1. 1 of 60 Which Business Agility Core Competency emphasizes a customer-centric approach to
defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services?
a. Team and Technical Agility
b. Enterprise Solution Delivery - X
c. Agile Product Delivery
d. Lean Portfolio Management – X
2. 2 of 60 Which SAFe principle supports having a one-week Iteration?
a. Take an economic view
b. Assume variability; preserve options
c. Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning
d. Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
3. 3 of 60 What is one action done immediately during the management review and problemsolving meeting?
a. Combine teams to increase velocity
b. Change the scope
c. Recognize the team with the highest velocity - X
d. Hire new people
4. 4 of 60 What is an outcome of the team's draft plan review at the end of the first day of PI
Planning?
a. Risks and impediments
b. ART delivery schedule - X
c. Refined Team Backlogs
d. Iteration Goals
5. 5 of 60 To evolve the role of a leader in SAFe, which practices can the Release Train Engineer
(RTE) recommend?
a. Request weekly status reports
b. Manage up and across the Enterprise
c. Encourage personal development
d. Develop detailed project plans
6. 6 of 60 What is one benefit hackathons provide during the Innovation and Planning (IP)
Iteration?
a. They help drive innovations that help the business
b. They create a heads-down approach to deliver near-term value
c. They focus the team on what is urgent
d. They foster pairing and peer review practices to build T-shaped skills
7. 7 of 60 Which statement is true about using a ART Kanban system?
a. Work is pushed through the Kanban to ensure ART capacity is utilized
b. All work is visualized, and progress is continually tracked
c. The board tracks Features, dependencies, and milestones
d. Work in process (WIP) limits are used to provide any needed buffers - X
8. 8 of 60 What action should the ART take when the Release Train Engineer (RTE) cannot facilitate
the PI Planning due to unexpected circumstances?
a. Run the PI Planning without a facilitator and rely on every person and role to perform
their responsibilities
b. Conduct the PI Planning session using the ART Portfolio Manager as the facilitator
c. Leverage the person who worked closest with the RTE during the preparation sessions
as a replacement facilitator
d. Postpone PI Planning to the next Iteration
9. 9 of 60 What is one responsibility of the Release Train Engineer (RTE) during PI execution?
a. To make decisions on resource issues for critical bottlenecks
b. To direct the management of the communities of practice
c. To formulate and direct decisions on risks - X
d. To escalate and track impediments
10. 10 of 60 What activity occurs during the first team breakout during PI Planning?
a. Risks on the teams' planning boards are resolved by the Release Train Engineer (RTE)
b. Teams use color coding for their backlog items to remind them that they must have all
the item types on their planning boards
c. Draft objectives are written but do not include exploration Enablers
d. All teams' planning boards are visible and used the same color-coding
11. 11 of 60 When is the Inspect & Adapt (I&A) event held?
a. After the System Demo
b. During the PI
c. At the end of the PI
d. At the end of every Iteration
12. 12 of 60 Teams report high success through their individual quantitative measurements, but the
system results do not support the teams' reports. What should the Release Train Engineer (RTE)
do to help the teams deliver more value?
a. Share the quantitative measurement results with Product Management and leadership
and ask for their input
b. Diagnose the differences between the measurements and the results and suggest
improvement items to each team
c. Work with the team that is struggling the most to discover patterns that can be applied
to the other teams
d. Coach the Scrum Master/Team Coach (SM/TC) on good retrospective techniques and
ensure teams are defining and taking a systems view approach to improvements
13. 13 of 60 What is one benefit of having a team definition of done (DoD)?
a. To measure the team's capacity to load ratio
b. To collect team performance metrics
c. To gauge team predictability
d. To improve quality
14. 14of 60 Which primary role should emphasize lifelong learning?
a. Business Owners
b. Lean-Agile Leaders
c. Scrum Masters/Team Coaches (SM/TCs) - X
d. Product Management
15. 15 of 60 What problem can occur without an Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?
