POPM, SAFe PO/PM UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
By assigning business value - CORRECT ANSWER - How do Business Owners quantify
the value of PI Objectives?
Release stories that have been included in the team demo - CORRECT ANSWER - An
ART has implemented a completely automated continuous integration/continuous delivery
(CI/CD) pipeline that can deploy code as it is checked into the source code repository. How
might a product owner adjust team events to take advantage of this capability and promote the
flow of value?
It creates a clear understanding of when items are complete - CORRECT ANSWER -
What is the importance of the Definition of Done?
Business Analysts & Subject Matter Experts - CORRECT ANSWER - Which two jobs
roles are good candidates for becoming a PO?
Where the team has too much WIP - CORRECT ANSWER - When tracking team progress
what can a Kanban board show to the team?
How teams plan the implementation - CORRECT ANSWER - What does assigning
business value to the team's PI Objectives influence?
Look at the average story points completed from the last Iterations - CORRECT
ANSWER - What is one way to establish a team's velocity?
Fictional characters that act as a representative user when discussing the backlog - CORRECT
ANSWER - What are personas?
,Continuous Exploration and Release on Demand - CORRECT ANSWER - Which two
aspects of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline require the most involvement from Product
Managers?
Product Owners focus on the iteration while Product Managers focus on the release - CORRECT
ANSWER - Which statement characterizes the the perspectives of the definition of done?
Split stories to eliminate dependencies & move stories on their team's backlog to another team -
CORRECT ANSWER - What are two strategies a PO can use during PI Planning to
minimize dependencies?
less than 1 year - CORRECT ANSWER - What is the recommended time horizon of the PI
(Program Increment) roadmap?
Only during the Innovation and Planning iteration - CORRECT ANSWER - When should
innovation activities be conducted by teams on the ART?
Feature Toggles - CORRECT ANSWER - The goal is a fast delivery process, ideally
requiring little manual effort. What is one capability used to achieve this?
Subtract one point for every team's member vacation day, public holiday, or training day
Use eight points per person (adjust for time-part employees)
Find a small story that takes about a day to develop and call it a one - CORRECT
ANSWER - An organization is conducting its first PI planning session, and the new teams
are asked to provide capacity. Which three actions are part of the initial capacity planning
process?
Feature estimates are rolled up into Epic estimates - CORRECT ANSWER - Which
statement is true about estimating and forecasting the portfolio backlog?
To manage queue length - CORRECT ANSWER - What is one-way Kanban's are used in
SAFe?
,1-3 years - CORRECT ANSWER - What is the recommended time horizon for the
Solution Roadmap?
Iteration Retrospective - CORRECT ANSWER - Which Agile team event supports
relentless improvement?
Dependencies related to features
Dependencies between teams - CORRECT ANSWER - What two types of dependencies
are commonly visualized on the program board?
Backlog refinement
Daily Stand Up - CORRECT ANSWER - What are two examples of team level events?
Product Management (PM) - CORRECT ANSWER - Which role is primarily responsible
for working with the business teams?
During PI Planning - CORRECT ANSWER - When should a PO establish team
objectives?
Stories - CORRECT ANSWER - In the SAFe work hierarchy, features are decomposed
into what?
By communicating emerging requirements and opportunities - CORRECT ANSWER -
How do POs contribute to the vision?
Quantitative & Qualitative Measurement - CORRECT ANSWER - What is included in the
Inspect and Adapt agenda?
, Product Management - CORRECT ANSWER - Which function is responsible for ensuring
that the ART has the content needed to successfully engage in PI Planning?
Top Ten Features - CORRECT ANSWER - What is an input to the PI Planning process
that highlights how Product Management plans to accomplish the vision?
Ensuring enough capacity is allocated to enablers - CORRECT ANSWER - What is the
primary job of Product management when considering the Architectural runway?
Features - CORRECT ANSWER - Epics are decomposed into what?
Working software is the primary measure of progress - CORRECT ANSWER - Which
principle of the Agile Manifesto is most aligned with conducting a system demo?
To assign business value
To set the business context - CORRECT ANSWER - What are two primary
responsibilities of Business Owners in PI Planning?
It ensures different types of backlog items are not compared against one another - CORRECT
ANSWER - What is a benefit of capacity allocation?
Exploration
Infrastructure
Architecture
Compliance - CORRECT ANSWER - What are two types of enabler stories?
To align the team members and the PO to the mission - CORRECT ANSWER - What is
the purpose of iteration goals?
