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Scaled Agile SP-SAFe-Practitioner SAFe for Teams SP (6.0) - SAFe Practitioner Exam Practice Test

SAFe for Teams SP (6.0) - SAFe Practitioner Questions and Answers

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Question 1

Which of the following roles is responsible for prioritizing the Agile Team Backlog?

Options:

A.

Release Train Engineer

B.

Scrum Master/ Team Coach

C.

Release Manager

D.

Product Owner

Question 2

What is one dimension of the Team and Technical Agility Core Competency?

Options:

A.

Relentless Improvement

B.

Innovation Culture

C.

Built in Quality

D.

Leading by Example

Question 3

Which of the following is a SAFe Lean-Agile Principle?

Options:

A.

Precisely specify value by product

B.

Visualize work

C.

Turn mistakes into learning moments

D.

Organize around value

Question 4

What is used to describe functional and non-functional requirements?

Options:

A.

Milestones

B.

Architectural Runway

C.

Features

D.

Enablers

Question 5

What is one purpose of the System Demo?

Options:

A.

To evaluate the full PI

B.

To introduce new architectural designs

C.

To identify PI Objectives

D.

To demonstrate new functionality

Question 6

Which statement is true about batch size?

Options:

A.

Large batch sizes ensure time for built-in quality

B.

The handoff batch should be made as large as possible

C.

When Stories are broken into tasks, it means there are small batch sizes

D.

Large batch sizes increase variability

Question 7

Which basic Agile quality practice reduces bottlenecks & ensures consistency?

Options:

A.

Definition of Done

B.

Peer-review and pairing

C.

Collective ownership and standards

D.

Establish flow

Question 8

Which of the following Agile Team responsibilities is associated with the Iteration Retrospective?

Options:

A.

Improve relentlessly

B.

Apply systems thinking

C.

Take an economic view

D.

Connect to the customer

Question 9

What is one benefit of Story acceptance criteria?

Options:

A.

To provide Story details from a deployment point of view

B.

To provide Story details from a designer point of view

C.

To provide Story details from a release-planning point of view

D.

To provide Story details from a testing point of view

Question 10

Which statement describes the information within a Story?

Options:

A.

A Story provides just enough information for the intent to be understood by both business and technical people

B.

A Story is written in full detailed specifications so that the work is ready to be implemented immediately

C.

No further conversation is required after the Story is identified because it contains all necessary details

D.

Story acceptance criteria must be finalized before beginning Iteration Planning

Question 11

What type of information can be easily seen in a cumulative flow diagram?

Options:

A.

Time to complete a Feature

B.

Team capacity

C.

Work in process across the team

D.

The number of defects that escape to production

Question 12

What is the focus of Lean Thinking?

Options:

A.

Reducing delays

B.

Implementing objective measures of progress

C.

Ensuring respect for people and culture

D.

Moving to an iterative development process

Question 13

What does a program board help teams identify?

Options:

A.

Program-level risks

B.

Dependencies between teams

C.

Each teams tasks

D.

Work breakdowns

Question 14

What is one of the biggest benefits of decentralized decision-making?

Options:

A.

Ensures strategic decisions are made collaboratively

B.

Reduces delays

C.

Improves transparency

D.

Removes accountability from leaders

Question 15

Which statement describes one element of the CALMR approach to DevOps?

Options:

A.

Build cross-functional Agile Release Trains around the flow of value to the Customer

B.

Keep everything under version control

C.

Establish a work environment of shared responsibility

D.

Decentralize decision making

Question 16

What is one benefit of organizing around value, & reorganizing when required?

Options:

A.

Understanding the Portfolio Backlog

B.

Building the Continuous Delivery Pipeline

C.

Enabling a DevOps mindset

D.

Minimizing handoffs and dependencies

Question 17

What is the best measure of progress for complex system development?

Options:

A.

System Demo

B.

Prioritized backlog

C.

Inspect and Adapt

D.

Iteration Review

Question 18

During which of the following PI Planning activities are Business Owners asked to accept the plans?

Options:

A.

The Management Review and Problem-Solving workshop

B.

The draft plan review

C.

The final plan review

D.

The second team breakout session

Question 19

During the final plan review, ART PI risks are ROAM'ed. What do the letters in ROAM represent?

Options:

A.

Resolved, Owned, Approved, Mitigated

B.

Resolved, Owned, Accepted, Mitigated

C.

Resolved, Owned, Assigned, Mitigated

D.

Resolved, Owned, Active, Mitigated

Question 20

What is one of the inputs to the Portfolio canvas?

Options:

A.

Portfolio Epics

B.

Strategic Themes

C.

Enterprise Strategy

D.

Value Stream budgets

Question 21

Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?

