WorksheetsSAFe 6.0 Agility - Practice Test
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
Beyond purpose and minimal constraints, what else does the SAFe principle 'unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers' emphasize?
Innovation
Incentive-based compensation
Autonomy
Transparency
Identify the correct terms associated with SAFe that encompass Lean Portfolio Management, Agile Product Delivery, and Lean-Agile Leadership.
SAFe Core Competencies
Business Agility Value Stream Steps
Agile values
SAFe Lean-Agile principles
Which team is organized to support other teams by offering specialized capabilities and fostering proficiency in new technologies?
Enabling team
Platform team
Complicated subsystem team
Stream-aligned team
Why is decoupling deployment from release beneficial?
Allows deployment decisions to be business-driven
Eliminates the need for rapid response to production issues
Grants early access to select customer groups
Facilitates on-demand functionality release to meet business requirements
In response to changing market and customer demands, as per SAFe Lean-Agile Principle #10, what should an enterprise do?
Reconfigure the network to embrace emerging opportunities
Employ development cadence and synchronization for effective operation and uncertainty management
Establish a consistent decision-making framework for employee empowerment
Develop a new Portfolio to oversee the change
What outlines the workflow, necessary activities, and automation to enable more frequent delivery of new features?
Lean Budget Guardrails
Continuous Delivery Pipeline
PI Planning procedure
Portfolio Kanban
Which SAFe Core Value encompasses concepts like "adopt common terminology" and "comprehend your customer"?
Alignment
Respect for People
Transparency
Relentless Improvement
What advantage results from harmonizing the agility of the entrepreneurial network with the stability of the hierarchical system?
Customer-centric approach
Functional divisions
Continuous learning mindset
Dual operation structure
At what point during the PI Planning event are planning modifications ratified?
Management review and problem-solving session
Team breakout sessions
Preliminary plan examination
Coach alignment meetup
Which action fosters trust between business and IT sectors?
Reserving Iterations as team's safety zones
Predictable delivery
Daily release of new value to production
Delivery pipeline automation
What is an essential aspect of Lean-Agile Leadership?
Adherence to mindset and principles
Backing organizational transformations
Demonstrated emotional intelligence
Persistent pursuit of improvement
At which stage should new methodologies be embedded in an organization's cultural fabric?
Immediately after generating organizational urgency
As a culmination of evolving work patterns
Prior to initiating SAFe adoption
Without altering the present culture, as SAFe respects it
When making economic-based decisions, how are lead time, product cost, value, and development expense utilized?
To restrict work in process (WIP)
For grasping solution compromises
To recoup previously expended funds
To factor in irrecoverable costs
What is the chief objective of SAFe?
Prioritizing customer needs
Streamlined Portfolio Management
Structuring around value
Achieving Business Agility
In the concluding plan review of ART PI, risks are processed using ROAM. What does ROAM stand for?
Resolved, Owned, Assigned, Mitigated
Resolved, Owned, Approved, Mitigated
Resolved, Owned, Active, Mitigated
Resolved, Owned, Accepted, Mitigated
Which activities encompass deploy, validate, monitor, and react?
Continuous Exploration
Continuous Integration
Continuous Deployment
Release on Demand
How do Lean-Agile leaders exemplify leadership?
Employing the SAFe Implementation Roadmap for change delineation
Embodying SAFe's Lean-Agile mindset, values, principles, and methods
Adopting empathetic design with a customer-first focus
Mastering the Seven Core Competencies intrinsic to a Lean Enterprise
Which statement accurately describes batch size in SAFe?
Breaking Stories into tasks equates to small batch sizes
Large batches guarantee time for built-in quality
Transfer batches should be maximized
Enlarged batch sizes elevate variability
What represents the application of cadence and synchronization in SAFe?
Using a Portfolio Kanban system
Assigning budgets to Value Streams
Executing a PI Planning event
Formulating cross-functional ARTS and Agile units
Which term best differentiates business objectives in SAFe?
Enterprise Objectives
Strategic Themes
Portfolio Vision
Solution Direction
What is one way to describe a cross-functional Agile Team?
