SCRUM MASTER ADVANCED: Pre-Test

Monday, April 26, 2021 2:17 PM

SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM): Test Prep

Response Summary
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What is one characteristic of an effective Agile Team? To provide steady, high quality, incremental
value
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How does a Scrum Master lead a team's efforts in By facilitating the Iteration Retrospective
relentless improvement?
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How does the Scrum Master help teams address the By actively addressing impediments
challenges of modern Enterprises?
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Why are SAFe Scrum Masters challenged differently The team is affected by teams and stakeholders
in an Enterprise? beyond their control
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Which SAFe configuration requires having a Vision? All SAFe configurations
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Which SAFe organizational construct provides the #Agile Release Train#
practices to build large and complex systems with
hundreds of people in a Lean-Agile manner? *Enterprise Solution Delivery*
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Who is responsible for assisting to establish The System Team
Continuous Integration in SAFe?
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SAFe Scrum Masters interact with which level(s) of All Levels
Framework?
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One of the Scrum Master's main responsibilities is to Protect them from uncontrolled addition of
communicate with management and outside work
stakeholders to help the team in what way?
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What provides objective evidence that the system is System Demo
iterating?
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In complex systems development, what do local That each Capability of the system is meeting its
integration points ensure? responsibilities in contributing to the overall
Solution Intent
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Which statement is true about the phase-gate It does not mitigate risk as intended
Milestone model?
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How can learning Milestones be used? #To mark events such as trade shows and
product announcements#

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What are two reasons why too much work in process It hides bottlenecks in the workflow; It reduces
(WIP) is a problem? (Choose two.) overall throughput of work in the system;
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What is the connection between feedback and Lack of feedback contributes to higher holding
optimum batch size? cost
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What is the value of periodic resynchronization? It limits variance to a single time interval
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What are two benefits of decentralized decision #Unlocks the intrinsic motivation of knowledge
making? (Choose two.) workers; Improved quality;#

*Improved quality; Reduce Delays*

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How should decentralized decision-making be used When Agile Teams are empowered, self-
with respect to system design? organized, and the design is allowed to emerge
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During Iteration planning, the Product Owner (PO) No; the team left the Story in the Team Backlog
introduces a new Story to the team. They cannot for further refinement with the PO
come to a consensus on the size of the new Story and
ask the PO for more details.
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What are two typical anti-patterns with Product POs design the Solution before bringing the
Owners (POs)? (Choose two.) intent to the team; POs and Product
Management are not aligned with business
intent;
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A team's Product Owner (PO) takes an unexpected Work with the Release Train Engineer to find a
leave of absence for the last week of the Iteration. solution
Three of the team’s Stories have been completed and
are waiting to be accepted.
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What is a recommended Story-splitting technique for Implement the 'happy path' first and the rest of
Agile Teams? the scenarios afterwards
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What are two examples of tasking anti-patterns? The team provides updates only on tasks during
(Choose two.) the daily stand-up; The team focuses on task
completion over Story completion and
acceptance criteria;

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During Iteration Review, the team decides to carry Discuss the issue at the Iteration Retrospective;
forward three Stories to the next Iteration. This is the Perform the 5 Whys to find the root cause of
second time during this PI that some of the team’s the delays;
Stories are carried over. What are two actions the
Scrum Master should take? (Choose two.)
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What are three Iteration Retrospective anti-patterns? When the team’s people manager comes in to
(Choose three.) observe; When only some of the team attends;
When the Scrum Master decides what the
retrospective topic(s) will be and directs the
team on specific improvement items to work
on;
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What anti-pattern can emerge during the scrum of #Scrum Masters have a 15-minute meet-after
scrums? with the Release Train Engineer#

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What is the SAFe recommended duration of a PI? 8 – 12 weeks
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What are two key areas a team should be organized Features; Enablers;
around? (Choose two.)
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What are two Release Train Engineer responsibilities? #Manage and prioritize the flow of work to the
(Choose two.) ART; Facilitate PI Planning readiness and the
event itself;#