Options:

A.

Customer collaboration over ongoing internal conversation

B.

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

C.

Customer collaboration over a constant indefinite pace

D.

Customer collaboration over Feature negotiation

Question 22

Which statement is true about Features and Stories?

Options:

A.

Features should be small enough to fit into an Iteration

B.

Features can be larger than an Iteration but Stories should be small enough to fit into an Iteration

C.

They are prioritized by the team

D.

They are estimated like User Stories

Question 23

What are the four types of team topologies?

Options:

A.

Stream-aligned, platform, enabling, and complicated subsystem

B.

Stream-aligned, functional requirements, product domain, and technical

C.

Functional requirements, platform, enabling, and technical

D.

Functional requirements, product domain, technical, and complicated subsystem

Question 24

During which PI Planning activity do Business Owners assign business value to PI Objectives?

Options:

A.

The final plan review

B.

The team breakout session

C.

The Management Review and Problem-Solving workshop

D.

The draft plan review

Question 25

What is the role of the Scrum Master?

Options:

A.

To coordinate Portfolio Epics through the Portfolio Kanban system

B.

To act as a servant leader who helps teams self-organize, self-manage, and deliver using ^ effective Agile practices

C.

To be a stakeholder who has the primary business and technical responsibility for fitness for u use

D.

To facilitate Agile Release Train processes and Solution Train execution

Question 26

Which of the following statements describes the concept of "shift-left"?

Options:

A.

Move testing and validation activities earlier in the work cycle to get faster or continuous feedback

B.

Write tests at the end of development to capture potential failures discovered throughout the development process

C.

Perform testing and validation activities in the production environment under real-world conditions

D.

Run two nearly identical production environments, moving users between the two to make small changes to one or the other

Question 27

What is one of the Lean budget Guardrails?

Options:

A.

Objective measurements

B.

Continuous Business Owner engagement

C.

Participatory budgeting

D.

Spending caps for each ART

Question 28

What is the basic building block when organizing around value?

Options:

A.

Hierarchies

B.

Individuals

C.

Agile Release Trains

D.

Agile Teams

Question 29

What is used to brainstorm potential Portfolio future states?

Options:

A.

Enterprise business drivers

B.

Epics and Enablers

C.

KPIs and Lean budget Guardrails

D.

SWOT and TOWS

Question 30

During the Inspect and Adapt event, how are reflection, data collection, problem solving, and identification of improvement actions used?

Options:

A.

To evaluate better implementation steps

B.

To enhance and improve the Innovation and Planning practices

C.

To help the team bond and work more efficiently together

D.

To increase the quality and reliability of the next PI

Question 31

Which statement applies to uncommitted objectives?

Options:

A.

They are included in the commitment

B.

They are items the team has high confidence in

C.

They are counted when calculating load

D.

They are extra things teams can do if they have time

Question 32

What is one way to understand current WIP in a system?

Options:

A.

Split Stories

B.

Pair to complete the work faster

C.

Size Stories smaller

D.

Make current work visible

Question 33

Team A has seven developers that can define and build any application the organization requires. Team A works with another team to test and deploy their work. Can Team A be considered a high-functioning Agile Team?

Options:

A.

Yes, because they can build any application the organization requires

B.

No, because they are not cross-functional

C.

No, because they have fewer than ten developers

D.

Yes, because they use another team to deploy

Question 34

What is one way to quickly address impediments to flow?

Options:

A.

Review burn-down charts

B.

Raise visibility of effects outside of ART control

C.

Identify them on the Planning Board

D.

Wait for the next Inspect and Adapt event

Question 35

Which Lean budget Guardrail helps ensure the appropriate allocation of budgets to balance near-term opportunities with long-term strategy and growth?

Options:

A.

Applying capacity allocation

B.

Guiding investments by horizon

C.

Approving significant initiatives

D.

Continuous Business Owner engagement

Question 36

On the seventh day of the Iteration, the team realizes that they will not complete 5 of the 13 Stories. The Product Owner (PO) says she cannot negotiate the scope of the remaining Stories any further. What is the PO's best course of action?

Options:

A.

Defer acceptance testing to the next Iteration

B.

Communicate the status of the Iteration to all stakeholders

C.

Have an emergency Iteration Planning meeting

D.

Stop the current Iteration and plan a new Iteration with the new knowledge

Question 37

What best describes the process of the confidence vote?

Options:

A.

Business Owners vote

B.

The teams and the ARTs vote

C.

The managers vote

D.

Each person votes

Question 38

An Agile Team collects the Iteration Metrics they have agreed upon during which part of the team retrospective?

Options:

A.

During the Features agreement retrospective

B.

During the qualitative part of the team retrospective

C.

