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Leading SAFe 5.0 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED (2025/2026) (VERIFIED ANSWERS), Exams of Quality Management

Purdue UniversityQuality Management

SAFe stands for? - ANSWER-Scaled Agile Framework enterprise HIP stands for? - ANSWER-Hardening, Innovation, Planning (Test) What drives the upper limit to 125? - ANSWER-Dunbar's Number: Maintain stable social relationships (Test) Why do we want to organize around Value? - ANSWER-Fewer handoffs, drive alignment, easier to build in quality, optimize the whole system Operational Value Stream is? - ANSWER-Used to deliver end customer value (Test) Development Value Stream means? - ANSWER-Development of Systems & Capabilities that enable the operational value streams (Test) Where do we start to ID Multiple Value Streams? - ANSWER-4 Dimensions? Significant Opportunity, Clear products/solutions, Leadership support, Collaborating Teams. (Test) 3 things to Motivate? - ANSWER-1. Autonomy

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SAFe 5.0
Leading SAFe 5.0 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS UPDATED (2025/2026) (VERIFIED
ANSWERS)
SAFe stands for? - ANSWER-Scaled Agile Framework enterprise
HIP stands for? - ANSWER-Hardening, Innovation, Planning
(Test) What drives the upper limit to 125? - ANSWER-Dunbar's Number: Maintain
stable social relationships
(Test) Why do we want to organize around Value? - ANSWER-Fewer handoffs, drive
alignment, easier to build in quality, optimize the whole system
Operational Value Stream is? - ANSWER-Used to deliver end customer value
(Test) Development Value Stream means? - ANSWER-Development of Systems &
Capabilities that enable the operational value streams
(Test) Where do we start to ID Multiple Value Streams? - ANSWER-4 Dimensions?
Significant Opportunity, Clear products/solutions, Leadership support, Collaborating
Teams.
(Test) 3 things to Motivate? - ANSWER-1. Autonomy
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Mastery
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Purpose
Responsibilities SPCs can take on to drive? Why? - ANSWER-Communication, Form
the team, Teach leaders & stakeholders, Train the Teams, Launch ARTs, Coach ARTs,
Scale wins. Why? Connect the dots in the enterprise.
(Test) Taking the Leading SAFe training is a? Know other training for different
resources. - ANSWER-Key thing to get Leadership buy-in.
(Test) Energy we want a team to develop? - ANSWER-Ba
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Fuel of Ba is it's self-organizing nature
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Ba is energized with intentions, vision, interest, & mission
Knowledge Worker? - ANSWER-Know more about the work they perform than their
boss
(Test) Management Styles (3 types) - ANSWER-Expert, Conductor, Developer
Responsibility Trap - ANSWER-Leader has to know everything
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Leading SAFe 5.0 EXAM QUESTIONS AND

ANSWERS UPDATED (202 5 /202 6 ) (VERIFIED

ANSWERS)

SAFe stands for? - ANSWER-Scaled Agile Framework enterprise HIP stands for? - ANSWER-Hardening, Innovation, Planning (Test) What drives the upper limit to 125? - ANSWER-Dunbar's Number: Maintain stable social relationships (Test) Why do we want to organize around Value? - ANSWER-Fewer handoffs, drive alignment, easier to build in quality, optimize the whole system Operational Value Stream is? - ANSWER-Used to deliver end customer value (Test) Development Value Stream means? - ANSWER-Development of Systems & Capabilities that enable the operational value streams (Test) Where do we start to ID Multiple Value Streams? - ANSWER-4 Dimensions? Significant Opportunity, Clear products/solutions, Leadership support, Collaborating Teams. (Test) 3 things to Motivate? - ANSWER-1. Autonomy

  1. Mastery
  2. Purpose Responsibilities SPCs can take on to drive? Why? - ANSWER-Communication, Form the team, Teach leaders & stakeholders, Train the Teams, Launch ARTs, Coach ARTs, Scale wins. Why? Connect the dots in the enterprise. (Test) Taking the Leading SAFe training is a? Know other training for different resources. - ANSWER-Key thing to get Leadership buy-in. (Test) Energy we want a team to develop? - ANSWER-Ba
  • Fuel of Ba is it's self-organizing nature
  • Ba is energized with intentions, vision, interest, & mission Knowledge Worker? - ANSWER-Know more about the work they perform than their boss (Test) Management Styles (3 types) - ANSWER-Expert, Conductor, Developer Responsibility Trap - ANSWER-Leader has to know everything

