The House of Lean is a classic metaphor describing the mindset essential for Lean

thinking. Which one of the four pillars advocates a "Get out of the office" mindset?
Innovation

Flow

Respect for people and culture

Relentless improvement
On day two of PI Planning, management presents adjustments based on the previous
day's management review and problem solving meeting. What is one possible type of
adjustment they could make?
Adjustment to PI Objectives

Change a team’s plan

Business priorities

User Stories
What is found on a program board?
Epics

Features

User StoriesWhat is one of the Agile Release Train sync meetings?

Iteration Review

Solution Demo

Scrum of Scrums

Iteration Retrospective

Tasks
When does a Roadmap become a queue?
When it is longer than one Program Increment

When it contains Features and not Epics

When it includes no commitments

When it is fully committed

The Agile Release Train passes through four steps in order to deliver Solutions which
includes: defining new functionality, implementing, acceptance testing, and what else?
Deploying

Regulatory compliance

DevOps testing
 Completing phase-gate steps
Which statement fits with the SAFe Core Value of Built-in Quality?
You cannot scale crappy code

Quality should only be worked on during the Innovation and Planning Iteration

Quality depends on the scale of the project and should be implemented from the top down

Quality is not part of the SAFe Core Values

What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe?

Teams allow batch sizes across multiple intervals

Teams decide their own iteration length

Teams meet twice every PI to plan and schedule capacity

Teams align their iterations to the same schedule to support communication, coordination,
and system integration

Who has content authority to make decisions at the user story level during PI Planning?
Scrum Masters

Development Team

Release Train Engineer

Product Owner
Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
Customer collaboration over ongoing internal conversation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Customer collaboration over feature negotiation

Customer collaboration over a constant indefinite pace

What is considered an anti-pattern when assigning business values to Team PI
Objectives?
Assigning business values to stretch objectives

Business Owners assigning the business value

Business Owners assign high values to important enabler work

A value of 10 given to all of the PI Objectives

How do leaders build-in instability?
They provide a high degree of freedom as to how teams meet requirements
 They change requirements frequently

They change Scrum Masters in the team every two weeks

They do not participate in the SAFe process

The Agile Release Train uses which type of teams to get work done?
Solution teams

Phased review process teams

Cross-functional teams

Management teams
During the final plan review, Program risks are addressed using ROAM. What do the
letters in ROAM represent?
Managed, Resolved, Ordered, Accepted

Relegated, Owned, Approved, Managed

Owned, Mitigated, Resolved, Accepted

Accepted, Redesigned, Ordered, Mitigated

Which statement is true about DevOps?
Measurements are not a top priority for DevOps

Lean-Agile principles are not necessary for a successful DevOps implementation

DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between development and operations

DevOps automation of testing reduces the holding cost

What is the best measure of progress for complex system development?
Iteration Review

Refined Backlog

ROAMing Risks

System Demo
What is the focus of the Daily Stand-up meeting?
PI objectives versus outcomes

Plan objectives versus Program Owner objectives

Scrum Master goals versus Development Team goals

Iteration goals versus what got done

What is one benefit of unlocking the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers?
To centralize decision-making

To provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints

 To lower WIP limits

To strive to achieve a state of continuous flow

Implementing SAFe requires buy-in from all levels of the organization. What level of
leadership is most important for effecting cultural change?
Release Train Engineers

Product Owners

Executive Management

Solution Management
Who is responsible for the Solution Backlog?
Product Management

Solution Train Engineer

Product Owners

Solution Management
What are the three primary keys to implementing flow? (Choose three.)
Increase capacity

Frequent context switching

Address the systemic problems

Manage queue lengths

Visualize and limit WIP

Reduce the batch sizes of work

What is SAFe’s release strategy?
Release continuously

Release on cadence

Release every Program Increment

Release on demand
How is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed?
In the Portfolio Backlog

In the Program Backlog

In the Portfolio Kanban

In the Program Kanban

What is a Minimal Viable Product?
A minimal Feature that can be released to the market
 A minimal product that can be built to achieve market dominance

A minimal story a team can deliver in an iteration

A minimal product that can validate a hypothesis

What is the recommended frequency for updating Lean budget distribution?
Every iteration

