During PI Planning, which two tasks are part of the Scrum Master's role in the first team

breakout? (Choose two.)

Review and reprioritize the Team Backlog as part of the preparatory work for the second team
breakout

Be involved in the Program Backlog refinement and preparation

Provide clarifications necessary to assist the team with their Story estimating and sequencing

Manage the timebox

Facilitate the coordination with other teams for dependencies

Each PI Planning meeting evolves over time, and ending PI Planning with a retrospective will
help to do what?

Lengthen the Architectural Runway

Continuously improve the event

Meet compliance more rapidly

Fine tune the economic framework

What are two anti-patterns for the IP Iteration? (Choose two.)

To plan work for the IP Iteration during PI Planning

To minimize lost capacity when people are on vacation or holidays

To allow for sufficient capacity in the Program Roadmap

To wait for the IP Iteration to fix defects

To ensure all Stories and teams' PI plans are completed prior to the IP Iteration

How does an effective Scrum Master help the team improve on their journey towards
technical excellence?

By mandating pair work

 By setting clear time boxes for Iteration planning

By allowing defects to be resolved in the IP Iteration

By focusing on the importance of Built-in Quality

What are two development practices that Agile Teams use? (Choose two.)

eXtreme Programming

Kanban

Timeboxing

Feature-driven development

Information radiators
What is one of the responsibilities of a Product Owner?

Creates and refines User Stories and acceptance criteria

Works with the Agile Team to plan Program Increments

Defines and accepts Stories

Acts as the Customer for developer questions

In which two ways can a Scrum Master exemplify characteristics of a servant leader?
(Choose two.)

Identify positive and negative changes during a retrospective

Encourage rotation in technical areas of concern

Set short-term operating goals for the team

Articulate facts

Prioritize improvement activities and make them happen

In which two ways can a Scrum Master help with challenging meetings? (Choose two.)
 Enable a fluid agenda

Foster an environment for healthy conflict

Ensure active engagement

Communicate a clear purpose

A Scrum Master states that two team members are constantly arguing and it is disrupting the
rest of the team. What is an example of a relevant, powerful question to ask while coaching
the Scrum Master?

What have you tried so far?

What challenged you?

What would you do if success were guaranteed?

What new connections are you making?

What are two outputs of PI Planning? (Choose two.)

Program PI Objectives

Program board

Team and Program PI Objectives

Team Backlog

Top 10 Features
What is accomplished in the first part of the PI Planning meeting?

All tasks are defined

The Product Owner defines the Iteration goal

Items are selected from the Program Backlog

The Scrum Master decides how much work can be accomplished

 What are two possible changes that may occur after the management review and problem-
solving event? (Choose two.)

New team formation

Vision adjustments

Business strategy changes

Team mission adjustments

People moving

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What are the three pillars of Transparency, inspection, adaptation

scrum?

Question

There are two key elements Embracing Agility

of a Lean-Agile Mindset:
Lean thinking and what else?

Question

What are two critical areas Incremental delivery of value;

that differentiate Agile from
waterfall development?
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(Choose two.) Fast feedback;

Question

What is the recommended Two weeks

duration of an Iteration in
SAFe?

Question

What is the recommended Every 8 to 12 weeks

frequency for PI Planning in
SAFe?

Question

During PI Planning, who Agile Teams

owns the planning of Stories
into Iterations?

Question

In SAFe which activity is a Coordinating with other teams

Scrum Master's
responsibility?

Question

What is one responsibility of Facilitating an effective team breakout session during PI Planning
a SAFe Scrum Master?

Question
Response Summary

Which meeting should the Scrum of scrums

Scrum Master attend (not
facilitate)?

Question

The skills of a good Scrum Communicate, coordinate, cooperate

Master include which three
attributes?

Question

An effective Scrum Master is Embrace relentless improvement through Iteration retrospectives

a team-based servant leader
who helps the team do what?

Question

How does an effective Scrum By focusing on the importance of Built-in Quality

Master help the team improve
on their journey towards
technical excellence?

Question

Which statement is true about XXXXIt is a Lean System Engineering techniqueXXXX

scrum?
It’s a team based framework

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Response Summary

When does the Plan-Do- Across all scrum events

Check-Adjust cycle occur in
Scrum?

Question

What is the main reason why Because no one guides them

some teams never reach
Stage 4 (Performing) in the
stages of high performing
teams?

Question

Effective Scrum Masters They encourage the team to learn from their mistakes
apply which coaching
behavior?

Question

What is one example of a Understands and empathizes with others

servant leader behavior
pattern?

Question

What are two good Scrum Create an environment of safety so that everyone feels comfortable contributing to the d
Master facilitation practices?
(Choose two.) Ensure all voices are heard;

Question

Good coaches do not give They guide people to the solution

people the answer, but
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instead they do what?

Question

Becoming a coach requires a Driving toward specific outcomes;

shift from old behaviors to
new ones. What are three Fixing problems for the team;
examples of old behaviors?
(Choose three.) Focusing on deadlines;

Question

Which statement is true about Teams are more productive than the same number of individuals
teams?

Question

According to the Five Teamwork

Dysfunctions of a Team, what
is a team's ultimate
competitive advantage?

Question

What is the basis for most Assumptions that have not been discussed
team conflicts?

Question

Cadence and what other Synchronization

critical concept are the key
constructs to delivering
continuous value?
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Question

Features lend themselves to Acceptance criteria

the Lean UX process model.
They include a description, a
benefit hypothesis, and what
else?

Question

Participating in PI Planning PI objectives

enables teams to gain
alignment and commitment
around a clear set of what?

Question

The program board highlights Dependencies

Feature delivery dates,
Milestones, and what else for
teams on the Agile Release
Train?

