ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Agile Architecture - CORRECT ANSWER - A set of values and practices that advances the
design and architecture of a system while implementing new business functions
Agile Release Train - CORRECT ANSWER - A long-lived team-of-Agile-teams, which along
with other stakeholders, develops and delivers solutions incrementally, using a series of fixed
iterations within a program increment timebox. Aligns teams to a common business and
technology mission.
Agile Team - CORRECT ANSWER - A group of three to nine dedicated individual
contributors, covering all the roles necessary to define, build and test a quality increment of
value in an iteration.
Architectural Runway - CORRECT ANSWER - Consists of the existing code, components
and technical infrastructure necessary to support implementation of high priority, near-term
features, without excessive delay and redesign.
Budgets - CORRECT ANSWER - A set of practices that fund and empower value streams,
while maintaining financial and fitness-for-use governance through objective evaluations of
working systems, and dynamic budget adjustments.
Built-In Quality - CORRECT ANSWER - Practices ensure that each solution element, at
every increment, meets appropriate quality standards throughout development.
Business Owners - CORRECT ANSWER - A small group of stakeholders who have the
primary technical, fitness for use, governance and Return on Investment (ROI) responsibility for
a solution developed by an Agile Release Train (ART). They are key stakeholders on the ART
and actively participate in certain events.
, Capability - CORRECT ANSWER - A high-level solution behavior that typically spans
multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs). They are sized and split as necessary to fit within a single
program increment.
CapEx and OpEx - CORRECT ANSWER - Describe Lean-Agile financial practices for
tracking capital expenses (CapEx), and operating expenses (OpEx) in a value stream budget. In
some cases, CapEx may include capitalized labor associated with development of intangible
assets such as software, intellectual property and patents.
Communities of Practice - CORRECT ANSWER - Groups of people who have a common
interest in a specific technical or business domain. They collaborate regularly to share
information, improve their skills and performance and advance the general knowledge of
domain.
Continuous Integration - CORRECT ANSWER - A built-in quality practice, where team
members constantly integrate and verify their work, using automated build-and-test environment
that quickly identify problems and defects.
Coordination - CORRECT ANSWER - Provides guidance for managing dependencies across
value streams in a portfolio.
Core Values - CORRECT ANSWER - Define the ideals and beliefs that are key to SAFe's
effectiveness. They are: alignment, built-in quality, transparency and program execution.
Customer - CORRECT ANSWER - Anyone who consumes the work of a value stream. They
are an integral part of the agile development process and value stream.
Develop on Cadence - CORRECT ANSWER - A strategy for managing the inherent
variability in solution development, by making sure important events and activities on a regular,
predictable schedule.