that enables SAFe governance
An Agile Release Train (ART) is frequently discovering compatibility issues between the
developed Solution and the Enterprise information architecture. What can the Release Train
Engineer do to prevent this from occurring?
Conduct the entire data architecture design upfront
Develop more detailed Feature definitions
Confirm attendance of architectural representatives at Program Increment (PI) Planning
Add data Architects onto the ART
Which two activities take place during Team Breakout #1 on the first day of Program Increment
(PI) Planning? (Choose two.)
- Draft objectives are written but do not include exploration Enablers
- All teams' planning boards are visible and use the same color-coding
- Teams use color-coding for their backlog items as a reminder that they are required to have
all backlog item types on their planning boards
- Risks on the teams' planning boards are resolved by the Release Train Engineer
- Draft objectives and uncommitted objectives are written
What is ultimately intended to be supported by the use of a program board?
Problem solving
Program predictability
Feature delivery
Dependency review
What are the three key items communicated on the Program Board? (Choose three.)
PI Objectives
Program risks
Team velocity
Feature delivery dates
Dependencies between teams
Milestones
During the management review and problem-solving meeting, one team raises the risk of not
finishing a Feature before the end of the program increment (PI). how can the management
team help ensure they complete the feature within the PI?
Negotiate a reduction in scope of the feature
ROAM the risk appropriately
Use buffer resources as a guard band
Redefine the definition of done for feature
Which activity takes place during Team Breakout #2 on the second day of Program Increment
(PI) Planning?
- The Release Train Engineer (RTE) modifies the PI Iteration schedule, if needed, based on the
scope of high priority Features
- The Release Train Engineer (RTE) combines all Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives
- All Feature delivery and dependencies are visualized on the program board
- Business Owners assign business value without team discussion so they can normalize
business value across all teams on the Agile Release Train
All Feature delivery and dependencies are visualized on the program board
The Release Train Engineer (RTE) learns the teams feel the business value does not reflect the
effort and progress.
What are two ways the RTE can provide a better understanding of what the teams have
created? (Choose two.)
- Coach the Business Owner's review of objectives to see that scoring is against the specific
details negotiated with the team during PI Planning
- Work with the team to ensure they are actively involved when the Business Owners score the
business value achieved
- Educate teams that business value provides the Enterprise with a Metric of how fast the team
executed work during the PI
- Publish the team business values and coach teams that these values are for tracking each
Agile Release Train deliverable
- Illustrate the linkage between business values and the market communications/release
objectives tied to the three to six month Enterprise strategy
Work with the team to ensure they are actively involved when the Business Owners score the
business value achieved
The Release Train Engineer ensures that Business Owners assign business value to what during
Program Increment (PI) Planning?
Team-level PI Objectives
Features
Program-level PI Objectives
Stories
What should the Release Train Engineer do during the final plan review on Day two of Program
Increment (PI) Planning?
- Facilitate the ROAMing of each team's risks
- Verify that each team's uncommitted objectives have lower business value than the committed
PI Objectives in order to reflect proper prioritization
- Facilitate all teams when they are presenting their final plans to the entire Agile Release Train
- Encourage discussion of each team's product Vision as part of the final plan review
At the end of day two of the Program Increment (PI) Planning event, the team's final plan
review covers what information?
- Changes to capacity and load, Final PI Objectives, Program risks and impediments
- Changes to iteration goals, measured velocity, and dependencies
- Planned features, uncommitted objectives, and ROAMed risks
- Team features, stories and Team-level enablers
When planning for a distributed Program Increment (PI) Planning event with a large difference
in time zones, what are two key preparation and facilitation focus areas for a Release Train
Engineer (RTE)? (Choose two.)
- Share the outcomes of preparation meetings with local Scrum Masters so they can arrange
local rooms
- Have a single RTE and technical support person that acts as a central point of communication
for all locations
- Arrange and test presentation audio and video connectivity in all locations
- 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
- Adjust the PI agenda to 2.5 - 3 days, allowing for overlapping hours
Which of the following is true of iteration goals in SAFe?
