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1.At the conclusion of each iteration, the Release Train Engineer (RTE) will participate in several reviews and status meetings to talk about the ART's development. In what ways may the RTE control expectations?

Determine the RTE's capacity for attending meetings and do not exceed it

Encourage interested parties to attend the System Demo

Make status available at the end of every other Iteration rather than every Iteration

Delegate some program reporting and meeting attendance to Scrum Master/Team Coach (SM/TC) on the ART

2.During the Team Breakout phase of PI Planning, what hourly task aids in early risk detection and helps teams stay on course?

Business Owner feedback meeting

Coach Sync

ART planning board inspection

Iteration Review

3.What is posted on the planning board for ART?

Team velocity

PI Objectives

ART PI risks

Dependencies between teams

4.What is the primary purpose of the Planning Interval (PI) in SAFe.

To define high-level requirements and solutions for the next Agile Release Train.

To deliver incremental value in a timebox, enabling teams to align and collaborate effectively.

To finalize all unfinished work and conduct system testing.

To release the entire set of features and close the Program Backlog.

5.How can an RTE, or release train engineer, keep up with employee satisfaction?

Address and resolve any problems areas

Gather employee metrics immediately after the ART launches

Conduct an employee Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey

Survey full-time employees

6.As an RTE, you observe that several teams within your ART are consistently missing their iteration goals. Which of the following metrics would be most useful to identify and address the root cause of this issue?

Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD)

Team Velocity

Defect Density

ART Predictability Measure

7.How can Release Train Engineers (RTEs) collaborate and network to enhance their knowledge and abilities on the job?

Join or form an RTE community of practice

Add an RTE lessons learned section to the latest ART Readiness Workbook

Participate in an RTE rotation program

Maintain a contact list of RTEs in the Value Stream

8.What is the primary responsibility of the Release Train Engineer (RTE) in a SAFe Agile Release Train (ART)?

Manage the Program Backlog and prioritize features for the ART.

Facilitate ART events, resolve impediments, and foster continuous improvement.

Serve as the Product Owner for all teams on the ART.

Design the architectural runway for the solution.

9.Which of the following best sums up the activities of stream-aligned teams?

Promote a better flow of communications between leadership, ARTs, and teams

Analyze Value Streams and transform them using Lean-Agile Principles

Build and deliver Customer value with minimal dependencies on other teams

Use process-mapping to identify and eliminate process bottlenecks

10.One team brings up the possibility of not completing a feature before the end of the PI during the management review and problem-solving meeting. In what ways can the management team assist in making sure the feature is finished inside the PI?

Negotiate a reduction in the scope

ROAM the risk appropriately

Use buffer resources as a guard band

Redefine the definition of done (DoD)

11.On Day 2 of PI Planning, which of the following activities does the Release Train Engineer (RTE) typically facilitate during the Team Breakout?

Aligning teams on their individual iteration goals and drafting the team’s PI objectives.

Conducting system demos to show progress on features developed during the PI.

Reprioritizing the Program Backlog based on the previous day's discussions.

Managing inter-team dependencies and addressing potential risks.

12.Which SAFe Lean-Agile Principle emphasizes the importance of building quality into the development process rather than inspecting it at the end?

Deliver Early and Often

Relentlessly Optimize Flow

Apply Systems Thinking

Build Quality In

13.Which three domains of measurement underpin business agility?

Outcomes, Competency, and Flow

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), PI Objectives, and Flow

PI Objectives, ART predictability measure, and KPIs

ART predictability measure, SAFe outcomes, and Competency

14.Which of the following is NOT a common activity during the IP iteration that the RTE would be responsible for?

Leading the ART’s Inspect and Adapt (I&A) event.

Supporting teams in the completion of their PI objectives.

Ensuring that teams have time for learning, innovation, and technical debt reduction.

Reviewing detailed user stories and approving them for the next PI.

15.Some teams need help to identify where they might make process improvements. How might a Release Train Engineer (RTE) support them?

Run longer Inspect & Adapt (I&A) events to brainstorm improvement items

Conduct a survey to identify the worst problems the team is having

Encourage the team to perform regular self-assessments and discuss findings

Observe the team's events and share observations

16.Some teams require assistance in determining potential areas for process enhancements. How could they be assisted by a Release Train Engineer (RTE)?

The system throughput

The amount of Architectural Runway items in the backlog

The number of Features committed to during PI Planning

The number of Story points the combined ART plans for within each Iteration

17.Which of the following components of PI planning fosters openness and facilitates the participation of stakeholders and business owners in the planning process?

