Anonymous

A Release Train Engineer (RTE) should build a relationship with which SAFe role to effectively assign business value to a team PI Objective?

1. Objective Owners
2. Business Owners
3. Solution Managers
4. Lean-Agile Leaders

Anonymous

What information is covered during the final plan review?

1. Changes to capacity and load, final PI Objectives, ART PI Risks, and impediments
2. Changes to Iteration Goals, measured velocity, and dependencies.
3. Planned Features, uncommitted objectives, and ROAMed risks
4. Team Features, Stories, and team-level Enablers

Anonymous

How can a Release Train Engineer (RTE) stay informed about employee satisfaction?

1. Address and resolve any problem areas
2. Gather employee metrics immediately after the ART launches
3. Conduct an employee Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey
4. Survey full-time employees

Anonymous

What is one reason why the ART predictability measure is important?

1. It allows the business and other stakeholders to plan effectively
2. It demonstrates the need to fix the scope at the beginning of the PI
3. It identifies under-performing teams
4. It indicates where the Solution is ready to be released

Anonymous

What is the Release Train Engineer's (RTE's) role during the final plan review during PI Planning?

1. Encourage discussion of each team's product Vision as part of the final plan review
2. Manage the ROAMing of each team's risks
3. Facilitate all teams when they are presenting their final plans to the entire ART
4. Verify that each team's uncommitted objectives have lower business value than the committed PI Objectives to reflect proper prioritization

Anonymous

What is communicated on the ART planning board?

1. Dependencies between teams
2. Team velocity
3. PI Objectives
4. ART PI risks

Anonymous

Several Scrum Masters/Team Coaches (SM/TCs) disagree on what to do about a shared issue. What is an appropriate coaching technique for the RTE?

1. Being the final decision-maker once all feedback has been heard
2. Performing an empirical assessment of the problem using metrics
3. Bringing new emphasis to Lean-Agile's Respect for People
4. Asking powerful questions to invite creativity and new possibilities.

Anonymous

8 / 60 What might a Release Train Engineer (RTE) do to embrace Relentless Improvement and a growth mindset as an individual?

1. Use personal Gemba to find useful improvements
2. Identify personal challenges and create an action plan to address them
3. Frequently execute the SAFe individual self-assessment
4. Establish personal KPIs to be able to quantify progress

Anonymous

Which statement describes what stream-aligned teams do?

1. Promote a better flow of communications between leadership, ARTs, and teams
2. Use process-mapping to identify and eliminate process bottlenecks
3. Analyze Value Streams and transform them using Lean-Agile Principles
4. Build and deliver Customer value with minimal dependencies on other teams

Anonymous

Which statement is true about the definition of done (DoD)?

1. The teams share one common DoD
2. The DoD should evolve as system capabilities evolve
3. At the higher levels there is only one DoD for everything that passes through the ART to a Solution increment or a release
4. The DoD is used as a method to manage technical debt across the ART

Anonymous

What is the next step after identifying the root cause during the problem-solving workshop?

1. Trace the chain of causality
2. Restate the problem
3. Brainstorm solutions
4. Identify improvement backlog items

Anonymous

Which SAFe Core Competency in Which SAFe Core Competency incorporates guidance on coordinating trains and suppliers?

1. Measure and Grow
2. Lean Portfolio Management
3. Business Agility Enterprise
4. Solution Delivery

Anonymous

What is one benefit of having a well-executed Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?

1. Higher flow of program-level business value
2. Occasional buffer time to deliver more predictably.
3. Improved dependency management between teams
4. Shorter lead times before Feature delivery

Anonymous

Which statement describes flow velocity?

The number of Features committed to during PI Planning

The system throughput

The amount of Architectural Runway items in the backlog

The number of Story points the combined ART plans for within each Iteration

Anonymous

What does the "R" in SMART stand for that is used to write PI Objectives?

Required

Realistic

Random

Rationalized

Anonymous

What is one technique for building a one-team culture across the ART?

Review each teams' predictability measure with the ART

Foster an environment in which the whole ART succeeds and fails together

Rotate team members to new teams to facilitate relationship building

Ensure the team leader does not show vulnerability

Anonymous

During the management review and problem-solving meeting, one team raises the risk of not finishing a Feature before the end of the PI. How can the management team help ensure they complete the Feature within the PI?

