SAFe Practitioner SP 6.0 Exam Questions

Topic 1: Business agility

The primary need for SAFe is to scale the idea of what?

⬜ Technical Solution Delivery
⬜ Organizational and Functional Alignment
⬜ Lean Portfolio Management
✅ Business Agility

Restoring the speed and innovation of the entrepreneurial network while leveraging the stability of the hierarchical system is a benefit of what?

✅ Dual operating system
⬜ Customer centricity
⬜ Continuous learning culture
⬜ Functional silos

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Topic 2: Lean-Agile Mindset

What is one of the Lean Thinking Principles?

✅ Make value flow without interruptions
⬜ Working software over comprehensive documentation
⬜ Responding to change over following a plan
⬜ Individuals and Iterations over processes and tools

What is “precisely specify value by specific product” central to?

✅ Lean Thinking
⬜ SAFe Principles
⬜ Agile Manifesto
⬜ SAFe Core Values

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Topic 3: SAFe Core Competencies

Which of the following SAFe Core Competencies of Business Agility includes the Customer Centricity and Design Thinking dimension?

⬜ Lean Portfolio Management
⬜ Continuous Learning Culture
⬜ Lean-Agile Leadership
✅ Agile Product Delivery

Which of the following SAFe Core Competencies of Business Agility includes the built-in quality dimension?

⬜ Enterprise Solution Delivery
⬜ Organizational Agility
✅ Team and Technical Agility
⬜ Agile Product Delivery

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Topic 4: SAFe Core Values

Turn mistakes into learning moments, create a trust-based environment, and visualize work are examples of which SAFe Core Value??

⬜ Alignment
⬜ Respect for People
⬜ Relentless Improvement
✅ Transparency

Which of the following SAFe Core Values involves coaching aspiring developers to grow their skillsets and fill new roles throughout the organization?

⬜ Transparency
✅ Respect for People
⬜ Built-In Quality
⬜ Alignment

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Topic 5: SAFe Lean-Agile Principles

Which SAFe Lean-Agile Principle includes an emphasis on “deliver early and often”?

✅ Take an economic view
⬜ Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
⬜ Organize around value
⬜ Make value flow without interruptions

Which of the following SAFe Lean-Agile principles involves delivering a continuous flow of value to customers in the shortest sustainable lead time?

⬜ Decentralized decision-making
⬜ Apply systems thinking
⬜ Take an economic view
✅ Make value flow without interruptions

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Topic 6: Agile Teams characteristics and roles

What are two ways to describe a cross-functional Agile Team? (Choose two.)

✅ They are optimized for communication and delivery of value
⬜ They deliver value every six weeks
⬜ They are made up of members, each of whom can define, develop, test, and deploy the system
✅ They can define, build, and test an increment of value
⬜ They release customer products to production continuously

Which of the following statements describes the Product Owner role?

⬜ Ensuring quality by testing the Solution
⬜ Estimating Stories in the Product Backlog
⬜ Prioritizing the ART Backlog
✅ Representing the Customer to the Agile Team

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Topic 7: Scrum and Kanban

What is one key difference between SAFe Scrum and SAFe Team Kanban?

✅ SAFe Scrum uses fixed-length iterations, while SAFe Team Kanban operates on a continuous flow model
⬜ SAFe Scrum lacks defined roles, whereas SAFe Team Kanban includes specific roles like Scrum Master and Product Owner
⬜ SAFe Scrum is suitable for support and operations teams, while SAFe Team Kanban is designed for software development teams
⬜ SAFe Team Kanban requires time-boxed sprints, whereas SAFe Scrum does not

Team A is a maintenance team that cannot always predictably plan their work. They like to meet daily to review the needs of the system and plan for how they can quickly address those needs during the workday. Which of the following SAFe Lean-Agile methods should Team A use to plan and execute their work?

⬜ SAFe Enabling Team
⬜ SAFe XP Team
✅ SAFe Team Kanban
⬜ SAFe Platform Team

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Topic 8: Agile Release Train (ART) characteristics and roles

What are the three key items communicated on the ART planning board? (Choose three.)

