SSM Exam
Exam
SSM
Title
SAFe 5 Scrum Master (SSM) Exam
Version
2.0
Product
Type
204 Q&A with explanations
QUESTION 1
According to the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, what is a team's ultimate competitive advantage?
A. Transparency
B. Teamwork
C. Accountability
Answer: B
QUESTION 2
What is one example of a servant leader behavior pattern?
A. Understands and empathizes with others
B. Focuses on individual task metrics
C. Thinks about the day-to-day activities
D. Uses authority rather than persuasion when necessary
Answer: A
QUESTION 3
Becoming a coach requires a shift from old behaviors to new ones. What are three examples of old
behaviors?
A. Focusing on deadlines
B. Focusing on business value delivery
C. Asking the team for the answers
D. Driving toward specific outcomes
E. Fixing problems for the team
F. Facilitating team problem solving
Answer: A, D, E
QUESTION 4
Features lend themselves to the Lean UX process model. They include a description, benefit hypothesis
A. Scope and context
B. Content readiness
C. Acceptance criteria
D. IP outcomes
Answer: B
QUESTION 5
Scrum masters are effective by using scrum methods, supporting safe principles and practices and what
else?
A. Serving as a customer proxy
B. Writing stories and enablers
C. Managing architectural runway
D. Delivering through agile practices
Answer: D
QUESTION 6
What three attributes summarize DevOps?
A. A shared culture
B. A set of technical practices
C. A high performing devOps team
D. Strong organizational structure
E. A mindset
F. Combined deployment and release
Answer: A, B, E
QUESTION 7
What is the basis for most team conflicts?
A. Lack of leadership
B. Ideological differences
C. Lack of common goals
D. Unexamined assumptions
Answer: B
QUESTION 8
An effective SAFe scrum master helps the team improve on their journey towards excellence through
continuous integration, continuous development and what else?
A. Continuous exploration
B. continuous release
C. wip limits
D. state of the art build tools
Answer: A
QUESTION 9
An effective Safe scrum master is a team-based servant leader who helps the team do what?
A. manage the team's own backlog
B. understand and operate within lean budgets
C. embrace relentless improvement through iteration retrospectives
D. develop better and more specialized skill sets
Answer: C
QUESTION 10
The business must depend on the team for what in order for the business to do any meaningful
planning?
A. a cross-functional skill set
B. commitment to the plan
C. measurements
D. team capabilities
Answer: C
QUESTION 11
what is the statement describi
methods of value delivery
A. continuous integration
B. improvement
C. delivery
D. deployment
Answer: B
QUESTION 12
When does the plan-do-check-adjust cycle occur in scrum?
A. at the iteration review
B. in the daily scrum
C. at all formal scrum events
D. as part of the iteration retrospective
Answer: C
QUESTION 13
Who commits to the plan at the end of iteration planning?
A. team
B. scrum master
C. product owner
D. solution owner
Answer: A
QUESTION 14
A servant leader knows that his or her own growth comes from what?
A. Management support
B. Facilitating growth of others
C. Effective training
D. Implementing a CALMR approach to SAFe
Answer: B
QUESTION 15
What are two critical areas that differentiate agile from waterfall dev?
A. Architectural runway
B. Staggered integration
C. Face-to-face interaction
D. incremental delivery of value
E. fast feedback
Answer: D, E
QUESTION 16
Good coaches do not give people the answer, but instead they do what?
A. They hold them to their commitments
B. They make the decisions
D. They guide people to the solution
E. they limit the number of questions
Answer: D
QUESTION 17
What is one time when a scrum master participates but does not necessarily facilitate?
A. During team breakout sessions at PI planning
B. If the entire team is present during the daily stand-up
C. when using ad-hoc teams for inspect and adapt
D. when the agile release train does not require any team coordination
Answer: C
QUESTION 18
What is the name of the event where all team members determine how much of the team's backlog they
can commit to delivering during an upcoming iteration?
A. iteration planning
B. solution planning
C. solution demo
D. backlog refinement
Answer: A
QUESTION 19
What are two good scrum master facilitation practices?
A. create an environment of safety so that everyone feels comfortable contributing to the discussion
B. llow unproductive conflict to encourage open communication
C. allow for deep meaningful conversations even if it is outside the scope of the agenda
D. ensure all voices are heard
E. do not enforce accountability as it creates an environment of distrust
Answer: A, D
QUESTION 20
During PI planning, which two tasks are part of the scrum master's role in the first team breakout?
A. Provide clarifications necessary to assist the team with their story estimating and sequencing
B. review and prioritize the team backlog as part of the preparatory work for the second team breakout
C. Be involved in the program backlog refinement and preparation
D. identify as many risks and dependencies as possible for the management review
E. facilitate the coordination with other teams for dependencies
Answer: A, E
QUESTION 21
What is the main reason why some teams never reach stage 4 in the stages of high performing teams?
A. because no one guides them
B. leadership is spontaneous
C. team is not structured correctly
D. there is too much conflict
Answer: A
QUESTION 22
What is the recommended duration of a SAFe iteration?
A. 2 weeks
B. 3 weeks
C. 4 weeks
D. it depends
Answer: B
QUESTION 23
Participating in PI planning enables teams to gain alignment and commitment around a clear set of
what?
A. team dependencies
B. prioritized objectives
C. user stories
D. features and benefits
Answer: B
QUESTION 24
How are the 3 Whys used?
A. to identify a root cause of a problem
B. to brainstorm ideas
C. to coach a team through powerful questions
D. to define acceptance criteria for a story
Answer: A
QUESTION 25
There are two primary aspects of a lean-agile mindset lean thinking and what?
A. feature enablement
B. lean systems
C. systems engineering
D. embracing agility
Answer: D
QUESTION 26
In SAFe, who owns the decision for releasing changes into production?
A. product management
B. system architect
C. release train engineer
D. solution owner
Answer: A
QUESTION 27
During PI planning who owns the planning of stories into iterations?
A. Agile teams
B. product management
C. system architect
D. scrum master
Answer: A
QUESTION 28
Which statement is true about the phase-gate milestone model and risk reduction?
A. It does not mitigate risk as intended
B. It creates large batches of requirements
C. It reduces product increment values
D. It helps to visualize and limit WIP
Answer: A
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/base-milestones-on-objective-evaluation-of-working-systems/
QUESTION 29
When does the Inspect and Adapt event happen?
A. At the end of the System Demo
B. At the end of every two weeks
C. At the end of the second day of PI Planning
D. At the end of each PI
Answer: D
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/inspect-and-adapt/
QUESTION 30
Who reviews the top capabilities for the upcoming PI?
