PM/PO SAFe

Which role is responsible for working with customers and creating the Vision?
System Architect
Product Manager
Release Train Engineer
Product Owner

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The goal is a fast delivery process, ideally requiring little manual effort. What is one capability used to achieve this?
Feature toggles
Soft launches
Non-functional requirements
Quiet releases

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What are three outputs of Synthesis? (Choose three.)
Portfolio Kanban
Program Roadmap
Iteration Goals
Strategic Themes
Program Backlog
Vision

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Kanbans are the primary mechanism to achieve SAFe Principle #6, which includes visualizing and limiting Work-in-Process, reducing batch sizes, and what else?
Managing non-functional requirements in the backlog
Managing PI Objectives
Managing queue length

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Which statement describes the Team and Technical Agility enterprise competency?
Solution trains that coordinate multiple Agile Release Trains and suppliers
Cross-functional, self-organizing teams that define, build, test and possibly deploy valuable thing

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The customer is asking for a forecast for when a specific Feature will be available for release at the beginning of the next fiscal year. Where could the Product Manager find this information?
Program Backlog
Roadmap
Development Manager
System Architectur

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What is one way to establish a team's velocity?
Add the story points for all the stories planned for the Iteration
Calculate the percentage planned versus actual story complete for an Iteration
Add the story points for all Features completed in the Iterat

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An organization is conducting their first PI 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.)
Add the points for all the recently completed Feat

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Which attribute describes the Product Manager role in the SAFe enterprise?
Provide governance and spending practices for value streams
Collaborates and sets expectations with Product Owners, stakeholders, customers, architects
Uses Iteration Goals to comm

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The team is struggling to agree on the story point sizing of a new user story. The Product Owner was previously a related domain expert and feels the team is wasting time. What should she do?
Make the team aware of her expertise and decide the size for th

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A Lean Business Case can identify the impact on sales and which other two areas? (Choose two.)
Decomposition
Profit
Architecture
Distribution
Deployment

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How frequently should the Program Backlog be reviewed?
When the Epic owners are defining the Epic Value Statement
Before every PI
Continuously
Every week

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What is one benefit of constant customer feedback?
It reduces the need for face-to-face collaboration
Teams can better align working days with a customer's schedule
Fast learning cycles
It reduces the amount of changes to the Features

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Features in Program Backlogs can result from what?
Splitting Epics or Capabilities
Refining the Team Backlog
Aggregating stories into Features
Decomposing Enabler Stories

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Product Management is involved in the assessment of metrics including the evaluation of business value achieved versus plan. They are also active participants in what else?
Team Retrospectives
Daily Stand-ups
The Inspect and Adapt event
Lean budget establ

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Epics require an Epic Owner and what else?
An Economic Framework
A Definition of Done
A Solution Intent
A Lean Business Case

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Iteration Goals serve what purpose?
To identify non-functional requirements
To align team members to a common purpose
To set preliminary PI Objectives
To define the what, the how, and the how much

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Epic Owners collaborate with which two other roles in a typical Portfolio Kanban system? (Choose two.)
Business Owners
Product Owners
Release Train Engineer
System and Solution Architect/Engineering
Scrum Masters

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What does the Lean UX process begin with?
A benefit hypothesis
A collaborative design
A minimum marketable feature
An evaluation

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What is the importance of the Definition of Done?
It prioritizes the work of testers on the team
It creates a clear understanding of when items are complete
It creates standardized work between all Agile teams
It provides a way for Scrum Masters to enforc

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Why would Product Owners and Product Managers be key collaborators in the enterprise?
They provide governance and spending practices for the value streams
They plan Portfolio strategy horizons for the enterprise
They plan all the key events for the Progra

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Predictable incremental delivery occurs based on which two practices? (Choose two.)
Solution Context
Cadence
Architecture Governance
Synchronization
Solution Intent

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The Product Manager has content authority for the Program Backlog including: the Vision, the Roadmap, driving the PI Objectives, and what else?
Managing risk, helping to ensure value delivery, and driving continuous improvement
Accepting stories and team

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Which two types of items are maintained in the Team Backlog? (Choose two.)
User Stories
Epic Enablers
PI Objectives
Enabler Stories
Business Epics

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What is one non-Lean behavior that organizations demonstrate when prioritizing?
Cost of Delay is directly related to the size of the queue
Accepting that a high return on investment (ROI) is always more important than a Feature with a low ROI
Cost of Dela

