SAFE AGILE UPDATED CORE EXAM MANUAL QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Customers - ✔✔ultimate buyer of every Solution. They are an integral part of the
Lean-Agile development process and the Value Stream and have specific
responsibilities in SAFe.
✔✔Dev Team - ✔✔subset of the Agile Team. It consists of dedicated professionals who
can develop, test, and deploy a Story, Feature, or component. The __ __ typically
includes software developers and testers, engineers, and other dedicated specialists
required to complete a vertical slice of functionality.
✔✔DevOps - ✔✔mindset, a culture, and a set of technical practices. It provides
communication, integration, automation, and close cooperation among all the people
needed to plan, develop, test, deploy, release, and maintain a Solution.
✔✔DevOps and Release on Demand - ✔✔competency describes how implementing
DevOps and a continuous delivery pipeline provides the enterprise with the capability to
release value, in whole or in part, at any time necessary to meet market and customer
demand.
✔✔Develop on Cadence - ✔✔essential method for managing the inherent variability of
systems development in a flow-based system, by making sure important events and
activities occur on a regular, predictable schedule.
✔✔Economic Framework - ✔✔set of decision guidelines that align everyone with the
financial objectives of the Solution and informs the economic decision-making process.
✔✔Enablers - ✔✔support the activities needed to extend the Architectural Runway to
provide future business functionality. These include exploration, infrastructure,
compliance, and architecture development. They are captured in the various backlogs
and occur at all levels of the Framework.
✔✔Enterprise - ✔✔the business entity to which each SAFe portfolio belongs.
✔✔Enterprise Architect - ✔✔promotes adaptive design, and engineering practices and
drives architectural initiatives for the portfolio. __ __s also facilitate the reuse of ideas,
components, services, and proven patterns across various solutions in a portfolio.
✔✔Epic - ✔✔container for a Solution development initiative large enough to require
analysis, the definition of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), and financial approval
before implementation. Implementation occurs over multiple Program Increments (PIs)
and follows the Lean startup 'build-measure-learn' cycle.
, ✔✔Epic Owners - ✔✔responsible for coordinating portfolio Epics through the Portfolio
Kanban system. They define the epic, its Minimum Viable Product (MVP), and Lean
business case, and when approved, facilitate implementation.
✔✔Essential SAFe configuration - ✔✔the basic building block for all SAFe
configurations and is the simplest starting point for implementation. It provides the Lean-
Agile Leadership competency, the Team and Technical Agility competency, and the
DevOps and Release on Demand competency.
✔✔Feature - ✔✔service that fulfills a stakeholder need. Each feature includes a benefit
hypothesis and acceptance criteria, and is sized or split as necessary to be delivered by
a single Agile Release Train (ART) in a Program Increment (PI).
✔✔Foundation - ✔✔contains the supporting principles, values, mindset, implementation
guidance, and leadership roles needed to deliver value successfully at scale.
✔✔Full SAFe configuration - ✔✔includes all Five Core Competencies of the Lean
Enterprise. It is the most comprehensive version of the Framework and supports
enterprises that build and maintain a portfolio of large and complex solutions.
✔✔Innovation and Planning Iteration - ✔✔occurs every Program Increment (PI) and
serves multiple purposes. It acts as an estimating buffer for meeting PI Objectives and
provides dedicated time for innovation, continuing education, PI Planning, and Inspect
and Adapt (I&A) events.
✔✔Inspect & Adapt (I&A) - ✔✔significant event, held at the end of each Program
Increment (PI), where the current state of the Solution is demonstrated and evaluated
by the train. Teams then reflect and identify improvement backlog items via a
structured, problem-solving workshop.
✔✔Iteration - ✔✔basic building block of Agile development. Each __ is a standard,
fixed-length timebox, where Agile Teams deliver incremental value in the form of
working, tested software and systems. The recommended duration of the timebox is two
weeks. However, one to four weeks is acceptable, depending on the business context.
✔✔Iteration Execution - ✔✔how Agile Teams manage their work throughout the
Iteration timebox, resulting in a high-quality, working, tested system increment.
✔✔Iteration Goals - ✔✔high-level summary of the business and technical goals that the
Agile Team agrees to accomplish in an Iteration. They are vital to coordinating an Agile
Release Train (ART) as a self-organizing, self-managing team of teams.
✔✔Iteration Planning - ✔✔event where all team members determine how much of the
Team Backlog they can commit to delivering during an upcoming Iteration. The team
summarizes the work as a set of committed Iteration Goals.
AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Customers - ✔✔ultimate buyer of every Solution. They are an integral part of the
Lean-Agile development process and the Value Stream and have specific
responsibilities in SAFe.
✔✔Dev Team - ✔✔subset of the Agile Team. It consists of dedicated professionals who
can develop, test, and deploy a Story, Feature, or component. The __ __ typically
includes software developers and testers, engineers, and other dedicated specialists
required to complete a vertical slice of functionality.
✔✔DevOps - ✔✔mindset, a culture, and a set of technical practices. It provides
communication, integration, automation, and close cooperation among all the people
needed to plan, develop, test, deploy, release, and maintain a Solution.
✔✔DevOps and Release on Demand - ✔✔competency describes how implementing
DevOps and a continuous delivery pipeline provides the enterprise with the capability to
release value, in whole or in part, at any time necessary to meet market and customer
demand.
✔✔Develop on Cadence - ✔✔essential method for managing the inherent variability of
systems development in a flow-based system, by making sure important events and
activities occur on a regular, predictable schedule.
✔✔Economic Framework - ✔✔set of decision guidelines that align everyone with the
financial objectives of the Solution and informs the economic decision-making process.
✔✔Enablers - ✔✔support the activities needed to extend the Architectural Runway to
provide future business functionality. These include exploration, infrastructure,
compliance, and architecture development. They are captured in the various backlogs
and occur at all levels of the Framework.
✔✔Enterprise - ✔✔the business entity to which each SAFe portfolio belongs.
✔✔Enterprise Architect - ✔✔promotes adaptive design, and engineering practices and
drives architectural initiatives for the portfolio. __ __s also facilitate the reuse of ideas,
components, services, and proven patterns across various solutions in a portfolio.
✔✔Epic - ✔✔container for a Solution development initiative large enough to require
analysis, the definition of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), and financial approval
before implementation. Implementation occurs over multiple Program Increments (PIs)
and follows the Lean startup 'build-measure-learn' cycle.
, ✔✔Epic Owners - ✔✔responsible for coordinating portfolio Epics through the Portfolio
Kanban system. They define the epic, its Minimum Viable Product (MVP), and Lean
business case, and when approved, facilitate implementation.
✔✔Essential SAFe configuration - ✔✔the basic building block for all SAFe
configurations and is the simplest starting point for implementation. It provides the Lean-
Agile Leadership competency, the Team and Technical Agility competency, and the
DevOps and Release on Demand competency.
✔✔Feature - ✔✔service that fulfills a stakeholder need. Each feature includes a benefit
hypothesis and acceptance criteria, and is sized or split as necessary to be delivered by
a single Agile Release Train (ART) in a Program Increment (PI).
✔✔Foundation - ✔✔contains the supporting principles, values, mindset, implementation
guidance, and leadership roles needed to deliver value successfully at scale.
✔✔Full SAFe configuration - ✔✔includes all Five Core Competencies of the Lean
Enterprise. It is the most comprehensive version of the Framework and supports
enterprises that build and maintain a portfolio of large and complex solutions.
✔✔Innovation and Planning Iteration - ✔✔occurs every Program Increment (PI) and
serves multiple purposes. It acts as an estimating buffer for meeting PI Objectives and
provides dedicated time for innovation, continuing education, PI Planning, and Inspect
and Adapt (I&A) events.
✔✔Inspect & Adapt (I&A) - ✔✔significant event, held at the end of each Program
Increment (PI), where the current state of the Solution is demonstrated and evaluated
by the train. Teams then reflect and identify improvement backlog items via a
structured, problem-solving workshop.
✔✔Iteration - ✔✔basic building block of Agile development. Each __ is a standard,
fixed-length timebox, where Agile Teams deliver incremental value in the form of
working, tested software and systems. The recommended duration of the timebox is two
weeks. However, one to four weeks is acceptable, depending on the business context.
✔✔Iteration Execution - ✔✔how Agile Teams manage their work throughout the
Iteration timebox, resulting in a high-quality, working, tested system increment.
✔✔Iteration Goals - ✔✔high-level summary of the business and technical goals that the
Agile Team agrees to accomplish in an Iteration. They are vital to coordinating an Agile
Release Train (ART) as a self-organizing, self-managing team of teams.
✔✔Iteration Planning - ✔✔event where all team members determine how much of the
Team Backlog they can commit to delivering during an upcoming Iteration. The team
summarizes the work as a set of committed Iteration Goals.