a. Teams are waiting around for work
b. Progress is not made on the Architectural Runway
c. Critical defects are not fixed
d. Technical debt grows uncontrollably
16. 16 of 60 Which role should the Release Train Engineer (RTE) play related to a hackathon event?
a. Ensure the teams have allocated Story points in the Innovation and Planning (IP)
Iteration to account for the effort - X
b. Allow the teams as much flexibility as possible to promote innovation
c. Work with development leaders to communicate guidance to the developer on
expectations
d. Get approval for work to be done in the hackathon
17. 17 of 60 What is one recommended practice that helps with the preparation and facilitation of
distributed planning events?
a. Each team self-organizes logistics
b. Request a technical support person be present at each location
c. Technology is tested at the beginning of the event - X
d. Each location determines how to share their plans
18. 18 of 60 What is the only true objective measure of an ART?
a. Cumulative flow diagram - X
b. System Demo
c. Team status report
d. Coach Sync
19. 19 of 60 A Coach Sync occurs just before the draft plan review during PI Planning. The Scrum
Master/Team Coach (SM/TC) from one team raises an issue that Product Management just
showed up to the planning area with a list of priority work. This work does not align with the
Feature prioritization. What is the most likely planning anti-pattern causing this sudden
impediment?
a. There is strong alignment between business and marketing
b. Prioritization by Product Management was performed autonomously not
collaboratively
c. Planning decisions have been centralized
d. There is no social network that Solution development relies on
20. 20 of 60 Which core competency helps foster faster lead time, faster recovery, fewer defects,
and more frequent deployments?
a. Enterprise Solution Delivery
b. Lean-Agile Leadership
c. Agile Product Delivery
d. Team and Technical Agility
21. 21 of 60 Which tool or activity helps the ART evaluate the current health of Customer Centricity
and Design Thinking?
a. Agile Product Delivery self-assessment
b. PI Planning Engagement Inventory
c. Team Performance self-assessment
d. ART Performance Metrics - X
22. 22 of 60 Which tool can the Release Train Engineer (RTE) use to visualize the flow of value?
a. Velocity trend charts - X
b. Team burn-down charts - X
c. Weighted shortest job first (WSJF)
d. Kanban systems
23. 23 of 60 What is the best way for a Release Train Engineer (RTE) to support teams having
challenges with problem identification and decision-making?
a. By providing Solution ideas
b. By changing team composition
c. By listening to the team
d. By escalating to senior management
24. 24 of 60 A Release Train Engineer (RTE) wants to try a new retrospective technique at the next
Inspect & Adapt (I&A) event. However, the RTE is unsure how to prepare and thinks there may
be some pitfalls. How can the RTE get help?
a. Ask leadership to decide if this technique should be used with the ART
b. Share and receive feedback from other RTEs in a community of practice
c. Post in an internal communications forum and inspire others to try this technique
d. Start a discussion with the Architects to see how they would re-design the retrospectives
25. 25 of 60 During which part of an Inspect & Adapt (I&A) event are differences between planned
business value and actual business value presented?
a. Quantitative and qualitative measurement
b. PI System Demo
c. Problem-solving workshop
d. Retrospective
26. 26 of 60 Which practice is the most important for the ART to best support Release on Demand?
a. Centralized risk management
b. Change board community of practice
c. Decouple deployment from release
d. Aligning around organizational value streams
27. 27 of 60 What action can reduce team collaboration during the PI Planning event?
a. Skipping the Inspect & Adapt (I&A) event - X
b. Overpreparing for PI Planning
c. Start the ART without a System Team in place - X
d. Include inexperienced team members - X
28. 28 of 60 What is one action the Release Train Engineer (RTE) can take to facilitate team growth?
a. Facilitate conflict
b. Provide a team Vision
c. Encourage skill specialization
d. Encourage continuous learning
29. 29 of 60 What is one method for fostering the flow of value, innovation, and apply Lean
budgeting in the Enterprise?
a. Implement the Lean Portfolio Management core competency
b. Determine Epic job size using the Lean business case
c. Coordinate all ARTs to provide feedback for cost of delay factors
d. Launch ARTs
30. 30 of 60 During PI execution, the team needs clarification about how to test some of the larger
Features. How can the RTE help the team?