Twice annually

On demand

Annually
What should the team focus on in order to optimize flow?
Requests

Delays

Sunk costs

Costs
What is the recommended way to estimate Epics?
Split an Epic into potential Features, estimate each potential Feature in normalized story
points, and add up the estimates

Estimate an Epic directly in normalized story points

Split an Epic into Features, split Features into Stories, split Stories into tasks, estimate each
task in hours and roll up all estimates to the Epic

Find the smallest Epic in the Backlog, give it 1 point, and estimate everything else relative to
that
Which statement is true when continuously deploying using a DevOps model?
It increases the transaction cost

It lessens the severity and frequency of release failures

It alleviates the reliance on the skill sets of Agile teams

It removes the need to automate processes

What can be used as a template for putting SAFe into practice within an organization?
SAFe Implementation Roadmap

SAFe House of Lean

SAFe Core Values

SAFe Principles
What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making?
Ensuring strategic decisions are not made in a vacuum
 Removing accountability from leaders

Creating better visualization

Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time

Which statement is true about the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?
It is used annually when the team needs to refocus on work processes

It is used as a weekly sync point between the Scrum Masters

The Scrum Master can decide if the IP Iteration is necessary

Without the IP Iteration, there is a risk that the tyranny of the urgent outweighs all innovation
activities
What is the foundation of the SAFe House of Lean?
Leadership

Value

Flow

Relentless Improvement
What is the recommended way to express a Feature?
Functional requirement

Phrase, benefit hypothesis, and acceptance criteria

Epic hypothesis statement

Lean business case

Which statement describes aspects of the team's commitment during PI Planning?
A team commits to resolve all the risks identified during PI Planning

A team commits only to the PI Objectives with the highest business value

A team commits to all stories they put on their PI plan

A team does not commit to stretch objectives

Product Management has content authority over the Program Backlog. What do Product
Owners have content authority over?
Portfolio Backlog

Team Backlog

Value Streams

Portfolio Vision
Applying systems thinking means identifying the systems in the process which includes
the solution itself and what else?
The system design
 The value stream

The WIP

The enterprise building the system

What are the first three steps of the SAFe Implementation Roadmap?
Reach the tipping point, train Lean-Agile change agents, and then train executives, managers
and leaders

Reach the tipping point, Train Lean-Agile change agents, and then train the identified support
personnel

Charter a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence, scale to the portfolio, create the implementation
plan

Launch trains, coach Agile Release Train execution, then train executives and managers
Which statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes?
They are business objectives that connect the SAFe Portfolio to the Enterprise business
strategy

They are requirements that span Agile Release Trains but must fit within a single Program
Increment

They are large initiatives managed in the Portfolio Kanban that require Weighted Shortest
Job First prioritization and a lightweight business case

They are a high-level summary of each program’s Vision and are updated after every PI
When basing decisions on economics, how are cycle time, product cost, value, and
development expense used?
To take into account sunk costs

To limit WIP through the system

To identify different parameters of the economic framework

To recover money already spent

What is one component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
Continuous Planning

Continuous Exploration

Continuous Cadence

Continuous Improvement
In the Program Kanban some steps have Work-in-Process limits. Why is this necessary?
To ensure large queues are not being built

To keep timebox goals

To enable multitasking
 To help continuous deployment
Peter Drucker defines knowledge workers as individuals who know more about the work
they perform than who?
Their organization

Their team

Their bosses

Their coworkers
When is a Pre-PI Planning event needed?
When there is only one day to run PI Planning, so more time is needed to prepare to run it
effectively

When Product Owners and Scrum Masters need to coordinate dependencies within the Agile
Release Train

When teams cannot identify and estimate Stories in PI Planning and need more time to
prepare

When multiple Agile Release Trains working on the same Solution need to align and
coordinate
Which statement describes a Capability?
It must be structured to fit within a single Program Increment

It is developed and approved without a dependence on the Solution Kanban

It remains complete and becomes an Epic for implementation

It is maintained in the Portfolio Backlog

What must management do for a successful Agile transformation?
Send someone to represent management, and then delegate tasks to these individuals

Change Scrum Masters in the team every two weeks

Commit to quality and be the change agent in the system

Strive to think of adoption as an area they can control

What must management do for a successful Agile transformation?
Send someone to represent management, and then delegate tasks to these individuals

Change Scrum Masters in the team every two weeks

Commit to quality and be the change agent in the system

Strive to think of adoption as an area they can control