Where we are in the age of software and digital?
- A . Installation Period
- B . Turning Point
- C . Deployment Period
- D . Exploration Period
The primary goal of SAFe is to achieve what?
- A . Organizing around value
- B . Lean Portfolio Management
- C . Business Agility
- D . Customer centricity
The primary need for SAFe is to scale the idea of what?
- A . Technical Solution Delivery
- B . Organizational and Functional Alignment
- C . Lean Portfolio Management
- D . Business Agility
What is the ultimate goal of SAFe?
- A . Faster Delivery
- B . Servant Leadership
- C . Delivering Continuous Value
- D . Functional Teams
What is Business Agility?
- A . Applying Lean-Agile principles and practices to the specification, development, deployment, operation, and evolution of the world’s largest and most sophisticated systems.
- B . 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 opportunities.
- C . A customer-centric approach to defining, building, and releasing a continuous ow of valuable products and services to customers and users.
- D . The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business Solutions.
Achieving the business agility using SAFe requires?
- A . The network
- B . The hierarchy
- C . The dual operating system
Restoring the speed and innovation of the entrepreneurial network while leveraging the stability of the hierarchical system is a benefit of what?
- A . Dual operating system
- B . Customer centricity
- C . Continuous learning culture
- D . Functional silos
How does SAFe recommend using a second operating system to deliver value?
- A . Organize development around the flow of value while maintaining the hierarchies
- B . Build a small entrepreneurial network focused on the Customer in place of the existing hierarchies
- C . Decide whether to apply a hierarchical or Value Stream organizational model across the Enterprise
- D . Reorganize the hierarchies around the flow of value
How does SAFe provide a second operating system that enables Business Agility?
- A . By achieving economies of scale
- B . By focusing on customers, products, innovation, and growth
- C . By building up large departments and matrixed organizations to support rapid growth
- D . By creating stability and hierarchy
What are the top two reasons for adopting Agile in an organization? (Choose two.)
- A . Accelerate product delivery
- B . Reduce changes
- C . Centralize decision-making
- D . Enable changing priorities
- E . Reduce project cost
What are the top two reasons for adopting Agile in an organization? (Choose two.)
- A . Increase predictability by reducing changes
- B . Reduce risk by centralizing decision-making
- C . Enhance ability to manage changing priorities
- D . Accelerate product delivery, Reduce project cost
What is one issue when organizing around hierarchical functions?
- A . It moves the decision to where the information is
- B . It reduces political tensions
- C . It creates Agile business teams
- D . It hinders the value flow
What is one issue when organizing around functional silos?
- A . They impede how value flows
- B . Operational activities are not included
- C . They do not provide development opportunities for employees
- D . Corporate responsibilities are not a focus
Which SAFe Configuration provides the benefit of all seven core competencies?
- A . Essential
- B . Large Solution
- C . Portfolio
- D . Full
Which is NOT an element of SAFe Foundation?
- A . Lean-Agile Mindset
- B . Core Values
- C . SAFe Principles
- D . Core Competencies
Which is NOT a SAFe measurement to evaluate the progress of Business Agility?
- A . Outcomes
- B . Flow
- C . Competency
- D . Demo
What are Lean Portfolio Management, Agile Product Delivery, and Lean-Agile Leadership?
- A . Agile values
- B . SAFe Lean-Agile Principles
- C . SAFe Core Competencies
- D . Steps in the Business Agility Value Stream
What is the foundation of SAFe core competencies?
- A . Lean-Agile Leadership
- B . Organizational Agility
- C . Continuous Learning Culture
- D . Team and Technical Agility
Which core competency of the Lean Enterprise helps drive Built-In Quality practices?
- A . Team and Technical Agility
- B . DevOps and Release on Demand
- C . Lean Portfolio Management
- D . Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering
Which of the core competencies of the Lean Enterprise helps align strategy and execution?
- A . Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering
- B . Lean Portfolio Management
- C . DevOps and Release on Demand
- D . Team and Technical Agility
What is the dimension of Customer Centricity?
- A . To interpret market rhythms
- B . To understand the Customer’s needs
- C . To build small, partial systems just in time
- D . To design custom-built Customer Solutions
How does SAFe describe customer centricity?
- A . As a set of practices employed to make products focused on the Customer
- B . As a strategy to meet the needs of an ever-changing Customer market
- C . As a mindset focused on Customer behaviors that produce the best innovations
- D . As a way of working to include the Customer in daily work processes and planning
How many dimensions does the Agile product delivery competency have?
- A . two
- B . three
- C . four
- D . five
What are the three dimensions of Lean-Agile Leadership? (Choose three.)