- They enable teams to keep aligned with PI objectives
- They describe the value of planned Features and Enablers
- They provide quantifiable metrics to be used in retrospectives
- They provide KPIs for tracking progress and value realization
Which two roles should facilitate an ART sync? (Choose two.)You have reached the max
number of allowed answers
Product Management
Product Owner
Epic Owner
Release Train Engineer
Scrum Master
Which of the following is true about the ART sync event?
It is a combination of PO-synch and Scrum of scrum events
It occurs during the innovation and planning iteration
Attendance by the entire ART is important
It is run after PO-sync and Scrum of scrum events
What are two purposes of the System Demo? (Choose two.)
- To demonstrate a team's build
- To demonstrate the full solution in a production-like context
- To exercise the performance of the staging area
- To get feedback from the primary stakeholders
- To conduct the Inspect and Adapt workshop
Which statement is true about using a Program Kanban system?
All work are visualized, progress is continually tracked
The board tracks features, dependencies and milestones
Work is pushed through the Kanban to ensure train capacity is utilized
WIP limits are used to provide any needed buffers
What are the two benefits of having a well-executed Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?
(Choose two.) (5.1)
- Occasional buffer time to deliver more predictably
- Time for teams to plan, demo and improve together
- Shorter lead times before Feature delivery
- Improved dependency management between teams
- Higher flow of program-level business value
In addition to Innovation and Planning, what else does the IP iteration provide time for?
Building in quality and compliance
An estimating guard band
Additional planned work
An opportunity to integrate and perform end-to-end testing
Which role should the Release Train Engineer play related to a hackathon event?
Allow the teams as much flexibility as possible to promote innovation
Work with development leaders to make sure they give clear and detailed guidance to the
developers on what is expected
Ensure the teams have allocated story points in the Innovation and Planning Iteration during
the Program Increment to account for the effort
Get approval for work to be done in the hackathon
The Agile Release Train (ART) team is near the end of the final Iteration of their first Program
Increment. Integration into the staging environment is more challenging than estimated.
They add a week to the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration for integration and testing. Why
is this a bad idea?
- It decreases job satisfaction by removing autonomy and purpose
- Overall train velocity goes up and the time-to-market goes down
- It reduces the overall predictability established through cadence and synchronization
- It substantially decreases the predictability of the Solution Intent
What can occur as a result of not having an Innovation and Planning Iteration?
Technical debt can grow uncontrollably
Teams can have no time for fixing bugs
Bottlenecks can be hard to identify and resolve
Delivery can be stifled incrementally
Which two actions can the Release Train Engineer take to facilitate team growth? (Choose two.)
Encourage continuous learning
Ensure time is allocated for innovation and planning
Facilitate conflict
Encourage skill specialization
Provide a team vision
What is the most accurate definition of DevOps?
- A mindset, culture, and set of technical practices that emphasizes close cooperation to provide
value to the Customer
- A method that ensures Operations works with Development every day to deliver value
- A set of tools and processes that govern how code is deployed
- A process that provides visibility to impediments between writing code and delivering value
A group of developers, Scrums Masters, and Product Owners from an Agile Release Train have
expressed interest in sharing knowledge and learning more about DevOps concepts.
How can the Release Train Engineer help them collaborate to gain knowledge about DevOps?
Align them with the System Team
Provide Devops training
Help them launch a DevOps community of practice
Schedule a DevOps bi-weekly synchronization
What are three actions to take to support a Continuous Integration (CI) culture? (Choose
three.)
Secure senior leadership support before starting CI
Purchase a CI tool
Follow up with CI ceremonies
Integrate often
Make integration results visible
Ensure fixing a failed integration attempt is always the top priority
Which statement is true about the definition of done (DoD)?
- The DoD should evolve as system capabilities evolve
- The DoD is not used by the teams because it is used as a method to manage technical debt
across the ART
- At the higher levels there is only one DoD for everything that passes through the Agile
Release Train to a Solution increment or a release
- The teams share one common DoD
What are two benefits of having a team definition of done? (Choose two.)
To improve quality
To gauge team predictability
To measure the team's capacity to load ratio
To collect team performance Metrics
To increase predictability
Which statement is true about the retrospective and problem-solving part of the Inspect and
Adapt workshop?