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What are the responsibilities of a SAFe Scrum Master Participate in the scrum of scrums; Facilitate
on an ART that go beyond basic team facilitation? preparation for the System Demo; Prioritize the
(Choose three.) Program Backlog;
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At the System Demo, each team demonstrates their Discuss removing scope with Product
own work, but the system is not integrated. They say Management to allow for Continuous
they underestimated the integration effort and Integration
cannot integrate every Iteration and also meet the
planned scope. What should the Scrum Master
suggest?
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When does the Inspect and Adapt event happen? #At the end of the second day of PI Planning#

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Who participates in the Inspect and Adapt event? The entire Agile Release Train

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Who participates in the Inspect and Adapt event? The entire Agile Release Train
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Achieving the goals of Release on Demand requires The release from deployment
an understanding of how to decouple what?
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Who reviews the top Capabilities for the upcoming #Solution Architect/Engineer#
PI?

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Which statement describes how Kanban teams They use throughput as an indication of their
handle capacity during PI Planning? capacity
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How does work flow from one state to the next in a Team members pull work from the previous
team Kanban board? state when they can do so without impacting
their current state WIP constraint
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How do Kanban teams implement the SAFe Lean- By using cumulative flow diagrams to
Agile Mindset of relentless improvement? objectively measure bottlenecks and variation
which could be due to systemic factors
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One state on the team Kanban board has people Encourage and coach the people in the under-
waiting while the previous stage is overloaded. What utilized stage to help with the work of the
should the Scrum Master consider doing? overloaded stage
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What is the most effective way to establish Built-in Perform as many types of testing within the
Quality? Iteration boundaries as possible
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What is one way to improve the skills of a team Pair-work with other team members
member?
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What is one Extreme Programming (XP) rule adopted #Deliver value#
in SAFe?

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What improves collaboration between Scrum #Architectural Runway#
Masters and System Architects, System Teams, and
Operations?
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Why should team members continuously and actively To manage dependencies and resolve
engage with other teams during PI Planning? impediments
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What are three benefits a community of practice To drive craftsmanship; To facilitate the
offers? (Choose three.) adoption of new methods and techniques; To
provide a place to acquire knowledge;
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Which two actions enhance an Agile Release Train's Collaboration; Team alignment;
performance? (Choose two.)
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During PI Planning, the scrum of scrums meetings Exposing risks, impediments, and dependencies;
help accomplish which two actions? (Choose two.) Keeping the planning Milestones on track;
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What are three distinct traits a group must have to be #Resources; Domain; Community;#
considered a Community of Practice? (Choose three.)
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Considering individual skill sets, an E-shaped person Experience, expertise, exploration, and
has a combination of what? execution
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Which pillar of the SAFe House of Lean supports Respect for People and Culture
building long-term partnerships based on trust?
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What is the skill type Scrum Masters try to get the E-shaped
Agile Team to achieve?
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The Agile Team may need to learn or acquire new In the improvement backlog
skills. Where is this list of skills found?
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Where does a team document new practices they Improvement backlog
want to incorporate into their collective skill set?
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Which two events explicitly implement the Lean-Agile Iteration Retrospective; Inspect and Adapt;
Mindset of relentless improvement? (Choose two.)
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Which technique is used to identify root causes 5 Whys
during the problem-solving workshop?
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What action should be taken on relentless Use the items as direct input into the PI
improvement backlog items from the problem- Planning event that follows
solving workshop?
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How do Agile Teams ensure their own retrospective Add improvement Stories to the team backlog
improvement actions are implemented? to implement in the next Iteration
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A team achieved less than 80% predictability during Tell the teams what improvement actions they
the quantitative measurement of the Inspect and need to implement in the next iteration
Adapt event. What would be an unacceptable action
for this team's Scrum Master to take?
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What is the first step in the problem-solving Agree on the problem to solve

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What is the first step in the problem-solving Agree on the problem to solve
workshop?
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Who should vote on root causes? The team members working on that problem

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