A. Project Manager
B. Solution Architect/Engineer
C. Solution Management
D. Project Owner
Answer: C
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/product-and-solution-management/
QUESTION 31
Why should team members continuously and actively engage with other teams during PI Planning?
A. To manage dependencies and resolve impediments
B. To understand how the other team is working
C. To foster an environment of capacity and velocity
D. To create a backlog of features the team can adopt
Answer: C
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/pi-planning/
QUESTION 32
What are two Release Train Engineer responsibilities? (Choose two.)
A. Facilitate PI Planning readiness and the event itself
B. Understand Customer need
C. Drive relentless improvement through Inspect and Adapt
D. Build an effective Product Owner / Product Manager team
E. Manage and prioritize the flow of work to the program
Answer: A, C
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/release-train-engineer-and-solution-train-engineer/
QUESTION 33
What anti-pattern can emerge during the Scrum of Scrums?
A. Scrum Masters bring in risks and impediments for escalation
B. Scrum Masters work with the Release Train Engineer to resolve risks and impediments
C. Scrum Masters have a daily 15 minute meet-after with the Release Train Engineer
D. Scrum Masters report on the teams' task status each day
Answer: D
https://www.agilest.org/scaled-agile/scrum-of-scrums/
QUESTION 34
What action should be taken on Relentless Improvement Backlog items from the Problem Solving
Workshop?
A. Assign points or prioritization levels
B. Calculate for cost before continuing
C. Use as direct input into the PI Planning session that follows
D. Assign to the team best suited to solve
Answer: C
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/inspect-and-adapt/
QUESTION 35
According to Daniel Pink, which three factors drive motivation and lead to better performance and
personal satisfaction? (Choose three.)
A. Reward
B. Mastery
C. Purpose
D. Recognition
E. Responsibility
F. Autonomy
Answer: B, C, F
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/unlock-the-intrinsic-motivation-of-knowledge-workers/
QUESTION 36
What are three Team Retrospective anti-patterns? (Choose three.)
A. When the Scrum Master decides what the Retrospective topic(s) will be and directs the team on
specific improvement items to work on
B. When the team's people manager comes in to observe
C. When only part of the team attends
D. When the team commits to working on 1-2 improvement items and adds them to the next Iteration
Backlog
E. When the team reviews their interactions during the last Iteration and identifies 1-2 improvement items
to work on as a team
F. When the team reviews their i
for the Product Owner to work on
Answer: A, B, C
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/iteration-retrospective/
QUESTION 37
One of the Scrum Master's main responsibilities is to communicate with management and outside
stakeholders to help the team in what way?
A. Split bigger work items where necessary
B. Protect them from uncontrolled addition of work
C. Manage the Iteration Planning Backlog
D. Accept stories
Answer: B
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/scrum-master/
QUESTION 38
When developing an Agile Team's skill set, what skill type is most typical?
A. E-shaped
B. T-shaped
C. M-shaped
D. I-shaped
Answer: B
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/dev-team/
QUESTION 39
what is an anti-pattern for the IP iteration?
A. to plan work for the IP iteration during PI planning
B. to allow for sufficient capacity in the program roadmap
C. to ensure all stories and teams' PI plans are completed prior to the IP iteration
D. to minimize lost capacity when people are on vacation or holidays
E. to wait for the IP iteration to fix defects
Answer: A, E
QUESTION 40
What is the purpose of the plan-do-check-adjust cycle?
A. To provide regular, predictable dev cadence to produce an increment of value
B. To give the ART members a process tool to keep the train on the tracks
C. To create a continuous flow of work to support the delivery pipeline
D. To allow the team to perform some final backlog refinement for upcoming iteration planning
Answer: A
QUESTION 41
Which meeting should the Scrum Master attend (not facilitate)?
A. Iteration Review
B. Scrum of Scrums
C. Daily Stand-Up
D. PO sync
Answer: B
QUESTION 42
Scrum masters help remove impediments, foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics and
what else?
A. Relentlessly improve
B. Continuously deliver
C. Form and re-form teams
D. Estimate stories
Answer: A
QUESTION 43
Each PI planning meeting evolves over time, and ending PI planning with a Retrospective will help to do
what?
A. Fine tune the Economic Framework
B. Meet compliance more rapidly
C. Lengthen the Architectural Runway
D. Continuously improve
Answer: D
QUESTION 44
What is one truth about teams?
A. Development teams can manage daily interruptions
B. Products are more robust when individuals on teams have specific skill sets
C. Changes in team composition do not impact productivity
D. Teams are more productive than the same number of individuals
Answer: D
QUESTION 45
Which type of enabler does a System Architect review during a System Demo?
A. Enabler Capabilities
B. Enabler Features
C. Enabler stories
D. Enabler Portfolio Epics
Answer: C
QUESTION 46
Who can change the backlog during an iteration?
A. Agile Team
B. Scrum master
C. Release Train Engineer
D. Senior Management
Answer: A
QUESTION
Which statement is true about scrum?
A. It is a software technical practice
B. It is an ideal method for static design requirements
C. it is based on empirical process control theory
D. it is a Lean system Engineering technique
Answer: D
QUESTION 48
What are two common PI planning anti-patterns?
A. Too much time spent analyzing each story
B. Too much time spent prioritizing features
C. Team decides which changes need to happen and when
D. Part-time scrum masters do not have time to plan as part of the team
E. Stories are created for the PI planning iterations
Answer: A, D
QUESTION 49
What are the three pillars of Scrum?
A. Agility
B. Transparency
C. inspection
D. adaptation
E. Courage
Answer: B, C, D
QUESTION 50
Who is responsible for prioritizing the iteration backlog?
A. Dvelopment Team
B. Product Owner
C. Scrum Master
D. Business Manager
Answer: B
QUESTION 51
Achieving the goals of Release on Demand requires an understanding of how to decouple what?
A. The release from deployment
B. The Iterations Demos
C. The System Demos
D. The Project Increment
Answer: A
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/continuous-deployment/
QUESTION 52
What is the value of periodic resynchronization?
A. Products that are delivered earlier provide
B. WIP is maximized
C. It causes multiple events to happen serially
D. It limits variance to a single time interval
Answer: D
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/apply-cadence-synchronize-with-cross-domain-planning/
QUESTION 53
At the System Demo, each team demonstrates their own work but the system is not integrated. They say
they underestimated the integration effort, but they cannot integrate every Iteration and meet the planned
scope. What should the Scrum Master suggest?
A. Integrate the system during the IP Iteration
B. Stop the Train and go back to waterfall until integration can occur
C. Defer integration until the train is in the sustain and improve the section of the Implementation
Roadmap
D. Discuss removing scope with product management to allow for continuous integratio
Answer: C
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/system-demo/
QUESTION 54
What are the responsibilities of a Scrum Master on a train that go beyond basic team facilitation?
