What is one output of enterprise strategy formulation?

• Portfolio Governance
• Portfolio Budgets
• Portfolio Vision
• Portfolio Canvas

During the PI Planning event, when are planning adjustments agreed upon?

• During Scrum of scrums
• During the draft plan review
• During the management review and problem-solving
• During breakout sessions

Which statement is true when continuously deploying using a DevOps model?

• It alleviates the reliance on the skill sets of Agile Teams
• It lessens the severity and frequency of release failures
• It ensures that changes deployed to production are always immediately available to end-users
• It increases the transaction cost

Which core competency of the Lean Enterprise helps drive Built-in Quality practices?

• DevOps and Release on Demand
• Team and Technical Agility
• Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering
• Lean Portfolio Management

The analyzing step of the Portfolio Kanban system has a new Epic with a completed Lean business case. What best describes it

• It will remain in the analyzing step until one or more Agile Release Trains have the capacity to implement it
• It will be implemented once the Lean business case is approved by the Epic Owner
• it will be moved to the Portfolio Backlog if it receives a 'go' decision from Lean Portfolio Management
• It will be implemented if it has the highest weighted shortest job first (WSJF) ranking

Which statement is true about ART events?

• ART events run inside the team events, and the team events create a closed-loop system
• Team events run inside the ART events, and the ART events create a closed-loop system
• The daily stand-up is an ART event that requires the scrum of scrums and Program Owner sync involvement in the closed-loop system
• The Inspect and Adapt is the only ART event required to create a closed-loop system

How does SAFe recommend using a second operating system to deliver value?

• Leverage Solutions with economies of scale
• Organize the Enterprise around the flow of value while maintaining the hierarchies
• Build a small entrepreneurial network focused on the Customer ins/gad of the existing hierarchies
• Reorganize the hierarchies around the flow of value

How can trust be gained between the business and development?

• Maintain Iterations as a safe zone for the team
• Release new value to production every day
• Deliver predictability
• Automate the delivery pipeline

What is an example of applying cadence and synchronization in SAFe?

• Using a Portfolio Kanban system
• Conducting a PI Planning meeting
• Creating cross-functional teams
• Allocating budgets to Agile Release Trains

Which team type is 'organized to assist other teams with specialized capabilities and help them become more proficient in new technology

• Complicated subsystem team
• Stream-aligned team
• Enabling team
• Platform team

Why do Business Owners assign business value to team PI Objectives?

• To ensure the teams do not work on architectural Enablers
• To override the decisions made in WSJF prioritization
• To determine the highest value using WSJF
• To provide guidance on the business value of the team objectives

Which two types of decisions should remain centralized even in a decentralized decision-making environment? (Choose two.)

• Decisions that require local information
• Decisions unlikely to change in the short term
• Decisions that are made frequently
• Decisions that come with a high cost of delay
• Decisions that deliver large and broad economic benefits

What are the three dimensions of Lean-Agile Leadership? (Choose three.)

• Lead by example
• SAFe Core Values
• Lead the change
• Emotional intelligence
• Support organizational change
• Mindset and principles

What is one way Lean-Agile leaders lead by example?

• By mastering the Seven Core Competencies of the Lean Enterprise
• By using the SAFe Implementation Roadmap to script the way for change
• By applying empathic design and focusing on Customer Centricity
• By modeling SAFe's Lean-Agile Mindset, values, principles, and practices

According to SAFe Principle #10, what should the Enterprise do when markets and customers demand change?

• Reorganize the network around the new value flow
• Create an Agile Release Train to focus on value
• Create a reliable decision-making framework to empower employees and ensure a fast flow of value
• Apply development cadence and synchronization to operate effectively and manage uncertainty

What else does the SAFe principle, unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers, require besides purpose and mission?

• Transparency
• Incentive-based compensation
• Minimum possible constraints
• Innovation

What is the goal of the House of Lean?

• Value with the shortest sustainable lead time
• Building a Grow Lean Mindset as opposed to Fixed Mindset
• Lean-Agile Leadership as an organizational culture
• Aligning principles and values to a foxed cause

The primary need for SAFe is to scale the idea of what?

• Business Agility
• Technical Solution Delivery
• Lean Portfolio Management
• Organizational and Functional Alignment

When should new approaches be anchored in an organization's culture?

• Culture change comes right after a sense of urgency is created in the organization
• Culture change comes last as a result of changing work habits
• Culture should not be changed because SAFe respects current culture
• Culture change needs to happen before the SAFe implementation can begin

At the end of PI Planning after dependencies are resolved and risks are addressed, a confidence vote is taken. What is the default method used to vote?

