Advanced Scrum Master - Agile SAFe Version 4.6.0 - Practice Exam with Correct Answers .

Which of the below is NOT a characteristics of an effective Agile Team: a) Able to reliably deliver b) Collaborates to achieve Iteration goals and PI Objectives c) Sustains a predictable pace of development d) Its members never challenged each other's ideas - Correct Answers D) AGILE TEAM MEMBERS ARE NOT AFRAID TO CHALLENGE EACH OTHER'S IDEAS FOR THE ULTIMATE WIN. Adv. Scrum Master B&W - Slide 1-11 Agile Release Trains are organized around the ability to release value on demand through the ________________________________. - Correct Answers Continuous Delivery Pipeline Adv. Scrum Master B&W - Slide 1-19 Solution Trains deliver Business Solutions and Lean Systems by managing frequent integration, continuously addressing compliance concerns, coordinating multiple ARTs & suppliers and: a) Providing training for single ARTs b) Architecting for scale, modularity, releasability, and serviceability. c) Ensuring the Solutions stay within budgets d) Architecting for scale and immediate release on demand. - Correct Answers b) Architecting for scale, modularity, releasability and serviceability. Adv. Scrum Master B&W - Slide 1-19 ______________________ is made up of Strategy & Investment Funding, Lean Governance, and Agile Portfolio Operations. - Correct Answers Lean Portfolio Management Adv. Scrum Master B&W - Slide 1-20 TRUE OR FALSE: Taking an economic view does not always require knowing dollarized value but is rather a general thinking tool. - Correct Answers TRUE Adv. Scrum Master B&W - Slide 1-21 TRUE-FALSE Building Enterprise-Class Software and cyber-physical systems are one of the most complex challenges our industry faces today. - Correct Answers TRUE Within the Agile community, a person who has a deep specialization in one domain, but rarely contributes outside of that domain is a/an: a) E shaped person b) T Shaped person c) I shaped person d) None of the above - Correct Answers C - I shaped person Source: Agile Practice Guide, Agile Alliance PMI Global Standards; Page 42 TRUE OR FALSE When using Systems Thinking, you would agree that optimizing a component does not optimize the system. - Correct Answers TRUE Adv. Scrum Master B&W - Slide 2-9 What type of anti-pattern is below: "The Agile Team has more than one Product Owner." - Correct Answers A Structural Anti-Pattern1 Adv. Scrum Master B&W - Slide 3-4 Centralize decisions that are infrequent, long-lasting and ______________. a) generates revenues b) have insignificant economies of scale c) insignificant d) have significant economies of scale - Correct Answers d) have significant economies of scale. Adv. Scrum Master B&W - Slide 2-49 TRUE OR FALSE An honest effort at careful problem definition will avoid the "ready, fire, aim" approach that is so common in problem-solving. - Correct Answers TRUE Adv. Scrum Master B&W - Slide 7-12 Kanban is a _____________ system that visualizes work flow and uses WIP limits at different work flow steps to facilitate the flow. a) integrated b) private c) pull d) push - Correct Answers C- PULL Adv. Scrum Master B&W - Slide 5-4 The average time a backlog item spends in the system after it's been pulled from the backlog and before it is accepted defines: a) throughput b) average WIP in the system c) average cycle time d) backlog WIP - Correct Answers C - Average cycle time Adv. Scrum Master B&W - Slide 5-16 The PI Predictability Measure shows whether achievements fall into an acceptable _________________________________. 1) testing plan 2) process control band 3) control document 4) None of the above - Correct Answers 2 - process control band. Source: Adv. Scrum Master B&W - Slide 4-66 Cumulative Flow shows: a) Opportunities to improve b) Rate of acceptance c) Average cycle times d) All of the above - Correct Answers d) All of the above Adv. Scrum Master B&W - Slide 5-14 The goal of DevOps is to improve collaboration across the value stream by developing and automating a ____________________________________. a) Implementation Roadmap b) Development routine c) Delivery on Demand structure d) Continuous Delivery Pipeline - Correct Answers d) Continuous Delivery Pipeline SAFe's CALMR approach to DevOps does NOT include the following: a) Culture of shared responsibility b) Measurement of everything c) Recovery causes high-risk releases d) Lean flow accelerates delivery - Correct Answers c) Recovery enables low risk releases Adv. Scrum Master B&W - Slide 4-76 Reducing transaction costs reduces total costs and shifts: a) transaction costs lower b) optimum batch size lower c) items per batch lower d) transactions costs higher - Correct Answers b) Optimum batch size lower. Adv. Scrum Master B&W - slide 2-39 _______________________________ are the primary artifact used to define system behavior in Agile. a) Requirements b) Business ideas c) Vision documents d) Stories - Correct Answers d) Stories At the end of a two-day planning meeting, a team does not have a committed plan. Do they: a) Leave and meet in a day or two b) Stay until they get a committed plan c) Have an executive assign them a plan d) Have the RTE