Question 1

What is enabled by the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

End-to-end testing
New functionality delivered more frequently
A predictable release cadence
Transparent measurements

Question 2
Which statement describes an accepted ART PI Risk?
Nothing more can be done, so if a risk occurs, release may be
compromised
The risk has been addressed and is no longer a concern
Someone has taken the responsibility of the risk
There is a strategy to adjust the plan as necessary

Question 3Correct
During PI planning, what is the primary purpose of the Business Context
and Content session?
Identify dependencies between Agile Teams
Review and prioritize features
Presents a perspective on how effectively existing solutions are
addressing current customer needs.
Estimate user stories

Question 4
What is essential when communicating the Vision?
The importance of Feature prioritizing
The importance of empathy interviews
The importance of non-functional requirements
The importance of Lean budget Guardrails

Question 5
What term characterizes an initiative that requires financial approval
before implementation?
Non-Functional Requirement
Epic
Capability
Compliance

Question 6
What is one responsibility of the Product Owner?
Assigning PI Objectives
Testing Features
Estimating Stories
Prioritizing the Team Backlog

Question 7
What work-item can be split from Epics?
Tasks
Features
Spikes
Stories

Question 8
What's the fourth element of the Lean UX Process : Benefit Hypothesis -
Collaborative Design - Build MMF?
Release
Evaluate
Deploy
Alignment

Question 9Correct
Which of the following Agile Manifesto principles aligns with conducing a
System Demo?
The best way to convey information is face-to-face conversation
Working software is the primary measure of progress
Welcome changing requirements, even late in development
The team reflects on how to become more effective at regular intervals

Question 10
Which SAFe Lean-Agile Principle supports applying a Set-Based design
approach?
Take an economic view
Assume variability, preserve options
Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
Apply systems thinking

Question 11
What is the purpose of team backlog refinement in SAFe?
To prepare backlog items for upcoming Iterations
To groom the backlog with the Scrum Master
To prioritize backlog items for the next PI
To estimate the size of backlog items

Question 12
What is a recommended time horizon of the Planning Interval (PI)
Roadmap?
Less then 1 year
More then one year
2 years
2-4 years

Question 13
Who participates in the PI Planning event in SAFe?
Product Managers
Release Train Engineers
Scrum Masters
All of the propositions

The PI Planning Agenda :

Note : In SAFe 6, we have ART risks in place of Program risks.

Question 14
Which of the following statements is true about the team backlog?

The team backlog is where the team refines possible Stories

The team backlog is where the team commits to work
The team backlog is where the team finalizes work
The team backlog is where Stories are accepted

Question 15
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?
Adjust business priorities
Redefine the length of the PI
Create new User Stories
Change a team's plan

Question 16
What is the primary goal of the Innovation and Planning (IP) iteration in
SAFe?
Conduct the Inspect and Adapt (I&A) event
Provide dedicated time for exploration and innovation
Finalize the PI Objectives for the upcoming PI
Identify and address technical debt
Question 17
Which of the following statements is one of the five Lean Thinking
principles?
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Decentralize decision-making
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Deliver working software frequently
Identify the Value Stream for each product

Question 18
What is defined as a product, service, or system delivered to the
customer?
Value
Epic
Capability
Solution

Question 19
How do Business Owners quantify the value of PI Objectives?
By assigning Story Points
By estimating return on investment
By assigning business value
By totaling the Epic budget

Question 20Correct
What system convert a business hypothesis into a digitally-enabled
solution that delivers customer value?
Claims processing Value Stream
Your answer is correct
Development Value Stream
Operational Value Stream
Customer Journey Value Stream

Question 21
Which of the following types of information is shared between the teams
on an ART?
A set of metrics
A set of regulations
A common mission using a single backlog
A commitment to business agility

Question 22
How often does the Innovation and planning Iteration (IP) occur?
Every two Iterations
During every PI
Every two PIs
Once per month

Question 23
During PI Planning, which activity happens after "dependencies are
resolved and risks are addressed"?
Management Review and Problem-Solving session
Correct answer
Confidence vote
Team breakouts
Retrospective

Question 24
When an Epic meets the Go criteria in a go or no-go decision, where does
the Epic move to?
The Value Stream
The Epic Owner Backlog
The Continuous Delivery Pipeline
The Portfolio Backlog

Question 25
The goal of the Product Owner is most closely aligned with which Agile
Manifesto principle?
Welcome changing requirements, even late in development
Build projects around motivated individuals
The highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and
continuous delivery of valuable software
Businesspeople and developers must work together daily throughout the
project

Question 26
What is the next action for improvement items identified during the
Iteration Retrospective?
They are escalated to the Business Owners
They are ROAMed with the rest of the risks
They are given to the Scrum Master/Team Coach who resolves them
They are entered as Stories in the Team Backlog

Question 27
What does the ART planning board show?
Epics
Risks
Significant dependencies
Capacity and load
Question 28
The goal is fast delivery process, ideally requiring little manual effort.
What is one capability used to achieve this?
Non functional requirements
Quite releases
Soft launches
Features toggles

Question 29
What is the recommended frequency for conducting Iteration Planning in
SAFe?
Every month
Every two weeks
Every three weeks
Every week

Question 30
What does Kanban board demonstrate?
The cost of delay of each item on the board
A burndown chart of work completed in the Iteration
The accumulated value of team's work
Where a team has too much work-in-process (WIP)

