According to the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, what is a team’s ultimate competitive advantage?
- A . Transparency
- B . Teamwork
- C . Accountability
What is one example of a servant leader behavior pattern?
- A . Understands and empathizes with others
- B . Focuses on individual task metrics
- C . Thinks about the day-to-day activities
- D . Uses authority rather than persuasion when necessary
Becoming a coach requires a shift from old behaviors to new ones.
What are three examples of old behaviors?
- A . Focusing on deadlines
- B . Focusing on business value delivery
- C . Asking the team for the answers
- D . Driving toward specific outcomes
- E . Fixing problems for the team
- F . Facilitating team problem solving
Features lend themselves to the Lean UX process model. They include a description, benefit hypothesis
- A . Scope and context
- B . Content readiness
- C . Acceptance criteria
- D . IP outcomes
Scrum masters are effective by using scrum methods, supporting safe principles and practices and what else?
- A . Serving as a customer proxy
- B . Writing stories and enablers
- C . Managing architectural runway
- D . Delivering through agile practices
What three attributes summarize DevOps?
- A . A shared culture
- B . A set of technical practices
- C . A high performing devOps team
- D . Strong organizational structure
- E . A mindset
- F . Combined deployment and release
What is the basis for most team conflicts?
- A . Lack of leadership
- B . Ideological differences
- C . Lack of common goals
- D . Unexamined assumptions
An effective SAFe scrum master helps the team improve on their journey towards excellence through continuous integration, continuous development and what else?
- A . Continuous exploration
- B . continuous release
- C . wip limits
- D . state of the art build tools
An effective Safe scrum master is a team-based servant leader who helps the team do what?
- A . manage the team’s own backlog
- B . understand and operate within lean budgets
- C . embrace relentless improvement through iteration retrospectives
- D . develop better and more specialized skill sets
The business must depend on the team for what in order for the business to do any meaningful planning?
- A . a cross-functional skill set
- B . commitment to the plan
- C . measurements
- D . team capabilities
what is the statement describing Agile team continuously adapt to new circumstances and enhance the methods of value delivery
- A . continuous integration
- B . improvement
- C . delivery
- D . deployment
When does the plan-do-check-adjust cycle occur in scrum?
- A . at the iteration review
- B . in the daily scrum
- C . at all formal scrum events
- D . as part of the iteration retrospective
Who commits to the plan at the end of iteration planning?
- A . team
- B . scrum master
- C . product owner
- D . solution owner
A servant leader knows that his or her own growth comes from what?
- A . Management support
- B . Facilitating growth of others
- C . Effective training
- D . Implementing a CALMR approach to SAFe
What are two critical areas that differentiate agile from waterfall dev?
- A . Architectural runway
- B . Staggered integration
- C . Face-to-face interaction
- D . incremental delivery of value
- E . fast feedback
Good coaches do not give people the answer, but instead they do what?
- A . They hold them to their commitments
- B . They make the decisions
- C . They guide people to the solution
- D . they limit the number of questions
What is one time when a scrum master participates but does not necessarily facilitate?
- A . During team breakout sessions at PI planning
- B . If the entire team is present during the daily stand-up
- C . when using ad-hoc teams for inspect and adapt
- D . when the agile release train does not require any team coordination
What is the name of the event where all team members determine how much of the team’s backlog they can commit to delivering during an upcoming iteration?
- A . iteration planning
- B . solution planning
- C . solution demo
- D . backlog refinement
What are two good scrum master facilitation practices?
- A . create an environment of safety so that everyone feels comfortable contributing to the discussion
- B . llow unproductive conflict to encourage open communication
- C . allow for deep meaningful conversations even if it is outside the scope of the agenda
- D . ensure all voices are heard
- E . do not enforce accountability as it creates an environment of distrust
During PI planning, which two tasks are part of the scrum master’s role in the first team breakout?
- A . Provide clarifications necessary to assist the team with their story estimating and sequencing
- B . review and prioritize the team backlog as part of the preparatory work for the second team breakout
- C . Be involved in the program backlog refinement and preparation
- D . identify as many risks and dependencies as possible for the management review
- E . facilitate the coordination with other teams for dependencies
What is the main reason why some teams never reach stage 4 in the stages of high performing teams?
