AGILE SAFE 6.0 UPDATED COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is an example of an ART event?
A. Innovation and Planning
B. Team Sync
C. Coach Sync
D. Iteration Review - ✔✔C. Coach Sync
✔✔What is one benefit of Design Thinking?
A. The Solution is accountable
B. The Solution is actionable
C. The Solution is sustainable
D. The Solution is reliable - ✔✔C. The Solution is sustainable
✔✔Team A is a maintenance team that cannot always predictably plan their work. They
like to meet daily to review the needs of the system and plan for how they can quickly
address those needs during the workday. Which of the following SAFe Lean-Agile
methods should Team A use to plan and execute their work?
A. SAFe Enabling Team
B. SAFe Platform Team
C. SAFe Team Kanban
D. SAFe XP Team - ✔✔C. SAFe Team Kanban
✔✔The primary goal of SAFe is to achieve what?
A. Learn Portfolio Management
B. Organizing around value
C. Customer centricity
D. Business Agility - ✔✔D. Business Agility
✔✔Which statement is a principle of the Agile Manifesto?
A. Measure everything
B. Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths
C. Simplicity "the art of maximizing the amount of work not done" is essential
D. Respect for people and culture - ✔✔C. Simplicity "the art of maximizing the amount
of work not done" is essential
✔✔Why is it important to spend time "in the zone"?
A. To maximize ideal productivity time
,B. To make work in process visible
C. To reduce queue lengths
D. To refine productive collaboration - ✔✔A. To maximize ideal productivity time
✔✔Team A has seven developers that can define and build any application the
organization requires. Team A works with another team to test and deploy their work.
Can Team A be considered a high-functioning Agile Team?
A. Yes, because they can build any application the organization requires
B. No, because they have fewer than ten developers
C. No, because they are not cross-functional
D. Yes, because they use another team to deploy - ✔✔C. No, because they are not
cross-functional
✔✔Which of the Lean Thinking principles includes the activities from recognizing an
opportunity through release and validation?
A. Identify the Value Stream for each product
B. Make value flow without interruptions
C. Pursue perfection
D. Precisely specify value by product - ✔✔A. Identify the Value Stream for each product
✔✔What does the "C" represent in the CALMR approach to DevOps?
A. Culture
B. Continuous Integration
C. Completion
D. Cycle-time - ✔✔A. Culture
✔✔Which of the following is both a SAFe Lean-Agile Principle and Lean-Thinking
principle?
A. Lean portfolio management
B. Make value flow without interruptions
C. Decentralize decision-making
D. Connect strategy to execution - ✔✔B. Make value flow without interruptions
✔✔Which statement is true about uncommitted objectives?
A. They help improve predictability
B. They do not get assigned a business value score
C. They are extra things the team can do if they have time
D. The work to deliver uncommitted objectives is not planned into the Iterations during
PI planning - ✔✔A. They help improve predictability
, ✔✔What is one of the Lean Thinking Principles?
A. Responding to change over following a plan
B. Make value flow without interruptions
C. Working software over comprehensive documentation
D. Individuals and iterations over processes and tools - ✔✔B. Make value flow without
interruptions
✔✔Which SAFe Core Value includes "use common terminology" and "understand your
customer"?
A. Alignment
B. Relentless Improvement
C. Transparency
D. Respect for People - ✔✔A. Alignment
✔✔What is one of the biggest benefits of decentralized decision-making?
A. Ensures strategic decisions are made collaboratively
B. Reduces delays
C. Improves transparency
D. Removes accountability from leaders - ✔✔B. Reduces delays
✔✔What is the first step in Kotter's 8-step process for leading change?
A. Generate short-term wins
B. Enlist a volunteer army
C. Create a sense of urgency
D. Build a guiding coalition - ✔✔C. Create a sense of urgency
✔✔What is one responsibility of Product Management?
A. Provide estimates for the Team Backlog
B. Own Spike stories on the Team Backlog
C. Maintain the Architectural Runway
D. Define priorities in the ART Backlog - ✔✔D. Define priorities in the ART Backlog
✔✔Who has content authority to make decisions at the User Story level during PI
Planning?
A. Release Train Engineer
B. Scrum Master/Team Coach
C. Product Owner
D. Agile Team - ✔✔C. Product Owner
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is an example of an ART event?