(Choose three.)
A. Write an estimate features
B. Manage Daily Stand-up meetings
C. Facilitate team preparation for PI Planning
D. Participate in Scrum of Scrums
E. Facilitate preparation for the System Demo
F. Prioritize Program Backlog
Answer: C, D, E
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/scrum-master/
QUESTION 55
How do Kanban Teams implement the SAFe Lean-Agile mindset of relentless improvement?
A. By establishing a Kanban board to visualize the flow of work within Kanban team and aligning with the
Program and the rest of the teams
B. By using Cumulative Flow Diagrams which objectively measure bottlenecks and variation in the flow
which could be due to systemic factors
C. By estimating team velocity and comparing it across Iterations for continuous improvement
D. By creating Classes of Services and Policies to execute the work in a way that is aligned with
Program and Large Solution Levels
Answer: B
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/team-kanban/
QUESTION 56
What is one way to improve the skills of a team member?
A. Get them to work only on their specialty
B. Discuss their weaknesses
C. Pair-work with other team members
D. Ask them to work alone on something new
Answer: C
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/communities-of-practice/
QUESTION 57
What are three benefits a Community of Practice offers? (Choose three.)
A. To drive craftsmanship
B. To provide a series of incremental steps forward through a shared and common framework and for
implementing SAFe
C. To facilitate the adoption of new methods and techniques
D. To improve the confidence of stakeholders through a shared and common purpose
E. To provide routine, periodic presentations of the short- and longer-term Vision to the teams
F. To provide a place to acquire knowledge - WHY NOT THIS ONE
Answer: B, C, E
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/communities-of-practice/
QUESTION 58
Which statement describes how Kanban Teams handle velocity in SAFe during PI Planning?
A. They need to estimate their velocity in story points
B. They use throughput as an indication of their velocity
C. They use cycle time because it is more objective and based on actual timestamps
D. They participate in scoring Business Value; however, they have a different measure than velocity
Answer: B
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/team-kanban/
QUESTION 59
Where does a team document new practices they want to incorporate into the their collective skill set?
A. Inspect and Adapt workshop notes
B. Improvement Roadmap
C. PI Planning meeting post-meeting notes
D. Team Iteration Backlog
Answer: A
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/iterations/
QUESTION 60
What is an anti-pattern to motivation?
A. Maximizing purpose
B. Individualized compensation
C. Market disruption
D. Team goals
Answer: B
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/unlock-the-intrinsic-motivation-of-knowledge-workers/
QUESTION 61
The Development Team may need to learn or acquire new skills. Where is this list of skills found?
A. As part of the outcome of
B. In the Improvement Roadmap
C. As part of the outcome of the Team Retrospective
D. In the HR Training and Development Plan
Answer: C
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/dev-team/
QUESTION 62
How does a Scrum Master lead a team's efforts in relentless improvement?
A. By facilitating a team meeting
B. By focusing on the Iteration goals
C. By facilitating the team retrospective
D. By eliminating impediments
Answer: C
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/scrum-master/
QUESTION 63
Which two actions enhance an Agile Release Train's performance? (Choose two.)
A. Team alignment
B. Reporting
C. Collaboration
D. Customer success
E. Reduction of total costs
Answer: A, C
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/agile-release-train/ (Search for team and then search for collab)
QUESTION 64
What is a recommended story-splitting technique for Agile teams?
A. Validate design with stakeholders and build the functionality later
B. Start with the data structure and extend into the business logic and UI
C. Implement the 'happy path' first and the rest of the scenarios afterward
D. Implement the story UI first and build the business logic later
Answer: C
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/story/
QUESTION 65
The Scrum Master interacts with which level(s) of SAFe?
A. Portfolio Level
B. Program Level
C. Team Level
D. All Levels
Answer: B
QUESTION 66
What is the SAFe recommended optimal duration of a PI?
A. It can be any duration
B. 2 - 4 weeks
C. 4 - 8 weeks
D. 8 - 12 weeks
Answer: D
QUESTION 67
During Iteration Review, the team decides to carry forward three stories to the next Iteration. This is the
second time during this PI that some of the team's stories are carried over. What are two actions the
Scrum Master should take? (Choose two.)
A. Coach the team to honor their commitments
B. Take a 'wait and see' approach because the team assures they are still on track for the PI
C. Discuss the issue at the next Iteration Retrospective
D. See if the Product Owner is agreeable to moving the stories into the next Iteration
E. Perform the 5 Whys to find the root cause of all delays
Answer: A, E
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/iteration-review/
QUESTION 68
What is the first step in the Problem-Solving Workshop?
A. Identify the root causes of possible problems
B. Create a summary report for leadership and management
C. Agree on the problem to solve
D. Record all brainstorming ideas
Answer: C
QUESTION 69
What is the most effective way to establish built-in quality?
A. Run performance testing as well as the testing of other non-functional requirements every IP Iteration
B. Test each release more thoroughly
C. Perform as many types of testing within the Iteration boundaries as possible
D. Create more unit tests
Answer: C
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/built-in-quality/
QUESTION 70
An effective SAFe Agile team ensures process visibility to who?
A. The Release Train Engineer
B. Stakeholders
C. The Agile Release Train
D. Business Owners
Answer: B
QUESTION 71
What improves collaboration between Scrum Masters and System Architects, System Teams, and
Operations?
A. System Quality Measurements
B. Key Performance Indicators
C. The Program Predictability Measure
D. Program Kanban
Answer: A
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/program-and-solution-kanbans/
QUESTION 72
Which two SAFe events explicitly implement SAFe's mindset of relentless improvement? (Choose two.)
A. Solution Demo
B. Iteration Retrospective
C. Iteration Demo
D. Inspect and Adapt
E. PI Planning
Answer: B, D
QUESTION 73
How does work flow from one state to the next in a Team Kanban board?
A. During the Daily Stand-up, team members make decisions and discuss how to move the work
B. The Scrum Master moves the work from one state to the next to ensure ongoing progress within the team
C. Team members of a state pull work from the previous state when they can do so without impacting
their current state WIP constraint
D. People working in the first state move the work to the next work state
Answer: C
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/team-kanban/
QUESTION 74
One state on the Kanban board has people waiting while the previous stage is overloaded. What should
the Scrum Master consider doing?
A. Ask the team to redesign the board
B. Encourage and coach the people in the under-utilized stage to help with the work of the of overloaded stage
C. Call for a team self-assessment so that the team agrees on improvement actions
D. Request more people on the team to help with the overloaded stage in order to generate work faster
for the waiting stage
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/team-kanban/
Answer: B
QUESTION 75
What are two examples of team tasking anti-patterns? (Choose two.)
