SPC Exam Final Questions with Answers
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Which core competency of the Lean Enterprise addresses the integration across Agile
Release Trains (ARTs)?
Ans: Enterprise Solution Delivery
What is a key business benefit of SAFe?
Ans: To adapt quickly to changing technologies and economic conditions.
Which core competency of the Lean Enterprise focuses on building quality in?
Ans: Team and Technical Agility
What is Business Agility?
Ans: The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market
changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business Solutions
A leader that admits his own mistakes exhibits which SAFe Core Value?
Ans: Transparency
The House of Lean is a classic metaphor describing the mindset essential for Lean
thinking. Which one of the four pillars advocates a 'Go See' mindset?
Ans: Innovation
Flow is one of the four pillars of the SAFe House of Lean. What are the three other
pillars?
Ans: Innovation; Relentless Improvement; Respect for People and Culture
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,When basing decisions on economics, how are lead time, product cost, value, and
development expense used?
Ans: To identify different parameters of the economic framework.
Which is an aspect of systems thinking?
Ans: Optimizing a component is not optimizing the system
If small batches go through the system faster with lower variability, then which
statement is true about batch size?
Ans: Large batches can cause projects to miss targets.
What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe?
Ans: Teams align their Iterations to the same schedule to support communication,
coordination, and system integration
According to SAFe Lean-Agile Principle #10, what should the Enterprise do when
markets and Customers demand change?
Ans: Reorganize the network around the new value flow
Who facilitates team-level events?
Ans: Scrum Master
Who is the content authority for an Agile Release Train?
Ans: Product Management
Design Thinking identifies at least four new ways to measure success. What are they?
Ans: Sustainability; Desirability; Viable and Feasible
The benefit hypothesis justifies the Feature Implementation Cost, and what else?
Ans: It provides business perspective when making scope decisions
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,During Program Increment (PI) Planning, what is the primary objective of the draft
plan review?
Ans: To highlight challenges that management must address in the management review
and problem solving meeting
What is the final activity on day one of Program Increment (PI) Planning?
Ans: Management review and problem-solving
In Program Increment (PI) Planning, the final plan review is done by who?
Ans: The teams and the business owners.
During Program Increment (PI) Planning, which statement is true about the activities of
team breakouts?
Ans: At team breakout #2, teams work to create their final plans
What are three essential program events that keep the Agile Release Train (ART) on the
tracks?(Choose three.)
Ans: System Demo; Inspect and Adapt (I&A) event; Program Increment (PI) Planning;
An Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration allows time for which two activities?
Ans: For continuing education; For innovation;
What are two benefits of funding Value Streams rather than projects? (Choose two.)
Ans: To eliminate the delays involved in forming project teams;To eliminate the delays of
project approvals and funding;
Which two SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) resources are intended to aid in arriving at
the SAFe tipping point? (Choose two.)
Ans: he SAFe Executive Workshop Toolkit;The Introducing SAFe workshop;
According to John Kotter, what is the first step to successful change. Also review 8 steps
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, Ans: Creating a sense of urgency
A compelling Vision for change achieves which two objectives? (Choose two.)
Ans: It clarifies the purpose and direction of the change;It motivates people to make the
change;
What is one key reason an organization starts a SAFe transformation?
Ans: Burning Platform; there is an obvious need to change the product and service.
sufficiently powerful guiding coalition consists of which three elements? (Choose
three.)
Ans: Executives with high credibility;Change agents trained as SAFe Program Consultants
(SPCs);Trained Lean-Agile leaders;
What are two responsibilities of a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE)?
Ans: To foster SAFe communities of practice;To help establish relentless improvement;
What are three benefits of organizing around Value Streams?
Ans: Optimize the system as whole;Reduce hand-offs and faster delivery;Built-in alignment
between the business and development;
Why might an organization choose to create a platform Agile Release Train (ART)?
(review train types)
Ans: To support architectural robustness.
What is one benefit of an invitation-based implementation approach to SAFe
Ans: It moves from a Push to a Pull mode of implementation.
Multiple Agile Release Train (ART) rollouts can be done...