• A vote by team then a vote of every person for the train
• A vote by every person then normalized for the train
• A single vote by every person for the train
• A vote by team normalized for the train

What are the top two reasons for adopting Agile in an organization? (Choose two.)

• Reduce changes
• Accelerate product delivery
• C Centralize decision-making
• Reduce project cost
• Enable changing priorities

What is one example of differentiating business objectives?

• Portfolio Vision
• Solution Intent
• Enterprise Goals
• Strategic Themes

What are two ways to describe a cross-functional Agile Team? (Choose two.)

• They deliver value every six weeks
• They can define, build, and test an increment of value
• They are optimized for communication and delivery of value
• They are made up of members, each of whom can define, develop, test, and deploy the system
• They release customer products to production continuously

The program board shows which two items? (Choose two.)

• Risks
• Significant dependencies
• Features
• Epics
• Capacity and Load

Which statement is true about a Value Stream that successfully uses Devops?

• It has objective measurements with automation
• It has a lower threshold of defects approved to production
• It has a technology stack without legacy code
• It has a closed loop process of learning

Which pathway would a LACE use on the Agile growth lifecycle?

• The SAFe Implementation Roadmap
• Agile Maturity Roadmaps
• The 7 Core Competencies of Business Agility
• The Scaled Agile Framework

What is one key purpose of DevOps?

• DevOps focuses on automating the delivery pipeline to reduce transaction cost
• DevOps enables continuous release by building a scalable Continuous Delivery Pipeline
• DevOps focuses on a set of practices applied to large systems
• DevOps joins development and operations to enable continuous delivery

What is one of the tools associated with Design Thinking?

• Empathy maps
• Divergent Feature Decomposition
• Solution Canvas
• Behavior driven development

Who is responsible for managing portfolio Kanban ?

Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?

• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Customer collaboration over following a plan
• Customer collaboration over a constant indefinite pace
• Individuals and interactions over contract negotiation

Optimizing flow means identifying what?

• Activities that lack innovation
• Delays
• Predictability issues of the train
• Key performance indicators

How does SAFe describe Customer Centricity?

• As a strategy to meet the needs of an ever-changing Customer market
• As a way of working to include the Customer in daily work processes and planning
• As a mindset focused on Customer behaviors that produce the best innovations
• As a set of practices employed to make products focused on the Customer

Which role serves as the servant leader for the Agile Release Train?

• Agile Coach
• Business Owner
• Release train engineer
• Product owner

What is one component of a Guardrail in Lean Portfolio Management?

• Allocation of centralized vs decentralized decisions in the Enterprise
• Determining if business needs meet the Portfolio Threshold
• Participatory budgeting forums that lead to Value Stream budget changes
• Capacity allocation of the Value Stream compared to process mapping

What does the Continuous Delivery Pipeline enable?

• Continuous refactoring
• Delivery of large batches
• Ongoing learning
• Increased technical debt

SAFe's first Lean-Agile Principle includes "Deliver early and often" and what else?

• Apply systems thinking
• Deliver value incrementally
• Apply cadence
• Decentralize decision-making

Which statement is true about batch size?

• When stories are broken into tasks it means there are small batch sizes
• Large batch sizes limit the ability to preserve options
• When there is flow it means there are small batch sizes
• Large batch sizes ensure time for built-in quality

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

• Product Manager
• Business Owner
• The Agile Team
• The Scrum Team

During the final plan review, Program risks are addressed using ROAM. What do the letters in ROAM represent?

• Owned, Mitigated. Resolved, Accepted
• Resolved, Owned, Approved, Mitgated
• Owned, Mitigated, Active, Resolved
• Resolved, Assigned, Mitigated, Owned

Which pillar in the House of Lean focuses on the Customer being the consumer of the work?

• Innovation
• Flow
• Value
• Respect for People and Culture

Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?

• Customer collaboration over a constant indefinite pace
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Customer collaboration over feature negotiation
• Customer collaboration over ongoing internal conversation

An Enterprise has just adopted the SAFe Implementation Roadmap and is in the process of training executives, managers, and leaders. What is their next step?

• Identify Value Streams and Agile Release Trains to start alignment of the organization
• Train Lean-Agile change agents to push out the roadmap and build consensus
• Perform process mapping on the current state
• Train the leaders in Portfolio and Product Management to solve problems before fixing symptoms

Why is it important to decouple deployment from release?

• To allow inspection of Agile maturity based on different cycle times
• To make deploying of assets a business decision
• To remove the need to respond quickly to production issues
• To enable releasing functionality on demand to meet business needs