SAFe 5 Scrum Master (SSM) Exam Dumps Questions

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1. What would imply a change to the ART Budget?

Extending the duration of a P

Changing total ART resources

Switching to a different PI cadence.

Reducing the scope of a Program Epic.

Prioritizing Features based on Cost of Delay.

2. What improves collaboration between Scrum Masters and System Architects, System Teams, and Operations?

System Quality Measurements

Key Performance Indicators

The Program Predictability Measure

Program Kanban

3. SAFe's CALMR approach to DevOps does NOT include the following:

Culture of shared responsibility

Measurement of everything

Recovery causes high-risk releases

Lean flow accelerates delivery

4. When does the plan-do-check-adjust cycle occur in scrum?

at the iteration review

in the daily scrum

at all formal scrum events

as part of the iteration retrospective

5. How does the Scrum Master help teams address the challenges from modern enterprises?

By promoting a continuous release

By facilitating a team's progress towards goals

By building high performing trains

By actively addressing impediments

6. How should decentralized decision-making be used with respect to system design?

When defining subsystems and interfaces

When allocating functions to subsystems

When identifying the selection of common platforms

When development teams are empowered, self-organized, and allow the design to emerge

7. Which behaviors are typically associated with Lean-Agile Leaders? (Select 3)

Establish clear objectives for managing.

Develop Solutions.

Protect subordinates from interference by outside stakeholders.

Support decentralized decision-making.

Emphasize lifelong learning.

8. What are two Release Train Engineer responsibilities? (Choose two.)

Facilitate PI Planning readiness and the event itself

Understand Customer needs; validate solutions

Drive relentless improvement through Inspect and Adapt

Build an effective Product Owner / Product Manager team

Manage and prioritize the flow of work to the program

9. What is Cost of Delay?

Cost incurred when system integration appears too late in the P

Opportunity cost and deferred revenue.

Penalty for nonperformance.

Cost of not addressing risk early on.

10. Which meeting should the Scrum Master attend (not facilitate)?

Iteration Review

Scrum of Scrums

Daily Stand-Up

PO sync

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11. Who is responsible for prioritizing the iteration backlog?

Dvelopment Team

Product Owner

Scrum Master

Business Manager

12. What description best represents Capabilities as defined in SAFe?

Capabilities are simply a level of abstraction above Epics, exhibiting largely the same characteristics and practices.

Capability is a different name for Features, one that is preferred by some organizations.

Capabilities are simply a different kind of Epic, exhibiting largely the same characteristics and practices.

Capabilities are simply a level or abstraction above Features, exhibiting largely the same characteristics and practices.

13. What does Little's Law tells us?

The easiest way achieve flow is to reduce queue lengths.

Long queues help increase process efficiency.

The easiest way to reduce waits is to increase the processing rate.

The average wait time is dependent on the varying arrival rate of items coming into the queue.

Single-piece flow is always best.

14. The Spanning Palette can apply to the Team Level.

True

False

15. What is an example of an anti-pattern a Scrum Master might face?

Teams coordinate with other teams

Developers do not work collaboratively on stories

Teams that keep stories small to support team iteration

A product owner representing the ‘Voice of the Customer’

16. What are two key areas a team should be organized around? (Choose two.)

Business logic

Middleware

Features

Enablers

Platform

17. During PI planning, what are two key purposes of the hourly Scrum of Scrums checkpoint meeting? (Choose two.)

To help keep teams on track

To support early identification of risk

To align milestones with PI objectives

To keep stretch objectives within scope

To ensure PI objectives have direct user value

18. What anti-pattern can emerge during the Scrum of Scrums?

Scrum Masters bring in risks and impediments for escalation

Scrum Masters work with the Release Train Engineer to resolve risks and impediments

Scrum Masters have a daily 15 minute meet-after with the Release Train Engineer

Scrum Masters report on the teams' task status each day

19. What is the recommended timeframe for cadence-based PI Planning?

4-6 weeks

6-8 weeks

8-12 weeks

12-16 weeks

20. Lean-Agile Leaders ______________. (Select 4)

Lead the teams

Proactively eliminate impediments.

Run successful Agile Release Trains.

Facilitate relentless improvement

Embrace the values of Lean.

Manage the most critical day-to-day activities of team members.

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21. Becoming a coach requires a shift from old behaviors to new ones.

What are three examples of old behaviors?

Focusing on deadlines

Focusing on business value delivery

Asking the team for the answers

Driving toward specific outcomes

Fixing problems for the team

Facilitating team problem solving

22. The business must depend on the team for what in order for the business to do any meaningful planning?

a cross-functional skill set

commitment to the plan

measurements

team capabilities

23. Which of the following have acceptance criteria? (Select 3)

Business Capabilities

Portfolio Enabler Epics

Strategic Themes

Enabler Features

Spikes

Program Epics

24. What is a key role of the Scrum Master?

To accept Stories

To estimate Stories

To manage the team

To help the team identify and remove bottlenecks

25. An effective decision-making framework provides which two ultimate outcomes? (Choose two.)

Improves flow

Reduces delays as a result of centralized decision-making

Unlocks the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers

Reduces WIP limits

Decreases time to market

26. An effective SAFe scrum master helps the team improve on their journey towards excellence through continuous integration, continuous development and what else?