Question

Each PI Planning meeting Continuously improve the event

evolves over time, and
ending PI Planning with a
retrospective will help to do
what?

Question

The business must depend on XXXXMeasurementsXXXX

the team for what in order to
Response Summary

do any meaningful planning? Commitment to the plan

Question

What are two common PI Too much time is spent analyzing each Story;
Planning anti-patterns?
(Choose two.) Scrum Masters who work with multiple teams do not have time for their teams;

Question

During PI Planning, which
two tasks are part of the
Scrum Master's role in the
first team breakout? (Choose
two.)
XXXXXReview and reprioritize the Team Backlog as part of the preparatory work for th
second team breakout;XXX
Facilitate the coordination with other teams for dependencies
Identify as many risks dependencies as possible
Provide classification necessary to assist the team with their story estimate and sequence

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Who commits to the Iteration The team

goals at the end of Iteration
planning?

Question

What is the name of the event Iteration planning

where all team members
determine how much of the
team's backlog they can
commit to delivering during
an upcoming Iteration?

Question

Which type of Enabler does a XXXXEnabler StoriesXXXX

Response Summary

System Architect review

during a System Demo?

Enabler Feature
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Why do teams have an To adjust and identify ways to improve

Iteration retrospective?

Question

Who can change the backlog Agile Team

during an Iteration?

Question

Who is responsible for The Product Owner

prioritizing the Iteration
backlog?

Question

What is this statement XXXXContinuous IntegrationXXX

describing?"Agile Teams
continuously adapt to new
circumstances and enhance Continues Improvement
the methods of value
delivery."

Question

What is the purpose of the To provide a regular, predictable development cadence to produce an increment of value
Plan-Do-Check-Adjust cycle
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as applied to Iterations?

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Which three attributes A set of technical practices;

summarize DevOps? (Choose
three.) A culture;

A mindset;

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In SAFe who owns the Product Management

decision for releasing
changes into production?

Question

What are two anti-patterns To plan work for the IP Iteration during PI Planning;
for the IP Iteration? (Choose
two.) To wait for the IP Iteration to fix defects;

Question

Which demo is performed in XXXThe integrated demo from the Agile Release Train's final IterationXX
the IP Iteration?

PI System Demo
Question
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When is one time a Scrum When using ad hoc teams for Inspect and Adapt
Master may be a participant
rather than a facilitator?

Question

How are the 5 Whys used? To identify a root cause(s) of a problem

When does the Inspect and Adapt event

happen?
At the end of each PI

Who reviews the top capabilities for the

upcoming PI?
Solution Management

Why should team members continuously and

actively engage with other teams during PI
Planning?
To foster an environment of capacity and velocity
What are two Release Train Engineer
responsibilities? (Choose two.)
Facilitate PI Planning readiness and the event itself

Drive relentless improvement through Inspect and Adapt

One of the Scrum Master's main

responsibilities is to communicate with
management and outside stakeholders to help
the team in what way?
Protect them from uncontrolled addition of work

Achieving the goals of Release on Demand

requires an understanding of how to decouple
what?
The release from deployment

What are the responsibilities of a Scrum

Master on a train that go beyond basic team
facilitation? (Choose three.)
Facilitate team preparation for PI Planning

Participate in Scrum of Scrums

Facilitate preparation for the System Demo

How do Kanban Teams implement the SAFe
Lean-Agile mindset of relentless
improvement?
By using Cumulative Flow Diagrams which objectively measure bottlenecks and variation in
the flow which could be due to systemic factors

The Development Team may need to learn or

acquire new skills. Where is this list of skills
found?
As part of the outcome of the Team Retrospective

How does a Scrum Master lead a team's

efforts in relentless improvement?
By facilitating the team retrospective

Which two actions enhance an Agile Release

Train's performance? (Choose two.)
Team alignment

Collaboration

The Scrum Master interacts with which level(s)

of SAFe?
Program Level

What is the SAFe recommended optimal

duration of a PI?
8 - 12 weeks

What is the first step in the Problem-Solving

Workshop?
Agree on the problem to solve

What is the most effective way to establish

built-in quality?
Perform as many types of testing within the Iteration boundaries as possible

An effective SAFe Agile team ensures process

visibility to who?
Stakeholders
Which two SAFe events explicitly implement
SAFe's mindset of relentless improvement?
(Choose two.)
Iteration Retrospective

Inspect and Adapt

How does work flow from one state to the next

in a Team Kanban board?
Team members of a state pull work from the previous state when they can do so without
impacting their current state WIP constraint

Who should vote on root causes?

The Agile Release Train team

Which SAFe organizational construct allows

businesses to build large and complex
systems in a Lean-Agile manner?
Agile Release Train

Who participates in the Inspect and Adapt

event?
Only stakeholders and Agile team members
What provides objective evidence that the
system is iterating?
System Demo

How does the Scrum Master help teams

address the challenges from modern
enterprises?
By building high performing teams

Which SAFe configuration requires having a

Vision?
Large Solution SAFe

How should decentralized decision-making be

used with respect to system design?
When development teams are empowered, self-organized, and allow the design to emerge

How can learning milestones be used?

To test the concept of a new feature or capability

What is one characteristic of an effective Agile

team?
To provide steady, high quality, an incremental value

Who is responsible for assisting to establish

Continuous Integration in SAFe?
The System Team

Which SAFe House of Lean pillar supports not

imposing wishful thinking on teams?
Respect for Culture and People

What are two key areas a team should be

organized around? (Choose two.)
Features
Enablers

During PI Planning, the Scrum of Scrums

meetings helps accomplish which two actions?
(Choose two.)
Exposing risks, impediments, and dependencies

Keeping the planning milestones on track