Potential Test Questions

Currently 41/44 = 93% with questions we aren’t sure with :partyparrot:

1. Enabler Epics are used to advance what in order to support upcoming Business Epic
a. The Architectural Runway
b. Compliance
c. Value Stream(s)
d. The Program Backlog

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/enablers/

2. Which principle of the Agile Manifesto is most aligned with conducting a System Demo?
a. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development
b. Working software is the primary measure of progress
c. The best way to convey information is a face-to-face conversation
d. At regular intervals the team reflects on how to become more effective

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/system-demo/

3. What is included in the Inspect and Adapt agenda?

a. ROAMing risks
b. PI Objectives
c. Quantitative and qualitative measurement
d. Management review

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/inspect-and-adapt/

4. Which two job roles are good candidates for becoming a Product Owner? (Choose two.)
a. UX experts
b. Line managers
c. Business analysts
d. Scrum Masters
e. Subject matter experts

Slide 24 descriptions (?) this feels right cause ABD seem v wrong

5. When should a Product Owner (PO) establish team objectives?

a. Following the confidence vote

b. Following the management review and problem-solving meeting
c. During Program Increment (PI) Planning
d. During backlog refinement

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/product-owner/
6. What is the relationship between a Product Owner (PO) and Product Management
(PM)?
a. The PO and PM spend equal amounts of time on roadmaps and backlogs
b. The PO and PM collaborate to determine the architectural runway, pricing, and
licensing
c. The PO contributes to the Program Backlog; PM establishes Story acceptance
criteria
d. The PO is team-oriented; PM is market-oriented

No proof in this pudding → that feels right - i agree

7. Product Management has content authority for the Program Backlog including: the
Vision, the Roadmap, driving the PI Objectives, and what else?
a. Working with business stakeholders and Solution and System Architects to
implement holistic technology across Value Streams
b. Managing risk, helping to ensure value delivery, and driving continuous
improvement
c. Accepting Stories and team increments
d. Establishing Features and benefit hypotheses

Quiz Q 22

8. What two types of dependencies are commonly visualized on the program board?
(Choose two.)
a. Dependencies related to Features
b. Dependencies on external suppliers
c. Dependencies between teams
d. Epic dependencies
e. Component dependencies

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/pi-planning/

9. What are two primary responsibilities of Business Owners in Program Increment (PI)
Planning? (Choose two.)
a. To ensure that team members plan all of their priorities
b. To set the business context
c. To assign business value
d. To establish the PI budget
e. To create Lean business cases

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/business-owners/
 10. Which statement characterizes the perspectives of the definition of done (DoD)?
a. Product Owners focus on Features while Product Managers focus on Stories
b. Product Owners focus on the release while Product Managers focus on the team
increment
c. Product Owners focus on the Iteration while Product Managers focus on the
release
d. Product Owners focus on the Solution while Product Managers focus on the team
increment

Slide 22 / QUIZ Q 46

11. What are two strategies a Product Owner can use during Program Increment Planning to
minimize dependencies? (Choose two.)
a. Change the definition of done
b. Split Stories to eliminate dependencies
c. Reprioritize Epics
d. Move teams to another Agile Release Train
e. Move Stories on their team’s backlog to another team

Slide 102 / QUIZ Q 18

12. What are personas?

a. Strategic stakeholders that influence the backlog
b. Fictional characters that act as a representative user when discussing the
backlog
c. Key end-users the Product Owner leverages for managing the backlog
d. External customers that are on the product Roadmap

I think? ​https://www.scaledagileframework.com/design-thinking/
fictional consumers and/or users derived from customer research. [2] They depict the different
people who might use a product or solution in a similar way, providing insights into how real users
would engage with a solution.
I think b

13. Which statement is true about estimating and forecasting the Portfolio Backlog?
a. Refinement is necessary when estimating the effort needed to implement an Epic
b. Feature estimates are rolled up into Epic estimates
c. WSJF is used to assign Epics to Value Streams
d. Epic forecasting is based on the cost estimate

https://v46.scaledagileframework.com/portfolio-backlog/​ this probably isn’t on the

test given its from v46, believe we’re taking v50. This question could be old

14. Which role is primarily responsible for working with business teams?
a. Product Owner (PO)
 b. Product Management (PM)
c. Enterprise Architect
d. Release Train Engineer (RTE)

Might be B
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/agile-teams/​ the softest of maybies

