SaFe Agile Advanced Scrum Master Questions and
Answers Revised Analyzed and Graded A+
A team achieved less than 80% predictability during the quantitative measurement of the Inspect
and Adapt event. What would be an unacceptable action for this team's Scrum Master to take? -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Decide improvement actions for the team to implement
A team's Product Owner (PO) takes an unexpected leave of absence for the last week of the
Iteration. Three of the team's Stories have been completed and are waiting to be accepted. -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Work with the Release Train Engineer to find a solution
Achieving the goals of Release on Demand requires an understanding of how to decouple what?
- CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -The release from deployment
An effective decision-making framework provides which two ultimate outcomes? (Choose two.)
- CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -WRONG!!! _////// Unlocks the intrinsic motivation of knowledge
workers;Improves flow; ///// Improves flow;Reduces WIP limits; // reduces delays as a result of
centralized decision making - improves flow /// Unlocks the intrinsic motivation of knowledge
workers; Reduces delays as a result of centralized decision-making
At the System Demo, each team demonstrates their own work, but the system is not integrated.
They say they underestimated the integration effort and cannot integrate every Iteration and also
meet the planned scope. What should the Scrum Master suggest? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -
Discuss removing scope with Product Management to allow for Continuous Integration
Considering individual skill sets, an E-shaped person has a combination of what? - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -Experience, expertise, exploration, and execution
, During Iteration planning, the Product Owner (PO) introduces a new Story to the team. They
cannot come to a consensus on the size of the new Story and ask the PO for more details. -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -No; the team left the Story in the Team Backlog for further
refinement with the PO
During Iteration Review, the team decides to carry forward three Stories to the next Iteration.
This is the second time during this PI that some of the team's Stories are carried over. What are
two actions the Scrum Master should take? (Choose two.) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Discuss
the issue at the Iteration Retrospective;Perform the 5 Whys to find the root cause of the delays;
During PI Planning, the scrum of scrums meetings help accomplish which two actions? (Choose
two.) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Keeping the planning Milestones on track;Exposing risks,
impediments, and dependencies;
How can learning Milestones be used? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -To test the concept of a
new Feature or Capability
How do Agile Teams ensure their own retrospective improvement actions are implemented? -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Add improvement Stories to the team backlog to implement in the
next Iteration
How do Kanban teams implement the SAFe Lean-Agile Mindset of relentless improvement? -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -By using cumulative flow diagrams to objectively measure
bottlenecks and variation which could be due to systemic factors
How does a Scrum Master lead a team's efforts in relentless improvement? - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -By facilitating the Iteration Retrospective
Answers Revised Analyzed and Graded A+
A team achieved less than 80% predictability during the quantitative measurement of the Inspect
and Adapt event. What would be an unacceptable action for this team's Scrum Master to take? -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Decide improvement actions for the team to implement
A team's Product Owner (PO) takes an unexpected leave of absence for the last week of the
Iteration. Three of the team's Stories have been completed and are waiting to be accepted. -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Work with the Release Train Engineer to find a solution
Achieving the goals of Release on Demand requires an understanding of how to decouple what?
- CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -The release from deployment
An effective decision-making framework provides which two ultimate outcomes? (Choose two.)
- CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -WRONG!!! _////// Unlocks the intrinsic motivation of knowledge
workers;Improves flow; ///// Improves flow;Reduces WIP limits; // reduces delays as a result of
centralized decision making - improves flow /// Unlocks the intrinsic motivation of knowledge
workers; Reduces delays as a result of centralized decision-making
At the System Demo, each team demonstrates their own work, but the system is not integrated.
They say they underestimated the integration effort and cannot integrate every Iteration and also
meet the planned scope. What should the Scrum Master suggest? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -
Discuss removing scope with Product Management to allow for Continuous Integration
Considering individual skill sets, an E-shaped person has a combination of what? - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -Experience, expertise, exploration, and execution
, During Iteration planning, the Product Owner (PO) introduces a new Story to the team. They
cannot come to a consensus on the size of the new Story and ask the PO for more details. -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -No; the team left the Story in the Team Backlog for further
refinement with the PO
During Iteration Review, the team decides to carry forward three Stories to the next Iteration.
This is the second time during this PI that some of the team's Stories are carried over. What are
two actions the Scrum Master should take? (Choose two.) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Discuss
the issue at the Iteration Retrospective;Perform the 5 Whys to find the root cause of the delays;
During PI Planning, the scrum of scrums meetings help accomplish which two actions? (Choose
two.) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Keeping the planning Milestones on track;Exposing risks,
impediments, and dependencies;
How can learning Milestones be used? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -To test the concept of a
new Feature or Capability
How do Agile Teams ensure their own retrospective improvement actions are implemented? -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Add improvement Stories to the team backlog to implement in the
next Iteration
How do Kanban teams implement the SAFe Lean-Agile Mindset of relentless improvement? -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -By using cumulative flow diagrams to objectively measure
bottlenecks and variation which could be due to systemic factors
How does a Scrum Master lead a team's efforts in relentless improvement? - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -By facilitating the Iteration Retrospective