- The Release Train Engineer gathers the list of problems to be solved during the final scrum of
scrums of the Program Increment (PI)
- Encourage teams to sit together during the retrospective portion to ensure an effective
outcome
- Key Agile Release Train stakeholders, including Business Owners, Customers, and
management can participate along with the teams
- The improvement backlog items resulting from the problem-solving workshop should be items
that only leadership can address
What are two main reasons why the program predictability measure is important? (Choose
two.)
- It focuses the Agile Release Train on predictable value delivery
- It allows the business and other stakeholders to plan effectively
- It demonstrates the need to fix the scope at the beginning of the Program Increment (PI)
- It indicates whether the Solution is ready to be released
- It identifies under-performing teams
Which tool is typically not used during the problem solving workshop?
Modified Fibonacci
Fishbone diagram
Dot voting
Pareto analysis
Some teams are having difficulty identifying where they might make process improvements.
How might the RTE support them?
- Run longer I&A meetings to brainstorm improvement items
- Observe the team's ceremonies and share observations
- Conduct a survey to identify the worst problems the team is having
- Encourage the team to perform regular self-assessments and discuss findings.
What practice can help to identify bottlenecks in the flow of work?
- Modelling overall process flow during value stream identification
- Measuring lead time for all work in progress
- Visualizing the flow of all work and track progress of individual items
- Comparing transaction costs, holding costs and business value realization
Which behaviour exemplifies servant leadership? (5.1)
- Create an environment of mutual influence
- Looking out for the interests of customers and stakeholders
- Ensuring appropriate justice is served if things go wrong
- Protecting the teams and train from negative reviews
At which two stages will the Agile Release Train (ART) act as a one-team culture? (Choose
two.)
Forming - The leaders will start to emerge
Norming - Teams begin to form communities
Performing - Creating a flow of knowledge across the teams and the ART
Storming - Fostering continuous improvement
Collaborating - Pairing and sharing across the ART
Why is it important for the RTE to understand Tuckman's group dynamic stages?
- Tuckman helps to better understand team and ART topologies
- The Tuckman dynamic nature of the stages requires that we assume variability and preserve
options
- The Tuckman four stages should be reflected in the design of the program Kanban.
- An ART is a team of teams and will likely also progress through the Tuckman stages.
Several scrum masters seem to be deadlocked in a disagreement on what to do about a shared
issue. What is an appropriate coaching technique for the RTE to use?
- Bringing fresh emphasis to lean-agile's respect for people and culture.
- Driving an empirical assessment of the problem using metrics
- Being the final "decision making authority" once all views have been heard
- Asking powerful questions to invite creativity and new possibilities.
How can a Release Train Engineer be aware of employee satisfaction?
- Gather employee Metrics immediately after the Agile Release Train launches
- Address and resolve any problems areas
- Conduct an employee Net Promoter Score survey
- Survey full-time employees
What might an RTE do to embrace relentless improvement and a growth mindset as an
individual?
- Identify personal challenges and create personal actions to be taken
- Use personal gemba to find useful improvements
- Frequently execute the SAFe individual self assessment
- Establish personal KPIs to be able to quantify progress
What is a key characteristic lean-agile leaders need to have when implementing SAFe?
Keeping roadmaps to no more than a single PI
Understanding and exhibiting the values, principles and practices
Ensuring compliance with process standards
Emphasizing the enterprise objectives and KPIs
What encourages lifelong learning behavior?
Sharing learnings and knowledge
Applying the SAFe Implementation Roadmap
Establishing a sense of urgency
Identifying skill gaps
During the Agile Release Train (ART) kickoff session, Operations raises a concern that they are
already spread very thin and have no time to collaborate with all the teams on the ART.
What should the Release Train Engineer recommend to discover bottlenecks and provide
governance for Operations' engagement?
Visualize the deployment pipeline requests through a Kanban system
Have the Operations staff sit within the team areas
Ensure all DevOps practitioners attend Leading SAFe training
Abstract platform/infrastructure requests from build/deploy requests
The servant leadership role of the Release Train Engineer is very important and can be
described by which statement?
