What description best represents Capabilities as defined in SAFe?
- A . Capabilities are simply a level of abstraction above Epics, exhibiting largely the same characteristics and practices.
- B . Capability is a different name for Features, one that is preferred by some organizations.
- C . Capabilities are simply a different kind of Epic, exhibiting largely the same characteristics and practices.
- D . Capabilities are simply a level or abstraction above Features, exhibiting largely the same characteristics and practices.
What activity calls for using ROAM technique?
- A . Refining the Program Backlog.
- B . Managing the ART sync.
- C . Categorizing program risks during PI Planning.
- D . Managing teams by the Release Train Engineer.
(Select 2) Why is Architectural Runway important?
- A . It supports a stable velocity.
- B . It provides the documentation on which Features and Capabilities are built.
- C . It iteratively evolves the architecture to meet changing needs.
- D . It allows for nontechnical changes
What is the most effective way to train the System Team members to operate effectively as part of the train?
- A . Have them attend Leading SAFe training and Scrum Master orientation.
- B . Have them attend Leading SAFe training.
- C . Have them attend SAFe for Teams training with all other teams on the train.
- D . Have them attend Implementing SAFe training with SPC certification.
- E . Have them review the SAFe Foundations presentation and provide on-the-job training.
What are the primary responsibilities of Program Portfolio Management (PPM)?
- A . Governance, strategy and investment funding, program management.
- B . Program management, stakeholder management, PI Planning.
- C . Lightweight business case, Epic specification workshop, Budget allocation.
- D . Governance, investment funding, product strategy.
What role would a traditional program manager most likely take on in SAFe?
- A . Release Train Engineer or Value Stream Engineer.
- B . Scrum master
- C . Business Owner
- D . Product Manager
What activity occurs during the program Inspect and Adapt workshop?
- A . PI Predictability Measure update.
- B . Roadmap update
- C . Team Iteration Demo
- D . Biweekly System Demo
- E . Iteration Metrics update
In SAFe, who owns the Vision for a PI?
- A . Product Owner
- B . Business Owners
- C . Scrum Master
- D . COE
- E . Product Management
What are stretch objectives?
- A . Objectives that are beyond the capacity of the team and so are uncommitted for the PI.
- B . Objectives that are part of the team’s capacity but not necessarily achievable during the PI.
- C . Objectives that are identified during the PI.
- D . Objectives that the business has promised to their Customers.
(Select 2) What would you examine when identifying Value Streams in an enterprise moving to SAFe?
- A . The project cost accounting procedures in place.
- B . The internal departments which are supported.
- C . The number of ARTs which would be contained in the Portfolio.
- D . The current products which the company sells.
The portfolio Vision is an aggregation of every Agile Release Train’s Vision?
- A . True
- B . False
(Select 2) What applies to the Portfolio Backlog?
- A . The Portfolio Kanban holds Capabilities that are ready for implementation.
- B . Programs plan PIs so that they exhaust the Portfolio Backlog and only then work on their local priorities.
- C . It provides a low-cost holding area for approved Business and Enabler Epics.
- D . WSJF is used to prioritize Epics in the Portfolio Backlog.
When does the System Demo happen?
- A . After the Solution Demo, but before PI Planning.
- B . After every Iteration.
- C . On demand.
- D . After continuous integration.
- E . After Pre-PI Planning.
Test automation is typically included in the Definition of Done (DoD).
- A . True
- B . False
(Select 2) When might Feature size not be a good substitute for the duration of WSJF?
- A . The Feature did not originate from a Program Epic.
- B . The Feature involves a team or team members who represent a bottleneck.
- C . The Feature did not originate from a Value Stream Capability.
- D . The Feature involves a remote third-party vendor that has a formal scope-approval process.
- E . The Feature has not yet been broken down into user stories by the Product Owner.
(Select 3) Which of the following have acceptance criteria?
- A . Business Capabilities
- B . Portfolio Enabler Epics
- C . Strategic Themes
- D . Enabler Features
- E . Spikes
- F . Program Epics
You organization decided to thoroughly implement the SAFe Principle "Assume variability; preserve options."
What is the optimum path for success?
- A . Assume variability of scope and preserve options for the release date.
- B . Preserve flexibility in system functionality and design, but have fixed Solution intent.
- C . Assume variability of scope, but have fixed Solution Context.
- D . Preserve flexibility in both system functionality and design.
What is the correct statement about Work in Process (WIP).
- A . The bigger the WIP, the richer the feedback.
- B . The amount of WIP is unrelated to utilization.
- C . Lower WIP limits foster collaboration.
What does Little’s Law tells us?
- A . The easiest way achieve flow is to reduce queue lengths.
- B . Long queues help increase process efficiency.
- C . The easiest way to reduce waits is to increase the processing rate.
- D . The average wait time is dependent on the varying arrival rate of items coming into the queue.
- E . Single-piece flow is always best.
The Spanning Palette can apply to the Team Level.
