1/60

What are two main reasons why the program predictability measure is important? (Choose two.)

® |t demonstrates the need to fix the scope at the beginning of the Program Increment (PI)
e |tidentifies under-performing teams
® |t indicates whether the Solution is ready to be released

2/60
Which role should the Release Train Engineer play related to a hackathon event?
® Ensure the teams have allocated story points in the Innovation and Planning Iteration
during the Program Increment to account for the effort

e Work with development leaders to make sure they give clear and detailed guidance to
the developers on what is expected
e Get approval for work to be done in the hackathon

3/60
Why is it important for the RTE to understand Tuckman's group dynamic stages?

® Tuckman helps to better understand Team and ART topologies

e The Tuckman dynamic nature of the stages requires that we assume variability and
preserve options

e The Tuckman four stages should be reflected in the design of the Program Kanban

4/60
What best describes what stream-aligned teams do?

® Promote better flow of communications between leadership, trains, and teams

e Use process-mapping to identify and eliminate process bottlenecks
® Analyze value streams and transform them using lean-agile principles

* Build and deliver customer value with minimal dependencies on other teams

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5/60
Several Scrum Masters seem to be deadlocked in a disagreement on what to do about a shared
issue. What is an appropriate coaching technique for the RTE to use?

Bringing fresh emphasis to lean-agile's respect for people and culture

Driving an empirical assessment of the problem using metrics
Being the final "decision making authority" once all views have been heard

6/60
What is a key characteristic lean-agile leaders need to have when implementing SAFe?

e Keeping roadmaps to no more than a single PI

e Ensuring compliance with process standards

e Emphasizing the enterprise objectives and KPIs

7 /60
The Agile Release Train (ART) is near the end of the final Iteration of their first Program
Increment. Integration into staging is more challenging than estimated. They add a week to the
Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration for integration and testing. Why is this a bad idea?

e |t substantially decreases the predictability of the Solution Intent

® It decreases job satisfaction by removing autonomy and purpose
® Overall train velocity goes up and the time-to- market goes down

8/60
What practice can help to identify bottlenecks in the flow of work?
® Measuring lead time for all work in progress
e Visualizing the flow of all work and track progress of individual items
® Comparing transaction costs, holding costs and business value realization

9/60
Which SAFe core value creates an environment where facts are always friendly?

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 e [nnovation
® Respect for People and Culture

e Flow

10 /60
At the end of day two of the Program Increment (PI) Planning event, the team's final plan review
covers what information?

® Team Features, Stories, and team-level enablers

e® Changes to iteration goals, measured velocity, and dependencies

® Planned Features, uncommitted objectives, and ROAMed risks

11 /60
During the management review and problem-solving meeting, one team raises the risk of not
finishing a Feature before the end of the Program Increment (Pl) How can the management team
help ensure they complete the Feature within the PI?

® Use buffer resources as a guard band

eo Redefine the definition of done for Features

® ROAM the risk appropriately

12 /60
How can a Release Train Engineer be aware of employee satisfaction?

® Gather employee Metrics immediately after the Agile Release Train launches
® Address and resolve any problems areas

e® Survey full-time employees

13 /60
Which core competency describes the ability to deliver continuous value?

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 e Agile Product Delivery
eo Organizational Agility

® Lean Portfolio Management

14 /60
What are two benefits of having a team definition of done? (Choose two.)

® To measure the team's capacity to load ratio

® To gauge team predictability

e To collect team performance Metrics

15 /60
Which statement is true about the retrospective and problem-solving part of the Inspect and
Adapt workshop?

The improvement backlog items resulting from the problem-solving workshop should be
items that only leadership can address
e Key Agile Release Train stakeholders, including Business Owners, Customers, and
management can participate along with the teams
® The Release Train Engineer gathers the list of problems to be solved during the final scrum
of scrums of the Program Increment (PI)

16 /60
At which two stages will the Agile Release Train (ART) act as a one-team culture? (Choose two.)
® Norming - Teams begin to form communities
® Storming - Fostering continuous improvement
e® Collaborating - Pairing and sharing across the ART

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17 /60
Who can the Release Train Engineer work with to help eliminate policies and procedures that
demotivate employees?
® Product Management
® Business Owners

® Portfolio Managers

18 /60
Which two actions can the Release Train Engineer take to facilitate team growth? (Choose two.)

e® Encourage skill specialization

eo Facilitate conflict
® Provide a team vision

20 /60
What should the Release Train Engineer do during the final plan review on Day two of Program
Increment (PI) Planning?

e® Verify that each team's uncommitted objectives have lower business value than the
committed Pl Objectives in order to reflect proper prioritization
® Encourage discussion of each team's product Vision as part of the final plan review
eo Facilitate the ROAMing of each team's risks

21/60
What can occur as a result of not having an Innovation and Planning Iteration?

e® Bottlenecks can be hard to identify and resolve

e Teams can have no time for fixing bugs

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 e Delivery can be stifled incrementally

22 /60
What action can result in reduced collaboration between teams during the Program Increment
(PI) Planning event?

