SASM SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master Dumps Questions

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SASM SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master exam information is helpful for you to study. There are 60 questions in a real SASM exam, and you have 120 minutes to answer all the questions. The required passing score for the Scrum SASM exam is 70% (answer 44 of 60 correctly). The available language is English. We provide the latest SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master SASM exam dumps questions, which are valuable in the preparation. Free Scrum certification SASM exam dumps questions are below.

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1. SAFe is based on four primary bodies of knowledge which include Agile development, systems thinking, DevOps, and what type of product development?

Iterative product development

Adaptive product development

Lean product development

Incremental product development

2. What are three distinct traits a group must have to be considered a Community of Practice? (Choose three.)

Time

Domain

Resources

Practice

Location

Community

3. What does a Scrum Master support in order to help the team improve and take responsibility for their actions?

Increasing Quality practices

A team's efforts in relentless improvement

Building a high-performing team

Invest in architectural runway

4. What goes into the Portfolio Backlog?

Capabilities

Epics

Projects

Strategic Themes

5. What is the purpose of the retrospective held during an Inspect and Adapt event?

To learn from PI Planning outcomes

To review how value flows through the Agile Release Train

To identify the issues to address during the problem-solving workshop

To identify improvement Story candidates

6. During Iteration Planning, the Product Owner (PO) introduces a new Story to the team. They cannot come to a consensus on the size of the new Story and ask the PO for more details. After a lot of discussion, multiple dependencies with other teams emerge, so the team decides to leave the Story in the Team Backlog and not commit. Is the scenario portraying an anti-pattern?

No; the team left the Story in the Team Backlog for further refinement with the PO

Yes; the PO should not be in the Iteration Planning meeting

Yes; the team identified multiple dependencies with other teams

No; the PO provided details on the Story

7. What improves collaboration between Scrum Masters and System Architects, System Teams, and Operations?

Architectural Runway

Lean Budgets

The program predictability measure

Program Kanban

8. Why are SAFe Scrum Masters challenged differently in an Enterprise?

Scrum Masters might become RTEs at some point

The team is affected by teams and stakeholders beyond their control

Portfolio budgets require accounting knowledge

Teams in large Enterprises take longer to transition from storming to forming

9. How does work flow from one state to the next in a team Kanban board?

During the daily stand-up, team members make decisions and discuss how to move the work

People working in the first state move the work to the next state

Team members pull work from the previous state when they can do so without impacting their current state WIP constraint

The Scrum Master moves the work from one state to the next to ensure ongoing progress within the team

10. One state on the team Kanban board has people waiting while the previous stage is overloaded.

What should the Scrum Master consider doing?

Call for a Team and Technical Agility self-assessment so that the team agrees on improvement actions

Ask the team to redesign the board

Encourage and coach the people in the under-utilized stage to help with the work of the overloaded stage

Request more people on the team to help with the overloaded stage in order to generate work faster for the waiting stage

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11. One of the Scrum Master's main responsibilities is to communicate with management and outside stakeholders to help the team in what way?

Protect them from uncontrolled addition of work

Split bigger work items where necessary

Manage the team backlog

Accept Stories

12. How can Product Management leverage market rhythms?

Improve the prioritization of Features

Improve the scheduling of Program Increment Planning

Adjust the delivery of Features to better meet market needs

13. At the System Demo, each team demonstrates their own work, but the system is not integrated. They say they underestimated the integration effort and cannot integrate every Iteration and also meet the planned scope.

What should the Scrum Master suggest?

Discuss removing scope with Product Management to allow for Continuous Integration

Defer integration until the train is in the accelerate step of the Implementation Roadmap

Stop the train and go back to waterfall until integrations can occur

Integrate the system during the IP Iteration

14. What is a common reason why a team is unable to estimate a story?

The team does not understand the tasks related to the story

The story does not include a role

The story lacks acceptance criteria

The team has no experience in estimating

15. What is the purpose of the fishbone diagram?

To brainstorm solutions to problems

To identify improvement backlog items

To identify potential root causes to problems

To identify the biggest root cause

16. During Iteration Review, the team decides to carry forward three Stories to the next lteration. This is the second time during this Pl that some of the team’s Stories are carried over.

What are two actions the Scrum Master should take? (Choose two.)

Discuss the issue at the lteration Retrospective

Take no action and trust the team because they assure you that they are still on track for the PI

Coach the team that moving Stories from Iteration to Iteration is not a problem

See if the Product Owner agrees to moving the Stories into the next Iteration

Perform the 5 Whys to find the root cause of the delays

17. Becoming a coach requires a shift from old behaviors to new ones.

What are three examples of old behaviors? (Choose three.)