- A . Mindset and principles
- B . Emotional intelligence
- C . SAFe Core Values
- D . Lead by example
- E . Support organizational change
- F . Lead the change
What is one of the dimensions of Lean-Agile Leadership?
- A . Support organizational change
- B . Relentless improvement
- C . Emotional intelligence
- D . Mindset and Principles
What must management do for a successful Agile transformation?
- A . Send someone to represent management, and then delegate tasks to these individuals
- B . Change Scrum Masters in the team every two weeks
- C . Strive to think of adoption as an area they can control
- D . Commit to quality and be the change agent in the system
What is one way Lean-Agile leaders lead by example?
- A . By mastering the Seven Core Competencies of the Lean Enterprise
- B . By modeling SAFe’s Lean-Agile Mindset, values, principles, and practices
- C . By using the SAFe Implementation Roadmap to script the path for change
- D . By applying empathic design and focus on Customer Centricity
Lifelong learning is a requirement for Lean-Agile Leaders, and it helps them do what?
- A . Provide the personnel, resources, direction, and support to the Enterprise
- B . Act as an effective enabler for teams
- C . Demonstrate the values they want the teams to embody
- D . Commit to quality and productivity
Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
- A . Customer collaboration over a constant indefinite pace
- B . Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- C . Customer collaboration over Feature negotiation
- D . Customer collaboration over ongoing internal conversation
Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
- A . Responding to a plan over responding to customer collaboration
- B . Responding to a plan over responding to change
- C . Responding to change over following a system
- D . Responding to change over following a plan
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
Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
- A . Respond to change
- B . Respect for people and culture
- C . Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
- D . Limit work in process
Which statement is a principle of the Agile Manifesto?
- A . Measure everything
- B . SimplicityCthe art of maximizing the amount of work not doneCis essential
- C . Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths
- D . Respect for people and culture
What is the goal of Lean Thinking?
- A . Lean-Agile Leadership as an organizational culture
- B . Deliver maximum Value with the shortest sustainable lead time
- C . Aligning principles and values to a fixed cause
- D . Building a Lean Mindset as opposed to a Fixed Mindset
What is the focus of Lean Thinking?
- A . Ensuring respect for people and culture
- B . Moving to an iterative development process
- C . Implementing objective measures of progress
- D . Reducing delays
What is “precisely specify value by specific product” central to?
- A . Lean Thinking
- B . SAFe Principles
- C . Agile Manifesto
- D . SAFe Core Values
What are two of the SAFe Core Values? (Choose two.)
- A . Program execution
- B . Transparency
- C . Flow
- D . Culture
- E . Relentless improvement
What is one of the SAFe Core Values?
- A . Flow
- B . Transparency
- C . Culture
- D . Built-in quality
Which SAFe Core Value includes “use common terminology” and “understand your customer”?
- A . Alignment
- B . Respect for People
- C . Relentless Improvement
- D . Transparency
Which SAFe Core Value includes “create trust-based environment” and “learn from mistakes”?
- A . Alignment
- B . Respect for People
- C . Relentless Improvement
- D . Transparency
Which SAFe Core Value includes “build long-term partnership” and “value diversity”?
- A . Alignment
- B . Respect for People
- C . Relentless Improvement
- D . Transparency
Which SAFe Core Value focuses on the Customer being the consumer of the work?
- A . Alignment
- B . Respect for People
- C . Relentless Improvement
- D . Transparency
Which SAFe Core Value includes “build problem-solving culture” and “reflect and adapt”?
- A . Alignment
- B . Respect for People
- C . Relentless Improvement
- D . Transparency
Which SAFe Core Value Learning and Growth?
- A . Alignment
- B . Respect for People
- C . Relentless Improvement
- D . Transparency
How can trust be gained between the business and technology?
- A . Maintain Iterations as a safe zone for the team
- B . Release new value to production every day
- C . Deliver predictably
- D . Automate the delivery pipeline
Which SAFe Lean-Agile Principle includes an emphasis on “deliver early and often”?
- A . Take an economic view
- B . Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
- C . Organize around value
- D . Make value flow without interruptions
SAFe’s first Lean-Agile Principle includes “Deliver early and often” and what else?
- A . Decentralize decision-making
- B . Apply cadence
- C . Apply systems thinking
- D . Apply a Comprehensive Economic Framework
When basing decisions on economics, how are lead time, product cost, value and development expense used?
- A . To take into account sunk costs
- B . To recover money already spent
- C . To limit work in process (WIP)
- D . To understand solution tradeoffs
Which is an aspect of system thinking?
- A . Mastery drives intrinsic motivation
- B . Optimizing a component does not optimize the whole system
- C . Cadence makes routine that which is routine
- D . The length of the queue impacts the wait time
You’re working on a complex multi-component software project and would like to control the variability of the development process.
