WorksheetsSAFE 6 Agilist Part 1
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Why is it important to decouple deployment from release
a)
To enable releasing functionality on demand to meet business needs
b)
To remove the need to respond quickly to production issues
c)
to allow early access to specific groups of customers
d)
to make deploying of assets a business decision
2.
Which of the core competencies of the Lean Enterprise helps align strategy and execution?
a)
Lean portfolio Management
b)
Organizational Agility
c)
Agile Production Delivery
d)
Team and Technical Agility
3.
What is used to describe functional and non-functional requirements
a)
features
b)
milestones
c)
architectural runway
d)
enablers
4.
Building a problem-solving culture is an example of which SAFe core value
a)
Relentless improvement
b)
alignment
c)
transparency
d)
respect for people
5.
Which of the Lean Thinking principles includes the activities from recognizing an opportunity through release and validation
a)
Identify the value stream for each product
b)
make value flow without interruptions
c)
precisely specific value by product
d)
persue perfection
6.
What enables enterprises to respond quickly to shifts in the market
a)
Business agility value stream
b)
customer segment value stream
c)
solution train value stream
d)
lean governance value stream
7.
What is critical to improving flow
a)
Reduce the batch sizes of work
b)
address the local problems
c)
frequent context switching
d)
increase work in process (WIP) limits
8.
What is one of the inputs to the portfolio canvas
a)
strategic themes
b)
portfolio epics
c)
enterprise strategy
d)
value stream bugets
9.
What is part of the role of Product Management
a)
To prioritize the ART backlog
b)
To facilitate backlog refinement
c)
to assign business value to features
d)
to define enablers
10.
Reviewing the origanization's architecture vision during the first day of PI Planning is an example of what SAFe core value
a)
Alignment
b)
transparency
c)
respect for people
d)
relentless improvement
11.
What should the team focus on in order to optimize flow
a)
delays
b)
costs
c)
requests
d)
sunk costs
12.
How does SAFe provide a second operating system that enables business agility
a)
by focusing on customers, products, innovation, and growth
b)
by achieving economies of scale
c)
by creating a hierachy to provide stability
d)
by organizing around functional areas to focus on skills development
13.
The lean thinking principle, Make value flow without interruptions, means identifying what
a)
delays
b)
activities that lack innovation
c)
predictability issues of the train
d)
key performance indicators
14.
Which is one approach to unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
a)
Provide autonomy
b)
centralized decision-making
c)
reduce work in process (WIP) limits
d)
strive to achieve a state of continous flow
15.
What is considered an anti-pattern when assigning business value to team PI Objectives
a)
All PI objectives are given a business value of 10
b)
business values are assigned to uncommitted objectives
c)
business owners assign the business value for all teams on the ART
d)
high business value is assigned to important enabler work
16.
What is the purpose of Customer Centricity
a)
To understand the customer's needs
b)
to interpret market rythms
c)
to build small, partial systems just in time
d)
to design custom-built solutions
17.
In the ART kanban some steps have work in process (WIP) limits. Why is this neccessary
a)
To ensure large queues are not forming
b)
to enable continous deployment
c)
to reduce handoffs and dependencies
d)
to support multitasking
18.
What is the first step in Kotter's 8-step process for leading change
a)
Create a sense of urgency
b)
build a guiding coalition
c)
generate short-term wins
d)
enlist a volunteer army
19.
What is the biggest benefit of decentralized decision making
a)
Reduces Delays
b)
Removes accountability from leaders
c)
improves transparency
d)
ensures strategic decisions are made collaboratively
20.
What is used to capture the current state of the portfolio and provide input for defining the future state
a)
Portfolio canvas
b)
portfolio vision
c)
portfolio backlog
d)
portfolio kanban
21.
Which aspect of leading by example includes modeling desired professional behaviors
a)
Authenticity
b)
emotional competence
c)
courage
d)
growing others
22.
What is the next step in the SAFe implementation roadmap after organizing around value
a)
create the implementation plan
b)
train teams and launch ARTs
c)
enhance the portfolio
d)
prepare for ART launch
23.
