SAFE POPM UPDATED EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What holds Epics approved for implementation? - ✔✔Portfolio Backlog
✔✔Holds Epics approved for implementation - ✔✔Portfolio Backlog
✔✔all big ideas are welcome here! - ✔✔Funnel
✔✔New business opportunities - ✔✔Funnel
✔✔Cost savings - ✔✔
✔✔Marketplace changes - ✔✔Funnel
✔✔Mergers and aquisition - ✔✔
✔✔Problems with existing solutions - ✔✔Funnel
✔✔Epic hypothesis statement - ✔✔Reviewing
✔✔Refine understanding - ✔✔
✔✔Calculate WSJF - ✔✔
✔✔WIP Limit - ✔✔Reviewing
✔✔Solution Alternatives - ✔✔
✔✔Refine WSJF - ✔✔Analyzing
✔✔Cost estimate - ✔✔
✔✔Identify MVP - ✔✔Analyzing
✔✔Lean Business case - ✔✔
✔✔Wip Limit - ✔✔
✔✔Go/No-go decision - ✔✔Analyzing
✔✔Epic approved by LPM team - ✔✔Portfolio Backlog
,✔✔Continuous prioritization of approved epics using WSJF - ✔✔Portfolio Backlog
✔✔Epic owners and product and solution management decompose epics into
solution/program epics, capabilities and features - ✔✔Implementing
✔✔WIP limited by downstream capacity - ✔✔
✔✔Teams begin implementing at program increment boundaries - ✔✔implementing
✔✔Epic tracking continues - ✔✔Implementing
✔✔Anticipated outcome hypothesis evaluated - ✔✔
✔✔pivot or persevere decision made - ✔✔Done
✔✔where do features come from? - ✔✔Through preparation of epics for MVP
✔✔Product Owners - ✔✔
✔✔Architectural runway - ✔✔
✔✔Emerge locally from the ARTLLP - ✔✔
✔✔communitcates strategix intent, and readies the Agile Release Train for launch -
✔✔Vision
✔✔Is a description of the future state of a solution - ✔✔the Vision
✔✔Answers where are we headed with this Product or Solution? - ✔✔Vision
✔✔Answers, what problems does it solve? - ✔✔the vision
✔✔Answers, What features and benefit hypothesis does it provide? - ✔✔The Vision
✔✔Answers, For whom does it provide them? - ✔✔The vision
✔✔Answers, what nonfunctional requirements does the solution drive? - ✔✔The vision
✔✔What are common formats for the vision? - ✔✔-Rolling wave briefings
✔✔-Vison documents - ✔✔
✔✔-preliminary data sheet - ✔✔
, ✔✔-Draft press release - ✔✔
✔✔what are the different forms of input to the solution and program vision? -
✔✔Customer feedback
✔✔Architect, system team other - ✔✔
✔✔Strategic themes - ✔✔
✔✔Solution backlog NFR - ✔✔
✔✔Solution context - ✔✔
✔✔Solution intent - ✔✔
✔✔Solution/ product management - ✔✔
✔✔Team inputs/ Agile team - ✔✔
✔✔Product owner - ✔✔
✔✔Often Derived from the Vision - ✔✔Roadmap and its attributes
✔✔What are Key Architecture concerns - ✔✔Non Functional requirements
✔✔It is created by the project manager - ✔✔Roadmap and its attributes
✔✔Exists on the spanning Palette in the SAFe Big Picture and so can exist at all levels
of the framework - ✔✔Roadmap and its attributes
✔✔General Plan of when business and enabler features will be delivered over the next
three PIs - ✔✔Roadmap and its attributes
✔✔Only the first PI is committed; the others are a forecast which will be adjusted based
on the learning from initial PI - ✔✔Roadmap and its attributes
✔✔What are methods used to visualize and manage the flow of value from ideation to
analysis, implementation, and release? - ✔✔The program and solution Kanban
✔✔What allows Agile release trains(Arts) and solution trains to manage capacity based
on the work in progress(WIP) limit of different states of the process? - ✔✔The Kanban