What SAFe mechanism can you employ?
- A . Integration points
- B . Stand-up meetings
- C . Detailed upfront planning
- D . Decentralized decision making
What is the principal advantage of using objective evaluation of working systems as milestones in the Scaled Agile Framework?
- A . Centralized decisions regarding design and requirements
- B . Increased system performance
- C . Significantly lower solution bug rate
- D . Risk mitigation
In the Kanban boards some steps have work in process (WIP) limits.
Why is this necessary?
- A . To enable multitasking
- B . To ensure large queues are not being built
- C . To help Continuous Deployment
- D . To keep timebox goals
Which statement is true about batch size?
- A . Large batch sizes limit the ability to preserve options
- B . When stories are broken into tasks it means there are small batch sizes
- C . Large batch sizes ensure time for built-in quality
- D . When there is flow it means there are small batch sizes
Which statement is true about batch size?
- A . When Stories are broken into tasks it means there are small batch sizes
- B . The handoff batch should be made as large as possible
- C . Large batch sizes ensure time for built-in quality
- D . Large batch sizes increase variability
If small batches go through the system faster with lower variability, then which two statements are true about batch size? (Choose two.)
- A . Good infrastructure enables large batches
- B . Proximity (co-location) enables small batch size
- C . Batch sizes cannot influence our behavior
- D . Severe project slippage is the most likely result of large batches
- E . Low utilization increases variability
You’re managing a team that has embodied SAFe. It takes about 5 days for each of your internal clients’ requests for a feature to be answered by the development lead and, on average, only about 2 days to implement a feature. The testing team also takes another day, but the handover from development to testing takes two days per feature request.
What’s the immediate SAFe tip you would implement to ensure that value is delivered sooner?
- A . Remove, or minimize, the implementation time.
- B . Remove the development lead and educate a self-organizing team.
- C . Have the developers carry out the testing of their own work and remove the testing team completely.
- D . Remove, or minimize, the request wait time and the testing handover time.
SAFe is a flow-based system.
Which is not a property of a flow system?
- A . Batch
- B . Queue
- C . Work in process (WIP)
- D . Retro
What should the team focus on to optimize flow?
- A . Cost
- B . Requests
- C . Delays
- D . Results
Optimizing flow means identifying what?
- A . Key performance indicators
- B . Delays
- C . Predictability issues of the train
- D . Activities that lack innovation
What are the three flow accelerators for making value flow without interruptions? (Choose three.)
- A . Reduce Queue Length
- B . Frequent context switching
- C . Increase capacity
- D . Address the systemic problems
- E . Work in Smaller Batches
- F . Visualize and limit work in process (WIP)
When using the Scaled Agile Framework, what is one benefit of adding synchronization to the cadence of multiple teams?
- A . System-wide development variability is reduced to zero
- B . System-wide demos are possible since all the team demos happen at the same time
- C . Each team will work faster since they all start at the same time
- D . Overall work-in-progress is reduced
What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe?
- A . Teams decide their own Iteration length
- B . Teams align their Iterations to the same schedule to support communication, coordination, and system integration
- C . Teams allow batch sizes across multiple intervals
- D . Teams meet twice every Program Increment (PI) to plan and schedule capacity
Peter Drucker defines knowledge workers as individuals who know more about the work they perform than who?
- A . Their coworkers
- B . Their team
- C . Their organization
- D . Their bosses
What else does the SAFe principle, unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers, require besides purpose and minimum possible constraints?
- A . Transparency
- B . Innovation
- C . Incentive-based compensation
- D . Autonomy
What is one benefit of unlocking the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers?
- A . To centralize decision-making
- B . To provide autonomy with purpose, mission, and minimum constraints
- C . To lower work in process (WIP) limits
- D . To strive to achieve a state of continuous flow
What else does the SAFe Lean-Agile principle, unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers, require besides purpose and autonomy?
- A . Innovation
- B . Transparency
- C . Mastery
- D . Incentive-based compensation
Which is not an extrinsic motivation factor?
- A . Compensation
- B . Recognition
- C . Stacked Ranking
- D . Promotion Opportunities
What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision-making?
- A . Ensuring strategic decisions are not made in a vacuum
- B . Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time
- C . Creating better visualization
- D . Removing accountability from leaders
When should a decision be decentralized?
- A . If it’s long-lasting
- B . If it requires local information
- C . If it provides large economies of scale
- D . If it’s infrequent
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 come with a high cost of delay
- C . Decisions that require local information
- D . Decisions that deliver large and broad economic benefits
- E . Decisions unlikely to change in the short term