Question 31
Which of the following events shows well the ART is progressing toward
meeting the PI objectives?
PI Planning
Backlog Refinement
Inspect and Adapt
PO Sync

Question 32
Acceptance criteria provides the details of the story from a testing point of
view, and it is created by who?
The Product Owner and Product Management
The team and the Business Owners
The team and the Product Owner
The Release Train Engineer and Product Management

Question 33
What enables flow through the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
The Solution Vision
Cost of delay
Capacity allocation
The ART Kanban

Question 34
When is a Story considered complete?
The scope has been changed
It satisfies the Definition of Done
The team is done working on it
It is accepted by the Stakeholders

Question 35
What SAFe principle emphasizes delivering the highest value features and
solutions early and frequently to customers?
Deliver Value in the shortest sustainable lead time
Embrace a Lean-Agile mindset
Respect for People and Culture
Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles

Question 36
What is a common anti-pattern for teams trying to prepare their draft
objectives at PI planning?
Describe the value and impact
Not using Features or Stories as PI Objectives
Remove jargon so that PI Objectives are understandable to Business
Owners and Customers
Too much time is spent analyzing each Story

Question 37
Who is responsible for defining and communicating the ART's Vision and
Roadmap?
Business Owners
Product Management
System Architect
Release Train Engineer (RTE)

Question 38
Who often participates as the ART's Business Owners to approve the
team's PI Objectives?
System Architects
Product Owners
Scrum Masters/Team Coaches
Product Managers

Question 39
What is included in the Inspect and Adapt agenda?
System Demo
ART Backlog refinement
Quantitative and qualitative measurement
Management review and confidence vote

Question 40
Communicating and refining the Vision to the Agile Release Train during PI
Planning supports which Core Value?
Alignment
Relentless Improvement
Transparency
Respect for People

Question 41
What can assist in facilitating Team Flow?
Solution Roadmap
WIP limits
ART Planning Board
Test cases

Question 42
Which Agile Team event supports relentless improvement?
Backlog refinement
Iteration Planning
Iteration Retrospective
Iteration Review

Question 43
Where can Product Management find information about when a specific
Epic will be completed?
The Solution Roadmap
The Development Manager
The Portfolio Backlog
The ART Backlog

Question 44
What element improves when Features and Stories are related to
personas?
Architecture
Compliance
Collaboration
Design

Question 45
What is one tool that visualizes Features representing a workflows?
Team Kanban
Story Maps
Continuous Delivery Pipeline
User Experience Design

Question 1
What is one responsibility of Product Manager connecting with the
Customer?
Apply design thinking
Collaborate throughout the value stream
Create and communicate a compelling vision
Conduct primary and secondary research

Question 2
How frequently should the ART Backlog be reviewed?
Before every PI
Continuously
Every week
When the Epic owners are defining the Epic Value Statement

Question 3
What is one value of holding regular system demos?
Deliverables are reviewed with stakeholders
Bottlenecks can be identified early by the teams
Problems can be escalated to ART leadership
Execution can be measured across the whole ART

Question 4Incorrect
What is one anti-pattern that emerges when teams do not spend enough
time refining the backlog?
Teams arrive to Team Sync without progress to share
Teams arrive to Iteration Planning without specified goals
Teams enter new Iterations without enough Stories prepared
Teams enter retrospectives without improvement ideas

Question 5
What is one strategy in SAFe 6 for managing Bottlenecks challenges?
Adjust work between teams based on forecasted capacity
Adjust work between teams or split Features and Stories
Adjust work sequencing to eliminate same Iteration dependencies
Distribute work to other teams

Question 6
Which SAFe core value emphasizes the importance of Providing time and
space for innovation?
Relentless Improvement
Alignment
Transparency
Respect for People

Question 7
Which of the following SAFe events supports Agile Teams to measure the
outcome of the Iteration?
The Team Sync
The Team Retrospective
The PI System Demo
The Iteration review

Question 8
Product Management is involved in the assessment of metrics including
the evaluation of business value achieved versus plan. They are also
active participants in what else?
Lean budget establishment
The Inspect and Adapt event
Daily Stand-ups (Team Sync)
Team Retrospectives

Question 9
According to SAFe, what is one Iteration Retrospective anti-pattern?
The team only shares issues that are too big to be solved
The team only shares issues that cannot be measured
The team only shares issues that are too small to result in real
improvement
The team only brings up issues that are outside of their control to
address

Question 10
What is one issue that can occur without DevOps?
Challenges between teams that talk with customers daily and those that
meet with customers for research
Challenges between teams that deploy products and those that collect
customer feedback
Challenges between teams that build Solutions and those who
operate the Solutions
Challenges between teams that design functionality and those that test
the functionality

Question 11
What is one way Kanbans are used in SAFe?
To manage runway cadence
To manage queue length
To manage Planning Interval (PI) Objectives
To manage nonfunctional requirements (NFRs) in the backlog

Question 12
True or false, Are The ART planning boards an input to the Planning
Interval (PI) Planning Process that highlights how Product Management
plans to accomplish the Vision?
True
False

Question 13
The PO Sync is facilitated by?
The RTE or Product Owner
The RTE or Product Management
The Scrum Master or Product Owner
The Scrum Master or RTE