ROAMing Risks

ART planning board

Draft objectives

Team Iteration plans

18.What conduct is crucial to the function of Release Train Engineer (RTE)?

Encourage teams to self-organize

Manage dependencies for teams

Provide teams with answers about Features

Drive teams to specific outcomes

19.How may the Value Stream be optimized after Value Stream mapping?

Move from bottleneck to bottleneck, eliminating as many as possible

Calculate the metrics and share them with the ART

Focus on one component to optimize

Identify methods for developers to code faster

20.The RTE encourages the teams to identify solutions, share ideas, and focus on improving their processes. Which of the following is the RTE promoting in this scenario?

Blame-free problem solving by focusing on individual accountability.

Relentless Improvement by fostering continuous learning and eliminating bottlenecks.

Command-and-control leadership by dictating solutions for the teams.

Simplified workflows by reducing the number of teams involved.

21.Which of the following is NOT a responsibility of the Release Train Engineer (RTE)?

Ensuring alignment between Agile Teams and other stakeholders.

Coordinating the activities and schedule for PI Planning and other ART events.

Directly managing the work assignments for all Agile team members.

Promoting continuous improvement within the ART through retrospectives and feedback.

22.Product Management wishes to rank a list of features that will probably be discussed at the next PI meeting. Which metric is utilized in weighted shortest job first (WSJF) computations as the denominator, or the number under the line?

Feature size expressed in Story points

Feature size expressed in a T-shirt size

The actual business value of a Feature

Job size based on relative estimation

23.What is one justification for the desire for a mutually influential environment?

It demonstrates Respect for People

It provides guardrails for decision making

It centralizes decision making

It helps fund Value Streams

24.To properly describe business value to a team PI objective, which SAFe role should an RTE establish a relationship with?

Objective Owners

olution Managers

Lean-Agile Leaders

Business Owners

25.How can an adequate Architectural Runway for the ART be developed?

Work with Product Management and System Architects to identify future Features and determine the Enablers to achieve them

Ask the Business Owner which Enablers have high business value

Ask the teams to commit only to Enablers as their PI Objectives during the PI Planning and address Features as uncommitted obiectives for the first PI

Create alignment with the System Architect and Product Management that the first PI is all about Enablers to plan for creating business value in the second PI

26.A team routinely achieves all its PI objectives. What is the appropriate response from the Release Train Engineer (RTE)?

Coach the team on their tendency to size Stories too small

Praise the team for being a cross-functional team

Coach the team on their tendency to under-commit

Praise the team for being high performers

27.The team demonstrated a new feature to stakeholders. However, one of the key features was not fully functional due to unexpected technical challenges. How should the Release Train Engineer (RTE) handle this situation?

Proceed with the demo as planned and address the issue later in the sprint review.

Acknowledge the incomplete feature, explain the challenges, and set a clear plan to resolve the issue after the PI Demo.

Cancel the demo and reschedule it once the feature is fully functional.

Skip the demo for that feature and focus on the completed work only.

28.What part does the Release Train Engineer (RTE) play in the PI Planning final plan review?

Facilitate all teams when they are presenting their final plans to the entire ART

Manage the ROAMing of each team's risks

Encourage discussion of each team's product Vision as part of the final plan review

Verify that each team's uncommitted objectives have lower business value than the committed PI Objectives to reflect proper prioritization

29.Which of the following aligns with the SAFe Lean-Agile Principle of "Delivering Value Incrementally"?

Teams plan for all features to be delivered at the end of the PI.

Teams break work into smaller batches and deliver incrementally through iterations.

Teams focus solely on innovation during the IP iteration and skip delivery.

Teams deliver only high-value features after the entire solution is built.

30.Which other two positions work together with the Release Train Engineer (RTE) to ensure the success of the train?

Solution Architect and Enterprise Architect

Solution Management and Solution Architect

Enterprise Architect and Solution Management

Product Management and System Architect

31.What is DevOps?

A process that provides visibility to impediments between writing code and delivering value

A method that ensures operations works with development every day to deliver value

A mindset, culture, and set of technical practices that emphasizes close cooperation to provide value to the Customer

A set of tools and processes that govern how code is deployed

32.Which Business Agility Core Competency involves coordinating strategy and execution?

Lean-Agile Leadership

Organizational Agility

Lean Portfolio Management

Agile Product Delivery

33.How can a Continuous Integration (CI) culture be promoted?

Purchase a CI tool

Make integration results visible

Follow up with CI ceremonies

Secure senior leadership support before starting CI

34.What is one technique for building a one-team culture across the ART?

