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1.How does Lean Portfolio Management differ from conventional budgeting procedures?

Provides effective control transparency of budgetary spending

Increases ability to budget the deliverables in the portfolio roadmap

Increases ability to adjust the portfolio's annual budget

Provides effective financial control over investments with less overhead.

2.What is Lean Portfolio Management's (LPM) main objective?

To manage individual team backlogs

To align strategy with execution

To oversee daily scrum meetings

To manage technical debt

3.What is the primary goal of Participatory Budgeting in SAFe Lean Portfolio Management?

Maximizing financial reserves

Involving stakeholders in prioritizing funding decisions

Reducing the number of stakeholders in decision-making

Ensuring all teams receive equal funding

4.Which of the following describes a principle of lean thinking?

Deliver working software frequently

Establish a decision-making framework

Sequence jobs for maximum benefit

Identify the Value Stream for each product.

5.Out of the following, which is NOT a Lean Portfolio Management dimension?

Strategy and Investment Funding

Agile Portfolio Operations

Lean Governance

Team Level Planning

6.How can an organization structure its portfolio according to value?

Move from a product focus to a solution focus

Move from a project focus to a product and services focus.

Organize Agile Release Trains by platforms and components

Organize Agile Release Trains by feature area

7.What is the primary purpose of the Portfolio Roadmap in SAFe?

To outline the detailed features and user stories to be delivered by Agile Teams.

To provide a high-level, time-phased view of initiatives aligning with the portfolio’s strategic goals.

To define the technical architecture for all upcoming Agile Release Trains (ARTs).

To allocate budgets for each Agile Team across the Program Increment (PI).

8.What is the team's main responsibility in Lean Portfolio Management?

To execute tasks and user stories

To align portfolio strategy and execution

To manage daily stand-up meetings

To perform code reviews

9.For what reason would one portfolio generate several portfolio canvases?

To analyze multiple epics

To account for different value streams

To account for different funding sources

To explore multiple future state possibilities.

10.Which of the following claims concerning strategic themes is accurate?

They link a portfolio to the enterprise strategy.

They are derived from objectives and key results (OKRS)

They connect multiple value streams to the portfolio strategy

They provide differentiation of solutions for the portfolio

11.What is the purpose of Portfolio Kanban?

To track daily tasks

To visualize and manage the flow of portfolio-level epics

To schedule daily meetings

To manage sprint backlogs

12.Which of the following elements is included in the Portfolio Context to provide clarity in SAFe LPM?

Team-level sprint goals

Value Streams and their alignment with strategic themes

Daily stand-up meeting agendas

Individual performance metrics

13.Which of the following practices is part of Lean Governance in SAFe?

Aligning budgets with value stream outcomes through Participatory Budgeting.

Writing User Stories and refining the Team Backlog.

Conducting daily stand-ups for value stream teams.

Managing team-level dependencies and resource allocation.

14.Regarding using a SWOT analysis to find opportunities, which of the following statements is accurate?

It helps understand the current state of your Value Stream, Solution, or Portfolio.

It identifies strategic options to create a better future state

It provides input for Lean budgeting

It helps identify the Portfolio's strategic themes

15.Which of the following two Core Values is supported by Objectives and Key Results (OKRS)?

Alignment and respect for people

Transparency and alignment.

Respect for people and transparency

Relentless improvement and alignment

16.A strategic theme: what is it?

A detailed project plan

Strategic themes are portfolio-level business objectives

A set of user stories for a team

A sprint planning objective

17.Which of the following descriptions of a portfolio roadmap is accurate?

It indicates the interaction across value streams

It forecasts future work in alignment with PI boundaries

It communicates a broader view to enterprise stakeholders.

It provides a high-level view of work per quarter

18.In Lean Portfolio Management, how are strategic priorities communicated and maintained across the organization?

Through the ART Backlog and team-level user stories.

By setting detailed plans and fixed scope for every Agile Release Train (ART).

Through Portfolio Vision, Strategic Themes, and Lean Budgets.

By assigning project managers to oversee every team’s performance.

19.In relation to strategic themes, which of the following indicators best describes portfolio performance?

Value Stream KPIs

Objectives and Key Results (OKRS).