Question 14
What are two different types of Enabler Stories?
Feature
Defect
Infrastructure
Impediment
Exploration

Question 15
ART PI Objectives are :
The synthesis of POs/PMs's PI Objectives
The synthesis of Business Owners PI Objectives choice
The synthesis of the RTE's PI objectives choice
The synthesis of each team’s PI Objectives

Question 16
What is the primary focus of an Operational Value Stream?
Delivering end-user value
Orchestrating supply chain networks
Improving business operations
Lowering operational costs

Question 17
Which two types of customers define SAFE? (Choose two)
Business partners
Internal Customers
Stakeholders
External Customers

Question 18
What are two examples of team-level events?
System demo
Backlog refinement
Planning Interval (PI) Planning
Team Sync
Coach Sync

Question 19
According to SAFe, how many Stories should teams maintain in their
backlog?
2-3 PIs of refined Stories
2-3 weeks of refined Stories
2-3 Iterations of refined Stories
2-3 months of refined Stories

Question 20
Why would Product Owners and Product Managers be key collaborators in
the enterprise?
They provide governance and spending practices for the value streams
They are key roles in steering and sequencing the Agile Release
Train priorities
They plan Portfolio strategy horizons for the enterprise
They plan all the key events for the Planning Interval (PI)

Question 21
What is one important task when communicating the Vision?
Verify the capacity allocation
Communicate the top 10 Features to the ART
Provide user personas to illustrate how the Vision improves the
experiences of your Customers
Explain the importance of Lean budget Guardrails

Question 22
What can increase the effectiveness of Backlog Refinement?
Refine Stories during Iteration Planning
Have separate meetings with subject matter experts
Include a few team members
Schedule the event on a regular cadence

Question 23
Which SAFe principle emphasizes applying complex systems to
understand the flow of value and identify opportunities for improvement?
Assume variability, preserve options
Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
Decentralize decision-making
Apply systems thinking

Question 24
What increases the effectiveness of System Demos?
Limit team attendance to minimize disruptions to the team
Focus on team-level Metrics
Consider how and what to demo during Iteration Planning
Spend a lot of time preparing for the demo

Question 25
During PI planning, the Product Manager is expected to present the Vision
to the Agile Release Train (ART). Which artifact should the Product
Manager use to effectively communicate the Vision?
ART Kanban Board
Product Roadmap
Business Model Canvas
Solution Vision

Question 26
Which model is used in SAFe to prioritize the ART Backlog elements?
MoSCoW
Impact mapping
Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)
Value-based prioritization

Question 27
What is the main value of the Iteration Planning?
Team meets with stakeholders to review the deliverables and provide
feedback
Team prepares requirements for Iteration Planning
Team reviews and improves its process before the next Iteration
Team commits to a set of goals to be delivered in the Iteration

Question 28
The customer is asking for a forecast for when a specific Feature will be
available for release at the beginning of the next fiscal year. Where could
the Product Manager find this information?
Solution Roadmap
System Architecture Designs
ART Backlog
Development Manager

Question 29
At what level of flow the Product Owner mainly intervenes?
Solution Train Flow
ART Flow
Portfolio Flow
Team Flow

Question 30
What is a pattern for splitting Features into Stories?
Tasks to complete
Team skills
Variations in data
Layers of the technology stack

Question 31
What is one step determining initial team capacity during PI planning?
Compare final team capacity across all teams
Subtract one point for every team member's vacation day, public
holiday, or training day
Ensure Product Owner/Product Manager approval for all time-
based capacity adjustments
Add together all of the points from recently completed Features

Question 32
In SAFe work item hierarchy, Features are decomposed into what?
Spikes
Enablers
Tasks
Stories

Question 33
Which SAFe Core Value emphasizes creating an environment of
psychological safety needed to quickly surface and resolve errors?
Alignment
Relentless Improvement
Respect for People
Transparency

Question 34
Which SAFe Lean-Agile principle support fast feedback?
Assume variability, preserve options
Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
Apply systems thinking
Make value flow without interruptions

Question 35
Which increment is reviewed at the System Demo?
Portfolio increment
Value stream increment
Team increment
Full system increment

Question 36
What is one way uncommitted objectives help Agile Teams make a plan
for the PI?
They ensure the team has additional development options
They generate additional ways to measure team progress
They create an opportunity for teams to take on harder work
They help improve the predictability of delivering business value

Question 37
What makes value available when it's needed?
Continuous Deployment
Infrastructure
Release on Demand
DevOps

Question 38
What is the goal of Lean thinking?
Respect for people
Relentless improvement
Alignment
Best quality and value for people and society and make business
better

Question 39
What is one Agile development value?
Working teams over busy individuals
Healthy interactions over detailed plans
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Risk-taking over process development

Question 40
What is NOT the role of Product Manager in Exploring Markets and Users?
understand end-user needs
Conduct primary and secondary research
Involve the customer continuously
Identify market rhythms and events

Question 41
What are the four activities of Release on Demand?
Inspect - Measure - Adapt - Release
Release - Stabilize and Operate - Measure - Learn
Learn - Adapt - Stabilize and Operate - Measure
Inspect - Adapt- Stabilize and Operate - Learn

Question 42
How does SAFe recommend managing risks during PI Planning?
Escalate all risks to senior management
Identify and address risks during the management review session
Address risks during ART PI Risks session
Mitigate risks during the iteration planning meeting