- A . because no one guides them
- B . leadership is spontaneous
- C . team is not structured correctly
- D . there is too much conflict
What is the recommended duration of a SAFe iteration?
- A . 2 weeks
- B . 3 weeks
- C . 4 weeks
- D . it depends
Participating in PI planning enables teams to gain alignment and commitment around a clear set of what?
- A . team dependencies
- B . prioritized objectives
- C . user stories
- D . features and benefits
How are the 3 Whys used?
- A . to identify a root cause of a problem
- B . to brainstorm ideas
- C . to coach a team through powerful questions
- D . to define acceptance criteria for a story
There are two primary aspects of a lean-agile mindset lean thinking and what?
- A . feature enablement
- B . lean systems
- C . systems engineering
- D . embracing agility
In SAFe, who owns the decision for releasing changes into production?
- A . product management
- B . system architect
- C . release train engineer
- D . solution owner
During PI planning who owns the planning of stories into iterations?
- A . Agile teams
- B . product management
- C . system architect
- D . scrum master
Which statement is true about the phase-gate milestone model and risk reduction?
- A . It does not mitigate risk as intended
- B . It creates large batches of requirements
- C . It reduces product increment values
- D . It helps to visualize and limit WIP
A
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/base-milestones-on-objective-evaluation-of-working-systems/
When does the Inspect and Adapt event happen?
- A . At the end of the System Demo
- B . At the end of every two weeks
- C . At the end of the second day of PI Planning
- D . At the end of each PI
D
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/inspect-and-adapt/
Who reviews the top capabilities for the upcoming PI?
- A . Project Manager
- B . Solution Architect/Engineer
- C . Solution Management
- D . Project Owner
C
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/product-and-solution-management/
Why should team members continuously and actively engage with other teams during PI Planning?
- A . To manage dependencies and resolve impediments
- B . To understand how the other team is working
- C . To foster an environment of capacity and velocity
- D . To create a backlog of features the team can adopt
C
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/pi-planning/
What are two Release Train Engineer responsibilities? (Choose two.)
- A . Facilitate PI Planning readiness and the event itself
- B . Understand Customer needs; validate solutions
- C . Drive relentless improvement through Inspect and Adapt
- D . Build an effective Product Owner / Product Manager team
- E . Manage and prioritize the flow of work to the program
A, C
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/release-train-engineer-and-solution-train-engineer/
What anti-pattern can emerge during the Scrum of Scrums?
- A . Scrum Masters bring in risks and impediments for escalation
- B . Scrum Masters work with the Release Train Engineer to resolve risks and impediments
- C . Scrum Masters have a daily 15 minute meet-after with the Release Train Engineer
- D . Scrum Masters report on the teams’ task status each day
D
Explanation:
https://www.agilest.org/scaled-agile/scrum-of-scrums/
What action should be taken on Relentless Improvement Backlog items from the Problem Solving Workshop?
- A . Assign points or prioritization levels
- B . Calculate for cost before continuing
- C . Use as direct input into the PI Planning session that follows
- D . Assign to the team best suited to solve
C
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/inspect-and-adapt/
According to Daniel Pink, which three factors drive motivation and lead to better performance and personal satisfaction? (Choose three.)
- A . Reward
- B . Mastery
- C . Purpose
- D . Recognition
- E . Responsibility
- F . Autonomy
B, C, F
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/unlock-the-intrinsic-motivation-of-knowledge-workers/
What are three Team Retrospective anti-patterns? (Choose three.)
- A . When the Scrum Master decides what the Retrospective topic(s) will be and directs the team on specific improvement items to work on
- B . When the team’s people manager comes in to observe
- C . When only part of the team attends
- D . When the team commits to working on 1-2 improvement items and adds them to the next Iteration Backlog
- E . When the team reviews their interactions during the last Iteration and identifies 1-2 improvement items to work on as a team
- F . When the team reviews their interactions during the last Iteration and identifies 1-2 improvement items for the Product Owner to work on
A, B, C
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/iteration-retrospective/
One of the Scrum Master’s main responsibilities is to communicate with management and outside stakeholders to help the team in what way?
- A . Split bigger work items where necessary
- B . Protect them from uncontrolled addition of work
- C . Manage the Iteration Planning Backlog
- D . Accept stories
B
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/scrum-master/
When developing an Agile Team’s skill set, what skill type is most typical?