Focusing on deadlines

Facilitating team problem solving

Asking the team for the answers

Fixing problems for the team

Focusing on business value delivery

Driving toward specific outcomes

18. Which demo is performed in the IP Iteration?

The PI System Demo

The demo from all the Agile Release Trains' Iterations

The demo from the teams' final Iterations

The integrated demo from the Agile Release Train's final lteration

19. What is the first step in the problem-solving workshop?

Agree on the problem to solve

Create a summary report for leadership and management

Record all brainstorming ideas

Identify the root causes of possible problems

20. What are two characteristics of teams that fear conflict? (Choose two.)

They fail to tap into all the opinions and perspectives of team members

They ignore controversial topics that are critical to team success

They avoid pair work

They have longer meetings

They do not focus on results

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21. Which of the following should always attend an Agile Team's Iteration Review?

The Release Train Engineer

All Business Owners

The team's Product Owner

22. How are the program risks, that have been identified during Pl Planning, categorized?

Resolved, Owned, Accepted, Mitigated

Resolved, Owned, Acknowledged, Managed

Removed, Owned, Accepted, Managed

Removed, Owned, Acknowledged, Mitigated

23. Which two Framework elements would a Scrum Master have the strongest connection and most frequent interaction? (Choose two.)

Systems Team

Release Train Engineer

Product Owner

Business Owners

Epic Owner

24. What is one example of a servant leader behavior pattern?

Thinks about the day-to-day activities

Understands and empathizes with others

Uses authority rather than persuasion when necessary

Focuses on individual task Metrics

25. What are the responsibilities of a SAFe Scrum Master on an ART that go beyond basic team facilitation? (Choose three.)

Prioritize the Program Backlog

Facilitate team preparation for Pl Planning

Write and estimate Features

Facilitate preparation for the System Demo

Manage daily stand-up meetings

Participate in the scrum of scrums

26. A Scrum Master is asked to help an Agile Release Train that has struggled through multiple Pls. They just finished the second Iteration in the current Pl and have nothing to show at the System Demo. The ART stakeholders are concerned.

What should be done?

Have every team demonstrate their team increment to the stakeholders separately in the team branch

Find a vendor that specializes in integrating system increments from multiple teams

Stop working on any new functionality and fully integrate and test the system; adjust scope based on what is learned

Re-architect the system so that there are no dependencies between the teams; integration is not required at this time

27. What are two common PI Planning anti-patterns? (Choose two.)

Stories are created for the Iterations

The team decides which changes need to happen and when

Too much time is spent prioritizing Features

Too much time is spent analyzing each Story

Scrum Masters who work with multiple teams do not have time for their teams

28. What is one characteristic of an effective Agile Team?

To collaborate and discuss components

To make the process Visible to the Business Owners

To provide steady, high quality, incremental value

To concentrate and deliver the product scope

29. What is an input to the Program Increment Planning process that highlights how Product Management plans to accomplish the Vision?

Top ten Features

Program board

Business context

30. How do Business Owners quantify the value of Pl Objectives?

By calculating earned value (EV)

By assigning business value scores

By forecasting return on investment (ROI)

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31. Inspect and Adapt events occur at which two SAFe levels? (Choose two.)

Value Stream Level

Essential Level

Team Level

Portfolio Level

Large Solution Level

32. How might a Product Owner support a Continuous Delivery Pipeline that fully automates deployments with no manual compliance steps?

Write Feature toggles to control which Stories are released

Identify Stories that are cleared for automatic delivery during Iteration Planning

Review and accept Stories as they are completed

33. Which statement is true about teams?

Changes in team composition do not impact productivity

Teams are more productive than the same number of individuals

Agile Teams can manage daily interruptions

Products are more robust when individuals on teams have specific skill sets

34. What are two Release Train Engineer responsibilities? (Choose two.)

Build an effective Product Owner/Product Management team

Understand Customer needs; validate Solutions

Manage and prioritize the flow of work to the ART

Facilitate Pl Planning readiness and the event itself

Drive relentless improvement through Inspect and Adapt

35. What is a Product Owner (PO) anti-pattern in Iteration planning?

The PO changes priorities of the already refined intent

The PO brings in changes to the planned Features based on stakeholder feedback from the System Demo

The PO introduces the business intent to the team for the first time

The PO asks the team for recommendations on Story slicing

36. A team consistently receives defect reports from production even though each Story is thoroughly tested.

What is the first step to solve this problem?