® Skip the Inspect and Adapt event

® Include inexperienced team members
e Start the Agile Release Train without a System Team in place

23 /60
In addition to Innovation and Planning, what else does the IP Iteration provide time for?

eo Building in quality and compliance

e® Additional planned work

® An estimating guard band

24 /60
What action does a Release Train Engineer take prior to an upcoming Program Increment (Pl)
Planning meeting?

eo Allocate time in the scrum of scrums meeting for Product Management to socialize with
the teams the Features for the upcoming PI

® Ensure that at least 30% of the Program Backlog is allocated to Enabler Features
® Provide approval and sign-off for draft Team Backlogs

25 /60
What is one primary responsibility of a Release Train Engineer?

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 e Eliminate impediments

® Manage and optimize the Release on Demand process

® Support the Product Owner

26 /60
What are two purposes of the System Demo? (Choose two.)

® To exercise the performance of the staging area

® To conduct the Inspect and Adapt workshop

® To demonstrate a team's build

27 /60
Which two key skills does a Release Train Engineer bring to economic prioritization? (Choose
two.)

® Do research and data collection for cost of delay factors

e Understand and facilitate weighted shorted job first
® Determine job size by surveying Scrum Masters of impacted teams

28 /60
Who are two key collaborators with the RTE to support the ART? (Choose two)

® Scrum Masters

e Release Managemen
® Product Owners

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29 /60
How does a Release Train Engineer view the role of functional managers on the Agile Release
Train?

® As decision makers
® As problem solvers

® As a content authority for work

30/60
Which behavior exemplifies servant leadership?

® Ensuring appropriate justice is served if things go wrong

® Protecting the teams and train from negative reviews

® Looking out for the interests of customers and stakeholders

31/60
An Agile Release Train (ART) is frequently discovering compatibility issues between the
developed Solution and the Enterprise information architecture. What can the Release Train
Engineer do to prevent this from occurring?

® Add data Architects onto the ART

® Conduct the entire data architecture design upfront

e Develop more detailed Feature definitions

32 /60
Which two behaviors are an important part of the Release Train Engineer role? (Choose two.)

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 e Drive teams to specific outcomes

e Provide answers about Features

® Manage dependencies for teams

33 /60
What are three actions to take to support a Continuous Integration (Cl) culture? (Choose three.)

e® Purchase a Cl tool
® Secure senior leadership support before starting Cl
e® Follow up with Cl ceremonies

34 [60
Which of the Core Competencies of Business Agility includes aligning strategy with execution?

® Lean-Agile Leadership

e® Agile Product Delivery

e Organizational Agility

35 /60

What is ultimately intended to be supported by the use of a Program board?

® Problem solving
® Dependency review

® Program predictability

36 /60
Why would a Release Train Engineer use an Iteration and Program Increment Calendar?

® To ensure that key ceremanies don't conflict with non-SAFe ceremonies

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 ® To know the cycle time between important team and train events
e® To create a BVIR of the important team and ART milestones

37 /60
Program Increment (PI) Planning is a major event that requires preparation, coordination, and
communication. What are two key areas a Release Train Engineer should focus on to support a
successful Pl Planning event? (Choose two.)

e® Operational readiness - Facilitating Pl events such as scrum of scrums, Iteration Planning,

and System Demo
® Architectural readiness - Defining the Architectural Runway

® Process readiness - The operational rhythm that enables SAFe governance

38 /60
Which statement is true about the definition of done (DoD)?

® The teams share one common DoD

eo At the higher levels there is only one DoD for everything that passes through the Agile
Release Train to a Solution increment or a release
® The DoD is not used by the teams because it is used as a method to manage technical
debt across the ART

39 /60
What is the most accurate definition of DevOps?