A. The team waits to close OR TEST the story until after the related tasks are complete
B. The team focuses on task completion over story completion and acceptance criteria
C. The team focuses on story completion and acceptance criteria over task completion
D. The team provides updates only on tasks during the Daily Stand-up
E. Team members are swarming on stories
Answer: A, B
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/team-kanban/
QUESTION 76
Who should vote on root causes?
A. The Product Owner
B. The CIO, CTO, and any 'C-suite' member that is concerned
C. The Agile Release Train team
D. The Product Owner and Scrum Master
E. team involved in problem solving workshop put this
Answer: C
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/inspect-and-adapt/
QUESTION 77
During Iteration Planning, the Product Owner (PO) introduces a new story to the team. They cannot
come to a consensus on the size of the new story and ask the PO for more details. After a lot of
discussion, multiple dependencies with other teams emerge, so the team decides to leave the story in
the Team Backlog and not commit. Is the team's response an anti-pattern?
A. No; the PO provided details on the story
B. No; the Development Team left the story in the Team Backlog for further refinement with the PO
C. Yes; the Development Team identified multiple dependencies with other teams
D. Yes; the PO and the Development Team reached the planning session without preparation and the
dependencies were not identified
E. Yes; the PO should not be in the iteration planning meeting
Answer: D
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/iteration-planning/
QUESTION 78
What is the connection between feedback and optimum batch size?
A. Lack of feedback contributes to higher holding cost
B. Large batch sizes reduce transaction cost and provide a higher return on investment
C. Feedback and batch size are generally not connected
D. Small batch sizes lower transaction costs
Answer: A
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/visualize-and-limit-wip-reduce-batch-sizes-and-manage-queue-length
s/
QUESTION 79
Which SAFe organizational construct allows businesses to build large and complex systems in a LeanAgile manner?
A. Value Stream
B. Portfolio
C. Agile Release Train
D. Solution Train
Answer: C
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/solution-train/
QUESTION 80
What are two reasons why too much WIP is a problem? (Choose two.)
A. It makes it hard to collect metrics
B. It hides bottlenecks in the workflow*
C. It requires too much work effort
D. It shows the overall system is inefficient*
E. It does not allow the Development Team time to improve their processes
Answer: B, D
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/visualize-and-limit-wip-reduce-batch-sizes-and-manage-queue-length
s/
QUESTION 81
Who participates in the Inspect and Adapt event?
A. Agile teams, Release Train Engineers, System and Solution Architect/Engineering
B. Product Managers and Product Owners
C. Only stakeholders and Agile team members
D. Everyone involved in building the system
Answer: C
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/inspect-and-adapt/
QUESTION 82
What provides objective evidence that the system is iterating?
A. PO Sync
B. Scrum of Scrums
C. Daily Stand-ups
D. System Demo
Answer: D
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/iteration-review/
QUESTION 83
How does the Scrum Master help teams address the challenges from modern enterprises?
A. By promoting a continuous release
B. By facilitating a team's progress towards goals
C. By building high performing trains
D. By actively addressing impediments
Answer: C
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/enterprise/
QUESTION 84
Which SAFe configuration requires having a Vision?
A. Portfolio SAFe
B. Large Solution SAFe
C. All SAFe configurations
D. Full SAFe
Answer: B
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/#
QUESTION 85
How should decentralized decision-making be used with respect to system design?
A. When defining subsystems and interfaces
B. When allocating func
C. When identifying the selection of common platforms
D. When development teams are empowered, self-organized, and allow the design to emerge
Answer: D
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/system-team/
QUESTION 86
How can learning milestones be used?
A. To meet contractually binding dates for delivery of value
B. To meet release dates set by external business partners
C. To test the concept of a new feature or capability
D. To mark events such as trade shows and product announcements
Answer: C
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/milestones/
QUESTION 87
Collective ownership is one XP principle adopted in SAFe. What is another XP principle?
A. Plan-Do-Check-Adjust
B. Weighted Shortest Job First
C. Deliver Value
D. Pair Programming
Answer: D
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/scrumxp/
QUESTION 88
What is one characteristic of an effective Agile team?
A. To concentrate and deliver the product scope
B. To provide steady, high quality, an incremental value
C. To make the process visible to the Business Owners
D. To collaborate and discuss components
Answer: B
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/agile-teams/
QUESTION 89
A team achieved less than 80% during the quantitative measurement of the Inspect and Adapt
workshop. What would be an unacceptable action for this team's Scrum Master to take?
A. Retrain team members on Agile practices
B. Decide improvement actions for the team to implement
C. Hold the team self-assessment at any time and do not wait for the Iteration Retrospective
D. Coordinate with the System Team to coach this team on Continuous Integration and test automation
Answer: D
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/metrics/
QUESTION 90
Who is responsible for assisting to establish Continuous Integration in SAFe?
A. Shared Services
B. Agile Teams
C. The System Architect/Engineer
D. The System Team
Answer: D
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/system-team/
QUESTION 91
How do Agile Teams ensure their own Retrospective Improvement actions are implemented?
A. Add improvement stories to the Team Backlog to implement in the next Iteration
B. Use the Release Train Engineer to hold the Agile Team accountable for their improvement actions
C. Discuss improvement actions during the Inspect and Adapt event and get confirmation from other
Agile Teams on implementation
D. Have the Scrum Master implement the team improvement actions so the team can focus on the
development
Answer: A
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/iteration-retrospective/
QUESTION 92
Which technique is used to identify root causes during the Problem Solving workshop?
A. Five Whys
B. Value Stream Identification
C. Value Stream Mapping
D. Weighted Shortest Job First
Answer: A
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/inspect-and-adapt/
QUESTION 93
Which SAFe House of Lean pillar supports not imposing wishful thinking on teams?
A. Innovation
B. Lean-Agile Leadership
C. Respect for Culture and People
D. Flow
Answer: C
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/lean-agile-mindset/
QUESTION 94
An effective decision-making framework provides which two ultimate outcomes? (Choose two.)
A. Improves flow
B. Reduces delays as a result of centralized decision-making
C. Unlocks the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
D. Reduces WIP limits
E. Decreases time to market
Answer: A, B
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/economic-framework/
QUESTION 95
What are two key areas a team should be organized around? (Choose two.)
A. Business logic
B. Middleware
C. Features
D. Enablers
E. Platform
Answer: C, D
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/architectural-runway/
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/features-and-components/ -https://www.scaledagileframework.com/features-and-capabilities/
QUESTION 96
In complex systems development, what do local integration points ensure?
