QCM TESTBANK QUESTIONS WITH
100% CORRECT ANSWERS
(ALREADY PASSED)
What are the top two reasons for adopting Agile in an organization? (Choose two.)
⬜ Accelerate product delivery
⬜ Reduce changes
⬜ Centralize decision-making
⬜ Enable changing priorities
⬜ Reduce project cost - Answer- ⬜ Accelerate product delivery
⬜ Enable changing priorities
What are the top two reasons for adopting Agile in an organization? (Choose two.)
⬜ Increase predictability by reducing changes
⬜ Reduce risk by centralizing decision-making
⬜ Enhance ability to manage changing priorities
⬜ Accelerate product delivery,
⬜ Reduce project cost - Answer- ⬜ Enhance ability to manage changing priorities
⬜ Accelerate product delivery
What is one issue when organizing around hierarchical functions?
⬜ It moves the decision to where the information is
⬜ It reduces political tensions
⬜ It creates Agile business teams
⬜ It hinders the value flow - Answer- It hinders the value flow
Which statement is true when continuously deploying using a DevOps model?
⬜ It alleviates the reliance on the skill sets of Agile teams
⬜ It increases the transaction cost
⬜ It lessens the severity and frequency of release failures
⬜ It ensures that changes deployed to production are always immediately available to
end-users - Answer- ⬜ It lessens the severity and frequency of release failures
What does SAFe's CALMR approach apply to?
⬜ PI Planning
,⬜ DevOps
⬜ Economic Framework
⬜ Continuous Deployment - Answer- ⬜ DevOps
How does "C" in CALMR approach to DevOps help to organize around value and
deliver continuous value?
⬜ By automating the continuous delivery pipeline
⬜ By Measuring the flow, quality & value
⬜ By creating a culture of shared responsibility
⬜ By accelerating delivery using lean flow - Answer- By creating a culture of shared
responsibility
Which of the below is not part of the CALMR approach to DevOps?
⬜ Automation
⬜ Measurement
⬜ Continuous Improvement
⬜ Lean Flow - Answer- Continuous Improvement
A SAFe Portfolio is a collection of what?
⬜ Development Value Streams
⬜ Solutions
⬜ Functional teams
⬜ Business units - Answer- Development Value Streams
You need someone on your team who will work across value streams and programs to
help provide the strategic technical direction that can optimize portfolio outcomes. What
portfolio level must you fill?
⬜ Scrum Master
⬜ Lean Portfolio Management
⬜ Epic Owners
⬜ Enterprise Architect - Answer- Lean Portfolio Management
What is one output of enterprise strategy formulation?
⬜ Portfolio Budgets
⬜ Portfolio Governance
⬜ Portfolio Vision
⬜ Portfolio Canvas - Answer- Portfolio Budgets
Which option is a Scaled Agile Framework Portfolio-level highlight?
⬜ Lean Budgets
⬜ Program Increment
⬜ Economic Framework
,⬜ Solution Intent - Answer- ⬜ Lean Budgets
Which phase of the Portfolio Kanban is used to capture all the new big business or
technology ideas?
⬜ Funnel
⬜ Reviewing
⬜ Analyzing
⬜ Ready - Answer- ⬜ Funnel
Which phase of the Portfolio Kanban is used to estimate the preliminary cost of the epic
and define its intent and definition?
⬜ Funnel
⬜ Reviewing
⬜ Analyzing
⬜ Ready - Answer- Reviewing
In which phase of Portfolio Kanban, LPM makes a go/no-go decision of an Epic for
implementation?
⬜ Funnel
⬜ Reviewing
⬜ Analyzing
⬜ Ready - Answer- Analyzing
In which phase of Portfolio Kanban, Epics are approved and sequenced using WSJF?
⬜ Funnel
⬜ Reviewing
⬜ Analyzing
⬜ Ready - Answer- Ready
What Portfolio-level highlight has the role of describing the purpose of the Scaled Agile
Framework portfolio?
