AI-Empowered SAFe Practitioner (SP) Exam Questions

Topic 1: Business Agility

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The primary goal of SAFe is to achieve what?

⬜ Organizing around value
⬜ Lean Portfolio Management
⬜ Business Agility
⬜ Customer centricity

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

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

What is Business Agility?

⬜ Applying Lean-Agile principles and practices to the specification, development, deployment, operation, and evolution of the world’s largest and most sophisticated systems.
⬜ How Lean-thinking people and Agile Teams optimize their business processes, evolve strategy with clear and decisive new commitments, and quickly adapt the organization as needed to capitalize on new opportunities.
⬜ A customer-centric approach to defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services to customers and users.
⬜ The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business Solutions.

Achieving the business agility using SAFe requires?

⬜ The network
⬜ The hierarchy
⬜ The dual operating system

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

What is one issue when organizing around functional silos?

⬜ They impede how value flows
⬜ Operational activities are not included
⬜ They do not provide development opportunities for employees
⬜ Corporate responsibilities are not a focus

Topic 2: Lean-Agile Mindset

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*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

The Lean Thinking principle, “make value flow without interruptions” means identifying what?

⬜ Predictability issues of the train
⬜ Key performance indicators
⬜ Activities that lack innovation
⬜ Delays

What is the focus of Lean Thinking?

⬜ Ensuring respect for people and culture
⬜ Moving to an iterative development process
⬜ Implementing objective measures of progress
⬜ Reducing delays

Which of the following is both a SAFe Lean-Agile Principle and a Lean-Thinking principle?

⬜ Lean Portfolio Management
⬜ Decentralize decision-making
⬜ Make value flow without interruptions
⬜ Connect strategy to execution

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

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

*What type of thinking allows the Customer to pull value from the producer?

⬜ Design
⬜ Customer-centric
⬜ Systems
⬜ Lean

Which statement is a value from the Agile Manifesto?

⬜ Customer collaboration over a constant indefinite pace
⬜ Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
⬜ Customer collaboration over Feature negotiation
⬜ Customer collaboration over ongoing internal conversation

Which statement is a principle of the Agile Manifesto?

⬜ Measure everything
⬜ Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential
⬜ Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths
⬜ Respect for people and culture

Topic 3: SAFe Core Competencies

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What are the three levels of the Scaled Agile Framework?

⬜ Value Stream, Program, Team
⬜ Epic, Capability, Feature
⬜ Framework, Delivery, Iteration
⬜ Essential, Large Solution, Portfolio

What are Lean Portfolio Management, Agile Product Delivery, and Lean-Agile Leadership?

⬜ Agile values
⬜ SAFe Lean-Agile Principles
⬜ SAFe Core Competencies
⬜ Steps in the Business Agility Value Stream

What is the foundation of SAFe core competencies?

⬜ Lean-Agile Leadership
⬜ Organizational Agility
⬜ Continuous Learning Culture
⬜ Team and Technical Agility

Who is at the center of the seven SAFe core competencies?

⬜ The Business
⬜ The Customer
⬜ The Agile Team
⬜ The Economic Benefit

*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

What is one dimension of the Team and Technical Agility Core Competency?

⬜ Innovation Culture
⬜ Built-in Quality
⬜ Leading by Example
⬜ Relentless Improvement

Which Core Competency of Business Agility includes aligning strategy with execution?

⬜ Agile Product Delivery
⬜ Organizational Agility
⬜ Lean Portfolio Management
⬜ Team and Technical Agility

Topic 4: SAFe Core Values

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What are two of the SAFe Core Values? (Choose two.)

⬜ Program execution
⬜ Transparency
⬜ Flow
⬜ Culture
⬜ Relentless improvement

Which SAFe Core Value includes use “common language” and “understand your customer”?

⬜ Alignment
⬜ Respect for People
⬜ Relentless Improvement
⬜ Transparency

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

During System Demo, Team B states that the most recent release failed because of poor version control. They share their plan for preventing similar mistakes from happening in the future. Which of the following SAFe Core Values is Team B demonstrating?

⬜ Organize around value
⬜ Siloed thinking
⬜ Transparency
⬜ Visualizing work

*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

*During the Innovation and Planning Iteration, an organization invites every team member to work on any project they choose. Which of the following SAFe Core Values is the organization demonstrating?

⬜ Visualizing work
⬜ Siloed thinking
⬜ Relentless improvement
⬜ Make value flow without interruptions

Topic 5: SAFe Lean-Agile Principles

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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 is an aspect of systems thinking?

