SAFe Scaled Agile For Enterprise Certification Exam
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1. Actively Lean principle of product development flow. 14. Are stories No
manage #2. Understand Little's Law. Control wait times planned for queues by controlling queue lengths the IP? 2. Agile Early value delivery drives first to market, fast 15. Are stretch No. This makes it more reliable. Unknowns benefits feedback, profitability, makes money faster, objectives should be moved here reduces risk, delivers better fit for purpose included in the 3. Agile drivers Value and quality driven, the vision creates commitment? in the feature estimates, fix the dates and float the triangle. scope 16. Are User No. They are a statement of intent and Stories negotiable 4. Agile values: Over contract negotiation requirements? customer collaboration 17. Control flow Lean principle of product development flow. under #6. Cadence + Synchronization. Cadence 5. Agile values: Over processes and tools uncertainty transforms unpredictable events into Individuals predictable events, requires scope or and capacity margin, makes waiting times interactions predictable, helps manage load by limiting 6. Agile values: Over following a plan available time. Regular systemwide responding integration provides higher fidelity tests and to change objective solution assessment 7. Agile values: Over comprehensive documentation 18. Decentralized Lean principle of product development flow. working control #8. Centralize control for decisions that are software infrequent and can be applied globally, 8. Apply WIP Lean principle of product development flow. have significant economies of scale or high- constraints #5. WIP constraints force capacity matching, risk. Decentralized control for time critical, increases flow. Time box, purge lower value local decisions projects when WIP is too high, constrain local 19. Define It supports emergent design intentionally WIP pools, make WIP continuously visible. decentralized High WIP and utilization cause reduction architectural throughput decision 9. Architectural Design spikes, emergent design, refactoring making runway is modeling, test automation 20. Define SAFe Scrum Master is a part time role assumed by assisted by? Scrum Master a developer, tester, project manager or 10. Architectural Incrementally, validated early and often, role other skilled individual runway is provides "just enough" 21. Describe an Empowered, self organizing, self managing, built... Agile team cross functional, deliver fully tested code 11. Are defects Yes. Defects are included in the team backlog every two weeks estimated? 22. Describe a Self organizing, self managing team of Agile 12. Are NFR No. But the are constraints SAFe team teams, continuous value delivery, aligned to backlog that is scaled a common mission via a single program items? to program backlog level 13. Are Sprint Yes. Sprint goals are mandatory in Scrum and goals SAFe 23. Describe how Using Lean approaches to strategy and madatory in SAFe is investment funding, program management, Scrum and scaled to the and governance. Centralized strategy and SAFe? portfolio decentralized execution. Objective metrics level. support governance and kaizen 24. Does ART value No. ART is based on cross- 40. How doe we come up with By aggregating each team's PI follow organizational functional, self organized teams that Program PI objectives? silos? define, build and test a feature to 41. How do features deliver? Business benefits deliver value 42. How do program level In features and benefits 25. Does each train have Yes. One for each train safe teams deliver value? a budget? 43. How do teams limit WIP? Committing only to work that 26. Does SAFe require Yes fits their sprint use of Sprint goals? capacity/velocity 27. Everybody tests... Everybody codes 44. How do you prioritize Using WSJF 28. Examples of NFR? Reliability, usability, scalability, features for optimal ROI? maintainability 45. How is a feature As a phrase 29. Formula for WSJF? COD / Duration (job size) expressed? 30. Four SAFe business Increased employee engagement, 46. How is a team's estimating Using relative estimating and results 20-50% increase in productivity, 30- done? normalizing story points 70% faster time to market, 50% 47. How is portfolio epic Via one or more ARTs defect reduction implemented? 31. Get fast feedback Lean principle of product 48. How is Program Epic via one ART. Can be multi PI development flow. #7. Product implementes development is the process of converting uncertainty to knowledge. 49. How is value expressed? In terms of benefits Fast feedback accelerates 50. How long is a system One hour knowledge demo? 32. House of Lean Goal: Value Foundation: Leadership, 51. How long is the I&A 3-4 hours Respect for People and Culture, 52. How long is the I&A time 3-4 hours per PI Development Flow, Innovation, box ? Relentless Improvement 53. How long is the release Two days 33. How are features They are identified, prioritized, planning meeting for handled? estimated, and maintained on the ART? program backlog 54. How long is the SoS time 15-30 min followed by a 34. How are program Using WSJF box? problem solving meeting backlog features prioritized? 