A. Innovation and Planning
B. Team Sync
C. Coach Sync
D. Iteration Review - ✔✔C. Coach Sync
✔✔What is one benefit of Design Thinking?
A. The Solution is accountable
B. The Solution is actionable
C. The Solution is sustainable
D. The Solution is reliable - ✔✔C. The Solution is sustainable
✔✔Team A is a maintenance team that cannot always predictably plan their work. They
like to meet daily to review the needs of the system and plan for how they can quickly
address those needs during the workday. Which of the following SAFe Lean-Agile
methods should Team A use to plan and execute their work?
A. SAFe Enabling Team
B. SAFe Platform Team
C. SAFe Team Kanban
D. SAFe XP Team - ✔✔C. SAFe Team Kanban
✔✔The primary goal of SAFe is to achieve what?
A. Learn Portfolio Management
B. Organizing around value
C. Customer centricity
D. Business Agility - ✔✔D. Business Agility
✔✔Which statement is a principle of the Agile Manifesto?
A. Measure everything
B. Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths
C. Simplicity "the art of maximizing the amount of work not done" is essential
D. Respect for people and culture - ✔✔C. Simplicity "the art of maximizing the amount
of work not done" is essential
✔✔Why is it important to spend time "in the zone"?
A. To maximize ideal productivity time
,B. To make work in process visible
C. To reduce queue lengths
D. To refine productive collaboration - ✔✔A. To maximize ideal productivity time
✔✔Team A has seven developers that can define and build any application the
organization requires. Team A works with another team to test and deploy their work.
Can Team A be considered a high-functioning Agile Team?
A. Yes, because they can build any application the organization requires
B. No, because they have fewer than ten developers
C. No, because they are not cross-functional
D. Yes, because they use another team to deploy - ✔✔C. No, because they are not
cross-functional
✔✔Which of the Lean Thinking principles includes the activities from recognizing an
opportunity through release and validation?
A. Identify the Value Stream for each product
B. Make value flow without interruptions
C. Pursue perfection
D. Precisely specify value by product - ✔✔A. Identify the Value Stream for each product
✔✔What does the "C" represent in the CALMR approach to DevOps?
A. Culture
B. Continuous Integration
C. Completion
D. Cycle-time - ✔✔A. Culture
✔✔Which of the following is both a SAFe Lean-Agile Principle and Lean-Thinking
principle?
A. Lean portfolio management
B. Make value flow without interruptions
C. Decentralize decision-making
D. Connect strategy to execution - ✔✔B. Make value flow without interruptions
✔✔Which statement is true about uncommitted objectives?
A. They help improve predictability
B. They do not get assigned a business value score
C. They are extra things the team can do if they have time
D. The work to deliver uncommitted objectives is not planned into the Iterations during
PI planning - ✔✔A. They help improve predictability
, ✔✔What is one of the Lean Thinking Principles?
A. Responding to change over following a plan
B. Make value flow without interruptions
C. Working software over comprehensive documentation
D. Individuals and iterations over processes and tools - ✔✔B. Make value flow without
interruptions
✔✔Which SAFe Core Value includes "use common terminology" and "understand your
customer"?
A. Alignment
B. Relentless Improvement
C. Transparency
D. Respect for People - ✔✔A. Alignment
✔✔What is one of the biggest benefits of decentralized decision-making?
A. Ensures strategic decisions are made collaboratively
B. Reduces delays
C. Improves transparency
D. Removes accountability from leaders - ✔✔B. Reduces delays
✔✔What is the first step in Kotter's 8-step process for leading change?
A. Generate short-term wins
B. Enlist a volunteer army
C. Create a sense of urgency
D. Build a guiding coalition - ✔✔C. Create a sense of urgency
✔✔What is one responsibility of Product Management?
A. Provide estimates for the Team Backlog
B. Own Spike stories on the Team Backlog
C. Maintain the Architectural Runway
D. Define priorities in the ART Backlog - ✔✔D. Define priorities in the ART Backlog
✔✔Who has content authority to make decisions at the User Story level during PI
Planning?
A. Release Train Engineer
B. Scrum Master/Team Coach
C. Product Owner
D. Agile Team - ✔✔C. Product Owner