⬜ Mastery drives intrinsic motivation
⬜ Optimizing a component does not optimize the system
⬜ The length of the queue impacts the wait time
⬜ Cadence makes routine everything that can be routine

*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

*Why is it important for teams to understand the optimum batch size for their work?

⬜ To make value flow
⬜ To understand transaction costs
⬜ To complete more work
⬜ To determine the correct cadence

Which statement is true about batch size?

⬜ When Stories are broken into tasks it means there are small batch sizes
⬜ The handoff batch should be made as large as possible
⬜ Large batch sizes ensure time for built-in quality
⬜ Large batch sizes increase variability

What is an example of applying cadence-based synchronization in SAFe?

⬜ Teams decide their own Iteration length
⬜ Teams align their Iterations to the same schedule to support communication, coordination, and system integration
⬜ Teams allow batch sizes across multiple intervals
⬜ Teams meet twice every Program Increment (PI) to plan and schedule capacity

What else does the SAFe principle, unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers, require besides purpose and minimum possible constraints?

⬜ Transparency
⬜ Innovation
⬜ Incentive-based compensation
⬜ Autonomy

Which type of decision should remain centralized even in a decentralized decision-making environment?

⬜ Decisions that come with a high cost of delay
⬜ Decisions that require local information
⬜ Decisions that are made frequently
⬜ Decisions that deliver large and broad economic benefits

Which of the following is a SAFe Lean-Agile Principle?

⬜ Turn mistakes into learning moments
⬜ Precisely specify value by product
⬜ Organize around value
⬜ Visualize work

What is one benefit of organizing around value, and reorganizing when required?

⬜ Building the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
⬜ Enabling a DevOps mindset
⬜ Minimizing handoffs and dependencies
⬜ Understanding the Portfolio Backlog

Topic 6: Agile Teams characteristics and roles

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What is the basic building block when organizing around value in SAFe?

⬜ Hierarchies
⬜ Individuals
⬜ Agile Release Trains
⬜ Agile Teams

A team finishes developing all of their Stories in the first six days of the Iteration, tests them in the following two days, and fixes bugs in the days remaining. How is the team behaving?

⬜ They are abusing the practice of hardening
⬜ They are ignoring nonfunctional requirements within the Iteration
⬜ They are waterfalling the Iteration
⬜ They are applying the Agile development practice of “separation of concerns”

What is one way to describe a cross-functional Agile Team?

⬜ They release customer products to production continuously
⬜ They deliver value every 6 weeks
⬜ They are optimized for communication and delivery of value
⬜ They are made up of individuals, each of whom can define, develop, test, and deploy the system

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

*Team A has seven developers that can define and build any application the organization requires. Team A works with another team to test and deploy their work. Can Team A be considered a high-functioning Agile Team?

⬜ No, because they have fewer than ten developers
⬜ Yes, because they use another team to deploy
⬜ Yes, because they can build any application the organization requires
⬜ No, because they are not cross-functional

What is a fundamental characteristic of a high-performing Agile team in SAFe?

⬜ Strict adherence to hierarchical decision-making
⬜ Dependence on external teams for key skills
⬜ Self-organization and cross-functionality
⬜ Fixed roles and responsibilities​

What are the four types of team topologies?

⬜ Stream-aligned, platform, enabling, and complicated subsystem
⬜ Functional requirements, platform, enabling, and technical
⬜ Functional requirements, product domain, technical, and complicated subsystem
⬜ Stream-aligned, functional requirements, product domain, and technical

Which statement describes what stream-aligned teams do?

⬜ Analyze Value Streams and transform them using Lean-Agile Principles
⬜ Promote a better flow of communications between leadership, ARTs, and teams
⬜ Use process-mapping to identify and eliminate process bottlenecks
⬜ Build and deliver Customer value with minimal dependencies on other teams

Which team type is organized to assist other teams with specialized capabilities and help them become more proficient in new technologies?

⬜ Stream-aligned team
⬜ Platform team
⬜ Complicated subsystem team
⬜ Enabling team

Three members of Team C created a new workflow to speed up the testing process. They spent an entire Iteration designing the process but discovered, just before implementation, that the system could not support the workflow. The rest of the team was excited to hear what was learned from the failed experiment. Which of the following characteristics of a high-performing Agile Team is Team C demonstrating?

⬜ Trust each other, allowing for both healthy conflict and reliance on others
⬜ Accountable to each other and the organization for reliably completing quality work
⬜ Fostering an environment for taking risks without fear of embarrassment or punishment
⬜ Enjoy their work and working together

Team B has elected to stop holding retrospective events so they can spend more time completing Stories. Which of the following Agile Team responsibilities is Team B over-prioritizing?