55. How long is the Team 30-60 minutes Sprint Retrospective? 35. How are Program They are split into features in the Epics handled? program backlog. May require 56. How often does release One per week budget approval and lightweight management meet? business case 57. How often is release Every 8-12 weeks 36. How can we align to Using PI objectives we can align to a planning done for ART? a mission in the mission 58. How often is the inspect Every 10 weeks release planning? and adapt in an ART? 37. How doe an Agile The Teams determine what and how 59. How often is the SoS Weekly minimum f3or 1 hour approach differ from to build their elements of the traditional manager solution 60. How often is the team Every two weeks to employee demo in the ART? directed approach? 38. How does an Agile In user stories team deliver value? 39. How does portfolio In business and architectural epics level SAFe deliver value? 61. How to With cadence based objective measures 74. Planning is Lean principle of product development flow. accomplish PPM of working code with customer feedback for alignment #9. There is more value created with overall governance? alignment than with local excellence. Agile aims to change the plan when something 62. How to ensure Plan for capacity and resources, add changes that architectural work to program backlog runway is built 75. Portfolio All ARTS continuously? level NFRs apply to...? 63. How to estimate Involve the team, use modified Fibonacci, the components give always 1 value first in the column 76. Principles of Emergent design, intentional architecture, of CoD? Agile architectural runway Architecture? 64. How to handle a Create items to implement or evolve NFR in backlog? them 77. Product Lean principle. 1. Take an economic view. 2. development Actively manage queues. 3. Understand and 65. How to identify Find the kidney flow exploit variability. 4. Reduce batch sizes. 5. a Value Stream Apply WIP constraints. 6. Control flow to build one or under uncertainty; cadence and more trains? synchronization. 7. Get feedback as fast as 66. If you only Cost of delay possible. 8. Decentralized control quantify one 78. Program level System as a whole thing quantify? NFRs apply to 67. Inputs to Vision, Roadmap, top 10 features, ..? Release business context 79. Program PI By teams (not for) Planning event? objectives are 68. Is ART cadence No. Synchronize with cadenence to set? without assure delivery. 80. Reduce Batch Lean principle of product development flow. synchronization Size #4. Smaller batches go through the system enough? faster, with lower variability and risk. Large 69. Is daily Scrum a No. It happens afterwards batch sizes and high utilization increase problem solving variability, causing project slippage. Co- meeting? location and good infrastructure enable 70. Kaizen Lean principle,. We can do small batches better.Reflection, continuous improvement 81. Respect for Lean principle, your customer is whoever as an enterprise value People consumes your work. Develop individuals 71. Leadership Lean foundation, management is trained, and teams, empower teams, build take responsibility, develop people partnerships based on trust and mutual respect 72. Lean Goal Speed, quality, value. sustainably shorted lead time, best quality and value to 82. SAFe core Alignment, Code quality, Transparency, people and society, most customer values program execution delight, lowest cost, high morale, safety 83. SAFe Release on demand 73. Outputs from Team SMART objective, PI Plan, one of principle: Release confidence to objectives Develop on Planning event? cadenence...? 84. Should there Ideally, no be dependencies between value streams? 85. Take an Lean principle of product development 97. What are Behaviors of the system that directly fulfill economic view flow. #1. Base your decisions on features? some user need economics. The goal is to optimize the 98. What are They facilitate reliability, program time from concept to cash innovation and increment readiness, planning and 86. Team level NFRs Feature or component in team's domain planning IP innovation apply to...? Sprints? 87. Team objectives Features, aggregation of a set of 99. What are inputs Establis velocity, agree on Sprint goals, features, milestones, architectural feature, to team sprint estimate stories, acceptance criteria, tasks, major refactoring iteration commit planning? 88. To prioritize Cost of Delay and what is the cost to based on Lean implement the valuable thing 100. What are NFRs? System qualities which support end user economics we functionality and system goals need to know 101. What are Brief summaries in business terms of what two things that objectives? each team intends to deliver in the are? upcoming PI 89. Understand and Lean principle of product development 102. What are They carry large initiatives into program exploit variability flow. #3. Risk taking is central to value program epics? backlog split portfolio epics for creation implementation 90. What are 3 Story board, Daily standup, Burn down 103. What are Central role in strategy and investment methods that a chart Program funding, program management, Team can track Portfolio governance status and Management progress? (PPM) 91. What are 3 parts PI demo, Quantative measurement (team responsibilities? of the I&A? self assessment against PI objectives) 104. What are SAFe Understand ART objectives, budget, Problem solving workshop PM develop vision roadmap, PgM Backlog, 92. What are 6 Agile Agile Architecture, Continious responsibilities? acceptance criteria, releases and PI software quality Integration, Test First, Refactoring, Pair 105. What are some Solution manager, systems engineer, PgM, best practices? Work, Collective ownership potential BA 93. What are Coordinate with other Scrum Masters, organization additional scrum the System Team, and Shared Resources roles to find a master in the ART Release Planning Meetings. PM responsibilities Preparation for Release Planning and 106. What are Strategic themes, portfolio backlog, for ART? Inspect and Adapt sources for customer, PM, architect and team input 94. What are ART Frequent, periodic planning, dates and vision planning quality are fixed, scope floats, 107. What are Could be technical spikes or functional principles? decentralized scope and schedule Spikes? spikes. Can be used for analysis, design planning, continuous integration of all out to try to type an idea. Spikes are teams on ART, system demo every two demonstrable like any other story and weeks included in the demo 95. What are Rolling wave briefings, vision doc, 108. What are They provide reliability and guard common formats preliminary data sheet, draft press stretch bandwidth for the vision? release objectives? 96. What are Senior Projec Manager, Solution 109. What are team's Team PI Objectives often will map directly examples of Architect PI objectives? to the features but not always additional roles needed for 110. What are Team Team business objectives for the sprint, 1- coordination Sprint Goals? 2 sentences above the trains? 111. What are the 3 card, conversation, confirmation Cs for a user story? 112. What are the 3 Working software, System Increment, 124. What are the The key stakeholders on the Agile parts of SAFe Release Business Owner's Release Train definition of responsibilities in done? the ART?' 113. What are the 5 Limit the accumulation of variance, 125. What are the Business value, Time critically, Risk principles of provide sufficient capacity margin, make components of reduction cadence waiting times predictable, enable small CoD? batch, use frequent meetings 126. What are the Create and refine user stories and 114. What are the 5 Exploit economies of scale, capacity developer or tester acceptance criteria, define - build - principles of margin, facilitate cross-functional trade responsibilities in test and deliver stories, develop and synchronization? offs, reduce queues, integrate and the Agile team? commit to team PI objectives and evaluate Sprint plans 115. What are the Systems validation and documentation 127. What are the inputs Vision and top ten features additional to the ART release activities of the planning process? release? 128. What are the key Constant communication, daily 116. What are the Define and accept stories, act as the elements of a synchronization, define build test Agile team customer for developer questions, work successful Sprint? stories serially, code quality, Product Owner with product management to plan managing WIP responsibilities? releases 129. What are the Team and PI objectives, and program 117. What are the Prep and participation in Release outputs from the board areas of PO Planning, Sprint execution, ART release responsibility? Programexecution, I&A planning process? 118. What are the They help with splitting, estimating, 130. What are the Story Points benefits of tasking and testing portfolio Epic size acceptance estimate unit? criteria in Sprint 131. What are the Changes t o business priorities, plan, planning? possible changes scope, movement of stories or people 119. What are the Customer satisfaction, predictability, presented in the benefits of code and integrity of development, release planning quality? scalability, higher velocity and day first session? performance, ability to innovate 132. What are the DevOps, UX, System Architect, RTE 120. What are the Always current code base increases shared teams in benefits of program velocity Agile Release continious Train? integration? 133. What are the Portfolio epics, large local team 121. What are the Increases accuracy by including all sources of Program scope benefits of perspectives, builds understanding, Epics? estimating in the creates shared commitment 134. What are the team Scrum team? levelAgile project 122. What are the They provide clarity, commitment, and management benefits of Sprint management information Pratices based on Goals? in SAFe? 123. What are the Improve velocity, quality and scaling 135. What are the three Align team members to a common benefits of test key benefits of purpose; Align program teams to a automation? Team Sprint Goal? common PI objectives; Manage dependencies; Provide continuous management information 136. What are the three Transparency, alignment, program 152. What does test Continuous system wide integration, key benefits of Team execution automation team velocity and development Sprint Goals? support? efficiency 137. What are the three PI demo, quantitative 153. What does the Program board visualizes Features, parts of I&A? measurement, problem solving program board WIP, dependencies divided into workshop visualize? sprints by team 138. What are the two parts Teams agree to do everything I 154. What do the They are only estimates and do not of a teams SAFe their power to meet the committed estimates in the imply committed delivery commitments? objectives, of immediately escalate program backlog for corrective action mean? 139. What are the two parts The major themes portfolio intent; 155. What happens after Review of the remaining program risks of a Value Stream? the whole picture from concept to all PI release plans and impediments cash have been presented? 