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SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master Exam
Questions And Answers 2025 Update.
How does a Scrum Master lead a team's in relentless improvement? - Answer✔By facilitating
the Iteration Retrospective
An effective decision-making framework provides which two ultimate outcomes? - Answer✔1 -
Improves flow
2 - Unlocks the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workres
What are two Release Train Enginner responsibilities? - Answer✔1 - Drive relentles
improvement through Inspect and Adapt
2 - Facilitate PI Planning readiness and the event itself
What is one way to improve the skills of a team member? - Answer✔Pair-work with other team
members
Who should vote on root causes? - Answer✔The team members working on that problem
One of the Scrum Master's main responsibilities is to communicate with management and
outside stakeholders to hel the team in what way? - Answer✔Protect them from uncontrolled
addition of work
A team's Product Owner (PO) takes an unexxpected leave of absence for the last week of the
Iteration. Trhee of the team's Sotires 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 Sotires. The PM responds that he is not familiar enough with the intent to feel comfortable
accepting these responsabilities. He suggest keeping the iteration open for additional week and
waiting for the PO to come back. What should the team's Scrum Master do? - Answer✔Work
with the Release Train Enginner to find a solution
The Agile Team need to learn or acquire new skills. Where is this list of skills found? -
Answer✔In the Improvement backlog
Who participates in the Inspect and Adapt event? - Answer✔The entire Agile Release Train
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What are three Interation Retrospective anti-patterns? - Answer✔1 - When only some of the
team attends
2 - When the Scrum Master decides what the retrospective topic(s) will be and directs the team
on specific improvement items to work on
3 - When the team's people manager comes in to observe
What are two examples of tasking anti-patterns? (Choose two.) - Answer✔1 - The team focuses
on task completion over Story completion and acceptance criteria;
2 - The team provides updates only on tasks during the daily stand up meeting
Wich two actions enhance an Agile Release Train's performance? - Answer✔1 - Collaboration
2 - Team alignment
How does the Scrum Master hel teams address the challenges of modern Enterprises? -
Answer✔By actively addressing impediments
What is the skill type Scrum Masters try to get the Agile Team to achieve? - Answer✔T-Shaped
One state on the team Kaban board has people waiting while the previous stage is overloaded.
What should the Scrum Master consider doing? - Answer✔Encourage and coach the people in
the under-utilized stage to hel with the work of the overloaded stage
How can learning Milestones be used? - Answer✔To test the conecpt of a new Feature or
Capability
What is one Extreme Programming (XP) rule adopted in SAFe? - Answer✔Pair Programming
Why are SAFe Scrum Masters challenged differently in a Enterprise? - Answer✔The team is
affected by teams and stakeholders beyong their control
SAFe Scrum Master interact with wich level(s) of Framework? - Answer✔All Levels
Wich tow events explicity implement the Lean-Agile Mindset of relentless improvement? -
Answer✔1 - Inspect and Adapt
2 - Iteration Retrospective
Who is responsible for assisting to establish Continuous Integration in SAFe? - Answer✔The
System Team
What is the connection between feedback and optimun batch size? - Answer✔Lack of feedback
contributes to higher cost
During Iteration Review, the team decides to carry forward three Stories to the next iteration.
This is the second time during this PI that some of the team's Stories are carried over. What are
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two actions the Scrum Master should take? - Answer✔1 - Discuss the issue at the Itaration
Retrospective
2 - Perform the 5 Whys to find the root cause of the delays
Who reviews the top Capabilities for the upcoming PI? - Answer✔Solution Management
Wich statement describes how Kanban teams handle capacity during PI Planning? -
Answer✔They use throughput as an indication of their capacity
Which technique is used to identify root causes during the problem-solving workshop? -
Answer✔5 Whys
What are two key areas a team should be organized aroung? - Answer✔1 - Enablers
2 - Features
What anti-pattern can emerge during the Scrum of Scrums? - Answer✔Scrum Masters report
on the teams' tasks status each day
A team achieved less than 80% predictability during the quantitative measurement of the
Inspect and Adapt event. What would be an unacceptable action for this team's Scrum Master
take? - Answer✔Decide improvement actions for the team to implement
In complex systems development, what do local integration points ensure? - Answer✔That
each Capability of the systems is meeting its responsibilities in contributing of the overall
Solution Intent
Wich SAFe organizational construct allows businesses to build large and complex systems wich
require hundreds of people in a Lean-Agile manner? - Answer✔Solution Train
Achieving the goals of Release on Demand requires an understanding of how to decouple
what? - Answer✔The release from deployment
What improves collaboration between Scrum Masters and System Architects, System Teams
and Operations? - Answer✔Program Kanban
What is the most effective way to estabilish Built-in Quality? - Answer✔Perform as many types
of testing within the Iteration boundaries as possible
What action should be taken on relentless improvement backlog items from the problem-
solving worshop? - Answer✔Use the items as direct input into the PI Planning event that
follows
How do Kanban Teams implement the SAFe Lean-Agile mindset of relentless improvement? -
Answer✔By using cumulative flow diagrams to objectively measure bottlenecks and variation
which could be due to systemic factors
Wich SAFe configuration requires having a Vision? - Answer✔All SAFe configurations
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SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master Exam
Questions And Answers 2025 Update.