a. Escalate the problem to senior management to get the required action
b. Allow the problem to reach a critical point knowing a minor failure is a learning
technique
c. Ask Product Management to define the use cases for the Features
d. Encourage the Team and Product Management to meet and collaborate on a Solution
31. 31 of 60 What is one tool used to identify bottlenecks?
a. Value Stream Mapping
b. Kanban Board - X
c. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
d. Ishikawa Diagram
32. 32 of 60 When is the best time to conduct the pre-PI Planning activities?
a. Throughout the previous PI
b. When planning for a major release
c. After the Inspect & Adapt (I&A) event - X
d. As early as possible - X
33. 33 of 60 Business Owners are frequently unhappy with Solutions presented in the System
Demos. What action can a Release Train Engineer (RTE) take to help resolve this issue?
a. Develop a more detailed product Roadmap
b. Reduce the number of Enabler Stories in the teams' Backlogs
c. Include the Business Owners in the PO Sync
d. Create a User Experience team
34. 34 of 60 Which core competency best describes the critical skills of Scrum, Kanban, and the
built-in quality practices needed to manage the flow of value?
a. Agile Product Delivery
b. Team and Technical Agility
c. Enterprise Solution Delivery
d. Lean Portfolio Management and the built-in quality practices needed to manage the
flow of value?
35. 35 of 60 What is one responsibility of the Release Train Engineer (RTE) as the chief Scrum
Master/Team Coach (SM/TC) for the ART?
a. Facilitate PI Planning
b. Provide decisions for large initiatives
c. Analyze Epics in the Portfolio Kanban
d. Break down Features into Stories
36. 36 of 60 After an ART's first PI Planning, what action can the Release Train Engineer (RTE) take to
help optimize the ART Backlog readiness for the next PI?
a. Ask the Lean Portfolio Management function to hold regular Epic review meetings so
new Epics will flow to the ART
b. Ask Product Management and the System Architect what the new ART Backlog looks like
just before the next Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration so that socialization can begin
-X
c. Coach Product Management and the System Architect to include ART Backlog
refinement into their cadence-based approach
d. Compile all the teams' objectives from PI Planning and send out a summary report
37. 37 of 60 Which topic is covered on the first day of the PI Planning?
a. Team velocity metrics
b. Solution Vision
c. Cumulative flow diagrams
d. Ishikawa diagrams
38. 38 of 60 How does a Release Train Engineer (RTE) view the role of functional managers on the
ART?
a. As developers of people
b. As decision-makers - X
c. As a content authority for work
d. As problem-solvers
39. 39 of 60 While facilitating PI Planning readiness activities, the Release Train Engineer (RTE)
notices a Feature that is risky to the teams because the technology is new. What is one method
the RTE can use to reduce this risk?
a. Make sure all the technical specifications are written before PI execution
b. Ensure engineering managers are directing the development process
c. Ask for a presentation of a detailed design before the PI Planning meeting
d. Coach the teams to create exploration Enablers
40. 40 of 60 What is one method for securing stakeholder commitment to the ART?
a. Send them the PI Objectives after each PI Planning
b. Provide them a planning schedule outlining a five-year plan for development
c. Have them estimate User Stories for the teams
d. Have them attend the PI Planning
41. 41 of 60 What is one benefit of maintaining limited work in process (WIP)?
a. It provides a clear focus on new business Features
b. The fast flow of items through the system
c. It allows room for architectural Enablers
d. The distribution of funding across investment horizons
42. 42 of 60 At which stage will the ART act as a one-team culture?
a. When the leaders will start to emerge, known as forming
b. Creating a flow of knowledge across the teams and ART, known as performing
c. Fostering continuous improvement, known as storming
d. Pairing and sharing across the ART, known as collaborating
43. 43 of 60 What is one method for promoting facilitation support for a distributed PI Planning?
