Leading SAFe 6.0 Exam Preparation

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

a. It ensures that changes deployed to production are always immediately available to end-users

b. It alleviates the reliance on the skill sets of Agile Teams

c. It lessens the severity and frequency of release failures

2. What are the three dimensions of Lean-Agile Leadership? (Choose three.)

a. Lead by example

b. Lead the change

c. Support organizational change

d. Mindset and principles

3. What are two ways to describe a cross-functional Agile Team? (Choose two.)

a. They can define, build, and test an increment of value

b. They are optimized for communication and delivery of value

c. They release customer products to production continuously

d. They are made up of members, each of whom can define, develop, test, and deploy the system

4. What does the Continuous Delivery Pipeline enable?

a. Ongoing learning

b. Delivery of large batches

c. Continuous refactoring

d. Increased technical debt

5. What is one of the tools associated with Design Thinking?

a. Behavior driven development

b. Divergent Feature Decomposition

c. Solution Canvas

d. Empathy maps

6. What is one example of differentiating business objectives?

a. Portfolio Vision

b. Strategic Themes

c. Solution Intent

d. Enterprise Goals

7. Which role serves as the servant leader for the Agile Release Train?

a. Business Owner

b. Scrum Master

c. Release Train Engineer

d. Agile Coach

8. The ART Planning board shows which two items? (Choose two.)

a. Features

b. Epics

c. Risks

d. Significant dependencies

e. Capacity and Load

9. What are two ways to describe a cross-functional Agile Team? (Choose two.)

a. They deliver value every six weeks

b. They are optimized for communication and delivery of value

c. They release customer products to production continuously

d. They are made up of members, each of whom can define, develop, test, and deploy the system

e. They can define, build, and test an increment of value

10. Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?

a. Customer collaboration over feature negotiation

b. Customer collaboration over ongoing internal conversation

c. Customer collaboration over a constant indefinite pace

d. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

11. How does SAFe describe Customer Centricity?

a. As a strategy to meet the needs of an ever-changing Customer market

b. As a mindset focused on Customer behaviors that produce the best innovations

c. As a set of practices employed to make products focused on Customer

d. As a way of working to include the Customer in daily work processes and planning

12. How can trust be gained between the business and development?

a. Deliver predictability

b. Release new value to production every day

c. Maintain Iterations as a safe zone for the team

d. Automate the delivery pipeline

13. What is part of the role of the Scrum Master?

a. To escalate ART impediments

b. To coach the interactions with the Scrum Framework

c. To facilitate all team events

d. To prioritize and identify what is ready for Iteration Planning

14. Which team type is 'organized to assist other teams with specialized capabilities and help them become more proficient in new technologies'?

a. Enabling team

b. Platform team

c. Complicated subsystem team

d. Stream-aligned team

15. Which statement is true about batch size?

a. Large batch sizes ensure time for built-in quality

b. When stories are broken into tasks it means there are small batch sizes

c. Large batch sizes limit the ability to preserve options

d. When there is flow it means there are small batch sizes

16. What is an example of applying cadence and synchronization in SAFe?

a. Allocating budgets to Agile Release Trains

b. Creating cross-functional teams

c. Using a Portfolio Kanban system

d. Conducting PI Planning

17. What is one component of a Guardrail in Lean Portfolio Management?

a. Capacity allocation of the Value Stream compared to process mapping

b. Allocation of centralized vs decentralized decisions in the Enterprise

c. Participatory budgeting forums that lead to Value Stream budget changes

d. Determining if business needs meet the Portfolio Threshold

18. During the final plan review, Program risks are addressed using ROAM. What do the letters in ROAM represent?

a. Owned, Mitigated, Resolved, Accepted

b. Resolved, Owned, Approved, Mitgated

c. Resolved, Assigned, Mitigated, Owned

d. Owned, Mitigated, Active, Resolved

19. The analyzing step of the Portfolio Kanban system has a new Epic with a completed Lean business case. What best describes the next step for the Epic?

a. It will be implemented once the Lean business case is approved by the Epic Owner

b. It will be implemented if it has the highest weighted shortest job first (WSJF) ranking

c. It will be moved to the Portfolio Backlog if it receives a 'go' decision from Lean Portfolio Management

d. It will remain in the analyzing step until one or more Agile Release Trains have the capacity to implement it

20. What are the top two reasons for adopting Agile in an organization? (Choose two.)

a. Reduce project cost

b. Centralize decision-making

c. Enable changing priorities

d. Reduce changes

e. Accelerate product delivery

21. Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?

