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SAFe Advanced Scrum Master Exam
Practice Questions and Answers
Agile Architecture - ANSWER✔✔-Agile architecture is a set of values and practices that support the
active evolution of the design and
architecture of a system, concurrent with the implementation of new business functionality. With this
approach, the architecture of a system, even a large one, evolves over time while simultaneously
supporting the needs of current users. This avoids Big Up-Front Design (BUFD) and the starting and
stopping of stage-gated methods.
Agile Release Train (ART) - ANSWER✔✔-A long-lived and cross-functional team-of-Agile-teams, which
along with other stakeholders, develops and delivers solutions incrementally, using a series of fixed-
length Iterations within a Program Increment (PI) timebox. Aligns teams to a common business and
technology mission.
Agile Team - ANSWER✔✔-A cross-functional group of five to ten people who have the ability and
authority to define, build, and test some element of Solution value—all in a short Iteration timebox.
Specifically, it incorporates the DevTeam, Scrum Master, and Product Owner roles.
Architectural Runway - ANSWER✔✔-existing code, hardware components, etc., that technically enable
near-term business features
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Built-in Quality - ANSWER✔✔-Practices that ensure that each Solution element, at every increment,
meets appropriate quality standards throughout development.
Business Owners - ANSWER✔✔-A small group of stakeholders who have the primary business and
technical responsibility for governance, compliance, and Return on Investment for a Solution developed
by an Agile Release Train (ART). They are key stakeholders on the ART who must evaluate fitness for use
and actively participate in certain ART events.
CapEx and OpEx - ANSWER✔✔-Capital Expenses and Operating Expenses describe Lean-Agile financial
accounting practices in a Value Stream budget. In some cases, CapEx may include capitalized labor
associate with the development of intangible assets - such as software, intellectual property, and patents
Capabilities - ANSWER✔✔-A higher-level solution behavior that typically spans multiple ARTs.
Capabilities are sized and split into multiple features so that they can be implemented in a single PI.
Community of Practice (CoP) - ANSWER✔✔-An organized group of people with common interests in a
specific technical or business domain. They collaborate regularly to share information, improve their
skills, and actively work on advancing the general knowledge of the domain.
Compliance - ANSWER✔✔-A strategy and set of activities and artifacts that allow teams to apply Lean-
Agile development methods to build systems that have the highest possible possible quality, while
simultaneously assuring they meet any regulatory, industry, or relevant standards.
Continuous Delivery Pipeline - ANSWER✔✔-CD Pipeline (also referred to as 'pipeline') represents the
workflows, activities, and automation needed to provide a continuous release of value to the end user.
Continuous Deployment (CD) - ANSWER✔✔-The process that takes validated Features from Continuous
Integration and deploys them into the production environment, where they are tested and readied for
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SAFe Advanced Scrum Master Exam
Practice Questions and Answers
Agile Architecture - ANSWER✔✔-Agile architecture is a set of values and practices that support the
active evolution of the design and
architecture of a system, concurrent with the implementation of new business functionality. With this
approach, the architecture of a system, even a large one, evolves over time while simultaneously
supporting the needs of current users. This avoids Big Up-Front Design (BUFD) and the starting and
stopping of stage-gated methods.
Agile Release Train (ART) - ANSWER✔✔-A long-lived and cross-functional team-of-Agile-teams, which
along with other stakeholders, develops and delivers solutions incrementally, using a series of fixed-
length Iterations within a Program Increment (PI) timebox. Aligns teams to a common business and
technology mission.
Agile Team - ANSWER✔✔-A cross-functional group of five to ten people who have the ability and
authority to define, build, and test some element of Solution value—all in a short Iteration timebox.
Specifically, it incorporates the DevTeam, Scrum Master, and Product Owner roles.
Architectural Runway - ANSWER✔✔-existing code, hardware components, etc., that technically enable
near-term business features
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Built-in Quality - ANSWER✔✔-Practices that ensure that each Solution element, at every increment,
meets appropriate quality standards throughout development.
Business Owners - ANSWER✔✔-A small group of stakeholders who have the primary business and
technical responsibility for governance, compliance, and Return on Investment for a Solution developed
by an Agile Release Train (ART). They are key stakeholders on the ART who must evaluate fitness for use
and actively participate in certain ART events.
CapEx and OpEx - ANSWER✔✔-Capital Expenses and Operating Expenses describe Lean-Agile financial
accounting practices in a Value Stream budget. In some cases, CapEx may include capitalized labor
associate with the development of intangible assets - such as software, intellectual property, and patents
Capabilities - ANSWER✔✔-A higher-level solution behavior that typically spans multiple ARTs.
Capabilities are sized and split into multiple features so that they can be implemented in a single PI.
Community of Practice (CoP) - ANSWER✔✔-An organized group of people with common interests in a
specific technical or business domain. They collaborate regularly to share information, improve their
skills, and actively work on advancing the general knowledge of the domain.
Compliance - ANSWER✔✔-A strategy and set of activities and artifacts that allow teams to apply Lean-
Agile development methods to build systems that have the highest possible possible quality, while
simultaneously assuring they meet any regulatory, industry, or relevant standards.
Continuous Delivery Pipeline - ANSWER✔✔-CD Pipeline (also referred to as 'pipeline') represents the
workflows, activities, and automation needed to provide a continuous release of value to the end user.
Continuous Deployment (CD) - ANSWER✔✔-The process that takes validated Features from Continuous
Integration and deploys them into the production environment, where they are tested and readied for
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