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SAFe Agile 5.0 Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
SAFe Agile - answer✔Scaled Agile Framework. Framework for scaling Agile
Seven Core Competencies of Biz Agility - answer✔* Enterprise Solution Delivery * Agile Product
Delivery * Team & Technical Agility * Lean Portfolio Mgmt * Organizational Agility * Continuous
Learning Culture * Lean-Agile Leadership
Business Agility requires what? - answer✔Technical Agility and Biz-level commitment to
Product and Value Stream thinking. Everyone uninvolved in delivering Biz solutions use Lean &
Agile practices.
What are the 4 SAFe configurations? - answer✔Essential, Portfolio, Large Solution, Full
When is the Essential SAFe configuration used? - answer✔For Basic SAFe implementations
When is the Portfolio SAFe configuration used? - answer✔TBD. Essential + Portfolio additions
When is the Large Solution SAFe configuration used? - answer✔TBD. Essential + Large Solution.
MULTIPLE trains.
When is the Full SAFe configuration used? - answer✔TBD. All 3 other Configurations PLUS???
Enterprise Solution Delivery - answer✔How to apply Lean-Agile principles & practices to
specification, development, deployment, operation and evolution of the world's largest & most
sophisticated SW apps, networks, and cyber-physical systems. One of the 7 Core Competencies
of Biz Agility.
Agile Product Delivery - answer✔A customer-centric approach to defining, building, and
releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services to customers and users. One of
the 7 Core Competencies of Biz Agility.
Team & Technical Agility - answer✔The critical skills and Lean-Agile principles that high-
performing Agile teams (or team of teams) use to create hi-quality solns for customers. One of
the 7 Core Competencies of Biz Agility. Roles: Agile Team, SM, PO. Teams execute w Scrum &
Kanban.
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Lean Portfolio Mgmt - answer✔Aligns strategy & execution by applying Lean- and systems-
thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding Agile portfolio operations, and
governance. One of the 7 Core Competencies of Biz Agility.
Organizational Agility - answer✔How Lean-thinking people and Agile Teams optimize their
business, evolve strategy with clear & decisive new commitments, and quickly adapt ad needed
to capitalize on new opportunities. One of the 7 Core Competencies of Biz Agility.
Continuous Learning Culture - answer✔A set of values and practices that encourage individuals,
& the Enterprise as a whole, to continually increase knowledge, competence, performance and
innovation. One of the 7 Core Competencies of Biz Agility.
Lean-Agile Leadership - answer✔How Lean-Agile Leaders drive and sustain organizational
change and operational excellence by empowering individuals & teams to reach their highest
potential. One of the 7 Core Competencies of Biz Agility.
Built-in Quality - answer✔Built-In Quality practices ensure that each Solution element, at every
increment, meets appropriate quality standards throughout development.
Agile Manifesto - answer✔* Individuals & Interactions OVER Processes & Tools; * Working
Software OVER comprehensive documentation; * Customer Collaboration OVER contract
negotiation; Responding to Change OVER following a plan.
Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP) - answer✔Continuous Exploration -> Continuous Integration
-> Continuous Deployment -> Release on Demand. CE -> CI -> CD -> RoD.
Measure & Grow - answer✔The way portfolios evaluate their progress towards Biz Agility and
determine their next steps.
SAFe Core Values - answer✔Alignment, Built-in Quality, Transparency, Program Execution. The
four Core Values represent the fundamental beliefs that are key to SAFe's effectiveness. These
guiding principles help dictate behavior and action for everyone who participates in a SAFe
portfolio.
Alignment - answer✔Constant communication, constantly check for understanding.
Built-In Quality - answer✔Ensures that each Solution element, at every increment, meets
appropriate quality standards throughout development.
Transparency - answer✔visualize relevant work, admits mistakes, support others.
SAFe House of Lean - answer✔Illustrates the goal of delivering VALUE through the pillars of
Respect for people and culture, Flow, Innovation, and Relentless improvement. LEADERSHIP
provides the foundation on which everything else stands.
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Respect for people and culture - answer✔House of Lean. Generative Culture; People do all the
work; Customer is whomever consumes your work; Build long-term partnerships based on
trust; To change the Culture, Change the Organization.
Flow - answer✔House of Lean. Optimize sustainable Value delivery; Build in Quality;
Understand, exploit & manage variability; Move from Projects to Products.
Innovation - answer✔House of Lean. Innovative people, provide time & space for Innovation,
Go see; Experimentation & Feedback; Innovation riptides; Pivot without mercy or guilt.
Relentless improvement - answer✔House of Lean. Constant sense of danger; Optimize the
whole; problem-solving culture; Base improvements on facts; Reflect at Key Milestones.
Value - answer✔House of Lean. Achieve the shortest sustainable lead time with The best
Quality & Value to People & Society; high Morale, Safety and Customer Delight.
Leadership - answer✔House of Lean.Lead by example; Adopt growth mindset (why do it this
way?); Exemplify values & principles of Lean-Agile & SAFe; Develop people; Lead the change;
Foster psychological safety.
Lean-Agile Principles - answer✔SAFe is based on ten immutable, underlying Lean-Agile
principles which inspire and inform the roles and practices of SAFe: *Take an economic view;
*Apply systems thinking; *Assume variability; *Build incrementally with fast, integrated
learning cycles; *Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems; *Visualize & limit
WIP, reduce batch sizes, manage Q lengths; *Apply cadence, sync with x-domain planning;
*Unlock intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers; * Decentralize decision-making; *Organize
around value.
Take an Economic view - answer✔Lean-Agile Prin. * Deliver Value early & often. &
incrementally; Solution economic trade-offs.: * Sequence jobs for maximum benefit; * Do not
consider Sunk Costs; * Make economic choices continuously (pivot relentlessly); *Empower
local decision making; * Quantify the Cost of Delay.
Apply Systems Thinking - answer✔Lean-Agile Prin. ATTRIBUTES: * Optimizing a component does
not optimize the system; * a higher-level of understanding & Arch is required; *System value
passed through its interconnections; * System can evolve no faster than its slowest integration
point.
Optimize Full Value Stream - answer✔Lean-Agile Prin., Systems Thinking. * Reducing Delays in
Value Stream is fastest way to reduce time to market.
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