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Agile Product Delivery

At the end of PI Planning after dependencies are resolved and risks are addressed, a confidence vote is taken. What is the default method used to vote?

A A vote by team then a vote of every person for the train
B A vote by team normalized for the train
C A vote by every person then normalized for the train
D A single vote by every person for the train

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Lean-Agile Leaders

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Lean Portfolio Management

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Team and Technical Agility

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Lean-Agile Leaders

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Team and Technical Agility

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Team and Technical Agility

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Lean-Agile Leaders

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Lean Portfolio Management

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Lean-Agile Leaders

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Lean Portfolio Management

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Team and Technical Agility

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Agile Product Delivery

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Leading the Change

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Agile Product Delivery

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Agile Product Delivery

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Agile Product Delivery

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Leading the Change

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Agile Product Delivery

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Agile Product Delivery

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Team and Technical Agility

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Lean Portfolio Management

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What are the three dimensions of Lean-Agile Leadership? (Choose three.)

A Emotional intelligence
B SAFe Core Values
C Lead by example
D Support organizational change
E Lead the change
F Mindset and principles

What is one output of enterprise strategy formulation?

A Portfolio Governance
B Portfolio Canvas
C Portfolio Budgets
D Portfolio Vision

Optimizing flow means identifying what?

A Delays
B Key performance indicators
C Predictability issues of the train
D Activities that lack innovation

How can trust be gained between the business and development?

A Automate the delivery pipeline
B Deliver predictability
C Release new value to production every day
D Maintain Iterations as a safe zone for the team

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Team and Technical Agility

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Team and Technical Agility

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Lean-Agile Leaders

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Lean Portfolio Management

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Lean-Agile Leaders

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Lean Portfolio Management

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Team and Technical Agility

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Agile Product Delivery

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Leading the Change

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Agile Product Delivery

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Agile Product Delivery

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Agile Product Delivery

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Leading the Change

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Agile Product Delivery

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Agile Product Delivery

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Team and Technical Agility

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Lean Portfolio Management

Which statement is true about batch size?

A When stories are broken into tasks it means there are small batch sizes
B Large batch sizes ensure time for built-in quality
C Large batch sizes limit the ability to preserve options
D When there is flow it means there are small batch sizes

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

An Enterprise has just adopted the SAFe Implementation Roadmap and is in the process of training executives, managers, and leaders. What is their next step?

A Train the leaders in Portfolio and Product Management to solve problems before fixing symptoms
B Perform process mapping on the current state
C Train Lean-Agile change agents to push out the roadmap and build consensus
D Identify Value Streams and Agile Release Trains to start alignment of the organization

What is one example of differentiating business objectives?

A Enterprise Goals
B Portfolio Vision
C Strategic Themes
D Solution Intent

What is one way Lean-Agile leaders lead by example?

A By modeling SAFe’s Lean-Agile Mindset, values, principles, and practices
B By using the SAFe Implementation Roadmap to script the way for change
C By mastering the Seven Core Competencies of the Lean Enterprise
D By applying empathic design and focusing on Customer Centricity

Why do Business Owners assign business value to team PI Objectives?

A To determine the highest value using WSJF
B To provide guidance on the business value of the team objectives
C To ensure the teams do not work on architectural Enablers
D To override the decisions made in WSJF prioritization

Which team type is ‘organized to assist other teams with specialized capabilities and help them become more proficient in new technologies’?

A Stream-aligned team
B Platform team
C Enabling team
D Complicated subsystem team

Why is it important to decouple deployment from release?

A To make deploying of assets a business decision
B To enable releasing functionality on demand to meet business needs
C To remove the need to respond quickly to production issues
D To allow inspection of Agile maturity based on different cycle times

When should new approaches be anchored in an organization’s culture?

A Culture change needs to happen before the SAFe implementation can begin
B Culture change comes last as a result of changing work habits
C Culture change comes right after a sense of urgency is created in the organization
D Culture should not be changed because SAFe respects current culture

What is one of the tools associated with Design Thinking?

A Solution Canvas
B Divergent Feature Decomposition
C Empathy maps
D Behavior driven development

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

A It alleviates the reliance on the skill sets of Agile Teams
B It ensures that changes deployed to production are always immediately available to end-users
C It increases the transaction cost
D It lessens the severity and frequency of release failures

How does SAFe describe Customer Centricity?

A As a set of practices employed to make products focused on the Customer
B As a strategy to meet the needs of an ever-changing Customer market
C As a mindset focused on Customer behaviors that produce the best innovations
D As a way of working to include the Customer in daily work processes and planning

How does SAFe recommend using a second operating system to deliver value?

A Leverage Solutions with economies of scale
B Build a small entrepreneurial network focused on the Customer instead of the existing hierarchies
C Organize the Enterprise around the flow of value while maintaining the hierarchies
D Reorganize the hierarchies around the flow of value

Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?

A Customer collaboration over following a plan
B Customer collaboration over a constant indefinite pace
C Individuals and interactions over contract negotiation
D Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Which statement is true about ART events?

A ART events run inside the team events, and the team events create a closed-loop system
B Team events run inside the ART events, and the ART events create a closed-loop system
C The Inspect and Adapt is the only ART event required to create a closed-loop system
D The daily stand-up is an ART event that requires the scrum of scrums and Program Owner sync involvement in the closed-loop system

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

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

A Participatory budgeting forums that lead to Value Stream budget changes
B Determining if business needs meet the Portfolio Threshold
C Capacity allocation of the Value Stream compared to process mapping
D Allocation of centralized vs decentralized decisions in the Enterprise

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