SAFe Scaled Agile For
Enterprise Certification Exam
Questions & Actual Correct
Answers
House of Lean - correct answer ✔✔Goal: Value Foundation: Leadership, Respect for People and
Culture, Development Flow, Innovation, Relentless Improvement
Lean Goal - correct answer ✔✔Speed, quality, value. sustainably shorted lead time, best quality
and value to people and society, most customer delight, lowest cost, high morale, safety
Respect for People - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle, your customer is whoever consumes
your work. Develop individuals and teams, empower teams, build partnerships based on trust
and mutual respect
Kaizen - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle,. We can do better. Reflection, continuous
improvement as an enterprise value
Leadership - correct answer ✔✔Lean foundation, management is trained, take responsibility,
develop people
Product development flow - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle. 1. Take an economic view. 2.
Actively manage queues. 3. Understand and exploit variability. 4. Reduce batch sizes. 5. Apply
WIP constraints. 6. Control flow under uncertainty; cadence and synchronization. 7. Get
feedback as fast as possible. 8. Decentralized control
,Take an economic view - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle of product development flow. #1.
Base your decisions on economics. The goal is to optimize the time from concept to cash
Actively manage queues - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle of product development flow. #2.
Understand Little's Law. Control wait times by controlling queue lengths
Understand and exploit variability - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle of product development
flow. #3. Risk taking is central to value creation
Reduce Batch Size - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle of product development flow. #4. Smaller
batches go through the system faster, with lower variability and risk. Large batch sizes and high
utilization increase variability, causing project slippage. Co-location and good infrastructure
enable small batches
Apply WIP constraints - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle of product development flow. #5. WIP
constraints force capacity matching, increases flow. Time box, purge lower value projects when
WIP is too high, constrain local WIP pools, make WIP continuously visible. High WIP and
utilization cause reduction throughput
Control flow under uncertainty - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle of product development
flow. #6. Cadence + Synchronization. Cadence transforms unpredictable events into predictable
events, requires scope or capacity margin, makes waiting times predictable, helps manage load
by limiting available time. Regular systemwide integration provides higher fidelity tests and
objective solution assessment
Get fast feedback - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle of product development flow. #7. Product
development is the process of converting uncertainty to knowledge. Fast feedback accelerates
knowledge
Decentralized control - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle of product development flow. #8.
Centralize control for decisions that are infrequent and can be applied globally, have significant
economies of scale or high-risk. Decentralized control for time critical, local decisions
, Planning is for alignment - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle of product development flow. #9.
There is more value created with overall alignment than with local excellence. Agile aims to
change the plan when something changes
Agile values: Individuals and interactions - correct answer ✔✔Over processes and tools
Agile values: working software - correct answer ✔✔Over comprehensive documentation
Agile values: customer collaboration - correct answer ✔✔Over contract negotiation
Agile values: responding to change - correct answer ✔✔Over following a plan
Agile drivers in the triangle. - correct answer ✔✔Value and quality driven, the vision creates
feature estimates, fix the dates and float the scope
Agile benefits - correct answer ✔✔Early value delivery drives first to market, fast feedback,
profitability, makes money faster, reduces risk, delivers better fit for purpose
SAFe core values - correct answer ✔✔Alignment, Code quality, Transparency, program
execution
Four SAFe business results - correct answer ✔✔Increased employee engagement, 20-50%
increase in productivity, 30-70% faster time to market, 50% defect reduction
Describe an Agile team - correct answer ✔✔Empowered, self organizing, self managing, cross
functional, deliver fully tested code every two weeks
Enterprise Certification Exam
Questions & Actual Correct
Answers
House of Lean - correct answer ✔✔Goal: Value Foundation: Leadership, Respect for People and
Culture, Development Flow, Innovation, Relentless Improvement
Lean Goal - correct answer ✔✔Speed, quality, value. sustainably shorted lead time, best quality
and value to people and society, most customer delight, lowest cost, high morale, safety
Respect for People - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle, your customer is whoever consumes
your work. Develop individuals and teams, empower teams, build partnerships based on trust
and mutual respect
Kaizen - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle,. We can do better. Reflection, continuous
improvement as an enterprise value
Leadership - correct answer ✔✔Lean foundation, management is trained, take responsibility,
develop people
Product development flow - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle. 1. Take an economic view. 2.
Actively manage queues. 3. Understand and exploit variability. 4. Reduce batch sizes. 5. Apply
WIP constraints. 6. Control flow under uncertainty; cadence and synchronization. 7. Get
feedback as fast as possible. 8. Decentralized control
,Take an economic view - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle of product development flow. #1.
Base your decisions on economics. The goal is to optimize the time from concept to cash
Actively manage queues - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle of product development flow. #2.
Understand Little's Law. Control wait times by controlling queue lengths
Understand and exploit variability - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle of product development
flow. #3. Risk taking is central to value creation
Reduce Batch Size - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle of product development flow. #4. Smaller
batches go through the system faster, with lower variability and risk. Large batch sizes and high
utilization increase variability, causing project slippage. Co-location and good infrastructure
enable small batches
Apply WIP constraints - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle of product development flow. #5. WIP
constraints force capacity matching, increases flow. Time box, purge lower value projects when
WIP is too high, constrain local WIP pools, make WIP continuously visible. High WIP and
utilization cause reduction throughput
Control flow under uncertainty - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle of product development
flow. #6. Cadence + Synchronization. Cadence transforms unpredictable events into predictable
events, requires scope or capacity margin, makes waiting times predictable, helps manage load
by limiting available time. Regular systemwide integration provides higher fidelity tests and
objective solution assessment
Get fast feedback - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle of product development flow. #7. Product
development is the process of converting uncertainty to knowledge. Fast feedback accelerates
knowledge
Decentralized control - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle of product development flow. #8.
Centralize control for decisions that are infrequent and can be applied globally, have significant
economies of scale or high-risk. Decentralized control for time critical, local decisions
, Planning is for alignment - correct answer ✔✔Lean principle of product development flow. #9.
There is more value created with overall alignment than with local excellence. Agile aims to
change the plan when something changes
Agile values: Individuals and interactions - correct answer ✔✔Over processes and tools
Agile values: working software - correct answer ✔✔Over comprehensive documentation
Agile values: customer collaboration - correct answer ✔✔Over contract negotiation
Agile values: responding to change - correct answer ✔✔Over following a plan
Agile drivers in the triangle. - correct answer ✔✔Value and quality driven, the vision creates
feature estimates, fix the dates and float the scope
Agile benefits - correct answer ✔✔Early value delivery drives first to market, fast feedback,
profitability, makes money faster, reduces risk, delivers better fit for purpose
SAFe core values - correct answer ✔✔Alignment, Code quality, Transparency, program
execution
Four SAFe business results - correct answer ✔✔Increased employee engagement, 20-50%
increase in productivity, 30-70% faster time to market, 50% defect reduction
Describe an Agile team - correct answer ✔✔Empowered, self organizing, self managing, cross
functional, deliver fully tested code every two weeks
