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The Scrum Master wants to establish a team's initial velocity. A team has two testers, three developers, one full-time Scrum Master, and a Product Owner split between two teams. What is their normalized velocity before calculating for time off?. 52. 40. 48. 32.

A User Story includes which three things? (Choose three.). Definition of Done. Who. Why. How. What. Level of Risk.

Which two statements describe an Agile Release Train? (Choose two.). Agile Release Train members complete work by following an Agile project plan. It requires 125 members to satisfy Dunbar's number. Agile Release Train members complete work by pulling from a backlog of Epics. It is the primary value delivery construct in the Scaled Agile Framework. It is a long-lived, self-organizing, virtual organization of 5-12 Agile Teams that plan, commit, and execute together.

What Infomanion does a cumulative flow diagram provide?. The average cycle time a for portfolio epics. The data for the team to identify current bottlenecks. A way to predict when a specific feature will be completed. The data for the program predictability metric.

Which situation should use the Large Solution SAFe configuration?. Organizations that operate in an environment that requires compliance for complex, high-assurance systems. Web-scale enterprises with millions of customers. Enterprises building solutions that require external suppliers. Organizations building a solution requiring multiple ARTs.

Which process guides the final approval for a release in SAFe?. Continuous Deployment. Release on Demand. Product Management. Lean Portfolio Management.

Which activity happens in the Inspect and Adapt workshop?. A demo of the integrated system. A retrospective of the Iteration. Refining the Program backlog. Planning the next PI.

What is one of the six steps in the Problem Solving Workshop?. Identify the biggest root cause using the Pareto Analysis. Choose a problem to solve—agreement not required. Apply root solution analysis. Brainstorm possible failures.

Which statement defines the purpose of Iteration Planning?. It is to analyze, approve, and ready Features for implementation. It is to organize the work and define a realistic scope for the Iteration. 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.

What should be taken into account when estimating Story point size?. Complexity. Number of days it will take. Team size. Priority.

What type of visibility should Product Owners provide during the Agile Release Train Sync?. Visibility into backlog items. Visibility into program Epics and Features. Visibility into scope and priority adjustments. Visibility into analysis, approval, and Feature readiness for implementation.

Which statement is true about Features and Stories?. 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. Features should be small enough to fit into an Iteration.

What is the role of the Product Owner?. To ensure quality by testing the Solution. Estimate the Stories in the Product Backlog. To prioritize the Program Backlog. To represent the Customer to the Agile Team.

Which is an example of a part of an Iteration retrospective?. Team discussion around opportunities for continuous improvement. Estimation of Stories. Gathering feedback from the stakeholders. Program level analysis of a problem using root cause analysis techniques.

Which statement describes the balance between emergent design and intentional architecture when talking about building in quality?. It is required for speed of value delivery and Solution Intent. It is required for speed of development and maintainability. It is required for implementation speed and maturity. It is required for backlog speed and designed refinement.

Which statement describes a cross-functional team?. Each team member can do all the activities to define, build, and test a Solution. Each team can define, build, and test an increment of value. Each team can deliver Features across multiple domains. Each team member can define and build, with a System Team testing the Solution.

During the Inspect and Adapt event, how are reflection, data collection, problem solving, and identification of improvement actions used?. To help the team bond and work more efficiently together. To enhance and improve the Innovation and Planning practices. To evaluate better implementation steps. To increase the quality and reliability of the next PI.

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. Story acceptance criteria must be finalized before beginning Iteration Planning. No further conversation is required after the Story is identified because it contains all necessary details. A Story is written in full detailed specifications so that the work is ready to be implemented immediately.

The daily stand-up time box should not exceed how many minutes?. Whatever timebox the team agrees on. 10 minutes. 20 minutes. 15 minutes.

The CALMR approach to DevOps includes Automation, Lean flow, Measurement, and Recovery. What does the "C" represent?. Cadence. Cycle-time. Continuous Integration. Culture.

The Release Train Engineer is a servant leader who displays which two actions or behaviors? (Choose two.). Establishes Feature acceptance criteria. Listens and supports teams in problem identification and decision-making. Leads by example. Owns Vision and Roadmaps, Program Backlog, and ROI. Identifies market needs.

What type of information can be easily seen in a cumulative flow diagram?. The number of defects that escape to production. Time to complete a Feature. Team capacity. Work in process across the team.

Which statement is true about pair work in the Scaled Agile Framework?. It comes from pair programming in Extreme Programming (XP). It occurs during Iteration Planning. It is a best practice that team members should spend 50% to 100% of the time in pair work. It is for developers only.