A. That each capability of the system is meeting its responsibilities in contributing to the overall solution
intent
B. That a common understanding of the system design is distributed to the entire team
C. That all team members have access to the current product status
D. That an application passes all QA tests before being released to production
Answer: A
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/build-incrementally-with-fast-integrated-learning-cycles/
QUESTION 97
During PI Planning, the Scrum of Scrums meetings helps accomplish which two actions? (Choose two.)
A. Exposing risks, impediments, and dependencies
B. Comparing velocities across the teams
C. Looking for ways to increase team velocity
D. Rolling up the PI Business Value objectives
E. Keeping the planning milestones on track
Answer: A, E
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/pi-planning/
QUESTION 98
A team's Product Owner (PO) takes an unexpected leave of absence for the last week of the Iteration.
Three of the team's stories have been completed and are waiting to be accepted. The Scrum Master
asks the Product Manager (PM) to attend the Iteration Review and accept the stories. The PM responds
that he is not familiar enough with the intent to feel comfortable accepting these responsibilities. He
suggests keeping the Iteration open for an additional week and waiting for the PO to come back. What
should the team's Scrum Master do?
A. Work with the Release Train Engineer to find a solution
B. The Scrum Master should accept the stories after the team demonstrates the stories
C. Ask another PO in the Agile Release Train to accept the stories
D. Strongly urge the PM to attend the Demo and accept the stories
Answer: A
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/product-owner/ -https://www.scaledagileframework.com/iteration-planning/
QUESTION 99
Scrum Master interacts with which level(s) of SAFe?
A. Portfolio Level
B. All levels
C. Team Level
D. Program Level
Answer: C
QUESTION 100
Where does a team document new practices they want to incorporate into their collective skill set?
A. Inspect and Adapt workshop notes
B. PI planning meeting post-meeting notes
C. Team iteration backlog
D. Improvement Roadmap
Answer: D
QUESTION 101
Why are scrum masters challenged differently in an enterprise?
A. scrum master might become RTE's at some point
B. Team is effected by teams and stakeholders beyond their control
C. teams in large enterprises take longer to transition from storming to norming
D. portfolio budgets require accounting knowledge
Answer: B
QUESTION 102
What is first step in problem solving workshop?
A. create summary report for leadership and management
B. Agree on problem to solve
C. Identify root causes of possible problems
D. Record all brainstorming Ideas
Answer: B
QUESTION 103
Taking an economic view does not always require knowing dollarized value but is rather a general
thinking tool.
A. True
B. False
Answer: A
QUESTION 104
Building Enterprise-Class Software and cyber-physical systems are one of the most complex challenges
our industry faces today.
A. True
B. False
Answer: A
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/safe-lean-agile-principles/
QUESTION
Within the Agile community, a person who has a deep specialization in one domain, but rarely
contributes outside of that domain is a/an:
A. E shaped person
B. T Shaped person
C. I shaped person
D. None of the above
Answer: C
QUESTION 106
When using Systems Thinking, you would agree that optimizing a component does not optimize the
system.
A. True
B. False
Answer: A
QUESTION 107
What type of anti-pattern is below: "The Agile Team has more than one Product Owner."
A. Please note down your answer
B. C. A Structural Anti-Pattern
Answer: A
QUESTION 108
Centralize decisions that are infrequent, long-lasting and ______________.
A. generates revenues
B. have insignificant economies of scale
C. insignificant
D. have significant economies of scale
Answer: D
QUESTION 109
An honest effort at careful problem definition will avoid the "ready, fire, aim" approach that is so common
in problem-solving.
A. True
B. False
Answer: A
QUESTION 110
Kanban is a _____________ system that visualizes work flow and uses WIP limits at different work flow
steps to facilitate the flow.
A. integrated
B. private
C. pull
D. push
Answer: C
QUESTION 111
The average time a backlog item spends in the system after it's been pulled from the backlog and before
it is accepted defines:
A. throughput
B. average WIP in the system
C. average cycle time
D. backlog WIP
Answer: C
QUESTION 112
The PI Predictability Measure shows whether achievements fall into an acceptable
_________________________________.
A. testing plan
B. process control band
C. control document
D. None of the above
Answer: B
QUESTION 113
Cumulative Flow shows:
A. Opportunities to improve
B. Rate of acceptance
C. Average cycle times
D. All of the above
Answer: D
QUESTION 114
The goal of DevOps is to improve collaboration across the value stream by developing and automating a
____________________________________.
A. Implementation Roadmap
B. Development routine
C. Delivery on Demand structure
D. Continuous Delivery Pipeline
Answer: D
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/devops/
QUESTION 115
SAFe's CALMR approach to DevOps does NOT include the following:
A. Culture of shared responsibility
B. Measurement of everything
C. Recovery causes high-risk releases
D. Lean flow accelerates delivery
Answer: C
QUESTION 116
Reducing transaction costs reduces total costs and shifts:
A. transaction costs lower
B. optimum batch size lower
C. items per batch lower
D. transactions costs higher
Answer: B
QUESTION 117
What description best represents Capabilities as defined in SAFe?
A. Capabilities are simply a level of abstraction above Epics, exhibiting largely the same characteristics
and practices.
B. Capability is a different name for Features, one that is preferred by some organizations.
C. Capabilities are simply a different kind of Epic, exhibiting largely the same characteristics and
practices.
D. Capabilities are simply a level or abstraction above Features, exhibiting largely the same
characteristics and practices.
Answer: D
QUESTION 118
What activity calls for using ROAM technique?
A. Refining the Program Backlog.
B. Managing the ART sync.
C. Categorizing program risks during PI Planning.
D. Managing teams by the Release Train Engineer.
Answer: C
QUESTION 119
Why is Architectural Runway important? (Select 2)
A. It supports a stable velocity.
B. It provides the documentation on which Features and Capabilities are built.
C. It iteratively evolves the architecture to meet changing needs.
D. It allows for nontechnical changes
Answer: A, C
QUESTION 120
What is the most effective way to train the System Team members to operate effectively as part of the
train?
A. Have them attend Leading SAFe training and Scrum Master orientation.
B. Have them attend Leading SAFe training.
C. Have them attend SAFe for Teams training with all other teams on the train.
D. Have them attend Implementing SAFe training with SPC certification.
E. Have them review the SAFe Foundations presentation and provide on-the-job training.
Answer: C
QUESTION
What are the primary responsibilities of Program Portfolio Management (PPM)?
A. Governance, strategy and investment funding, program management.
B. Program management, stakeholder management, PI Planning.
C. Lightweight business case, Epic specification workshop, Budget allocation.
D. Governance, investment funding, product strategy.
Answer: A
QUESTION 122
What role would a traditional program manager most likely take on in SAFe?