Continuous exploration

continuous release

wip limits

state of the art build tools

27. What type of anti-pattern is below: "The Agile Team has more than one Product Owner."

Please note down your answer

A Structural Anti-Pattern

28. 1.According to the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, what is a team's ultimate competitive advantage?

Transparency

Teamwork

Accountability

29. Participating in PI planning enables teams to gain alignment and commitment around a clear set of what?

team dependencies

prioritized objectives

user stories

features and benefits

30. In the context of a Team Increment, every Iteration each team plans, builds, tests, integrates, and?

Reorganizes

Review their work

Sets new objectives

Clears out the backlog

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31. In complex systems development, what do local integration points ensure?

That each capability of the system is meeting its responsibilities in contributing to the overall solution intent

That a common understanding of the system design is distributed to the entire team

That all team members have access to the current product status

That an application passes all QA tests before being released to production

32. The Inspect and Adapt (I&A) event has three parts; which of the below does NOT belong:

The PI System Demo of the Solution's current state

Quantitative Measurement

The Retrospective and Problem-Solving Workshop

All of the above

33. There are two primary aspects of a lean-agile mindset lean thinking and what?

feature enablement

lean systems

systems engineering

embracing agility

34. During PI planning who owns the planning of stories into iterations?

Agile teams

product management

system architect

scrum master

35. The goal of DevOps is to improve collaboration across the value stream by developing and automating a ____________________________________.

Implementation Roadmap

Development routine

Delivery on Demand structure

Continuous Delivery Pipeline

36. Which statement is true about the phase-gate milestone model and risk reduction?

It does not mitigate risk as intended

It creates large batches of requirements

It reduces product increment values

It helps to visualize and limit WIP

37. Collective ownership addresses bottlenecks, increases velocity and encourages: (choose one)

shared contribution

shared funding

shared responsibility

shared standard setting

38. The three pillars of Scrum are transparency, inspection, and what else?

Respect

Adaptation

Collaboration

Self organization

39. What is the connection between feedback and optimum batch size?

Lack of feedback contributes to higher holding cost

Large batch sizes reduce transaction cost and provide a higher return on investment

Feedback and batch size are generally not connected

Small batch sizes lower transaction costs

40. An honest effort at careful problem definition will avoid the "ready, fire, aim" approach that is so common in problem-solving.

True

False

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41. Scrum Master interacts with which level(s) of SAFe?

Portfolio Level

All levels

Team Level

Program Level

42. What is the purpose of the plan-do-check-adjust cycle?

To provide regular, predictable dev cadence to produce an increment of value

To give the ART members a process tool to keep the train on the tracks

To create a continuous flow of work to support the delivery pipeline

To allow the team to perform some final backlog refinement for upcoming iteration planning

43. During Iteration Planning, the Product Owner (PO) introduces a new story to the team. They cannot come to a consensus on the size of the new story and ask the PO for more details. After a lot of discussion, multiple dependencies with other teams emerge, so the team decides to leave the story in the Team Backlog and not commit.

Is the team's response an anti-pattern?

No; the PO provided details on the story

No; the Development Team left the story in the Team Backlog for further refinement with the PO

Yes; the Development Team identified multiple dependencies with other teams

Yes; the PO and the Development Team reached the planning session without preparation and the dependencies were not identified

Yes; the PO should not be in the iteration planning meeting

44. Scrum masters are effective by using scrum methods, supporting safe principles and practices and what else?

Serving as a customer proxy

Writing stories and enablers

Managing architectural runway

Delivering through agile practices

45. Why is it important to organize the work for Iteration Planning?

So the team can load balance

So the backlog can be prepared

So a realistic work scope can be defined

So the Scrum Master can prepare workload for the Continuous Delivery Pipeline

46. Which technique is used to identify root causes during the Problem Solving workshop?

Five Whys

Value Stream Identification

Value Stream Mapping

Weighted Shortest Job First

47. Kanban does everything EXCEPT:

It helps control financial budget targets

It helps improve Iteration outcomes

It allows better visibility into the progress of work bbased on the team-specific work flow.

It connects capacity based planning in Scrum with a throughput based approach

48. One of the Scrum Master's main responsibilities is to communicate with management and outside stakeholders to help the team in what way?

Split bigger work items where necessary

Protect them from uncontrolled addition of work

Manage the Iteration Planning Backlog

Accept stories

49. What benefit does cadence development provide?

Limits WIP

Limits variability

Synchronization

Causes multiple events to occur at the same time

50. 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

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51. What action should be taken on Relentless Improvement Backlog items from the Problem Solving Workshop?

Assign points or prioritization levels

Calculate for cost before continuing

Use as direct input into the PI Planning session that follows

Assign to the team best suited to solve