Which statement best describes business agility
a)
The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business solutions
b)
A customer-centric approach to defining, building, and releasing a continous flow of valueable products and servbices to customers and users
c)
applying lean-agile principles and practices to the specification, development, deployment, operation, and evolution of the world's largest and most sophisticated systems
24.
What is an example of apply cadence-based synchronication in SAFe
a)
Teams align the start and end dates of their iterations
b)
teams can only release new software on the same day
c)
teams meet twice every PI to plan and schedule capacity
d)
teams decide their own iteration length
25.
What is an aspect of systems thinking
a)
Optimizing a component does not optimize the system
b)
Mastery drives intrinsic motivation
c)
The length of the queue impacts the wait time
d)
Cadence makes routine everything that can be routine
26.
Who has content authority to make decisions at the User Story level during PI Planning
a)
Product Owner
b)
Agile team
c)
scrum master/team coach
d)
release train engineer
27.
What is one component of the Continous Delivery Pipeline
a)
Continous Exploration
b)
Continous Improvement
c)
Continous Cadence
d)
Continous Planning
28.
What are the elements of the Continous Delivery Pipline
a)
Continuous Exploration
b)
Continous Integration
c)
Continous Deployment
d)
Continous Improvement
29.
What is a quality of an agile team
a)
Cross-Functional
b)
Composed of 10 to 20 members
c)
Managers direct their work
d)
Each team has a Scrum Master/Team Coach and a Product Manager
30.
A cross functional agile team usually has how many members
a)
10 or less
b)
10 to 20
c)
6
d)
15 or more
31.
An agile team includes which role
a)
Product Owner
b)
Product Manager
32.
An agile team is optimized for
a)
Communication
b)
Delivery of value
c)
maximize WIP
d)
Reduction of story points
33.
Which is one of the five basic agile practices applicable to all agile teams
a)
shift learning left
b)
Using non-functional requirements
c)
Decentralized decision-making
d)
Creating the Architectural runway
34.
Which of the following are Agile Quality Practices that apply to every team
a)
Workflow automation
b)
Artifact Standards
c)
Definition of done
d)
Collective Ownership
e)
Shift learning left
35.
How is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed
a)
In the portfolio kanban
b)
In the ART Kanban
c)
In the portfolio backlog
d)
in the ART backlog
36.
What does the ART Panning Board show
a)
Significant dependencies
b)
risks
c)
capacity and load
d)
epics
37.
what is a board with red strings between dependencies.
a)
ART Planning Board
b)
Kanban Board
c)
Planning Canvas
d)
Portfolio Canvas
38.
What is one of the Lean Budget Guardrails?
a)
Continous Business Owner Engagement
b)
Spending caps for each ART
c)
Participatory budgeting
d)
objective measurements
39.
Which of the following are Lean Budget Guardrails
a)
Guiding investments by horizon
b)
applying capacity allocation
c)
approving significant initiatives
d)
continous business owner engagement
40.
What do Stategic Themes influence directly
a)
lean budget guardrails
b)
organization of the ART
c)
PI cadence
d)
Enterprise Strategy
41.
Which of the following is an example of a good strategic theme
a)
expand autonous delivery to retail
b)
expand autonomous delivery to healthcare
c)
increase shareholder wealth
d)
maximize corporate wealth
42.
Strategic themes influence which of the following
a)
Portfolio Vision
b)
Portfolio kanban and backlog
c)
vision fo Solution, ART, and Backlogs
d)
Value stream budgets
e)
Lean budget guardrails
43.
Which core competency of the Lean Enterprise helps drive Agile Quality practices
a)
Team and Technical Agility
b)
Lean Portfolio Management
c)
Lean Systems Engineering
d)
Devops and Release on Demand
44.
Which core competency of the Lean Enterprise includes customer centricity, develop on cadance release on demand, and the DevOps Continous delivery
a)
Agile Product Delivery
b)
Team and Technical Agility
c)
Lean-Agile Leadership
d)
Lean Portfolio Management
45.
Which core competency of the Lean Enterprise includes mindset, principles, leading change, and leading by example
a)
Lean-Agile Leadership
b)
Team and Technical Agility
c)
Agile Product Delivery
d)
Lean Portfolio Management
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