assign the a plan - Correct Answers b) Stay until they get a committed plan and ROAM their risks and impediments. Adv. Scrum Master B&W - slide 4-51 Kanban does everything EXCEPT: a) It helps control financial budget targets b) It helps improve Iteration outcomes c) It allows better visibility into the progress of work bbased on the team-specific work flow. d) It connects capacity based planning in Scrum with a throughput based approach - Correct Answers a) KANBAN DOES NOT HELP CONTROL FINANCIAL BUDGET TARGETS Adv. Scrum Master B&W - slide 5-10 A balance between emergent design and intentional architecture is required for: a) a successful implementation b) an empirical architecture c) speed of development and maintainability d) speed of development and control - Correct Answers c) speed of development and maintainability Adv. Scrum Master B&W - slide 5-25 A C+ developer who also knows Java very well, is deep into SQL and various databases would be considered a: a) I-Shaped team member b) T-Shaped team member c) E-Shaped team member d) M-Shaped team member - Correct Answers c) E Shaped (executes various skills, combination of skills) Adv. Scrum Master B&W - slide 6-18 What are the three crucial characteristics of Communities of Practice? *Choose 3* a) Domain - What we care about b) Practice - What we do together about it c) Team Inside-Outs - How we continuously learn d) Community - Who cares about it - Correct Answers A - Domain B - Practice D - Community Adv. Scrum Master B&W - slide 6-21 True or False: There is no way a team can fail if they carry out all of the Scrum or Lean-Agile events successfully. - Correct Answers FALSE (See Poor Collaboration) Adv. Scrum Master B&W - slide 6-5. True or False Is it the Scrum Master's job to foster collaboration among team members? - Correct Answers TRUE - Fostering collaboration is one of the ost inportant tasks o a Scrum Master. Adv. Scrum Master B&W - slide 6-5 Collective test ownership is important because it: a) facilitates shared understanding of system behavior b) facilitates the acceptance test criteria c) ensures all team members have tested the system d) ensures that the system has been fully tested - Correct Answers a) facilitates shared understanding of system behavior Adv. Scrum Master B&W - slide 5-35 True or False A Scrum Master facilitates the adoption of technical practices because it helps the team mature in their Definition of Done and Encourages pairing and peer review. - Correct Answers TRUE Adv. Scrum Master B&W - slide 5-38 Scrum Masters can create an environment for continuous learning by supporting the following: a) Team inside-outs b) Community of Practice c) Coding Dojo d) All of the above - Correct Answers d) All of the above Adv. Scrum Master B&W - slide 5-39 TRUE OR FALSE A Team Inside Out is usually 30 - 60 minutes and is scheduled once per 1 - 2 iterations. - Correct Answers True Adv. Scrum Master B&W - slide 5-40 What are the 3 Factors that lead to better performance and personal satisfaction? (CHOOSE 3) a) Autonomy b) Challenges c) Mastery d) Purpose - Correct Answers a, c, d Adv. Scrum Master B&W - slide 6-14 Collective ownership addresses bottlenecks, increases velocity and encourages: (choose one) a) shared contribution b) shared funding c) shared responsibility d) shared standard setting - Correct Answers a) Shared contribution Adv. Scrum Master B&W - slide 5-35 Which of the following is NOT one of the three "C's" of a story: a) Collect b) Card c) Conversation d) Confirmation - Correct Answers a) Collect Three C's of a user story are: Card, Conversation, Confirmation The 5-Whys is used to avoid: a) blaming others b) black holes c) assumptions and logic traps d) logic traps and anomolies - Correct Answers c) assumptions and logic traps Adv. Scrum Master B&W - slide 7-16 Some teams break each story into tasks. As the tasks are identified, team members discuss each one: who would be the best person(s) to accomplish it, approximately how long it will take (typically in hours), and any dependencies it may have on other tasks or stories. Is this practice mandated by SAFe? a) YES b) NO - Correct Answers b) NO While breaking stories into tasks is fairly common, it is OPTIONAL and not mandated in SAFe. It is mostly used by beginner teams to learn their velocity and capabilities, and then they become unnecessary, with the team planning only with stories. The Inspect and Adapt (I&A) event has three parts; which of the below does NOT belong: a) The PI System Demo of the Solution's current state b) Quantitative Measurement c) The Retrospective and Problem-Solving Workshop d) All of the above - Correct Answers d) All of the above. Adv. Scrum Master B&W - slide 7-4 True or False When calculating a Team's PI performance report, a team CAN achieve greater than 100%. - Correct Answers TRUE - A team can go above 100% as a result of stretch objectives achieved. Adv. Scrum Master B&W - slide 7-7 Individual Team PI performance reports are rolled up into the: a) Program Increment Tally b) Program Increment Results Ratio c) Program Predictability Report d) Program Metrics - Correct Answers c) Program Predictability Report