SAFE 5 Product Owner/Product Manager Exam 38 Questions with Verified Answers
Vision - CORRECT ANSWER A description of the future state of the
... [Show More] Solution under development. It reflects customer and stakeholder needs, as well as the Feature and Capabilities proposed to meet those needs.
SAFe Core Values - CORRECT ANSWER Alignment, Built-in Quality, Transparency, Program Execution. These represent the fundamental beliefs that are key to SAFe's effectiveness. These guiding principles help dictate behavior and action for everyone who participates in a SAFe portfolio.
Program Increment (PI) Objectives - CORRECT ANSWER A summary of the business and technical goals that an Agile Team or train intends to achieve in the upcoming PI.
Iteration Review - CORRECT ANSWER A cadence-based event, where each team inspects the increment at the end of every iteration to assess progress, and then adjust its backlog for the next iteration.
Nonfunctional Requirements (NFRs) - CORRECT ANSWER Define system attributes such as security, reliability, performance, maintainability, scalability, and usability. They serve as constraints or restrictions on the design of the system across the different backlogs.
Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP) - CORRECT ANSWER Represents the workflows, activities, and automation needed to shepherd a new piece of functionality from ideation to an on-demand release of value to the end user.
DevOps - CORRECT ANSWER A mindset, a culture, and a set of technical practices which provides communication, integration, automation, and close cooperation among all the people needed to plan, develop, test, deploy, release, and maintain a Solution.
Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) - CORRECT ANSWER A prioritization model used to sequence jobs (e.g., Features, Capabilities, and Epics) to produce the maximum economic benefit. In SAFe, it is estimated as the cost of delay divided by job size.
INVEST model - CORRECT ANSWER Describes characteristics of good user stories:
I - Independent (among other stories)
N - Negotiable (a flexible statement of intent, not a contract)
V - Valuable (providing a valuable vertical slice to the customer)
E - Estimable (small and negotiable)
S - Small (fits within an iteration)
T - Testable (understood enough to know how to test it
SAFe for Lean Enterprises - CORRECT ANSWER A knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, practices, and competencies for Lean, Agile, and DevOps.
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) - CORRECT ANSWER A proven, publicly available, framework for applying Lean‐Agile principles and practices at an enterprise scale. SAFe synchronizes alignment , collaboration , and delivery for large numbers of teams.
Product Management - CORRECT ANSWER Responsible for defining and supporting the building of desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable products that meet customer needs over the product-market lifecycle.
Product Owner (PO) - CORRECT ANSWER A member of the Agile Team responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for the team.
Solution Management - CORRECT ANSWER Responsible for defining and supporting the building of desirable, feasible, viable and sustainable large scale business solutions that meet customer needs over time.
Types of Customers in SAFe - CORRECT ANSWER Internal and External Customers
Internal Customers - CORRECT ANSWER Customers inside the enterprise
External Customers - CORRECT ANSWER Customers outside the enterprise.
Product Management Primary Responsibilities - CORRECT ANSWER Meet business goals, Get it built, Get it off the shelf, Leverage support
What must product management maintain alignment with? - CORRECT ANSWER Responsible for maintaining alignment with the portfolio canvas, Lean Budgets, and Guardrails.
What are the product management responsibilities in supporting the ARTs to "Get it Built"? - CORRECT ANSWER Understand customer needs, Ensure product completeness, Develop and communicate the program vision and roadmap, Manage and prioritize the flow of work, Participate in PI planing, Define releases and program increments, Work with System Architect/Engineering to understand Enabler work, Participate in demos and Inspect and Adapt (I&A)
When and how is the Program Backlog reprioritized? - CORRECT ANSWER The program backlog is reprioritized with Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) before each Program Increment (PI) Planning session.
Owns the Program Backlog - CORRECT ANSWER Product Manager
Owns the Teams Backlog(s) - CORRECT ANSWER Product Owner
Defines Features, PIs, and Releases - CORRECT ANSWER Product Manager
Defines Iterations and Stories - CORRECT ANSWER Product Owner
Owns Vision, Roadmap, pricing, licensing, ROI - CORRECT ANSWER Product Manager
Contributes to Vision, Roadmap, ROI - CORRECT ANSWER Product Owner
The 4 Stages of a product lifecycle - CORRECT ANSWER Introduction, Growth, Maturity, Decline
What are the 5 types of customer attributes in technology adoption? - CORRECT ANSWER Innovators, Early Adopters, Early Majority, Late Majority, and Laggards
Solution Intent - CORRECT ANSWER The repository for storing, managing, and communicating the knowledge of current and intended Solution behavior. Where required, this includes both fixed and variable specifications and designs; reference to applicable standards, system models, and functional and nonfunctional tests; and traceability.
Program Increment (PI) Planning - CORRECT ANSWER A cadence-based event that serves as the heartbeat of the Agile Release Train (ART), aligning all the teams on the ART to a shared mission and Vision. This is essential to SAFe: If you are not doing it, you are not doing SAFe.
How long is PI planning and when does it occur? - CORRECT ANSWER It's a 2 day event that happens every 8-12 weeks, but 10 is typical.
Owns feature priorities during PI Planning - CORRECT ANSWER Product Management
Owns story planning and high-level estimates during PI Planning - CORRECT ANSWER Agile Teams
Work as intermediaries for governance, interfaces, and dependencies during PI Planning. - CORRECT ANSWER Architect/Engineering and UX
Who attends the PI Planning? - CORRECT ANSWER All member of the ART attend if possible.
What are the inputs to PI Planning? - CORRECT ANSWER Business context, Roadmap and vision, and the top 10 Features of the Program Backlog
What are the outputs of PI Planning? - CORRECT ANSWER Committed PI Objectives and the Program Board. [Show Less]