Question 43
What is the role of the Product Owner during the Daily Stand-up (Team
Sync)?
To provide feedback on the team's performance
To listen to the team's progress and issues
To facilitate the meeting and keep it on track
To address impediments raised by the team

Question 44
What is the primary job of Product Management when considering the
Architectural Runway?
Prioritizing Enablers using weighted shortest job first (WSJF)
Writing the Enabler Lean Business case
Adding Enablers to the Solution roadmap
Ensuring sufficient capacity is allocated to Enablers

Question 45
What is the purpose of an Epic Hypothesis Statement?
It defines an idea that can be validated using the plan, do, check, and
adjust cycle
It provides enough detail to run the business and keep long-term
commitments from interfering with changing business priorities
It helps to capture, organize, and communicate critical
information about an epic.
It helps define the pipeline with the assets and technologies needed to
deliver solution value

Question 1
How can Product Management leverage market rhythms?
Adjust the timing of marketing campaigns
Improve PI Planning scheduling
Improve Features prioritization
Adjust the delivery of Features to meet market needs

Question 2
What information do Product Owners communicate to their teams after PO
Sync?
Adjustments
Impediments
Risks
Improvement items

Question 3
What is the purpose of the PI Planning event in SAFe?
To create a detailed plan for the next iteration
To present the progress of the Agile Release Train to stakeholders
To align all Agile teams with the ART's goals and priorities
To prioritize features for the upcoming Planning Interval

Question 4
What are the minimum requirements for a Feature?
Acceptance criteria, data models, and priority
Non-functional requirements, data models, and architecture
Benefit hypothesis, acceptance criteria, and priority
Name, benefit hypothesis, and acceptance criteria

Question 5
What helps visualize work during PI planning?
ART Objectives
ART Planning Board
ART Predictability Measure
ART PI Risks

Question 6
During PI planning, who is responsible for leading the discussion about
dependencies and risks?
Release Train Engineer (RTE)
Team Coach
Product Owner
Business Owner

Question 7
What is one SAFe Core Competency?
Growth Mindset
Agile Product Delivery
Design Thinking Practices
Built-in Quality

Question 8
The team is struggling to agree on the story point sizing of a new user
story. The PO was previously a related domain expert and feels the team
is wasting time. What is the best decision?
Suggest the team stop the sizing of the user story and add it to the next
iteration as is
Continue to support the team's decision on sizing
Instruct the Scrum Master to resize the story
Make the team aware of her expertise and decide the size for them

Question 9
How are PI Objectives created and communicated in SAFe?
They are created by the Business Owners and communicated to the ART
during PI Planning
They are created by the Release Train Engineer (RTE) and communicated
to the ART during PI Planning
They are created collaboratively by the Agile teams and
communicated to the ART during PI Planning
They are created by the Product Owners and the ART during PI Planning

Question 10
Which is developed by teams and rolled up to the ART level during PI
Planning?
ART PI Risks
Dependencies
Milestones
PI Objectives

Question 11
What is the role of the Product Owner during the Iteration Retrospective?
The Product Owner should provide feedback to the team on their progress
towards the Product Backlog
The Product Owner should participate in the Iteration
Retrospective, but should not lead it
The Product Owner should not participate in the Iteration Retrospective,
as it is a time for the team to reflect on their own work
The Product Owner should lead the Iteration Retrospective

Question 12
Who participates in the Inspect and Adapt (I&A) event in SAFe?
All the propositions
Agile teams and stakeholders
Product Owners and Scrum Masters
Release Train Engineers and Product Management

Question 13
Product Management works with which other role to define and maintain
nonfunctional requirements?
Portfolio Managers
System Team
Lean UX
System and Solution Architect / Engineering

Question 14
Why do Agile Teams use Iteration Goals?
To ensure the team accomplishes the committed Stories for each Iteration
To hold the team accountable to their PI Objectives
To summarize the business outcomes an Agile Team intends to achieve
during the PI
To align the team members and the Product Owner to a common
purpose

Question 15
Which of the following roles has content authority for the ART Backlog?
Product Owner
System Architect
Business Owner
Product Management

Question 16
What are two primary responsibilities of Business Owners in Planning
Interval (PI) Planning?
To present the Business Context and Vision
To create Lean business cases
To ensure that team members plan all of their priorities
To establish the PI Budget
To assign planned Business Value
Question 17
What is the purpose of the ART (Agile Release Train) in SAFe?
To synchronize the activities of multiple Agile teams
To align the program with the organization's strategic goals
To provide a high-level overview of the ART's progress
To manage the ART's budget and financials

Question 18
What is one strategy in SAFe 6 for managing complex critical path
challenges?
Adjust work between teams or split Features and Stories
Distribute work to other teams
Allocate work between teams based on forecasted capacity
Sequence work to eliminate same Iteration dependencies

Question 19
During which event does the team preview and elaborate on upcoming
Stories
PI Planning
Backlog Refinement
Iteration Planning
Team Sync

Question 20
True or false : conducting a System Demo is most aligned with "Welcome
changing requirements, even late in development" principle of the Agile
Manifesto?
False
True

Question 21
What are personas in SAFe?
Key end-users the Product Owner leverages for managing the backlog
External customers that are on the product Roadmap
Strategic stakeholders that influence the backlog
Fictional characters that act as a representative user when
discussing the backlog