⬜ Connect with the customer
⬜ Plan the work
⬜ Deliver value
⬜ Apply systems thinking

Agile Teams work on a series of Plan-Do-Check-Adjust (PDCA) cycles to flow value to the Customer. What is each cycle referred as in SAFe?

⬜ Iteration
⬜ IP Iteration
⬜ Backlog Refinement
⬜ Continuous Deployment

What is a Team’s primary goal in an Iteration?

⬜ Sharing progress with the organization during the Iteration
⬜ Managing scope at the start of the Iteration
⬜ Maintaining steady Team Syncs across the Iteration
⬜ Delivering working functionality at the end of the Iteration

What is the typical duration of an Iteration in SAFe?

⬜ Four Weeks
⬜ Two weeks
⬜ Six Weeks
⬜ Three Weeks

What is a characteristic of a SAFe Agile Team?

⬜ Scrum Masters write and accept stories
⬜ Agile Teams deliver value at the end of each PI
⬜ Product owner facilitates the team sync
⬜ The Scrum Master and Product Owner are two specialty roles

What is part of the role of the Scrum Master?

⬜ To prioritize and identify what is ready for Iteration Planning
⬜ To escalate ART impediments
⬜ To understand Customer needs
⬜ To facilitate the team events

What is one responsibility of the Scrum Master?

⬜ To prioritize the Team’s Backlog
⬜ To define the tasks and assign owners
⬜ To remove impediments in order to help protect the team
⬜ To facilitate the PI Planning session

*What is one of the Product Owner’s responsibilities?

⬜ To foster adoption of Agile technical practices
⬜ To facilitate team meetings and drive Agile behavior
⬜ To foster normalized estimating within the team
⬜ To manage and prioritize the Team Backlog

*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

Which responsibility belongs to the Product Owner in the team?

⬜ To foster normalized estimating within the team
⬜ To facilitate team meetings and drive Agile behavior
⬜ To foster adoption of Agile technical practices
⬜ To sequence backlog items to program priorities, events, and dependencies

Which of the following roles is responsible for prioritizing the Agile Team Backlog?

⬜ Product Owner
⬜ Release Train Engineer
⬜ Release Manager
⬜ Scrum Master/Team Coach

Topic 7: Scrum and Kanban

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What is a primary advantage of implementing SAFe Team Kanban?

⬜ Provides a visual, flow-based system that helps teams manage work efficiently and continuously deliver value
⬜ Requires strict time-boxed iterations similar to Scrum
⬜ Limits team autonomy by enforcing a fixed workflow
⬜ Focuses on long-term planning over immediate task management

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

*Which of the following SAFe Agile Team types relies on a continually-refined Team Backlog as the primary input to drive value delivery?

⬜ SAFe Lean Team
⬜ SAFe Team Kanban
⬜ SAFe Epic Team
⬜ SAFe Co-located Team

*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

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

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*What is an example of an ART event?

⬜ Team Sync
⬜ Coach Sync
⬜ Innovation and Planning
⬜ Iteration review

What is one organizing attribute that teams share with the other teams on their ART?

⬜ Prioritization across all backlogs
⬜ Simultaneous release in one pipeline
⬜ Facilitation techniques amongst all meetings
⬜ Synchronization to a common cadence

What is the primary purpose of the ART Planning Board?

⬜ To satisfy System Demo expectations by demonstrating incremental delivery
⬜ To show dependencies between teams relating to the Feature development
⬜ To show Feature priority in association with business value
⬜ To show sizing of the Epics in relation to each other

What is found on an ART Planning board?

⬜ Features
⬜ User Stories
⬜ Tasks
⬜ Epics

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

What is one responsibility of Product Management?

⬜ Maintain the Architectural Runway
⬜ Provide estimates for the Team Backlog
⬜ Own Spike Stories on the Team Backlog
⬜ Define priorities in the ART Backlog

Which role provides architectural guidance and technical enablement to the teams on ART?

⬜ Scrum Master
⬜ Release Train Engineer
⬜ Product Manager
⬜ System Architect

Why is the System Team essential for Agile Release Trains (ARTs) with multiple Agile Teams?

⬜ They assign tasks to individual team members
⬜ They approve Features for release
⬜ They provide shared services and tools for integration and testing across teams
⬜ They manage team performance evaluations

Topic 9: Customer-centric mindset

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*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

What is one way to address substantial rework?

⬜ Shift reviews right
⬜ Regularly engage with the Customer and Business Owner
⬜ Gather all requirements prior to starting the work
⬜ Reprioritize the work

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

What is one benefit of Design Thinking?

⬜ The Solution is actionable
⬜ The Solution is sustainable
⬜ The Solution is accountable
⬜ The Solution is reliable

Topic 10: Product vision and roadmap

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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

Topic 11: Story and Feature

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Which statement describes the information within a Story?