- A . E-shaped
- B . T-shaped
- C . M-shaped
- D . I-shaped
B
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/dev-team/
what is an anti-pattern for the IP iteration?
- A . to plan work for the IP iteration during PI planning
- B . to allow for sufficient capacity in the program roadmap
- C . to ensure all stories and teams’ PI plans are completed prior to the IP iteration
- D . to minimize lost capacity when people are on vacation or holidays
- E . to wait for the IP iteration to fix defects
What is the purpose of the plan-do-check-adjust cycle?
- A . To provide regular, predictable dev cadence to produce an increment of value
- B . To give the ART members a process tool to keep the train on the tracks
- C . To create a continuous flow of work to support the delivery pipeline
- D . To allow the team to perform some final backlog refinement for upcoming iteration planning
Which meeting should the Scrum Master attend (not facilitate)?
- A . Iteration Review
- B . Scrum of Scrums
- C . Daily Stand-Up
- D . PO sync
Scrum masters help remove impediments, foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics and what else?
- A . Relentlessly improve
- B . Continuously deliver
- C . Form and re-form teams
- D . Estimate stories
Each PI planning meeting evolves over time, and ending PI planning with a Retrospective will help to do what?
- A . Fine tune the Economic Framework
- B . Meet compliance more rapidly
- C . Lengthen the Architectural Runway
- D . Continuously improve
What is one truth about teams?
- A . Development teams can manage daily interruptions
- B . Products are more robust when individuals on teams have specific skill sets
- C . Changes in team composition do not impact productivity
- D . Teams are more productive than the same number of individuals
Which type of enabler does a System Architect review during a System Demo?
- A . Enabler Capabilities
- B . Enabler Features
- C . Enabler stories
- D . Enabler Portfolio Epics
Who can change the backlog during an iteration?
- A . Agile Team
- B . Scrum master
- C . Release Train Engineer
- D . Senior Management
Which statement is true about scrum?
- A . It is a software technical practice
- B . It is an ideal method for static design requirements
- C . it is based on empirical process control theory
- D . it is a Lean system Engineering technique
What are two common PI planning anti-patterns?
- A . Too much time spent analyzing each story
- B . Too much time spent prioritizing features
- C . Team decides which changes need to happen and when
- D . Part-time scrum masters do not have time to plan as part of the team
- E . Stories are created for the PI planning iterations
What are the three pillars of Scrum?
- A . Agility
- B . Transparency
- C . inspection
- D . adaptation
- E . Courage
Who is responsible for prioritizing the iteration backlog?
- A . Dvelopment Team
- B . Product Owner
- C . Scrum Master
- D . Business Manager
Achieving the goals of Release on Demand requires an understanding of how to decouple what?
- A . The release from deployment
- B . The Iterations Demos
- C . The System Demos
- D . The Project Increment
A
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/continuous-deployment/
What is the value of periodic resynchronization?
- A . Products that are delivered earlier provide more value
- B . WIP is maximized
- C . It causes multiple events to happen serially
- D . It limits variance to a single time interval
D
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/apply-cadence-synchronize-with-cross-domain-planning/
At the System Demo, each team demonstrates their own work but the system is not integrated. They say they underestimated the integration effort, but they cannot integrate every Iteration and meet the planned scope.
What should the Scrum Master suggest?
- A . Integrate the system during the IP Iteration
- B . Stop the Train and go back to waterfall until integration can occur
- C . Defer integration until the train is in the sustain and improve the section of the Implementation Roadmap
- D . Discuss removing scope with product management to allow for continuous integratio
C
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/system-demo/
What are the responsibilities of a Scrum Master on a train that go beyond basic team facilitation? (Choose three.)
- A . Write an estimate features
- B . Manage Daily Stand-up meetings
- C . Facilitate team preparation for PI Planning
- D . Participate in Scrum of Scrums
- E . Facilitate preparation for the System Demo
- F . Prioritize Program Backlog
C, D, E
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/scrum-master/
How do Kanban Teams implement the SAFe Lean-Agile mindset of relentless improvement?
- A . By establishing a Kanban board to visualize the flow of work within Kanban team and aligning with the Program and the rest of the teams
- B . By using Cumulative Flow Diagrams which objectively measure bottlenecks and variation in the flow which could be due to systemic factors
- C . By estimating team velocity and comparing it across Iterations for continuous improvement
- D . By creating Classes of Services and Policies to execute the work in a way that is aligned with Program and Large Solution Levels
B
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/team-kanban/
What is one way to improve the skills of a team member?