Assurance of value delivery
Support teams' commitments and fix problems for them
Facilitates PI Planning
Coach by asking questions and articulating facts rather than using authority
Why should the Release Train Engineer encourage lifelong learning?
To motivate team members to form as a team
To evolve the system
To increase team velocity
To decentralize decision making
What is an effective method for finding the root cause of a problem?
Conduct empathy interviews
Perform a team retrospective
Perform a 5 Whys on the problem
Engage Business Owners
Migrating component teams to feature teams on an Agile Release Train can be enabled by
which action?
Creating a business case to support the migration
Encouraging the System Architect and Product Management to share roles
Combining the testers into one team
Carefully rotating team members between different component teams to spread the knowledge
A Scrum Master reports that the team feels like it is doing fine and would rather focus on work
than waste time coming up with and implementing improvement ideas.
The team has recently had trouble meeting their Iteration commitments, so the Scrum Master
knows the team can do better. The Scrum Master asks the Release Train Engineer (RTE) for
help. What might the RTE suggest as a first step?
Dedicate additional meeting time to brainstorm improvement items
Observe the team's daily stand-ups and have a meet-after about the importance of relentless
improvement
Review team Metrics with the Scrum Master and look for specific improvement areas that can
be shared with the team
Arrange for an external coach for the team to help them improve
In addition to adopting and exhibiting a new mindset, which core competency also supports
teaching the skill set necessary to practice the goal of delivering value?
Lean-Agile Principles
SAFe House of Lean
Lean Portfolio Management
Lean-Agile Leadership
What is a Release Train Engineer anti-pattern behavior during the scrum of scrums or PO sync
meetings?
Ignoring emotion and focusing on content
Ensuring compliance items are addressed
Resolving impediments
Expressing positive feelings and praise
What value do Iteration Goals provide in SAFe?
Clarity, commitment, and transparency
Provides a list of planned stories
Better understanding of the sequencing of the team's backlogs
Creates the near-term focus and vision
How does the Release Train Engineer help develop the Agile Release Train (ART) over time?
Analyze the velocity trend
Create an ART improvement Roadmap
Facilitate post-PI Planning
Conduct a retrospective
What are the two benefits of having a well-executed Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?
(Choose two.)
- Occasional buffer time to deliver more predictably
- Time for teams to plan, demo and improve together
- Shorter lead times before Feature delivery
- Improved dependency management between teams
- Higher flow of program-level business value
1.What practice can help to identify bottlenecks in the flow of work?A. Visualizing the flow of all
work and track progress of individual itemsB. Comparing transaction costs, holding costs and
business value realizationC. Measuring lead time for all work in progressD. Modeling overall
process flow during value stream identification
Answer: D2.What is one way to secure stakeholder commitment to the Agile Release Train?A.
Provide them a planning schedule outlining a five-year plan for developmentB. Have them
estimate User Stories for the teamsC. Send them the Program Increment (PI) Objectives after
each PI Planning eventD. Have them attend the Program Increment (PI) Planning eventAnswer:
D3.Teams are reporting a high level of success through their individual quantitative measurements,but the system results say otherwise.What should the Release Train Engineer do to
help the teams deliver more value?A. Coach the Scrum Masters on good retrospective
techniques and ensure teams are defining andtaking a systems view approach to
improvementsB. Share the quantitative measurement results with Product Management and
lead-ership and ask fortheir inputC. Diagnose the differences between the measurements and
the results and suggest improvementitems to each teamD. Work with the team that is
struggling the most to discover patterns that can be ap-plied to the otherteamsAnswer: A4.A
Release Train Engineer should build a relationship with which SAFe role in order to effectivelyassign business value to a team Program Increment (PI) Objective?A. Business
OwnersB. Lean-Agile LeadersC. Objective OwnersD. Solution ManagersAnswer: A5.What is the
only true objective measure of an Agile Release Train?A. System DemoB. Scrum of scrumsC.