Value Stream is a? - ANSWER-Fundamental thinking construct in Lean (Test) Scrum includes a? - ANSWER-Cross-Functional Team of 5 - 9 people Scrum Master (ATF) does what 3 things? - ANSWER-Facilitate Issues, Risks, & Dependencies (Test) Product Owner does what 2 things? - ANSWER-Prioritize Backlog & Accepts Work (Test) 4 Core Values of SAFe - ANSWER-1. Built In Quality

  1. Program Execution
  2. Alignment
  3. Transparency PI (Program Increment) is over when? - ANSWER-When the Time ends Features happen within? - ANSWER-A Program Increment (Test) Spanning Pallet is? - ANSWER-Support functions, Metrics, Milestones, Roadmap, Vision, etc. (Test) RTE (Release Train Engineer) - ANSWER-Facilitator of the Train System Architect - ANSWER-Technical Content Owner (Test) Product Management - ANSWER-Business Content Owner No RTE or VSE at what Level? - ANSWER-Portfolio No Time-Box at what Level? - ANSWER-Portfolio Business Results (4 Areas) - ANSWER-1. Engagement
  4. Time to market
  5. Quality
  6. Productivity 8 Big Mistakes of Change - ANSWER-1. Complacency
  7. No guiding coalition
  8. Underestimate power of vision
  9. Not communication vision
  10. Permitting obstacles
  11. Not creating short-term wins
  12. Declaring victory to soon
  13. Not anchoring changes in the corporate culture

(Test) House of Lean: Relentless Improvement means? - ANSWER-Constant sense of danger, optimize the whole, consider facts quickly then act quickly, apply lean tools, reflect at key milestones. (Test) House of Lean: LEADERSHIP (the Base) means? - ANSWER-Lead the change, know the way, develop people, inspire & align w/mission, decentralize decision making, unlock intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers. PRINCIPLE #1: Take an Economic View means? - ANSWER-Two Lean-Agile practices: to deliver incrementally, early, and often, and to apply a comprehensive economic framework 5 "key" things when considering Economics? - ANSWER-1. Sequence jobs for max benefit

  1. Do not consider Money already spent
  2. Make economic choices continuously
  3. Empower local decision making
  4. Quantify the Cost of Delay Agile Manifesto: 12 areas - ANSWER-1. satisfy customer, 2. welcome change, 3. deliver frequently, 4. work together, 5. build around motivated people, 6. face-to-face conversation, 7. working software measures progress, 8. sustainable development, 9. technical excellence, 10. simplicity, 11. self-organized teams, 12. reflect & adjust. SAFe Lean-Agile Principles (10 total) - ANSWER-1.- Take an economic view. 2.- Apply systems thinking. 3.- Assume variability; preserve options. 4.- Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles. 5.- Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems. 6.- Visualize and limit Work In Process (WIP), reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths. 7.- Apply cadence; synchronize with cross-domain planning. 8.- Unlock the motivation of knowledge workers. 9.- Decentralize decision-making. 10.- Organize around value. PRINCIPLE #2: Apply Systems Thinking says? - ANSWER-In SAFe, systems thinking is applied to the solution being developed, and the organization that builds the system. ** The Solution Is a System
  • Team members should clearly understand the boundaries of the system
  • Optimizing a solution component does not optimize the system as a whole.
  • The value of a system passes through its interconnections.
  • A system can evolve no faster than its slowest integration point. ** The Enterprise Building the System Is a System, Too

** Understand and Optimize the Full Value Stream (Test) Base decisions on Economics includes 5 things? - ANSWER-Parameter Tradeoffs:

