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SAFe SSM practice questions: Supporting ART Events
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These 5 questions come from the Supporting ART Events section of our SAFe SSM bank (30 questions on this area, which carries 28% of the real exam). Every question is original, with the correct answer explained and linked to the source it is drawn from.
1/5 · Supporting ART Events · easy
Which statement best describes the purpose and typical participants of the PO Sync?
AA once-per-PI event where Business Owners individually score every team's velocity.
BThe event where Scrum Masters/Team Coaches discuss cross-team impediments; also known as the Coach Sync.
CA meeting where Scrum Masters resolve team-level technical debt and refactor the codebase together.
DA brief, cadence-based meeting, typically facilitated by the RTE or Product Manager, where Product Owners align on progress toward PI Objectives, dependencies, and scope adjustments.
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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 phase reserved for QA to fix defects before release, similar to a traditional waterfall test phase.
BIt provides dedicated time for innovation, exploration, hackathons, PI Planning preparation, and the Inspect and Adapt event, while also serving as an estimating guardband.
CIt is an additional Iteration used exclusively to finish leftover Iteration-level stories from the previous PI.
DIt exists solely so teams can take a mandatory week of vacation between Program Increments.
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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.
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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 to finish drafting PI objectives and stories, then visibly flag the dependency and any related risk on the program board for cross-team visibility.
BPersonally decide how to resolve the dependency and notify the other team's manager afterward.
CTell the team to disregard the dependency since it will surface naturally at the System Demo.
DAssign the dependent work directly to specific team members without team discussion, to save time.
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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.
BConfidence vote.
CQuantitative measurement.
DBacklog refinement.
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