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When is a pre-PI Planning event needed?
- When there is only one day to run PI Planning, so more time is needed to prepare to run it effectively
- When Product Owners and Scrum Masters need to coordinate dependencies within the Agile Release Train
- When teams cannot identify and estimate Stories in PI Planning and need more time to prepare
- When multiple Agile Release Trains working on the same Solution need to align and coordinate
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When is a pre-PI Planning event needed?
- When there is only one day to run PI Planning, so more time is needed to prepare to run it effectively
- When Product Owners and Scrum Masters need to coordinate dependencies within the Agile Release Train
- When teams cannot identify and estimate Stories in PI Planning and need more time to prepare
- When multiple Agile Release Trains working on the same Solution need to align and coordinate
When multiple Agile Release Trains working on the same Solution need to align and coordinate
Which is an aspect of systems thinking?
- The length of the queue impacts the wait time
- Optimizing a component does not optimize the system
- Mastery drives intrinsic motivation
- Cadence makes routine everything that can be routine
Optimizing a component does not optimize the system
What is part of the role of Product Management?
- To prioritize Enablers
- To assign business value to Features
- To facilitate backlog refinement sessions
- To prioritize the Program Backlog
To prioritize the Program Backlog
What must management do for a successful Agile transformation?
- Change Scrum Masters in the team every two weeks
- Strive to think of adoption as an area they can control
- Send someone to represent management, and then delegate tasks to these individuals
- Commit to quality and be the change agent in the system
Commit to quality and be the change agent in the system
Which statement fits with the SAFe Core Value of Built-in Quality?
- 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
- You cannot scale crappy code
- Quality is not part of the SAFe Core Values
You cannot scale crappy code
What is the impact of Customer Centricity?
- To build small, partial systems just in time
- To interpret market rhythms
- To design custom-built Customer Solutions
- To understand the Customer's needs
To understand the Customer's needs
Product Management has content authority over the Program Backlog. What do Product Owners have content authority over?
- Portfolio Vision
- Team Backlog
- Value Streams
- Portfolio Backlog
Team Backlog
What is one Guardrail on Lean Budget spend?
- Learning Milestones as objective measurements
- Spending caps for each Agile Release Train
- Participatory budgeting
- Continuous Business Owner engagement
Continuous Business Owner engagement
What are the three primary keys to implementing flow? (Choose three.)
- Frequent context switching
- Address the systemic problems
- Reduce the batch sizes of work
- Increase capacity
- Visualize and limit work in process (WIP)
- Manage queue lengths
- Manage queue lengths
- Visualize and limit work in process (WIP)
- Reduce the batch sizes of work
If a program repeatedly shows separate Feature branches rather than a true System Demo, which practice should be reviewed to address the issue?
- Continuous Integration
- Roadmap creation
- Scrum of scrums
- Test first
Continuous Integration
What can be used to script the change to SAFe? - The Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) charter - The Program Kanban - The Implementation Roadmap - The portfolio canvasThe Implementation RoadmapWho has content authority to make decisions at the User Story level during Program Increment (PI) Planning? - Scrum Masters - Product Owner - Agile Team - Release Train EngineerProduct OwnerWhich of the core competencies of the Lean Enterprise helps align strategy and execution? - DevOps and Release on Demand - Lean Portfolio Management - Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering - Team and Technical AgilityLean Portfolio ManagementWhat can be used as a template for putting SAFe into practice within an organization? - SAFe Core Values - SAFe Principles - SAFe House of Lean - SAFe Implementation RoadmapSAFe Implementation RoadmapWhat is found on a program board? - Features - User Stories - Epics - TasksFeaturesHow does SAFe provide a second operating system that enables Business Agility? - By achieving economies of scale - By focusing on customers, products, innovation, and growth - By building up large departments and matrixed organizations to support rapid growth - By creating stability and hierarchyBy focusing on customers, products, innovation, and growthWhich statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto? - Respond to change - Respect for people and culture - Limit work in process - Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cyclesRespond to changeWhich statement correctly describes one aspect of the team's commitment at the end of PI Planning? - A team does not commit to uncommitted objectives - A team commits only to the PI Objectives with the highest business value - A team commits to all the Stories they put on their PI plan - A team commits to all the Features they put on the program boardA team does not commit to uncommitted objectivesWhat is the last step in Kotter's approach to change management? - Consolidate gains and produce more wins - Sustain and improve - Anchor new approaches in the culture - Generate short-term winsAnchor new approaches in the cultureWhat is Business Agility? - The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business Solutions - A customer-centric approach to defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services to customers and users - Applying Lean-Agile principles and practices to the specification, development, deployment, operation, and evolution of the world's largest and most sophisticated systems - How Lean-thinking people and Agile Teams optimize their business processes, evolve strategy with clear and decisive new commitments, and quickly adapt the organization as needed to capitalize on new opportunitiesThe ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business SolutionsWhat is one component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline? - Continuous Planning - Continuous Improvement - Continuous Cadence - Continuous ExplorationContinuous ExplorationWhich statement is a principle of the Agile Manifesto? - Simplicity-the art of maximizing the amount of work not done-is essential - Measure everything - Respect for people and culture - Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengthsSimplicity-the art of maximizing the amount of work not done-is essentialThe Agile Release Train uses which type of teams to get work done? - Management teams - Cross-functional teams - Solution teams - Phased-review-process teamsCross-functional teamsIn the Program Kanban some steps have work in process (WIP) limits. Why is this necessary? - To keep timebox goals - To help Continuous Deployment - To ensure large queues are not being built - To enable multitaskingTo ensure large queues are not being builtWhat is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making? - Removing accountability from leaders - Creating better visualization - Ensuring strategic decisions are not made in a vacuum - Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead timeDelivering value in the shortest sustainable lead timeThe House of Lean is a classic metaphor describing the mindset essential for Lean thinking. Which one of the four pillars advocates a 'Go See' mindset? - Innovation - Relentless improvement - Flow - Respect for people and cultureInnovationWhen basing decisions on economics, how are lead time, product cost, value, and development expense used? - To recover money already spent - To take into account sunk costs - To limit work in process (WIP) through the system - To identify different parameters of the economic frameworkTo identify different parameters of the economic frameworkWhat is one issue when organizing around hierarchical functions? - It moves the decision to where the information is - It reduces political tensions - It creates Agile business teams - It is not how value flowsIt is not how value flowsWhich statement is true about the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration? - It is used annually when the team needs to refocus on work processes - The Scrum Master can decide if the IP Iteration is necessary - Without the IP Iteration, there is a risk that the 'tyranny of the urgent' outweighs all innovation activities - It is used as a weekly sync point between the Scrum MastersWithout the IP Iteration, there is a risk that the 'tyranny of the urgent' outweighs all innovation activitiesWhat is the basic building block when organizing around value? - Agile Teams - Agile Release Trains - Hierarchies - IndividualsAgile TeamsWhich statement is true about DevOps? - DevOps automation of testing reduces the holding cost - DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between development and operations - Lean-Agile principles are not necessary for a successful DevOps implementation - Measurements are not a top priority for DevOpsDevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between development and operationsWhich statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes? - They are a high-level summary of each program's Vision and are updated after every PI - They are large initiatives managed in the Portfolio Kanban that require weighted shortest job first prioritization and a lightweight business case - 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 IncrementThey are business objectives that connect the SAFe portfolio to the Enterprise business strategyWhat is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe? - Teams allow batch sizes across multiple intervals - Teams align their Iterations to the same schedule to support communication, coordination, and system integration - Teams decide their own Iteration length - Teams meet twice every Program Increment (PI) to plan and schedule capacityTeams align their Iterations to the same schedule to support communication, coordination, and system integrationWhat is the foundation of the SAFe House of Lean? - Relentless improvement - Value - Leadership - FlowLeadershipOn 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 - Create