How does a Scrum Master lead a team's in relentless improvement? - Answer✔By facilitating
the Iteration Retrospective
An effective decision-making framework provides which two ultimate outcomes? - Answer✔1 -
Improves flow
2 - Unlocks the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workres
What are two Release Train Enginner responsibilities? - Answer✔1 - Drive relentles
improvement through Inspect and Adapt
2 - Facilitate PI Planning readiness and the event itself
What is one way to improve the skills of a team member? - Answer✔Pair-work with other team
members
Who should vote on root causes? - Answer✔The team members working on that problem
One of the Scrum Master's main responsibilities is to communicate with management and
outside stakeholders to hel the team in what way? - Answer✔Protect them from uncontrolled
addition of work
A team's Product Owner (PO) takes an unexxpected leave of absence for the last week of the
Iteration. Trhee of the team's Sotires 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 Sotires. The PM responds that he is not familiar enough with the intent to feel comfortable
accepting these responsabilities. He suggest keeping the iteration open for additional week and
waiting for the PO to come back. What should the team's Scrum Master do? - Answer✔Work
with the Release Train Enginner to find a solution
The Agile Team need to learn or acquire new skills. Where is this list of skills found? -
Answer✔In the Improvement backlog
Who participates in the Inspect and Adapt event? - Answer✔The entire Agile Release Train
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What are three Interation Retrospective anti-patterns? - Answer✔1 - When only some of the
team attends
2 - When the Scrum Master decides what the retrospective topic(s) will be and directs the team
on specific improvement items to work on
3 - When the team's people manager comes in to observe
What are two examples of tasking anti-patterns? (Choose two.) - Answer✔1 - The team focuses
on task completion over Story completion and acceptance criteria;
2 - The team provides updates only on tasks during the daily stand up meeting
Wich two actions enhance an Agile Release Train's performance? - Answer✔1 - Collaboration
2 - Team alignment
How does the Scrum Master hel teams address the challenges of modern Enterprises? -
Answer✔By actively addressing impediments
What is the skill type Scrum Masters try to get the Agile Team to achieve? - Answer✔T-Shaped
One state on the team Kaban board has people waiting while the previous stage is overloaded.
What should the Scrum Master consider doing? - Answer✔Encourage and coach the people in
the under-utilized stage to hel with the work of the overloaded stage
How can learning Milestones be used? - Answer✔To test the conecpt of a new Feature or
Capability
What is one Extreme Programming (XP) rule adopted in SAFe? - Answer✔Pair Programming
Why are SAFe Scrum Masters challenged differently in a Enterprise? - Answer✔The team is
affected by teams and stakeholders beyong their control
SAFe Scrum Master interact with wich level(s) of Framework? - Answer✔All Levels
Wich tow events explicity implement the Lean-Agile Mindset of relentless improvement? -
Answer✔1 - Inspect and Adapt
2 - Iteration Retrospective
Who is responsible for assisting to establish Continuous Integration in SAFe? - Answer✔The
System Team
What is the connection between feedback and optimun batch size? - Answer✔Lack of feedback
contributes to higher cost
During Iteration Review, the team decides to carry forward three Stories to the next iteration.
This is the second time during this PI that some of the team's Stories are carried over. What are
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two actions the Scrum Master should take? - Answer✔1 - Discuss the issue at the Itaration
Retrospective
2 - Perform the 5 Whys to find the root cause of the delays
Who reviews the top Capabilities for the upcoming PI? - Answer✔Solution Management
Wich statement describes how Kanban teams handle capacity during PI Planning? -
Answer✔They use throughput as an indication of their capacity
Which technique is used to identify root causes during the problem-solving workshop? -
Answer✔5 Whys
What are two key areas a team should be organized aroung? - Answer✔1 - Enablers
2 - Features
What anti-pattern can emerge during the Scrum of Scrums? - Answer✔Scrum Masters report
on the teams' tasks status each day
A team achieved less than 80% predictability during the quantitative measurement of the
Inspect and Adapt event. What would be an unacceptable action for this team's Scrum Master
take? - Answer✔Decide improvement actions for the team to implement
In complex systems development, what do local integration points ensure? - Answer✔That
each Capability of the systems is meeting its responsibilities in contributing of the overall
Solution Intent
Wich SAFe organizational construct allows businesses to build large and complex systems wich
require hundreds of people in a Lean-Agile manner? - Answer✔Solution Train
Achieving the goals of Release on Demand requires an understanding of how to decouple
what? - Answer✔The release from deployment
What improves collaboration between Scrum Masters and System Architects, System Teams
and Operations? - Answer✔Program Kanban
What is the most effective way to estabilish Built-in Quality? - Answer✔Perform as many types
of testing within the Iteration boundaries as possible
What action should be taken on relentless improvement backlog items from the problem-
solving worshop? - Answer✔Use the items as direct input into the PI Planning event that
follows
How do Kanban Teams implement the SAFe Lean-Agile mindset of relentless improvement? -
Answer✔By using cumulative flow diagrams to objectively measure bottlenecks and variation
which could be due to systemic factors
Wich SAFe configuration requires having a Vision? - Answer✔All SAFe configurations
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