A. Release Train Engineer or Value Stream Engineer.
B. Scrum master
C. Business Owner
D. Product Manager
Answer: A
QUESTION 123
What activity occurs during the program Inspect and Adapt workshop?
A. PI Predictability Measure update.
B. Roadmap update
C. Team Iteration Demo
D. Biweekly System Demo
E. Iteration Metrics update
Answer: A
QUESTION 124
In SAFe, who owns the Vision for a PI?
A. Product Owner
B. Business Owners
C. Scrum Master
D. COE
E. Product Management
Answer: B
QUESTION 125
What are stretch objectives?
A. Objectives that are beyond the capacity of the team and so are uncommitted for the PI.
B. Objectives that are part of the team's capacity but not necessarily achievable during the PI.
C. Objectives that are identified during the PI.
D. Objectives that the business has promised to their Customers.
Answer: B
QUESTION 126
What would you examine when identifying Value Streams in an enterprise moving to SAFe?(Select 2)
A. The project cost accounting procedures in place.
B. The internal departments which are supported.
C. The number of ARTs which would be contained in the Portfolio.
D. The current products which the company sells.
Answer: B, D
QUESTION 127
The portfolio Vision is an aggregation of every Agile Release Train's Vision?
A. True
B. False
Answer: B
QUESTION 128
What applies to the Portfolio Backlog? (Select 2)
A. The Portfolio Kanban holds Capabilities that are ready for implementation.
B. Programs plan PIs so that they exhaust the Portfolio Backlog and only then work on their local
priorities.
C. It provides a low-cost holding area for approved Business and Enabler Epics.
D. WSJF is used to prioritize Epics in the Portfolio Backlog.
Answer: C, D
QUESTION 129
When does the System Demo happen?
A. After the Solution Demo, but before PI Planning.
B. After every Iteration.
C. On demand.
D. After continuous integration.
E. After Pre-PI Planning
Answer: B
QUESTION 130
Test automation is typically included in the Definition of Done (DoD).
A. True
B. False
Answer: B
QUESTION 131
When might Feature size not be a good substitute for the duration of WSJF? (Select 2)
A. The Feature did not originate from a Program Epic.
B. The Feature involves a team or team members who represent a bottleneck.
C. The Feature did not originate from a Value Stream Capability.
D. The Feature involves a remote third-party vendor that has a formal scope-approval process.
E. The Feature has not yet been broken down into user stories by the Product Owne
Answer: B, D
QUESTION 132
Which of the following have accep
A. Business Capabilities
B. Portfolio Enabler Epics
C. Strategic Themes
D. Enabler Features
E. Spikes
F. Program Epics
Answer: A, D, E
QUESTION 133
You organization decided to thoroughly implement the SAFe Principle "Assume variability; preserve
options." What is the optimum path for success?
A. Assume variability of scope and preserve options for the release date.
B. Preserve flexibility in system functionality and design, but have fixed Solution intent.
C. Assume variability of scope, but have fixed Solution Context.
D. Preserve flexibility in both system functionality and design.
Answer: D
QUESTION 134
What is the correct statement about Work in Process (WIP).
A. The bigger the WIP, the richer the feedback.
B. The amount of WIP is unrelated to utilization.
C. Lower WIP limits foster collaboration.
Answer: C
QUESTION 135
What does Little's Law tells us?
A. The easiest way achieve flow is to reduce queue lengths.
B. Long queues help increase process efficiency.
C. The easiest way to reduce waits is to increase the processing rate.
D. The average wait time is dependent on the varying arrival rate of items coming into the queue.
E. Single-piece flow is always best.
Answer: A
QUESTION 136
The Spanning Palette can apply to the Team Level.
A. True
B. False
Answer: A
QUESTION 137
Every Enabler Capability has an Enabler Epic as its parent.
A. True
B. False
Answer: B
QUESTION 138
ARTs that consist only of Feature teams do not require an Architectural Runway.
A. True
B. False
Answer: B
QUESTION 139
What does the SAFe budgeting model suggest?
A. Each Strategic Theme receives a budget allocation when Strategic Themes span portfolios.
B. Epics, Features, and Stories are funded based on their size in normalized Story points, while teams
are allocated to high-priority work as needed.
C. Each Value Stream receives budget allocation as a whole; individual work is not specifically
budgeted.
D. Each team gets budget allocation and Features are funded according to their size in normalized Story
points.
Answer: C
QUESTION 140
What would imply a change to the ART Budget?
A. Extending the duration of a PI.
B. Changing total ART resources
C. Switching to a different PI cadence.
D. Reducing the scope of a Program Epic.
E. Prioritizing Features based on Cost of Delay.
Answer: D
QUESTION 141
Which behaviors are typically associated with Lean-Agile Leaders? (Select 3)
A. Establish clear objectives for managing.
B. Develop Solutions.
C. Protect subordinates from interference by outside stakeholders.
D. Support decentralized decision-making.
E. Emphasize lifelong learning.
Answer: C, D, E
QUESTION 142
SAFe uses Story points for estimating the size of Stories, Features, Capabilities, and Epics.
A. True
B. False
Answer: A
QUESTION 143
What is Cost of Delay?
A. Cost incurred when system integration appears too late in the PI.
B. Opportunity cost and deferred revenue.
C. Penalty for nonperformance.
D. Cost of not addressing risk early on.
Answer: B
QUESTION 144
What are legitimate examples of management as an enabling function, rather than as top-down control?
(Select 3)
A. Assigning backlog items to team members.
B. Communicating the Solution Vision with the teams.
C. Working with other departments to establish better communication among teams.
D. Creating work breakdown structures.
E. Assigning team members to handle external dependencies.
F. Developing skills and career paths for team members.
Answer: B, C, F
QUESTION 145
Capabilities are similar to Features and can be managed in the Program Backlog
A. True
B. False
Answer: B
QUESTION 146
Lean-Agile Leaders ______________. (Select 4)
A. Lead the teams
B. Proactively eliminate impediments.
C. Run successful Agile Release Trains.
D. Facilitate relentless improvement
E. Embrace the values of Lean.
F. Manage the most critical day-to-day activities of team members.
Answer: A, B, D,, E
QUESTION 147
What factors favor centralized decision-making? (Select 2)
A. Infrequent decisions.
B. Need for fast decision-making.
C. Economies of scale
D. Appropriate authority level of the decision maker.
E. High cost of delay
Answer: A, C
QUESTION 148
What are the responsibilities of a Business Owner? (Select 2)
A. Assign business value to Team Objectives during PI Planning.
B. Participate in Post-PI Planni
C. Assign business value to Epics and Features.
D. Ensure that the Solution Demo occurs.
E. Determine the product Roadmap
Answer: A, B
QUESTION 149
What does innovation accounting mean?
