What are two examples of team-level events? (Choose two.)
Backlog refinement
System Demo
Scrum of scrums
Daily stand-up
Program Increment Planning
Which role is primarily responsible for working with business teams?
Product Management (PM)
Enterprise Architect
Release Train Engineer (RTE)
Product Owner (PO)
How do Product Owners contribute to the Vision?
By continuously exploring emerging markets
By communicating emerging requirements and opportunities
By contributing to the portfolio canvas
By establishing Strategic Themes
When should a Product Owner (PO) establish team objectives?
During backlog refinement
Following the management review and problem-solving meeting
Following the confidence vote
During Program Increment (PI) Planning
An organization is conducting their first Program Increment Planning session, and the new teams are asked to provide their capacity. Which three actions are part of the initial capacity planning process? (Choose three.)
Find a small story that takes about a day to develop and call it a one
Subtract one point for every team member's vacation day, public holiday, or training day
Compare final team capacity across all teams and make individual team adjustments
Use eight points per person (adjust for part-time employees)
Add the points for all the recently completed Features and use that as a baseline for future capacity
Ensure Product Owner/Product Manager approval for all capacity adjustments based on time
What are two different types of Enabler Stories? (Choose two.)
Exploration
Impediment
Feature
Infrastructure
Defects
An Agile Release Train (ART) has implemented a completely automated Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline that can deploy code as it is checked into the source-code repository.
How might a Product Owner (PO) adjust team events to take advantage of this capability and promote the flow of value?
Identify Stories that are cleared for automatic delivery during Iteration Planning
Review and accept Stories as they are completed
Implement Feature toggles to control which Stories are released
Release Stories that have been included in the team demo
Product Management has content authority for the Program Backlog including: the Vision, the Roadmap, driving the PI Objectives, and what else?
Accepting Stories and team increments
Managing risk, helping to ensure value delivery, and driving continuous improvement
Working with business stakeholders and Solution and System Architects to implement holistic technology across Value Streams
Establishing Features and benefit hypotheses
How do Business Owners quantify the value of PI Objectives?
By assigning Story points
By estimating return on investment
By assigning business value
By totaling the Epic budget
What are the minimum requirements for a Feature?
Benefit hypothesis, acceptance criteria, and priority
Name, benefit hypothesis, and acceptance criteria
Acceptance criteria, data models, and priority
Whatever the Agile Release Train determines is required
Which statement characterizes the perspectives of the definition of done (DoD)?
Product Owners focus on the Solution while Product Managers focus on the team increment
Product Owners focus on the Iteration while Product Managers focus on the release
Product Owners focus on the release while Product Managers focus on the team increment
Product Owners focus on Features while Product Managers focus on Stories
Enabler Epics are used to advance what in order to support upcoming Business Epics?
Compliance
The Architectural Runway
The Program Backlog
Value Stream(s)
Epics are decomposed into what?
Requirements
Enablers
Features
Stories
What are two strategies a Product Owner can use during Program Increment Planning to minimize dependencies? (Choose two.)
Move Stories on their team's backlog to another team
Change the definition of done
Move teams to another Agile Release Train
Split Stories to eliminate dependencies
Reprioritize Epics
The role of the Product Owner is most closely aligned with which Agile Manifesto principle?
Welcome changing requirements, even late in development
The highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software
Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project
Build projects around motivated individuals
What is a recommended time horizon of the Solution Roadmap?
1 year
2 or more years
1-3 years
2-4 years
A Product Manager is working for an insurance company and is responsible for the internal systems used for managing claims. This is an example of what kind of Value Stream?
Claims processing Value Stream
Customer journey Value Stream
Development Value Stream
Operational Value Stream
What is an input to the Program Increment Planning process that highlights how Product Management plans to accomplish the Vision?
Team Backlogs
Business context
Program board
Top ten Features
What is the primary purpose of PO sync?
To assess progress of the Program Increment and adjust scope and priority as needed
To align with the scrum of scrums participants on the status of the Program Increment
To build objectives for the Program Increment
To conduct backlog refinement
Which statement is true about estimating and forecasting the Portfolio Backlog?
Refinement is necessary when estimating the effort needed to implement an Epic
Epic forecasting is based on the cost estimate
Feature estimates are rolled up into Epic estimates
WSJF is used to assign Epics to Value Streams
In the first step of SAFe's Continuous Delivery Pipeline, Product Owners and Managers do what activity?
Ensure the architecture team has sufficient capacity
Prioritize the backlog
Negotiate Supplier contracts to ensure projected capacity requirements are met
Hypothesize on what would create value to their Customers
What is a recommended time horizon of the Program Increment Roadmap?