140. What are the two test Test Driven Development, methods? Acceptance Test Driven 156. What happens Teams compare plans vs actual PI Development during I&A objectives quantitative 141. What builds up the Architectural features measurement / architectural runway? program 142. What consumes the Business features performance Architectural runway? reporting? 143. What do business Economic prioritization of the 157. What happens in Business Owner adding business benefits impact? feature, and are consist met with day 2 - during the value to release objectives, team key strategic themes am breakout #2? finalize PI plan, consolidates program 144. What do business Assign business value to release risks, impediments and dependencies, owners do in the team objectives and stretch objectives breakout 2 of release 158. What happens in Teams use root cause analysis to planning? the I&A Problem systematically address larger 145. What does a story Single number for volume, Solving Workshop? impediments that are limiting velocity point represent? complexity, knowledge, uncertainty 159. What happens when The story is either accepted to the 146. What does a team Team demos work done in iteration the story is baseline or reworked demo? reviewed by the PO in the Sprint demo? 147. What does Discussion with the user/product Conversationmean I owner and team 160. What has the Program portfolio management the 3 Cs? highest fiduciary decision making 148. What does I&A It shows if achievements are within responsibility in the Rellease predictability acceptable process control band framework? report indicate? 161. What is Agile Every team deserves to see the big 149. What does innovation Opportunity for innovation spikes, Architecture? picture, and are empowered to design include in IP Sprint? hackathons, and infrastructure their part improvements 162. what is a PI demo? Integrated systems solution demo 150. What does Planning Provides cadence based planning include in IP Sprint? and resource flexibility 163. What is Existing code is ready to immediately Architectural support new functionality 151. What does release Make adjustments to scope and Runway? planning Management objectives review and problem 164. What is a roadmap? It guides the delivery of features over solving include? time 165. What is a system Occurs every two week to provide demo? integrated view of all team's work 166. What is a Team User stories, future features, technical 184. What is refactoring? Improved design, code base Backlog? stories, defects, infrastructure work, without changing external system spikes, refractors, and anything else behavior a team needs to do 185. What is release Cadence based release planning 167. What is a team Traditional scrum prescribed planning? meetings are the pacemaker of the demo? ceremony every two weeks Agile Enterprise 168. What is ATTD? Acceptance test driven development. 186. What is release Fist of five for hitting objectives Acceptance of PO approved planning. Confidence functionality vote? 169. What is a value It describes the steps used to 187. What is ROAM? Addressing. Program risks: stream? provide continious flow of a specific Resopved, Owned, Accepted, kind of value to the customer Mitigated 170. What is DoD Definition of Done 188. What is SAFe Working software, system definition of Done? increment, release 171. What is emergent Teams grow the system design as design? user stories require 189. What is shown in the Every story, Spike, Refactor, NFR Team Sprint Demo? 172. What is estimating Estimating poker combines expert poker? opinion, analogy, and disaggregation 190. What is SMART? In Goal setting Specific, for quick but reliable estimates Measurable, Attainable, Relevant Time bound objectives 173. What is FAB? Features and benefit matrix 191. What is SoS? Program coordinates team 174. What is feature Used to prove the value is there dependencies weekly or more acceptance criteria? frequently 175. What is included in Changes to velocity nod load, final 192. What is systems General guidance, system level the final plan review PI objectives with business value, architect role in constraints, integrity, maintainability, agenda? program risk and impediments, Q&A decentralized avoid duplication 176. What is Inspect and It is a routine event which consists of architectural decision Adapt I&A? program demo and retrospective making? 