Redefine the definition of done (DoD)

Use buffer resources as a guard band

ROAM the risk appropriately

Negotiate a reduction in the scope

Anonymous

How can a Release Train Engineer (RTE) support decentralized decision-making?

1. Empower knowledge workers to manage their dependencies with other teams
2. Change the cadence of the ART
3. Evaluate the strategy for the Value Stream
4. Update team PI Objectives when handling a time-critical release

Anonymous

What is the most accurate definition of DevOps?

1. A method that ensures operations works with development every day to deliver value
2. A set of tools and processes that govern how code is deployed
3. A process that provides visibility to impediments between writing code and delivering value
4. A mindset, culture, and set of technical practices that emphasizes close cooperation to provide value to the Customer

Anonymous

Which action describes the behavior of applying Systems Thinking for a Release Train Engineer (RTE)?

1. Examines what may be missing to make the environment better for the team
2. Encourages the team to express opinions in all circumstances
3. Facilitates team decision-making over individual decision-making
4. Demonstrates appreciation to team members in many ways

Anonymous

What does an ART planning board support?

1. Dependency review
2. ART predictability
3. Feature delivery
4. Problem-solving

Anonymous

Which SAFe tool might the Release Train Engineer (RTE) use to identify areas for an ART to improve how its Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP) functions?

1. Conduct empathy interviews with system architects/engineers
2. Architectural Runway
3. ART Backlog Enablers Agile Product Delivery core competency assessment
4. Facilitate a CDP sync every Iteration

Anonymous

60 When planning for a distributed PI Planning with a significant difference in time zones, what is a key preparation and facilitation focus?

1. Have a single Release Train Engineer (RTE) and technical support person that acts as a central point of communication for all locations
2. Share the outcomes of preparation meetings with local Scrum Masters/Team Coaches (SM/TCs) so they can arrange local rooms
3. Adjust the PI agenda to 2.5-3 days, allowing for overlapping hours
4. Split up the PI Planning event per time zone and then have the final plan review, confidence vote, and planning retrospective as one centralized

Anonymous

An ART frequently discovers compatibility issues between the developed Solution and the Enterprise information architecture. What can the Release Train Engineer (RTE) do to prevent this from occurring?

1. Conduct the entire data architecture design upfront
2. Add data architects to the ART Develop more detailed
3. Feature definitions
4. Confirm attendance of architectural representatives at PI Planning

Anonymous

Which SAFe Core Value creates an environment in which facts are always friendly?

1. Flow
2. Respect for People and Culture
3. Transparency
4. Innovation

Anonymous

Which skill do Release Train Engineers (RTEs) have the opportunity to regularly practice and improve?

Return-on-investment (ROI) projections

Servant leadership

Continuous Integration

Test-driven development

Anonymous

What is one benefit of the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?

1. It provides an opportunity to integrate and perform end-to-end testing
2. It allows for additional planned work
3. It allows for building in quality and compliance
4. It provides an estimating guard band

Anonymous

Product Management wants to prioritize a list of Features likely to be planned in the upcoming PI meeting. What metric is used as the denominator (the number under the line) of weighted shortest job first (WSJF) calculations?

1. Job size based on relative estimation
2. Feature size expressed in a T-shirt size
3. The actual business value of a Feature
4. Feature size expressed in Story points

Anonymous

What is one activity the Release Train Engineer (RTE) performs before an upcoming PI?

Facilitate ART Backlog prioritization with Product Management and other stakeholders

Provides approval and sign-off for draft Team Backlogs

Ensures at least 30% of the ART Backlog is allocated to Enabler Features

Allocates time in the Coach Sync for Product Management to socialize with the teams on the Features

Anonymous

What is one reason an environment of mutual influence is desirable?

It helps fund Value Streams

It demonstrates Respect for People

It provides guardrails for decision making

It centralizes decision making

Anonymous

What is one method for developing a sufficient Architectural Runway for the ART?

Ask the teams to commit only to Enablers as their PI Objectives during the PI Planning and address Features as uncommitted objectives for the first PI

Ask the Business Owner which Enablers have high business value

Work with Product Management and System Architects to identify future Features and determine the Enablers to achieve them

Create alignment with the System Architect and Product Management that the first PI is all about Enablers to plan for creating business value in the

Anonymous

Why is it important for the Release Train Engineer (RTE) to understand Tuckman's group dynamic stages?