  1. Cycle Time
  2. Product Cost
  3. Value
  4. Development Expense
  5. Risk (Test) Principle#3: Assume Variability & Preserve Options means? Know more about it.
  • ANSWER-Defer commitment to the last possible moment Traditional design and life-cycle practices encourage choosing a single design-and- requirements option too early in the development process. Unfortunately, if that starting point proves to be the wrong choice, then future adjustments take too long and can lead to a suboptimal outcome. Set Based Design (Agile) means? - ANSWER-Multiple Choice Design options Point Based Design (waterfall) means? - ANSWER-Single Design Option Set an Integration-based Point means? - ANSWER-Lean machine to ensure components are coming together Economics based decisions (5 things) are? - ANSWER-1. Sequence jobs for Max. benefit
  1. Don't consider money already spent
  2. Make Economic choices continuously
  3. Empower Local decision making
  4. Quantify cost of Delay How should we measure progress? - ANSWER-1. Base working systems
  5. Objective evaluations System Thinking has 3 things? - ANSWER-1. Solution itself is a system
  6. The Enterprise building the system is a system
  7. Optimize the full value stream (Test) Assume Variability; Preserve Options includes what 5 things? - ANSWER-1. Can't know everything
  8. Requirements must be flexible
  9. Decision must be flexible
  10. Preserve options
  11. Improve economic results
  1. Accelerates Feedback
  2. Reduces rework
  3. Lowers cost It probably saves twice what you think. (Test) Un-Deployed software increases what? - ANSWER-Holding Cost Manage Queue Lengths has what 4 things? - ANSWER-1. Epics (Portfolio Backlog)
  4. Capabilities (Value Stream Backlog)
  5. Features (Program Backlog)
  6. Stories (Team Backlog)
  • Refinement is down and across all 4 above. (Test) Little's Law - ANSWER-Wq = Lq y (up-side down)
  1. Avg Wait time = Avg queue length/Avg processing rate
  • Faster processing time decreases wait
  • Control wait times by controlling queue lengths (Test) Long Queues create what 5 things? - ANSWER-1. Longer Cycle times
  1. Increased Risk
  2. More Variability
  3. Lower Quality
  4. Less Motivation (Test) 2 mechanisms to measure Value between teams? - ANSWER-1. Delivering on a Cadence
  5. Design cycles must be Synchronized (Test) Cadence does what 6 things? - ANSWER-1. Creates predictable events
  6. Lowers Cost
  7. Regular Planning & Coordination
  8. Limits Batch Size to Single Interval
  9. Limits new work and makes it predictable
  10. Provides scheduled integration points (Test) Synchronization does what 5 things? - ANSWER-1. Causes multiple events to happen at same time
  11. Cross-Functional tradeoffs
  12. Routine Dependency Mgt
  13. Supports full system, Integration, & Assessment
  14. Provides Multiple Feedback perspectives You Control Variability within a? - ANSWER-Framework

(Test) De-Centralize Decision Making defines what? - ANSWER-Define the economic logic behind a decision; empower others to actually make them (Test) Centralized decision making includes what 3 things? - ANSWER-1. Infrequent

  1. Long Lasting
  2. Significant economies of scale (Test) De-Centralized decision making includes what 3 things? - ANSWER-1. Frequent & common (ex: team & program backlog)
  3. Time Critical (ex: point release to customer)
  4. Require local information (ex: Feature criteria) (Test) Agile Release Trains deliver what? - ANSWER-Solutions (Test) Agile Release Train includes what? - ANSWER-1. Virtual organization of 5 - 12 teams (50-125pp)
  5. Program Increment (PI) is a fixed timebox (10 wks avg)
  6. Synchronized Iterations & PIs
  7. Aligned to a common mission via Single Program Backlog
  8. Operates under architectural & UX guidance
  9. Frequently produces valuable & evaluable system-level solutions Value doesn't follow what? - ANSWER-Silos - Mgt challenge is to connect the silos. Problems with Silos:
  10. Optimized for vertical communication
  11. Friction across silos
  12. Location via function
  13. Political boundaries between functions (Test) Cross-Functional Teams do what 3 things? - ANSWER-1. Define, Build and Test a feature or component (DBT)
  14. Optimize Communication & Value delivery
  15. Deliver every 2 weeks (Test) 3 SCRUM roles are? - ANSWER-1. Scrum Master
  16. Product Owner
  17. Agile Team (Test) A Team can be organized around what 2 things? - ANSWER-1. Features
  18. Components
  • Optimize for the larger purpose: Maximize velocity by minimizing dependencies and handoffs, while sustaining architectural robustness & system qualities.
  • Less desirable to organize a team around:
  1. Architectural layer
  2. Platform, middleware, UI, DB, business logic

Outputs of the SAFe process are? - ANSWER-1. Objectives - team is comfortable to complete