⬜ ART PI risks
✅ Feature delivery
⬜ Team velocity
✅ Dependencies between teams
⬜ PI Objectives
✅ Milestones

Which of the following statements describes the Release Train Engineer role?

⬜ To maintain Team Backlogs
✅ To serve as the ART Chief Coach
⬜ To ensure technical integrity of all development within the ART
⬜ To serve as the ART-level content authority

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Topic 9: Customer-centric mindset

Which of the following roles act as proxies for the customer in representing their needs to the teams?

⬜ Executive roles
✅ Product roles
⬜ Architecture roles
⬜ Developer roles

Which of the following design-thinking techniques helps breakdown Features while considering the end-to-end user flow?

✅ Story mapping
⬜ Market research
⬜ Gemba walks
⬜ Personas

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Topic 10: Product vision and roadmap

What is the product vision?

⬜ A set of prioritized Features
⬜ The User Stories required to meet customer needs
⬜ An explanation of the architectural runway needed to deliver products to the customer
✅ A method for aligning to the product direction

Which of the following statements is true about Roadmaps?

⬜ Roadmaps are commitment
⬜ Roadmaps provide a single planning horizon
⬜ Roadmaps are only adjusted at PI boundaries
✅ Roadmaps communicate intent

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Topic 11: Story and Feature

Which statement is true about Features and Stories?

⬜ Features should be small enough to fit into an Iteration
✅ Features can be larger than an Iteration but Stories should be small enough to fit into an Iteration
⬜ They are prioritized by the team
⬜ They are estimated like User Stories

What is one benefit of Story acceptance criteria?

⬜ To provide Story details from a release-planning point of view
✅ To provide Story details from a testing point of view
⬜ To provide Story details from a designer point of view
⬜ To provide Story details from a deployment point of view

The Scrum Master/Team Coach wants to establish a team’s initial capacity. The team has two testers, three developers, one full-time Scrum Master/Team Coach, and a Product Owner split between two teams. What is their capacity before calculating for time off?

⬜ 52
⬜ 32
✅ 40
⬜ 48

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Topic 12: Team Backlog and Backlog Refinement

What is the primary purpose of backlog refinement in SAFe?

⬜ To assign tasks to individual team members
✅ To define, discuss, estimate, and establish acceptance criteria for upcoming backlog items
⬜ To prioritize the backlog items based on business value
⬜ To review the outcomes of the previous iteration

What types of items are typically found in the Team Backlog?

⬜ Only user stories
⬜ Only enablers
✅ User stories and enablers
⬜ Epics and capabilities

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Topic 13: Iteration Planning

Which statement defines the purpose of Iteration Planning?

⬜ It is to analyze, approve, and ready Features for implementation
⬜ It is to explore and implement program Epics and split them into Features to be further explored
⬜ It is to break Stories into tasks that are achievable in the team’s capacity
✅ It is to organize the work and define a realistic scope for the Iteration

What is one result from Iteration Planning for SAFe Scrum Teams?

✅ Iteration goals
⬜ Iteration sequencing
⬜ Iteration demo
⬜ Iteration estimate

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Topic 14: PI Planning

What is the example of applying cadence and synchronization in SAFe?

⬜ Creating cross-functional ARTs and Agile teams
⬜ Allocating budgets to Value Streams
⬜ Using a Portfolio Kanban system
✅ Conducting a PI Planning event

Which of the following is an output of the PI Planning process?

⬜ PI Vision
✅ PI Objectives
⬜ PI Goals
⬜ Actual PI Business Value

During which of the following PI Planning activities are Business Owners asked to accept the plans?

⬜ The second team breakout session
⬜ The Management Review and Problem-Solving workshop
⬜ The draft plan review
✅ The final plan review

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Topic 15: Continuous Delivery Pipeline

What represents the workflow, activities, and automation needed to deliver new functionality more frequently?

⬜ The Portfolio Kanban
⬜ The Lean budget Guradrails
⬜ The PI Planning process
✅ The Continuous Delivery Pipeline

Which of the following continuous delivery pipeline aspects focuses on enabling the organization to deliver value aligned with business needs?

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

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Topic 16: Team and ART Sync Events

What is the focus of the Team Sync?