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Which cycle is embraced by the Lean startup movement?
Plan-Execute-Review-Retro
Explore-Integrate-Deploy-Release
Plan-Do-Check-Review
Hypothesize-Build-Measure-Learn

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What are two inputs to the Solution Vision? (Choose two.)
Portfolio Backlog
Portfolio Enablers
Feature context
Strategic Themes
Customer feedback

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Three collaborations make up the Lean Portfolio Management competency: Strategy and Investment Funding, Lean Governance, and what else?
Business Owners
Scrum Master
System Architect
Agile Portfolio Operations

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What should a team do if they cannot meet their commitments?
Review the objectives and reset them to fit what can be done
Escalate immediately to Product Manager through the Product Owner
Deliver what the team can complete with open issues
Move what canno

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Which two job roles are good candidates for becoming a Product Owner? (Choose two.)
Scrum Masters
UX Experts
Subject Matter Experts
Business Analysts
Line Managers

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How do Business Owners quantify the value of PI Objectives?
By assigning business value
By estimating return on investment
By totaling the Epic budget
By assigning story points

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What are two examples of team level events? (Choose two.)
System Demo
Backlog Refinement
PI Planning
Daily Stand-up
Scrum of Scrums

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The first three elements of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline work together to support delivery of small batches of new functionality. These continuous elements include Exploration, Integration, and what else?
Compliance
Execution
Automation
Deployment

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What is the goal of Lean thinking?
Leadership support
Best quality and value for people and society
Respect for people and culture
Relentless improvement

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What is the purpose of an Epic Hypothesis Statement?
It provides enough detail to run the business and keep long-term commitments from interfering with changing business priorities
It helps define the pipeline with the assets and technologies needed to de

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What does assigning business value to a team's PI Objectives influence?
How teams plan the implementation
How to achieve objectives
How the Kanban WIP limits are set
How often team deploys

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SAFe recommends separating deployment from release. What can help with this practice?
Deploying to staging every 4 to 8 weeks
Manually test Features and non-functional requirements
A staging environment that emulates testing
Hide all new functionality und

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The Lean Governance collaboration include the Enterprise Architect, Agile PMO, and which other function?
Epic Owners
Business Owners
Product Managers
Solution Management

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The Work-in-Process limit at the Analyzing step of the Program Kanban is based on the overall availability of Product Management, other subject matter experts, and the capacity of which two other roles? (Choose two.)
System Architects
Business Owners
Agil

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Which statement is true about fast feedback?
It supports SAFe Lean-Agile Principle #3 - Assume variability; preserve options
It accelerates planning and delivery
The shorter the feedback cycle, the higher the utilization
Smaller batch sizes enable faster

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What is the relationship between a Product Owner (PO) and a Product Manager (PM)?
The PO is team-oriented; the PM is market-oriented
The PO identifies market needs; the PM is solution, technology, and team facing
The PO contributes to the Program Backlog;

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Which two concepts drive the mindset for SAFe implementation? (Choose two.)
Agile Manifesto
House of Lean
Lean Enterprise Systems
Enterprise Agility
Scrum Manifesto

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Product Managers are expected to collaborate in planning the amount of upcoming Enabler work by establishing what?
Completed Epic acceptance criteria
Capacity allocation
Team Backlog prioritization
Accurate user story sizing

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Which role has the responsibility for accepting stories and team increments?
Release Train Engineer
Product Owner
Product Manager
Scrum Master

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Which statement describes the Scaled Agile Framework?
It provides guidelines for Project Managers
It scales Scrum to multiple Agile Teams
It provides strict guidelines for all daily activities
It synchronizes alignment, collaboration, and delivery for lar

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Frank to start here:
Iteration Goals serve what purpose?
To set preliminary PI Objectives
To define the what, the how, and the how much
To identify nonfunctional requirements
To align team members to a common purpose

To align team members to a common purpose

Who should attend the PO sync?
The Product Owners, Product Management, and other stakeholders as needed
The teams and the RTE
Everyone on the train
The scrum of scrums participants and the Product Owners

The Product Owners, Product Management, and other stakeholders as needed

Features are sized or split to fit what duration?
A Program Increment
A release
An Iteration
A Solution Epic

A Program Increment

Which two responsibilities belong to the Product Owner? (Choose two)
Defining Iteration Goals
Prioritizing the Team Backlog
Accepting Features
Driving PI Objectives
Estimating Stories