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 ® A set of tools and processes that govern how code is deployed
® A process that provides visibility to impediments between writing code and delivering
value
® A method that ensures Operations works with Development every day to deliver value

40 /60
What are the three key items communicated on the Program Board? (Choose three.)

® Program risks
e Team velocity
® Pl Objectives

41 /60
Which of the following is true of Iteration Goals in SAFe?

e They describe the value of planned Features and Enablers

e® They provide quantifiable metrics to be used in retrospectives

e They provide KPIs for tracking progress and value realization

42 /60
Which activity takes place during Team Breakout #2 on the second day of Program Increment (PI)
Planning?

® The Release Train Engineer (RTE) combines all Team PI Objectives into Program PI

Objectives

e® Business Owners assign business value without team discussion so they can normalize

business value across all teams on the Agile Release Train

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 ® The RTE modifies the Pl Iteration schedule, if needed, based on the scope of high priority

Features

43 /60
Which of the following is true about the ART sync event?

e tis run after PO-sync and Scrum of Scrum events

® It occurs during the Innovation and Planning iteration
e® Attendance by the entire ART is important

44 [60
The Release Train Engineer (RTE) learns the teams feel the business value does not reflect the
effort and progress. What are two ways the RTE can provide a better understanding of what the
teams have created? (Choose two.)

® Educate teams that business value provides the Enterprise with a Metric of how fast the
team executed work during the PI

® Publish the team business values and coach teams that these values are for tracking each
Agile Release Train deliverable
Illustrate the linkage between business values and the market communications/release
objectives tied to the three to six month Enterprise strategy

45 /60
Some teams are having difficulty identifying where they might make process improvements. How
might a RTE support them?

® Observe the team's ceremonies and share observations

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 e Run longer I&A meetings to brainstorm improvement items
e Conduct a survey to identify the worst problems the team is having

46 /60
When planning for a distributed Program Increment (Pl) Planning event with a large difference in
time zones, what are two key preparation and facilitation focus areas for a Release Train Engineer
(RTE)? (Choose two.)

e Split up the PI Planning event per time zone and then have the final plan review,
confidence vote, and planning retrospective as one centralized meeting

e Have a single RTE and technical support person that acts as a central point of
communication for all locations

Share the outcomes of preparation meetings with local Scrum Masters so they can arrange local
rooms

47 [60
A group of developers, Scrums Masters, and Product Owners are interested in sharing knowledge
and learning more about DevOps concepts. How can the Release Train Engineer help them
collaborate to gain knowledge about DevOps?

e Schedule a DevOps bi-weekly synchronization

eo Align them with the System Team

® Provide Devops training

48 [60
Which SAFe Core Competency incorporates guidance on coordinating trains and suppliers?

® Lean Portfolio Management

® Business Agility
® Measure and Grow

49 /60
What might an RTE do to embrace relentless improvement and a growth mindset as an
individual?

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 e Use personal gemba to find useful improvements
® Frequently execute the SAFe individual self-assessment

e Establish personal KPIs to be able to quantify progress

50 /60
What are two responsibilities of the Release Train Engineer during Program Increment (Pl)
execution? (Choose two.)

e® To direct the management of the communities of practice

® To make decisions on resource issues for critical bottlenecks

eo To formulate and direct decisions on risks

51/60
Which SAFe Core Competency requires exemplifying the principles and values of lean-agile?

eo Agile Product Delivery

® Continuous Learning Culture

e Organizational Agility

52 /60
Why is it helpful to communicate newly refined Features and Enablers to the teams during the
current Program Increment (PI)?

e Teams can help support overall product integrity and facilitate working agreements
during PI Planning

® Teams can review the Features and Enablers so they have an understanding of the
Roadmap for the next PI
e Teams can prepare backlogs, give feedback to the Product Owner/Product
Management/System
e Architect, and begin looking at dependencies, impediments, and knowledge building

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53 /60
How can a Release Train Engineer help unlock intrinsic motivation?

® Practice healthy conflict resolution between teams and team members

® Emphasize participation from senior leadership to expedite decisions

e Establish good incentives for aligning with the enterprise's goals

54 /60
Product Management wants to prioritize a list of Features likely to be planned in the upcoming
Program Increment (Pl) meeting. What should Product Management use as the denominator of
the weighted shortest job first calculation?

® The T-shirt sizes for each of the Features

e The actual business value of each Feature

® Feature size expressed in story points

55 /60
In systems thinking, value of a system passes through its what?

