Leading SAFe 5.0 Exam Questions And
Answers (Guaranteed A+)
What are the 5 technological revolutions? - Answer✔Industrial Revolution, Age of Steam &
Railways, Age of Steel & Heavy Engineering, Age of Oil & Mass Production, Age of Software
& Digital
What are the 3 periods in a technological revolution? - Answer✔Installation Period, Turning
Point & Deployment Period
What is the Installation Period? - Answer✔New technology and financial capital combine to
create a "Cambrian explosion" of new entrants, disrupting the entire industries from the previous
age.
What is the Turning Point? - Answer✔Existing business either master the new technology or
decline and become relics of the last age.
What is the Deployment Period? - Answer✔Production capital of the new technological giants
starts to take over.
What 2 things are needed for Business Agility? - Answer✔Value Stream Network (speed of
innovation) & Functional Hierarchy (efficiency & stability)
What is Business Agility? - Answer✔It means the entire organization - not just development, is
engaged in continually & proactively delivering innovative business solutions faster than the
competition. (Dean Leffingwell, creator of SAFe)
What does Business Agility require? - Answer✔It requires technical agility and business-level
commitment to product and Value Stream thinking. It requires that everyone involved in
delivering business solutions use Lean & Agile practices.
What are benefits of using SAFe? - Answer✔30% Happier & more motivated employees
50% Faster time-to-market
50% Defect resolution
35% Increase in productivity
What are the 4 configurations of SAFe? - Answer✔Full configuration
Large Solution configuration
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Portfolio configuration
Essential configuration
What are the 7 Core Competencies of SAFe? - Answer✔Enterprise Solution Delivery
Agile Product Delivery
Team and Technical Agility
Lean Portfolio Management
Organizational Agility
Continuous Learning Culture
Lean-Agile Leadership
*with Customer Centricity in the middle of all of it
What are the components of Team and Technical Agility? - Answer✔Agile Teams (Product
Owner, Scrum Master & Team)
Built-in Quality (Establish Flow, Pairing & Peer Review, Collective Ownership & Standards,
Automation, Definition of Done)
Team of Agile Teams (cross-functional & part of an Agile Release Train)
What are the components of Agile Product Delivery? - Answer✔Customer Centricity (Design
Thinking)
Develop on Cadence, Release on Demand
DevOps and Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CALMR, ART: Continuous Exploration, Continuous
Integration, Continuous Deployment and Release on Demand)
What are the components of Enterprise Solution Delivery? - Answer✔Lean System & Solution
Engineering (Solution Intent w/Variable & Fixed, Lean QMS)
Coordinating Trains & Suppliers (Solution Train)
Continually Evolve Live Systems (CDP, Evolve Deployed Systems)
What are the components of Lean Portfolio Management? - Answer✔Strategy & Investment
Funding (Enterprise Executives, Enterprise Architect, Business Owners)
Lean Governance (APMO, Business Owners, Enterprise Architect)
Agile Portfolio Operations (APMO/LACE, RTE/SM CoP)
What are the components of Organizational Agility? - Answer✔Lean-Thinking People & Agile
Teams (House of Lean, SAFe Principles, Agile Manifesto)
Lean Business Operations (Process Time, Delay Time)
Strategy Agility
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