SAFE 5 AGILIST EXAMINATION TEST 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Full Configuration. Answer: represents the most comprehensive
configuration. It supports building large, integrated solutions that
typically require hundreds of people or more to develop and maintain.
Focus on *lean budgeting*. Portfolio + Large Solution + Essential
◉ Large Solution Configuration. Answer: for enterprises that are
building large and complex solutions, which do not require the
constructs of the portfolio level. + Essential
◉ Portfolio Configuration. Answer: provides portfolio strategy and
investment funding. Agile portfolio operations, and Lean governance.
Usually used by C-Suite and CEO level. + Essential
◉ Essential Configuration. Answer: the most basic configuration of the
framework and it provides the minimal elements necessary to be
successful with SAFe.
◉ Seven Core Competencies of Business Agilty. Answer: 1. Enterprise
Solution Delivery
,2. Agile Product Delivery
3. Team and Technical Agility
4. Lean Portfolio Management
5. Organizational Agility
6. Continuous Learning Culture
7. Lean-Agile Leadership
◉ Definition of Done. Answer: Acceptance criteria; part of working
agreement.
"Everything our team goes through from beginning to releasable."
◉ Three Aspects of Team and Technical Agility. Answer: 1. Agile Teams
2. Built-In Quality
3. Teams of Agile Teams
◉ Team and Technical Agility. Answer: describes the critical skills and
lean-agile principles and practices that high-performing agile teams and
teams of agile teams use to create high-quality solutions for their
customers
◉ 3 aspects of Agile Product Delivery. Answer: 1. Customer Centricity
2. Develop on Cadence, Release on Demand
,3. DevOps and the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
◉ Agile product delivery. Answer: customer-centric approach to
defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products
and services to customers and users
◉ 3 aspects of enterprise solution delivery. Answer: 1. Lean System and
Solution Engineering
2. Coordinating Trains and Suppliers
3. Continually Evolve Live Systems
◉ Enterprise Solution Delivery. Answer: describes how to apply lean-
agile principles and practices to specification, development, deployment,
operation, and evolution of the world's largest most sophisticated
software applications, networks, and cyber-physical systems.
Takes place at the Large Solution layer.
◉ Lean Portfolio Management. Answer: aligns strategy and execution
by applying Lean- and systems- thinking approaches to strategy and
investment funding Agile portfolio operations, and governance.
◉ 3 aspects of lean portfolio management. Answer: 1. lean governance
2. strategy and investment funding
, 3. agile portfolio operations
◉ Organizational Agility. Answer: describes how lean-thinking people
and agile teams optimize their business process, evolve strategy with
clear and decisive new commitments, and quickly adapt the organization
as needed to capitalize on new opportunities
◉ 3 aspects of organizational agility. Answer: 1. lean thinking people
and agile teams
2. strategy agility
3. lean business operations
◉ Continuous learning culture. Answer: describes a set of values and
practices that encourage individuals, and the enterprise as a whole, to
continually increase knowledge, competence, performance, and
innovation
◉ 3 aspects of continuous learning culture. Answer: 1. learning
organization
2. relentless improvement
3. innovation culture
◉ ways to develop learning organizations. Answer: 1. personal mastery
2. shared vision
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Full Configuration. Answer: represents the most comprehensive
configuration. It supports building large, integrated solutions that
typically require hundreds of people or more to develop and maintain.
Focus on *lean budgeting*. Portfolio + Large Solution + Essential
◉ Large Solution Configuration. Answer: for enterprises that are
building large and complex solutions, which do not require the
constructs of the portfolio level. + Essential
◉ Portfolio Configuration. Answer: provides portfolio strategy and
investment funding. Agile portfolio operations, and Lean governance.
Usually used by C-Suite and CEO level. + Essential
◉ Essential Configuration. Answer: the most basic configuration of the
framework and it provides the minimal elements necessary to be
successful with SAFe.
◉ Seven Core Competencies of Business Agilty. Answer: 1. Enterprise
Solution Delivery
,2. Agile Product Delivery
3. Team and Technical Agility
4. Lean Portfolio Management
5. Organizational Agility
6. Continuous Learning Culture
7. Lean-Agile Leadership
◉ Definition of Done. Answer: Acceptance criteria; part of working
agreement.
"Everything our team goes through from beginning to releasable."
◉ Three Aspects of Team and Technical Agility. Answer: 1. Agile Teams
2. Built-In Quality
3. Teams of Agile Teams
◉ Team and Technical Agility. Answer: describes the critical skills and
lean-agile principles and practices that high-performing agile teams and
teams of agile teams use to create high-quality solutions for their
customers
◉ 3 aspects of Agile Product Delivery. Answer: 1. Customer Centricity
2. Develop on Cadence, Release on Demand
,3. DevOps and the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
◉ Agile product delivery. Answer: customer-centric approach to
defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products
and services to customers and users
◉ 3 aspects of enterprise solution delivery. Answer: 1. Lean System and
Solution Engineering
2. Coordinating Trains and Suppliers
3. Continually Evolve Live Systems
◉ Enterprise Solution Delivery. Answer: describes how to apply lean-
agile principles and practices to specification, development, deployment,
operation, and evolution of the world's largest most sophisticated
software applications, networks, and cyber-physical systems.
Takes place at the Large Solution layer.
◉ Lean Portfolio Management. Answer: aligns strategy and execution
by applying Lean- and systems- thinking approaches to strategy and
investment funding Agile portfolio operations, and governance.
◉ 3 aspects of lean portfolio management. Answer: 1. lean governance
2. strategy and investment funding
, 3. agile portfolio operations
◉ Organizational Agility. Answer: describes how lean-thinking people
and agile teams optimize their business process, evolve strategy with
clear and decisive new commitments, and quickly adapt the organization
as needed to capitalize on new opportunities
◉ 3 aspects of organizational agility. Answer: 1. lean thinking people
and agile teams
2. strategy agility
3. lean business operations
◉ Continuous learning culture. Answer: describes a set of values and
practices that encourage individuals, and the enterprise as a whole, to
continually increase knowledge, competence, performance, and
innovation
◉ 3 aspects of continuous learning culture. Answer: 1. learning
organization
2. relentless improvement
3. innovation culture
◉ ways to develop learning organizations. Answer: 1. personal mastery
2. shared vision