® [nterdependencies
® Integrations

® Interactions

56 /60
The Release Train Engineer ensures that Business Owners assign business value to what during
Program Increment (PI) Planning?

e® Stories
® Features
® Program-level Pl Objectives

57 /60
Which statement is true about using a Program Kanban system?

® WIP limits are used to provide any needed buffers

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 ® The board tracks features, dependencies, and milestones
® Work is pushed through the Kanban to ensure train capacity is utilized

58 /60
What are two benefits of having a well-executed Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration? (Choose
two.)

eo Shorter lead times before Feature delivery

eo Higher flow of program-level business value

® Improved dependency management between teams

59 /60
Which tool is typically not used during the problem solving workshop?

e® Pareto analysis
e® Fishbone diagram

eo Dot voting

60 /60
Which two activities take place during Team Breakout #1 on the first day of Program Increment
(PI) Planning? (Choose two.)

® Teams use color-coding for their backlog items as a reminder that they are required to
have all backlog item types on their planning boards

e® Draft objectives are written but do not include exploration Enablers

e Risks on the teams’ planning boards are resolved by the Release Train Engineer

XX/XX
What is one benefit of Program Increment (PI) Planning?

® It provides the opportunity to fully define the system architecture

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 ® It helps define Program Management Review agenda
® |t creates the Vision and Roadmap

What might an RTE do to embrace relentless improvement and a growth mindset as an

individual?

e® B. Frequently execute the SAFe individual self-assessment

® CC. Use personal gemba to find useful improvements
e D. Establish personal KPIs to be able to quantify progress

In addition to adopting and exhibiting a new mindset, which core competency also supports
teaching the skill set necessary to practice the goal of delivering value?

® SAFe House of Lean

® Lean-Agile Leadership
e® Lean Portfolio Management

What occurs when leaders create an environment for risk-taking that supports change without
fear of negative consequences to self-image, status, or career?

® Alignment
e Emotional intelligence
e® Decentralized decision-making

Product Management wants to prioritize a list of Features likely to be planned in the upcoming
Program Increment (Pl) meeting. What should Product Management use as the denominator of
the weighted shortest job first calculation?

® The T-short sizes for each of the Features

® The actual business value of each Feature

e® Feature size expressed in story points

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88%

Which SAFe core value creates an environment where facts are always friendly?
® Flow
® Innovation
e Respect for People and Culture

How does a Release Train Engineer view the role of functional managers on the Agile Release
Train?
® As a content authority for work
® As decision makers

e As problem solvers

Which core competency describes the ability to deliver continuous value?

e® Lean Portfolio Management
e® Enterprise Solution Delivery

® Business Agility

Which SAFe core competency incorporates guidance on coordinating trains and suppliers? (5.1)
eo Business Agility
® Measure and Grow

® Lean Portfolio Management

Which of the core competencies of business agility includes aligning strategy with execution?
® Lean-Agile Leadership
® Agile Product Delivery
® Organizational Agility

Which SAFe core competency requires exemplifying the principles and values of lean-agile?
e Continuous Learning Culture
eo Organizational Agility
e Agile Product Delivery

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Who can the Release Train Engineer work with to help eliminate policies and procedures that
demotivate employees?
® Business Owners
® Product Management
e® Portfolio Managers

What is one primary responsibility of a Release Train Engineer?

e Support the Product Owner

® Manage and optimize the Release on Demand process
e Eliminate impediments

What are two responsibilities of the Release Train Engineer during Program Increment (Pl)
execution? (Choose two.)
® To make decisions on resource issues for critical bottlenecks
e® To direct the management of the communities of practice

e® To formulate and direct decisions on risks

Which two behaviors are an important part of the Release Train Engineer role? (Choose two.)
® Manage dependencies for teams
® Provide answers about Features

e® Drive teams to specific outcomes

In system thinking, value of a system passes through its what? (5.1)

® Interactions
® Interdependencies

e Integrations

How can a Release Train Engineer help unlock intrinsic motivation?

e® - Establish good incentives for aligning with the enterprise's goals

- Emphasize participation from senior leadership to expedite decisions

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 ® - Practice healthy conflict resolutions between teams and team members

Why would a Release Train Engineer use an Iteration and Program Increment Calendar?
e -Tocreate a BVIR of the important teams ART milestones
® -To know the cycle time between important team and train events
® -To ensure the key ceremonies don't conflict with non-SAFe ceremonies

What best describes what stream-aligned teams do?

