1. What would a Release Train Engineer do to support Milestone achievement?
b) Report on and manage the budget
a) Schedule critical reviews with senior management and external stakeholders
c) Assign the numbers for the actual business value achievement in the Program Increment (PI) performance report
d) Assist with tracking and scope management
2. During Program Increment (PI) Planning, the Release Train Engineer sees the excitement of teams decline as Product Management makes changes to priorities including to the top ten Features in the Program Backlog.
a) In addition, Product Management is asking for new estimates, timelines, and scope changes. What is most likely the reason for this behavior?
b) Lack of training and preparation for PI Planning
c) People are over-controlled and under-utilized
d) Cadence and synchronization are not in alignment
e) Management stakeholders are not involved in changing the system
3.The Release Train Engineer has recently facilitated an effort to bring people from different teams together on the Agile Release Train (ART) to talk about updating engineering practices.
Feedback indicates the ART is realizing technical benefits as well as a noticeable improvement in communication across teams. This ART is likely in which stage of team development?
a) Norming
b) Storming
c) Forming
d) Performing
4. The Product Owners on the Agile Release Train (ART) say that over the last few Program Increments (PIs) the train is starting to feel less and less prepared for the PI Planning event.
Which approach can help the Release Train Engineer confirm this feeling and identify improvement areas?
a) PI sync meeting
b) Agile Product Delivery self-assessment
c) ART cumulative flow diagram
d) PI burn-up chart
5. While facilitating Program Increment (PI) Planning readiness activities, the Release Train Engineer (RTE) notices that a Feature is going to be risky for the Agile Release Train—the technology is new to the teams.
Which two actions could the RTE take to reduce the risk? (Choose two.)
a) Monitor the Stories in the backlog to make sure all the detailed Stories are defined before PI execution
b) Encourage stakeholders to participate in the System Demos and have them provide feedback
c) Coach the teams to create exploration Enablers
d) Ask for a presentation of a detailed design before the PI Planning meeting
e) Ensure engineering managers are directing the development process
6. What are two purposes of a community of practice? (Choose two.)
a) To refine definitions of done
b) To approve standards
c) To share knowledge and skills
d) To align tasks across teams
e) To network
7. Which two practices are most important for the Agile Release Train to best support Release on Demand? (Choose two.)
a) Aligning around organizational value streams
b) Centralized risk management
c) Change board community of practice
d) Decouple deployment from release
e) Continuous Integration
8. Which tool or activity helps the Agile Release Train evaluate the current state of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
a) Team performance self-assessment
b) Program Increment (PI) Planning engagement Inventory
c) Agile Product Delivery self-assessment
d) Agile Release Train performance Metrics
9. An Agile Release Train (ART) has significant external dependencies on long-lead hardware items. Which two actions should a Release Train Engineer take to meet this constraint? (Choose two.)
a) Release early and incrementally
b) Invite the hardware manufacturers to the Program Increment (PI) Planning event
c) Increase the length of the Program Increment (PI)
d) Treat the Supplier like an ART
e) Wait to integrate until the hardware is available
10. A Release Train Engineer (RTE) would like to try a new retrospective technique at the next Inspect and Adapt event. However, the RTE is unsure how to prepare for it and thinks there may be some pitfalls. How could an RTE get help?
a) Share and receive feedback from other RTEs in a community of practice
b) Ask leadership to decide whether or not this technique should be used with the Agile Release Train
c) Post it in an internal communications forum and inspire others to try this technique as well
d) Start a discussion with the Architects to see how they would re-design the retrospectives