15. What does assigning business value to a team's PI Objectives influence?

a. How teams plan the implementation
b. How often the team deploys
c. How to achieve objectives
d. How the Kanban work in process limits are set

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/pi-objectives/ Quiz Q 27

16. What is the primary job of Product Management when considering the Architectural
Runway?
a. Ensuring sufficient capacity is allocated to Enablers
b. Writing the Enabler Lean business case
c. Adding Enablers to the Solution roadmap
d. Prioritizing Enablers using weighted shortest job first (WSJF)

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/product-and-solution-management/

17. An organization is conducting their first Program Increment Planning session, and the
new teams are asked to provide their capacity. Which three actions are part of the initial
capacity planning process? (Choose three.)
a. Add the points for all the recently completed Features and use that as a baseline
for future capacity
b. Subtract one point for every team member's vacation day, public holiday, or
training day
c. Compare final team capacity across all teams and make individual team
adjustments
d. Ensure Product Owner/Product Manager approval for all capacity adjustments
based on time
e. Find a small story that takes about a day to develop and call it a one
f. Use eight points per person (adjust for part-time employees)

Drew answered this one

18. What is one way Kanbans are used in SAFe?

a. To manage runway cadence
b. To manage nonfunctional requirements (NFRs) in the backlog
c. To manage Program Increment (PI) Objectives
d. To manage queue length
 Not sure, these answers suck ​https://www.scaledagileframework.com/team-kanban/

You right: ​https://www.scaledagileframework.com/program-and-solution-kanbans/

Kanban systems are the primary mechanism to achieve SAFe Principle #6, Visualize and limit WIP,
reduce batch sizes, and manage queue length, as well as the Lean concept of flow

19. How do Product Owners contribute to the Vision?

a. By contributing to the portfolio canvas
b. By establishing Strategic Themes
c. By communicating emerging requirements and opportunities
d. By continuously exploring emerging markets

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/vision/

20. In the first step of SAFe’s Continuous Delivery Pipeline, Product Owners and Managers
do what activity?
a. Ensure the architecture team has sufficient capacity
b. Hypothesize on what would create value to their Customers
c. Prioritize the backlog
d. Negotiate Supplier contracts to ensure projected capacity requirements are met

Quiz Q

21. When should innovation activities be conducted by teams on the Agile Release Train?
a. Throughout the Program Increment
b. Only when innovation Stories rise to the top of the backlog
c. At a consistent time each day during the Iteration
d. Only during the Innovation and Planning Iteration

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/continuous-learning-culture/

22. What is one way to establish a team's velocity?

a. Look at the average Story points completed from the last Iterations
b. Add the Story points for all the stories planned for the Iteration
c. Calculate the percentage planned versus actual Stories completed during an
Iteration
d. Add the Story points for all Features completed in the Iteration

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/iteration-planning/

23. How do Business Owners quantify the value of PI Objectives?

a. By assigning business value
b. By assigning Story points
c. By estimating return on investment
d. By totaling the Epic budget
 https://www.scaledagileframework.com/pi-objectives

24. What is the primary purpose of PO sync?

a. To align with the scrum of scrums participants on the status of the Program
Increment
b. To conduct backlog refinement
c. To assess progress of the Program Increment and adjust scope and priority as
needed
d. To build objectives for the Program Increment

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/program-increment/

25. When tracking team progress, what can a Kanban board show the team?
a. A burndown chart of the work completed in the Iteration
b. Which team member is behind in their work
c. How many defects the team is creating
d. Where the team has too much work-in-process (WIP)

Maybe?? ​https://www.scaledagileframework.com/team-kanban/

26. What is a benefit of capacity allocation?

a. It aligns Business Owners to the objectives
b. It allocates developers and testers to an initiative
c. It assigns Architects to backlog items
d. It ensures different types of backlog items are not compared against one another

Quiz Q

27. What is the purpose of Iteration Goals?

a. To hold the team accountable to their goals
b. To ensure the team accomplishes all the committed Stories each Iteration
c. To align the team members and the Product Owner (PO) to the mission
d. To provide the baseline required for measuring the team's performance

Quiz Q

28. Which Agile Team event supports relentless improvement?

a. Backlog refinement
b. Iteration Planning
c. Iteration Review
d. Iteration Retrospective
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/iteration-retrospective/

29. What is an input to the Program Increment Planning process that highlights how Product
Management plans to accomplish the Vision?
a. Program board
b. Business context
c. Top ten Features
d. Team Backlogs