A. Capitalizing the cost of software development using Story points.
B. Defining, empirically measuring, and communicating the true progress of innovation.
C. Demoing Stories that come out of the IP Iteration.
D. Being sure to account for the investment in new product initiatives on a P&L.
Answer: B
QUESTION 150
What are the right scenarios for using SAFe Foundations Training Materials? (Select 2)
A. Train Scrum Masters in servant leadership following "SAFe for Teams" training.
B. Make an initial presentation on SAFe to the organization.
C. Familiarize Release Train Engineers with the PI Planning process.
D. Familiarize executives with SAFe.
E. Train the teams prior to PI Planning.
Answer: B, D
QUESTION 151
Which of the below is NOT a characteristics of an effective Agile Team:
A. Able to reliably deliver
B. Collaborates to achieve Iteration goals and PI Objectives
C. Sustains a predictable pace of development
D. Its members never challenged each other's ideas
Answer: D
QUESTION 152
Agile Release Trains are organized around the ability to release value on demand through the
________________________________.
A. Please note down your answer
B. C. Continuous Delivery Pipeline
Answer: A
QUESTION 153
Solution Trains deliver Business Solutions and Lean Systems by managing frequent integration,
continuously addressing compliance concerns, coordinating multiple ARTs & suppliers and:
A. Providing training for single ARTs
B. Architecting for scale, modularity, releasability, and serviceability.
C. Ensuring the Solutions stay within budgets
D. Architecting for scale and immediate release on demand.
Answer: B
QUESTION 154
______________________ is made up of Strategy & Investment Funding, Lean Governance, and Agile
Portfolio Operations.
A. Please note down your answer
B. C. Lean Portfolio Management
Answer: A
QUESTION 155
At the end of a two-day planning meeting, a team does not have a committed plan. Do they:
A. Leave and meet in a day or two
B. Stay until they get a committed plan
C. Have an executive assign them a plan
D. Have the RTE assign the a plan
Answer: B
QUESTION 156
Kanban does everything EXCEPT:
A. It helps control financial budget targets
B. It helps improve Iteration outcomes
C. It allows better visibility into the progress of work bbased on the team-specific work flow.
D. It connects capacity based planning in Scrum with a throughput based approach
Answer: A
QUESTION 157
A balance between emergent design and intentional architecture is required for:
A. a successful implementation
B. an empirical architecture
C. speed of development and maintainability
D. speed of development and control
Answer: C
QUESTION 158
A C+ developer who also knows Java very well, is deep into SQL and various databases would be
considered a:
A. I-Shaped team member
B. T-Shaped team member
C. E-Shaped team member
D. M-Shaped team member
Answer: C
QUESTION 159
What are the three crucial characteristics of Communities of Practice? Choose 3
A. Domain - What we care about
B. Practice - What we do together about it
C. Team Inside-Outs - How we continuously learn
D. Community - Who cares about it
Answer: A, B, D
QUESTION 160
There is no way a team can fail if they carry out all of the Scrum or Lean-Agile events successfully.
A. True
B. False
Answer: B
See Poor Collaboration
QUESTION 161
Is it the Scrum Master's job to foster collaboration among team members?
A. True
B. False
Answer: A
Fostering collaboration is one of the ost inportant tasks o a Scrum Master.
QUESTION 162
Collective test ownership is important because it:
A. facilitates shared understanding of system behavior
B. facilitates the acceptance test criteria
C. ensures all team members have tested the system
D. ensures that the system has been fully tested
Answer: A
QUESTION 163
A Scrum Master facilitates the adoption of technical practices because it helps the team mature in their
Definition of Done and Encourages pairing and peer review.
A. True
B. False
Answer: A
QUESTION 164
Scrum Masters can create an environment for continuous learning by supporting the following:
A. Team inside-outs
B. Community of Practice
C. Coding Dojo
D. All of the above
Answer: D
QUESTION 165
A Team Inside Out is usually 30 - 60 minutes and is scheduled once per 1 - 2 iterations.
A. True
B. False
Answer: A
QUESTION 166
What are the 3 Factors that lead to better performance and personal satisfaction? (CHOOSE 3)
A. Autonomy
B. Challenges
C. Mastery
D. Purpos
Answer: A, C, D
QUESTION 167
Collective ownership addresses bottlenecks, increases velocity and encourages: (choose one)
A. shared contribution
B. shared funding
C. shared responsibility
D. shared standard setting
Answer: A
QUESTION 168
Which of the following is NOT one of the three "C's" of a story:
A. Collect
B. Card
C. Conversation
D. Confirmation
Answer: A
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/story/
QUESTION 169
The 5-Whys is used to avoid:
A. blaming others
B. black holes
C. assumptions and logic traps
D. logic traps and anomolies
Answer: C
QUESTION 170
Some teams break each story into tasks. As the tasks are identified, team members discuss each one:
who would be the best person(s) to accomplish it, approximately how long it will take (typically in hours),
and any dependencies it may have on other tasks or stories. Is this practice mandated by SAFe?
A. yes
B. no
Answer: B
While breaking stories into tasks
used by beginner teams to learn their velocity and capabilities, and then they become unnecessary, with the
team planning only with stories. https://www.scaledagileframework.com/iteration-planning/
QUESTION 171
The Inspect and Adapt (I&A) event has three parts; which of the below does NOT belong:
A. The PI System Demo of the Solution's current state
B. Quantitative Measurement
C. The Retrospective and Problem-Solving Workshop
D. All of the above
Answer: D
QUESTION 172
When calculating a Team's PI performance report, a team CAN achieve greater than 100%.
A. True
B. False
Answer: A
team can go above 100% as a result of stretch objectives achieved.
QUESTION 173
Individual Team PI performance reports are rolled up into the:
A. Program Increment Tally
B. Program Increment Results Ratio
C. Program Predictability Report
D. Program Metrics
Answer: C
QUESTION 174
Is the ART Sync a cadenced event?
A. Yes
B. No
Answer: B
ART Sync is scheduled when a RTE feels it is necessary.
QUESTION 175
At what time during the Program Increment Planning do the Business Owners circulate and assign
business value to team objectives?
A. Day 1 - During Initial Team Breakout
B. Day 2 - During 2nd Team Break out
C. Day 1 - During Draft Plan Review
D. Day 2 - During Final Plan Review
Answer: B
QUESTION 176
What is a key role of the Scrum Master?
