SAFE AGILE ADVANCED SCRUM MASTER EXAM 2024
NEWEST 150 QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED
ANSWERS (100% CORRECT) /ALREADY GRADED A+
Who or which group is responsible for providing architectural guidance to the Agile
Release Train?
1. Product Management
2. System Team
3. Enterprise Architect
4. System Architect - ANSWER: System Architect
Why is transparency so important in SAFe?
1. Lean works when an organization is transparent yet finds a way to monitor access
to information
2. To enable continuous delivery of value
3. Moderate improvements are achieved with ongoing transparency
4. Transparency creates trust, and trust is required for risk-taking - ANSWER:
Transparency creates trust, and trust is required for risk taking
When are the tests written in a Test-driven Development environment?
1. While creating the Product Requirements document
2. Just before deployment ("Just in Time")
3. While the code is being written
4. Before the code is written - ANSWER: Before the Code is Written
What is an Iteration Retrospective?
1. It is used by Agile teams to reflect on the timebox just completed and to develop
new ideas to improve the process
2. It is used to build the context that allows the Agile Release Trains and suppliers to
create their plans during the Program Increment
3. It requires the Scrum Masters to gather ideas and possible solutions by reviewing
past Program Increments
4. It gathers the stakeholders together to review past case studies from other
companies - ANSWER: It is used by Agile Teams to reflect on the timebox just
completed and to develop new ideas to improve the process
What is something an Agile Team would develop?
1. Firmware
2. Workflow steps
3. Program Increment (PI) Objectives
4. Work breakdown structures - ANSWER: Program Increment (PI) Objectives
How do Agile Teams strive to continuously integrate assets?
1. Integrate vertically sliced user stories
2. Leave as much as possible to the System Team
3. Avoid integrating hardware branches
,4. Seek to physically branch software - ANSWER: Integrate vertically sliced user
stories
For the past week Lee has been late to the Daily Stand-up. What is the Scrum
Master's best course of action?
1. Change the time of the Daily Stand-up until all participants can meet each day
2. Escalate the issue to Lee's functional manager and explain what is happening
3. Update the working agreements to clearly state the importance of the Daily Stand-
up, and why the team is less effective if she misses
4. In a private conversation, work with Lee to identify a solution and explain why her
presence is so necessary for success - ANSWER: In a private conversation, work with
Lee to identify a solution and explain why her presence is so necessary for success
The four levels of the Scaled Agile Framework Definition of Done include which
elements?
1. Iteration Review, System Increment, Solution Demo, Release
2. Team Review, Inspect and Adapt, Solution Demo, System Demo
3. Team Increment, System Increment, Solution Increment, Release
4. Team Retrospective, System Demo, Solution Increment, Review - ANSWER: Team
Increment, System Increment, Solution Increment, Release
What is an important outcome of Inspect and Adapt?
1. Analyze and approve Program Epics
2. Identify improvement items for the next PI
3. Identify all out-of-scope work
4. Agree on what will be committed to in the next PI - ANSWER: Identify
improvement items for the next PI
Why do Lean-Agile leaders try to connect the silos of business, system engineering,
hardware, software, test, and quality assurance?
1. To allow friction between the teams
2. To align around value
3. To optimize vertical communication
4. To enforce organizational boundaries between functions - ANSWER: To align
around value
What is the role of the Scrum Master?
1. To coordinate Portfolio Epics through the Portfolio Kanban system
2. To be a stakeholder who has the primary business and technical responsibility for
fitness for use
3. To act as a servant leader who helps teams self-organize, self-manage, and deliver
using effective Agile practices
, 4. To facilitate Agile Release Train processes and Solution Train execution - ANSWER:
To act as a servant leader who helps teams self-organize, self-manage, and deliver
using effective Agile practices
What is an example of a program event?
1. Daily stand-up
2. Scrum of scrums
3. Innovation and Planning
4. Iteration review - ANSWER: Scrum of scrums
What is typically included in the definition of done for the team increment?
1. Customer documentation is ready
2. Regression testing is done
3. Stories are accepted by the Product Owner
4. Stories are accepted by Product Management - ANSWER: Stories are accepted by
the Product Owner
Iteration planning, Iteration review, and backlog refinement are examples of which
type of event?
1. Program Event
2. Team Event
3. Sync Event
4. PI Event - ANSWER: Team Event
What is an example of a modified Fibonacci sequence?
1. ...1, 1, 3, 5, 5...
2. ...5, 8, 13, 21, 34...
3. ...5, 8, 13, 20, 40...
4. ... 2, 4, 5, 9, 11... - ANSWER: 3. ...5, 8, 13, 20, 40...
Which statement describes one element of the CALMR approach to DevOps?
1. Build cross-functional Agile Release Trains around the flow of value to the
Customer
2. Keep everything under version control
3. Decentralize decision making
4. Establish a work environment of shared responsibility - ANSWER: 4. Establish a
work environment of shared responsibility
What is the goal of the SAFe House of Lean model?
1. Value
2. Innovation
3. Relentless Improvement
4. Flow - ANSWER: 1. Value
The Inspect and Adapt event always starts with which activity?