Ans: sequentially or in parallel
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(100% Correct Answers)
Which core competency of the Lean Enterprise addresses the integration across Agile
Release Trains (ARTs)?
Ans: Enterprise Solution Delivery
What is a key business benefit of SAFe?
Ans: To adapt quickly to changing technologies and economic conditions.
Which core competency of the Lean Enterprise focuses on building quality in?
Ans: Team and Technical Agility
What is Business Agility?
Ans: The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market
changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business Solutions
A leader that admits his own mistakes exhibits which SAFe Core Value?
Ans: Transparency
The House of Lean is a classic metaphor describing the mindset essential for Lean
thinking. Which one of the four pillars advocates a 'Go See' mindset?
Ans: Innovation
Flow is one of the four pillars of the SAFe House of Lean. What are the three other
pillars?
Ans: Innovation; Relentless Improvement; Respect for People and Culture
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,When basing decisions on economics, how are lead time, product cost, value, and
development expense used?
Ans: To identify different parameters of the economic framework.
Which is an aspect of systems thinking?
Ans: Optimizing a component is not optimizing the system
If small batches go through the system faster with lower variability, then which
statement is true about batch size?
Ans: Large batches can cause projects to miss targets.
What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe?
Ans: Teams align their Iterations to the same schedule to support communication,
coordination, and system integration
According to SAFe Lean-Agile Principle #10, what should the Enterprise do when
markets and Customers demand change?
Ans: Reorganize the network around the new value flow
Who facilitates team-level events?
Ans: Scrum Master
Who is the content authority for an Agile Release Train?
Ans: Product Management
Design Thinking identifies at least four new ways to measure success. What are they?
Ans: Sustainability; Desirability; Viable and Feasible
The benefit hypothesis justifies the Feature Implementation Cost, and what else?
Ans: It provides business perspective when making scope decisions
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,During Program Increment (PI) Planning, what is the primary objective of the draft
plan review?
Ans: To highlight challenges that management must address in the management review
and problem solving meeting
What is the final activity on day one of Program Increment (PI) Planning?
Ans: Management review and problem-solving
In Program Increment (PI) Planning, the final plan review is done by who?
Ans: The teams and the business owners.
During Program Increment (PI) Planning, which statement is true about the activities of
team breakouts?
Ans: At team breakout #2, teams work to create their final plans
What are three essential program events that keep the Agile Release Train (ART) on the
tracks?(Choose three.)
Ans: System Demo; Inspect and Adapt (I&A) event; Program Increment (PI) Planning;
An Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration allows time for which two activities?
Ans: For continuing education; For innovation;
What are two benefits of funding Value Streams rather than projects? (Choose two.)
Ans: To eliminate the delays involved in forming project teams;To eliminate the delays of
project approvals and funding;
Which two SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) resources are intended to aid in arriving at
the SAFe tipping point? (Choose two.)
Ans: he SAFe Executive Workshop Toolkit;The Introducing SAFe workshop;
According to John Kotter, what is the first step to successful change. Also review 8 steps
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, Ans: Creating a sense of urgency
A compelling Vision for change achieves which two objectives? (Choose two.)
Ans: It clarifies the purpose and direction of the change;It motivates people to make the
change;
What is one key reason an organization starts a SAFe transformation?
Ans: Burning Platform; there is an obvious need to change the product and service.
sufficiently powerful guiding coalition consists of which three elements? (Choose
three.)
Ans: Executives with high credibility;Change agents trained as SAFe Program Consultants
(SPCs);Trained Lean-Agile leaders;
What are two responsibilities of a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE)?
Ans: To foster SAFe communities of practice;To help establish relentless improvement;
What are three benefits of organizing around Value Streams?
Ans: Optimize the system as whole;Reduce hand-offs and faster delivery;Built-in alignment
between the business and development;
Why might an organization choose to create a platform Agile Release Train (ART)?
(review train types)
Ans: To support architectural robustness.
What is one benefit of an invitation-based implementation approach to SAFe
Ans: It moves from a Push to a Pull mode of implementation.
Multiple Agile Release Train (ART) rollouts can be done...
Ans: sequentially or in parallel
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