- A . Get them to work only on their specialty
- B . Discuss their weaknesses
- C . Pair-work with other team members
- D . Ask them to work alone on something new
C
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/communities-of-practice/
What are three benefits a Community of Practice offers? (Choose three.)
- A . To drive craftsmanship
- B . To provide a series of incremental steps forward through a shared and common framework and for implementing SAFe
- C . To facilitate the adoption of new methods and techniques
- D . To improve the confidence of stakeholders through a shared and common purpose
- E . To provide routine, periodic presentations of the short- and longer-term Vision to the teams
- F . To provide a place to acquire knowledge – WHY NOT THIS ONE
B, C, E
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/communities-of-practice/
Which statement describes how Kanban Teams handle velocity in SAFe during PI Planning?
- A . They need to estimate their velocity in story points
- B . They use throughput as an indication of their velocity
- C . They use cycle time because it is more objective and based on actual timestamps
- D . They participate in scoring Business Value; however, they have a different measure than velocity
B
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/team-kanban/
Where does a team document new practices they want to incorporate into the their collective skill set?
- A . Inspect and Adapt workshop notes
- B . Improvement Roadmap
- C . PI Planning meeting post-meeting notes
- D . Team Iteration Backlog
A
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/iterations/
What is an anti-pattern to motivation?
- A . Maximizing purpose
- B . Individualized compensation
- C . Market disruption
- D . Team goals
B
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/unlock-the-intrinsic-motivation-of-knowledge-workers/
The Development Team may need to learn or acquire new skills. Where is this list of skills found?
- A . As part of the outcome of the PI Planning pre-meeting
- B . In the Improvement Roadmap
- C . As part of the outcome of the Team Retrospective
- D . In the HR Training and Development Plan
C
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/dev-team/
How does a Scrum Master lead a team’s efforts in relentless improvement?
- A . By facilitating a team meeting
- B . By focusing on the Iteration goals
- C . By facilitating the team retrospective
- D . By eliminating impediments
C
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/scrum-master/
Which two actions enhance an Agile Release Train’s performance? (Choose two.)
- A . Team alignment
- B . Reporting
- C . Collaboration
- D . Customer success
- E . Reduction of total costs
A, C
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/agile-release-train/ (Search for team and then search for collab)
What is a recommended story-splitting technique for Agile teams?
- A . Validate design with stakeholders and build the functionality later
- B . Start with the data structure and extend into the business logic and UI
- C . Implement the ‘happy path’ first and the rest of the scenarios afterward
- D . Implement the story UI first and build the business logic later
C
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/story/
The Scrum Master interacts with which level(s) of SAFe?
- A . Portfolio Level
- B . Program Level
- C . Team Level
- D . All Levels
What is the SAFe recommended optimal duration of a PI?
- A . It can be any duration
- B . 2 – 4 weeks
- C . 4 – 8 weeks
- D . 8 – 12 weeks
During Iteration Review, the team decides to carry forward three stories to the next Iteration. This is the second time during this PI that some of the team’s stories are carried over.
What are two actions the Scrum Master should take? (Choose two.)
- A . Coach the team to honor their commitments
- B . Take a ‘wait and see’ approach because the team assures they are still on track for the PI
- C . Discuss the issue at the next Iteration Retrospective
- D . See if the Product Owner is agreeable to moving the stories into the next Iteration
- E . Perform the 5 Whys to find the root cause of all delays
A, E
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/iteration-review/
What is the first step in the Problem-Solving Workshop?
- A . Identify the root causes of possible problems
- B . Create a summary report for leadership and management
- C . Agree on the problem to solve
- D . Record all brainstorming ideas
What is the most effective way to establish built-in quality?
- A . Run performance testing as well as the testing of other non-functional requirements every IP Iteration
- B . Test each release more thoroughly
- C . Perform as many types of testing within the Iteration boundaries as possible
- D . Create more unit tests
C
Explanation:
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/built-in-quality/
An effective SAFe Agile team ensures process visibility to who?
- A . The Release Train Engineer
- B . Stakeholders
- C . The Agile Release Train
- D . Business Owners