® - Analyze value streams and transform them using lean-agile principles

- Promote better flow of communications between leadership, trains and teams

- Use process-mapping to identify and eliminate process bottlenecks.

Who are two key collaborators with the RTE to support the ART? (Choose two.)
Product owners
® Scrum masters

e Release Management

Product Management wants to prioritize a list of Features likely to be planned in the upcoming
planning meeting.
What should Product Management use as the denominator of the weighted shortest job first
calculation?

® The T-shirt sizes for each of the Features

e® Feature size expressed in story points
® The actual business value of each feature

Which two key skills does a Release Train Engineer bring to economic prioritization? (Choose
two.)

® Coordinate Lean Portfolio Management by providing feedback for cost of delay factors
® Determine job size by surveying Scrum Masters of impacted teams
Do research and data collection for cost of delay factors

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What action does a Release Train Engineer take prior to an upcoming Program Increment (PI)
Planning meeting?
® Provide approval and sign-off for draft Team Backlogs
e Allocate time in the scrum of scrums meeting for Product Management to socialize with
the teams the Features for the upcoming PI
® Ensure that at least 30% of the Program Backlog is allocated to Enabler Features

Why is it helpful to communicate newly refined Features and Enablers to the teams during the
current Program Increment (PI)?
® - Teams can establish face-to-face communication across all team members and
stakeholders

® - Teams can help support overall product integrity and facilitate working agreements
during PI Planning
e - Teams can review the Features and Enablers at the start of Pl Planning, so they have an
understanding of the Roadmap for the next PI

What action can result in reduced collaboration between teams during the Program Increment
(PI) Planning event?

e® Start the Agile Release Train without a System Team in place

® Include inexperienced team members
e® Skip the Inspect and Adapt event

Program Increment (PI) Planning is a major event that requires preparation, coordination, and
communication. What are two key areas a Release Train Engineer should focus on to support a
successful Pl Planning event? (Choose two.)

e® - Operational readiness - Facilitating Pl events such as scrum of scrums, Iteration Planning,

and System Demo
® - Architectural readiness - Defining the Architectural Runway

® - Process readiness - The operational rhythm that enables SAFe governance

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An Agile Release Train (ART) is frequently discovering compatibility issues between the
developed Solution and the Enterprise information architecture. What can the Release Train
Engineer do to prevent this from occurring?
Conduct the entire data architecture design upfront
® Develop more detailed Feature definitions

eo Add data Architects onto the ART

Which two activities take place during Team Breakout #1 on the first day of Program Increment
(PI) Planning? (Choose two.)
eo - Draft objectives are written but do not include exploration Enablers

® - Teams use color-coding for their backlog items as a reminder that they are required to
have all backlog item types on their planning boards
- Risks on the teams’ planning boards are resolved by the Release Train Engineer

What is ultimately intended to be supported by the use of a program board?

Problem solving
® Program predictability

® Dependency review

What are the three key items communicated on the Program Board? (Choose three.)
® Pl Objectives
® Program risks
® Team velocity

During the management review and problem-solving meeting, one team raises the risk of not
finishing a Feature before the end of the program increment (PI). how can the management team
help ensure they complete the feature within the PI?

ROAM the risk appropriately

Use buffer resources as a guard band
Redefine the definition of done for feature

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Which activity takes place during Team Breakout #2 on the second day of Program Increment (Pl)
Planning?
e® -The Release Train Engineer (RTE) modifies the Pl Iteration schedule, if needed, based on
the scope of high priority Features
e - The Release Train Engineer (RTE) combines all Team PI Objectives into Program PI
Objectives

e® - Business Owners assign business value without team discussion so they can normalize
business value across all teams on the Agile Release Train

The Release Train Engineer (RTE) learns the teams feel the business value does not reflect the
effort and progress.
What are two ways the RTE can provide a better understanding of what the teams have created?
(Choose two.)

e - Work with the team to ensure they are actively involved when the Business Owners
score the business value achieved
® - Educate teams that business value provides the Enterprise with a Metric of how fast the
team executed work during the PI
® - Publish the team business values and coach teams that these values are for tracking
each Agile Release Train deliverable
e - Illustrate the linkage between business values and the market communications/release
objectives tied to the three to six month Enterprise strategy

Work with the team to ensure they are actively involved when the Business Owners score the
business value achieved
The Release Train Engineer ensures that Business Owners assign business value to what during
Program Increment (Pl) Planning?

