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SAFe 5 Scrum Master Exam Questions And Answers
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Why is it important for the Scrum Master to help the team focus on daily and Iteration goals? To keep the Team Backlog to a manageable size To eliminate impediments To help the team maintain their velocity To facilitate the team's progress towards the current PI Objectives - correct answer ✅To facilitate the team's progress towards the current PI Objectives What falls outside the Scrum Master's responsibility? (Choose two.) Estimating Stories for the teamFacilitating backlog refinement Assigning Stories to team members Facilitating the team's Innovation and Planning event Coaching the team - correct answer ✅Estimating Stories for the team Assigning Stories to team members The Scrum Master is what above all else? A servant leader
A team coach An event facilitator The iteration owner - correct answer ✅A servant leader When is a Feature hypothesis fully evaluated? When the Feature's return on investment has been realized When the Customer uses the Feature in production When the Feature is accepted by Product Management When the Feature has been deployed to production - correct answer ✅When the Customer uses the Feature in production What are two common anti-patterns during program increment (PI) planning? (Choose two.) Pressure is put on teams to overcommit A detailed plan becomes the goal rather than alignment Alignment becomes the goal rather than a detailed plan
Keeps their opinions to themselves - correct answer ✅Uses persuasion instead of authority Why is it important for a Scrum Master to be a servant leader? To drive the team to succeed To coach the team in effective engineering practices To help the team become high-performing To provide team structure - correct answer ✅To help the team become high-performing How can a Scrum Master support a problem-solving workshop? By providing facilitation to breakout groups focused on specific problems By acting as a subject matter expert and suggesting improvements By coaching the Release Train Engineer on managing the event By estimating the work effort required to implement recommended improvements -
correct answer ✅By providing facilitation to breakout groups focused on specific problems What is the goal of the scrum of scrums event? To review the Agile Release Train's progress toward its PI Objectives To focus on Agile Release Train process improvement To review each team's progress on its Stories To demo Features to Product Management - correct answer ✅To review the Agile Release Train's progress toward its PI Objectives Which Agile Manifesto principle describes the importance of PI Planning in SAFe? Working software is the primary measure of progress Simplicity, the art of maximizing the amount of work not done, is essential The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams
Removes all conflict - correct answer ✅Gives open, honest opinions An effective Scrum Master helps the team with what? Team metrics Relentless improvement Deploying work Risk mitigation - correct answer ✅Relentless improvement What is an innovation and planning (IP) Iteration anti-pattern? Leave the IP iteration empty of work as an estimating guard band Plan work for the IP iteration during program increment (PI) planning Plan innovation spikes or hackathons to occur during the IP iteration
Use the IP iteration for infrastructure improvements - correct answer ✅Plan work for the IP iteration during program increment (PI) planning What is one benefit of program increment (PI) objectives? They describe a process for defining team goals They ensure accurate status reporting They create a near-term focus and vision They form a guiding coalition - correct answer ✅They create a near-term focus and vision What does the letter C represent in SAFe's CALMR approach to DevOps? Collaboration Continuous delivery Culture Continuous deployment - correct answer ✅Culture
5 Whys How does the Scrum Master provide the most value to the team? By ensuring timeboxes are kept during team meetings By scheduling critical scrum events By facilitating discussions between the Product Owner and the team By removing impediments for the team - correct answer ✅By removing impediments for the team Scrum Masters help remove impediments, foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, and what else? Form and re-form teams Continuously deliver value Estimate stories Lead team efforts in relentless improvement - correct answer ✅Lead team efforts in relentless improvement
What foundational issue most often leads to team dysfunction? Weak Lean-Agile leadership Lack of commitment Absence of trust Fear of conflict - correct answer ✅Absence of trust What is the Scrum Master's role in team breakout #1? Facilitate the coordination with other teams for dependencies Create mitigation plans for each risk Raise team level risks Resolve dependencies with other teams - correct answer ✅Facilitate the coordination with other teams for dependencies When is iteration planning completed? When iteration goals are defined
Iteration review Management review and problem-solving meeting - correct answer ✅Iteration retrospective Inspect and adapt event When looking at a program board at the end of program increment (PI) planning, what does it mean when a feature is placed in a team's swim lane with no strings? That the team has not broken the feature into stories yet and has not identified dependencies That the team has been assigned, but the feature dependencies have not been identified yet That it has dependencies on teams in other Agile release trains (ARTs) or Solution Trains That the feature can be completed by that team independently - correct answer ✅That the feature can be completed by that team independently Why is a confidence vote held at the end of program increment (PI) planning?
To build shared commitment to the plan To remove the risks for the PI To ensure the business owners accept the plan To hold the teams accountable if the Agile release train does not deliver on its commitment - correct answer ✅To build shared commitment to the plan A servant leader knows that his or her own growth comes from what? Effective training Management support Facilitating the growth of others Implementing a CALMR approach to DevOps - correct answer ✅Facilitating the growth of others SAFe is based on three primary bodies of knowledge which include Agile development, systems thinking, and what type of product development?
Provide information about customer needs Ensure everyone on the team participates Ensure the team gives accurate estimates - correct answer ✅Ensure everyone on the team participates How does SAFe handle the 'fear of conflict' team dysfunction? Avoids discussion of disagreements Uses scrum to create a safe environment for conflict Has teams engage in retrospectives Reviews results at the end of every iteration - correct answer ✅Uses scrum to create a safe environment for conflict Which two actions are part of the Scrum Master's role in PI Planning? (Choose two.) Prioritize Features to support the Program Vision Ensure the team builds a plan they can commit to Manage the program board
Serve as the Customer proxy and work with Product Management Align the Agile Release Train to a common Vision - correct answer ✅Manage the program board Ensure the team builds a plan they can commit to Scrum Masters are effective by using scrum methods, supporting SAFe principles and practices, and what else? Supporting delivery using Agile practices Serving as a customer proxy Writing stories and enablers Managing architectural runway - correct answer ✅Supporting delivery using Agile practices When working with an Agile Team, what is expected from Product Management? To clarify the scope of feature work To define the technical software specifications To provide the iteration goals to the team
Ask the team for the answerFacilitate team problem-solving - correct answer ✅Ask the team for the answer Facilitate team problem-solving Focus on business value delivery Which two behaviors should a Scrum Master represent as a coach? (Choose two.) Set long-term goals for the team Provide subject matter expertise Encourage the team to learn from their mistakes Lay out the team's plan for the iteration Focus on deadlines and technical options - correct answer ✅Encourage the team to learn from their mistakes Lay out the team's plan for the iteration what is an anti-pattern for the IP iteration? To plan work for the IP iteration during PI planning To allow for sufficient capacity in the program roadmap
To ensure all stories and teams' PI plans are completed prior to the IP iteration To minimize lost capacity when people are on vacation or holidays To wait for the IP iteration to fix defects - correct answer ✅To plan work for the IP iteration during PI planning To wait for the IP iteration to fix defects According to the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, what is a team's ultimate competitive advantage? Transparency Teamwork Accountability Commitment - correct answer ✅Teamwork What are two critical areas that differentiate agile from waterfall dev? Architectural runway