SAFE POPM CERTIFICATION FINAL EXAM ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Cost of Delay - ✔✔User-Business Value + Time Criticality + Risk Reduction and/or
Opportunity Enablement
✔✔Iteration Planning best approaches - ✔✔Maintain timebox
Ensure that the team commits to the iteration goals
Verify that the PO or other managers don't influence the team to overcommit
Challenge the team to exceed their previous accomplishments
Ensure that improvements items from the retrospective are put into effect
Ensure time is allocated for technical debt activities
✔✔Iteration planning common anti-patterns - ✔✔Delving too deep into technical
discussions
Commitment is unrealistic
Capacity and load are exactly the same
Scrum master is more focused on a technical role than a facilitators role
The team under commits due to fear of failure
No time is reserved for support activities
✔✔Backlog refinement best approaches - ✔✔Maintain timeboxes
Maintain the right level of a deep backlog vs ready backlog for two iterations
Make sure all the team members participate
Invite the right subject matter experts
Hold the event at regular intervals
✔✔Backlog refinement common anti-patterns - ✔✔Arriving to the iteration with non-
ready stories
Not doing the backlog refinement consistently
Team sees stories for the first time during iteration or PI planning
Feature estimations impact story estimation
✔✔System demo best approaches - ✔✔Maintain timebox
Ensure that the team commits to the iteration goals
Verify that the PO or other managers don't influence the team to overcommit
Challenge the team to exceed their previous accomplishments
Ensure that the improvement items from the retrospective are put into effect
Ensure time is allocated for technical debt activities
✔✔System demo common anti-patterns - ✔✔A lot of time is spent preparing for the
demo
Demo is mainly talk/slides as opposed to working software and/or hardware
PO sees things for the first time in the team demo
System demo is not done because "the team demo is enough"
, Team members are not invited to the system demo to save time
Demos are not interesting or relevant to program-level stakeholders
Using test data
✔✔House of Lean - ✔✔Goal: Value Foundation: Leadership, Respect for People and
Culture, Development Flow, Innovation, Relentless Improvement
✔✔What are 2 ways in which the SAFe House of Lean might influence a Product
Owner? - ✔✔Collaborate with Agile teams to develop stories with clear acceptance
criteria, help agile teams gain a clear understanding of their customers
✔✔Which 2 statements are true about nonfunctional requirements? - ✔✔They operate
as constraints on the design of the system, they are associated with backlogs at all 4
levels of SAFe
✔✔What are 2 inputs to the Vision? - ✔✔Customer feedback, strategic themes
✔✔What is one of the questions the PM team must answer in order to create a vision? -
✔✔Which problem will the solution solve
✔✔Which 2 statements are true about the SAFe backlog model? - ✔✔Stories are in the
Team backlog, features are in the program backlog
✔✔During the PI planning meetings the PO coordinates with other POs, shared
resources and who else? - ✔✔Product Management
✔✔Who typically participated as the train's business owners to approve the team's PI
objectives? - ✔✔Product Management
✔✔When should a dependency be added to the program risks? - ✔✔When it must be
accepted
✔✔What are 3 elements of agile team capacity allocation that ensure a healthy balance
of work? - ✔✔Refractors, user stories, maintenance
✔✔How do SAFe continuous delivery pipeline activities map to the teams' work each
iteration within the PI? - ✔✔Each iteration in the PI, teams are exploring, integrating,
deploying, and potentially releasing new value
✔✔The SAFe definition of DevOps includes which 3 concepts? - ✔✔Culture, technical
practices, mindset
✔✔When should a PO establish team objectives? - ✔✔During PI Planning
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Cost of Delay - ✔✔User-Business Value + Time Criticality + Risk Reduction and/or
Opportunity Enablement
✔✔Iteration Planning best approaches - ✔✔Maintain timebox
Ensure that the team commits to the iteration goals
Verify that the PO or other managers don't influence the team to overcommit
Challenge the team to exceed their previous accomplishments
Ensure that improvements items from the retrospective are put into effect
Ensure time is allocated for technical debt activities
✔✔Iteration planning common anti-patterns - ✔✔Delving too deep into technical
discussions
Commitment is unrealistic
Capacity and load are exactly the same
Scrum master is more focused on a technical role than a facilitators role
The team under commits due to fear of failure
No time is reserved for support activities
✔✔Backlog refinement best approaches - ✔✔Maintain timeboxes
Maintain the right level of a deep backlog vs ready backlog for two iterations
Make sure all the team members participate
Invite the right subject matter experts
Hold the event at regular intervals
✔✔Backlog refinement common anti-patterns - ✔✔Arriving to the iteration with non-
ready stories
Not doing the backlog refinement consistently
Team sees stories for the first time during iteration or PI planning
Feature estimations impact story estimation
✔✔System demo best approaches - ✔✔Maintain timebox
Ensure that the team commits to the iteration goals
Verify that the PO or other managers don't influence the team to overcommit
Challenge the team to exceed their previous accomplishments
Ensure that the improvement items from the retrospective are put into effect
Ensure time is allocated for technical debt activities
✔✔System demo common anti-patterns - ✔✔A lot of time is spent preparing for the
demo
Demo is mainly talk/slides as opposed to working software and/or hardware
PO sees things for the first time in the team demo
System demo is not done because "the team demo is enough"
, Team members are not invited to the system demo to save time
Demos are not interesting or relevant to program-level stakeholders
Using test data
✔✔House of Lean - ✔✔Goal: Value Foundation: Leadership, Respect for People and
Culture, Development Flow, Innovation, Relentless Improvement
✔✔What are 2 ways in which the SAFe House of Lean might influence a Product
Owner? - ✔✔Collaborate with Agile teams to develop stories with clear acceptance
criteria, help agile teams gain a clear understanding of their customers
✔✔Which 2 statements are true about nonfunctional requirements? - ✔✔They operate
as constraints on the design of the system, they are associated with backlogs at all 4
levels of SAFe
✔✔What are 2 inputs to the Vision? - ✔✔Customer feedback, strategic themes
✔✔What is one of the questions the PM team must answer in order to create a vision? -
✔✔Which problem will the solution solve
✔✔Which 2 statements are true about the SAFe backlog model? - ✔✔Stories are in the
Team backlog, features are in the program backlog
✔✔During the PI planning meetings the PO coordinates with other POs, shared
resources and who else? - ✔✔Product Management
✔✔Who typically participated as the train's business owners to approve the team's PI
objectives? - ✔✔Product Management
✔✔When should a dependency be added to the program risks? - ✔✔When it must be
accepted
✔✔What are 3 elements of agile team capacity allocation that ensure a healthy balance
of work? - ✔✔Refractors, user stories, maintenance
✔✔How do SAFe continuous delivery pipeline activities map to the teams' work each
iteration within the PI? - ✔✔Each iteration in the PI, teams are exploring, integrating,
deploying, and potentially releasing new value
✔✔The SAFe definition of DevOps includes which 3 concepts? - ✔✔Culture, technical
practices, mindset
✔✔When should a PO establish team objectives? - ✔✔During PI Planning
