What is the recommended frequency for updating Lean budget distribution?

On demand

Twice annually

Annually

Every iteration
Which core competency of the Lean Enterprise helps drive built-in quality practices?
Lean Portfolio Management

Team and Technical Agility

DevOps and Release on Demand

Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering

What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making?

Creating better visualization

Removing accountability from leaders

Ensuring strategic decisions are not made in a vacuum

Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time

What is part of the role of Product Management?

To prioritize Enablers

To assign business value to features

To facilitate backlog refinement session

To prioritize the Program Backlog

What is a valid reason for moving a PI objective to stretch?

The team has no more time in the capacity but the objective has high business value

The team does not have the knowledge or skills to deliver the objective

The team is unsure how to estimate the related stories using story points

The team has high uncertainty about a third-party delivery needed for the objective
What is found on a program board?
User Stories

Tasks

Epics

Features
What is one benefit of unlocking the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers?
To lower WIP limits

To centralize decision-making

To strive to achieve a state of continuous flow

To provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints

Which practice helps with a test-first mentality?

MMF

MVP

BDD

WIP
Which statement describes aspects of the team's commitment 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 commits to all the features they put on the Program Board

A team does not commit to stretch objectives

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

SAFe Core Values

SAFe House of Lean

SAFe Implementation Roadmap

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

Value Streams

Portfolio Vision

Portfolio Backlog
What is one of the Agile Release Train sync meetings?
Iteration Retrospective

Iteration Review

Scrum of Scrums

Solution Demo
When does a Roadmap become a queue?
 When it contains Features and not Epics

When it includes no commitments

When it is fully committed

When it is longer than one Program Increment

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

Business priorities

User Stories

Change a team’s plan

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

ROAMing Risks

System Demo

Iteration Review

Refined Backlog
Which statement fits with the SAFe Core Value of Built-in Quality?
Quality is not part of the SAFe Core Values

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

You cannot scale crappy code

What must management do for a successful Agile transformation?
Strive to think of adoption as an area they can control

Change Scrum Masters in the team every two weeks

Commit to quality and be the change agent in the system

Send someone to represent management, and then delegate tasks to these individuals
What is a Minimal Viable Product?
A minimal product that can be built to achieve market dominance

A minimal Feature that can be released to the market

A minimal story a team can deliver in an iteration

A minimal product that can validate a hypothesis

Which statement is a principle of the Agile manifesto?
Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential

Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths

Measure everything

Respect for people and culture

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

Product Owner

Development Team

Release Train Engineer

What is SAFe’s release strategy?
Release on cadence

Release continuously

Release on demand

Release every Program Increment

Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
Customer collaboration over a constant indefinite pace

Customer collaboration over feature negotiation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Customer collaboration over ongoing internal conversation

When is a Pre-PI Planning event needed?

When multiple Agile Release Trains working on the same Solution need to align and
coordinate

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

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

When there is only one day to run PI Planning, so more time is needed to prepare to
run it effectively
How is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed?
In the Portfolio Kanban

In the Program Backlog

In the Portfolio Backlog

 In the Program Kanban

Which statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes?

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

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

Which statement is true about DevOps?

DevOps automation of testing reduces the holding cost

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

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

Measurements are not a top priority for DevOps

When basing decisions on economics, how are lead time, product cost, value, and
development expense used?
To take into account sunk costs

To limit WIP through the system

To recover money already spent

To identify different parameters of the economic framework

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

Continuous Cadence

Continuous Planning

Continuous Improvement
Which statement is true about the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?
The Scrum Master can decide if the IP Iteration is necessary

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

Without the IP Iteration, there is a risk that the tyranny of the urgent outweighs all
innovation activities
What is considered an anti-pattern when assigning business values to Team PI
Objectives?
Business Owners assign high values to important enabler work
 A value of 10 given to all of the PI Objectives

Assigning business values to stretch objectives

Business Owners assigning the business value

In the Program Kanban some steps have Work-in-Process limits. Why is this
necessary?
To help continuous deployment

To keep timebox goals

To enable multitasking

To ensure large queues are not being built

The Agile Release Train uses which type of teams to get work done?
Cross-functional teams

Phased review process teams

Management teams

Solution teams
What is the recommended way to express a Feature?
Functional requirement

Phrase, benefit hypothesis, and acceptance criteria

Epic hypothesis statement

Lean business case

Who is responsible for the Solution Backlog?
Product Owners

Solution Management

Product Management

Solution Train Engineer

How are stories estimated in SAFe?
Ideal time

Feature points

Story points

Agile prescribes a No Estimation concept to speed delivery

What are the last three steps of the SAFe Implementation Roadmap?
Launch trains, coach Agile Release Train execution, train executives and managers
 Launch more Agile Release Trains and Value Streams, extend to the portfolio, sustain
and improve

Train Lean-Agile change agents, identify value streams and Agile Release Trains,
extend to the portfolio

Launch an Agile Release Train, extend to the portfolio, accelerate

What are the three primary keys to implementing flow? (Choose three.)
Reduce the batch sizes of work

Frequent context switching

Increase capacity

Visualize and limit WIP

Manage queue lengths

Address the systemic problems

What is the foundation of the SAFe House of Lean?
Leadership

Flow

Relentless Improvement

Value
What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe?
Teams meet twice every PI to plan and schedule capacity

Teams decide their own iteration length

Teams align their iterations to the same schedule to support communication,

coordination, and system integration

Teams allow batch sizes across multiple intervals

What can be used to map the current state of a portfolio?
Portfolio Kanban

Portfolio Canvas

Portfolio Vision

Portfolio Backlog
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?
Flow

Respect for people and culture

Relentless improvement

Innovation
Which statement is true when continuously deploying using a DevOps model?
It alleviates the reliance on the skill sets of Agile teams

It removes the need to automate processes

It lessens the severity and frequency of release failures

It increases the transaction cost

Which is an aspect of system thinking?
Cadence makes routine that which is routine

Mastery drives intrinsic motivation

Optimizing a component does not optimize the system

The length of the queue impact the wait time

What is one guardrail on Lean budget spend?
Continuous Business Owner engagement

Participatory budgeting

Learning milestones as objective measurements

Spending caps for each ART