- A . True
- B . False
Every Enabler Capability has an Enabler Epic as its parent.
- A . True
- B . False
ARTs that consist only of Feature teams do not require an Architectural Runway.
- A . True
- B . False
What does the SAFe budgeting model suggest?
- A . Each Strategic Theme receives a budget allocation when Strategic Themes span portfolios.
- B . Epics, Features, and Stories are funded based on their size in normalized Story points, while teams are allocated to high-priority work as needed.
- C . Each Value Stream receives budget allocation as a whole; individual work is not specifically budgeted.
- D . Each team gets budget allocation and Features are funded according to their size in normalized Story points.
What would imply a change to the ART Budget?
- A . Extending the duration of a PI.
- B . Changing total ART resources
- C . Switching to a different PI cadence.
- D . Reducing the scope of a Program Epic.
- E . Prioritizing Features based on Cost of Delay.
Select 3) Which behaviors are typically associated with Lean-Agile Leaders?
- A . Establish clear objectives for managing.
- B . Develop Solutions.
- C . Protect subordinates from interference by outside stakeholders.
- D . Support decentralized decision-making.
- E . Emphasize lifelong learning.
SAFe uses Story points for estimating the size of Stories, Features, Capabilities, and Epics.
- A . True
- B . False
What is Cost of Delay?
- A . Cost incurred when system integration appears too late in the PI.
- B . Opportunity cost and deferred revenue.
- C . Penalty for nonperformance.
- D . Cost of not addressing risk early on.
(Select 4) What are legitimate examples of management as an enabling function, rather than as top-down control?
- A . Assigning backlog items to team members.
- B . Communicating the Solution Vision with the teams.
- C . Working with other departments to establish better communication among teams.
- D . Creating work breakdown structures.
- E . Assigning team members to handle external dependencies.
- F . Developing skills and career paths for team members.
- G . Creating an environment of mutual influence.
Capabilities are similar to Features and can be managed in the Program Backlog.
- A . True
- B . False
(Select 4) Lean-Agile Leaders ______________.
- A . Lead the teams
- B . Proactively eliminate impediments.
- C . Run successful Agile Release Trains.
- D . Facilitate relentless improvement
- E . Embrace the values of Lean.
- F . Manage the most critical day-to-day activities of team members.
(Select 2) What factors favor centralized decision-making?
- A . Infrequent decisions.
- B . Need for fast decision-making.
- C . Economies of scale
- D . Appropriate authority level of the decision maker.
- E . High cost of delay
(Select 2) What are the responsibilities of a Business Owner?
- A . Assign business value to Team Objectives during PI Planning.
- B . Participate in Post-PI Planning and assist trains in adjusting ART PI plans as needed.
- C . Assign business value to Epics and Features.
- D . Ensure that the Solution Demo occurs.
- E . Determine the product Roadmap
If a Value Stream is bigger than the recommended ART size, SAFe recommends splitting it by development process steps and organizing the trains around those steps respectively.
- A . True
- B . False
What does innovation accounting mean?
- A . Capitalizing the cost of software development using Story points.
- B . Defining, empirically measuring, and communicating the true progress of innovation.
- C . Demoing Stories that come out of the IP Iteration.
- D . Being sure to account for the investment in new product initiatives on a P&L.
What are the right scenarios for using SAFe Foundations Training Materials? (Select 2)
- A . Train Scrum Masters in servant leadership following "SAFe for Teams" training.
- B . Make an initial presentation on SAFe to the organization.
- C . Familiarize Release Train Engineers with the PI Planning process.
- D . Familiarize executives with SAFe.
- E . Train the teams prior to PI Planning.
What steps in the Portfolio Kanban are most appropriate for running research spikes? (Select 2)
- A . Analysis-spikes help clarify feasibility.
- B . Implementing-teams perform spikes as usual
- C . Funnel-understand whether the Epic makes sense.
- D . Portfolio Backlog-run a spike before pulling into development.
If all Agile Release Trains in a Value Stream are organized around Capabilities, they don’t require cross-train coordination.
- A . True
- B . False
A Feature inherits its WSJF rank from its parent.
- A . True
- B . False
What is NOT a SAFE-recommended Metric?
- A . Number of lines of code produced.
- B . Number of new test cases automated.
- C . Number of test cases produced.
- D . Percent of unit test coverage.
- E . Percent of user stories accepted by the Product Owner.
- F . Number of defects outstanding.
Select 2) You are prioritizing Epics and the group cannot reach a consensus on WSJF parameters.
What would be the best course of action to reduce inconsistencies?
- A . Collect additional input from other stakeholders.
- B . Take time to provide more detailed specifications for each Epic.
- C . Use strategic themes to help the group understand how an Epic contributes to the realization of the enterprise business strategy.
- D . Change the scale for WSJF parameters.
- E . Split Epics into Capabilities, prioritize them, and combine those priorities back to the Epic level.