® Features
® Program-level Pl Objectives
e Stories

What should the Release Train Engineer do during the final plan review on Day two of Program
Increment (Pl) Planning?
® - Facilitate the ROAMing of each team's risks

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 eo - Verify that each team's uncommitted objectives have lower business value than the
committed PI Objectives in order to reflect proper prioritization

® - Encourage discussion of each team's product Vision as part of the final plan review

At the end of day two of the Program Increment (PI) Planning event, the team's final plan review
covers what information?

® - Changes to iteration goals, measured velocity, and dependencies

- Planned features, uncommitted objectives, and ROAMed risks
- Team features, stories and Team-level enablers

When planning for a distributed Program Increment (Pl) Planning event with a large difference in
time zones, what are two key preparation and facilitation focus areas for a Release Train Engineer
(RTE)? (Choose two.)

- Share the outcomes of preparation meetings with local Scrum Masters so they can
arrange local rooms
® - Have a single RTE and technical support person that acts as a central point of
communication for all locations

- Split up the PI Planning event per time zone and then have the final plan review,
confidence vote, and planning retrospective as one centralized meeting

Which of the following is true of iteration goals in SAFe?

® - They describe the value of planned Features and Enablers

e - They provide quantifiable metrics to be used in retrospectives
e® - They provide KPIs for tracking progress and value realization

Which two roles should facilitate an ART sync? (Choose two.)You have reached the max number
of allowed answers

Product Owner
Epic Owner

Scrum Master

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Which of the following is true about the ART sync event?

® It occurs during the innovation and planning iteration

e® Attendance by the entire ART is important
® [tis run after PO-sync and Scrum of scrum events

What are two purposes of the System Demo? (Choose two.)

e® -To demonstrate a team's build

e - To exercise the performance of the staging area

® - To conduct the Inspect and Adapt workshop

Which statement is true about using a Program Kanban system?

® The board tracks features, dependencies and milestones

e Work is pushed through the Kanban to ensure train capacity is utilized
e WIP limits are used to provide any needed buffers

What are the two benefits of having a well-executed Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?
(Choose two.) (5.1)

e - Shorter lead times before Feature delivery

eo - Improved dependency management between teams
e® - Higher flow of program-level business value

In addition to Innovation and Planning, what else does the IP iteration provide time for?
Building in quality and compliance

e Additional planned work

e An opportunity to integrate and perform end-to-end testing

Which role should the Release Train Engineer play related to a hackathon event?

Work with development leaders to make sure they give clear and detailed guidance to
the developers on what is expected

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 e® Ensure the teams have allocated story points in the Innovation and Planning Iteration
during the Program Increment to account for the effort
® Get approval for work to be done in the hackathon

The Agile Release Train (ART) team is near the end of the final Iteration of their first Program
Increment. Integration into the staging environment is more challenging than estimated.
They add a week to the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration for integration and testing. Why is
this a bad idea?
® - It decreases
job satisfaction by removing autonomy and purpose
® - Overall train velocity goes up and the time-to-market goes down

e® - It substantially decreases the predictability of the Solution Intent

What can occur as a result of not having an Innovation and Planning Iteration?

® Teams can have no time for fixing bugs

eo Bottlenecks can be hard to identify and resolve
e Delivery can be stifled incrementally

Which two actions can the Release Train Engineer take to facilitate team growth? (Choose two.)

eo Facilitate conflict
® Encourage skill specialization
® Provide a team vision

What is the most accurate definition of DevOps?

e - Amethod that ensures Operations works with Development every day to deliver value
® - A set of tools and processes that govern how code is deployed
® - A process that provides visibility to impediments between writing code and delivering
value

A group of developers, Scrums Masters, and Product Owners from an Agile Release Train have
expressed interest in sharing knowledge and learning more about DevOps concepts.
How can the Release Train Engineer help them collaborate to gain knowledge about DevOps?
oe Align them with the System Team
® Provide Devops training

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 eo Schedule a DevOps bi-weekly synchronization

What are three actions to take to support a Continuous Integration (Cl) culture? (Choose three.)
Secure senior leadership support before starting Cl
® Purchase a Cl tool
e Follow up with Cl ceremonies

Which statement is true about the definition of done (DoD)?

e - The DoD is not used by the teams because it is used as a method to manage technical
debt across the ART
eo - At the higher levels there is only one DaD for everything that passes through the Agile
Release Train to a Solution increment or a release
® - The teams share one common DoD

What are two benefits of having a team definition of done? (Choose two.)

