SAFe Practitioner

Product Management is responsible for "what gets built" as defined by the Vision, Roadmap, and what else? A) Program Backlog B) Customers C) Key Stakeholders D) PI Planning

Which activity happens in the Inspect and Adapt Workshop? A) A retrospective of the iteration B) Planning the next PI C) A demo of the integrated system D) Refreshing the Program Backlog

When is the system demo conducted during program execution? A) At the end of every iteration B) On demand C) Midway through the Program Increment D) When Features are done

Which statement is true about iteration planning? A) It is required for every iteration to enable fast learning cycles B) It is only required for every third iteration C) It is required for component teams but may not be required for feature teams that have no dependencies on other teams D) It is not required for teams that consistently meet their PI Objectives

A user story includes which three things? (Choose three) A) How B) Why C) What D) Where E) Who F) When

A decrease in variability leads to an increase in what? A) Predictability B) Risk C) Cost D) Length

What is the one key benefit of a Backlog Refinement session? A) It allows the team to state the problem and then think about, what where when and impact B) It serves a variety of purposes, including a dedicated time for planning, retrospective, exploring and innovating C) It is the main way in SAFe for achieving relentless improvement D) It provides time to identify dependencies and issues that could impact the next iteration

What are two behaviors of an effective Scrum Master? (Choose two) A) To focus on their own objectives and limit interaction with Product Owner B) To work with stakeholders and subject matter experts to define the Epic and its potential benefits C) To act as a servant leader and exhibit Lean-Agile leadership D) To ensure no changes are made to the scope during an iteration E) To facilitate the teams progress toward the iteration goals

What statement is true about features and stories? A) Features should be small enough to fit into an iteration B) Each feature should have at least five stories C) Features can be larger than an iteration but Stories should be small enough to fit into an iteration D) Stories can be broken into features

Which statement defines the purpose of Iteration Planning (IP)? A) It is to break stories into tasks that are achievable in the team's capacity B) It is to explore and implement program Epics and split them into Features to be further explored C) It is to organize the work and define a realistic scope for the iteration D) It is to analyze, approve, and ready Features for implementation

What is the major benefit for reducing batch size? A) Increase throughput B) Decrease stress on the system C) Increase visibility D) Increase Work-In-Progress

Develops and delivers solutions incrementally, using a series of fixed-length iterations within a Program Increment (PI) timebox and aligns teams to a common business and technology mission.

What best supports Innovation in the Safe House of Lean? A) Visualizing work B) Optimizing the whole C) Fast Learning Cycles D) Built in Quality

Which statement describes the information within a story? A) Story acceptance criteria must be finalized before beginning iteration planning B) A story is written in full detail specifications so that the work is ready to be implemented immediately C) No further conversation is required after the Story is identified because it contains all necessary details D) A story provides just enough information for the intent to be understood by both business and technical people

What statement is true about Iteration Goals? A) They are used to measure business value achieved for each iteration B) They align the team to a common vision of work in the iteration C) They are used to track scope changes over time D) They verify that teams are working at their full capacity

What is the responsibility of the Scrum Master? A) To remove impediments in order to protect the team B) To facilitate Scrum of Scrum events C) To lead and coach those who support and facilitate the work of all Agile Release Trains and suppliers D) To develop and commit to Team PI Objectives and iteration plans

According to the definition of Done, who must provide final approval prior to the release? A) The Release Management B) The Scrum Master C) The Release Train Engineer D) The Product Owner

The Scrum Master wants to establish a team's initial velocity. The team has two testers, three developers, one half-time Scrum Master, and a Product Owner split between two teams. What is their normalized velocity before calculating for time off? A) 52 B) 0 C) 32 D) 40

What are the three "Cs" of a User Story?

What are the five core competencies of the Lean Enterprise?

Why do teams use Scrum and Kanban?

What does ART stand for?

What does DevOps provide? (Hint: CALMR)

What does Lean Portfolio Management do?

Who is the Father of Lean?

What is the roof on the SAFe House of Lean?

What are the four pillars on the SAFe House of Lean?

What is the foundation on the SAFe House of Lean?

What are the key aspects of Flow in the SAFe House of Lean?

What is Little's Law?

