SAFe DevOps Practitioner SDP 6.0 Exam Questions

Topic 1: DevOps

What are two benefits of DevOps? (Choose two)

⬜ Less frequent deployments
⬜ More lead time
⬜ Less time spent on new work
✅ Fewer defects
✅ Less time spent fixing security issues

Which statement describes a measurable benefit of adopting DevOps practices and principles?

✅ It results in faster lead time, and more frequent deployments
⬜ It identifies key Value Streams
⬜ It guarantees an increase in profits and decrease in downtime
⬜ It creates a highly functional, cross-team culture

Which teams should coordinate when responding to production issues?

✅ Teams across the Value Stream
⬜ Dev teams and Ops teams
⬜ Support teams and Dev teams
⬜ SRE teams and System teams

What is the main goal of a SAFe DevOps transformation?

⬜ To create a strong DevOps team with leadership support
⬜ To create immutable infrastructure to avoid changes to the production environment
⬜ To implement an advanced tool chain to automate the entire Continuous Delivery Pipeline
✅ To align people across the Value Stream to deliver value continuously

DevOps is a key enabler of continuous delivery. What does continuous mean in this context?

⬜ To deploy to production and release on cadence every Iteration
⬜ To deploy to production and release at least once every Program Increment
✅ To deploy to production as often as possible and release when the business needs it
⬜ To deploy to production multiple times per year and release on a cadence once or twice a year

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Topic 2: Value Stream Mapping

What is the primary benefit of value stream mapping?

⬜ It fosters collaboration among development and operations managers
⬜ It creates the hypothesis of which Solution to build
⬜ It identifies how to build Agile Release Trains
✅ It provides insight into organizational efficiency and value flow

After the team maps the steps of the current state Value Stream during value stream mapping, what are the next two steps? (Choose two.)

⬜ Identify who is involved in each step
✅ Create a future state value stream map
⬜ Perform a SWOT analysis
✅ Calculate the Activity Ratio
⬜ Measure the performance at each step

What does the %C&A metric measure in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

⬜ The percent concurrent and accurate process times of each pipeline activity
⬜ The percent complete and average times of each pipeline activity
⬜ The percent of change averages of each pipeline activity
✅ The percent of time downstream customers receive work that is usable as-is

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Topic 3: Continuous Exploration

Which of the following aspects of the continuous delivery pipeline focuses on understanding customer needs?

⬜ Release on Demand
⬜ Continuous Integration
⬜ Continuous Deployment
✅ Continuous Exploration

What are two activities performed as part of defining the hypothesis in Continuous Exploration? (Choose two)

✅ Identify metrics based on leading indicators
✅ Define the minimum viable product
⬜ Elicit feedback
⬜ Use value stream mapping
⬜ Develop a detailed business case

Which statement describes the Lean startup lifecycle?

⬜ Define the minimum viable product (MVP), build the MVP, implement Epic Features until all Features are delivered
✅ Define the hypothesis, build a minimum viable product (MVP), continuously evaluate the MVP while implementing additional Features until WSJF determines work can stop
⬜ Define a Lean business case, build a minimum viable product, implement the Epic Features until all Features are delivered
⬜ Create a hypothesis statement, assign an Epic owner, deliver Features created from the Lean business case, deploy

When preparing a DevOps backlog, prioritizing features using WSJF includes which two factors? (Choose two)

✅ Cost of delay
✅ Duration/job size
⬜ Business value
⬜ Total count of items on the Program Backlog
⬜ Team velocity

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Topic 4: Continuous Integration

Scanning application code for security vulnerabilities is an important step in which aspect of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

⬜ Continuous Exploration
⬜ Continuous Deployment
⬜ Release on Demand
✅ Continuous Integration

What is the correct order of activities in the Continuous Integration aspect?

⬜ Stage, Develop, Build, Test end-to-end
⬜ Build, Develop, Stage, Test end-to-end
⬜ Develop, Test end-to-end, Build, Stage
✅ Develop, Build, Test end-to-end, Stage

Which two quality practices apply to Agile teams? (Choose two.)

⬜ Providing architectural runway
✅ Peer review and pairing
⬜ Decentralized decision-making
⬜ Using nonfunctional requirements
✅ Establishing flow

Which two security skills are part of the Continuous Integration aspect? (Choose two)

✅ Application security
✅ Penetration testing
⬜ Security board review
⬜ SOX compliance analysis
⬜ Network security practices

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Topic 5: Continuous Deployment

What is the primary purpose of a dark launch in the Continuous Deployment pipeline?

⬜ To release new functionality to all end users immediately
✅ To deploy new functionality to production without releasing it to end users
⬜ To test new features in a development environment
⬜ To roll back deployed features that caused issues

Continuous Deployment enables which key business objective?

⬜ Manage technical debt
⬜ Release continuously
✅ Time-to-market
⬜ Business value

Feature toggles are useful for which activity?

⬜ To accelerate the deployment process
✅ To decouple deployment from release
⬜ To enable continuous code integration
⬜ To enable continuous testing

Which two skills appear under the Respond activity? (Choose two.)

✅ Cross-team collaboration
✅ Version control
⬜ Telemetry
⬜ Automatic rollback
⬜ Service virtualization

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Topic 6: Release on Demand

What differentiates Deployment and Release in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

⬜ Deployment occurs multiple times per day; release occurs on demand
⬜ Deployment occurs multiple times per day; release occurs in PI boundaries
⬜ Deployment involves moving changes to staging; release involves moving them to production
✅ Deployment involves moving changes to production; release involves making them available to end users

The Release on Demand aspect enables which key business objective?

✅ Business value
⬜ Quality
⬜ Time-to-market
⬜ Alignment

What falls outside the scope of the Stabilize activity?

⬜ Features are monitored after release
⬜ Continuous security monitoring is done
✅ Blue/green deployment
⬜ Failover and recovery processes are in place

What are two important items to monitor in production to support the Release on Demand aspect in SAFe? (Choose two)

✅ System performance
✅ Business value
⬜ Number of concurrent users
⬜ Unit test coverage
⬜ Percent Complete and Accurate (%C&A)

Why is it important to take a structured approach to analyze problems in the delivery pipeline?

⬜ It provides a structured roadmap for the SAFe implementation
✅ It helps ensure that actual causes of problems are addressed, rather than symptoms
⬜ It ensures that solutions are more likely to be approved for implementation
⬜ It allows the solution to be demoed to key stakeholders