® To measure the team's capacity to load ratio

® To collect team performance Metrics
e® To increase predictability

Which statement is true about the retrospective and problem-solving part of the Inspect and
Adapt workshop?
e - The Release Train Engineer gathers the list of problems to be solved during the final
scrum of scrums of the Program Increment (Pl)
® - Encourage teams to sit together during the retrospective portion to ensure an effective
outcome

- The improvement backlog items resulting from the problem-solving workshop should be
items that only leadership can address

What are two main reasons why the program predictability measure is important? (Choose two.)

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 e® - It allows the business and other stakeholders to plan effectively
® -[t demonstrates the need to fix the scope at the beginning of the Program Increment (PI)
[ - It indicates whether the Solution is ready to be released

Which tool is typically not used during the problem solving workshop?

e® Fishbone diagram
e Dot voting
e Pareto analysis

Some teams are having difficulty identifying where they might make process improvements. How
might the RTE support them?
e - Run longer I&A meetings to brainstorm improvement items
- Observe the team's ceremonies and share observations
® - Conduct a survey to identify the worst problems the team is having

What practice can help to identify bottlenecks in the flow of work?

® - Measuring lead time for all work in progress

e® - Visualizing the flow of all work and track progress of individual items
° - Comparing transaction costs, holding costs and business value realization

Which behaviour exemplifies servant leadership? (5.1)

® - Looking out for the interests of customers and stakeholders

® - Ensuring appropriate justice is served if things go wrong
® - Protecting the teams and train from negative reviews

At which two stages will the Agile Release Train (ART) act as a one-team culture? (Choose two.)
e Forming - The leaders will start to emerge

e® Storming - Fostering continuous improvement

e (Collaborating - Pairing and sharing across the ART

Why is it important for the RTE to understand Tuckman's group dynamic stages?

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 ® - Tuckman helps to better understand team and ART topologies
® - The Tuckman dynamic nature of the stages requires that we assume variability and
preserve options
- The Tuckman four stages should be reflected in the design of the program Kanban.

Several scrum masters seem to be deadlocked in a disagreement on what to do about a shared

issue. What is an appropriate coaching technique for the RTE to use?
® - Bringing fresh emphasis to lean-agile's respect for people and culture.
- Driving an empirical assessment of the problem using metrics
- Being the final "decision making authority" once all views have been heard

How can a Release Train Engineer be aware of employee satisfaction?

e - Gather employee Metrics immediately after the Agile Release Train launches
® - Address and resolve any problems areas

e® - Survey full-time employees

What might an RTE do to embrace relentless improvement and a growth mindset as an

individual?

® - Use personal gemba to find useful improvements

® - Frequently execute the SAFe individual self assessment
e® - Establish personal KPIs to be able to quantify progress

What is a key characteristic lean-agile leaders need to have when implementing SAFe?
® Keeping roadmaps to no more than a single PI

e Ensuring compliance with process standards

® Emphasizing the enterprise objectives and KPIs

What encourages lifelong learning behavior?

e Sharing learnings and knowledge
® Applying the SAFe Implementation Roadmap

e Identifying skill gaps

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During the Agile Release Train (ART) kickoff session, Operations raises a concern that they are
already spread very thin and have no time to collaborate with all the teams on the ART.
What should the Release Train Engineer recommend to discover bottlenecks and provide
governance for Operations’ engagement?
eo Visualize the deployment pipeline requests through a Kanban system

e Ensure all DevOps practitioners attend Leading SAFe training

e Abstract platform/infrastructure requests from build/deploy requests

The servant leadership role of the Release Train Engineer is very important and can be described
by which statement?
e® Assurance of value delivery
® Support teams' commitments and fix problems for them
e® Facilitates PI Planning

Why should the Release Train Engineer encourage lifelong learning?

® To motivate team members to form as a team

® To increase team velocity

® To decentralize decision making

What is an effective method for finding the root cause of a problem?

® Conduct empathy interviews
® Perform a team retrospective

® Engage Business Owners

Migrating component teams to feature teams on an Agile Release Train can be enabled by which
action?
e® (Creating a business case to support the migration
® Encouraging the System Architect and Product Management to share roles
e Combining the testers into one team

A Scrum Master reports that the team feels like it is doing fine and would rather focus on work
than waste time coming up with and implementing improvement ideas.

