SAFe APM PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH
DETAILED EXPLANATIONS 2026
◉ How can trust be gained between the business and development?
A. Automate the delivery pipeline
B. Deliver predictability
C. Release new value to production every day
D. Maintain Iterations as a safe zone.
Answer: B. Deliver predictability
◉ What does the Continuous Delivery Pipeline enable?
A. Continuous refactoring
B. Delivery of large batches
C. Ongoing learning
D. Increased technical debt.
Answer: C. Ongoing Learning
◉ What is one component of a Guardrail in Lean Portfolio
Management?
,A. Participatory budgeting forums that lead to Value Stream budget
changes
B. Determining if business needs meet the Portfolio Threshold
C. Capacity allocation of the Value Stream compared to process
mapping
D. Allocation of centralized vs decentralized decisions in the
Enterprise.
Answer: C. Capacity allocation of the Value Stream compared to
process mapping
◉ Which pillar in the House of Lean focuses on the Customer being
the consumer of the work?
A. Value
B. Innovation
C. Respect for People & Culture
D. Flow.
Answer: C. Respect for People & Culture
◉ What is one key purpose of DevOps?
A. DevOps focuses on a set of practices applied to large systems
,B. DevOps joins development & operations to enable continuous
delivery
C. DevOps enables continuous release by building a scalable
Continuous Delivery Pipeline
D. DevOps focuses on automating the delivery pipeline to reduce
transaction cost.
Answer: B. DevOps joins development & operations to enable
continuous delivery
◉ What is one example of differentiating business objectives?
A. Enterprise Goals
B. Portfolio Vision
C. Strategic Themes
D. Solution Intent.
Answer: C. Strategic Themes
◉ Which of the following methods for gathering customer feedback
relies on building analytic systems to deliver information about how
customers are using the Solution?
A. Continuous Exploration
B. Telemetry
, C. Continuous Integration
D. Refactoring.
Answer: B. Telemetry
◉ Which of the following team-level events does SAFe recommend
running on a cadence during the PI for SAFe Scrum Teams?
A. Portfolio Review
B. Portfolio Demo
C. Iteration Review
D. Iteration Demo.
Answer: C. Iteration Review
◉ What is the product vision?
A. A method for aligning to the product direction
B. The user stories required to meet customer needs
C. A set of prioritized Features
D. An explanation of the architectural runway needed to deliver
products to the customer.
Answer: A. A method for aligning to the product direction
DETAILED EXPLANATIONS 2026
◉ How can trust be gained between the business and development?
A. Automate the delivery pipeline
B. Deliver predictability
C. Release new value to production every day
D. Maintain Iterations as a safe zone.
Answer: B. Deliver predictability
◉ What does the Continuous Delivery Pipeline enable?
A. Continuous refactoring
B. Delivery of large batches
C. Ongoing learning
D. Increased technical debt.
Answer: C. Ongoing Learning
◉ What is one component of a Guardrail in Lean Portfolio
Management?
,A. Participatory budgeting forums that lead to Value Stream budget
changes
B. Determining if business needs meet the Portfolio Threshold
C. Capacity allocation of the Value Stream compared to process
mapping
D. Allocation of centralized vs decentralized decisions in the
Enterprise.
Answer: C. Capacity allocation of the Value Stream compared to
process mapping
◉ Which pillar in the House of Lean focuses on the Customer being
the consumer of the work?
A. Value
B. Innovation
C. Respect for People & Culture
D. Flow.
Answer: C. Respect for People & Culture
◉ What is one key purpose of DevOps?
A. DevOps focuses on a set of practices applied to large systems
,B. DevOps joins development & operations to enable continuous
delivery
C. DevOps enables continuous release by building a scalable
Continuous Delivery Pipeline
D. DevOps focuses on automating the delivery pipeline to reduce
transaction cost.
Answer: B. DevOps joins development & operations to enable
continuous delivery
◉ What is one example of differentiating business objectives?
A. Enterprise Goals
B. Portfolio Vision
C. Strategic Themes
D. Solution Intent.
Answer: C. Strategic Themes
◉ Which of the following methods for gathering customer feedback
relies on building analytic systems to deliver information about how
customers are using the Solution?
A. Continuous Exploration
B. Telemetry
, C. Continuous Integration
D. Refactoring.
Answer: B. Telemetry
◉ Which of the following team-level events does SAFe recommend
running on a cadence during the PI for SAFe Scrum Teams?
A. Portfolio Review
B. Portfolio Demo
C. Iteration Review
D. Iteration Demo.
Answer: C. Iteration Review
◉ What is the product vision?
A. A method for aligning to the product direction
B. The user stories required to meet customer needs
C. A set of prioritized Features
D. An explanation of the architectural runway needed to deliver
products to the customer.
Answer: A. A method for aligning to the product direction