They deliver value every 6 weeks
They are made up of individuals, each of whom can define, develop, test, and deploy the system
They release customer products to production continuously
They are optimized for communication and delivery of value
What is found on an ART planning board?
Epics
Tasks
Features
User Stories
Who is responsible for managing the Portfolio Kanban?
Lean Portfolio Management
Solution Management
Product Management
Release Train Engineer
What is used to brainstorm potential Portfolio future states?**
SWOT and TOWS
Epics and Enablers
PIs and Lean budget Guardrails
Enterprise business drivers
How does SAFe recommend using a second operating system to deliver value?**
Decide whether to apply a hierarchical or Value Stream organizational model across the Enterprise
Reorganize the hierarchies around the flow of value
Build a small entrepreneurial network focused on the Customer in place of the existing hierarchies
Organize development around the flow of value while maintaining the hierarchies
A SAFe Portfolio is a collection of what
Development Value Streams
Solutions
Functional teams
Business units
Which Lean budget Guardrail helps ensure the appropriate allocation of budgets to balance near-term opportunities with long-term strategy and growth?
Approving significant initiatives
Guiding investments by horizon
Applying capacity allocation
Continuous Business Owner engagement
Which SAFe Lean-Agile Principle includes the critical part of "delaying decisions to the last responsible moment"?
Assume variability; preserve options
Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems
Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
Make value flow without interruptions
A confidence vote is taken at the end of PI Planning after dependencies are resolved and risks are addressed. What best describes the process of the confidence vote?
The managers vote
Each person votes
The teams and the ARTs vote
The Business Owners vote
Which type of decision should remain centralized even in a decentralized decision-making environment?
Decisions that deliver large and broad economic benefits
Decisions that require local information
Decisions that come with a high cost of delay
Decisions that are made frequently
What is one issue when organizing around functional silos?
Corporate responsibilities are not a focus
They do not provide development opportunities for employees
Operational activities are not included
They impede how value flows
Which implementation step follows Coach ART Execution on the SAFe Implementation Roadmap?
Launch more ARTs and Value Streams
Accelerate
Organize Around Value
Train Executives, Leaders, and Managers
Which SAFe Lean-Agile Principle includes an emphasis on "deliver early and often"?
Make value flow without interruptions
Organize around value
Take an economic view
Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
What is "precisely specify value by product" central to?
Lean Thinking
SAFe Principles
Agile Manifesto
SAFe Core Values
What is one of the SAFe Core Values?
Culture
Flow
Built-in quality
Transparency
What is one of the tools associated with Design Thinking?
Portfolio canvas
Behavior-driven development
Empathy maps
Set-based design
How does SAFe describe Customer Centricity?
As a strategy to meet the needs of an ever-changing Customer market
As a mindset focused on Customer behaviors that produce the best innovations
As a set of practices employed to make products focused on the Customer
As a way of working to include the Customer in daily work processes and planning
Who decides the Team PI Objective Business Value scoring after negotiation?
The Agile Team
The RTE
Product Management
Business Owner
What is the focus of Lean Thinking?
Ensuring respect for people and culture
Moving to an iterative development process
Reducing delays
Implementing objective measures of progress
User business value and time criticality are components of what?
Product Vision
Cost of Delay
Feature Acceptance Criteria
Story point estimation
Why do Business Owners assign business value to team PI Objectives?
To ensure the teams do not work on architectural Enablers
To determine what the teams should work on first
To override the decisions made in WSJF prioritization
To empower teams to make decisions around work
Which statement applies to uncommitted objectives?
They are extra things teams can do if they have time
They are items the team has high confidence in
They are counted when calculating load
They are included in the commitment
Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?
Customer collaboration over a constant indefinite pace
Customer collaboration over Feature negotiation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Customer collaboration over ongoing internal conversation
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?
It will be moved to the ready state in the Portfolio Kanban if it receives a 'go' decision from Lean Portfolio Management
It will be implemented once the Epic Owner approves the Lean business case
It will be implemented if it has the highest weighted shortest job first (WSJF) ranking
It will remain in the analyzing step until one or more Agile Release Trains have the capacity to implement it
Which basic Agile quality practice reduces bottlenecks and ensures consistency?
Peer-review and pairing
Establish flow
Definition of done
Collective ownership and standards