⬜ A Story provides just enough information for the intent to be understood by both business and technical people
⬜ A Story is written in full detailed specifications so that the work is ready to be implemented immediately
⬜ No further conversation is required after the Story is identified because it contains all necessary details
⬜ Story acceptance criteria must be finalized before beginning Iteration Planning

According to SAFe, which of the following types of work should fit into one Iteration for one team?

⬜ Epics
⬜ Tasks
⬜ Features
⬜ Stories

What is the typical timebox in which to complete a User Story?

⬜ One month
⬜ One Iteration
⬜ One PI
⬜ One year

What should a team do with Stories that contain a high level of uncertainty?

⬜ Move them to the next PI
⬜ Wait until the risk reduces
⬜ Assign them to another team
⬜ Create a spike to reduce the risk

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 key component of a Feature?

⬜ Benefit hypothesis
⬜ Key stakeholders
⬜ Business plan
⬜ Release plan

*According to SAFe, a Feature should be sized to fit into what duration?

⬜ One PI
⬜ One Iteration
⬜ One year
⬜ One month

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

Which statement reflects one of the steps for setting initial velocity?

⬜ The team members assess their availability, acknowledging time off and other potential duties
⬜ Maintenance tasks do not need to be included in velocity; maintenance tasks fall outside the scope
⬜ Determining velocity is a new function in each Iteration; previous Iterations should not be transferred to a new Iteration
⬜ Identify work on technical infrastructure, tooling, and other systemic impediments

During Iteration execution, a team’s velocity tends to be most affected by what?

⬜ Productivity changes, team location, and innovation measures
⬜ Changing financial planners, a new Scrum Master, and new testers
⬜ Product Owner changes, changing estimations, and new Features
⬜ Changing team size, team makeup, and technical context

*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

During Iteration planning, 4 user stories with A=6, B=3, C=4, and D=2 story points were assigned to the team. Out of which the team completed A, B, 50% of C, and 0% D at the end of Iteration. What is the team velocity?

⬜ 9
⬜ 11
⬜ 13
⬜ 15

A story point is a singular number that represents a combination of which qualities?

⬜ Mandays, Complexity, Scope, Uncertainty
⬜ Volume, Complexity, Knowledge, Uncertainty
⬜ Volume, Velocity, Knowledge, Scope
⬜ Capacity, Complexity, Knowledge, Uncertainty

What is one Story component to consider when estimating size?

⬜ Knowledge
⬜ User Journey Map
⬜ Budget
⬜ Length

What is the recommended format for writing User Stories?

⬜ I want..., When..., So that...
⬜ Given..., When..., Then...
⬜ As a..., When..., Then...
⬜ As a..., I want to..., So that...

Why is it important to establish a definition of done?

⬜ To enable Scrum Masters/Team Coaches to enforce quality
⬜ To ensure Features provide the expected business benefits
⬜ To create Standardize work between all Agile Teams
⬜ To create alignment on when stories are complete

Which of the following types of Enabler Stories is used for building and evaluating prospective Solutions alternatives?

⬜ Compliance
⬜ Exploration
⬜ Infrastructure
⬜ Architecture

Topic 12: Team Backlog and Backlog Refinement

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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

During backlog refinement, who should participate in the discussion and estimation of backlog items?

⬜ The entire ART Train
⬜ Only the Product Owner and Scrum Master
⬜ Only senior developers
⬜ The entire Agile Team

Why is it important to include enabler stories in the Team Backlog?

⬜ To ensure that all team members have tasks to work on
⬜ To address technical infrastructure, architecture, and compliance activities necessary to support future business functionality
⬜ To increase the velocity of the Agile Team
⬜ To fulfill a requirement of the SAFe framework

What is the intended value of the Backlog Refinement Event?

⬜ The Team aligns on the progress of Iteration Goals
⬜ The Team reviews and improves processes before the next Iteration
⬜ The Team is able to commit to a set of goals to be delivered in the Iteration
⬜ The Team is able to prepare requirements for Iteration Planning

Topic 13: Iteration Planning

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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

Who commits to the Iteration goals at the end of Iteration Planning?

⬜ Product Owner
⬜ Scrum Master
⬜ Agile Team
⬜ Business Owner

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

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

What is one purpose of Iteration Goals?

⬜ To communicate which Stories will be completed during the Iteration
⬜ To align Team members to common objectives
⬜ To identify what to present in System Demo
⬜ To get Feedback from the organization

Topic 14: PI Planning

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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 activity is key to successfully implementing the Scaled Agile Framework?