Cumulative flow diagramD. Team status reportAnswer: A6.How does SAFe handle the 'fear of
conflict' team dysfunction?A. Reviews results at the end of every iterationB. Avoids discussion of
disagreementsC. Has teams engage in retrospectivesD. Uses scrum to create a safe
environment for conflictAnswer: D7.SAFe is based on four primary bodies of knowledge which
include Agile development, systemsthinking, DevOps, and what type of product development?
A. Incremental product developmentB. Adaptive product developmentC. Lean product
developmentD. Iterative product developmentAnswer: C8.Enabler Epics are used to advance
what in order to support upcoming Business Epics?A. Value Stream(s)B. The Continuous
Delivery PipelineC. The Architectural RunwayAnswer: C9.What are three actions to take to
support a Continuous Integration (CI) culture? (Choose three.)A. Purchase a CI toolB. Ensure
fixing a failed integration attempt is always the top priorityC. Secure senior leadership support
before starting CID. Integrate oftenE. Follow up with CI ceremoniesF. Make integration results
visibleAnswer: B,D,F10.Why is a confidence vote held at the end of program increment (Pl)
planning?A. To build shared commitment to the planB. To remove the risks for the PlC. To
ensure the business owners accept the planD. To hold the teams accountable if the Agile
release train (ART) does not deliver on its commitmentAnswer: A11.During Program Increment
(PI) Planning, a scrum of scrums occurs just before the draft planreview. The Scrum Master
from one team raises an issue that one of the Product Managers justshowed up to the planning
area with a priority wish list of items. These items do not align with theFeature
prioritization.What is the most likely planning anti-pattern causing this sudden impediment?A.
There is strong alignment between business and marketingB. Planning decisions have been
centralizedC. Prioritization by Product Management was performed autonomously not
collaborativelyD. There is no social network that Solution development relies onAnswer:
C12.What are two common PI Planning anti-patterns? (Choose two.)A. Stories are created for
the IterationsB. The team decides which changes need to happen and whenC. Too much time is
spent analyzing each StoryD. Scrum Masters who work with multiple teams do not have time
for their teamsE. Too much time is spent prioritizing FeaturesAnswer: C,D
13.What is this statement describing? "Agile Teams continuously adapt to new circumstanc-es
andenhance the methods of value delivery."A. Continuous ImprovementB. Continuous
DeliveryC. Continuous IntegrationD. Continuous DeploymentAnswer: A14.What are personas?A.
Descriptions of actual target customers or usersB. Key end-users the Product Owner leverages
for managing the backlogC. Fictional representations of target customers or usersAnswer:
C15.An Agile Release Train (ART) is frequently discovering compatibility issues between
thedeveloped Solution and the Enterprise information architecture.What can the Release Train
Engineer do to prevent this from occurring?A. Develop more detailed Feature definitionsB. Add
data Architects onto the ARTC. Confirm attendance of architectural representatives at Program
Increment (PI) PlanningD. Conduct the entire data architecture design upfrontAnswer: C16.The
business must depend on the team for what in order to do any meaningful planning?A. Team
capabilitiesB. Commitment to the planC. MeasurementsD. A cross-functional skill setAnswer:
B17.What action can result in reduced collaboration between teams during the Program
Increment (PI)Planning event?A. Skip the Inspect and Adapt eventB. Include inexperienced
team membersC. Start the Agile Release Train without a System Team in placeD. Overprepare
for PI PlanningAnswer: D18.When looking at a program board at the end of program increment
(Pl) planning, what does itmean when a feature is placed in a team's swim lane with no
strings?A. That the feature can be completed by that team independentlyB. That the team has
not broken the feature into stories yet and has not identified dependenciesC. That it has
dependencies on teams in other Agile release trains (ARTs) or Solution TrainsD. That the team
has been assigned, but the feature’ uépendencies have not been identified yetAnswer: A
19.Which SAFe Core Competency incorporates guidance on coordinating trains and suppliers?A. Enterprise Solution DeliveryB. Business AgilityC. Measure and GrowD. Lean Portfolio
ManagementAnswer: A20.What is ultimately intended to be supported by the use of a Program
board?A. Problem solvingB. Program predictabilityC. Feature deliveryD. Dependency
reviewAnswer: C21.In SAFe, which activity is a Scrum Master's responsibility?A. Coordinating
with other teamsB. Owning the daily stand-upC. Facilitating the Scrum of ScrumsD. Prioritizing
the Team BacklogAnswer: A22.What is a strategy a Product Owner can use during Program
Increment Planning to mini-mizedependencies?A. Change the definition of doneB. Move Stories
on their team's backlog to another teamC. Reprioritize EpicsAnswer: B23.Which type of Enabler
does a System Architect review during a System Demo?A. Enabler EpicsB. Enabler FeaturesC.