Question 22
What is commonly used to explore new ideas or determine the feasibility
of Epics?
Spikes
Design thinking
Hackathons
Supplier showcases
Question 23
Which technique is used to discover key Customers, their needs, and align
on the product vision in SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager role?
Customer Journey Mapping
Impact Mapping
Business Model Canvas
Product Features

Question 24
What is one influence on the Vision?
Lean Budget Guardrails
Value Stream budgets
Portfolio Backlog items
Strategic Themes

Question 25
What is the recommended Timebox by SAFe for Iteration Review?
As needed
2 to 3 Hours
3 to 4 Hours
1 to 2 Hours

Question 26
Which SAFe Core Value Helps if decisions pull the organization in different
directions, significant delays and quality concerns?
Transparency
Relentless improvement
Respect for people
Alignment

Question 27
Where are workflows, activities, and required automation represented?
In the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
In the Team Kanban
In the Architectural Runway
In the Lean Startup Cycle

Question 28
Which event allows teams to review the progress of the current Planning
Interval (PI)?
System Demo
Sprint Review
Backlog Refinement
PI Planning

Question 29
What is the recommended duration for a Planning Interval (PI) in SAFe?
8 to 12 weeks
20 to 24 weeks
16 to 20 weeks
12 to 16 weeks

Question 30
What is one intended outcome of the problem-solving workshop?
Developing solutions to recognized problems that blocked or slowed work
Generating innovative approaches to common issues facing teams and
ARTS
Creating improvement backlog items as planned work
Forming working groups to better understand issues from the PI

Question 31
What is one element of the CALMR approach to DevOps?
Commit to accelerated delivery
Create a flow of value
Communicate risk
Create a culture of shared responsibility

Question 32
What is the role of the Product Owner during the System Demo?
To facilitate the event and address questions from stakeholders
To prioritize the features for the next Planning Interval (PI)
Helps the team satisfy dependencies, demonstrate incremental
value, and maintain cadence with the ART.
To demonstrate the new features to stakeholders

Question 33
What is enabled by the key components of the Continuous Delivery
Pipeline?
Hyper-transparent measurements
End-to-end testing
Accelerated release of value
Predictable release cadence

Question 34
How are Features prioritized in the ART backlog?
By the Business Owner based on the program priorities
By the System Architect based on technical considerations
By the Product Manger based on the Vision and the Roadmap
By the Scrum Master based on team capacity

Question 35
What is one input to the Vision?
Team topologies
Feature context
Customer feedback
Portfolio Backlog
Question 36
What are the three parts of an Inspect and Adapt event?
Actual business value review, root cause analysis, and retrospective
Retrospective, qualitative and quantitative measurement, and Strategic
Theme presentation
Problem-solving workshop, actual business value review, and Strategic
Theme presentation
PI System Demo, qualitative and quantitative measurement, and
problem-solving workshop

Question 37
True or False: Epics are estimated in story points rolled up from feature
estimates?
True
False

Question 38
Which of the following is the best way of defining an Epic successfully?
Estimating Epic Costs
All of the propositions
Defining the MVP
Creating the Lean Business Case

Question 39
What is the role of the Product Owner during the Backlog Refinement
event?
To provide technical guidance to the Agile teams
To review and prepare backlog items for upcoming iterations
To prioritize the ART backlog
To facilitate the event and keep it on track

Question 40
What is one tool that identifies specific practices for potential
improvement?
Objectives and key results
Key performance indicators
Competency assessments
Flow metrics

Question 41
What is one organizing attribute that teams share with the other teams on
their ART?
Facilitation techniques amongst all meetings
Prioritization across all backlogs
Simultaneous release in one pipeline
Synchronization to a common cadence

Question 42
Which SAFe 6 principle emphasizes that Business owners, developers, and
customers have a shared responsibility to ensure that investment in new
solutions will deliver economic benefits?
Apply systems thinking
Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems
Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
Decentralize decision-making

Question 43
Which role ensures that the ART has the Vision and Backlog needed to
engage in PI Planning successfully?
Lean-Agile Center of Excellence
Release Train Engineer
Product Management
Product Owner

Question 44
What is the role of the Product Owner during the Iteration Review?
To demo the new features to stakeholders
To review the team's problems and impediments
To facilitate the iteration planning meeting
To provide key inputs before, during and after the event

Question 45
What is the relationship between a Product Owner (PO) and a Product
Manager (PM)?
The PO is team-oriented, the PM is market-oriented
The PO identifies market needs, the PM is solution, technology, and team
facing
The PO contributes to the ART Backlog, the PM establishes Story
acceptance criteria
The PO drives PI Objectives, the PM drives Iteration Goals

Question 1
When should Agile Teams make time for innovation?
When there are Enabler Stories in the Backlog
During the Innovation and Planning Iteration
Continuously throughout the PI
At a consistent time each day during the Iteration

Question 2
What is one role of Product Management?
Connecting with the Customer
Supporting the team in delivering value
Getting it built
Question 3
The ART Planning board includes the following, other than the team
names and iterations?
Milestones, Epics, Effort Needed to complete
Milestones, Features, Dependencies
Features, Stories, Dependencies
Deliverables, Features, Dependencies