a. Customer collaboration over a constant indefinite pace

b. Individuals and interactions over contract negotiation

c. Customer collaboration over following a plan

d. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

22. Why is it important to decouple deployment from release?

a. To make deploying of assets a business decision

b. To allow inspection of Agile maturity based on different cycle times

c. To remove the need to respond quickly to production issues

d. To enable releasing functionality on demand to meet business needs

23. During the PI Planning event, when are planning adjustments agreed upon?

a. During Scrum of scrums

b. During the draft plan review

c. During the management review and problem-solving

24. Who is responsible for managing the Portfolio Kanban?

a. Lean Portfolio Management

b. Release Train Engineer

c. Solution Management

25. Which statement is true about a Value Stream that successfully uses Devops?

a. It has a closed loop process of learning

b. It has a technology stack without legacy code

c. It has objective measurements with automation

26. Which statement is true about ART events?

a. The daily stand-up is an ART event that requires the scrum of scrums and Program Owner sync involvement in the closed-loop system

b. The Inspect and Adapt is the only ART event required to create a closed-loop system

c. ART events run inside the team events, and the team events create a closed-loop system

d. Team events run inside the ART events, and the ART events create a closed-loop system

27. What is one output of enterprise strategy formulation?

a. Portfolio Budgets

b. Portfolio Vision

c. Portfolio Canvas

d. Portfolio Governance

28. Who decides the Team PI Objective Business Value scoring after negotiation?

a. The Scrum Team

b. Product Manager

c. The Agile Team

d. Business Owner

29. Which two types of decisions should remain centralized even in a decentralized decision-making environment? (Choose two.)

a. Decisions that are made frequently

b. Decisions that deliver large and broad economic benefits

c. Decisions unlikely to change in the short term

d. Decisions that come with a high cost of delay

e. Decisions that require local information

30. When should new approaches be anchored in an organization's culture?

a. Culture change needs to happen before the SAFe implementation can begin

b. Culture change comes last as a results of changing work habits

c. Culture should not be changed because SAFe respects current culture

d. Culture change comes right after a sense of urgency is created in the organization

31. What is one key purpose of DevOps?

a. DevOps enables continuous release by building a scalable Continuous Delivery Pipeline

b. DevOps joins development and operations to enable continuous delivery

c. DevOps focuses on automating the delivery pipeline to reduce transaction cost

d. DevOps focuses on a set of practices applied to large systems

32. Optimizing flow means identifying what?

a. Predictability issues of the train

b. Activities that lack innovation

c. Key performance indicators

d. Delays

33. The primary need for SAFe is to scale the idea of what?

a. Organizational and Functional Alignment

b. Business Agility

c. Technical Solution Delivery

d. Lean Portfolio Management

34. What is one way Lean-Agile leaders lead by example?

a. By modeling SAFe’s Lean-Agile Mindset, values, principles, and practices

b. By using the SAFe Implementation Roadmap to script the way for change

c. By mastering the Seven Core Competencies of the Lean Enterprise

d. By applying empathic design and focusing on Customer Centricity

35. Which core competency of the Lean Enterprise helps drive Built-in Quality practices?

a. Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering

b. DevOps and Release on Demand

c. Team and Technical Agility

d. Lean Portfolio Management

36. An Enterprise has just adopted the SAFe Implementation Roadmap and is in the process of training executives, managers, and leaders. What is their next step?

a. Train Lean-Agile change agents to push out the roadmap and build consensus

b. Identify Value Streams and Agile Release Trains to start alignment of the organization

c. Train the leaders in Portfolio and Product Management to solve problems before fixing symptoms

d. Perform process mapping on the current state

37. According to SAFe Principle #10, what should the Enterprise do when markets and customers demand change?

a. Create a reliable decision-making framework to empower employees and ensure a fast flow of value

b. Apply development cadence and synchronization to operate effectively and manage uncertainty

c. Create an Agile Release Train to focus on value

d. Reorganize the network around the new value flow

38. SAFe's first Lean-Agile Principle includes "Deliver early and often" and what else?

a. Apply cadence

b. Deliver value incrementally

c. Decentralize decision-making

39. How does SAFe recommend using a second operating system to deliver value?

a. Leverage Solutions with economies of scale

b. Organize the development around the flow of value while maintaining the hierarchies

c. Build a small entrepreneurial network focused on the Customer instead of the existing hierarchies

d. Reorganize the hierarchies around the flow of value

40. What is one of the SAFe Core Value

a. Built in Quality

b. Culture

c. Flow

d. Transparency.