⬜ Portfolio Retrospective
⬜ Portfolio Value Stream
⬜ Portfolio Canvas
⬜ Portfolio Kanban - Answer- ⬜ Portfolio Canvas
What is used to capture the current state of the Portfolio and a primer to the future
state?
⬜ Portfolio Canvas
⬜ Portfolio Backlog
⬜ Portfolio Kanban
⬜ Portfolio Vision - Answer- ⬜ Portfolio Canvas
, Which brings structure to analysis and decision-making around Epics?
⬜ Portfolio Canvas
⬜ Portfolio Backlog
⬜ Portfolio Kanban
⬜ Portfolio Vision - Answer- ⬜ Portfolio Kanban
How is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed?
⬜ In the Program Kanban
⬜ In the Portfolio Backlog
⬜ In the Program Backlog
⬜ In the Portfolio Kanban - Answer- ⬜ In the Portfolio Kanban
What is a minimum viable product (MVP)?
⬜ A minimal product that can be built to achieve market dominance
⬜ A minimal Story a team can deliver in an Iteration
⬜ A prototype that can be used to explore user needs
⬜ A minimal version of a new product used to test a hypothesis - Answer- ⬜ A minimal
version of a new product used to test a hypothesis
What portfolio-level role takes responsibility for coordinating portfolio Epics through the
Portfolio Kanban system?
⬜ Epic Owners
⬜ Enabler Epic
⬜ Lean Portfolio Management
⬜ Enterprise Architect - Answer- ⬜ Epic Owners
Who is responsible for managing the Portfolio Kanban?
⬜ Release Train Engineer
⬜ Solution Management
⬜ Product Management
⬜ Lean Portfolio Management - Answer- Lean Portfolio Management
What is one example of differentiating business objectives?
⬜ Solution Intent
⬜ Enterprise Goals
⬜ Strategic Themes
⬜ Portfolio Vision - Answer- ⬜ Strategic Themes
Which statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes?
⬜ They are business objectives that connect the SAFe portfolio to the Enterprise
business strategy
100% CORRECT ANSWERS
(ALREADY PASSED)
What are the top two reasons for adopting Agile in an organization? (Choose two.)
⬜ Accelerate product delivery
⬜ Reduce changes
⬜ Centralize decision-making
⬜ Enable changing priorities
⬜ Reduce project cost - Answer- ⬜ Accelerate product delivery
⬜ Enable changing priorities
What are the top two reasons for adopting Agile in an organization? (Choose two.)
⬜ Increase predictability by reducing changes
⬜ Reduce risk by centralizing decision-making
⬜ Enhance ability to manage changing priorities
⬜ Accelerate product delivery,
⬜ Reduce project cost - Answer- ⬜ Enhance ability to manage changing priorities
⬜ Accelerate product delivery
What is one issue when organizing around hierarchical functions?
⬜ It moves the decision to where the information is
⬜ It reduces political tensions
⬜ It creates Agile business teams
⬜ It hinders the value flow - Answer- It hinders the value flow
Which statement is true when continuously deploying using a DevOps model?
⬜ It alleviates the reliance on the skill sets of Agile teams
⬜ It increases the transaction cost
⬜ It lessens the severity and frequency of release failures
⬜ It ensures that changes deployed to production are always immediately available to
end-users - Answer- ⬜ It lessens the severity and frequency of release failures
What does SAFe's CALMR approach apply to?
⬜ PI Planning
,⬜ DevOps
⬜ Economic Framework
⬜ Continuous Deployment - Answer- ⬜ DevOps
How does "C" in CALMR approach to DevOps help to organize around value and
deliver continuous value?
⬜ By automating the continuous delivery pipeline
⬜ By Measuring the flow, quality & value
⬜ By creating a culture of shared responsibility
⬜ By accelerating delivery using lean flow - Answer- By creating a culture of shared
responsibility
Which of the below is not part of the CALMR approach to DevOps?
⬜ Automation
⬜ Measurement
⬜ Continuous Improvement
⬜ Lean Flow - Answer- Continuous Improvement
A SAFe Portfolio is a collection of what?