  1. Stretch Objectives - team is not comfortable to complete (Test) Sprint Goals do what? - ANSWER-1. Communication Vehicle
  2. Team Focus
  3. What is planned to accomplish in a PI (Test) Features are described by? - ANSWER-1. Teams on the train deliver
  4. Implemented incrementally via Stories
  5. Deliver stories on a regular Cadence
  6. Features fit into 1 PI for 1 ART
  7. Stories fit into 1 Iteration for 1 Team (Test) Team Backlog does/includes what? - ANSWER-1. Organizes the Team's work
  8. All Things
  9. Opportunities (Not Commitments)
  10. May be Estimated
  11. Single Owner - Product Owner
  12. Driven by Program Priorities (Test) Backlog contains User Stories which are? - ANSWER-1. Small increments of Value
  13. Easy to estimate
  14. Just in time
  15. No large documents
  16. May be safely discarded after implementation (Test) Enabler Stories support what? - ANSWER-Value (Test - exactly) Enablers support 3 types of work? - ANSWER-1. Exploration
  17. Architecture
  18. Infrastructure
  • Enabler Stories get Points & Demo (Test) Estimate Stories w/relative story points based on? - ANSWER-1. Volume
  1. Complexity
  2. Knowledge
  3. Uncertainty (Test) Estimating / Planning Poker. when is it used and for what type of planning/estimating? - ANSWER-Fibanache numbers Estimation is done by the? - ANSWER-Whole Team
  4. Increases Accuracy
  5. Builds Understanding
  1. Creates Shared Commitment (Test) The Business Owner provides what? - ANSWER-Business Context Business Context SWOT stands for? - ANSWER-1. Strengths
  2. Weaknesses
  3. Opportunities
  4. Threats
  • Presented by the Executive (Test) Vision is presented by the? Who Owns the Vision? - ANSWER-Product Manager (Test) Features & Feature Descriptions (Referenced only) are presented by the? - ANSWER-Product Manager Architecture and UX briefing are presented by the? - ANSWER-System Architect (Test) Stretch Objectives means? - ANSWER-1. Don't count in Velocity/Capacity
  1. Are Planned
  2. Not Committed too
  3. Team has Low Confidence to complete, encourage moving to Stretch.
  • If any items has many unknowns, move it to Stretch & put it in early Spikes (Test) Management Review & Problem Solving asks what? - ANSWER-Mgt meets to make adjustments to Scope & Objectives:
  1. What did we just learn
  2. Where do we need to adjust Vision, Scope, Resources
  3. Where are the Bottlenecks
  4. What Features must be De-Scoped
  5. What Decisions must we make quickly Planning Adjustments from previous day's Mgt Review & Problem Solving mtg may include what? - ANSWER-Possible Changes:
  6. Business Priorities
  7. Adjustment to Plan
  8. Changes to Scope
  9. Movement of People (Test) The Program Board includes what 3 things? - ANSWER-1. Feature Delivery
  10. Dependencies
  11. Milestones
  • Use in Scrum of Scrums
  • Can have Feature to Feature dependencies Final Plan Review is done by who? - ANSWER-1. Teams
  1. Business Owners
  • Show Releases Forecast provides what 2 things? - ANSWER-1. Where you are Heading
  1. What you are Planning Objectives represent what? - ANSWER-A set of Features you are Planning to do (Test) Backlog is? - ANSWER-Prioritized but not Committed (Test) Features are? - ANSWER-1. Identified
  2. Prioritized
  3. Estimated
  4. Maintained in Program Backlog Features fit in to? - ANSWER-A single PI (Program Increment) Features have 2 things? - ANSWER-1. Benefits (Justify cost & Business benefit)
  5. Acceptance Criteria Value Stream definition? - ANSWER-Includes people, tools, etc. to deliver from Concept to Value T/F: There is one instance of SAFe at the Enterprise? - ANSWER-False T/F: 1 release train could support multiple Value Streams? - ANSWER-True (Test) A Portfolio Epic does what? Need more detail - ANSWER-- Cuts across Value Streams
  • Delivers Value (Test) A Value Stream Epic is with in a? Need more detail - ANSWER-Is within a Value Stream (Test) A Program Epic is within? Need more detail - ANSWER- 1 PI Capabilities do what 2 things? - ANSWER-1. Cut across Release Trains
  1. Fit into 1 PI (Test) Epics get approved via? Who approves and what happens following approval? - ANSWER-Portfolio Kanban System
  • Approved Epics form the Portfolio Backlog.
  • Portfolio Epics cut across trains
  • Program Epics can implemented in a single train
  • Business Epics are customer facing
  • Enabler Epics enable solutions to address Business needs
  • Developed & Analyzed in the Portfolio Kanban system