Return on Investment (ROI)

ART Predictability

20.What does the Epic hypothesis statement include?

Solution metrics

Epic cost

Solution outcomes

Leading indicators.

21.What is the primary purpose of Participatory Budgeting in SAFe Lean Portfolio Management?

To allocate budgets to Agile Teams based on their velocity and output.

To collaboratively align funding to the most valuable initiatives in a transparent and inclusive way.

To ensure stakeholders independently decide on funding without team input.

To reduce funding for innovation and focus only on high-priority features.

22.What function do Epic Owners serve?

To manage individual user stories

To oversee the execution of portfolio epics

To facilitate daily stand-up meetings

To conduct code reviews

23.Why is ongoing connection with business owners necessary?

To communicate a clear and objective Solution Vision

To define metrics for the ART

To ensure priorities align with portfolio objectives.

To ensure that capacity allocation policies are followed

24.What is the primary goal of aligning strategy with investment funding in SAFe Lean Portfolio Management?

To ensure consistent team-level processes

To allocate resources based on business priorities

To reduce the number of Agile Release Trains (ARTs)

To eliminate the need for Lean budgeting

25.What is the main goal of value stream budgeting in lean portfolio management?

To allocate funds to individual teams

To distribute financial resources across value streams based on strategic priorities

To manage daily expenses

To track project costs

26.What does set up lean budget guardrails accomplish?

To analyze the inputs, outputs, and benefits of a participatory budgeting forum

To describe budgetary, governance, and spending practices of the portfolio.

To apply estimates for the implementation of portfolio epics and capacity allocation

To identify items that will centralize portfolio strategy decision-making

27.What results does participatory budgeting produce?

Approved list of Epics

Adjusted value stream budgets.

Revised PI schedule

Updated strategic themes

28.What is WSJF used for in Lean Portfolio Management, and what does it stand for?

Weighted Shortest Job First; to prioritize work based on cost of delay and job duration

Work Stream Job Flow; to manage workflow

Weighted Service Job First; to prioritize service tasks

Work Schedule Job Flow; to plan work schedules

29.Participatory budgeting is used to adjust which budget?

Agile Release Train

Portfolio

Agile team

Value Stream.

30.Why is it crucial that value stream budgets be modified over time?

To generate cost savings

To take advantage of emerging opportunities.

To maximize the return on epic investment

To ensure minimal variance in project budgets

31.what is a Portfolio Epic?

Portfolio epics are typically cross-cutting, typically spanning multiple Value Streams and PIs.

A small task within a sprint

A team-specific user story

A feature that impacts a single Agile Team

32.What benefit does Value Stream funding offer?

It is easier to track costs at the project level

It is easier to forecast expenses for a PI

It is easier to get budget approvals if a Feature takes longer than expected.

It is easier to calculate resource utilization planning for a PI

33.What is the primary purpose of measuring Lead Time in Lean Portfolio Management?

To determine the cost of delivering a product

To evaluate the quality of the final product

To assess the time taken from idea inception to value delivery

To calculate the total hours worked by a team

34.Which of the following is a core competency of Lean Portfolio Management?

Agile Release Train execution

Continuous Integration

Portfolio Strategy and Investment Funding

Team-level Scrum Practices

35.Which metric is most used in Lean Portfolio Management to measure the value delivered?

Velocity

Return on Investment (ROI)

Lead Time

Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)

36.What purpose does a Portfolio Sync meeting serve?

To conduct code reviews

To ensure alignment and transparency across the portfolio

To plan the next sprint

To manage individual team tasks

37.When an Epic is in the analysing state, what activity takes place?

Create the Lean business case.

Approve the Epic hypothesis statement

Build the minimum viable product (MVP)

Refine the Epic hypothesis statement

38.Which position oversees making sure the portfolio budget and the strategic themes are in line?

Scrum Master

Product Owner

Lean Portfolio Management

Agile Coach

39.Which of the following best describes how businesses create items and make them available to consumers at times when demand is predicted to rise?

Develop on cadence

Portfolio synchronization

Release on demand

Market rhythm

40.Which Portfolio Kanban state would require an ART to reserve capacity?

Reviewing

Implementing.