⬜ Use the Innovation and Planning Iteration instead of the PI Planning process
⬜ Replace the PI Planning process with the Inspect and Adapt workshop when possible
⬜ Use a cadence-based PI Planning process
⬜ Remove blocks such as portfolio estimation

Which statement is true about the PI Planning event?

⬜ It involves only the team members who are most qualified to estimate the work
⬜ It involves Product Management and Product Owners on the first day and the rest of the teams on the second day
⬜ It involves everyone in the program over a two-day period
⬜ It involves program Portfolio Management to prioritize the Stories presented by teams during the final plan review

What is the recommended duration for a Planning Interval (PI) in SAFe?

⬜ 4-6 weeks
⬜ 6-8 weeks
⬜ 8-12 weeks
⬜ 12-16 weeks

Who owns the Feature priorities during the PI Planning?

⬜ Business Owner
⬜ Product Management
⬜ Release Train Engineer
⬜ Solution Architect/Engineer

Who has content authority to make decisions at the User Story level during Program Increment (PI) Planning?

⬜ Scrum Masters
⬜ Agile Team
⬜ Product Owner
⬜ Release Train Engineer

What are the two inputs to PI Planning? (Choose two.)

⬜ Vision
⬜ Ready user stories
⬜ Program Roadmap
⬜ Top-10 Features list
⬜ A set of PI Objectives

During which of the following PI Planning activities does Product Management introduce the prioritized Features to the teams for planning?

⬜ The Product/Solution Vision presentation
⬜ The draft plan review
⬜ The Management Review and Problem-Solving workshop
⬜ The business context presentation

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

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

Which two statements are true about uncommitted objectives? (Choose two.)

⬜ The work to deliver the uncommitted objectives is not planned into the iterations during PI Planning
⬜ Uncommitted objectives are extra things the team can do in case they have time
⬜ Uncommitted objectives are not included in the team’s commitment
⬜ Uncommitted objectives do not get assigned a planned business value score
⬜ Uncommitted objectives help improve predictability

During which PI Planning activity are Stories written and sequenced?

⬜ The team breakout session
⬜ The business context presentation
⬜ The draft plan review
⬜ The Management Review and Problem-Solving workshop

During which PI Planning activity do Business Owners assign business value to PI Objectives?

⬜ The draft plan review
⬜ The team breakout session
⬜ The ART confidence vote
⬜ The Management Review and Problem-Solving workshop

What is one element teams present during the draft plan review?

⬜ Planned business value
⬜ ART PI risks
⬜ Milestones
⬜ Iteration goals

On day two of PI Planning, adjustments are made by the group based on the previous day’s management review and problem-solving meeting. What are three possible types of changes? (Choose three.)

⬜ Adjustment to PI Objectives
⬜ User Stories
⬜ Planning requirements reset
⬜ Movement of people
⬜ Changes to scope

*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

During the final plan review, ART PI risks are ROAM’ed. What do the letters in ROAM represent?

⬜ Resolved, Owned, Assigned, Mitigated
⬜ Resolved, Owned, Accepted, Mitigated
⬜ Resolved, Owned, Approved, Mitigated
⬜ Resolved, Owned, Active, Mitigated

During the final plan review, team categorize the ART PI Risk as Resolved?

⬜ when the teams agree that the risk is no longer a concern
⬜ when the team identify a plan to reduce the impact of the risk
⬜ when someone takes the responsibity to own the risk
⬜ All of the above

Which statement describes an owned ART PI Risk?

⬜ Someone has taken the responsibility of the risk
⬜ The risk has been addressed and is no longer a concern
⬜ There is a strategy to adjust the plan as necessary
⬜ Nothing more can be done, so if a risk occurs, release may be compromised

Which statement describes an accepted ART PI Risk?

⬜ Someone has taken the responsibility of the risk
⬜ The risk has been addressed and is no longer a concern
⬜ There is a strategy to adjust the plan as necessary
⬜ Nothing more can be done, so if a risk occurs, release may be compromised

Which statement describes a mitigated ART PI Risk?

⬜ Someone has taken the responsibility of the risk
⬜ The risk has been addressed and is no longer a concern
⬜ There is a strategy to adjust the plan as necessary
⬜ Nothing more can be done, so if a risk occurs, release may be compromised

*Which of the following categories addresses potential risks?

⬜ Obtained
⬜ Resolved
⬜ Supervised
⬜ Acquired

During which PI Planning activity do team members commit to do everything they can to meet the agreed-to objectives?

⬜ The draft plan review
⬜ The PI confidence vote
⬜ The Management Review and Problem-Solving workshop
⬜ The second team breakout session

*What is the recommended final agenda item of PI Planning?

