LPM Test Exams Questions and answers 2025/2026
Graded A+
Which purpose does the investment horizons guardrail serve? - Addressing both near-
term opportunities and long-term strategy
What is a technique used in Lean budgeting to solve the challenge of having more good
ideas than available funds? - Participatory budgeting
What is a benefit of using Kanban with a SAFe portfolio? - To visualize the flow of epics
Given an epic with business value of 20, a time criticality of 2, a risk reduction of 13, and
a normalized cost of 5, what is its weighted shortest job first (WSJF) calculation? - 7
Which SAFe principle does weighted shortest job first (WSJF) support? - Take an
economic view
Where would value decay caused by missing a market window be reflected in a cost of
delay calculation? - Time-criticality
Who is responsible for technical guidance when coordinating values streams at the
portfolio level? - Enterprise architect
When is the correct time to integrate across value streams? - As soon as possible if it is
economically feasible
How many key performance indicators (KPIs) per value stream are typically sufficient? -
4-7
Which function of strategy and investment funding occurs during the portfolio sync? -
Pivot or continue with an Epic
What can be done to build security compliance into the development process? - Include
security compliance into the definition of done
What is a responsibility of an Agile program management office (APMO)? - Fostering
Agile contracts and partnerships
The goal of the Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) competency is to bring what two
primary elements into alignment? (Choose two.) - Strategy;Execution;
Which two types of decisions should be centralized? (Choose two.) - Long-
lasting;Infrequent;
What are the three keys to implementing flow? (Choose three.) - Managing queue
lengths;Visualizing and limiting work in process (WIP);Reducing batch sizes;
Graded A+
Which purpose does the investment horizons guardrail serve? - Addressing both near-
term opportunities and long-term strategy
What is a technique used in Lean budgeting to solve the challenge of having more good
ideas than available funds? - Participatory budgeting
What is a benefit of using Kanban with a SAFe portfolio? - To visualize the flow of epics
Given an epic with business value of 20, a time criticality of 2, a risk reduction of 13, and
a normalized cost of 5, what is its weighted shortest job first (WSJF) calculation? - 7
Which SAFe principle does weighted shortest job first (WSJF) support? - Take an
economic view
Where would value decay caused by missing a market window be reflected in a cost of
delay calculation? - Time-criticality
Who is responsible for technical guidance when coordinating values streams at the
portfolio level? - Enterprise architect
When is the correct time to integrate across value streams? - As soon as possible if it is
economically feasible
How many key performance indicators (KPIs) per value stream are typically sufficient? -
4-7
Which function of strategy and investment funding occurs during the portfolio sync? -
Pivot or continue with an Epic
What can be done to build security compliance into the development process? - Include
security compliance into the definition of done
What is a responsibility of an Agile program management office (APMO)? - Fostering
Agile contracts and partnerships
The goal of the Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) competency is to bring what two
primary elements into alignment? (Choose two.) - Strategy;Execution;
Which two types of decisions should be centralized? (Choose two.) - Long-
lasting;Infrequent;
What are the three keys to implementing flow? (Choose three.) - Managing queue
lengths;Visualizing and limiting work in process (WIP);Reducing batch sizes;
