Scrum

POPM
SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager 5.1
QUESTION & ANSWERS

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QUESTION 1

Which statement characterizes the perspectives of the definition of done (DoD)?

A. Product Owners focus on the release while Product Managers focus on the team increment
B. Product Owners focus on Features while Product Managers focus on Stories
C. Product Owners focus on the Iteration while Product Managers focus on the release
D. Product Owners focus on the Solution while Product Managers focus on the team increment

Correct Answer: C

Explanation/Reference:

Product Owners focus on the Iteration while Product Managers focus on the release

QUESTION 2

Which of these are true with respect to Business Values (Select three)
A. Actual Business values are shared in Inspect and Adapt
B. Teams are not allowed to debate on Actual business value shared by business owners
C. Helps teams to remain focused on value delivery rather than features or stories
D. Uncommitted objectives do not have business values
E. Is a relative ranking by business owners

Correct Answer: A,C,E

Explanation/Reference:

Uncommitted objectives have business value associated and the teams have all the right to discuss
the business value perspective with the business owners

QUESTION 3

The goal is a fast delivery process, ideally requiring little manual effort. What is one capability used to
achieve this?
A. Feature toggles
B. Quiet releases
C. Soft launches
D. Nonfunctional requirements

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Correct Answer: A

Explanation/Reference:

Feature toggles

QUESTION 4

What is a recommended time horizon of the Program Increment Roadmap?

A. 1-3 years
B. Less than 1 year
C. 2 or more years
D. 2-4 years

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Less than 1 year

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/roadmap/

QUESTION 5

An organization is conducting their first Program Increment Planning session, and the new teams are
asked to provide their capacity. Which three actions are part of the initial capacity planning process?
(Choose three.)
A. Compare final team capacity across all teams and make individual team adjustments
B. Use eight points per person (adjust for part-time employees)
C. Ensure Product Owner/Product Manager approval for all capacity adjustments based on time
D. Add the points for all the recently completed Features and use that as a baseline for future
capacity
E. Subtract one point for every team member's vacation day, public holiday, or training day
F. Find a small story that takes about a day to develop and call it a one

Correct Answer: B,E,F

Explanation/Reference:

Find a small story that takes about a day to develop and call it a one
Subtract one point for every team member's vacation day, public holiday, or training day

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Use eight points per person (adjust for part-time employees)

QUESTION 6

Which design-thinking tool is most likely to help an Agile Release Train (ART) during Program
Increment (PI) Planning to ensure that the PI will deliver a Solution that is differentiated from
competitive offerings?
A. Empathy interviews
B. Prototypes
C. Personas
D. Whole-product thinking

Correct Answer: D

Explanation/Reference:

Whole Product Thinking

Customers never purchase a “generic” solution like a dishwasher or hotel room. Rather, they buy a
specific product from a specific vendor. It’s the design of this solution that determines the degree of
perceived and actual value; i.e., how effectively this solution meets the customer’s total needs.
Whole Product Thinking helps ensure that the products and solutions being created for customers
fulfill their needs :
* The generic product is often considered the “minimal offering” of a product. For a dishwasher, that
would be the ability to wash dishes and nothing more. For a hotel, it might be a clean room and little
else.
* The expected product represents the customer’s minimal purchase conditions as informed by
alternative or competing products. For example, a dishwasher without different cycles or a timed
delay start may not meet current market expectations.
* The augmented product goes beyond what is expected and enables competitors to differentiate
their offerings. A dishwasher that provides a mobile phone app to signal when the washing cycle has
completed may qualify.
* The potential product represents everything that might be done to attract and keep customers.
Informed by research, it fuels longer-term strategic planning and creates opportunities for sustainable
product advantages.
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/customer-centricity/

QUESTION 7

With reference to program risks, what does ROAM stand for?

A. Resolved, Offered, Accepted, Measured
B. Respected, Opened, Arranged, Mindful
C. Resolved, Owned, Accepted, Mitigated
D. Refined, Owned, Aligned, Mitigated

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Correct Answer: A

Explanation/Reference:

Resolved - Has been addressed. No longer a concern. Owned - Someone has taken responsibility.
Accepted - Nothing more can be done. If risk occurs, release may be compromised. Mitigated - Team
has plan to adjust as necessary.

QUESTION 8

An Agile Release Train at an insurance company delivers ongoing enhancements to the internal
systems used for managing claims. This is an example of what kind of Value Stream?
A. Claims processing Value Stream
B. Development Value Stream
C. Operational Value Stream
D. Customer journey Value Stream

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Development Value Stream

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/value-streams/

QUESTION 9

Solution roadmaps have --------- time horizon and allow ------------- to collaborate with Product
Management.
A. Long term, CEO
B. Long term, Portfolio Management
C. Long term, Business Owners
D. Short term, Portfolio management

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Solution roadmaps have 1-3 year horizon and allows the product managers to collaborate with
Portfolio Managers as they shape up the portfolio Kanban and review portfolio epics and business
case

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QUESTION 10

Which of the below are true about decentralizing decision-making?