Ensure the team leader does not show vulnerability

Rotate team members to new teams to facilitate relationship building

Review each teams' predictability measure with the ART

Foster an environment in which the whole ART succeeds and fails together

35.What is the core principle of servant leadership in the context of the Release Train Engineer (RTE) role?

Making all decisions for the Agile teams to ensure smooth execution.

Supporting and empowering teams to be self-organizing and high performing.

Assigning tasks and holding teams accountable for meeting deadlines.

Focusing solely on delivering features and value to customers.

36.What is the primary purpose of applying cadence and synchronization in SAFe?

To align teams to a common rhythm and enable predictable delivery.

To eliminate the need for PI Planning events.

To increase the autonomy of individual Agile Teams without coordination.

To finalize all features before beginning the next Planning Interval.

37.The Release Train Engineer (RTE) ensures that Business Owners assign business value to what during PI Planning?

Features

Team-level PI Objectives

ART-level PI Objectives

Stories

38.As an RTE, which coaching approach should you take when teams are struggling with communication and collaboration during PI Planning?

Step in and direct the team on how to communicate.

Facilitate the conversation by guiding teams to share their ideas and listen actively.

Allow teams to figure it out on their own without intervention.

Ignore the issue as it will resolve itself over time

39.A group of Product Owner (PO), Scrum Master/Team Coach (SM/TC), and developers are eager to learn more about DevOps concepts and exchange information. How might DevOps benefit from the Release Train Engineer (RTE)?

Help them launch a DevOps Community of Practice (CoP)

Provide DevOps training

Align them with the System Team

Schedule a DevOps bi-weekly synchronization

40.Several Scrum Master/Team Coach (SM/TC) cannot agree on how to handle a common problem. Which coaching method is suitable for the Release Train Engineer (RTE)?

Performing an empirical assessment of the problem using metrics

Asking powerful questions to invite creativity and new possibilities

Being the final, decision-maker once all feedback has been heard

Bringing new emphasis to Lean-Agile's Respect for People

41.How can an individual Release Train Engineer (RTE) adopt a development attitude and Relentless Improvement?

Establish personal KPIs to be able to quantify progress

Frequently execute the SAFe individual self-assessment

Identify personal challenges and create an action plan to address them

Use personal Gemba to find useful improvements

42.Name a key characteristic Lean-Agile leaders need to have when implementing SAFe?

Understanding and exhibiting the values, principles, and practices

Keeping roadmaps to no more than a single PI

Emphasizing the enterprise objectives and KPIs

Ensuring compliance with process standards

43.Which Core Value encourages a culture that welcomes facts?

Respect for People and Culture

Innovation

Transparency

Flow

44.When organizing a dispersed PI What is a crucial area of preparation and facilitation for planning when there is a large time zone difference?

Share the outcomes of preparation meetings with local Scrum Master/Team Coach (SM/TCs) so they can arrange local rooms

Split up the Pi Planning event per time zone and then have the final plan review, confidence vote, and planning retrospective as one centralized meeting

Have a single Release Train Engineer (RTE) and technical support person that acts as a central point of communication for all locations

Adjust the PI agenda to 2.5-3 days, allowing for overlapping hours

45.Regarding the definition of done (DoD), which of the following statements is accurate?

The DoD should evolve as system capabilities evolve

At the higher levels there is only one DoD for everything that passes through the ART to a Solution increment

The teams share one common DoD

The DoD is used as a method to manage technical debt across the ART

46.What makes an understanding of Tuckman's group dynamic stages crucial for the Release Train Engineer (RTE)?

Tuckman helps RTEs to better understand Team and ART topologies

An ART is a team of teams and will likely progress through the Tuckman stages

The Tuckman four stages should be reflected in the design of the ART Kanban

The Tuckman dynamic nature of the stages requires that we assume variability and preserve options

47.How might decentralized decision-making be supported by a Release Train Engineer (RTE)?

Update team PI Objectives when handling a time-critical release

Change the cadence of the ART

Empower knowledge workers to manage their dependencies with other teams

Evaluate the strategy for the Value Stream

48.When determining flow efficiency, what value is used?

Flow load

Flow time

Flow distribution

Flow velocity

49.What is the ability that Release Train Engineers (RTEs) can frequently practice and get better at?

Test-driven development

Servant leadership

Return-on-investment (ROI) projections

Continuous Integration

50.Which team does help fill the gap by providing specialized expertise so stream-aligned teams can focus on the work they do best?

Platform team

Enabling team

Complicated subsystem team

Agile team

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1 At the conclusion of each iteration, the Release Train Engineer (RTE) will participate in several reviews and status meetings to talk about the ART's development. In what ways may the RTE control expectations?