01. On an ART, the System Architect moves three pipeline enablers to the top of the ART Backlog to protect the architectural runway. The next day the Release Train Engineer moves them back down to protect the business features that stakeholders expect.
Who has the authority to decide the order of the ART Backlog?
a) The System Architect
b) Product Management
c) The Release Train Engineer
d) The Business Owners
02. A Product Manager stops all customer research once the features for a Planning Interval enter development. She explains that exploration will start again when the current features have been released and measured, because the pipeline handles one aspect at a time.
Which understanding of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline should replace hers?
a) All four aspects operate at the same time on different work
b) Exploration resumes as soon as Release on Demand has measured the current features
c) Exploration fills the first iterations of every PI and integration fills the rest
d) Exploration pauses during development because ART capacity is committed at PI Planning
03. At the end of each iteration, every team on an ART demonstrates its own stories to its Product Owner from its own development environment. Business Owners see nothing until the end of the PI, and nobody knows whether the teams' work functions together.
What should the ART change?
a) Invite the Business Owners to every team's iteration review and record their feedback there
b) Combine the team demos into one event held in the final iteration
c) Show the integrated work of all teams from the staging environment every iteration
d) Deploy each team's stories to production dark before they are demonstrated
04. While implementing a story that adds a partner-facing interface, a team analyzes how that interface could be attacked and adjusts its code and tests to match. A new team member objects that the pipeline already handles this twice: the architects considered attacks before PI Planning, and every commit is scanned automatically for vulnerabilities.
In which activity of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline is the team working when it carries out this analysis?
a) Architect
b) Develop
c) Build
d) Test end-to-end
05. Each of an ART's five applications gathers telemetry at every layer, and each team shows its application's data on a large screen in its work area. During a recent incident that crossed three applications, every team could see only its own part, and it took hours to establish that one upstream fault lay behind all three.
Which Monitor practice is this ART missing?
a) Full-stack telemetry
b) Visual displays
c) Federated monitoring
d) Session replay
06. An ART has automated its builds, its tests and its deployments to staging. For the next improvement goal, one team proposes that the pipeline should also switch each feature on for customers automatically as soon as its production tests pass.
How should the ART set the goal?
a) Automate the path through staging and keep production deployment a manually approved step
b) Automate release as well, since a change verified in production carries little risk
c) Automate the path through Verify and have the Release Train Engineer approve each release
d) Automate the path from code commit through deployment to production and keep release a business decision
07. Customer visits have confirmed that site inspectors need an ART's app to work without a network connection. The ART can see three ways to provide this: build its own synchronization layer, adopt a vendor's product or extend a platform it already uses. It must work out which is the most practical.
Which Collaborate and research practice fits this task?
a) A Gemba visit to the site inspectors
b) Primary market research through interviews with the site inspectors
c) A trade study that compares the candidate solutions
d) Secondary market research that draws on published industry reports
08. The teams on an ART disagree about whether their practices for verifying and monitoring changes in production are weaker than their practices for building and staging them. They want a baseline across the whole Continuous Delivery Pipeline that they can repeat after each PI to see whether they are improving.
Which SAFe tool fits this need?
a) A current-state value stream map
b) The DevOps Health Radar
c) Innovation accounting
d) Full-stack telemetry
09. An ART is estimating the Cost of Delay of a feature for a reseller. The reseller has said that it will move to a competitor's integration unless the capability is available before its contract renews in four months. After that date, the feature would be worth far less.
Which component of the Cost of Delay captures this consideration?
a) User-business value
b) Risk reduction and opportunity enablement
c) Job size
d) Time criticality
10. During a night-time incident, an engineer logs in to two of an ART's six production servers and edits a configuration file by hand, which restores service. A week later, the next pipeline deployment recreates the old configuration and the fault returns. The six servers are also no longer identical. The pipeline can replace all six servers within minutes.
How should the ART make a fix of this kind next time?
a) Change the version-controlled definition and replace the servers through the pipeline
b) Hand-fix one server and clone it to the rest
c) Commit the edit to the definition, keeping the patched servers
d) Apply the fix by hand on every server and record it in the definition once service is restored