Quiz Q

30. Epics are decomposed into what?

a. Requirements
b. Stories
c. Features
d. Enablers

Finally something easy

31. Which function is responsible for ensuring that the Agile Release Train has the content
needed to successfully engage in Program Increment Planning?
a. Lean-Agile Center of Excellence
b. Product Management
c. Release Train Engineer
d. Product Owner

I no know ​https://www.scaledagileframework.com/pi-planning/

I don’t think it’s C because that’s technically Drew right in real life, I think its B
Product Manager. RTE is more of a facilitator while PM is supporting the ART
using design thinking tools, ranging from personas, empathy maps, journey
maps, and story maps to help ART understand customer needs.

See under ‘Get it Built’

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/product-and-solution-management/

- Margie, Agile TA

32. What is a recommended time horizon of the Program Increment Roadmap?

a. 2-4 years
b. 1-3 years
c. Less than 1 year
d. 2 or more years
 https://www.scaledagileframework.com/roadmap/

33. What are two different types of Enabler Stories? (Choose two.)
a. Exploration
b. Impediment
c. Feature
d. Defects
e. Infrastructure

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/enablers/

34. What are the minimum requirements for a Feature?

a. Whatever the Agile Release Train determines is required
b. Acceptance criteria, data models, and priority
c. Name, benefit hypothesis, and acceptance criteria
d. Benefit hypothesis, acceptance criteria, and priority

Only telling me benefit hypothesis and AC

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/features-and-capabilities/

35. What is a recommended time horizon of the Solution Roadmap?

a. 1 year
b. 2 or more years
c. 2-4 years
d. 1-3 years

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/roadmap/

36. The goal is a fast delivery process, ideally requiring little manual effort. What is one
capability used to achieve this?
a. Soft launches
b. Quiet releases
c. Feature toggles
d. Nonfunctional requirements

This has to be right

37. A Product Manager is working for an insurance company and is responsible for the
internal systems used for managing claims. This is an example of what kind of Value
Stream?
a. Operational Value Stream
b. Claims processing Value Stream
c. Customer journey Value Stream
d. Development Value Stream
 https://www.scaledagileframework.com/value-streams/​ /
https://blog.planview.com/operational-vs-development-value-streams-whats-the-d
ifference/

38. In the SAFe work item hierarchy, Features are decomposed into what?
a. Capabilities
b. Tasks
c. Spikes
d. Stories

Anotha easy 1

39. Which two aspects of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline require the most involvement
from Product Managers?
a. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
b. Continuous Exploration and Release on Demand
c. Continuous Integration and Release on Demand
d. Continuous Exploration and Continuous Deployment

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/product-and-solution-management/

40. Product Management works with which other role to define and maintain nonfunctional
requirements?
a. Lean UX
b. System Team
c. System and Solution Architect/Engineering
d. Portfolio Managers

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/product-and-solution-management/

41. The role of the Product Owner is most closely aligned with which Agile Manifesto
principle?
a. Build projects around motivated individuals
b. Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project
c. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development
d. The highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous
delivery of valuable software

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/product-owner/

42. An Agile Release Train (ART) has implemented a completely automated Continuous
Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline that can deploy code as it is checked
into the source-code repository.
 How might a Product Owner (PO) adjust team events to take advantage of this capability
and promote the flow of value?

a. Identify Stories that are cleared for automatic delivery during Iteration Planning ​-
Jeff
b. Release Stories that have been included in the team demo
c. Review and accept Stories as they are completed
d. Implement Feature toggles to control which Stories are released

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/release-on-demand/​ feels right but

43. What is enabled by the key components of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
a. End-to-end testing
b. Accelerated release of value
c. Predictable release cadence
d. Hyper-transparent measurements

https://v46.scaledagileframework.com/continuous-delivery-pipeline/​ OLD

44. What is the importance of the definition of done?

a. It creates standardized work between all Agile Teams
b. It creates a clear understanding of when items are complete
c. It provides a way for Scrum Masters to enforce quality
d. It prioritizes the work of testers on the team

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/built-in-quality/

1. What are two examples of team-level events? (Choose two.) 

a. System Demo 
b. Backlog refinement -​ MB/SE/JV 
c. Daily stand-up​ - MB 
d. Scrum of scrums  
e. Program Increment Planning - SE/JV 
2.

https://v46.scaledagileframework.com/team-level/