1. Agreement on the problems to solve
NEWEST 150 QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED
ANSWERS (100% CORRECT) /ALREADY GRADED A+
Who or which group is responsible for providing architectural guidance to the Agile
Release Train?
1. Product Management
2. System Team
3. Enterprise Architect
4. System Architect - ANSWER: System Architect
Why is transparency so important in SAFe?
1. Lean works when an organization is transparent yet finds a way to monitor access
to information
2. To enable continuous delivery of value
3. Moderate improvements are achieved with ongoing transparency
4. Transparency creates trust, and trust is required for risk-taking - ANSWER:
Transparency creates trust, and trust is required for risk taking
When are the tests written in a Test-driven Development environment?
1. While creating the Product Requirements document
2. Just before deployment ("Just in Time")
3. While the code is being written
4. Before the code is written - ANSWER: Before the Code is Written
What is an Iteration Retrospective?
1. It is used by Agile teams to reflect on the timebox just completed and to develop
new ideas to improve the process
2. It is used to build the context that allows the Agile Release Trains and suppliers to
create their plans during the Program Increment
3. It requires the Scrum Masters to gather ideas and possible solutions by reviewing
past Program Increments
4. It gathers the stakeholders together to review past case studies from other
companies - ANSWER: It is used by Agile Teams to reflect on the timebox just
completed and to develop new ideas to improve the process
What is something an Agile Team would develop?
1. Firmware
2. Workflow steps
3. Program Increment (PI) Objectives
4. Work breakdown structures - ANSWER: Program Increment (PI) Objectives
How do Agile Teams strive to continuously integrate assets?
1. Integrate vertically sliced user stories
2. Leave as much as possible to the System Team
3. Avoid integrating hardware branches
,4. Seek to physically branch software - ANSWER: Integrate vertically sliced user
stories
For the past week Lee has been late to the Daily Stand-up. What is the Scrum
Master's best course of action?
1. Change the time of the Daily Stand-up until all participants can meet each day
2. Escalate the issue to Lee's functional manager and explain what is happening
3. Update the working agreements to clearly state the importance of the Daily Stand-
up, and why the team is less effective if she misses
4. In a private conversation, work with Lee to identify a solution and explain why her
presence is so necessary for success - ANSWER: In a private conversation, work with
Lee to identify a solution and explain why her presence is so necessary for success
The four levels of the Scaled Agile Framework Definition of Done include which
elements?
1. Iteration Review, System Increment, Solution Demo, Release
2. Team Review, Inspect and Adapt, Solution Demo, System Demo
3. Team Increment, System Increment, Solution Increment, Release
4. Team Retrospective, System Demo, Solution Increment, Review - ANSWER: Team
Increment, System Increment, Solution Increment, Release
What is an important outcome of Inspect and Adapt?
1. Analyze and approve Program Epics
2. Identify improvement items for the next PI
3. Identify all out-of-scope work
4. Agree on what will be committed to in the next PI - ANSWER: Identify
improvement items for the next PI
Why do Lean-Agile leaders try to connect the silos of business, system engineering,
hardware, software, test, and quality assurance?
1. To allow friction between the teams
2. To align around value
3. To optimize vertical communication
4. To enforce organizational boundaries between functions - ANSWER: To align
around value
What is the role of the Scrum Master?
1. To coordinate Portfolio Epics through the Portfolio Kanban system
2. To be a stakeholder who has the primary business and technical responsibility for
fitness for use
3. To act as a servant leader who helps teams self-organize, self-manage, and deliver
using effective Agile practices
, 4. To facilitate Agile Release Train processes and Solution Train execution - ANSWER:
To act as a servant leader who helps teams self-organize, self-manage, and deliver
using effective Agile practices
What is an example of a program event?
1. Daily stand-up
2. Scrum of scrums
3. Innovation and Planning
4. Iteration review - ANSWER: Scrum of scrums
What is typically included in the definition of done for the team increment?
1. Customer documentation is ready
2. Regression testing is done
3. Stories are accepted by the Product Owner
4. Stories are accepted by Product Management - ANSWER: Stories are accepted by
the Product Owner
Iteration planning, Iteration review, and backlog refinement are examples of which
type of event?
1. Program Event
2. Team Event
3. Sync Event
4. PI Event - ANSWER: Team Event
What is an example of a modified Fibonacci sequence?
1. ...1, 1, 3, 5, 5...
2. ...5, 8, 13, 21, 34...
3. ...5, 8, 13, 20, 40...
4. ... 2, 4, 5, 9, 11... - ANSWER: 3. ...5, 8, 13, 20, 40...
Which statement describes one element of the CALMR approach to DevOps?
1. Build cross-functional Agile Release Trains around the flow of value to the
Customer
2. Keep everything under version control
3. Decentralize decision making
4. Establish a work environment of shared responsibility - ANSWER: 4. Establish a
work environment of shared responsibility
What is the goal of the SAFe House of Lean model?
1. Value
2. Innovation
3. Relentless Improvement
4. Flow - ANSWER: 1. Value
The Inspect and Adapt event always starts with which activity?
1. Agreement on the problems to solve