Ready

Analysing

41.What are guardrails used for in Lean Portfolio Management?

To limit the scope of individual tasks

To ensure strategic alignment and proper use of resources

To set team performance benchmarks

To define user story acceptance criteria

42.What are the responsibilities of Epic Owners?

Assigning a finance representative to create the Lean business case

Collaborating with Agile Teams to build a minimum viable product (MVP)

Making a go or no-go decision for an Epic.

Sizing Epics based on their experience

43.A feature of the Portfolio Kanban is which of the following?

A forecast roadmap visualizes a plan of execution

The Kanban always reflects available capacity

A go/no-go decision is required at every state

Work-in-process (WIP) limits promote flow.

44.What are the advantages of Lean Portfolio Management's decentralized decision-making process?

It reduces the need for daily meetings

It speeds up the decision-making process and increases responsiveness

It centralizes control

It ensures compliance with corporate policies

45.Where is the minimal viable product (MVP) developed and assessed in the Portfolio Kanban?

Implementing.

Reviewing

Analysing

Ready

46.When does the Portfolio Kanban consider an Epic completed?

When Epic hypothesis requires a pivot

When the Epic hypothesis is proven

When LPM determines further investment is no longer warranted

When LPM decides that no further governance is required.

47.One essential element of lean portfolio management is which of the following?

Daily Scrum meetings

Continuous Delivery Pipeline

Program Backlog

Strategic Themes

48.What does an epic's minimum viable product (MVP) serve as?

To address a need for the customer

To avoid creating an epic that nobody wants

To build and deliver a solution

To prove a business outcome hypothesis.

49.The cost of delay includes which of the following?

Time criticality.

Return on Investment (ROI)

Capacity allocation

Utilization

50.What does Portfolio Flow aim to achieve?

To manage daily team activities

To optimize the flow of work through the portfolio to achieve faster value delivery

To schedule iteration planning

To track team performance metrics

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1 How does Lean Portfolio Management differ from conventional budgeting procedures?

Provides effective control transparency of budgetary spending

Increases ability to budget the deliverables in the portfolio roadmap

Increases ability to adjust the portfolio's annual budget

Provides effective financial control over investments with less overhead.

2 What is Lean Portfolio Management's (LPM) main objective?

To manage individual team backlogs

To align strategy with execution

To oversee daily scrum meetings

To manage technical debt

3 What is the primary goal of Participatory Budgeting in SAFe Lean Portfolio Management?

Maximizing financial reserves

Involving stakeholders in prioritizing funding decisions

Reducing the number of stakeholders in decision-making

Ensuring all teams receive equal funding

4 Which of the following describes a principle of lean thinking?

Deliver working software frequently

Establish a decision-making framework

Sequence jobs for maximum benefit

Identify the Value Stream for each product.

5 Out of the following, which is NOT a Lean Portfolio Management dimension?

Strategy and Investment Funding

Agile Portfolio Operations

Lean Governance

Team Level Planning

6 How can an organization structure its portfolio according to value?

Move from a product focus to a solution focus

Move from a project focus to a product and services focus.

Organize Agile Release Trains by platforms and components

Organize Agile Release Trains by feature area

7 What is the primary purpose of the Portfolio Roadmap in SAFe?

To outline the detailed features and user stories to be delivered by Agile Teams.

To provide a high-level, time-phased view of initiatives aligning with the portfolio’s strategic goals.

To define the technical architecture for all upcoming Agile Release Trains (ARTs).

To allocate budgets for each Agile Team across the Program Increment (PI).

8 What is the team's main responsibility in Lean Portfolio Management?

To execute tasks and user stories

To align portfolio strategy and execution

To manage daily stand-up meetings

To perform code reviews

9 For what reason would one portfolio generate several portfolio canvases?

To analyze multiple epics

To account for different value streams

To account for different funding sources

To explore multiple future state possibilities.

10 Which of the following claims concerning strategic themes is accurate?

They link a portfolio to the enterprise strategy.