a. Split up the PI Planning event by location and have a local RTE focus on the local PI
Objectives
b. During the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration, ask a Scrum Master/Team Coach
(SM/TC) at the other location to facilitate the PI Planning locally
c. o Arrange and test audio and video connectivity multiple times so participants can
always hear and see the RTE
d. Align and arrange a local RTE-proxy and technical support person at each location to
join for all pre-event preparation sessions and the PI Planning event itself
44. 44 of 60 Establishing ART Flow measures falls under which Release Train Engineer (RTE)
responsibility?
a. Supporting PI execution
b. Improving relentlessly
c. Optimizing flow
d. Facilitating PI Planning
45. 45 of 60 What is one purpose of a community of practice?
a. To align tasks across teams
b. To approve standards
c. To refine the definition of done (DoD)
d. To share knowledge and skills
46. 46 of 60 At which Tuckman stage would an ART be if it improves engineering practices and
fosters more effective communication?
a. Forming
b. Storming
c. Performing
d. Norming
47. 47 of 60 In what way is a Value Stream map different from a process flow?
a. It is used to define Solution Context
b. It can be operational or developmental; process flows are only operational
c. It measures the flow of value and identifies bottlenecks for improvement
d. It uncovers local problems in functional organizations
48. 48 of 60 What is visualized on the horizontal axis of a cumulative flow diagram?
a. The time a backlog item spends in the system after being pulled - X
b. Iterations within the PI
c. The amount of work in the different states
d. Story points remaining across the ART
49. 49 of 60 What can the Release Train Engineer (RTE) do to ensure key PI Planning preparation
activities are remembered and are part of multiple ART roles?
a. Arrange regular preparation meetings during the PI; use the ART readiness workbook
and ask who would like to drive which action lines
b. E-mail all roles included in the PI Planning agenda on regular basis during the PI and ask
them to prepare their topic(s); ask for status updates
c. Schedule regular preparation meetings during the PI and provide status updates to the
preparation team
d. Arrange the preparation meeting in the Innovation and Planning Iteration and drive all
action lines with specific ART roles
50. 50 of 60 During the storming stage of ART development and evolution, in which area should a
Release Train Engineer (RTE) mentor Scrum Masters/Team Coaches (SM/TCs)?
a. Establishing ART events - X
b. Engineering practice improvements
c. Conflict resolution techniques
d. Creating effective flow across teams - X
51. 51 of 60 What is one characteristic of the Release Train Engineer (RTE) role?
a. Creates an environment of mutual influence
b. Uses authority instead of persuasion
c. Applies linear thinking
d. Sympathizes with others
52. 52 of 60 A Release Train Engineer (RTE) primarily establishes a relationship with which role?
a. System Architect
b. Internal Stakeholders
c. Release Management - X
d. Agile Team
53. 53 of 60 Which DevOps practice is encouraged when organizing an ART to optimize the flow of
work and increase the delivery of value?
a. Perform System Demos
b. Reduce work batch sizes
c. Streamline development environments
d. Execute release packaging activities
54. 54 of 60 What practice can help to identify bottlenecks in the flow of work?
a. Visualizing the flow of all work and track the progress of individual items
b. Comparing transaction costs, holding costs, and business value realization
c. Modeling overall process flow during Value Stream identification
d. Measuring lead time for all work in progress (WIP) - X
55. 55 of 60 What is one function of capacity allocation in SAFe?
a. To be able to plan for unintended capacity dependencies between teams and ARTs - X
b. To facilitate working agreements on the capacity to apply between different types of
work
c. To ensure that work in process (WIP) limits are not exceeded by the capacity of the teams
or the ART - X
d. To ensure that capacity is fully utilized across the ART towards the aims of stakeholders
56. 56 of 60 What is one category for ART PI risks?
a. Deferred
b. Explained
c. Owned
d. Identified
57. 57 of 60 Why should a Release Train Engineer (RTE) ensure the SAFe principles are applied
appropriately?