A. To accept Stories
B. To estimate Stories
C. To manage the team
D. To help the team identify and remove bottlenecks
Answer: D
QUESTION 177
What is an example of an anti-pattern a Scrum Master might face?
A. Teams coordinate with other teams
B. Developers do not work collaboratively on stories
C. Teams that keep stories small to support team iteration
D. A product owner representing the ˜Voice of the Customer
Answer: B
QUESTION 178
Who acts as the ˜Chief Scrum Master for the Agile Release Train?
A. Scrum Master
B. Business Owner
C. Product Manager
D. Release Train Engineer
Answer: D
QUESTION 179
What is the recommended timeframe for cadence-based PI Planning?
A. 4-6 weeks
B. 6-8 weeks
C. 8-12 weeks
D. 12-16 weeks
Answer: C
QUESTION 180
During PI planning, what are two key purposes of the hourly Scrum of Scrums checkpoint meeting?
(Choose two.)
A. To help keep teams on track
B. To support early identification of risk
C. To align milestones with PI objectives
D. To keep stretch objectives within scope
E. To ensure PI objectives have direct user value
Answer: A, B
QUESTION 181
What are two reasons the 5 Whys technique is effective? (Choose two.)
A. It allows for assumptions and logic traps
B. It is an effective way for the team to collaborate
C. It allows problems of a similar nature to be combined into groups
D. It reveals the nature of the problem through repeating "why" five times
E. It explores the cause and effect relationship underlying a p
Answer: D, E
QUESTION 182
What benefit does cadence development provide?
A. Limits WIP
B. Limits variability
C. Synchronization
D. Causes multiple events to occur at the same time
Answer: B
QUESTION 183
What is a typical measurement in Kanban?
A. Velocity
B. Code quality
C. Average WIP
D. Queue length
Answer: C
QUESTION 184
What is one of the most important tasks of a Scrum Master?
A. Increasing the velocity
B. Fostering collaboration
C. Following Scrum events
D. Reporting status to management
Answer: B
QUESTION 185
What are two actions a team can take to improve economic outcomes? (Choose two.)
A. Late integration
B. Increase velocity
C. Automation testing
D. Research spike/enabler
E. Delay performance testing
Answer: C, D
QUESTION 186
What are two examples of an organizational structure anti-pattern? (Choose two.)
A. The Scrum Master runs backlog refinement
B. There are two Product Owners for the team
C. There is one Scrum Master supporting the team
D. The Development Teams manager is also the Product Owner
E. Development Team members rotate the role of the Scrum Master
Answer: B, D
QUESTION
Which two statements describe the design of the team Kanban board? (Choose two.)
A. It has a WIP limit for every stage that is adjusted empirically
B. It has the same design across all Agile teams to ensure consistent execution
C. It is primarily a task board used to visualize the Iteration Backlog and related tasks
D. It is designed by the Development Team with coaching from the Scrum Master, and it is based on the
team's workflow
E. It is designed by the Scrum Master so that team members follow her suggestions on how the work
needs to be done
Answer: A, D
QUESTION 188
What does the Improvement Roadmap document?
A. Code which needs refactored
B. The organization's business strategy
C. New practices the team wants to adopt
D. Relevant training the team has completed
Answer: C
QUESTION 189
What is the purpose of the Solution Demo?
A. To inspect and adapt
B. To identify work that is not completed
C. To plan for future cadence-based planning
D. To compare planned vs. actual business value
Answer: D
QUESTION 190
During Inspect and Adapt, what does the System Demo show that has accumulated during the PI?
A. Skills
B. Defects
C. Features
D. Knowledge
Answer: C
QUESTION 191
Which two options are considered Agile practices? (Choose two.)
A. Timeboxing
B. Building GANTT charts
C. Test-Driven Development
D. Batching work for testing efficiency
E. Making sure requirements are complete prior to development
Answer: A, C
QUESTION 192
What is the main reason for the System Demo?
A. To provide an optional quality check
B. To fulfill the SAFe PI Planning requirements
C. To enable faster feedback by integration across teams
D. To give Product Owners the opportunity to provide feedback on the team increment
Answer: C
QUESTION 193
Who facilitates the PO Sync meeting?
A. Scrum Master
B. Product Owner
C. Business Owners
D. Release Train Engineer
Answer: D
QUESTION 194
The Scrum Master facilitates which three events in SAFe? (Choose three.)
A. System Demo
B. Retrospective
C. Daily stand-up
D. Scrum of Scrums
E. Iteration Planning
F. LPM Backlog Refinement
Answer: B, C, E
QUESTION 195
How many Iterations would it take for a team with a velocity of 20 story points per Iteration to finish a
backlog of 60 story points?
A. 1 Iteration
B. 2 Iterations
C. 3 Iterations
D. 4 Iterations
Answer: C
QUESTION 196
What are the two inputs to PI Planning? (Choose two.)
A. Vision
B. Ready user stories
C. Program Roadmap
D. Top-10 Features list
E. A set of PI Objectives
Answer: A, D
QUESTION 197
Who participates in the backlog refinement event?
A. All train stakeholders
B. All the people on the train
C. The development team
D. The Agile Team members and other Subject Matter Experts
Answer: D
QUESTION 198
The three pillars of Scrum are transparency, inspection, and what else?
A. Respect
B. Adaptation
C. Collaboration
D. Self organization
Answer: B
QUESTION 199
In the context of a Team Increment, every Iteration each team plans, builds, tests, integrates, and?
A. Reorganizes
B. Review their work
C. Sets new objectives
D. Clears out the backlog
Answer: B
QUESTION 200
Why is it important to organize the work for Iteration Planning?
A. So the team can load balance
B. So the backlog can be prepared
C. So a realistic work scope can be defined
D. So the Scrum Master can prepare workload for the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
Answer: C
QUESTION 201
Who defines the final scope of a committed Iteration?
A. The Agile Team
B. The Scrum Master
C. The Product Owner
D. The Solution Owner
Answer: A
QUESTION 202
What are two typical anti-patterns with Product Owners (POs)? (Choose two.)
A. POs design the solution before bringing the intent to the team
B. POs facilitate story grooming sessions with the team during the Iteration
C. POs bring the business problem to the team and ask the team to design the solution
D. POs and Product Managers are not aligned with business intent
E. POs ask the team for help in writing user stories
Answer: A, E
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QUESTION 203
what skill set is Scrum Master trying to get agile team to achieve
A. E-shaped
B. M-shaped
C. I-shaped
D. T-shaped
Answer: D
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QUESTION 204
_______________________________ are the primary artifact used to define system behavior in Agile.
A. Requirements
B. Business ideas
C. Vision documents
D. Stories
Answer: D
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