Ensure that development and testing environments are equivalent to production

Instantiate a strict definition of done

Create a story dependency with the systems team to collaborate on deployment

Invest in better Story and unit-test automation

37. When should centralized decision-making be used?

When there are significant economies of scale

When making frequent decisions

When decisions need specific local context

When decisions are short-term in duration

38. When is collaboration with System Architects and the Systems Team likely to have the greatest impact on Solution development?

At the System Demo

At the Inspect and Adapt event

During the daily stand-up

During Pl Planning

39. How does a Scrum Master lead a team's efforts in relentless improvement?

By eliminating impediments

By focusing on the Iteration goals

By facilitating the Iteration Retrospective

By facilitating a team meeting

40. What are two outputs of Iteration Planning? (Choose two.)

Program Backlog

Iteration goals

Iteration backlog

PI Objectives

Team Backlog

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41. What is the most effective way to establish Built-in Quality?

Test each release more thoroughly

Test more in production

Run performance testing as well as the testing of other nonfunctional requirements every IP lteration

Perform as many types of testing within the lteration boundaries as possible

42. What are three opportunities for creating collaboration on a team? (Choose three.)

Backlog refinement

iteration planning

Pair work

Hackathons

Communities of Practice

Inspect and Adapt

43. What is the purpose of the Large Solution Level in SAFe?

To effectively operate in a highly regulated environment

To coordinate the work of multiple Agile Teams

To identify and eliminate waste in the process

To coordinate multiple Agile Release Trains that develop the same Solution

44. Which pillar of the SAFe House of Lean supports building long-term partnerships based on trust?

Flow

Respect for People and Culture

Lean-Agile Leadership

Innovation

45. What is one way a Scrum Master can gain the confidence of a stakeholder?

Invite the stakeholder to the Iteration retrospective

Make the process visible

Make sure the results of the retrospectives are made public

Establish a daily sync meeting with the stakeholder

46. Which statement is true about the SAFe backlog model?

Capabilities are in the Program Backlog

Features are in the Program Backlog

Stories are in the Solution Backlog

47. What should be the first step a team should take to feed potential problems into the Problem Solving workshop?

Review feedback from the System Demo

Identify enablers needed to build out the Architectural Runway

Conduct a short team retrospective

Analyze quantitative & qualitative metrics

48. What is the primary measurement during Inspect and Adapt?

Number of automated tests

Number of Features delivered

Team NPS score

Program predictability measure

49. What is a strategy a Product Owner can use during Program Increment Planning to minimize dependencies?

Change the definition of done

Move Stories on their team's backlog to another team

Reprioritize Epics

50. What are two examples of tasking anti-patterns? (Choose two.)

Team members are swarming on Stories

The team focuses on task completion over Story completion and acceptance criteria

The team only completes a story after all its tasks are completed

The team focuses on Story completion and acceptance criteria over task completion

The team provides updates only on tasks during the daily stand-up

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51. What happens to improvement items identified during the Iteration Retrospective?

They are ROAMed with the rest of the risks

They are given to the Scrum Master who resolves them

They are entered as Stories in the Team Backlog

52. What is the main reason why some teams never reach Stage 4 (Performing) in the stages of high performing teams?

Because no one guides them

Because the team is not structured correctly

Because leadership is spontaneous

Because there are conflicts

53. What does transparency mean in a scrum environment?

The process is visible to all stakeholders

Development and Operations teams work together

The team is constantly improving its process

Team members must immediately share any and all feedback with each other

54. Who participates in the Inspect and Adapt event?

Only Product Management and Product Owners

Only Release and Solution Train Engineers

The entire Agile Release Train

Only stakeholders and Agile Team members

55. An organization is conducting their first Program Increment Planning session, and the new teams are asked to provide their capacity.

Which action is part of the initial capacity planning process?

Compare final team capacity across all teams and make individual team adjustments

Subtract one point for every team member's vacation day, public holiday, or training day

Add the points for all the recently completed Features and use that as a baseline for future capacity

56. When is iteration planning completed?

When iteration goals are defined

When story analysis is complete

When the team commits to the plan

When the team capacity is determined

57. What is one way Kanbans are used in SAFe?

To manage queue length

To manage runway cadence

To manage Program Increment (Pl) Objectives

SASM SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master Dumps Questions

SASM SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master Dumps Questions

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