SAFe Scaled Agile For Enterprise
Certification Exam Questions & Answers
2023/2024
House of Lean - ANSWER-Goal: Value Foundation: Leadership, Respect for People and Culture,
Development Flow, Innovation, Relentless Improvement
Lean Goal - ANSWER-Speed, quality, value. sustainably shorted lead time, best quality and value to
people and society, most customer delight, lowest cost, high morale, safety
Respect for People - ANSWER-Lean principle, your customer is whoever consumes your work. Develop
individuals and teams, empower teams, build partnerships based on trust and mutual respect
Kaizen - ANSWER-Lean principle,. We can do better.Reflection, continuous improvement as an enterprise
value
Leadership - ANSWER-Lean foundation, management is trained, take responsibility, develop people
Product development flow - ANSWER-Lean principle. 1. Take an economic view. 2. Actively manage
queues. 3. Understand and exploit variability. 4. Reduce batch sizes. 5. Apply WIP constraints. 6. Control
flow under uncertainty; cadence and synchronization. 7. Get feedback as fast as possible. 8.
Decentralized control
Take an economic view - ANSWER-Lean principle of product development flow. #1. Base your decisions
on economics. The goal is to optimize the time from concept to cash
Actively manage queues - ANSWER-Lean principle of product development flow. #2. Understand Little's
Law. Control wait times by controlling queue lengths
Understand and exploit variability - ANSWER-Lean principle of product development flow. #3. Risk taking
is central to value creation
,Reduce Batch Size - ANSWER-Lean principle of product development flow. #4. Smaller batches go
through the system faster, with lower variability and risk. Large batch sizes and high utilization increase
variability, causing project slippage. Co-location and good infrastructure enable small batches
Apply WIP constraints - ANSWER-Lean principle of product development flow. #5. WIP constraints force
capacity matching, increases flow. Time box, purge lower value projects when WIP is too high, constrain
local WIP pools, make WIP continuously visible. High WIP and utilization cause reduction throughput
Control flow under uncertainty - ANSWER-Lean principle of product development flow. #6. Cadence +
Synchronization. Cadence transforms unpredictable events into predictable events, requires scope or
capacity margin, makes waiting times predictable, helps manage load by limiting available time. Regular
systemwide integration provides higher fidelity tests and objective solution assessment
Get fast feedback - ANSWER-Lean principle of product development flow. #7. Product development is
the process of converting uncertainty to knowledge. Fast feedback accelerates knowledge
Decentralized control - ANSWER-Lean principle of product development flow. #8. Centralize control for
decisions that are infrequent and can be applied globally, have significant economies of scale or high-
risk. Decentralized control for time critical, local decisions
Planning is for alignment - ANSWER-Lean principle of product development flow. #9. There is more value
created with overall alignment than with local excellence. Agile aims to change the plan when something
changes
Agile values: Individuals and interactions - ANSWER-Over processes and tools
Agile values: working software - ANSWER-Over comprehensive documentation
Agile values: customer collaboration - ANSWER-Over contract negotiation
Agile values: responding to change - ANSWER-Over following a plan
, Agile drivers in the triangle. - ANSWER-Value and quality driven, the vision creates feature estimates, fix
the dates and float the scope
Agile benefits - ANSWER-Early value delivery drives first to market, fast feedback, profitability, makes
money faster, reduces risk, delivers better fit for purpose
SAFe core values - ANSWER-Alignment, Code quality, Transparency, program execution
Four SAFe business results - ANSWER-Increased employee engagement, 20-50% increase in productivity,
30-70% faster time to market, 50% defect reduction
Describe an Agile team - ANSWER-Empowered, self organizing, self managing, cross functional, deliver
fully tested code every two weeks
How does an Agile team deliver value? - ANSWER-In user stories
Describe a SAFe team that is scaled to program level - ANSWER-Self organizing, self managing team of
Agile teams, continuous value delivery, aligned to a common mission via a single program backlog
How do program level safe teams deliver value? - ANSWER-In features and benefits
Describe how SAFe is scaled to the portfolio level. - ANSWER-Using Lean approaches to strategy and
investment funding, program management, and governance. Centralized strategy and decentralized
execution. Objective metrics support governance and kaizen
How does portfolio level SAFe deliver value? - ANSWER-In business and architectural epics
What is the product owner's content authority? - ANSWER-User stories
What is product management content authority? - ANSWER-Features