Enabler CapabilitiesD. Enabler StoriesAnswer: A24.In the SAFe work item hierarchy, Features
are decomposed into what?A. StoriesB. Sub-TasksC. TasksD. CapabilitiesAnswer: A25.What are
two benefits of having a team definition of done? (Choose two.)A. To measure the team's
capacity to load ratioB. To increase predictability
C. To collect team performance metricsD. To improve qualityE. To gauge team
predictabilityAnswer: D,E26.Which of the following is true of Iteration Goals in SAFe?A. They
provide KPIs for tracking progress and value realizationB. They enable teams to keep aligned
with PI objectivesC. They describe the value of planned Features and EnablersD. They provide
quantifiable metrics to be used in retrospectivesAnswer: B27.Which tool can the Release Train
Engineer use to visualize the flow of value?A. Weighted shorted job firstB. Team burn-down
chartsC. Velocity trend chartsD. Kanban systemsAnswer: D
A Release Train Engineer primarily establishes a relationship with...
A Release Train Engineer primarily establishes a relationship with which two roles? (Choose
two.)
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System Architect/Engineer
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Agile Team
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Release management
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Internal stakeholders
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Product Management
What are two ways to ensure facility readiness when preparing for the Program Increment (PI)
Planning event? (Choose two.)
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Secure communication channels for remote participants
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Share business value documents
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Print PI Objectives
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Print program boards
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Engage audio-visual technical support
Which SAFe Principle is being applied when a Release Train Engineer treats Suppliers as
partners?
Assume variability; preserve options
Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
Apply systems thinking
Decentralize decision-making
The Product Owners on the Agile Release Train (ART) say that over the last few Program
Increments (PIs) the train is starting to feel less and less prepared for the PI Planning event.
Which approach can help the Release Train Engineer confirm this feeling and identify
improvement areas?
PI burn-up chart
ART cumulative flow diagram
PI sync meeting
Agile Product Delivery self-assessment
When is the best time to conduct the pre- Program Increment (PI) Planning event during the
Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?
When planning for a major release
As early as possible
On the morning of the first day of PI Planning
After the Inspect and Adapt event
After an Agile Release Train's first Program Increment (PI) Planning event, what action can the
Release Train Engineer take to help optimize the Program Backlog readiness for the next PI?
Ask the Lean Portfolio Management function to hold regular Epic review meetings so new Epics
will flow to the Agile Release Train
Coach Product Management and the System Architect to include Program Backlog refinement
into their cadence-based approach
Compile all the teams' objectives from PI Planning and send out a summary report
Ask Product Management and the System Architect what the new Program Backlog looks like
just before the next Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration, so socialization can begin
Why is the innovation pillar of the House of Lean important to SAFe?
It is the foundation of the House of Lean
It validates Solutions with Customers
It avoids the start-stop-start of project delays
It provides the shortest sustainable lead time
Which two actions can be taken immediately during the management review and problemsolving meeting? (Choose two.)
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Recognize the team with the highest velocity
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Change the business priorities
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Change the scope
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Combine teams to increase velocity
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Hire new people
In what way is a value stream map different from a process flow?
A value stream map uncovers local problems in functional organizations
A value stream Map can be operational or developmental; process flows are only operational
A value stream map is used to define Solution Context
A value stream map measures the flow of value and identifies bottlenecks for improvement
How can a Release Train Engineer support decentralized decision making?