Question 4
What is the main value of the Backlog Refinement?
Team meets with stakeholders to review the deliverables and provide
feedback
Team reviews and improves its process before the next Iteration
Team prepares requirements for Iteration Planning
Team commits to a set of goals to be delivered in the Iteration

Question 5
In PI Planning, what is the responsibility of the Product Owner?
To review the Iteration plans
To facilitate the planning event
To communicate the Product Vision and Roadmap to the Development
Teams
To present the Vision to stakeholders

Question 6
What is one anti-pattern related to System Demos?
Team demos are accepted in place of a System Demo to avoid
redundancy
Different team members conduct the demo each Iteration
People from outside the Agile Release Train attend the System Demo
System demo takes more than 15 minutes

Question 7
What is the purpose of Iteration Goals?
To align team members to a common purpose
To identify non-functional requirements
To define "the what, the how, and the how much"
To set preliminary PI Objectives

Question 8
Which statement describes the Scaled Agile Framework?
It provides strict guidelines for all daily activities
It provides guidelines for Project Managers
It scales Scrum to multiple Agile Teams
It synchronizes alignment, collaboration, and delivery for large
numbers of teams

Question 9
Why is it important to establish a definition of done?
To create Standardize work between all Agile Teams
To ensure Features provide the expected business benefits
To enable Scrum Masters/Team Coaches to enforce quality
create alignment on when stories are complete

Question 10
What is one influence on Solution and PI Roadmaps?
ART capacity
Market dynamics
Value Streams
Customer-centric Features

Question 11
Which of the following is NOT a good practice when working with Epics?
Assigning them to a single team.
Tracking their progress through the ART Backlog.
Communicating their status to stakeholders.
Breaking them down into smaller Features.

Question 12
Which role does Product Management work with to prioritize Enablers?
Product Owner
System Architect
Development Manager
Solution management

Question 13
What is one method to establish a team's velocity?
Add the Story points for all Features completed in the Iteration
Calculate the percentage planned versus actual Stories completed during
an Iteration
Add the Story points for all the Stories planned for the Iteration
Compare the average Story points completed throughout the
previous Iterations

Question 14
The Product Manager makes weekly visits to a customer's site. Which two
Agile Manifesto Values support this behavior? (Choose two.)
Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the
project
Working software over detailed documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Following a plan over responding to change
Individual interactions over processes and tools

Question 15
What system delivers a product or service to a Customer?
Development Value Stream
Operational Value Stream
Kanban System
Dual Operating System

Question 16
What is one goal of the Iteration Review?
To add acceptance criteria to Stories in the Iteration
To demonstrate completed Stories from the prior PI
To identify dependencies in the backlog
To receive feedback on the increment

Question 17
Why is the problem-solving workshop more effective than traditional
lessons learned documents?
It involves a small group of leaders
Workshops are more engaging then document writting
Collaboration over documentation is a key recommendation of the Agile
Manifesto
It makes improvements actionable through backlog item for the
next PI

Question 18
Which SAFe Core Value is demonstrated when avoid asking teams to
commit to their PI Objectives in a sleep-deprived state?
Relentless Improvment
Alignement
Respect for people and culture
Transparency

Question 19
What is one anti-pattern of the Inspect and Adapt?
No part of the I&A event goes over its timebox
Teams find several problems for the problem solving workshop
Actionable improvement Features are created
Product Owners present all of the work in the PI System demo

Question 20
What question helps Product Management in creating a Vision?
How many Features have been released to the Customer?
Which themes are on the Roadmap?
What are the teams' skills?
What problem(s) will the Solution solve?

Question 21
What is one benefit of capacity allocation?
It enables effective time-tracking
It prevents different types of backlog items from being compared
against each another
It ensures all Value Streams in the Portfolio are appropriately funded
It allocates developers and testers to an initiative

Question 22
What is the purpose of the Solution Vision in SAFe?
To outline the specific goals for the current Planning Interval (PI)
To define the team's long-term goals
To provide a high-level overview of the product or solution
To prioritize the ART backlog

Question 23
Which statement accurately describes the SAFe backlog model?
Epics are in the Solution Train Backlog
Features are in the ART Backlog
Capabilities are in the ART Backlog
Storie are in the Solution Train Backlog

Question 24
What is one area of task for a Product Owner in managing and prioritizing
the team backlog?
Foster Built-In Quality
Understand Market forces
Share Feedback with the ART
Support Architectural Runway

Question 25
During Iteration Review, what is one activity performed by an Agile Team?
Demonstrate a working, tested team increment
Gather Feature requirements from stakeholders
Identify opportunities for improvement
Modify Iteration Goals

Question 26
Which statement describes an owned ART PI Risk?
The risk has been addressed and is no longer a concern
Someone has taken the responsibility of the risk
Nothing more can be done, so if a risk occurs, release may be
compromised
There is a strategy to adjust the plan as necessary

Question 27
What is one responsibility of the Product Owner during Team Sync?
To add new work into the Iteration
To facilitate event
To clarify story intent
To relay Customer feedback
Question 28
When explaining why the top 10 Features were chosen for PI Planning,
which SAFe Core Value is demonstrated?
Alignment
Transparency
Respect for People
Relentless Improvement

Question 29
Which tool shows dependencies during PI planning?
PI Objectives
Management Review and Problem-Solving session
ART PI Risks Board
ART Planning Board

