SAFe-SPC Practice Exam Questions with Answers SAFe Practice Consultant SPC (6.0) Certification

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Assign 8 points per team member (not counting the Scrum Master and Product Owner) and subtract 1 point for each holiday or vacation day.

It is not recommended to calculate velocity until the team has completed its first PI.

Allow teams to establish their own velocity and then roll them up to calculate the velocity of the train.

Assign 10 points per team member (not counting the Scrum Master and Product Owner) and subtract 1 point for each holiday or vacation day.

Move teams across Value Streams to respond to changing business demands.

Establish Enterprise architecture.

Empower the Value Stream Engineer to coordinate all teams in the Value Stream.

Apply cadence and synchronization.

Fund the Portfolio, not the Value Streams.

Create a Portfolio Vision and Roadmap.

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User experience is indeed a different concept and the team should be exempt from working in Iterations.

Just like system architecture, the entire user experience should be fully designed before an implementation.

Since the team is working in timeboxes, this has been proven to be the most effective way to implement the user experience.

It's important to have an overall user experience vision before implementation, but the vision can be implemented iteratively for early feedback.

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Record and communicate the necessary requirements and design decisions.

Create a comprehensive design document for approval before development begins.

Provide an up-front and static definition of the system's design.

Launch it as two or more ARTs based on how the cost centers are defined.

Launch it as two distributed ARTs organized around end-to-end functionality.

Launch it as two geography-based ARTs, with one working on the UI and the other on business logic and databases.

Launch it as a single ART and then conduct Inspect & Adapt at the end of the PI to determine whether it needs to be split.

Program board

Team PI Objectives

Top 10 Features

Vote of confidence/commitment

Portfolio Vision

Iteration Goals

(User/Business Value + Time Criticality + Opportunity Enablement/Risk Reduction)/Job Size.

(Risk Reduction/Opportunity Enablement + Time Criticality + Size)/Business Value.

(User/Business Value + Size + Risk Reduction/Opportunity Enablement)/Job Size.

(User/Business Value + Size + Risk Reduction/Opportunity Enablement)/Time.

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To ensure that the analysis and discovery work needed for the items are not time bound.

To ensure that there is visibility and transparency.

To capture all ideas in the funnel.

To limit the number of initiatives under consideration.

To ensure that portfolio items are delivered to the Program or Solution Backlogs every 2 weeks.

Make it easier to assess the state of smaller batches.

Decrease stress on the system.

Increase throughput.

Produce less measurement overhead.

Increase delivery reliability.

Collect additional input from other stakeholders.

Take time to provide more detailed specifications for each Epic.

Use strategic themes to help the group understand how an Epic contributes to the realization of the enterprise business strategy.

Change the scale for WSJF parameters.

Split Epics into Capabilities, prioritize them, and combine those priorities back to the Epic level.

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Strategic Themes

Solutions

Agile Release Trains

Cyber-physical systems

So that team members collaborate better.

So that the team is able to meet its Iteration Goals.

So that teams continuously invest in the Architectural Runway.

It helps resolve conflicts between Feature teams and component teams.

So that the work can be better estimated.

Budgets are allocated to projects.

Budgets are allocated to strategic themes.

Budgets are allocated to portfolios.

Budgets are allocated to teams.

Budgets are allocated to value streams.

Predictability

Alignment

Transparency

Built-in Quality

Program execution

Agile coach

Senior Scrum Master

Development manager or QA manager

Release Train Engineer

Value Stream Engineer

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By understanding the full Value Stream.

By constant reduction of delays.

By reducing batch sizes.

By applying subjective governance.

Queues are processed in the order in which items are entered.

Backlogs are continuously refined and can be re-prioritized.

Queues are continuously refined and cannot be re-prioritized.

Backlog items are estimated; queues are not.

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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.

Capitalizing the cost of software development using Story points.

Defining, empirically measuring, and communicating the true progress of innovation.

Demoing Stories that come out of the IP Iteration.

Being sure to account for the investment in new product initiatives on a P&L.

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