Change the cadence of the Agile Release Train
Evaluate the strategy for the Value Stream
Empower knowledge workers to manage their dependencies with other teams
Update team Program Increment (PI) Objectives when shipping a time critical release
Which core competency describes the mindsets, culture, and practices that make flow possible?
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Agile Product Delivery
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SAFe for Lean Enterprises
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Team and Technical Agility
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Enterprise Solution Delivery
What can a Release Train Engineer use to support relentless improvement for the Program
Increment?
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Product Owner sync
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Inspect and Adapt event
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Release management meeting
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Iteration retrospective
When organizing an Agile Release Train to optimize the flow of work and increase the delivery
of value, which three DevOps practices are encouraged? (Choose three.)
Automate the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
Plan and rehearse failure response practices
Streamline development environments
Visualize work in process and reduce batch sizes
Perform System Demos
Execute release packaging activities
What would a Release Train Engineer do to support Milestone achievement?
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Schedule critical reviews with senior management and external stakeholders
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Assist with tracking and scope management
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Report on and manage the budget
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Assign the numbers for the actual business value achievement in the Program Increment
(PI) performance report
What are two highly effective ways Business Owners and stakeholders stay current on work
that is occurring on the Agile Release Trains? (Choose two.)
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Attend System Demos
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Meet weekly with the Release Train Engineer to get updates
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Read team status reports
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Do Gemba
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Consult program dashboards
Which core competency helps foster faster lead time, faster recovery, fewer defects, and more
frequent deployments?
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Team and Technical Agility
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Lean-Agile Leadership
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Enterprise Solution Delivery
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Agile Product Delivery
What action should be taken by the Agile Release Train (ART) when the Release Train Engineer
(RTE) cannot facilitate the Program Increment (PI) Planning session due to unexpected
circumstances?
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Run the PI Planning session without a facilitator and rely on every person and role to
perform his/her responsibilities
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Conduct the PI Planning session using the ART portfolio manager as the facilitator
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Leverage the person who worked closest with the RTE during the preparation sessions as
a replacement facilitator
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Postpone PI Planning to the next Iteration
What are two responsibilities of the Release Train Engineer as chief Scrum Master for the Agile
Release Train (ART)? (Choose two.)
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Facilitate Program Increment (PI) Planning
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Escalate ART impediments
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Provide the go/no-go decision for large initiatives
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Analyze Epics in the Portfolio Kanban
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Break down Features into Stories
What is one way to develop sufficient Architectural Runway for the Agile Release Train?
Ask the teams to commit only to Enablers as their Program Increment (PI) Objectives during
the PI Planning event and address Features as uncommitted objectives for the first
Develop alignment with the System Architect and Product Management that the first Program
Increment (PI) is all about Enablers in order to plan for creating business value in the second PI
Work with Product Management and System Architects to identify future Features and
determine the Enablers to achieve them
Ask the Business Owner which Enablers have high business value
During the Storming stage of Agile Release Train development and evolution, in which area
should a Release Train Engineer mentor Scrum Masters?
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Establishing program events
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Engineering practice improvements
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Creating effective flow of knowledge across teams on the train
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Conflict resolution techniques
A Release Train Engineer (RTE) would like to try a new retrospective technique at the next
Inspect and Adapt event. However, the RTE is unsure how to prepare for it and thinks there
may be some pitfalls. How could an RTE get help?
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Share and receive feedback from other RTEs in a community of practice
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Ask leadership to decide whether or not this technique should be used with the Agile
Release Train
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well
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Post it in an internal communications forum and inspire others to try this technique as
Start a discussion with the Architects to see how they would re-design the retrospectives
When is the Inspect and Adapt event held?
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After the System Demo
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During the Program Increment (PI)
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At the end of the Program Increment (PI)
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At the end of every Iteration
What is the best way to foster flow of value, innovation, and apply Lean budgeting in the
Enterprise?
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Implement the Lean Portfolio Management core competency
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Determine Epic job size using the Lean business case
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Coordinate all Agile Release Trains to provide feedback for cost of delay factors
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Launch Agile Release Trains
Which primary role should emphasize lifelong learning?
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Scrum Masters
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Lean-Agile Leaders
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Business Owners
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Product Management