SAFE DEVOPS 5.1 CERTIFICATION EXAM 2026
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY SHEET FULL
SOLUTION
◉ Practices associated with architecting the solution Answer: —
Architect for releasability
Architect for testability
— Separate deploy and release
— Decouple release elements
— Architect for operations
— Threat modeling
◉ Practices associated with synthesizing the vision, roadmap, and
program backlog. Answer: Creating the solution vison. Maintaining
the solution roadmap. Defining a backlog with clearly written
features. Behavior-driven development. Economic prioritization. PI
planning.
◉ Ways to evaluate a feature? Answer: Observation. User surveys.
Usage analytics. A/B testing.
,◉ The Four Activities of Release on Demand Answer: Release
Stabilize
Measure
Learn
◉ Four practices which contribute to the ability to release on
demand Answer: Dark launches. Feature toggles. Canary releases.
Decoupling release elements.
◉ Five practices which help stabilize and operate. Answer: Cross-
team collaboration. Failover/disaster recovery. Continuous security
monitoring. Architect for operations. Monitor nonfunctional
requirements.
◉ Three primary components contributing to the cost of delay
Answer: User-business value. Time criticality. Risk reduction-
opportunity enablement value.
◉ What Lean Enterprise competency is DevOps part of? Answer:
Agile Product Delivery
◉ What is DevOps? Answer: A mindset, a culture, and a set of
technical practices. It provides communication, integration,
automation, and close cooperation among all the people needed to
plan, develop, test, deploy, release and maintain a Solution.
, ◉ What are the benefits of DevOps? Answer: Teams with high
DevOps maturity have significantly faster flow and higher Solution
quality than those that do not.
◉ What is tool you can use to assess the maturity of your DevOps
Continuous Delivery Pipeline? What aspects does the tool include?
Answer: The DevOps Health Radar
• Continuous Exploration
• Continuous Integration
• Continuous Deployment
• Release on Demand
◉ What is the role of continuous testing? Answer: ► Build quality
into Solutions by testing early and often
► Include automated testing and quality assurance in every DevOps
transformation
◉ What is a development value stream? Answer: Part of Lean
thinking. Primary organizational model in SAFe. Sequence of
activities needed to convert a business hypothesis into a digitally-
enabled Solution, develop products used by operational value
streams.
Systems and software developers, product managers, engineers,
scientists, and IT practitioners all work in development value
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY SHEET FULL
SOLUTION
◉ Practices associated with architecting the solution Answer: —
Architect for releasability
Architect for testability
— Separate deploy and release
— Decouple release elements
— Architect for operations
— Threat modeling
◉ Practices associated with synthesizing the vision, roadmap, and
program backlog. Answer: Creating the solution vison. Maintaining
the solution roadmap. Defining a backlog with clearly written
features. Behavior-driven development. Economic prioritization. PI
planning.
◉ Ways to evaluate a feature? Answer: Observation. User surveys.
Usage analytics. A/B testing.
,◉ The Four Activities of Release on Demand Answer: Release
Stabilize
Measure
Learn
◉ Four practices which contribute to the ability to release on
demand Answer: Dark launches. Feature toggles. Canary releases.
Decoupling release elements.
◉ Five practices which help stabilize and operate. Answer: Cross-
team collaboration. Failover/disaster recovery. Continuous security
monitoring. Architect for operations. Monitor nonfunctional
requirements.
◉ Three primary components contributing to the cost of delay
Answer: User-business value. Time criticality. Risk reduction-
opportunity enablement value.
◉ What Lean Enterprise competency is DevOps part of? Answer:
Agile Product Delivery
◉ What is DevOps? Answer: A mindset, a culture, and a set of
technical practices. It provides communication, integration,
automation, and close cooperation among all the people needed to
plan, develop, test, deploy, release and maintain a Solution.
, ◉ What are the benefits of DevOps? Answer: Teams with high
DevOps maturity have significantly faster flow and higher Solution
quality than those that do not.
◉ What is tool you can use to assess the maturity of your DevOps
Continuous Delivery Pipeline? What aspects does the tool include?
Answer: The DevOps Health Radar
• Continuous Exploration
• Continuous Integration
• Continuous Deployment
• Release on Demand
◉ What is the role of continuous testing? Answer: ► Build quality
into Solutions by testing early and often
► Include automated testing and quality assurance in every DevOps
transformation
◉ What is a development value stream? Answer: Part of Lean
thinking. Primary organizational model in SAFe. Sequence of
activities needed to convert a business hypothesis into a digitally-
enabled Solution, develop products used by operational value
streams.
Systems and software developers, product managers, engineers,
scientists, and IT practitioners all work in development value
