What are two behaviors of an effective Scrum Master? (choose two)
• To act as a servant leader and exhibit Lean-Agile Leadership
• To translate
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• To facilitate the team's progress toward the Iteration goals
• To facilitate the Iteration Planning session
• To guarantee no changes are made to the scope during an Iteration
To act as a servant leader and exhibit Lean-Agile Leadership
To facilitate the team's progress toward the Iteration goals
Which situation should use the Large Solution SAFe configuration?
• Organizations building a solution requiring multiple ARTs
• Enterprises building solutions that require external suppliers
• Organizations that operate in an environment that requires compliance for complex, high-assurance systems
• Web-scale enterprises with millions of customers
Organizations building a solution requiring multiple ARTs
Product Management is responsible for "what gets built" as defined by the Vision, Roadmap, and what else?
• Program Backlog
• Customers
• Key Stakeholders
• PI Planning
Program Backlog
During which process does the customer approve the delivery of functionality to their business?
• Continuous Deployment
• Release on Demand
• Lean Portfolio Management
• Product Management
Release on Demand
Which statement is true about the Iteration Planning?
• Items are assigned to the team members
• It occurs on the last day of the Iteration
• The PO does not need to attend
• It is required for every Iteration to enable fast learning cycles
It is required for every Iteration to enable fast learning cycles
What is one recommended way of splitting Features into Stores during a PI Planning event?
• Develop the functionality first and then test it on a second pass
• Implement the simplest variant of the functionality first and then implement the rest as a an enhancement
• Develop the user interface (UI) with sample business logic and database access and then add the actual functionality behind the UI
• Implement the database structure first and then implement the business logic and user interface
Implement the simplest variant of the functionality first and then implement the rest as an enhancement
When is the standardized System Demo conducted for the ART?
• At the end of every Iteration but may skip the first Iteration
• Whenever there is working functionality to the demo
• As soon as learning can be explored to preserve options
• When the system Team indicates the products are only able to show integrated functionality
At the end of every Iteration but may skip the first Iteration
The daily stand-up timebox should not exceed how many minutes?
• 15 minutes
• 20 minutes
• Whatever timebox the team agrees on
• 10 minutes
15 minutes
Which statement is true about Features and Stores
• Features must solve an immediate business problem all the time
• Features can be large than an Iteration but Stores should be small enough to fit into an Iteration
• Features are estimated the same
• The order Features are completed in an Iteration is up to the team alone
Features can be large than an Iteration but Stories should be small enough to fit into an Iteration
What best supports Innovation in the SAFe House of Lean?
• Optimizing the whole
• Built-in quality
• Visualizing work
• Fast learning cycles
Fast learning cycles
What does a program board primarily focus on for the PI?
• System Demo expectations for inspecting incremental delivery
• Priority in association with business value
• Sizing of the Epics in relation to each other
• Dependencies between teams relating to the Features
Dependencies between teams relating to the Features
Which activity happens in the Inspect and Adapt workshop?
• Planning the next PI
• A retrospective of the Iteration
• Refining the Program backlog
• A demo of the integrated system
Refining the Program backlog
Which statement defines the purpose of Iteration Planning?
• It is to organize the work and define a realistic scope for the Iteration
• It is to break Stories into tasks that are achievable in the team's capacity
• It is for bringing the Customer closer to the team so they only commit to their primary value statement
• It is to predict what the demo in the Iteration Review will most likely cover
It is to organize the work and define a realistic scope for the Iteration
The CALMR approach to DevOps includes Automation, Lean Flow, Measurement, and Recovery. What does the "C" represent?
• Continuous Integration
• Culture
• Completion
• Cycle-time
Culture
What is a major benefit of reducing batch size?
• Enables more throughput
• Preserves your options
• Decreases transaction costs
• Increases visibility
Enables more throughput
Which is an example of a part of an Iteration retrospective?
• Closure of Iteration process changes from the last cycle
• Reviewing metrics of each team members' contribution to better balance the work load
• Program level analysis of a problem using root cause analysis techniques
• Team discussion around opportunities for continuous improvement
Team discussion around opportunities for continuous improvement
What type of information can be easily seen in a cumulative flow diagram?
• Time to complete a Feature by the rollup of Stories
• Work that is in process across the whole team
• Patterns of unpredictable delivery cycles
• An economical understanding of how much artifacts cost to produce
Work that is in process across the whole team
What are three practices of Extreme Programming (XP)? (Choose three.)
• Deployment automation
• Test-driven development
• Intentional architecture
• Behavior-driven development
• Continuous Integration
• Pair programming
Test-driven development
Continuous Integration
Pair programming
A decrease in variability leads to an increase in what?
• Confidence
• Flexibility
• Predictability
• Innovation
Predictability
What type of visibility should Product Owners provide during the Agile Release Train Sync?
• Visibility into scope and priority adjustments
• Visibility into backlog items
• Visibility into program Epics and Features
• Visibility into analysis, approval, and Feature readiness for implementation
Visibility into scope and priority adjustments
What should be taken into account when estimating Story point size?
• Change Management Policy
• Complexity of the Story
• Interruptions from production
• Intent of the business outcome
Complexity of the Story
Which two statements best describe elements of Continuous Delivery? (Choose two.)
• Development and test environments should be separate from production
• Deploy to staging every third Iteration
• Maintain a staging environment that emulates production
• Automate testing Features and nonfunctional requirements
• Maintain manual deployment
Maintain a staging environment that emulates production
Automate testing Features and nonfunctional requirements
A team finishes developing all of their Stories in the first six days of the Iteration, test them in the following two days, and fixes bugs in the days remaining. How is the team behaving?
• They are not building in quality
• They are waterfalling the Iteration
• They are acting like a team focused on functional silos
• They are ignoring nonfunctional requirements within the Iteration
They are waterfalling the Iteration
What is one key benefit of a backlog refinement session?
• It allows the team to state the problem and think about what, where, when and the impact
• It serves a variety of purposes, including a dedicated time for planning, retrospecting, exploring, and innovating
• It is the main way in SAFe for achieving relentless improvement
• It provides time to identify dependencies and issues that couple impact the next Iteration
It provides time to identify dependencies and issues that couple impact the next Iteration
Which statement is true about the primary intent to have work in process constraints?
• It determines when a work item can move to the next column
• It provides innovation time as a team members may be idle from time to time
• It increases both lead time and cycle time
• It encourages collaboration and increases flow
It encourages collaboration and increases flow
What is the role of the Product Owner?
• To represent the Customer to the Agile Team
• To prioritize the Program Backlog
• To ensure quality by testing the Solution
• Estimate the Stories in the Product Backlog
To prioritize the Program Backlog
What is the ultimate goal of the PI Planning Event?
• To sequence Iteration delivery cycles for the most predictable pattern
• To create a plan for the upcoming PI showing how Stories map to Iterations
• To achieve alignment on what the definition of value is and what can be delivered to the customer
• To remove risk and uncertainty while identifying major release milestones
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