SAFe DevOps Question and Answer [2026] |
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam | Final Review
• 4 continuous security aspects in DevOps -✓✓ Continuous Security Monitoring,
Penetration Testing, Threat Modeling, Application Security
• 5 continuous testing aspects in DevOps -✓✓ BDD, TDD, Test Automation,
Production Testing, Continuous Monitoring
• What is CALMR? -✓✓ SAFE's approach to DevOps. Stands for:
Culture - Customer-centricity, collaboration, risk tolerance (reward risk taking and
experiments) knowledge sharing
Automation - Automating the Continuous Delivery Pipeline via an integrated 'tool
chain' (Figure 2) accelerates processing time and shrinks feedback cycles. It is this
feedback—from customers, stakeholders, solutions, infrastructure, and the pipeline
itself—that provides objective evidence that solutions are (or are not) delivering
expected value. Includes:
Value Stream Management (VSM) - VSM tools 'wrap' the continuous delivery
pipeline from end to end, providing real time visibility into the health and
efficiency of the value stream itself.
Version Control - These are tools that store and manage changes to source and
configuration files that define the behavior of solutions, systems, and
infrastructure.
Infrastructure as code (IaC) - As a discipline, infrastructure-as-code treats all
systems as highly configurable, expendable commodities. Tools in this category
enable all manner of computing infrastructure to be built, deployed, changed, and
destroyed on demand.
Test Automation - Test automation can be a significant source of delivery
acceleration and typically applies to all forms of unit, component, integration,
,regression, performance, acceptance, and usability testing except exploratory
testing.
Vulnerability Detection - These tools span much of the continuous delivery
pipeline and are specifically designed to detect security vulnerabilities in code,
networks, and infrastructure.
CI/CD - Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) tools are
typically invoked automatically upon code commit and orchestrate build,
integration, testing, compliance, and deployment activities.
Monitoring and Analytics - These tools collect usage and performance data from
• What is Continuous Exploration and its activities? -✓✓ Create alignment on what
needs to be built. Use design thinking to understand market problem/customer
need and solution required.
Hypothesize, Collaborate & Research, Architect, Synthesize
Includes learning milestones, customer feedback loops, and Set-Based Design
(keeps requirements and design options flexible for as long as possible during the
development process, explores multiple options)
• Continuous Exploration business goal -✓✓ Alignment
• Innovation accounting stresses the importance of avoiding what? -✓✓ Vanity
Metrics
• Which IT objective is aligned to Built-in Quality? -✓✓ Continuous Integration
(Cl)
• What are activities aligned with Built-in Quality? -✓✓ Develop, Build, Test end-
to-end, Stage
, • Why are canary releases used? -✓✓ These provide a mechanism for releasing the
solution to a specific Customer segment and measuring the results, before
expanding and releasing to more customers
• After the team maps the steps of the current state Value Stream during value
stream mapping, what are the next two steps? -✓✓ Understanding Opportunities
and Threat. Evaluating Alternatives to Determine a Future State.
• Five dimensions of built-in quality -✓✓ Flow. Architecture & Design Quality.
Code Quality. System Quality. Release Quality
• How is Flow achieved in built-in quality -✓✓ Test-First and a Continuous
Delivery Pipeline
• How Architecture & Design Quality is achieved in built-in quality -✓✓ Support
Future Business Needs. Design for Quality. Architecting and Designing to Ease
Testing. Apply Design Quality in Cyber Physical Systems
• How Code Quality is achieved in built-in quality -✓✓ Unit Testing and Test-
Driven Development. Pair Work. Collective Ownership and Coding Standards.
Applying Code Quality in Cyber-Physical Systems.
• How System Quality is achieved in built-in quality -✓✓ Create Alignment to
Achieve Fast Flow. Continuously Integrate the End-to-End Solution. Continuously
Integrate the End-to-End Solution
• How Release Quality is achieved in built-in quality -✓✓ Supporting Compliance.