An ART is a team of teams and will likely progress through the Tuckman stages

The Tuckman four stages should be reflected in the design of the ART Kanban

Tuckman helps RTEs to better understand Team and ART topologies

The Tuckman dynamic nature of the stages requires that we assume variability and preserve options

Anonymous

A team is consistently meeting 100% of their PI Objectives. How should the Release Train Engineer (RTE) respond?

Coach the team on their tendency to under-commitPraise the team for being a cross-functional team Praise the team for being high performers Coach the team on their tendency to size Stories too small

Anonymous

The Release Train Engineer (RTE) ensures that Business Owners assign business value to what during PI Planning?

Team-level PI Objectives

Features

ART-level PI Objectives

Stories.

Anonymous

Which behavior exemplifies servant leadership?

Creating an environment of mutual influence

Supporting the interests of customers and stakeholders

Protecting the teams and ART from negative reviews

Ensuring appropriate consequences if things go wrong

Anonymous

The ART is near the end of the final Iteration of its first PI. Integration into staging is more challenging than estimated. The ART adds a week to the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration for integration and testing. Why is this action considered an anti-pattern?

It reduces the overall predictability established through cadence and synchronization

It decreases job satisfaction by removing autonomy and purpose

It substantially decreases the predictability of the Solution Intent

Overall, train velocity goes up, and the time-to-market goes down

Anonymous

What is one recommended practice when planning across large time zone differences?

Choose one time zone for planning, then rotate for the next PI

Plan by time zone, then consolidate the plans

Allow for overlapping hours

Choose the time zone with the most team members

Anonymous

What is one action to support a Continuous Integration (CI) culture?

Make integration results visible

Purchase a Cl tool

Follow up with CI ceremonies

Secure senior leadership support before starting CI

Anonymous

A group of developers, Scrum Master/Team Coaches (SM/TCs), and Product Owners (POs) are interested in sharing knowledge and learning more about DevOps concepts. How can the Release Train Engineer (RTE) help them collaborate to gain knowledge about DevOps?

1. Schedule a DevOps bi-weekly synchronization
2. Align them with the System Team
3. Help them launch a DevOps Community of Practice (CoP)
4. Provide DevOps

Anonymous

45 / 60 Which value is used when calculating flow efficiency?

Flow time

Flow load

Flow distribution

Flow velocity

Anonymous

Why is it helpful to communicate newly refined Features and Enablers to the teams during the current PI?

1. Teams can review the Features and Enablers so they have an understanding of the Roadmap for the next PI
2. Teams can establish face-to-face communication across all team members and stakeholders
3. Teams can help support overall product integrity and facilitate working agreements during PI Planning
4. Teams can prepare backlogs, give feedback to the Product Owner/Product Management/System Architect, and begin looking at dependencies, impediments, and knowledge building

Anonymous

What behavior is an important part of the Release Train Engineer (RTE) role?

Manage dependencies for teams

Encourage teams to self-organize

Drive teams to specific outcomes

Provide teams with answers about Features

Anonymous

How can Release Train Engineers (RTEs) network and interact with one another to improve job skills and knowledge?

Participate in an RTE rotation program

Join or form an RTE community of practice

Add an RTE lessons learned section to the latest ART Readiness Workbook

Maintain a contact list of RTEs in the Value Stream

Anonymous

What are the three measurement domains supporting Business Agility?

1. ART predictability measure, SAFe outcomes, and Competency
2. Outcomes, Competency, and Flow
3. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), PI Objectives, and Flow
4. PI Objectives, ART predictability measure, and KPIs

Anonymous

What is one risk of eliminating an Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?

Delivery can be blocked Teams have no time for fixing bugs

Technical debt can grow uncontrollably

Bottlenecks can be hard to identify and resolve

Anonymous

Which statement is true about SAFe Iteration Goals?

They enable teams to keep aligned with PI Objectives

They provide key performance indicators (KPIs) for tracking progress and value realization

They provide quantifiable metrics to be used in retrospectives

They describe the value of planned Features and Enablers

Anonymous

Which Core Competency of Business Agility includes aligning strategy with execution?

1. Lean Portfolio Management
2. Agile Product Delivery
3. Lean-Agile
4. Leadership Organizational

Anonymous

The Release Train Engineer (RTE) learns the teams feel the business value needs to reflect the effort and progress. What is one technique the RTE can to provide the Business Owners a better understanding of the value the teams have created?