⬜ Reviewing the final plan
⬜ Assigning Business Value
⬜ Participating in the planning retrospective
⬜ Surfacing the ART risks

Which statement describes the three elements that the Innovation and Planning Iteration provides?

⬜ Iteration Planning, User Story refinement and estimating
⬜ Estimating techniques, training, and innovation
⬜ Innovation, planning, and an estimating guard band
⬜ Releasing, Continuous Integration, and planning

What is the primary goal of the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration in SAFe?

⬜ To finalize all work from the current Program Increment (PI)
⬜ Finalize the PI Objectives for the upcoming PI
⬜ To serve as a buffer for teams to meet PI objectives and provide time for innovation, planning, and learning
⬜ To increase the velocity of the Agile Release Train (ART)

Topic 15: Continuous Delivery Pipeline

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What best describes the DevOps?

⬜ A high-performing DevOps Team
⬜ Combine Deployment and Releases
⬜ Strong organizational structure
⬜ A culture, a mindset and a set of technical practices

What does SAFe’s CALMR approach apply to?

⬜ PI Planning
⬜ DevOps
⬜ Economic Framework
⬜ Continuous Deployment

How does “C” in CALMR approach to DevOps help to organize around value and deliver continuous value?

⬜ By automating the continuous delivery pipeline
⬜ By Measuring the flow, quality & value
⬜ By creating a culture of shared responsibility
⬜ By accelerating delivery using lean flow

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

What is one component of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

⬜ Continuous Planning
⬜ Continuous Improvement
⬜ Continuous Cadence
⬜ 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

Which of the following aspects of the continuous delivery pipeline focuses on getting fast feedback on small changes?

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

Deploy, verify, monitor, and respond are all activities of what?

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

What is one goal of Continuous Deployment in the SAFe Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

⬜ To deliver large batches of features to customers at once
⬜ To get to production early for verification
⬜ To delay release until all testing is completed
⬜ To perform manual testing before deployment

*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

Why is it important to decouple deployment from release?

⬜ To remove the need to respond quickly to production issues
⬜ To allow inspection of Agile maturity based on different cycle times
⬜ To make deploying of assets a business decision
⬜ To enable releasing functionality on demand to meet business needs

When is the best time to release software in SAFe?

⬜ After every PI
⬜ After every Iteration
⬜ As soon as the software meets the Solution Definition of Done
⬜ Whenever the Business needs it

What do feature toggles enable?

⬜ Continuous Deployment
⬜ Scheduled Release
⬜ Automated Testing
⬜ Release on Demand

Topic 16: Team and ART Sync Events

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What is the purpose of the Team Sync?

⬜ To identify ART PI risks
⬜ To make announcements to the entire ART
⬜ To coordinate daily work
⬜ To identify Iteration goals

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 three questions should each team member answer during the daily stand-up? (Choose three.)

⬜ Are there any impediments that will prevent the team from meeting the Iteration Goals?
⬜ What will I do today to advance the Iteration goals?
⬜ How am I optimizing the full Solution?
⬜ What did I do yesterday to advance the Iteration goals?
⬜ How I am contributing to an environment of continuous change?
⬜ How am I splitting the Solutions into Capabilities and Enablers?

What is the primary purpose of the three questions asked during the Team Sync?

⬜ To assess team velocity against planned capacity
⬜ To escalate issues to Product Management
⬜ To align daily work with Iteration Goals and surface impediments
⬜ To document status for stakeholder reporting

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

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

What visibility should Scrum Masters provide during the Agile Release Train Sync?

⬜ Visibility into system Solution Intent
⬜ Visibility into single source design decisions
⬜ Visibility into progress and impediments
⬜ Visibility into collaboration deployment

What are two of the Agile Release Train (ART) Sync meetings? (Choose two.)

⬜ PO Sync
⬜ System Demo
⬜ Solution Demo
⬜ Coach Sync
⬜ Inspect and Adapt

Who facilitates the Coach Sync meeting?

⬜ Release Train Engineer
⬜ Product Owner
⬜ Business Owner
⬜ Scrum Master

Who facilitates the PO Sync meeting?

⬜ Release Train Engineer
⬜ Product Owner
⬜ Business Owner
⬜ Scrum Master

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

⬜ Retrospective
⬜ System Demo
⬜ PO Sync
⬜ Coach Sync

Topic 17: Built-in quality

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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 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

What is the purpose of Agile architecture in SAFe?

⬜ To finalize all architectural decisions before implementation
⬜ To freeze architecture to maintain system stability
⬜ To evolve the architecture continuously while supporting current user needs
⬜ To isolate development teams from architectural decisions

What is the main purpose of refactoring in Agile software development?