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
By assigning business value - CORRECT ANSWER - How do Business Owners quantify
the value of PI Objectives?
Release stories that have been included in the team demo - CORRECT ANSWER - An
ART has implemented a completely automated continuous integration/continuous delivery
(CI/CD) pipeline that can deploy code as it is checked into the source code repository. How
might a product owner adjust team events to take advantage of this capability and promote the
flow of value?
It creates a clear understanding of when items are complete - CORRECT ANSWER -
What is the importance of the Definition of Done?
Business Analysts & Subject Matter Experts - CORRECT ANSWER - Which two jobs
roles are good candidates for becoming a PO?
Where the team has too much WIP - CORRECT ANSWER - When tracking team progress
what can a Kanban board show to the team?
How teams plan the implementation - CORRECT ANSWER - What does assigning
business value to the team's PI Objectives influence?
Look at the average story points completed from the last Iterations - CORRECT
ANSWER - What is one way to establish a team's velocity?
Fictional characters that act as a representative user when discussing the backlog - CORRECT
ANSWER - What are personas?
,Continuous Exploration and Release on Demand - CORRECT ANSWER - Which two
aspects of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline require the most involvement from Product
Managers?
Product Owners focus on the iteration while Product Managers focus on the release - CORRECT
ANSWER - Which statement characterizes the the perspectives of the definition of done?
Split stories to eliminate dependencies & move stories on their team's backlog to another team -
CORRECT ANSWER - What are two strategies a PO can use during PI Planning to
minimize dependencies?
less than 1 year - CORRECT ANSWER - What is the recommended time horizon of the PI
(Program Increment) roadmap?
Only during the Innovation and Planning iteration - CORRECT ANSWER - When should
innovation activities be conducted by teams on the ART?
Feature Toggles - CORRECT ANSWER - The goal is a fast delivery process, ideally
requiring little manual effort. What is one capability used to achieve this?
Subtract one point for every team's member vacation day, public holiday, or training day
Use eight points per person (adjust for time-part employees)
Find a small story that takes about a day to develop and call it a one - CORRECT
ANSWER - An organization is conducting its first PI planning session, and the new teams
are asked to provide capacity. Which three actions are part of the initial capacity planning
process?
Feature estimates are rolled up into Epic estimates - CORRECT ANSWER - Which
statement is true about estimating and forecasting the portfolio backlog?
To manage queue length - CORRECT ANSWER - What is one-way Kanban's are used in
SAFe?
,1-3 years - CORRECT ANSWER - What is the recommended time horizon for the
Solution Roadmap?
Iteration Retrospective - CORRECT ANSWER - Which Agile team event supports
relentless improvement?
Dependencies related to features
Dependencies between teams - CORRECT ANSWER - What two types of dependencies
are commonly visualized on the program board?
Backlog refinement
Daily Stand Up - CORRECT ANSWER - What are two examples of team level events?
Product Management (PM) - CORRECT ANSWER - Which role is primarily responsible
for working with the business teams?
During PI Planning - CORRECT ANSWER - When should a PO establish team
objectives?
Stories - CORRECT ANSWER - In the SAFe work hierarchy, features are decomposed
into what?
By communicating emerging requirements and opportunities - CORRECT ANSWER -
How do POs contribute to the vision?
Quantitative & Qualitative Measurement - CORRECT ANSWER - What is included in the
Inspect and Adapt agenda?
, Product Management - CORRECT ANSWER - Which function is responsible for ensuring
that the ART has the content needed to successfully engage in PI Planning?
Top Ten Features - CORRECT ANSWER - What is an input to the PI Planning process
that highlights how Product Management plans to accomplish the vision?
Ensuring enough capacity is allocated to enablers - CORRECT ANSWER - What is the
primary job of Product management when considering the Architectural runway?
Features - CORRECT ANSWER - Epics are decomposed into what?
Working software is the primary measure of progress - CORRECT ANSWER - Which
principle of the Agile Manifesto is most aligned with conducting a system demo?
To assign business value
To set the business context - CORRECT ANSWER - What are two primary
responsibilities of Business Owners in PI Planning?
It ensures different types of backlog items are not compared against one another - CORRECT
ANSWER - What is a benefit of capacity allocation?
Exploration
Infrastructure
Architecture
Compliance - CORRECT ANSWER - What are two types of enabler stories?
To align the team members and the PO to the mission - CORRECT ANSWER - What is
the purpose of iteration goals?