Question 30
What is the main objective of the System Demo in SAFe?
Identify risks and impediments
Showcase completed features to stakeholders
Prepare next Iteration Goals
Update the PI Objectives

Question 31
What is the primary purpose of the Continuous Exploration (CE) process in
SAFe?
Review and prioritize the ART Backlog
Integrate and evaluate work products early and often
Discover, explore new product opportunities and identify
emerging business and technical trends
Provide continuous feedback to stakeholders

Question 32
What is one characteristic of writing effective PI Objectives?
Identifying significant risks
Listing out committed Features
Including critical Stories
Describing the value

Question 33Correct
What is one way Kanban boards are used in SAFe?
To manage runway cadence
To manage PI objectives
To manage non-functional requirements (NFRs) in the backlog
To manage WIP limits

Question 34
What is the recommended format for writing User Stores?
As a..., When..., Then...
I want..., When..., So that...
As a..., I want..., So that...
Given..., When...., Then...

Question 35
According to SAFe, what is the recommended first step of Iteration
Planning?
Review the prior Iteration
Establish capacity
Facilitate a confidence vote
Analyze the team backlog

Question 36
What does SAFe Team Kanban promote?
Compliance
Collaboration
Separation of duties
Leadership

Question 37
What is the primary purpose of PO Sync?
To assess progress of the Planning Interval (PI) and adjust scope
and priorities as needed
To build PI Objectives and improve alignment
To align with Coach Sync participants on the status of the PI
To conduct backlog refinement

Question 38
After addressing risks during the PI Planning in ART PI Risks, what activity
follows?
Confidence vote
Management Review and Problem-Solving session
Team breakouts
Retrospective

Question 39
How do Agile Teams carry out Continuous Delivery Pipeline activities
during the PI?
They explore during the early Iterations and integrate, deploy, and release
during the later Iterations
They explore Features in one PI, then given to the teams in later PIs for
integrating and deploying, and then released in a future PI
They explore, integrate, and deploy during each Iteration, but release at
the end of the PI
They explore, integrate, deploy, and release new value during
each Iteration

Question 40
Who are important attendees to the PI System Demo?
Feature Owners
Board Members
Portfolio Management
Business Owners

Question 41
What is one method for designing the end-to-end Customer experience?
Journey mapping
Persona development
Feature storming
Whole-product thinking

Question 42
During PI planning, Agile Teams estimate user stories using story points.
What estimation technique is commonly used to estimate Epics in SAFe?
Ideal Days
T-Shirt Sizing
Planning Poker
Affinity Mapping
Overall explanation

Question 43
The Release Train Engineer (RTE) works with the Product Manager to:
Track progress
Manage risks
All of the propositions
Prioritize features and functionalities

Question 44
Which of the following events aligns teams on a train?
Iteration Planning
PI Planning
Coach Sync
PO Sync

Question 45
What is one outcome of the Iteration Retrospective?
Identification of dependencies with other teams
A plan for upcoming milestones
Improvement items in the Team Backlog
Agreement on Stories for the next Iteration

Question 1
What is enabled by the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
End-to-end testing
New functionality delivered more frequently
A predictable release cadence
Transparent measurements

Question 2
Which statement describes an accepted ART PI Risk?
Nothing more can be done, so if a risk occurs, release may be
compromised
The risk has been addressed and is no longer a concern
Someone has taken the responsibility of the risk
There is a strategy to adjust the plan as necessary

Question 3
During PI planning, what is the primary purpose of the Business Context
and Content session?
Identify dependencies between Agile Teams
Review and prioritize features
Presents a perspective on how effectively existing solutions are
addressing current customer needs.
Estimate user stories

Question 4
What is essential when communicating the Vision?
The importance of Feature prioritizing
The importance of empathy interviews
The importance of non-functional requirements
The importance of Lean budget Guardrails

Question 5
What term characterizes an initiative that requires financial approval
before implementation?
Non-Functional Requirement
Epic
Capability
Compliance

Question 6
What is one responsibility of the Product Owner?
Assigning PI Objectives
Testing Features
Estimating Stories
Prioritizing the Team Backlog

Question
What work-item can be split from Epics?
Tasks
Features
Spikes
Stories
Question 8
What's the fourth element of the Lean UX Process : Benefit Hypothesis -
Collaborative Design - Build MMF?
Release
Evaluate
Deploy
Alignment

Question 9
Which of the following Agile Manifesto principles aligns with conducing a
System Demo?
The best way to convey information is face-to-face conversation
Working software is the primary measure of progress
Welcome changing requirements, even late in development
The team reflects on how to become more effective at regular intervals

Question 10
Which SAFe Lean-Agile Principle supports applying a Set-Based design
approach?
Take an economic view
Assume variability, preserve options
Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
Apply systems thinking

Question 11
What is the purpose of team backlog refinement in SAFe?
To prepare backlog items for upcoming Iterations
Your answer is incorrect
To groom the backlog with the Scrum Master
To prioritize backlog items for the next PI
To estimate the size of backlog items

Question 12
What is a recommended time horizon of the Planning Interval (PI)
Roadmap?
Less then 1 year
More then one year
2 years
2-4 years

Question 13Correct
Who participates in the PI Planning event in SAFe?
Product Managers
Release Train Engineers
Scrum Masters
All of the propositions
DevOps Engineers
Question 14
Which of the following statements is true about the team backlog?
The team backlog is where the team refines possible Stories
The team backlog is where the team commits to work
The team backlog is where the team finalizes work
The team backlog is where Stories are accepted