(Test) What are the 7 states of Kanban? Need to know more of each of the 7 states. - ANSWER-1. Funnel (All big ideas welcome)

  1. Review (Epic Value Statement & calculate WSJF)
  2. Analysis (light weight business case for ROI)
    • Go/No Go Decision
  3. Portfolio Backlog (Epics approved by PPM)
  4. Implementation
  5. Done (Epic criteria met) Difference between funding in SAFe and Non-SAFe environments? - ANSWER-1. SAFe = Fund Value Stream
  6. Non-SAFe = Fund Project System Teams support at what Level? - ANSWER-Team Level A Product Manager can support? - ANSWER- 2 - 4 Product Owners A Product Owner can support? - ANSWER- 1 - 2 Teams (Test) A Tool to get teams to a Commitment? Know more about Stretch Objectives. - ANSWER-Stretch Objectives (Test) WSJF stands for? Know the need for it at each level and who uses it and for what decisions. - ANSWER-Weighted Shortest Job First WSJF = CoD Job Size User Business Value + Time Criticality + RR/OE Value Job Size Last step in Sprint Planning? - ANSWER-Commitment XP Practices include? - ANSWER-Software:
  7. Test First
  8. Continuous Integration
  9. Pair Work
  10. Refactoring
  11. Selective Ownership Hardware:
  12. Co-Location
  13. Set Based Design
  14. Design Verification 2 types of Agile Architecture - ANSWER-1. Emergent Architecture
  15. Intentional Architecture

(Test) The Solution is Built at what SAFe Level? - ANSWER-Value Stream Level

  • A Solution is uniquely associated with one Value Stream. The Purpose of Solution Intent? - ANSWER-1. Track History to hand-off
  1. All parties are aligned
  2. Compliance & Traceability
  3. Single Source of Truth (Test) Fixed and Variable Intent is done with? Know more about enablers. - ANSWER- Enablers What are the 2 types of Customers? - ANSWER-Direct (customer that will directly use the solution) In-Direct (The Solution builder is the Proxy) (Test) Value Stream Alignment at the PI Level via what 2 things? Who attends each meeting? - ANSWER-Pre & Post PI Meetings
  • Pre-Meeting builds an aligned plan for the next PI & match solution demand to ART capabilities. Output: Set of features for every ART; Updates ART Visions.
  • Post-Meeting reviews, recaps, communicates, and provides feedback. Output: Value Stream PI Objectives; Adjust for ART plans; Value Stream Roadmap updates. How do you Represent and Model Suppliers? - ANSWER-On a Separate Release Train Who drives the Interim Solution Demo? - ANSWER-System Team (Test) 3 components of Cost of Delay? - ANSWER-1. User and Business Value (User)
  • Value to the customer or business (preference, Revenue Impact, Penalty or other negative impacts)
  1. Time Criticality (User)
  • User/Business Value decays over time (fixed deadline, will wait or move to another solution, current effect on customer satisfaction)
  1. (RR&OE)Risk Reduction & Opportunity Enablement (Producer)
  • What else does this do for our business (Reduce risk of this or future delivery, is there value in the info. we will receive, enable new bus. opportunities) (Test) WSJF Stakeholders are? - ANSWER-1. Business Owners
  1. Product Managers
  2. Product Owners
  3. System Architects (job size)
  • The job with the Highest WSJF provides the greatest economic benefit. (Test) Is Job Size always a good proxy for duration? - ANSWER-No, not the case when resources are limited

MVP - ANSWER-Minimum Viable Product Plan & Commit has 4 steps? - ANSWER-1. Purpose (Define & commit what will be built in the iteration