1. Work with the team to ensure they are actively involved when the Business Owners score the business value achieved
2. Publish the team business values and coach teams that these values are for tracking each ART deliverable
3. Illustrate the link between business values and the market communications/release objectives tied to the three to six-month Enterprise Strategy
4. Educate teams that business value provides the Enterprise with a metric of how fast the team executed work during the PI

Anonymous

Which statement is true about SAFe Iteration Goals?

They enable teams to keep aligned with PI Objectives

They provide key performance indicators (KPIs) for tracking progress and value realization

They provide quantifiable metrics to be used in retrospectives

They describe the value of planned Features and Enablers

Anonymous

Which of the following PI Planning elements creates transparency and helps engage Business Owners and stakeholders in the planning process?

1. ROAMing Risks
2. ART planning board
3. Draft objectives
4. Team Iteration

Anonymous

What is a key characteristic Lean-Agile leaders need to have when implementing SAFe?

1. Keeping roadmaps to no more than a single PI
2. Ensuring compliance with process standards
3. Understanding and exhibiting the values, principles, and practices
4. Emphasizing the Enterprise objectives

Anonymous

What hourly activity helps keep teams on track and facilitates early identification of risks during the Team Breakout portion of PI Planning?

1. ART planning board inspection
2. Business Owner feedback meeting
3. Coach Sync
4. Iteration Review

Anonymous

The Release Train Engineer (RTE) collaborates with which other two roles to drive the train's success?

1. Enterprise Architect and Solution Management
2. Solution Architect and Enterprise Architect
3. Product Management and System Architect
4. Solution Management and Solution Architect

Anonymous

What is one purpose of the System Demo?

1. To flow, dependencies, and risks
2. To demonstrate a team's build
3. To plan the Inspect & Adapt (I&A) event
4. To demonstrate the full Solution in a production-like context

Anonymous

What occurs without a shared understanding of the principles?

1. Practices are systematically adapted to local context
2. Business outcomes improve significantly
3. Measures that were once beneficial become problematic
4. Lean-Agile mindset is achievable

Anonymous

18 / 60 During PI Planning, the Release Train Engineer (RTE) sees the team's excitement decline as Product Management changes priorities, including the top t Features in the ART Backlog. In addition, Product Management is asking for new estimates, timelines, and scope changes. What is the likely reason for this behavior?

1. Management stakeholders are not involved in changing the system
2. Lack of training and preparation for PI Planning
3. People are over-controlled and under-utilized
4. Cadence and synchronization are not in alignment

Anonymous

What is one technique for building a one-team culture across the ART?

1. Review each teams' predictability measure with the ART
2. Foster an environment in which the whole ART succeeds and fails together
3. Rotate team members to new teams to facilitate relationship building
4. Ensure the team leader does not show vulnerability

Anonymous

Who can the Release Train Engineer (RTE) work with to help eliminate policies and procedures that demotivate employees?

1. Business Owners
2. Product Management
3. Portfolio Managers
4. Lean-Agile Leaders

Anonymous

Following Value Stream mapping, what is one way to optimize the Value Stream?

1. Calculate the metrics and share them with the ART
2. Focus on one component to optimize
3. Move from bottleneck to bottleneck, eliminating as many as possible
4. Identify methods for developers to code faster

Anonymous

Which Core Competency of Business Agility includes aligning strategy with execution?

1. Lean Portfolio Management
2. Agile Product Delivery
3. Lean-Agile Leadership
4. Organizational Agility

Anonymous

What is one benefit of an Iteration and PI calendar?

1. Ability to ensure that key events do not conflict with non-SAFe events
2. Ability to visualize the ART cadence and synchronization
3. Ability to create a big visible information radiator (BVIR) of the important team and ART milestones
4. Ability to know the cycle time between important team and ART events

Anonymous

Which activity occurs during Team Breakout #2 on the second day of PI Planning?

1. All Feature delivery and dependencies are visualized on the ART planning board
2. The Release Train Engineer (RTE) combines all Team PI Objectives into ART PI Objectives
3. The RTE modifies the PI Iteration schedule, if needed, based on the scope of high priority
4. Features Business Owners independently assign business value to normalize business value across all team