SAFE 5 ADVANCED SCRUM MASTER UPDATED
EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Dev Team - ✔✔A subset of the Agile Team. It consists of the dedicated
professionals who can develop and test a story, feature, or component. It typically
includes software developers and testers, engineers and other dedicated specialists
who are required to complete a vertical slice of functionality.
✔✔DevOps - ✔✔DevOps is a mindset, culture, and set of technical practices that
stresses communication, collaboration, and close cooperation between Agile
development teams and other technology professionals who are necessary for
developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining software and systems.
✔✔Develop on Cadence - ✔✔A strategy for managing the inherent variability in solution
development by making sure important events and activities occur on a regular,
predictable schedule. It is an essential method for managing the inherent vaibility of
systems development in a flow-based system.
✔✔Economic Framework - ✔✔A set of decision rules that aligns everyone to the
financial objectives of the Solution, and guides the economic decision-making process.
It contains four primary constructs: Lean Budgeting, Epic funding and governance,
decentralized economic decision-making, and job sequencing based on the Cost of
Delay (CoD).
✔✔Enablers - ✔✔Promote the activities needed to extend the architectural runway to
support future business functionality. These include exploration, infrastructure,
compliance, and architecture development. They are captured in the various backlogs
and occur at all levels of the framework.
✔✔Enterprise - ✔✔Represents the business entity that has the ultimate strategic,
fiduciary, and governance authority for all the Value Streams and Solutions that make
up a SAFe portfolio.
, ✔✔Enterprise Architect - ✔✔Fosters adaptive design and engineering practices, and
drives strategic architectural initiatives for a SAFe Portfolio. Also facilitates the reuse of
ideas, components, services, and proven patterns across various Solutions in a
portfolio.
✔✔Epic Owners - ✔✔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.
✔✔Essential SAFe configuration - ✔✔The heart of the Framework and is the simplest
starting point for implementation. It is the basic building block for all other SAFe
configurations and describes the most critical elements needed to realize the majority of
the Framework's benefits.
✔✔Features - ✔✔A system service that fulfills a stakeholder need. Each feature
includes a Benefit Hypothesis and acceptance criteria, and is sized or split as necessary
to be delivered by a single Agile Release Train (ART) in a Program Increment (PI).
✔✔Foundation - ✔✔Contains the supporting principles, values, mindset,
implementation guidance, and leadership roles needed to successfully deliver value at
scale.
✔✔Full SAFe configuration - ✔✔The most comprehensive version of the Framework. It
supports enterprises that build and maintain large integrated solutions, which require
hundreds of people enterprises that build and maintain large integrated solutions, which
require hundreds of people or more, and includes all levels of SAFe: Team, program,
large solution, and portfolio. In the largest enterprises, multiple instances of various
SAFe configurations may be required.
✔✔Innovation and Planning Iteration - ✔✔Occurs every PI and serves multiple
purposes. It acts as an estimating buffer for meeting PI objectives, as well as providing
dedicated time for innovation, continuing education, and PI planning and Inspect and
Adapt (I&A) events.
✔✔Inspect & Adapt (I&A) - ✔✔A significant event, held at the end of each Program
Increment (PI), where the current state of the Solution is demonstrated and evaluated.
Teams then reflect, and identify improvement backlog items via a structured, problem-
solving workshop.
✔✔Iteration - ✔✔A basic building block of Agile development. Each iteration is a
standard, fixed-length timebox, during which Agile teams deliver incremental value in
the form of working, tested software and systems. They may last from one to four week,
with two weeks as the suggested and most common duration.
EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Dev Team - ✔✔A subset of the Agile Team. It consists of the dedicated
professionals who can develop and test a story, feature, or component. It typically
includes software developers and testers, engineers and other dedicated specialists
who are required to complete a vertical slice of functionality.
✔✔DevOps - ✔✔DevOps is a mindset, culture, and set of technical practices that
stresses communication, collaboration, and close cooperation between Agile
development teams and other technology professionals who are necessary for
developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining software and systems.
✔✔Develop on Cadence - ✔✔A strategy for managing the inherent variability in solution
development by making sure important events and activities occur on a regular,
predictable schedule. It is an essential method for managing the inherent vaibility of
systems development in a flow-based system.
✔✔Economic Framework - ✔✔A set of decision rules that aligns everyone to the
financial objectives of the Solution, and guides the economic decision-making process.
It contains four primary constructs: Lean Budgeting, Epic funding and governance,
decentralized economic decision-making, and job sequencing based on the Cost of
Delay (CoD).
✔✔Enablers - ✔✔Promote the activities needed to extend the architectural runway to
support future business functionality. These include exploration, infrastructure,
compliance, and architecture development. They are captured in the various backlogs
and occur at all levels of the framework.
✔✔Enterprise - ✔✔Represents the business entity that has the ultimate strategic,
fiduciary, and governance authority for all the Value Streams and Solutions that make
up a SAFe portfolio.
, ✔✔Enterprise Architect - ✔✔Fosters adaptive design and engineering practices, and
drives strategic architectural initiatives for a SAFe Portfolio. Also facilitates the reuse of
ideas, components, services, and proven patterns across various Solutions in a
portfolio.
✔✔Epic Owners - ✔✔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.
✔✔Essential SAFe configuration - ✔✔The heart of the Framework and is the simplest
starting point for implementation. It is the basic building block for all other SAFe
configurations and describes the most critical elements needed to realize the majority of
the Framework's benefits.
✔✔Features - ✔✔A system service that fulfills a stakeholder need. Each feature
includes a Benefit Hypothesis and acceptance criteria, and is sized or split as necessary
to be delivered by a single Agile Release Train (ART) in a Program Increment (PI).
✔✔Foundation - ✔✔Contains the supporting principles, values, mindset,
implementation guidance, and leadership roles needed to successfully deliver value at
scale.
✔✔Full SAFe configuration - ✔✔The most comprehensive version of the Framework. It
supports enterprises that build and maintain large integrated solutions, which require
hundreds of people enterprises that build and maintain large integrated solutions, which
require hundreds of people or more, and includes all levels of SAFe: Team, program,
large solution, and portfolio. In the largest enterprises, multiple instances of various
SAFe configurations may be required.
✔✔Innovation and Planning Iteration - ✔✔Occurs every PI and serves multiple
purposes. It acts as an estimating buffer for meeting PI objectives, as well as providing
dedicated time for innovation, continuing education, and PI planning and Inspect and
Adapt (I&A) events.
✔✔Inspect & Adapt (I&A) - ✔✔A significant event, held at the end of each Program
Increment (PI), where the current state of the Solution is demonstrated and evaluated.
Teams then reflect, and identify improvement backlog items via a structured, problem-
solving workshop.
✔✔Iteration - ✔✔A basic building block of Agile development. Each iteration is a
standard, fixed-length timebox, during which Agile teams deliver incremental value in
the form of working, tested software and systems. They may last from one to four week,
with two weeks as the suggested and most common duration.