The following are the responsibility of who? - Creates and refines user stories and acceptance criteria -Defines, builds, tests, delivers stories - Develops and commits Team PI Objectives and Iteration plans

The following are the responsibility of who? - Defines and accepts stories - Acts as the customer for developer questions - Works with Product Management to plan Releases

The following are responsibilities of who? - Runs team meetings, coaches Agile mindset and practice - Removes impediments, protects the team from outside influence - Attends Scrum of Scrum meetings - Can be part time as a team member and can be shared across 2 - 3 teams

The following are responsibilities of who? - Builds the development infrastructure and manages environments - Assist with test automation strategies and adoption - Provides and support full system integration - Performs end-to-end system and performance testing - Stages and supports the system demos

Which type of team would you use for: - Fastest velocity - To minimize dependencies - To develop T-shaped skills

Which type of team would you use for: - High reuse, high technical specialization, and critical NFRs - Creating each component as a potentially replaceable part of the system, with well-defined interfaces

Define this role: A member of the agile team, provides a single voice for the Customer and stakeholders, owns and manages the team backlog, defines and accepts requirements, makes the hard calls on scope and content

Where are features identified, prioritized, estimated and maintained?

What is an NFR(s)?

What is INVEST?

Infrastructure, Architecture, Exploration, and Compliance are all types of what?

Who creates acceptance criteria?

Volume, complexity, knowledge, and uncertainty are all taken into account to come up with what?

When does initial sequencing happen?

What is typically included in the Definition of Done for team increment? A)Customer documentation is ready B) Stories are accepted by Product Manager C) Regression testing is done D) Stories are accepted by Product Owner

What are two reasons Agile development is more beneficial than waterfall development? (Choose two.) A) It allows businesses to deliver value to the market more quickly B) It increases productivity and employee engagement C) It allows management to track project progress based on steering committees and metrics D) It relies on external provider dependencies E) It requires phase-gate approvals to ensure that everyone is moving together

What is the recommended size of an Agile Team? A) 8 - 12 people B) 3 - 5 people C) 5 - 11 people D) 10 - 15 people

How does relentless improvement support value in the SAFe House of Lean? A) It uses informed decision-making through fast feedback B) It builds long-term partnerships based on trust C) It allows teams to pivot D) It optimizes the whole

What is the purpose of the Iteration Review? A) To measure the team's progress by showing working Stories to the stakeholders ad getting feedback from them B) To identify where there is too much work in the system and where the teams are being overloaded C) To serve as a forecasting meeting where the work is estimated for the Program Increments D) To show the backlog of items and work on possible solutions for the backlog items

What is the role of the Release Train Engineer? A) To coach teams to improve their results B) To serve as the Scrum Master for the Agile Release Train C) To serve as the content authority at the Program level D) To ensure the technical integrity of all development in the Agile Release Train

What replaces detailed requirements documents? A) Pair work B) Stories C) Unit tests D) Task board

Which three questions should each team member answer during the Daily Stand-up? (Choose three.) A) Are there any impediments that will prevent the team fro meeting the Iteration goals? B) How I am contributing to an environment for continuous change C) What will I do today to advance the Iteration goals? D) How am I optimizing the full solution? E) How am I splitting the solutions into capabilities and enablers F) What did I do yesterday to advance the iteration goals?

Quality is first and foremost a function of what in a Lean-Agile environment? A) Capacity allocation B) Culture C) Deployment D) Empowered solution authority

Which two statements describe and Agile Release Train? (Choose two) A) It is used to describe large system behaviors that fulfill customer needs B) It is a long-lived, self-organizing, virtual organization of 5 - 12 Agile teams that plan, commit, and execute together C) It shows the deliverables for the currently committed PI and offers visibility into the next two PIs D) It identifies when too much work is in the system which results in multitasking and frequent context switching E) It is the primary value delivery construct in the Scaled Agile Framework

What information does a Cumulative Flow Diagram Provide? A) The data for the team to identify current bottlenecks B) The done curve data allowing the team to implement more rapidly C) The derived predictability data for the team D) The cycle time system information which starts the implementation

What should be taken into account when Estimating Story point size? A) Complexity B) Backlog Refinement C) Priority D) Implementation

Which statement describes the information within a story? A) No further conversation is required after the Story is identified because it contains all necessary details B) Story acceptance criteria must be finalized before beginning Iteration Planning C) A Story provides just enough information for the intent to be understood by both business and technical people D) A Story is written in full detail specifications so that the work is ready to be implemented immediately

Which statement is true about iteration planning? A) It is required for every iteration to enable fast learning cycles B) It is only required for every third iteration C) It is not required for teams that consistently meet their PI objectives D) It is required for component teams but may not be required for feature teams that have no dependencies on other teams

What type of visibility should Product Owners provide during the Agile Release Train? A) Visibility into scope and priority adjustments B) Visibility into analysis, approval, and feature readiness for implementation C) Visibility into backlog items D) Visibility into program Epics and Features

What is the role of the Product Owner? A) To ensure quality by testing the solution B) To write the stories that make up the Team backlog C) To represent the customer to the Agile team D) To prioritize the Program Backlog