How does a team demonstrate progress?
- A . By presenting status slides
- B . By having the Product Owner verbally communicate to the stakeholders
- C . By showing the actual working product
- D . By showing screen shots of the product
What is one responsibility of the Scrum Master?
- A . To prioritize the Team’s Backlog
- B . To define the tasks and assign owners
- C . To remove impediments in order to help protect the team
- D . To facilitate the PI Planning session
Which two statements best describe elements of Continuous Delivery? (Choose two.)
- A . Development and test environments should be separate from production
- B . Automate testing Features and nonfunctional requirements
- C . Maintain manual deployment
- D . Maintain a staging environment that emulates production
- E . Deploy to staging every third Iteration
What type of information can be easily seen in a cumulative flow diagram?
- A . Time to complete a Feature
- B . Team capacity
- C . Work in process across the team
- D . The number of defects that escape to production
Which process guides the final approval for a release in SAFe?
- A . Release Governance
- B . Lean Portfolio Management
- C . Product Management
- D . Continuous Delivery Pipeline
The Release Train Engineer is a servant leader who displays which two actions or behaviors? (Choose two.)
- A . You have reached the max number of allowed answers
- B . Establishes Feature acceptance criteria
- C . Listens and supports teams in problem identification and decision-making
- D . Identifies market needs
- E . Leads by example
- F . Owns Vision and Roadmaps, Program Backlog, and ROI
Product Management is responsible for "what gets built" as defined by the Vision, Roadmap, and what else?
- A . Program Backlog
- B . Key stakeholders
- C . Customers
- D . PI Planning
Which statement is true about the purpose of a work in process constraint?
- A . It encourages collaboration and enables flow
- B . It captures where all new "big" ideas come from
- C . It helps analyze, approve, and track Portfolio Epics and Enablers
- D . It identifies possible constraints for Solution completion
What is the recommended length of an Iteration?
- A . Two weeks
- B . Ten weeks
- C . Four weeks
- D . Eight weeks
What does a program board help teams identify?
- A . Program-level risks
- B . Dependencies between teams
- C . Each teams tasks
- D . Work breakdowns
What are two behaviors of an effective Scrum Master? (Choose two.) You have reached the max number of allowed answers
- A . Facilitate the PI Planning session
- B . To act as a servant leader and exhibit Lean-Agile Leadership
- C . To guarantee no changes are made to the scope during an Iteration
- D . To facilitate the team’s progress toward the Iteration goals
- E . Facilitate more than two teams
What are three practices of Extreme Programming (XP)? (Choose three.) You have reached the max number of allowed answers
- A . Behavior-driven development
- B . Intentional architecture
- C . Test-driven development
- D . Deployment automation
- E . Pair programming
- F . Continuous Integration
The Scrum Master wants to establish a team’s initial velocity. A team has two testers, three developers, one full-time Scrum Master, and a Product Owner split between two teams.
What is their normalized velocity before calculating for time off?
- A . 40
- B . 32
- C . 48
- D . 52
An Agile Team has which two characteristics? (Choose two.)
- A . A stand-alone unit of individuals who do not require input from other teams to complete their tasks
- B . A group of dedicated individuals who are empowered, self-organizing, self-managing, and deliver value
- C . A small group of typically 5 – 11 dedicated individuals who have the skills necessary to define, build, test, and deploy increments of value
- D . A large group of individuals who all work together to create value for the client
- E . A group of dedicated individuals that work in phase-gate steps to complete their PI Objectives
Which statement describes the balance between emergent design and intentional architecture when talking about building in quality?
- A . It is required for implementation speed and maturity
- B . It is required for speed of value delivery and Solution Intent
- C . It is required for speed of development and maintainability
- D . It is required for backlog speed and designed refinement
Which statement defines the purpose of Iteration Planning?
- A . It is to analyze, approve, and ready Features for implementation
- B . It is to organize the work and define a realistic scope for the Iteration
- C . It is to break Stories into tasks that are achievable in the team’s capacity
- D . It is to explore and implement program Epics and split them into Features to be further explored
What is the goal of the PI Planning event?
- A . Build a release Roadmap
- B . Achieve alignment on what needs to and can be built
- C . Create a plan for the upcoming PI showing how Stories map to Iterations
- D . Identify the risks in the upcoming Features using a ROAMing exercise
Which statement describes a cross-functional team?
- A . Each team can deliver Features across multiple domains
- B . Each team member can do all the activities to define, build, and test a Solution
- C . Each team member can define and build, with a System Team testing the Solution
- D . Each team member can define, build, and test a component or Feature
What is one of the six steps in the Problem Solving Workshop?
- A . Apply root solution analysis
- B . Brainstorm possible failures
- C . Identify the biggest root cause using the Pareto Analysis
- D . Choose a problem to solve―agreement not required
What is the role of the Product Owner?
- A . To ensure quality by testing the Solution
- B . To prioritize the Program Backlog
- C . Estimate the Stories in the Product Backlog
- D . To represent the Customer to the Agile Team
The daily stand-up timebox should not exceed how many minutes?
- A . 5 minutes
- B . 20 minutes
- C . 15 minutes
- D . 10 minutes
A User Story includes which three things? (Choose three.)
- A . Who
- B . Level of Risk
- C . Why
- D . What
- E . Definition of Done
- F . How
What type of visibility should Product Owners provide during the Agile Release Train Sync?
- A . Visibility into program Epics and Features
- B . Visibility into analysis, approval, and Feature readiness for implementation
- C . Visibility into backlog items
- D . Visibility into scope and priority adjustments
What information does a cumulative flow diagram provide?
- A . The cycle time system information which starts the implementation
- B . The self-assessment information for the teams
- C . The data for the team to identify current bottlenecks
- D . The derived predictability data for the team
Which is an example of a part of an Iteration retrospective?
- A . Estimation of Stories
- B . Team discussion around opportunities for continuous improvement
- C . Program level analysis of a problem using root cause analysis techniques
- D . Gathering feedback from the stakeholders
What should be taken into account when estimating Story point size?
- A . Complexity
- B . Team size
- C . Number of days it will take
- D . Priority
Which statement is true about pair work in the Scaled Agile Framework?
- A . It comes from pair programming in Extreme Programming (XP)
- B . It is a best practice that team members should spend 50% to 100% of the time in pair work
- C . It occurs during Iteration Planning
- D . It is for developers only
The CALMR approach to DevOps includes Automation, Lean flow, Measurement, and Recovery.
What does the "C" represent?
- A . Cycle-time
- B . Cadence
- C . Continuous Integration
- D . Culture
On the seventh day of the Iteration, the team realizes that they will not complete 5 of the 13 Stories. The Product Owner (PO) says she cannot negotiate the scope of the remaining Stories any further.
What is the PO’s best course of action?
- A . Defer acceptance testing to the next Iteration
- B . Communicate the status of the Iteration to all stakeholders
- C . Have an emergency Iteration Planning meeting
- D . Stop the current Iteration and plan a new Iteration with the new knowledge
What is a major benefit of reducing batch size?
- A . Increases visibility
- B . Decreases stress on the system
- C . Increases work in process
- D . Increases throughput