AGILE SAFE 6.0 STUDY EXAM GUIDE 2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Core Values - ✔✔Four Core Values of Alignment, Built-in Quality, Transparency,
and Program Execution 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.
✔✔DevOps - ✔✔Mindset, culture, and 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. Used to Build a
Continuous Delivery Pipeline. In the Value Stream.
✔✔Enabler - ✔✔Supports the activities needed to extend the Architectural Runway to
provide future business functionality. These include exploration, architecture,
infrastructure, and compliance. Enablers are captured in the various backlogs and occur
throughout the Framework
✔✔Enterprise - ✔✔Represents the business entity to which each SAFe portfolio
belongs.
✔✔Enterprise Solution Delivery - ✔✔The Enterprise Solution Delivery competency
describes how to apply Lean-Agile principles and practices to the specification,
development, deployment, operation, and evolution of the world's largest and most
sophisticated software applications, networks, and cyber-physical systems.
✔✔Epic Owners - ✔✔Responsible for coordinating portfolio Epics through the Portfolio
Kanban system. They collaboratively define the epic, its Minimum Viable Product
(MVP), and Lean business case, and when approved, facilitate implementation.
✔✔Epics - ✔✔A container for a significant Solution development initiative that captures
the more substantial investments that occur within a portfolio. Due to their considerable
scope and impact, epics require the definition of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and
approval by Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) before implementation.
✔✔Feature - ✔✔Represents work for the ART. A service that fulfills a stakeholder need.
Each feature includes a benefit hypothesis and acceptance criteria, and is sized or split
as necessary to be delivered by a single ART in a single Program Increment (PI).
Implemented by Stories.
✔✔Foundation - ✔✔Contains the supporting principles, values, mindset,
implementation guidance, and leadership roles needed to deliver value successfully at
scale.
, ✔✔Full SAFe - ✔✔The most comprehensive configuration, including all seven core
competencies needed for business agility
✔✔IP - ✔✔The Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration occurs every Program Increment
(PI) and serves multiple purposes. It acts as an estimating buffer for meeting PI
Objectives and provides dedicated time for innovation, continuing education, PI
Planning, and Inspect and Adapt (I&A) events.
✔✔I&A - ✔✔The Inspect and Adapt is a significant event, held at the end of each
Program Increment (PI), where the current state of the Solution is demonstrated and
evaluated by the train. Teams then reflect and identify improvement backlog items via a
structured, problem-solving workshop.
✔✔Iteration - ✔✔The basic building block of Agile development. Each iteration is a
standard, fixed-length timebox, where Agile Teams deliver incremental value in the form
of working, tested software and systems. The recommended duration of the timebox is
two weeks. However, 1-4 weeks is acceptable, depending on the business context.
✔✔Iteration Execution - ✔✔How Agile Teams manage their work throughout the
Iteration timebox, resulting in a high-quality, working, tested system increment.
✔✔Iteration Goals - ✔✔A high-level summary of the business and technical goals that
the Agile Team agrees to accomplish in an Iteration. They are vital to coordinating an
ART as a self-organizing, self-managing team of teams.
✔✔Iteration Planning - ✔✔An event where all team members determine how much of
the Team Backlog they can commit to delivering during an upcoming Iteration. The
team summarizes the work as a set of committed Iteration Goals.
✔✔Iteration Retrospective - ✔✔A regular meeting where Agile Team members discuss
the results of the Iteration, review their practices, and identify ways to improve.
✔✔Iteration Review - ✔✔A cadence-based event, where each team inspects the
increment at the end of every Iteration to assess progress, and then adjusts its backlog
for the next iteration.
✔✔Large Solution SAFe - ✔✔Describes additional roles, practices, and guidance to
build and evolve the world's largest applications, networks, and cyber-physical systems.
✔✔Lean Budget Guardrails - ✔✔The policies and practices for budgeting, spending,
and governance for a specific portfolio.