new User Stories - Adjust the length of the PI - Change a team's planAdjust business prioritiesWhat are the last three steps of the SAFe Implementation Roadmap? - Launch trains, coach Agile Release Train execution, train executives and managers - Train Lean-Agile change agents, identify Value Streams and Agile Release Trains, extend to the portfolio - Launch more Agile Release Trains and Value Streams, extend to the portfolio, accelerate - Train Lean-Agile change agents, extend to the portfolio, accelerateLaunch more Agile Release Trains and Value Streams, extend to the portfolio, accelerateWhat is one benefit of unlocking the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers? - To lower work in process (WIP) limits - To centralize decision-making - To provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints - To strive to achieve a state of continuous flowTo provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraintsWhat is the best measure of progress for complex system development? - Iteration Review - Prioritized backlog - Inspect and Adapt - System DemoSystem DemoWhat is one of the Agile Release Train sync meetings? - Scrum of scrums - Solution Demo - Iteration Retrospective - Iteration ReviewScrum of scrumsWhat can be used to capture the current state of the portfolio? - Portfolio Vision - Portfolio Backlog - Portfolio Canvas - Portfolio KanbanPortfolio CanvasDesign Thinking identifies at least four new ways to measure success. What are two of those ways? (Choose two.) - Scalability - Desirability - Marketability - Sustainability - ReliabilityDesirability & SustainabilityHow is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed? - In the Program Kanban - In the Portfolio Backlog - In the Program Backlog - In the Portfolio KanbanIn the Program KanbanWho is responsible for the Solution Backlog?Solution ManagementWhat is considered an anti-pattern when assigning business values to team PI Objectives? - A value of 10 given to all of the PI Objectives - Business Owners assigning the business value - Business Owners assign high values to important enabler work - Assigning business values to stretch objectivesA value of 10 given to all of the PI ObjectivesWhat is a minimum viable product? - A minimal story a team can deliver in an iteration - A minimal Feature that can be released to the market - A minimal product that can be built to achieve market dominance - A minimal product that can validate a hypothesisA minimal version of a new product used to test a hypothesisWhich practice helps with a test-first mentality? - BDD - MMF - WIP - MVPBDDWhen does a Roadmap become a queue? - When it is fully committed - When it includes no commitments - When it contains Features and not Epics - When it is longer than one Program IncrementWhen it is longer than one Program IncrementWhich statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes? - 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 a high-level summary of each program's Vision and are updated after every PI - They are requirements that span Agile Release Trains but must fit within a single Program IncrementThey are business objectives that connect the SAFe Portfolio to the Enterprise business strategyWhich statement is true when continuously deploying using a DevOps model? - It removes the need to automate processes - It alleviates the reliance on the skill sets of Agile teams - It increases the transaction cost - It lessens the severity and frequency of release failuresIt lessens the severity and frequency of release failuresWhich statement describes aspects of the team's commitment during PI Planning? - A team does not commit to stretch objectives - A team commits to all the features they put on the Program Board - A team commits only to the PI Objectives with the highest business value - A team commits to all stories they put on their PI planA team does not commit to stretch objectivesWhat is the recommended way to express a Feature? Functional requirement Epic hypothesis statement Lean business case Phrase, benefit hypothesis, and acceptance criteriaHow does SAFe describe Customer Centricity? As a coaching style As a behavior As a relationship As a mindsetWhat is one key difference between Customer Centricity and Design Thinking? Customer Centricity uses research; Design Thinking uses empathy. Customer Centricity focuses on mindset; Design Thinking focuses on practices. Customer Centricity helps ensure products and Solutions meet Customer needs; Design Thinking implements tools to support Customer Solutions. Customer Centricity helps businesses generate greater profits; Design Thinking helps governments and nonprofits create sustainability.Weighted shortest job first gives preference to jobs with which two characteristics? (Choose two.) Higher cost of delay Longer duration Revenue impact Fixed date Shorter durationWhat is SAFe's release strategy? Release continuously Release every Program Increment Release on cadence Release on DemandWhat is the best measure of progress for complex system development? Refined backlog ROAMing risks Iteration Review System DemoWhat are two aspects of leading by example? (Choose two.) Transparency Alignment Life-long learning Psychological safety Authenticity