Question 1

Why is it important to decouple deployment from release?

Options :

A : To deploy only on a cadence

B : To enable releasing upon demand

C : To enable deploying upon demand

D : To release only on a cadence

Answer: B

Question 2

In SAFe(r) - What is the purpose of a development value stream?

Options :

A : It is used to identify the steps, value, people and systems and lead time.

B : It is used to build systems and capabilities that enable operational value streams.

C : It is used to deliver customer end value.

Answer: B

Question 3

What does innovation accounting mean?

Options :

A : Capitalizing the cost of software development using Story points.

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

C : Demoing Stories that come out of the IP Iteration.

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

Answer: B

Question 4

What is the core benefit of Principle #9 – Decentralize decision-making?

Options :

A : It enables risk to be evaluated early, through early validation and feedback.

B : It ensures the right work gets done, and the wrong work doesn't; by informing and driving decisions at all levels to best identify the value of work being done

C : It enables the shortest sustainable lead time, by eliminating impediments to the flow of work

D : It enables better design by keeping design options open for as long as possible, and only converging when it is timely and appropriate to do so, ato produce better technical and economic outcomes.

E : It improves solution development by enhancing the understanding of the system and the environment and applying that understanding to design, develpment, deployment, and maintenance of the system itself

F : It unlocks quality and productivity through autonomy within boundaries

Answer: A

Question 5

Chip and Dan Heath in their book 'Switch, how to change things when change is hard' speak of "scripting the critical moves." Whose responsibility is it?

Options :

A : Leadership

B : Architect

C : Technical Lead

D : Development Team

Answer: A