During the quantitative part of the team retrospective

D.

During the time and materials retrospective

Question 39

Which responsibility belongs to the Product Owner in the team?

Options:

A.

To foster normalized estimating within the team

B.

To facilitate team meetings and drive Agile behavior

C.

To foster adoption of Agile technical practices

D.

To sequence backlog items to program priorities, events, and dependencies

Question 40

Which of the following SAFe Core Values involves coaching aspiring developers to grow their skillsets and fill new roles throughout the organization?

Options:

A.

Built-In Quality

B.

Respect for People

C.

Transparency

D.

Alignment

Question 41

Which statement describes a cross-functional team?

Options:

A.

Each team can deliver Features across multiple domains

B.

Each team member can do all the activities to define, build, and test a Solution

C.

Each team member can define and build, with a System Team testing the Solution

D.

Each team member can define, build, and test a component or Feature

Question 42

What is one responsibility of Product Management?

Options:

A.

Provide estimates for the Team Backlog

B.

Own Spike stories on the Team Backlog

C.

Maintain the Architectural Runway

D.

Define priorities in the ART Backlog

Question 43

What is one element teams present during the draft plan review?

Options:

A.

Iteration goals

B.

Planned business value

C.

Milestones

D.

ART PI risks

Question 44

What is one of the six steps in the Problem Solving Workshop?

Options:

A.

Apply root solution analysis

B.

Brainstorm possible failures

C.

Identify the biggest root cause using the Pareto Analysis

D.

Choose a problem to solve—agreement not required

Question 45

What is the purpose of the Iteration review?

Options:

A.

To work on solutions for backlog items

B.

To identify where there is too much work in the system

C.

To measure the team's progress

D.

To forecast where work is estimated for the upcoming PIs

Question 46

Which SAFe Lean-Agile Principle includes an emphasis on "deliver early and often"?

Options:

A.

Organize around value

B.

Make value flow without interruptions

C.

Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles

D.

Take an economic view

Question 47

What is "precisely specify value by product" central to?

Options:

A.

SAFe Principles

B.

Agile Manifesto

C.

SAFe Core Values

D.

Lean Thinking

Question 48

Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?

Options:

A.

Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles

B.

Responding to change over following a plan

C.

Respect for people and culture

D.

Working software is the primary measure of progress

Question 49

What is one method for reducing queue length?

Options:

A.

Leave capacity for newly emerging priorities

B.

Commit to deliver value by a specific date

C.

Resize the work

D.

Lengthen Iteration timeboxes

Question 50

A cumulative flow diagram focuses on which curves?

Options:

A.

Arrival curve ("to do") and evolution curve ("change")

B.

Implementation curve ("movement") and departure curve ("done")

C.

Backlog curve ("work") and departure curve ("done")

D.

Arrival curve ("to-do") and departure curve ("done")

Question 51

Team A is writing a Story enabling book shoppers to access their shopping cart from any page on the website. Which of the following examples represents the recommended user voice format for the Story?

Options:

A.

I am a book shopper that wants to access my shopping cart anywhere on the website

B.

I want to view my shopping cart so I can review what I am purchasing

C.

As a book shopper, I want access to my shopping cart from any page, so that I can review what I am purchasing

D.

As a book shopper, I want to access my shopping cart from any page

Question 52

What is one example of differentiating business objectives?

Options:

A.

Enterprise Goals

B.

Portfolio Vision

C.

Strategic Themes

D.

Solution Intent

Question 53

Which statement is true about Iteration planning for Kanban teams?

Options:

A.

Kanban teams estimate their velocity

B.

Kanban teams publish Iteration goals

C.

Kanban teams do not commit to service level agreements

D.

Kanban teams find high value in trying to plan the Iteration in detail

Question 54

The Scrum Master wants to establish a team's initial velocity. A team has two testers, three developers, one full-time Scrum Master, and a Product Owner split between two teams. What is their normalized velocity before calculating for time off?

Options:

A.

40

B.

32

C.

48

D.

52

Question 55

Which statement is true about the PI Planning event?

Options:

A.

It involves only the team members who are most qualified to estimate the work

B.

It involves program Portfolio Management to prioritize the Stories presented by teams during the final plan review

C.

It involves everyone in the program over a two-day period

D.

It involves Product Management and Product Owners on the first day and the rest of the teams on the second day

Question 56

What can be used to script the change to SAFe?

Options:

A.

The Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) charter

B.

The portfolio canvas

C.

The steps in the Business Agility

D.

The SAFe Implementation Roadmap

Question 57

What is critical to improving flow?

Options:

A.

Frequent context switching

B.

Reduce the batch sizes of work

C.

Address the local problems

D.

