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SAFe SSM practice questions: Supporting ART Events
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1/5 · Supporting ART Events · easy
Which statement best describes the purpose and typical participants of the PO Sync?
AA once-per-PI meeting where Business Owners individually score every team's velocity and use those scores to re-rank the business value of the teams' committed PI Objectives.
BA regular meeting where Scrum Masters/Team Coaches discuss cross-team impediments and dependencies with the RTE to keep the ART's teams aligned and on schedule.
CA recurring meeting where Scrum Masters and System Architects resolve team-level technical debt and agree on refactoring priorities across the ART's shared codebase.
DA short, regular meeting, typically led by Product Management and System Architects, where Product Owners align on PI Objective progress, dependencies, and scope adjustments.
2/5 · Supporting ART Events
Which combination BEST describes the intended purposes of the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration in a Program Increment?
AIt is a Hardening and Stabilization Iteration reserved for QA to fix the PI's defects before release, with innovation deferred until after the next PI Planning.
BIt provides time for innovation, exploration, hackathons, PI Planning preparation, and the Inspect and Adapt event, and also serves as an estimating buffer.
CIt is a planned break between Program Increments, when teams take time off and innovation and exploration wait for the next PI's Iterations.
DIt provides time for innovation, hackathons and PI Planning prep, while Inspect and Adapt moves to the next PI's first Iteration.
3/5 · Supporting ART Events · hard
Midway through a PI, a Scrum Master/Team Coach discovers that a cross-team dependency impediment cannot be resolved within their own team and requires a decision affecting two other teams' priorities. What is the MOST appropriate course of action, consistent with SAFe's approach to coaching the ART?
ARaise the impediment through the ART sync (e.g., Coach Sync) and, if needed, engage the RTE, who facilitates cross-team dependency resolution at the ART level.
BIgnore the impediment since it does not solely belong to the Scrum Master/Team Coach's own team, and let each affected team discover and resolve it independently.
CThe Scrum Master/Team Coach directly instructs the other two teams' Product Owners to reprioritize their backlogs to unblock their own team.
DWait until the next PI Planning event to raise the impediment, since mid-PI escalation is discouraged in SAFe.
4/5 · Supporting ART Events
During Team Breakout #1 on Day 1 of PI Planning, a team is drafting its plan and discovers it depends on a component team it does not usually work with. As the team's Scrum Master/Team Coach, what is the MOST appropriate action?
AFacilitate the team's drafting of PI objectives and stories, and make the dependency and any related risk visible on the ART planning board for the other teams.
BPersonally decide how the dependency will be resolved, agree it with the component team's manager, and inform the team afterward so its planning time in the breakout is not lost.
CTell the team to keep drafting and set the dependency aside for now, since it will surface naturally during integration and can be handled at the first System Demo of the PI.
DAsk the RTE to assign the dependent work to the component team centrally, so the dependency is settled before the draft plan review.
5/5 · Supporting ART Events · hard
During the Inspect and Adapt workshop, the ART first conducts the PI System Demo, then moves into a distinct activity where the actual business value achieved is compared against the planned business value for each team's PI objectives. What is this second activity called?
ATeam Breakout #2 and the draft plan review.
BConfidence vote and plan rework.
CQuantitative and Qualitative Measurement.
DBacklog refinement and Iteration Review.
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