41. What is one issue when organising around functional silos ?

a. They do not provide development opportunities for employees

b. Operational activities are not included

c. They impede how value flows.

d. Corporate responsibilities are not focussed.

42. Restoring the speed and innovation of the entrepreneurial network while leveraging the hierarchical system is a benefit of what?

a. Continuous Learning Culture

b. Functional Silos

c. Customer Centricity.

d. Dual Operating System

43. Which basic Agile practise reduces bottleneck and ensures consistency

a. Peer review and pairing

b. Establishing flow.

c. Definition of Done

d. Collective ownership and standards.

44. Which SAFe Lean Agile Principle includes the critical part of “delaying decisions to the last responsible moment”

a. Make value flow without interruption

b. Build incrementally with fast integrated learning cycle.

c. Assume variability, Preserve Options

d. Base Milestone on objective evaluation of working system.

45. SAFe portfolio is a collection of 

a. Solutions

b. Development Value Stream

c. Business Units

d. Functional Teams

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

a. To take into account sunk cost

b. To limit WIP.

c. To understand solution tradeoffs.

d. To recover money already spent.

47. User Business Value and Time Criticality are the components of what ?

a. Feature acceptance Criteria

b. Product vision

c. Cost of Delay

d. Story Point Estimation.

48. Why do Business Owners assigns business value to Team PI Objectives

a. To empower team to make decisions around value.

b. To override the decisions made in WSJF prioritization

c. To determine what the team should do first

d. To ensure team do not works on architectural Enabler.

49. What else does the SAFe principle, unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers, require besides purpose and mission?

a. Transparency

b. Incentive-based compensation

c. Autonomy

d. Innovation

50. Which statement applies to uncommitted objectives ?

a. They are extra things teams can do if they have time

b. They are counted when calculating load

c. They are items the team has high confidence in

d. They are included in commitment.

51. What is “Precisely Specify Value by product” central to

a. Agile Manifesto.

b. SAFe Core Values.

c. Lean Thinking.

d. SAFe Principles.

52. Which Lean Budget Guardrail helps ensure the appropriate allocation of budget to opportunities with long term strategy and growth ?

a. Apply Capacity Allocation.

b. Guiding investment by horizon

c. Continuous Business Owner engagement

d. Approving significant initiatives.

53. A confidence vote is taken at the end of PI Planning after dependencies are resolved and risks are addressed. What best describes the process of the confidence vote

a. Each Person Votes

b. The Business Owners votes

c. The team and ART votes.

d. The Manager votes

54. Which SAFe Lean Agile principle includes the emphasis on “deliver early and ofter” ?

a. Build incrementally with fast integrated Learning cycle

b. Make value flow withoutinterruption

c. Take an economic view.

55. The primary goal of SAFe is to achieve

a. Business Agility

b. LPM

c. Customer Centricity

56. What is used to brainstorm potential Portfolio future state

a. KPI and Lean Budget guardrails

b. Epics and Enablers

c. SWOT and TOWS 

57. What represents the workflow, activities and automation needed to deliver new functionality frequently

a. The continuous delivery pipeline.

b. The PI Planning process

c. The portfolio Kanban

58. Which SAFe Core value includes “use common terminology” and “understand your customer”

a. Respect for People

b. Alignment

c. Relentless improvements

59. What is the focus of Lean Thinking ?

a. Implementing objective measure of Progress.

b. Ensuring respect for people and culture

c. Reducing delays

d. Moving to an iterative development process

60. How does SAFe describes customer Centricity

a. As a set of practices employed to make product focused 

b. As a mindset focused on customer behaviour that produces the best innovation

c. As a strategy to meet the need of everchanging market

61. Which implementation step follows Coach ART execution on SAFe implementation Roadmap ?

a. Launch more ARTS and Value Streams

b. Organise around value

c. Train executives and leaders

d. Acclerate

62. What are Lean Portfolio Management, Agile Product Delivery and Lean Agile Leadership ?

a. SAFe Core Competencies

b. SAFe Lean Agile Principle

c. Agile Values

d. Steps in Business Agility Value Stream.

63. Deploy, verify, monitor and respond are all activities of what ?

a. Release on demand

b. Continuous Deployment

c. Continuous Exploration

d. Continuous Integration