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Prioritizing the Team Backlog
Driving PI Objectives

What is the purpose of Iteration Goals?
To align the team members and the Product Owner (PO) to the mission
To hold the team accountable to their goals
To provide the baseline required for measuring the team's performance
To ensure the team accomplishes a

To align the team members and the Product Owner (PO) to the mission

Why is the problem-solving workshop more effective than traditional lessons-learned documents?
Collaboration over documentation is a key recommendation of the Agile Manifesto
It makes improvements actionable through backlog items for the next Program Incr

It makes improvements actionable through backlog items for the next Program Increment

SAFe recommends separating deployment from release. What can help with this practice?
Deploying to staging every 4 to 8 weeks
A staging environment that emulates testing
Manually test Features and nonfunctional requirements
Hide all new functionality unde

Hide all new functionality under Feature toggles

The first three elements of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline work together to support delivery of small batches of new functionality which are released in accordance with what?
Market needs
Release management governance
Operational support
Program Backlog

Market needs

Which two statements are true about estimating Features using Story points? (Choose two)
WSJF is the best way to estimate Stories
User Stories can be estimated from top-down
Story points are accurate and provide leadership data
More than one team may be i

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User Stories can be estimated from top-down
Story point estimation is done on cadence during backlog refinement

During the Program Increment Planning meetings the Product Owner coordinates with other Product Owners, shared resources, and who else?
The Customer
The Solution Train Engineer
Product Management
The System Architect/Engineer

Product Management

Who typically participates as the train's Business Owners to approve the team's PI Objectives?
System Architects
Product Owners
Product Management
Scrum Masters

Product Management

How can Product Management leverage market rhythms?
Adjust the delivery of Features to better meet market needs
Adjust the timing of marketing campaigns
Improve the scheduling of Program Increment Planning
Improve the prioritization of Features

Adjust the delivery of Features to better meet market needs

Which two statements are true about nonfunctional requirements? (Choose two)
The provide visibility to large business initiatives
They stay in the Portfolio Backlog until implementation capacity is available
They operate as constraints on the design of th

They operate as constraints on the design of the system
They are associated with backlogs at all four levels of SAFe

What does assigning business value to a team's PI Objectives influence?
How teams plan the implementation
How to achieve objectives
How often the teams deploy
How the Kanban work in process limits are set

How teams plan the implementation

What happens to improvement items identified during the Iteration Retrospective?
They are given to the Scrum Master who resolves them
They are escalated to the Business Owners
They are ROAMed with the rest of the risks
They are entered as Stories in the T

They are entered as Stories in the Team Backlog

A Product Owner is noticing that overall quality is starting to degrade. What might they do to address the problem?
Add a QA Iteration to address quality issues
Allocate more capacity to Enablers
Spend more time in PI Planning
Reinforce the definition of

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Allocate more capacity to Enablers

What is a common anti-pattern related to System Demos?
Team demos are accepted in place of a System Demo to avoid redundancy
People from outside the Agile Release Train attend the System Demo
Different team members conduct the demo each iteration
System d

Team demos are accepted in place of a System Demo to avoid redundancy

Which design-thinking tool is most likely to help an Agile Release Train (ART) during Program Increment (PI) Planning to ensure that the PI will deliver a Solution that is differentiated from competitive offerings?
Whole-product thinking
Prototypes
Person

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Personas

How do SAFe Continuous Delivery Pipeline activities map to the teams' work each Iteration within the Program Increment (PI)?
Each Iteration in the PI, teams are exploring, integrating, deploying, but releasing only occurs at the end of the PI
Early Iterat

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Each Iteration in the PI, teams are exploring, integrating, deploying, but releasing only occurs at the end of the PI

What is an input to the Program Increment Planning process that highlights how Product Management plans to accomplish the Vision?
Business Context
Top ten Features
Program Board
Team Backlogs

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Business Context

Product Management is responsible for which three activities? (Choose three)
Prioritizing Capabilities and Enablers
Prioritizing Features for optimum economic value
Establishing Features and benefit hypotheses
Defining Program Backlog content
Assigning Ag

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Prioritizing Capabilities and Enablers
Prioritizing Features for optimum economic value
Defining Program Backlog content

Which two groups should attend every Iteration Review for a given team? (Choose two)
The team's Scrum Master
The team members
The team's Product Owner
Business Owners
Product Owners on dependent team

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Business Owners
Product Owners on dependent team