They are derived from objectives and key results (OKRS)

They connect multiple value streams to the portfolio strategy

They provide differentiation of solutions for the portfolio

11 What is the purpose of Portfolio Kanban?

To track daily tasks

To visualize and manage the flow of portfolio-level epics

To schedule daily meetings

To manage sprint backlogs

12 Which of the following elements is included in the Portfolio Context to provide clarity in SAFe LPM?

Team-level sprint goals

Value Streams and their alignment with strategic themes

Daily stand-up meeting agendas

Individual performance metrics

13 Which of the following practices is part of Lean Governance in SAFe?

Aligning budgets with value stream outcomes through Participatory Budgeting.

Writing User Stories and refining the Team Backlog.

Conducting daily stand-ups for value stream teams.

Managing team-level dependencies and resource allocation.

14 Regarding using a SWOT analysis to find opportunities, which of the following statements is accurate?

It helps understand the current state of your Value Stream, Solution, or Portfolio.

It identifies strategic options to create a better future state

It provides input for Lean budgeting

It helps identify the Portfolio's strategic themes

15 Which of the following two Core Values is supported by Objectives and Key Results (OKRS)?

Alignment and respect for people

Transparency and alignment.

Respect for people and transparency

Relentless improvement and alignment

16 A strategic theme: what is it?

A detailed project plan

Strategic themes are portfolio-level business objectives

A set of user stories for a team

A sprint planning objective

17 Which of the following descriptions of a portfolio roadmap is accurate?

It indicates the interaction across value streams

It forecasts future work in alignment with PI boundaries

It communicates a broader view to enterprise stakeholders.

It provides a high-level view of work per quarter

18 In Lean Portfolio Management, how are strategic priorities communicated and maintained across the organization?

Through the ART Backlog and team-level user stories.

By setting detailed plans and fixed scope for every Agile Release Train (ART).

Through Portfolio Vision, Strategic Themes, and Lean Budgets.

By assigning project managers to oversee every team’s performance.

19 In relation to strategic themes, which of the following indicators best describes portfolio performance?

Value Stream KPIs

Objectives and Key Results (OKRS).

Return on Investment (ROI)

ART Predictability

20 What does the Epic hypothesis statement include?

Solution metrics

Epic cost

Solution outcomes

Leading indicators.

21 What is the primary purpose of Participatory Budgeting in SAFe Lean Portfolio Management?

To allocate budgets to Agile Teams based on their velocity and output.

To collaboratively align funding to the most valuable initiatives in a transparent and inclusive way.

To ensure stakeholders independently decide on funding without team input.

To reduce funding for innovation and focus only on high-priority features.

22 What function do Epic Owners serve?

To manage individual user stories

To oversee the execution of portfolio epics

To facilitate daily stand-up meetings

To conduct code reviews

23 Why is ongoing connection with business owners necessary?

To communicate a clear and objective Solution Vision

To define metrics for the ART

To ensure priorities align with portfolio objectives.

To ensure that capacity allocation policies are followed

24 What is the primary goal of aligning strategy with investment funding in SAFe Lean Portfolio Management?

To ensure consistent team-level processes

To allocate resources based on business priorities

To reduce the number of Agile Release Trains (ARTs)

To eliminate the need for Lean budgeting

25 What is the main goal of value stream budgeting in lean portfolio management?

To allocate funds to individual teams

To distribute financial resources across value streams based on strategic priorities

To manage daily expenses

To track project costs

26 What does set up lean budget guardrails accomplish?

To analyze the inputs, outputs, and benefits of a participatory budgeting forum

To describe budgetary, governance, and spending practices of the portfolio.

To apply estimates for the implementation of portfolio epics and capacity allocation

To identify items that will centralize portfolio strategy decision-making

27 What results does participatory budgeting produce?

Approved list of Epics

Adjusted value stream budgets.

Revised PI schedule

Updated strategic themes

28 What is WSJF used for in Lean Portfolio Management, and what does it stand for?

Weighted Shortest Job First; to prioritize work based on cost of delay and job duration

Work Stream Job Flow; to manage workflow

Weighted Service Job First; to prioritize service tasks

Work Schedule Job Flow; to plan work schedules

29 Participatory budgeting is used to adjust which budget?

Agile Release Train

Portfolio

Agile team

Value Stream.

30 Why is it crucial that value stream budgets be modified over time?

To generate cost savings

To take advantage of emerging opportunities.