A. Product Owners are responsible for making decisions that provide significant economies of scale
B. ​Teams should make backlog decisions based on Product Owner and/or Product Manager feedback
C. Product Managers are empowered to make Program Level decisions regarding PI content
D. Product Managers facilitate helping the team build the right things at the right time
E. Product Owners make Team Level content decisions

Correct Answer: C,E

Explanation/Reference:

POs make team level decisions and PMs make program level decisions based on the business value
assigned which enables that decentralized decision making

QUESTION 11

What is the primary purpose of PO sync?

A. To conduct backlog refinement
B. To build objectives for the Program Increment
C. To assess progress of the Program Increment and adjust scope and priority as needed
D. To align with the scrum of scrums participants on the status of the Program Increment

Correct Answer: C

Explanation/Reference:

To assess progress of the Program Increment and adjust scope and priority as needed

QUESTION 12

PI Objectives follow the ______ principle

A. OKR
B. SMART
C. INVEST
D. HIPPO

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Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Specific, Measurable , Achievable, Realistic, Time Bound

QUESTION 13

Identify 3 attributes of a Product Owner (Select three)

A. Good Listener
B. Strong negotiation skills
C. Avid Reader
D. Good Domain knowledge
E. Good written and verbal communication

Correct Answer: B,D,E

Explanation/Reference:

POs must have excellent written and communication skills, should have good domain and business
knowledge, good negotiation skills, be decisive as the teams look for closures and finally should be
available to the team always

QUESTION 14

What is the purpose of the blue/green deployment pattern?

A. To decouple deployment from release
B. To deploy to only some data centers to reduce the deployment risk
C. To ensure no changes happen in production without going through the Continuous Delivery
Pipeline
D. To deploy between an inactive and active environment

Correct Answer: D

Explanation/Reference:

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/continuous-deployment/
Deploy to Production
* Blue/green deployment – a technique that permits automatic switching between two environments,
one for deployment and one that is live

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QUESTION 15

Which of the following are roles on Agile Release Train?

A. System Team
B. Business Owners
C. Release Train Engineer
D. Chief Scrum Master

Correct Answer: A,B,C

Explanation/Reference:

While sometimes the RTE is referred to as Chief Scrum Master, there is no formal, official Chief Scrum
Master role in SAFe

QUESTION 16

Where does an Epic stay to when it is approved via Go decision?

A. The Continuous Delivery Pipeline
B. The Portfolio Backlog
C. The Epic Owner Backlog
D. The Value Stream

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Epics stay on the Portfolio Backlog once they are approved via a Go decision.
More information
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/epic/
The LPM reviews the Lean business case to make a go/no-go decision for the epic. Once approved,
portfolio epics stay in the portfolio backlog until implementation capacity and budget becomes
available from one or more ARTs. The Epic Owner is responsible for working with Product and Solution
Management and System Architect/Engineering to split the epic into Features or Capabilities during
backlog refinement. Epic Owners help prioritize these items in their respective backlogs and have
some ongoing responsibilities for stewardship and follow-up.

QUESTION 17

Capacity allocation allows for balanced backlog for features and enablers (True or False)

A. TRUE
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B. FALSE

Correct Answer: A

Explanation/Reference:

Capacity allocation allows for a balance between feature delivery and other enablers, maintenance
work, refactoring

QUESTION 18

When creating a Lean Business Case, which 3 below need to be taken into account?
A. Define the outcomes hypothesis
B. Avoid over-specificity
C. Understand implementation impact
D. Identify all Features that will impact the business case
E. Gain support by voting
F. Use Strategic Themes only as an input to the business case

Correct Answer: A,B,C

Explanation/Reference:

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QUESTION 19

The Business teams decide to Release on Demand

A. FALSE
B. TRUE

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Releasing is a purely business decision and the business teams decide if and when to release

QUESTION 20

How do SAFe Continuous Delivery Pipeline activities map to the teams’ work each Iteration within the
Program Increment (PI)?
A. Early Iterations focus on exploring, the later Iterations focus on integrating and deploying, and
releasing
B. Each Iteration in the PI, teams are exploring, integrating, deploying, but releasing only occurs at
the end of the PI
C. Each Iteration in the PI, teams are exploring, integrating, deploying, and potentially releasing new
value
D. Features are explored in one PI, given to the teams in later PIs for integrating and deploying, and
then released in a future PI

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Correct Answer: C

Explanation/Reference:

Each Iteration in the PI, teams are exploring, integrating, deploying, and potentially releasing new
value

QUESTION 21

SAFe recommends separating deployment from release. What can help with this practice?
A. Use a staging environment that mimics the development environment
B. Release new functionality to end users as soon as it is deployed to production
C. Manually test Features and nonfunctional requirements
D. Hide all new functionality under Feature toggles

Correct Answer: D

Explanation/Reference:

Hide all new functionality under Feature toggles

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