⬜ To improve code structure without changing its external behavior
⬜ To add new features rapidly
⬜ To rewrite the entire codebase periodically
⬜ To delay testing until after deployment

What is one advantage of adopting a test-first approach and shifting testing left in Agile development?

⬜ Enables faster feedback and early defect detection
⬜ Reduces the need for automated testing
⬜ Delays testing until after deployment
⬜ Focuses testing efforts on the final stages of development

What is the primary purpose of the Agile testing pyramid?

⬜ To promote a balanced testing strategy with a strong foundation of unit tests
⬜ To prioritize manual testing over automated testing
⬜ To focus testing efforts solely on end-to-end tests
⬜ To delay testing until after development is complete

Topic 18: Feedback techniques

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*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 tools can be used to develop a deeper understanding of what customers are seeing, thinking, and feeling while interacting with the Solution?

⬜ Empathy map
⬜ Story map
⬜ Value Stream map
⬜ Vision map

What is the primary purpose of conducting Gemba Walks in SAFe?​

⬜ To evaluate team performance metrics
⬜ To observe and understand how users interact with the product in their environment
⬜ To conduct formal audits of development processes
⬜ To train new team members on Agile practices​

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

What is one benefit of building telemetry into solutions in SAFe?

⬜ Enables continuous feedback by monitoring system performance and user behavior in real time
⬜ Eliminates the need for automated testing
⬜ Allows deployment without prior verification
⬜ Reduces the importance of customer feedback

Topic 19: Iteration Review

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*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

What is one action that occurs during Iteration reviews for SAFe Scrum teams?

⬜ Prioritizing unplanned work
⬜ Sizing unfinished Stories
⬜ Evaluating current state metrics
⬜ Completing unfinished work

During Iteration Review, what is one activity performed by an Agile Team?

⬜ Identify opportunities for improvement
⬜ Gather Features requirements from stakeholders
⬜ Demonstrate a working software functionality
⬜ Modify Iteration Goals

What is one way to ensure a team is holding successful Iteration Reviews and demos?

⬜ The team demos working functionality
⬜ The team swarms to prepare for demos
⬜ The team shares improving metrics
⬜ The team ensures they complete every Story

What is one primary benefit of using a Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD) in SAFe?

⬜ To visualize workflow stability and identify bottlenecks in the delivery process
⬜ To assign business value to PI Objectives
⬜ To track individual team member performance
⬜ To finalize architectural decisions before PI Planning

*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

Topic 20: Team and System Demo

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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

What is the best measure of progress for complex system development?

⬜ Inspect and Adapt
⬜ System Demo
⬜ Prioritized backlog
⬜ Iteration Review

How often should System Demos occur in the default SAFe cadence?

⬜ Every 4 weeks
⬜ When requested
⬜ Weekly
⬜ Every Iteration

If the PI System Demo shows the current state of the Solution, then who is this demo intended for?

⬜ The Agile Team
⬜ The Scrum Masters
⬜ The Business Owners
⬜ The Product Owner

Topic 21: Iteration Retrospective

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*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

Which Agile Team event supports relentless improvement?

⬜ Team Sync
⬜ Inspect and Adapt
⬜ System Demo
⬜ Iteration Retrospective

What is the primary purpose of the Iteration Retrospective in SAFe?

⬜ To demonstrate the working increment to stakeholders
⬜ To review the iteration’s results, discuss practices, and identify improvement opportunities
⬜ To evaluate the team performance metrics
⬜ To assess individual team member performance

Which is an example of a part of an Iteration retrospective?

⬜ Gathering feedback from the stakeholders
⬜ Team discussion around opportunities for continuous improvement
⬜ Program level analysis of a problem using root cause analysis techniques
⬜ Estimation of Stories

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

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

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

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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

What is the first step of the problem-solving workshop in the Inspect and Adapt event?

⬜ Restate the new problem for the biggest root cause
⬜ Identify the biggest root cause
⬜ Perform a root-cause analysis
⬜ Agree on the problem(s) to solve

What is the outcome of the problem-solving workshop in the Inspect and Adapt event?

⬜ Improvement Backlog Items
⬜ Team Backlog
⬜ PI Objectives
⬜ Enabler Stories

*Which of the following activities occurs during the Inspect and Adapt workshop?

⬜ Planning the next PI
⬜ Refining the ART backlog
⬜ A retrospective of the Iteration
⬜ A demo of the integrated system

*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

During the Inspect and Adapt event, how are reflection, data collection, problem solving, and identification of improvement actions used?

