SAFE AGILE ADVANCED SCRUM MASTER EXAM 2024
NEWEST 150 QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED
ANSWERS (100% CORRECT) /ALREADY GRADED A+
Portfolio Level - ANSWER: contains the principles, practices and roles needed to
initiate and govern a set of development value streams. Strategy and investment
funding are defined for value streams and their solutions. Provides Agile portfolio
operations and lean governance for people and resources needed to deliver
solutions. Aligns enterprise strategy to portfolio execution by organizing Lean Agile
Enterprise around the flow of value
Safe Portfolio - ANSWER: can govern the entire technical solution set in small to
midsize enterprises. In Large enterprises, - there can be multiple Safe portfolios
Strategic Themes - ANSWER: Includes current state of portfolio's solutions, value
stream KPIs, Qualitative assessments of the current solutions fitness for purpose and
Assessments of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats present across the
portfolio
Differentiating business objectives that connect the portfolio to the strategy of the
enterprise. Influence portfolio strategy and provide business context for portfolio
decision making
Portfolio Canvas - ANSWER: is a strategic tool used to define and describe the
purpose of a safe portfolio
3 sections
Value propositions
Resources and Activities
Cost structure and revenue streams
Lean Budgets - ANSWER: Lean budgeting allows fast and empowered decision-
making, with appropriate financial control and accountability provided through
Guardrails.
Value Streams - ANSWER: Every value stream has to fund the people and resources
required to build the solutions that deliver value to the business or the customer
Portfolio Kanban - ANSWER: Makes the work visible and creates WIP limits to help
assure that demand is matched to the actual value stream and Agile Release Train
capacities
Mechanism used to visualize, manage and analyse the prioritization and flow of
portfolio epics from ideation to implementation and completion
Benefits
, Makes most significant business initiatives visible
brings structure to analysis and decision making for epics
WIP limits ensure teams responsibly analyse epics
prevents unrealistic expectations
drives collaboration among key stakeholders
supports a transparent and quantitative basis for economic decision making
Lean Portfolio Management - ANSWER: Responsible for strategy and investment
funding, Agile portfolio operations and lean governance
Epic owners - ANSWER: Responsible for coordinating portfolio epics through the
Portfolio Kanban system. They define the Epic, its Minimum Viable Product and lean
business case, and when approved, facilitate implementation.
Work with development teams to size the Epic and provide input for economic
prioritization based on WSJF, lean business case and economic framework
Enterprise Architect - ANSWER: promotes adaptive design and engineering practices
and drives architectural initiatives for the portfolio
Work with Solution and System Architects to implement technology initiatives across
value streams.
Enterprise Architecture strategy - ANSWER: Choice of technology and usage, solution
architecture strategy, infrastructure strategy, inter-program collaboration,
implementation strategy
Operational Value stream - ANSWER: Steps used to provide goods and services to
the customer, internal or external
Development value stream - ANSWER: Steps used to develop new products, systems
and service capabilities. Development value stream feeds the operational value
stream
Lean budgeting process - ANSWER: can substantially simplify financial governance,
empower decentralized decision making, and increase the flow of value through the
enterprise.
Development team - ANSWER: measured on the business value they deliver to the
end users
IT service management - ANSWER: measured on health and stability of the
production environment
Continuous delivery pipeline - ANSWER: ability to develop, deploy and release small
batches of functionality to the business or customer in a flow process
Devops - ANSWER: includes everyone needed to release value, such as security,
compliance, audit and others
NEWEST 150 QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED
ANSWERS (100% CORRECT) /ALREADY GRADED A+
Portfolio Level - ANSWER: contains the principles, practices and roles needed to
initiate and govern a set of development value streams. Strategy and investment
funding are defined for value streams and their solutions. Provides Agile portfolio
operations and lean governance for people and resources needed to deliver
solutions. Aligns enterprise strategy to portfolio execution by organizing Lean Agile
Enterprise around the flow of value
Safe Portfolio - ANSWER: can govern the entire technical solution set in small to
midsize enterprises. In Large enterprises, - there can be multiple Safe portfolios
Strategic Themes - ANSWER: Includes current state of portfolio's solutions, value
stream KPIs, Qualitative assessments of the current solutions fitness for purpose and
Assessments of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats present across the
portfolio
Differentiating business objectives that connect the portfolio to the strategy of the
enterprise. Influence portfolio strategy and provide business context for portfolio
decision making
Portfolio Canvas - ANSWER: is a strategic tool used to define and describe the
purpose of a safe portfolio
3 sections
Value propositions
Resources and Activities
Cost structure and revenue streams
Lean Budgets - ANSWER: Lean budgeting allows fast and empowered decision-
making, with appropriate financial control and accountability provided through
Guardrails.
Value Streams - ANSWER: Every value stream has to fund the people and resources
required to build the solutions that deliver value to the business or the customer
Portfolio Kanban - ANSWER: Makes the work visible and creates WIP limits to help
assure that demand is matched to the actual value stream and Agile Release Train
capacities
Mechanism used to visualize, manage and analyse the prioritization and flow of
portfolio epics from ideation to implementation and completion
Benefits
, Makes most significant business initiatives visible
brings structure to analysis and decision making for epics
WIP limits ensure teams responsibly analyse epics
prevents unrealistic expectations
drives collaboration among key stakeholders
supports a transparent and quantitative basis for economic decision making
Lean Portfolio Management - ANSWER: Responsible for strategy and investment
funding, Agile portfolio operations and lean governance
Epic owners - ANSWER: Responsible for coordinating portfolio epics through the
Portfolio Kanban system. They define the Epic, its Minimum Viable Product and lean
business case, and when approved, facilitate implementation.
Work with development teams to size the Epic and provide input for economic
prioritization based on WSJF, lean business case and economic framework
Enterprise Architect - ANSWER: promotes adaptive design and engineering practices
and drives architectural initiatives for the portfolio
Work with Solution and System Architects to implement technology initiatives across
value streams.
Enterprise Architecture strategy - ANSWER: Choice of technology and usage, solution
architecture strategy, infrastructure strategy, inter-program collaboration,
implementation strategy
Operational Value stream - ANSWER: Steps used to provide goods and services to
the customer, internal or external
Development value stream - ANSWER: Steps used to develop new products, systems
and service capabilities. Development value stream feeds the operational value
stream
Lean budgeting process - ANSWER: can substantially simplify financial governance,
empower decentralized decision making, and increase the flow of value through the
enterprise.
Development team - ANSWER: measured on the business value they deliver to the
end users
IT service management - ANSWER: measured on health and stability of the
production environment
Continuous delivery pipeline - ANSWER: ability to develop, deploy and release small
batches of functionality to the business or customer in a flow process
Devops - ANSWER: includes everyone needed to release value, such as security,
compliance, audit and others