  1. Process (Product Owner defines What; Team defines how & how much)
  2. Result (Iteration goals & backlog of the Team's commitment)
  3. Reciprocal Commitment (team commits to delivering specific priorities; Business commits to leaving priorities unchanged during the Iteration) MBSE - ANSWER-Model Based Systems Engineering (Test) Emergent Design - ANSWER-Teams grow the system design as user stories require. (Test) Intentional Architecture does what? - ANSWER-Fosters team alignment and defines Architectural runway Architectural Runway means? - ANSWER-Existing code, hardware components, etc. that technically enable near-term business features.
  4. Enablers build up the runaway
  5. Features consume it
  6. Must be continuously maintained
  7. Use capacity (Kanban) allocation for Enablers that extend the runway. TDD stands for? - ANSWER-Test Driven Development (Test) Use Kanban to improve flow by? - ANSWER-1. Visualize Workflow (ready states help show bottlenecks)
  8. Establish WIP Limits
  9. Use Buffers to control Variability
  10. Apply classes of service to improve responsiveness
  11. Measure flow with Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD)
  12. Continuously improve based on empirical flow data Flow:
  • Team Backlog
  • Analyze
  • Subject Matter Expert
  • Build
  • Integrate & Test
  • Accepted (Test) ART Sync includes what 2 parts? Who owns each Sync meeting and what are the outcomes? - ANSWER-Scrum of Scrums & PO Sync
  • Scrum of Scrums: Visibility into progress & impediments; Facilitated by RTE; Participants are Scrum masters, other select team members, SMEs in needed; Weekly or more frequently (30-60 min); Time boxed followed by meet after.

What are SMART goals? - ANSWER-Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Time Bound When would you use Kanban & Scrum together? - ANSWER-1. Scrum is the best choice for new features

  1. Kanban for small changes and defect resolution
  2. Produces a sense of continuous product "flow" with frequent delivery.
  • Visualize & Limit WIP; Reduce Batch Size; Manage Queue Lengths. (Test) Choose all that apply: Which of the following is true about spikes? - ANSWER-a. They are useful b. We should reserve time for them during PSI Planning c. They fill out architectural features d. The are created in technical stories and refactors. T/F: Design must be grown incrementally by the enterprise architect? - ANSWER-False (Test) Where are Buffers build into SAFe? Know more about Buffers. - ANSWER-1. Stretch Goals
  1. HIP Sprints Which of the following are not a principle of agile architecture? - ANSWER-a. When in doubt, code or model it out b. Build the simplest architecture that can work c. The bigger the system, the longer the runway d. All of the above are principles T/F: Architecture is the sole domain of the System Architects? - ANSWER-False T/F: Architecture is SAFe covers only the program and team levels? - ANSWER-False Choose one: Which of the following is not true of the principle of Respect for People? - ANSWER-a. Empower only managers b. Develop people and teams c. Build partnerships T/F: Complexity of large software makes centralized decision-making highly inefficient?
  • ANSWER-True (Test) What is the goal of Lean Thinking? - ANSWER-a. speed, value, product development flow b. speed, quality, value

c. agility, speed quality (Test) Which of the following things enable Design Simplicity? - ANSWER-a. keep the model close to the domain b. follow design principles (open/close single responsibility) c. Continuous refactoring d. all of the above T/F: Emergent design is enough to scale software? - ANSWER-False Which meetings can architects attend? - ANSWER-a. backlog refinement mtgs b. sprint planning mtgs c. demo mtgs (Test) According to Kaizen, we should become relentless in: - ANSWER-a. reflection b. developing people c. creating the sustainably shortest lead time d. continuous improvement (Test) Which of the following are principles of agile architecture? - ANSWER-a. Architecture emerges b. Implement design patterns c. They build it, they test it d. There is a monopoly on innovation d. All of the above Choose one: Which is not a part of the house of lean? - ANSWER-a. value b. respect for people c. longest lead time d. kaizen T/F: Architectural features do not fit into a PI? - ANSWER-False, they do fit into 1 PI T/F: User stories are prescribed by Scrum? - ANSWER-False - Scrum has no prescribed design or requirements format. What are inputs for Iteration Planning? - ANSWER-a. Feedback from the prior sprint b. The teams PI plan backlog, which consists of stories that were planned during release planning c. Feedback from the System Demo, which will have occurred sometime during the prior sprint d. All of the above e. None of the above In the Iteration Planning, if there are more stories on the team backlog than the teams capacity allows? - ANSWER-a. the scrum master orders the pizzas