SAFE-AGILIST Online Practice Questions and Answers

What is part of the role of the Scrum Master?

A. To escalate ART impediments

B. To prioritize and identify what is ready for Iteration Planning

C. To facilitate all team events

D. To coach the interactions with the Scrum Framework

SAFe's first Lean-Agile Principle includes “Deliver early and often” and what else?

A. Apply systems thinking

B. Decentralize decision-making

C. Deliver value incrementally

D. Apply cadence

The program board shows which two items? (Choose two.)

A. Risks

B. Capacity and load

C. Significant dependencies

D. Features

E. Epics

What is one key purpose of DevOps?

A. DevOps focuses on a set of practices applied to large systems

B. DevOps joins development and operations to enable continuous delivery

C. DevOps enables continuous release by building a scalable Continuous Delivery Pipeline

D. DevOps focuses on automating the delivery pipeline to reduce transaction cost

The analyzing step of the Portfolio Kanban system has a new Epic with a completed Lean business case. What best describes the next step for the Epic?

A. It will be implemented once the Lean business case is approved by the Epic Owner

B. It will be moved to the Portfolio Backlog if it receives a ‘go’ decision from Lean Portfolio Management

C. It will remain in the analyzing step until one or more Agile Release Trains have the capacity to implement it

D. It will be implemented if it has the highest weighted shortest job first (WSJF) ranking

What are two of the SAFe Core Values? (Choose two.)

A. Relentless improvement

B. Program execution

C. Flow

D. Culture

E. Transparency

Which statement is true about a Value Stream that successfully uses DevOps?

A. It has a technology stack without legacy code

B. It has a closed loop process of learning

C. It has objective measurements with automation

D. It has a lower threshold of defects approved to production

Which pathway would a LACE use on the Agile growth lifecycle?

A. Agile Maturity Roadmaps

B. The 7 Core Competencies of Business Agility

C. The Scaled Agile Framework

D. The SAFe Implementation Roadmap

Which statement is true when continuously deploying using a DevOps model?

A. It increases the transaction cost

B. It alleviates the reliance on the skill sets of Agile Teams

C. It makes it easier to release value to customers more often

D. It helps identify new customer needs

What is one component of a Guardrail in Lean Portfolio Management?

A. Allocation of centralized vs decentralized decisions in the Enterprise

B. Guiding investments by horizon

C. Participatory budgeting forums that lead to Value Stream budget changes

D. No more than two teams per Scrum Master