Question 15
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?
Adjust business priorities
Redefine the length of the PI
Create new User Stories
Change a team's plan

Question 16
What is the primary goal of the Innovation and Planning (IP) iteration in
SAFe?
Conduct the Inspect and Adapt (I&A) event
Provide dedicated time for exploration and innovation
Finalize the PI Objectives for the upcoming PI
Identify and address technical debt

Question 17
Which of the following statements is one of the five Lean Thinking
principles?
Decentralize decision-making
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Deliver working software frequently
Identify the Value Stream for each product

Question 18
What is defined as a product, service, or system delivered to the
customer?
Value
Epic
Capability
Solution

Question 19
How do Business Owners quantify the value of PI Objectives?
By assigning Story Points
By estimating return on investment
By assigning business value
By totaling the Epic budget

Question 20
What system convert a business hypothesis into a digitally-enabled
solution that delivers customer value?
Claims processing Value Stream
Development Value Stream
Operational Value Stream
Customer Journey Value Stream

Question 21
Which of the following types of information is shared between the teams
on an ART?
A set of metrics
A set of regulations
A common mission using a single backlog
A commitment to business agility

Question 22
How often does the Innovation and planning Iteration (IP) occur?
Every two Iterations
During every PI
Every two PIs
Once per month

Question 23
During PI Planning, which activity happens after "dependencies are
resolved and risks are addressed"?
Management Review and Problem-Solving session
Confidence vote
Team breakouts
Retrospective

Question 24
When an Epic meets the Go criteria in a go or no-go decision, where does
the Epic move to?
The Value Stream
The Epic Owner Backlog
The Continuous Delivery Pipeline
The Portfolio Backlog

Question 25
The goal of the Product Owner is most closely aligned with which Agile
Manifesto principle?
Welcome changing requirements, even late in development
Build projects around motivated individuals
The highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and
continuous delivery of valuable software
Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the
project

Question 26
What is the next action for improvement items identified during the
Iteration Retrospective?
They are escalated to the Business Owners
They are ROAMed with the rest of the risks
They are given to the Scrum Master/Team Coach who resolves them
They are entered as Stories in the Team Backlog

Question 27
What does the ART planning board show?
Epics
Risks
Significant dependencies
Capacity and load

Question 28
The goal is fast delivery process, ideally requiring little manual effort.
What is one capability used to achieve this?
Non functional requirements
Quite releases
Soft launches
Features toggles

Question 29
What is the recommended frequency for conducting Iteration Planning in
SAFe?
Every month
Every two weeks
Every three weeks
Every week

Question 30
What does Kanban board demonstrate?
The cost of delay of each item on the board
A burndown chart of work completed in the Iteration
The accumulated value of team's work
Where a team has too much work-in-process (WIP)

Question 31
Which of the following events shows well the ART is progressing toward
meeting the PI objectives?
PI Planning
Backlog Refinement
Inspect and Adapt
PO Sync

Question 32
Acceptance criteria provides the details of the story from a testing point of
view, and it is created by who?
The Product Owner and Product Management
The team and the Business Owners
The team and the Product Owner
The Release Train Engineer and Product Management

Question 33
What enables flow through the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
The Solution Vision
Cost of delay
Capacity allocation
The ART Kanban

Question 34
When is a Story considered complete?
The scope has been changed
It satisfies the Definition of Done
The team is done working on it
It is accepted by the Stakeholders

Question 35
What SAFe principle emphasizes delivering the highest value features and
solutions early and frequently to customers?
Deliver Value in the shortest sustainable lead time
Embrace a Lean-Agile mindset
Respect for People and Culture
Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles

Question 36
What is a common anti-pattern for teams trying to prepare their draft
objectives at PI planning?
Describe the value and impact
Not using Features or Stories as PI Objectives
Remove jargon so that PI Objectives are understandable to Business
Owners and Customers
Too much time is spent analyzing each Story

Question 37
Who is responsible for defining and communicating the ART's Vision and
Roadmap?
Business Owners
Product Management
System Architect
Release Train Engineer (RTE)

Question 38
Who often participates as the ART's Business Owners to approve the
team's PI Objectives?
System Architects
Product Owners
Scrum Masters/Team Coaches
Product Managers

Question 39
What is included in the Inspect and Adapt agenda?
System Demo
ART Backlog refinement
Quantitative and qualitative measurement
Management review and confidence vote

Question 40
Communicating and refining the Vision to the Agile Release Train during PI
Planning supports which Core Value?
Alignment
Relentless Improvement
Transparency
Respect for People

Question 41
What can assist in facilitating Team Flow?
Solution Roadmap
WIP limits
ART Planning Board
Test cases

Question 42
Which Agile Team event supports relentless improvement?
Backlog refinement
Iteration Planning
Iteration Retrospective
Iteration Review

Question 43
Where can Product Management find information about when a specific
Epic will be completed?
The Solution Roadmap
The Development Manager
The Portfolio Backlog
The ART Backlog

Question 44
What element improves when Features and Stories are related to
personas?
Architecture
Compliance
Collaboration
Design

Question 45
What is one tool that visualizes Features representing a workflows?
Team Kanban
Story Maps
Continuous Delivery Pipeline
User Experience Design