✔✔Lean Budgets - ✔✔Provide effective financial governance over investments, with far
less overhead and friction, and supports a much higher throughput of development
work.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Core Values - ✔✔Four Core Values of Alignment, Built-in Quality, Transparency,
and Program Execution 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.
✔✔DevOps - ✔✔Mindset, culture, and 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. Used to Build a
Continuous Delivery Pipeline. In the Value Stream.
✔✔Enabler - ✔✔Supports the activities needed to extend the Architectural Runway to
provide future business functionality. These include exploration, architecture,
infrastructure, and compliance. Enablers are captured in the various backlogs and occur
throughout the Framework
✔✔Enterprise - ✔✔Represents the business entity to which each SAFe portfolio
belongs.
✔✔Enterprise Solution Delivery - ✔✔The Enterprise Solution Delivery competency
describes how to apply Lean-Agile principles and practices to the specification,
development, deployment, operation, and evolution of the world's largest and most
sophisticated software applications, networks, and cyber-physical systems.
✔✔Epic Owners - ✔✔Responsible for coordinating portfolio Epics through the Portfolio
Kanban system. They collaboratively define the epic, its Minimum Viable Product
(MVP), and Lean business case, and when approved, facilitate implementation.
✔✔Epics - ✔✔A container for a significant Solution development initiative that captures
the more substantial investments that occur within a portfolio. Due to their considerable
scope and impact, epics require the definition of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and
approval by Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) before implementation.
✔✔Feature - ✔✔Represents work for the ART. A service that fulfills a stakeholder need.
Each feature includes a benefit hypothesis and acceptance criteria, and is sized or split
as necessary to be delivered by a single ART in a single Program Increment (PI).
Implemented by Stories.
✔✔Foundation - ✔✔Contains the supporting principles, values, mindset,
implementation guidance, and leadership roles needed to deliver value successfully at
scale.
, ✔✔Full SAFe - ✔✔The most comprehensive configuration, including all seven core
competencies needed for business agility
✔✔IP - ✔✔The Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration occurs every Program Increment
(PI) and serves multiple purposes. It acts as an estimating buffer for meeting PI
Objectives and provides dedicated time for innovation, continuing education, PI
Planning, and Inspect and Adapt (I&A) events.
✔✔I&A - ✔✔The Inspect and Adapt is a significant event, held at the end of each
Program Increment (PI), where the current state of the Solution is demonstrated and
evaluated by the train. Teams then reflect and identify improvement backlog items via a
structured, problem-solving workshop.
✔✔Iteration - ✔✔The basic building block of Agile development. Each iteration is a
standard, fixed-length timebox, where Agile Teams deliver incremental value in the form
of working, tested software and systems. The recommended duration of the timebox is
two weeks. However, 1-4 weeks is acceptable, depending on the business context.
✔✔Iteration Execution - ✔✔How Agile Teams manage their work throughout the
Iteration timebox, resulting in a high-quality, working, tested system increment.
✔✔Iteration Goals - ✔✔A high-level summary of the business and technical goals that
the Agile Team agrees to accomplish in an Iteration. They are vital to coordinating an
ART as a self-organizing, self-managing team of teams.
✔✔Iteration Planning - ✔✔An event where all team members determine how much of
the Team Backlog they can commit to delivering during an upcoming Iteration. The
team summarizes the work as a set of committed Iteration Goals.
✔✔Iteration Retrospective - ✔✔A regular meeting where Agile Team members discuss
the results of the Iteration, review their practices, and identify ways to improve.
✔✔Iteration Review - ✔✔A cadence-based event, where each team inspects the
increment at the end of every Iteration to assess progress, and then adjusts its backlog
for the next iteration.
✔✔Large Solution SAFe - ✔✔Describes additional roles, practices, and guidance to
build and evolve the world's largest applications, networks, and cyber-physical systems.
✔✔Lean Budget Guardrails - ✔✔The policies and practices for budgeting, spending,
and governance for a specific portfolio.
✔✔Lean Budgets - ✔✔Provide effective financial governance over investments, with far
less overhead and friction, and supports a much higher throughput of development
work.