1-3 years
2 or more years
2-4 years
Less than 1 year
Product Management works with which other role to define and maintain nonfunctional requirements?
Portfolio Managers
System Team
Lean UX
System and Solution Architect/Engineering
In the SAFe work item hierarchy, Features are decomposed into what?
Tasks
Capabilities
Spikes
Stories
What is enabled by the key components of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
Accelerated release of value
Predictable release cadence
Hyper-transparent measurements
End-to-end testing
Which function is responsible for ensuring that the Agile Release Train has the content needed to successfully engage in Program Increment Planning?
Product Management
Lean-Agile Center of Excellence
Release Train Engineer
Product Owner
What is a benefit of capacity allocation?
It ensures different types of backlog items are not compared against one another
It assigns Architects to backlog items
It aligns Business Owners to the objectives
It allocates developers and testers to an initiative
Which two job roles are good candidates for becoming a Product Owner? (Choose two.)
Business analysts
UX experts
Subject matter experts
Scrum Masters
Line managers
What is one way Kanbans are used in SAFe?
To manage nonfunctional requirements (NFRs) in the backlog
To manage runway cadence
To manage queue length
To manage Program Increment (PI) Objectives
When should innovation activities be conducted by teams on the Agile Release Train?
Throughout the Program Increment
At a consistent time each day during the Iteration
Only when innovation Stories rise to the top of the backlog
Only during the Innovation and Planning Iteration
What is one way to establish a team's velocity?
Calculate the percentage planned versus actual Stories completed during an Iteration
Look at the average Story points completed from the last Iterations
Add the Story points for all Features completed in the Iteration
Add the Story points for all the stories planned for the Iteration
The goal is a fast delivery process, ideally requiring little manual effort. What is one capability used to achieve this?
Feature toggles
Nonfunctional requirements
Soft launches
Quiet releases
What does assigning business value to a team's PI Objectives influence?
How teams plan the implementation
How often the team deploys
How to achieve objectives
How the Kanban work in process limits are set
When tracking team progress, what can a Kanban board show the team?
A burndown chart of the work completed in the Iteration
Which team member is behind in their work
Where the team has too much work-in-process (WIP)
How many defects the team is creating
What is included in the Inspect and Adapt agenda?
PI Objectives
Management review
ROAMing risks
Quantitative and qualitative measurement
Which Agile Team event supports relentless improvement?
Iteration Planning
Backlog refinement
Iteration Review
Iteration Retrospective
What two types of dependencies are commonly visualized on the program board? (Choose two.)
Component dependencies
Dependencies on external suppliers
Dependencies between teams
Dependencies related to Features
Epic dependencies
What are personas?
Key end-users the Product Owner leverages for managing the backlog
Strategic stakeholders that influence the backlog
External customers that are on the product Roadmap
Fictional characters that act as a representative user when discussing the backlog
What is the importance of the definition of done?
It prioritizes the work of testers on the team
It creates a clear understanding of when items are complete
It provides a way for Scrum Masters to enforce quality
It creates standardized work between all Agile Teams
Which principle of the Agile Manifesto is most aligned with conducting a System Demo?
Welcome changing requirements, even late in development
At regular intervals the team reflects on how to become more effective
The best way to convey information is a face-to-face conversation
Working software is the primary measure of progress
What is the relationship between a Product Owner (PO) and Product Management (PM)?
The PO contributes to the Program Backlog; PM establishes Story acceptance criteria
The PO and PM collaborate to determine the architectural runway, pricing, and licensing
The PO is team-oriented; PM is market-oriented
The PO and PM spend equal amounts of time on roadmaps and backlogs
Which two aspects of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline require the most involvement from Product Managers?
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
Continuous Integration and Release on Demand
Continuous Exploration and Continuous Deployment
Continuous Exploration and Release on Demand
What is the purpose of Iteration Goals?
To align the team members and the Product Owner (PO) to the mission
To provide the baseline required for measuring the team's performance
To hold the team accountable to their goals
To ensure the team accomplishes all the committed Stories each Iteration
What are two primary responsibilities of Business Owners in Program Increment (PI) Planning? (Choose two.)
To ensure that team members plan all of their priorities
To create Lean business cases
To establish the PI budget
To assign business value
To set the business context
What is the primary job of Product Management when considering the Architectural Runway?
Prioritizing Enablers using weighted shortest job first (WSJF)
Writing the Enabler Lean business case
Adding Enablers to the Solution roadmap
Ensuring sufficient capacity is allocated to Enablers
What are two examples of team-level events? (Choose two.)
Daily stand-up
Backlog refinement
Program Increment Planning
Scrum of scrums
System Demo