To maximize the return on epic investment

To ensure minimal variance in project budgets

31 what is a Portfolio Epic?

Portfolio epics are typically cross-cutting, typically spanning multiple Value Streams and PIs.

A small task within a sprint

A team-specific user story

A feature that impacts a single Agile Team

32 What benefit does Value Stream funding offer?

It is easier to track costs at the project level

It is easier to forecast expenses for a PI

It is easier to get budget approvals if a Feature takes longer than expected.

It is easier to calculate resource utilization planning for a PI

33 What is the primary purpose of measuring Lead Time in Lean Portfolio Management?

To determine the cost of delivering a product

To evaluate the quality of the final product

To assess the time taken from idea inception to value delivery

To calculate the total hours worked by a team

34 Which of the following is a core competency of Lean Portfolio Management?

Agile Release Train execution

Continuous Integration

Portfolio Strategy and Investment Funding

Team-level Scrum Practices

35 Which metric is most used in Lean Portfolio Management to measure the value delivered?

Velocity

Return on Investment (ROI)

Lead Time

Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)

36 What purpose does a Portfolio Sync meeting serve?

To conduct code reviews

To ensure alignment and transparency across the portfolio

To plan the next sprint

To manage individual team tasks

37 When an Epic is in the analysing state, what activity takes place?

Create the Lean business case.

Approve the Epic hypothesis statement

Build the minimum viable product (MVP)

Refine the Epic hypothesis statement

38 Which position oversees making sure the portfolio budget and the strategic themes are in line?

Scrum Master

Product Owner

Lean Portfolio Management

Agile Coach

39 Which of the following best describes how businesses create items and make them available to consumers at times when demand is predicted to rise?

Develop on cadence

Portfolio synchronization

Release on demand

Market rhythm

40 Which Portfolio Kanban state would require an ART to reserve capacity?

Reviewing

Implementing.

Ready

Analysing

41 What are guardrails used for in Lean Portfolio Management?

To limit the scope of individual tasks

To ensure strategic alignment and proper use of resources

To set team performance benchmarks

To define user story acceptance criteria

42 What are the responsibilities of Epic Owners?

Assigning a finance representative to create the Lean business case

Collaborating with Agile Teams to build a minimum viable product (MVP)

Making a go or no-go decision for an Epic.

Sizing Epics based on their experience

43 A feature of the Portfolio Kanban is which of the following?

A forecast roadmap visualizes a plan of execution

The Kanban always reflects available capacity

A go/no-go decision is required at every state

Work-in-process (WIP) limits promote flow.

44 What are the advantages of Lean Portfolio Management's decentralized decision-making process?

It reduces the need for daily meetings

It speeds up the decision-making process and increases responsiveness

It centralizes control

It ensures compliance with corporate policies

45 Where is the minimal viable product (MVP) developed and assessed in the Portfolio Kanban?

Implementing.

Reviewing

Analysing

Ready

46 When does the Portfolio Kanban consider an Epic completed?

When Epic hypothesis requires a pivot

When the Epic hypothesis is proven

When LPM determines further investment is no longer warranted

When LPM decides that no further governance is required.

47 One essential element of lean portfolio management is which of the following?

Daily Scrum meetings

Continuous Delivery Pipeline

Program Backlog

Strategic Themes

48 What does an epic's minimum viable product (MVP) serve as?

To address a need for the customer

To avoid creating an epic that nobody wants

To build and deliver a solution

To prove a business outcome hypothesis.

49 The cost of delay includes which of the following?

Time criticality.

Return on Investment (ROI)

Capacity allocation

Utilization

50 What does Portfolio Flow aim to achieve?

To manage daily team activities

To optimize the flow of work through the portfolio to achieve faster value delivery

To schedule iteration planning

To track team performance metrics

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SAFe LPM Assessment Tests

1.How does Lean Portfolio Management differ from conventional budgeting procedures?

2.What is Lean Portfolio Management's (LPM) main objective?

3.What is the primary goal of Participatory Budgeting in SAFe Lean Portfolio Management?

4.Which of the following describes a principle of lean thinking?

5.Out of the following, which is NOT a Lean Portfolio Management dimension?

6.How can an organization structure its portfolio according to value?