177. What is intentional It fosters team alignment and defines 193. What is TDD? Test Driven Development. Unit Test architecture? architectural runway fail fix 178. What is normalized Normalized story point estimating 194. What is the allocated 10-15% estimation? provides the economic basis for capacity for stretch estimating work within and across objectives I the team programs sprint plan? 179. What is one of the It increases predictability a Business 195. What is the ART Expresses strategic intent, may be major benefits of the benefit program vision? expressed in a variety of forms. Team IP Sprint to the 196. What is the ART Series of features and planned program? roadmap? release dates. commitment is made 180. What is one output Release predictability report only to the next release. Subsequent of I&A program releases are best estimates. performance 197. What is the benefit of It shows the amount of work left to reporting? a Burn Down chart do vs time remaining 181. What is portfolio Strategic themes and epics 198. What is the benefit of Come up with one or two concrete vision? high quality team action items for the next sprint 182. What is product Features retrospective? management 199. What is the benefit of It shows how predictable the train is content authority? Release predictability 183. What is Product Own, define,and prioritize the report? Management's role Program Backlog in the ART? 200. What is the They connect each SAFe software 211. What is the key Authority over how program's benefit of portfolio to the enterprise business responsibility of BO budget is allocated across content strategic strategy Role? and design themes in 212. What is the key Improve deployment readiness SAFe? responsibility of from feature definition all the way 201. What is the Scrum Masters and RTE gain visibility into DevOps role? to the point were users actually benefit of the progress and impediments benefit SoS? 213. What is the key Responsible for scheduling and 202. What is the It provides the true measure of progress responsibility of governing releases benefit of the by showing working software Release Management Team Sprint Team role? Demo? 214. What is the key Content authority for the train 203. What is the Understand the complete workflow and responsibility of the benefit of identify non-value add steps to remove PM? using flowchart waste 215. What is the key Chief Scrum Master for the train diagrams with responsibility of the Value Stream RTE role analysis? 216. What is the key Helps teams efficiently implement 204. What is the Where are we headed with this solution, responsibility of the stakeholder needs content vision? what problem does it solve, features and System Architect benefits, to who, NFR role? 205. What is the Iterations are synchronized, estimating is 217. What is the key to Job sequencing difference that normalized, code quality is reemphasized, economic outcomes in SAFe brings to iteration planning is already seeded with a flow system? the Agile stories from Release Planning and teams Team? collaborate on systems level demos 218. What is the last Management review and problem activity of release solving 206. What is the Teams and Business Owner peer review planning day 1? final plan all final plans review - in 219. What is the last Retrospective release activity of release planning day planning day 2? 2? 220. What is the only true Team and system demo 207. What is the Features are those behaviors of the measure of team and function of system that directly fulfill some user need. program velocity? features in the 221. What is the physical 60 feet program limit of effective backlog? collocation? 208. What is the Function as scope margin 222. What is the primary Working software exists and it fits function of Agile metric its intended purpose stretch 223. What is the Principle There is more value created with objectives in of alignment? overall alignment the local the team excellence sprint? 224. What is the principle Continuously integrate assets, 209. What is the key Program priorities of Continious leaving as a little as possible to driver for the integration? the systems team Team backlog? 225. What is the principle Each change made is tested 210. What is the key They carry centralized initiatives of refactoring? immediately to verify the correct function of accomplishment of the desired Epics? goal 226. What is the product User stories 244. What is the 10 weeks owner's content authority? typical ART program 227. What is the purpose of Fund Agile release trains every increment Lean Agile budgeting? 6 months and not projects no time box? stops 245. What is the One PM to four PO 228. What is the purpose of Drive out risk and uncertainty typical ratio Spikes? of product 229. What is the purpose of Define and commit to what management team Sprint planning? will be built in the time box to product 230. What is the purpose of the It holds the epics that made it owners? portfolio backlog? thru Kanban, approved for 246. What is the 5-12 teams 50-125 people implementation typical size 231. What is the purpose of the It manages the flow of epics of an Agile portfolio Kanban system? Release Train 232. What is the real value of a Why the end users are release? successfully using the 247. What is the Provides estimating buffer for meeting team's software use of objectives; a dedicated time for I&A and innovation Release Planning activities; innovation; k on 233. What is the relationship of One SAFe portfolio to a and Planning the technical infrastructure, tooling and other portfolio to business unit? business unit IP Sprint? impediments' time for backlog refinement 234. What is the Release Train The Chief Scrum Master for and final validation for release. Engineer's role in ART? the train. 