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The team has recently had trouble meeting their Iteration commitments, so the Scrum Master
knows the team can do better. The Scrum Master asks the Release Train Engineer (RTE) for help.
What might the RTE suggest as a first step?
eo Dedicate additional meeting time to brainstorm improvement items
® Observe the team's daily stand-ups and have a meet-after about the importance of
relentless improvement

eo Arrange for an external coach for the team to help them improve

In addition to adopting and exhibiting a new mindset, which core competency also supports
teaching the skill set necessary to practice the goal of delivering value?
® Lean-Agile Principles
® SAFe House of Lean
e® Lean Portfolio Management

What is a Release Train Engineer anti-pattern behavior during the scrum of scrums or PO sync
meetings?

® Ensuring compliance items are addressed

® Resolving impediments
® Expressing positive feelings and praise

What value do Iteration Goals provide in SAFe?

® Provides a list of planned stories

e® Better understanding of the sequencing of the team's backlogs
® Creates the near-term focus and vision

How does the Release Train Engineer help develop the Agile Release Train (ART) over time?
Analyze the velocity trend

e Facilitate post-PI Planning

Conduct a retrospective

What are the two benefits of having a well-executed Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?
(Choose two.)

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 ® - Shorter lead times before Feature delivery
® - Improved dependency management between teams
eo - Higher flow of program-level business value

A Release Train Engineer primarily establishes a relationship with...

A Release Train Engineer primarily establishes a relationship with which two roles? (Choose two.)
System Architect/Engineer

Release management
Internal stakeholders

What are two ways to ensure facility readiness when preparing for the Program Increment (PI)
Planning event? (Choose two.)

Share business value documents

Print Pl Objectives
Print program boards

Which two actions can be taken immediately during the management review and problem-
solving meeting? (Choose two.)
Recognize the team with the highest velocity

Combine teams to increase velocity

Hire new people

Which core competency describes the mindsets, culture, and practices that make flow possible?
Agile Product Delivery
SAFe for Lean Enterprises

Enterprise Solution Delivery

What can a Release Train Engineer use to support relentless improvement for the Program
Increment?

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 Product Owner sync

Release management meeting

Iteration retrospective

What would a Release Train Engineer do to support Milestone achievement?

Schedule critical reviews with senior management and external stakeholders
Assist with tracking and scope management
Report on and manage the budget

What are two highly effective ways Business Owners and stakeholders stay current on work that
is occurring on the Agile Release Trains? (Choose two.)

Meet weekly with the Release Train Engineer to get updates

Read team status reports
Do Gemba

Which core competency helps foster faster lead time, faster recovery, fewer defects, and more
frequent deployments?
Team and Technical Agility
Lean-Agile Leadership
Enterprise Solution Delivery

What action should be taken by the Agile Release Train (ART) when the Release Train Engineer
(RTE) cannot facilitate the Program Increment (Pl) Planning session due to unexpected
circumstances?
Run the PI Planning session without a facilitator and rely on every person and role to perform
his/her responsibilities
Conduct the PI Planning session using the ART portfolio manager as the facilitator

Postpone PI Planning to the next Iteration

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What are two responsibilities of the Release Train Engineer as chief Scrum Master for the Agile
Release Train (ART)? (Choose two.)

Provide the go/no-go decision for large initiatives

Analyze Epics in the Portfolio Kanban
Break down Features into Stories
During the Storming stage of Agile Release Train development and evolution, in which area
should a Release Train Engineer mentor Scrum Masters?
Establishing program events
Engineering practice improvements
Creating effective flow of knowledge across teams on the train

A Release Train Engineer (RTE) would like to try a new retrospective technique at the next Inspect
and Adapt event. However, the RTE is unsure how to prepare for it and thinks there may be some
pitfalls. How could an RTE get help?

Ask leadership to decide whether or not this technique should be used with the Agile Release
Train
Post it in an internal communications forum and inspire others to try this technique as well
Start a discussion with the Architects to see how they would re-design the retrospectives

When is the Inspect and Adapt event held?

After the System Demo
. During the Program Increment (PI)

-__Atthe end of the Program Increment (F |

At the end of every Iteration

Which primary role should emphasize lifelong learning?

Lean-Agile Leaders
Business Owners
Product Management

Response Summary

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