Increase work in process (WIP) limits

Question 58

What is one way to show true progress of business outcomes?

Options:

A.

Review the Kanban board

B.

Discuss during PI Planning

C.

Analyze ART metrics

D.

Conduct a System Demo

Question 59

Which of the following basic quality practices applies to all teams?

Options:

A.

Agile architecture

B.

Rapid prototyping

C.

Modeling and simulation

D.

Collective ownership and standards

Question 60

Who is responsible for managing the Portfolio Kanban?

Options:

A.

Product Management

B.

Release Train Engineer

C.

Solution Management

D.

Lean Portfolio Management

Question 61

What is part of the role of Product Management?

Options:

A.

To assign business value to Features

B.

To define Enablers

C.

To prioritize the ART Backlog

Question 62

What must management do for a successful Agile transformation?

Options:

A.

Commit to quality and take responsibility to change the system

B.

Send someone to represent management, and then delegate tasks to these individuals

C.

Establish direct lines of report to the RTEs

D.

Identify and area of the transformation they can control

Question 63

Which of the following roles act as proxies for the customer in representing their needs to the teams?

Options:

A.

Developer roles

B.

Product roles

C.

Executive roles

D.

Architecture roles

Question 64

Which statement is true about pair work in the Scaled Agile Framework?

Options:

A.

It comes from pair programming in Extreme Programming (XP)

B.

It is a best practice that team members should spend 50% to 100% of the time in pair work

C.

It occurs during Iteration Planning

D.

It is for developers only

Question 65

In the ART Kanban some steps have work in process (WIP) limits. Why is this necessary?

Options:

A.

To reduce handoffs and dependencies

B.

To ensure large queues are not forming

C.

To support multitasking

D.

To enable Continuous Deployment

Question 66

What is one of the dimensions of Lean-Agile Leadership?

Options:

A.

Emotional Intelligence

B.

Mindset and Principles

C.

Support organizational change

D.

Relentless improvement

Question 67

What is one benefit of Design Thinking?

Options:

A.

The Solution is accountable

B.

The Solution is actionable

C.

The Solution is sustainable

D.

The Solution is reliable

Question 68

How does SAFe describe Customer Centricity?

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

Question 69

What is one issue when organizing around functional silos?

Options:

A.

They do not provide development opportunities for employees

B.

Corporate responsibilities are not a focus

C.

They impede how value flows

D.

Operational activities are not included

Question 70

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

Options:

A.

To recover money already spent

B.

To understand solution tradeoffs

C.

To limit work in process (WIP)

D.

To take into account sunk costs

Question 71

What is one way to understand WIP in a system?

Options:

A.

Pair to complete the work faster

B.

Make current work visible

C.

Split stories

D.

Size stories smaller

Question 72

What brings structure to analysis and decision making around Epics?

Options:

A.

Portfolio Vision

B.

Portfolio Backlog

C.

Portfolio Canvas

D.

Portfolio Kanban

Question 73

How does a team demonstrate progress?

Options:

A.

By presenting status slides

B.

By having the Product Owner verbally communicate to the stakeholders

C.

By showing the actual working product

D.

By showing screen shots of the product

Question 74

The Lean Thinking principle, "make value flow without interruptions" means identifying what?

Options:

A.

Predictability issues of the train

B.

Key performance indicators

C.

Activities that lack innovation

D.

Delays

Question 75

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

Options:

A.

The Agile Team

B.

The RTE

C.

Business Owner

D.

Product Management

Question 76

Which statement describes a cadence-based PI Planning event?

Options:

A.

As many team members as possible should attend remotely to reduce travel costs

B.

It is very important and should be postponed until all participants can attend

C.

It is not a required event but tasks move forward at higher velocity when the meeting occurs

D.

It is an all-hands, two-day event with the goal to create alignment

Question 77

Which of the following statements is true about Roadmaps?

Options:

A.

Communicate intent

B.

Are commitment

C.

Are only adjusted at PI boundaries

D.

Provide a single planning horizon

Question 78

What visibility should Scrum Masters provide during the Agile Release Train Sync?

Options:

A.

Visibility into progress and impediments

B.

Visibility into system Solution Intent

C.

Visibility into collaboration deployment

D.

Visibility into single source design decisions

Question 79

Which of the following statements describes the Release Train Engineer role?

Options:

A.

To maintain Team Backlogs

B.

To serve as the ART Chief Coach

C.

To serve as the ART-level content authority

D.

To ensure technical integrity of all development within the ART

Question 80

Which of the following types of information is shown in a cumulative flow diagram?

Options:

A.

Team velocity

B.

Costs of producing artifacts

C.

Work that is in process across the whole team

D.

Time to complete a Feature by the rollup of Stories