SAFe Advanced Scrum Master Practice Test (5.1)
Questions with Correct Answers | 2025/2026
What is one characteristic of an effective Agile Team?
- To provide steady, high quality, incremental value
- To concentrate and deliver the product scope
- To make the process visible to the Business Owners
- To collaborate and discuss components - CORRECT ANSWER -- To provide steady, high quality,
incremental value
One of the Scrum Master's main responsibilities is to communicate with management and
outside stakeholders to help the team in what way?
- Protect them from uncontrolled addition of work
- Manage the team backlog
- Split bigger work items where necessary
- Accept Stories - CORRECT ANSWER -- Protect them from uncontrolled addition of work
Which two events explicitly implement the Lean-Agile Mindset of relentless improvement?
(Choose two.)
- Iteration Demo
- Iteration Retrospective
- PI Planning
- Inspect and Adapt
- Solution Demo - CORRECT ANSWER -- Iteration Retrospective
,- Inspect and Adapt
Who should vote on root causes?
- The team members working on that problem
- The Business Owners
- The RTE
- The Product Owner and Scrum Master - CORRECT ANSWER -- The team members working on
that problem
During PI Planning, the scrum of scrums meetings help accomplish which two actions? (Choose
two.)
- Rolling up the PI Objectives
- Comparing velocities across the teams
- Keeping the planning Milestones on track
- Exposing risks, impediments, and dependencies
- Looking for ways to increase team velocity - CORRECT ANSWER -- Keeping the planning
Milestones on track
- Exposing risks, impediments, and dependencies
What are three Iteration Retrospective anti-patterns? (Choose three.)
- When only some of the team attends
- When the team reviews the results of the actions from the previous retrospective
- When the Scrum Master decides what the retrospective topic(s) will be and directs the team
on specific improvement items to work on
, - When the team commits to working on 1 - 2 improvement items and adds them to the next
Iteration backlog
- When the team reviews their interactions during the last Iteration and identifies 1 - 2
improvement items to work on as a team
- When the team's people manager comes in to observe - CORRECT ANSWER -- When only some
of the team attends
- When the Scrum Master decides what the retrospective topic(s) will be and directs the team
on specific improvement items to work on
- When the team's people manager comes in to observe
Which statement is true about the phase-gate Milestone model?
- It helps to visualize and limit WIP
- It does not mitigate risk as intended
- It reduces product increment values
- It helps drive small batches of requirements - CORRECT ANSWER -- It does not mitigate risk as
intended
How does a Scrum Master lead a team's efforts in relentless improvement?
- By facilitating the Iteration Retrospective
- By focusing on the Iteration goals
- By eliminating impediments
- By facilitating a team meeting - CORRECT ANSWER -- By facilitating the Iteration Retrospective
A team's Product Owner (PO) takes an unexpected leave of absence for the last week of the
Iteration. Three of the team's Stories have been completed and are waiting to be accepted. The
Scrum Master asks the Product Manager (PM) to attend the Iteration Review and accept the
Questions with Correct Answers | 2025/2026
What is one characteristic of an effective Agile Team?
- To provide steady, high quality, incremental value
- To concentrate and deliver the product scope
- To make the process visible to the Business Owners
- To collaborate and discuss components - CORRECT ANSWER -- To provide steady, high quality,
incremental value
One of the Scrum Master's main responsibilities is to communicate with management and
outside stakeholders to help the team in what way?
- Protect them from uncontrolled addition of work
- Manage the team backlog
- Split bigger work items where necessary
- Accept Stories - CORRECT ANSWER -- Protect them from uncontrolled addition of work
Which two events explicitly implement the Lean-Agile Mindset of relentless improvement?
(Choose two.)
- Iteration Demo
- Iteration Retrospective
- PI Planning
- Inspect and Adapt
- Solution Demo - CORRECT ANSWER -- Iteration Retrospective
,- Inspect and Adapt
Who should vote on root causes?
- The team members working on that problem
- The Business Owners
- The RTE
- The Product Owner and Scrum Master - CORRECT ANSWER -- The team members working on
that problem
During PI Planning, the scrum of scrums meetings help accomplish which two actions? (Choose
two.)
- Rolling up the PI Objectives
- Comparing velocities across the teams
- Keeping the planning Milestones on track
- Exposing risks, impediments, and dependencies
- Looking for ways to increase team velocity - CORRECT ANSWER -- Keeping the planning
Milestones on track
- Exposing risks, impediments, and dependencies
What are three Iteration Retrospective anti-patterns? (Choose three.)
- When only some of the team attends
- When the team reviews the results of the actions from the previous retrospective
- When the Scrum Master decides what the retrospective topic(s) will be and directs the team
on specific improvement items to work on
, - When the team commits to working on 1 - 2 improvement items and adds them to the next
Iteration backlog
- When the team reviews their interactions during the last Iteration and identifies 1 - 2
improvement items to work on as a team
- When the team's people manager comes in to observe - CORRECT ANSWER -- When only some
of the team attends
- When the Scrum Master decides what the retrospective topic(s) will be and directs the team
on specific improvement items to work on
- When the team's people manager comes in to observe
Which statement is true about the phase-gate Milestone model?
- It helps to visualize and limit WIP
- It does not mitigate risk as intended
- It reduces product increment values
- It helps drive small batches of requirements - CORRECT ANSWER -- It does not mitigate risk as
intended
How does a Scrum Master lead a team's efforts in relentless improvement?
- By facilitating the Iteration Retrospective
- By focusing on the Iteration goals
- By eliminating impediments
- By facilitating a team meeting - CORRECT ANSWER -- By facilitating the Iteration Retrospective
A team's Product Owner (PO) takes an unexpected leave of absence for the last week of the
Iteration. Three of the team's Stories have been completed and are waiting to be accepted. The
Scrum Master asks the Product Manager (PM) to attend the Iteration Review and accept the