system
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What holds Epics approved for implementation? - ✔✔Portfolio Backlog
✔✔Holds Epics approved for implementation - ✔✔Portfolio Backlog
✔✔all big ideas are welcome here! - ✔✔Funnel
✔✔New business opportunities - ✔✔Funnel
✔✔Cost savings - ✔✔
✔✔Marketplace changes - ✔✔Funnel
✔✔Mergers and aquisition - ✔✔
✔✔Problems with existing solutions - ✔✔Funnel
✔✔Epic hypothesis statement - ✔✔Reviewing
✔✔Refine understanding - ✔✔
✔✔Calculate WSJF - ✔✔
✔✔WIP Limit - ✔✔Reviewing
✔✔Solution Alternatives - ✔✔
✔✔Refine WSJF - ✔✔Analyzing
✔✔Cost estimate - ✔✔
✔✔Identify MVP - ✔✔Analyzing
✔✔Lean Business case - ✔✔
✔✔Wip Limit - ✔✔
✔✔Go/No-go decision - ✔✔Analyzing
✔✔Epic approved by LPM team - ✔✔Portfolio Backlog
,✔✔Continuous prioritization of approved epics using WSJF - ✔✔Portfolio Backlog
✔✔Epic owners and product and solution management decompose epics into
solution/program epics, capabilities and features - ✔✔Implementing
✔✔WIP limited by downstream capacity - ✔✔
✔✔Teams begin implementing at program increment boundaries - ✔✔implementing
✔✔Epic tracking continues - ✔✔Implementing
✔✔Anticipated outcome hypothesis evaluated - ✔✔
✔✔pivot or persevere decision made - ✔✔Done
✔✔where do features come from? - ✔✔Through preparation of epics for MVP
✔✔Product Owners - ✔✔
✔✔Architectural runway - ✔✔
✔✔Emerge locally from the ARTLLP - ✔✔
✔✔communitcates strategix intent, and readies the Agile Release Train for launch -
✔✔Vision
✔✔Is a description of the future state of a solution - ✔✔the Vision
✔✔Answers where are we headed with this Product or Solution? - ✔✔Vision
✔✔Answers, what problems does it solve? - ✔✔the vision
✔✔Answers, What features and benefit hypothesis does it provide? - ✔✔The Vision
✔✔Answers, For whom does it provide them? - ✔✔The vision
✔✔Answers, what nonfunctional requirements does the solution drive? - ✔✔The vision
✔✔What are common formats for the vision? - ✔✔-Rolling wave briefings
✔✔-Vison documents - ✔✔
✔✔-preliminary data sheet - ✔✔
, ✔✔-Draft press release - ✔✔
✔✔what are the different forms of input to the solution and program vision? -
✔✔Customer feedback
✔✔Architect, system team other - ✔✔
✔✔Strategic themes - ✔✔
✔✔Solution backlog NFR - ✔✔
✔✔Solution context - ✔✔
✔✔Solution intent - ✔✔
✔✔Solution/ product management - ✔✔
✔✔Team inputs/ Agile team - ✔✔
✔✔Product owner - ✔✔
✔✔Often Derived from the Vision - ✔✔Roadmap and its attributes
✔✔What are Key Architecture concerns - ✔✔Non Functional requirements
✔✔It is created by the project manager - ✔✔Roadmap and its attributes
✔✔Exists on the spanning Palette in the SAFe Big Picture and so can exist at all levels
of the framework - ✔✔Roadmap and its attributes
✔✔General Plan of when business and enabler features will be delivered over the next
three PIs - ✔✔Roadmap and its attributes
✔✔Only the first PI is committed; the others are a forecast which will be adjusted based
on the learning from initial PI - ✔✔Roadmap and its attributes
✔✔What are methods used to visualize and manage the flow of value from ideation to
analysis, implementation, and release? - ✔✔The program and solution Kanban
✔✔What allows Agile release trains(Arts) and solution trains to manage capacity based
on the work in progress(WIP) limit of different states of the process? - ✔✔The Kanban
system