7.What is the primary purpose of the Portfolio Roadmap in SAFe?

8.What is the team's main responsibility in Lean Portfolio Management?

9.For what reason would one portfolio generate several portfolio canvases?

10.Which of the following claims concerning strategic themes is accurate?

11.What is the purpose of Portfolio Kanban?

12.Which of the following elements is included in the Portfolio Context to provide clarity in SAFe LPM?

13.Which of the following practices is part of Lean Governance in SAFe?

14.Regarding using a SWOT analysis to find opportunities, which of the following statements is accurate?

15.Which of the following two Core Values is supported by Objectives and Key Results (OKRS)?

16.A strategic theme: what is it?

17.Which of the following descriptions of a portfolio roadmap is accurate?

18.In Lean Portfolio Management, how are strategic priorities communicated and maintained across the organization?

19.In relation to strategic themes, which of the following indicators best describes portfolio performance?

20.What does the Epic hypothesis statement include?

21.What is the primary purpose of Participatory Budgeting in SAFe Lean Portfolio Management?

22.What function do Epic Owners serve?

23.Why is ongoing connection with business owners necessary?

24.What is the primary goal of aligning strategy with investment funding in SAFe Lean Portfolio Management?

25.What is the main goal of value stream budgeting in lean portfolio management?

26.What does set up lean budget guardrails accomplish?

27.What results does participatory budgeting produce?

28.What is WSJF used for in Lean Portfolio Management, and what does it stand for?

29.Participatory budgeting is used to adjust which budget?

30.Why is it crucial that value stream budgets be modified over time?

31.what is a Portfolio Epic?

32.What benefit does Value Stream funding offer?

33.What is the primary purpose of measuring Lead Time in Lean Portfolio Management?

34.Which of the following is a core competency of Lean Portfolio Management?

35.Which metric is most used in Lean Portfolio Management to measure the value delivered?

36.What purpose does a Portfolio Sync meeting serve?

37.When an Epic is in the analysing state, what activity takes place?

38.Which position oversees making sure the portfolio budget and the strategic themes are in line?

39.Which of the following best describes how businesses create items and make them available to consumers at times when demand is predicted to rise?

40.Which Portfolio Kanban state would require an ART to reserve capacity?

41.What are guardrails used for in Lean Portfolio Management?

42.What are the responsibilities of Epic Owners?

43.A feature of the Portfolio Kanban is which of the following?

44.What are the advantages of Lean Portfolio Management's decentralized decision-making process?

45.Where is the minimal viable product (MVP) developed and assessed in the Portfolio Kanban?

46.When does the Portfolio Kanban consider an Epic completed?

47.One essential element of lean portfolio management is which of the following?

48.What does an epic's minimum viable product (MVP) serve as?

49.The cost of delay includes which of the following?

50.What does Portfolio Flow aim to achieve?

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1 How does Lean Portfolio Management differ from conventional budgeting procedures?

2 What is Lean Portfolio Management's (LPM) main objective?

3 What is the primary goal of Participatory Budgeting in SAFe Lean Portfolio Management?

4 Which of the following describes a principle of lean thinking?

5 Out of the following, which is NOT a Lean Portfolio Management dimension?

6 How can an organization structure its portfolio according to value?

7 What is the primary purpose of the Portfolio Roadmap in SAFe?

8 What is the team's main responsibility in Lean Portfolio Management?

9 For what reason would one portfolio generate several portfolio canvases?

10 Which of the following claims concerning strategic themes is accurate?

11 What is the purpose of Portfolio Kanban?

12 Which of the following elements is included in the Portfolio Context to provide clarity in SAFe LPM?

13 Which of the following practices is part of Lean Governance in SAFe?

14 Regarding using a SWOT analysis to find opportunities, which of the following statements is accurate?

15 Which of the following two Core Values is supported by Objectives and Key Results (OKRS)?

16 A strategic theme: what is it?

17 Which of the following descriptions of a portfolio roadmap is accurate?

18 In Lean Portfolio Management, how are strategic priorities communicated and maintained across the organization?

19 In relation to strategic themes, which of the following indicators best describes portfolio performance?

20 What does the Epic hypothesis statement include?

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