Scalable Definition of Done.
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam | Final Review
• 4 continuous security aspects in DevOps -✓✓ Continuous Security Monitoring,
Penetration Testing, Threat Modeling, Application Security
• 5 continuous testing aspects in DevOps -✓✓ BDD, TDD, Test Automation,
Production Testing, Continuous Monitoring
• What is CALMR? -✓✓ SAFE's approach to DevOps. Stands for:
Culture - Customer-centricity, collaboration, risk tolerance (reward risk taking and
experiments) knowledge sharing
Automation - Automating the Continuous Delivery Pipeline via an integrated 'tool
chain' (Figure 2) accelerates processing time and shrinks feedback cycles. It is this
feedback—from customers, stakeholders, solutions, infrastructure, and the pipeline
itself—that provides objective evidence that solutions are (or are not) delivering
expected value. Includes:
Value Stream Management (VSM) - VSM tools 'wrap' the continuous delivery
pipeline from end to end, providing real time visibility into the health and
efficiency of the value stream itself.
Version Control - These are tools that store and manage changes to source and
configuration files that define the behavior of solutions, systems, and
infrastructure.
Infrastructure as code (IaC) - As a discipline, infrastructure-as-code treats all
systems as highly configurable, expendable commodities. Tools in this category
enable all manner of computing infrastructure to be built, deployed, changed, and
destroyed on demand.
Test Automation - Test automation can be a significant source of delivery
acceleration and typically applies to all forms of unit, component, integration,
,regression, performance, acceptance, and usability testing except exploratory
testing.
Vulnerability Detection - These tools span much of the continuous delivery
pipeline and are specifically designed to detect security vulnerabilities in code,
networks, and infrastructure.
CI/CD - Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) tools are
typically invoked automatically upon code commit and orchestrate build,
integration, testing, compliance, and deployment activities.
Monitoring and Analytics - These tools collect usage and performance data from
• What is Continuous Exploration and its activities? -✓✓ Create alignment on what
needs to be built. Use design thinking to understand market problem/customer
need and solution required.
Hypothesize, Collaborate & Research, Architect, Synthesize
Includes learning milestones, customer feedback loops, and Set-Based Design
(keeps requirements and design options flexible for as long as possible during the
development process, explores multiple options)
• Continuous Exploration business goal -✓✓ Alignment
• Innovation accounting stresses the importance of avoiding what? -✓✓ Vanity
Metrics
• Which IT objective is aligned to Built-in Quality? -✓✓ Continuous Integration
(Cl)
• What are activities aligned with Built-in Quality? -✓✓ Develop, Build, Test end-
to-end, Stage
, • Why are canary releases used? -✓✓ These provide a mechanism for releasing the
solution to a specific Customer segment and measuring the results, before
expanding and releasing to more customers
• After the team maps the steps of the current state Value Stream during value
stream mapping, what are the next two steps? -✓✓ Understanding Opportunities
and Threat. Evaluating Alternatives to Determine a Future State.
• Five dimensions of built-in quality -✓✓ Flow. Architecture & Design Quality.
Code Quality. System Quality. Release Quality
• How is Flow achieved in built-in quality -✓✓ Test-First and a Continuous
Delivery Pipeline
• How Architecture & Design Quality is achieved in built-in quality -✓✓ Support
Future Business Needs. Design for Quality. Architecting and Designing to Ease
Testing. Apply Design Quality in Cyber Physical Systems
• How Code Quality is achieved in built-in quality -✓✓ Unit Testing and Test-
Driven Development. Pair Work. Collective Ownership and Coding Standards.
Applying Code Quality in Cyber-Physical Systems.
• How System Quality is achieved in built-in quality -✓✓ Create Alignment to
Achieve Fast Flow. Continuously Integrate the End-to-End Solution. Continuously
Integrate the End-to-End Solution
• How Release Quality is achieved in built-in quality -✓✓ Supporting Compliance.
Scalable Definition of Done.