248. What is the It communicates strategic intent 235. What is the responsibility They define and analyze Epics vision? of an Epic owner? and move those to selected 249. What is used Prototyping and modeling implementation to support 236. What is the result of Sprint Sprint goals and backlog of architectural Planning meeting? team's commitment decisions? 237. What is the result of the A committed set of program 250. What is Weighted Shortest Job First ART release planning objectives for the next PI WSJF? meeting? 251. What makes They are independent, cross functional, self 238. What is the role of release Responsible for scheduling a good Agile organizing, self managing, define, build, test management? and governing the release team? code, optimized for communication to 239. What is the single most Alignment is the single most deliver value every two weeks. Team size 7 important goal of the imports oak of the release +/- 2 release planning event? planning event 252. What Problem solving meeting 240. What is the Skunk Cost Don't consider money already meeting principle? spent happens at the end of 241. What is the System's Provide architectural guidance SoS? Architect role in ART? and technical enablement to the teams on the train. 253. What Who does what with the system, and why do question they do it 242. What is the Systems team Provide process and tools to does a User role in the Art? integrate and evaluate assets Story early and often answer? 243. What is the Team role in Emergent design, decentralized decision development contributes making? runway, improve refactoring techniques 254. What to do if an Epic is not aligned Pull it out from the 274. Who hosts the system demo? System team with the strategic theme? portfolio backlog 275. Who is responsible for PM 255. What we need to consider if Number, scope and developing the vision and additional roles are needed above dependencies of roadmap? trains? the trains 276. Who is responsible for running PM 256. When does the preparation for the In Sprint Planning the system demo? Team Sprint Demo take place? 277. Who is responsible for running PO 257. When is acceptance criteria defined? During program the team sprint demo? backlog refinement 278. Who is responsible for the PM has feature authority, 258. When is the system demo? After team sprint Architectural Runway? and systems architect has demos, max lag design authorization one sprint 279. Who is the content authority PM 259. When is the Team backlog I the middle of the for the train refinement meeting? Sprint 280. Who normally leads PI demo PM and the system team 260. When nothing is equal... Do the WSJF first in I&A 261. When one train can realize a Value If it can be 281. Who owns the feature Program Management Stream? implemented by priorities in the ART release 50-125 people planning? 262. When the cost of delay is equal... Do the shortest job 282. Who owns the story planning Development team first and high level estimates in the ART release planning? 263. When the time is equal... Do the highest CoD first 283. Who participates in the SoS? Release Train Engineer, scrum Masters, system 264. Where can we find information on Company website, team representative the company's strategic theme? annual report, press release 284. Who presents the SWOT in the The Executive release planning event? 265. Where is the architectural runway At the boundary on located in SAFe? the program level 285. Who presents the vision, Program Manager feature and benefits in the 266. Which activities are not optional in Inspect and Adapt release planning event? SAFe and in Team's PI Sprint? and Release Planning activities 286. Who represents the business The Executive context in the release 267. Who are included in estimating Team members. planning event? poker? The PO participates but does not 287. Who should not create Managers, Architect, estimate estimates for the team Select Group backlog? 268. Who are the intermediaries for Architects and UX governance, interfaces, and 288. Who will attend the Team Team level stakeholders dependencies in the ART release Sprint Demo? planning? 289. Why Business Owner (BO) will To show priority in 269. Who conducts the SoS in the release Release Train assign value points to PI planning, show progress planning event? Engineer objectives in Release Planning after the PI 270. Who decides when to release? Release 290. Why does acceptance criteria They reflect functional management team contain? requirements and system qualities 271. Who facilitates and kicks off the Release Train release planning event? Engineer 291. Why should we work in value To ensure that IT and streams? Business work together to 272. Who fills in the lightweight business The business epic accomplish customer case for epics? owner with help value from the team 273. Who gives the planning guidance in Release Train the release planning event? Engineer 292. You can't scale... Crappy code