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Question 1 of 24

1. Question

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?

Relentless improvement
Respect for people and culture
Innovation
Flow

Question 2 of 24

2. Question

What are the three primary keys to implementing flow? (Choose three.)

Reduce the batch sizes of work
Visualize and limit WIP
Address the systemic problems
Manage queue lengths
Frequent context switching
Increase capacity

Question 3 of 24

3. Question

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

Question 4 of 24

4. Question

What is SAFe’s release strategy?

Release continuously
Release on cadence
Release on demand
Release every Program Increment

Question 5 of 24

5. Question

What is part of the role of Product Management?

To facilitate backlog refinement session
To prioritize the Program Backlog
To prioritize Enablers
To assign business value to features

Question 6 of 24

6. Question

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

Question 7 of 24

7. Question

Which statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes?

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 large initiatives managed in the Portfolio Kanban that require Weighted Shortest Job First prioritization and a lightweight business case
They are requirements that span Agile Release Trains but must fit within a single Program Increment

Question 8 of 24

8. Question

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

System Demo
Refined Backlog
ROAMing Risks
Iteration Review

Question 9 of 24

9. Question

When is a Pre-PI Planning event needed?

When Product Owners and Scrum Masters need to coordinate dependencies within the Agile Release Train
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 there is only one day to run PI Planning, so more time is needed to prepare to run it effectively

Question 10 of 24

10. Question

Which statement fits with the SAFe Core Value of Built-in Quality?

Quality is not part of the SAFe Core Values
You cannot scale crappy code
Quality depends on the scale of the project and should be implemented from the top down
Quality should only be worked on during the Innovation and Planning Iteration

Question 11 of 24

11. Question

What is one guardrail on Lean budget spend?

Learning milestones as objective measurements
Spending caps for each ART
Continuous Business Owner engagement
Participatory budgeting

Question 12 of 24

12. Question

Which statement describes aspects of the team’s commitment during PI Planning?

A team commits to all stories they put on their PI plan
A team does not commit to stretch objectives
A team commits only to the PI Objectives with the highest business value
A team commits to all the features they put on the Program Board

Question 13 of 24

13. Question

Which statement is a principle of the Agile manifesto?

Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential
Measure everything
Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths
Respect for people and culture

Question 14 of 24

14. Question

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

Team Backlog
Portfolio Vision
Value Streams
Portfolio Backlog

Question 15 of 24

15. Question

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

Portfolio Kanban
Portfolio Backlog
Portfolio Vision
Portfolio Canvas

Question 16 of 24

16. Question

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

To help continuous deployment
To ensure large queues are not being built
To keep timebox goals
To enable multitasking

Question 17 of 24

17. Question

What is one component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

Continuous Cadence
Continuous Improvement
Continuous Planning
Continuous Exploration

Question 18 of 24

18. Question

Which statement is true when continuously deploying using a DevOps model?

It lessens the severity and frequency of release failures
It alleviates the reliance on the skill sets of Agile teams
It increases the transaction cost
It removes the need to automate processes

Question 19 of 24

19. Question

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

Teams align their iterations to the same schedule to support communication, coordination, and system integration
Teams allow batch sizes across multiple intervals
Teams meet twice every PI to plan and schedule capacity
Teams decide their own iteration length

Question 20 of 24

20. Question

What is one of the Agile Release Train sync meetings?

Iteration Review
Solution Demo
Iteration Retrospective
Scrum of Scrums

Question 21 of 24

21. Question

When basing decisions on economics, how are lead time, product cost, value, and development expense used?

To limit WIP through the system
To recover money already spent
To take into account sunk costs
To identify different parameters of the economic framework

Question 22 of 24

22. Question

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

The team does not have the knowledge or skills to deliver the objective
The team has high uncertainty about a third-party delivery needed for the objective
The team has no more time in the capacity but the objective has high business value
The team is unsure how to estimate the related stories using story points

Question 23 of 24

23. Question

Which is an aspect of system thinking?

Cadence makes routine that which is routine
The length of the queue impact the wait time
Optimizing a component does not optimize the system
Mastery drives intrinsic motivation

Question 24 of 24

24. Question

Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Customer collaboration over feature negotiation
Customer collaboration over ongoing internal conversation
Customer collaboration over a constant indefinite pace