a. To maintain a central control of key decision-making
b. To make sure that no modifications are made by the adopters of SAFe
c. To build an understanding of why the Lean-Agile practices work
d. To present the business context and Vision to the ART
58. 58 of 60 Which role does a Release Train Engineer (RTE) coach in ART and team events and
practices?
a. Product Management
b. Business Owners
c. Scum Masters/Team Coaches (SM/TCs)
d. System Architects
59. 59 of 60 What is one primary responsibility of a Release Train Engineer (RTE)?
a. Support the Product Owners (POs) and Business Owners
b. Manage and optimize the flow of value through the ART
c. Eliminate impediments and manage risks
d. o Manage and optimize the Release on Demand process
60. 60 of 60 Which core competency describes the ability to deliver continuous value?
a. Agile Product Delivery
b. Business Agility
c. Organizational Agility - X
d. Lean Portfolio Management
SRTE
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 Tuckman 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. Dependency 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
d. The teams share one common DoD
6. 6 / 60 What is communicated on the ART planning board?
a. Dependencies between teams
b. Team velocity
c. ART PI risks
d. PI Objectives
7. 7 / 60 Which behavior exemplifies servant leadership?
a. Protecting the teams and ART from negative reviews
b. Creating an environment of mutual influence
c. Supporting the interests of customers and stakeholders
d. Ensuring appropriate consequences if things go wrong
8. 8 / 60 The ART is near the end of the final Iteration of its first PI. Integration into staging is more
challenging than estimated. The ART adds week to the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration for
integration and testing. Why is this action considered an anti-pattern?
a. It substantially decreases the predictability of the Solution Intent
b. Overall, train velocity goes up, and the time-to-market goes down
c. It decreases job satisfaction by removing autonomy and purpose
d. It reduces the overall predictability established through cadence and synchronization
9. 9 / 60 An ART frequently discovers compatibility issues between the developed Solution and the
Enterprise information architecture. What can the Release Train Engineer (RTE) do to prevent
this from occurring?
a. Add data architects to the ART
b. Develop more detailed Feature definitions
c. Conduct the entire data architecture design upfront
d. Confirm attendance of architectural representatives at PI Planning
10. 10/60 What does the "R" in SMART stand for that is used to write PI Objectives?
a. Rationalized
b. Required
c. Random
d. Realistic
11. 11/60 Which statement is true about SAFe Iteration Goals?
a. They describe the value of planned Features and Enablers
b. They enable teams to keep aligned with PI Objectives
c. They provide quantifiable metrics to be used in retrospectives
d. They provide key performance indicators (KPIs) for tracking progress and value
realization
12. 12 / 60 Which Core Competency of Business Agility includes aligning strategy with execution?
a. Organizational Agility
b. Agile Product Delivery
c. Lean-Agile Leadership
d. Lean Portfolio Management
13. 13/60 What is one action to support a Continuous Integration (Cl) culture?
a. Make integration results visible
b. Purchase a Cl tool
c. Follow up with CI ceremonies
d. o Secure senior leadership support before starting CI
14. 14 / 60 During the management review and problem-solving meeting, one team raises the risk of
not finishing a Feature before the end of the PI. How can the management team help ensure
they complete the Feature within the PI?
a. Redefine the definition of done (DoD)
b. ROAM the risk appropriately
c. Use buffer resources as a guard band
d. Negotiate a reduction in the scope
15. 15/60 Product Management wants to prioritize a list of Features likely to be planned in the
upcoming PI meeting. What metric is used as the denominator (the number under the line) of
weighted shortest job first (WSJF) calculations?
a. The actual business value of a Feature
b. Job size based on relative estimation
c. Feature size expressed in a T-shirt size
d. Feature size expressed in Story points
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 additional 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 assessment
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, Stories, 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) help 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 supporting 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. Flow 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. Coach 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 planning 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. Ensures 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 working 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 solutions
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 Engineer (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 team'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 that 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 roadmaps 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 Stream?
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 velocity?
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 the 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 are 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 practice
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 once 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 context
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 second 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. Innovation
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 transparency 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 during 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
growth 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. Asking 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