⬜ PI objectives versus outcomes
✅ Progress towards the Iteration and PI goals
⬜ Scrum Master goals versus Development Team goals
⬜ Plan objectives versus Program Owner objectives

Which of the following events does SAFe recommend running regularly throughout the PI?

✅ ART Sync
⬜ Product Sync
⬜ Design Sync
⬜ Business Owner Sync

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Topic 17: Built-in quality

Which of the following basic quality practices applies to all teams?

⬜ Rapid prototyping
⬜ Agile architecture
⬜ Modeling and simulation
✅ Collective ownership and standards

Which of the following stakeholders primarily develops the definition of done for the team increment?

⬜ Solution Architect
⬜ Business Owners
⬜ Release Train Engineer
✅ Agile Teams

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Topic 18: Feedback techniques

What is the purpose of an empathy map?

✅ To help develop a deeper understanding of the customer
⬜ To facilitate collaboration with other team members
⬜ To identify the customer
⬜ To gain deeper insight to the members of an Agile Team

Which of the following methods for gathering customer feedback relies on building analytic systems to deliver information about how customers are using the Solution?

⬜ Continuous exploration
✅ Telemetry
⬜ Refactoring
⬜ Continuous integration

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Topic 19: Iteration Review

What is the purpose of the Iteration review?

⬜ To identify where there is too much work in the system and where the teams are being overloaded
✅ To measure the team’s progress by showing working Stories to the stakeholders and getting feedback from them
⬜ To show the backlog items and work on possible Solutions for the backlog items
⬜ To serve as a forecasting meeting where the work is estimated for the Program Increments

Which of the following types of information is shown in a cumulative flow diagram?

⬜ Costs of producing artifacts
⬜ Time to complete a Feature by the rollup of Stories
✅ Work that is in process across the whole team
⬜ Team velocity

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Topic 20: Team and System demo

Which of the following team-level events does SAFe recommend running on a cadence during the PI for SAFe Scrum Teams?

⬜ Portfolio Demo
✅ Iteration Demo
⬜ Iteration Review
⬜ Portfolio Review

What is one method for showing true progress of business outcomes?

⬜ Analyze ART metrics
✅ Conduct a System Demo
⬜ Review the Kanban board
⬜ Discuss during PI Planning

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Topic 21: Iteration Retrospective

Which of the following Agile Team responsibilities is associated with the Iteration Retrospective?

⬜ Take an economic view
✅ Improve relentlessly
⬜ Connect to the customer
⬜ Apply systems thinking

According to SAFe, what is one output of a successful Iteration Retrospective?

⬜ Updated ART metrics
✅ Improvement Stories
⬜ Updated dependencies between stories
⬜ Iteration Goals

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Topic 22: Inspect and Adapt (I&A) Event

What are the three parts of an Inspect and Adapt?

⬜ Backlog refinement, confidence vote, and Problem-Solving workshop
✅ The PI System Demo, qualitative and quantitative measurement, and Problem-solving workshop
⬜ Backlog refinement, qualitative and quantitative measurement, and ROAMing risks
⬜ The PI System Demo, confidence vote, and ROAMing risks

Which of the following activities does SAFe recommend as the first activity of the Inspect and Adapt event?

✅ PI System Demo
⬜ Quantitative measurement
⬜ Agreement on the problems to solve
⬜ Retrospective and problem-solving workshop

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Topic 23: Flow

What are the three flow accelerators for making value flow without interruptions? (Choose three.)

✅ Reduce Queue Length
⬜ Frequent context switching
⬜ Increase capacity
⬜ Address the systemic problems
✅ Work in Smaller Batches
✅ Visualize and limit work in process (WIP)

What is the formula to calculate flow efficiency?

⬜ Total wait time + Flow time
⬜ Total wait time / Flow time
⬜ Total active time + Flow time
✅ Total active time / Flow time

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Topic 24: Outcomes

Which of the following measures tracks progress toward achieving desired outcomes?

⬜ ART actual business value
⬜ Burn-down charts
⬜ Cumulative flow diagrams
✅ Objectives and key results

Which of the following role guide the ART towards outcome?

⬜ Product Management
⬜ Solution Management
⬜ Release Train Engineer
✅ Business Owner

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