Which statement is true about the purpose of a work in process constraint?. It helps predict when a work item will be completed. It encourages collaboration and enables flow. It increases both lead time and cycle time. It can result in team members being idle while waiting for constraints to clear.

A decrease in variability leads to an increase in what?. Options. Predictability. Autonomy. Innovation.

What does a program board help teams identify?. Dependencies between teams. Program-level risks. User story completion timeline. Work breakdowns.

Which statement is true about Iteration Planning?. The PO does not need to attend. Items are assigned to the team members. It is required for every Iteration to enable fast learning cycles. It occurs on the last day of the Iteration.

How does a team demonstrate progress?. By showing screen shots of the product. By presenting status slides. By showing the actual working product. By having the Product Owner verbally communicate to the stakeholders.

What is one recommended way of splitting Features into Stories during a PI Planning event?. Develop the functionality first and then test it on a second pass. Implement the database structure first and then implement the business logic and user interface. Develop the user interface (UI) with sample business logic and database access and then add the actual functionality behind the UI. Implement the simplest variant of the functionality first and then implement the rest as an enhancement.

Which statement is true about Iteration goals?. They align the team to a common Vision of work in the Iteration. They are used to measure business value achieved for each Iteration. They are used to track scope changes over time. They verify that teams are working at their full capacity.

What is one responsibility of the Scrum Master?. To track and report on the Team's progress toward PI objectives. To facilitate the PI Planning session. To remove impediments to protect the team. To prioritize the Team's Backlog.

What is scrum?. A routine method of deploying deliverables to operations. A process for continuously maintaining deployment readiness. A lightweight process for cross-functional, self-organized teams. A methodology used to deliver usable and reliable solutions to the end user.

On the seventh day of the Iteration, the team realizes that they will not complete 5 of the 13 Stories. The Product Owner (PO) says she cannot negotiate the scope of the remaining Stories any further. What is the PO's best course of action?. Defer acceptance testing to the next Iteration. Have an emergency Iteration Planning meeting. Stop the current Iteration and plan a new Iteration with the new knowledge. Communicate the status of the Iteration to all stakeholders.

Which two statements best describe elements of Continuous Delivery? (Choose two.). Maintain manual deployment. Maintain a staging environment that emulates production. Deploy to staging every third Iteration. Automate testing Features and nonfunctional requirements. Development and test environments should be separate from production.

When is the System Demo conducted during program execution?. Whenever there is working functionality to demo. Only when all the stakeholders are available. When the System Team is ready. At the end of every Iteration.

Product Management is responsible for “what gets built" as defined by the Vision, Roadmap, and what else?. PI Planning. Key stakeholders. Customers. Program Backlog.

What is the recommended length of an Iteration?. Two weeks. Four weeks. Whatever the team agrees on. Eight weeks.

What are three practices of Extreme Programming (XP)? (Choose three.). Pair programming. Test-driven development. Intentional architecture. Behavior-driven development. Continuous Integration. Deployment automation.

What is a major benefit of reducing batch size?. Increases throughput. Increases work in process. Decreases stress on the system. Increases visibility.

What best supports Innovation in the SAFe House of Lean?. Optimizing the whole. Visualizing work. Built-in quality. Fast learning cycles.

What is one key benefit of a backlog refinement session?. It allows the team to state the problem and think about what, where, when, and the impact. It is the main way in SAFe for achieving relentless improvement. It provides time to identify dependencies and issues that could impact the next Iteration. It serves a variety of purposes, including a dedicated time for planning, retrospecting, exploring, and innovating.

What are two behaviors of an effective Scrum Master? (Choose two.). To facilitate the team's progress toward the Iteration goals. To guarantee no changes are made to the scope during an Iteration. To act as a servant leader and exhibit Lean-Agile Leadership. Facilitate the PI Planning session. Facilitate more than two teams.

What is the goal of the PI Planning event?. Achieve alignment on what value needs to and can be delivered in the PI. Align as an ART on customer needs and identify major release milestones. Create a plan for the upcoming PI showing how Stories map to Iterations. Commit to delivering specific business objectives over the next 10 weeks.

An Agile Team has which two characteristics? (Choose two.). A small group of typically 5 — 11 dedicated individuals who have the skills necessary to define, build, test, and deploy increments of value. A stand-alone unit of individuals who do not require input from other teams to complete their tasks. A large group of individuals who all work together to create value for the client. A group of dedicated individuals that work in phase-gate steps to complete their Pl Objectives,. A group of dedicated individuals who are empowered, self-organizing, self-managing, and deliver value.

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 ignoring nonfunctional requirements within the Iteration. They are applying the Agile development practice of "separation of concerns". They are abusing the practice of hardening. They are waterfalling the Iteration.