⬜ Development Value Streams
⬜ Solutions
⬜ Functional teams
⬜ Business units - Answer- Development Value Streams
You need someone on your team who will work across value streams and programs to
help provide the strategic technical direction that can optimize portfolio outcomes. What
portfolio level must you fill?
⬜ Scrum Master
⬜ Lean Portfolio Management
⬜ Epic Owners
⬜ Enterprise Architect - Answer- Lean Portfolio Management
What is one output of enterprise strategy formulation?
⬜ Portfolio Budgets
⬜ Portfolio Governance
⬜ Portfolio Vision
⬜ Portfolio Canvas - Answer- Portfolio Budgets
Which option is a Scaled Agile Framework Portfolio-level highlight?
⬜ Lean Budgets
⬜ Program Increment
⬜ Economic Framework
,⬜ Solution Intent - Answer- ⬜ Lean Budgets
Which phase of the Portfolio Kanban is used to capture all the new big business or
technology ideas?
⬜ Funnel
⬜ Reviewing
⬜ Analyzing
⬜ Ready - Answer- ⬜ Funnel
Which phase of the Portfolio Kanban is used to estimate the preliminary cost of the epic
and define its intent and definition?
⬜ Funnel
⬜ Reviewing
⬜ Analyzing
⬜ Ready - Answer- Reviewing
In which phase of Portfolio Kanban, LPM makes a go/no-go decision of an Epic for
implementation?
⬜ Funnel
⬜ Reviewing
⬜ Analyzing
⬜ Ready - Answer- Analyzing
In which phase of Portfolio Kanban, Epics are approved and sequenced using WSJF?
⬜ Funnel
⬜ Reviewing
⬜ Analyzing
⬜ Ready - Answer- Ready
What Portfolio-level highlight has the role of describing the purpose of the Scaled Agile
Framework portfolio?
⬜ Portfolio Retrospective
⬜ Portfolio Value Stream
⬜ Portfolio Canvas
⬜ Portfolio Kanban - Answer- ⬜ Portfolio Canvas
What is used to capture the current state of the Portfolio and a primer to the future
state?
⬜ Portfolio Canvas
⬜ Portfolio Backlog
⬜ Portfolio Kanban
⬜ Portfolio Vision - Answer- ⬜ Portfolio Canvas
, Which brings structure to analysis and decision-making around Epics?
⬜ Portfolio Canvas
⬜ Portfolio Backlog
⬜ Portfolio Kanban
⬜ Portfolio Vision - Answer- ⬜ Portfolio Kanban
How is the flow of Portfolio Epics managed?
⬜ In the Program Kanban
⬜ In the Portfolio Backlog
⬜ In the Program Backlog
⬜ In the Portfolio Kanban - Answer- ⬜ In the Portfolio Kanban
What is a minimum viable product (MVP)?
⬜ A minimal product that can be built to achieve market dominance
⬜ A minimal Story a team can deliver in an Iteration
⬜ A prototype that can be used to explore user needs
⬜ A minimal version of a new product used to test a hypothesis - Answer- ⬜ A minimal
version of a new product used to test a hypothesis
What portfolio-level role takes responsibility for coordinating portfolio Epics through the
Portfolio Kanban system?
⬜ Epic Owners
⬜ Enabler Epic
⬜ Lean Portfolio Management
⬜ Enterprise Architect - Answer- ⬜ Epic Owners
Who is responsible for managing the Portfolio Kanban?
⬜ Release Train Engineer
⬜ Solution Management
⬜ Product Management
⬜ Lean Portfolio Management - Answer- Lean Portfolio Management
What is one example of differentiating business objectives?
⬜ Solution Intent
⬜ Enterprise Goals
⬜ Strategic Themes
⬜ Portfolio Vision - Answer- ⬜ Strategic Themes
Which statement accurately characterizes Strategic Themes?
⬜ They are business objectives that connect the SAFe portfolio to the Enterprise
business strategy