⬜ To evaluate better implementation steps
⬜ To enhance and improve the Innovation and Planning practices
⬜ To help the team bond and work more efficiently together
⬜ To increase the quality and reliability of the next PI

Topic 23: Flow

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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)

Which of the following is one of the Eight Flow Accelerators in SAFe?

⬜ Increase batch sizes
⬜ Visualize and limit Work-In-Process (WIP)
⬜ Centralize decision-making
⬜ Extend queue lengths

*What is one way to understand current WIP in a system?

⬜ Make current work visible
⬜ Pair to complete the work faster
⬜ Split Stories
⬜ Size Stories smaller

In the ART Kanban, some steps have Work In Process (WIP) limits. Why is this necessary?

⬜ To ensure large queues are not forming
⬜ To reduce handoffs and dependencies
⬜ To support multitasking
⬜ To enable Continuous Deployment

Which statement is true about work in process (WIP) limits?

⬜ Higher WIP limits provide richer feedback
⬜ Higher WIP limits result in lower utilization
⬜ Lower WIP limits improve flow
⬜ Lower WIP limits result in fewer Stories being completed

How does minimizing handoffs and dependencies contribute to optimizing ART flow?

⬜ By increasing the number of approvals required
⬜ By centralizing control over processes
⬜ By reducing delays and improving team autonomy
⬜ By enforcing strict adherence to original plans

What is the primary purpose of reducing batch sizes as a Flow Accelerator?

⬜ To increase the amount of work started
⬜ To enable faster feedback and reduce cycle time
⬜ To accumulate more work before testing
⬜ To maximize resource utilization

*What is one method for reducing queue length?

⬜ Commit to deliver value by a specific date
⬜ Leave capacity for newly emerging priorities
⬜ Lengthen Iteration timeboxes
⬜ Increase the size of work

*Why is it important to spend time “in the zone”?

⬜ To refine productive collaboration
⬜ To maximize ideal productivity time
⬜ To make work in process visible
⬜ To reduce queue lengths

What is one way to quickly address impediments to flow?

⬜ Wait for the next Inspect and Adapt event
⬜ Tell your Product Owner
⬜ Raise visibility of effects outside of ART control
⬜ Review burn-down charts

Which Flow Metric measures the time elapsed from when work starts on an item until it is completed?

⬜ Flow Velocity
⬜ Flow Time
⬜ Flow Load
⬜ Flow Distribution

What does the Flow Efficiency metric indicate in SAFe?

⬜ The number of features delivered per iteration
⬜ The proportion of time work items spend waiting versus being actively worked on
⬜ The ratio of active work time to total elapsed time for a work item
⬜ The total number of work items in the backlog

*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

Which statement describes flow velocity?

⬜ The amount of Architectural Runway items in the backlog
⬜ The number of Story points the combined ART plans for within each Iteration
⬜ The number of Features committed to during PI Planning
⬜ The system throughput

What is one reason why the ART predictability measure is important?

⬜ It allows the business and other stakeholders to plan effectively
⬜ It indicates where the Solution is ready to be released
⬜ It demonstrates the need to fix the scope at the beginning of the PI
⬜ It identifies under-performing teams

Topic 24: Outcomes

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*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

Which of the following Sync events should be utilized alongside reviews and demos to maintain alignment on outputs are leading towards outcomes? (Choose two.)

⬜ Inspect & Adapt
⬜ Iteration Retrospective
⬜ ART Sync
⬜ Team Sync

Topic 25: AI-Empowered SAFe, Crafting AI Prompts & Responsible AI

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In SAFe, what is the primary intent behind becoming “AI-Empowered”?

⬜ To replace Agile Teams with AI systems
⬜ To use AI to augment how teams and the organization work, not replace Lean-Agile practices
⬜ To eliminate the need for Iteration Planning
⬜ To automate all Product Owner decisions

Which of these is the best-crafted AI prompt for a team drafting Iteration Review notes?

⬜ “Write notes”
⬜ “Make it better”
⬜ “Summarize this iteration’s demoed Stories and stakeholder feedback into 3-4 bullet points for a program-level audience”
⬜ “Notes please”

According to Scaled Agile’s Responsible AI guidance, what are the three pillars of Responsible AI?

⬜ Fast, Cheap, and Automated AI
⬜ Trustworthy AI, Explainable AI, and Human-Centric AI
⬜ Predictive AI, Generative AI, and Agentic AI
⬜ Scalable AI, Secure AI, and Proprietary AI

A team member pastes confidential customer data into a public AI chatbot to get help drafting a Story. Which Responsible AI risk does this illustrate?

⬜ Hallucination
⬜ Bias
⬜ A data leak
⬜ Explainability