EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which statement describes how Kanban Teams handle velocity in SAFe during PI Planning?

Question2: What is first step in problem solving workshop?

Question3: What are two common PI planning anti-patterns?

Question4: Team A wants to use the IP Iteration to continue their "usual work." What is one benefit the Scrum Master/Team Coach could share with the team about using the IP Iteration as intended?

Question5: An honest effort at careful problem definition will avoid the "ready, fire, aim" approach that is so common in problem-solving.

Question6: Which of the following is NOT one of the three "C's" of a story:

Question7: Which two options are considered Agile practices? (Choose two.)

Question8: What is one characteristic of an effective Agile team?

Question9: (Select 2) What are the responsibilities of a Business Owner?

Question10: When using Systems Thinking, you would agree that optimizing a component does not optimize the system.

Question11: According to SAFe, which of the following metrics are reported at the Inspect and Adapt event?

Question12: What is the name of the event where all team members determine how much of the team's backlog they can commit to delivering during an upcoming iteration?

Question13: You organization decided to thoroughly implement the SAFe Principle "Assume variability; preserve options." What is the optimum path for success?

Question14: Team A works collaboratively on new functionality for a customer application. The acceptance criteria have each been minimally met.
Team A decides to release the functionality with a method for collecting direct customer feedback. Which of the following high-performing team characteristics is Team A demonstrating?

Question15: Which technique is used to identify root causes during the Problem Solving workshop?

Question16: In SAFe, who owns the Vision for a PI?

Question17: What is one practice Scrum Masters/Team Coaches can use to run successful meetings?

Question18: Each PI planning meeting evolves over time, and ending PI planning with a Retrospective will help to do what?

Question19: What are two reasons the 5 Whys technique is effective? (Choose two.)

Question20: What improves collaboration between Scrum Masters and System Architects, System Teams, and Operations?

Question21: What does the Improvement Roadmap document?

Question22: What is the intended value of the Backlog Refinement event?

Question23: A servant leader knows that his or her own growth comes from what?

Question24: How many Iterations would it take for a team with a velocity of 20 story points per Iteration to finish a backlog of 60 story points?

Question25: The goal of DevOps is to improve collaboration across the value stream by developing and automating a ____________________________________.

Question26: What is one time when a scrum master participates but does not necessarily facilitate?

Question27: How does a Scrum Master lead a team's efforts in relentless improvement?

Question28: How does the "C" in the CALMR approach to DevOps help teams manage tensions caused by differing needs?

Question29: During Iteration Review, the team decides to carry forward three stories to the next Iteration. This is the second time during this PI that some of the team's stories are carried over. What are two actions the Scrum Master should take? (Choose two.)

Question30: What are stretch objectives?

Question31: Who facilitates the PO Sync meeting?

Question32: What are two Release Train Engineer responsibilities? (Choose two.)

Question33: What is one benefit of holding regular system demos?

Question34: The Scrum Master interacts with which level(s) of SAFe?

Question35: The portfolio Vision is an aggregation of every Agile Release Train's Vision?

Question36: Who is responsible for prioritizing the iteration backlog?

Question37: What is one benefit of PI Planning?

Question38: The three pillars of Scrum are transparency, inspection, and what else?

Question39: At what time during the Program Increment Planning do the Business Owners circulate and assign business value to team objectives?

Question40: What does transparency mean in a scrum environment?

Question41: What is an innovation and planning (IP) iteration anti-pattern?

Question42: What is one way a Scrum Master/Team Coach can help improve ART performance?

Question43: What is one anti-pattern that emerges when teams do not spend enough time refining the backlog?

Question44: During PI planning, which two tasks are part of the scrum master's role in the first team breakout?

Question45: There is no way a team can fail if they carry out all of the Scrum or Lean-Agile events successfully.

Question46: Where does a team document new practices they want to incorporate into the their collective skill set?

Question47: A C+ developer who also knows Java very well, is deep into SQL and various databases would be considered a:

Question48: What is the most effective way to establish built-in quality?

Question49: What is one potential root cause of Team Sync anti-patterns?

Question50: What is one element of the CALMR approach to DevOps?

Question51: What is the recommended duration of a SAFe iteration?

Question52: At the end of the first Iteration, the team finishes User Stories A, B, and 50% of C.
The Story sizes are set at these points:Story A = 8 pointsStory B = 1 pointStory C = 5 pointsStory D = 3 pointsWhat is the team's velocity?

Question53: A Team Inside Out is usually 30 - 60 minutes and is scheduled once per 1 - 2 iterations.

Question54: What can a Scrum Master/Team Coach recommend to a team that is showing signs of burnout, not addressing increasing technical debt, and acting out of urgency rather than considering innovation?

Question55: The business must depend on the team for what in order for the business to do any meaningful planning?

Question56: What is a typical measurement in Kanban?

Question57: When calculating a Team's PI performance report, a team CAN achieve greater than 100%.

Question58: What is one purpose of iterations?

Question59: What is a key role of the Scrum Master?

Question60: During PI planning who owns the planning of stories into iterations?

Question61: What are the three pillars of Scrum?

Question62: Who participates in the backlog refinement event?

Question63: `Who should vote on root causes?

Question64: What are two good scrum master facilitation practices?

Question65: What is a team's primary goal in an Iteration?

Question66: What is one trait of a servant leader?

Question67: What are two common anti-patterns during program increment (PI) planning? (Choose two.)

Question68: what skill set is Scrum Master trying to get agile team to achieve

Question69: Scrum masters are effective by using scrum methods, supporting safe principles and practices and what else?

Question70: Good coaches do not give people the answer, but instead they do what?

Question71: what is the statement describing Agile team continuously adapt to new circumstances and enhance the methods of value delivery

Question72: Which meeting should the Scrum Master attend (not facilitate)?

Question73: What is an example of Scrum Master servant leader behavior?

Question74: (Select 2) What are the right scenarios for using SAFe Foundations Training Materials?

Question75: What are two critical areas that differentiate agile from waterfall dev?

Question76: How often should a system demo occur?

Question77: What is one benefit of having an IP Iteration every PI?

Question78: The PI Predictability Measure shows whether achievements fall into an acceptable
_________________________________.

Question79: Individual Team PI performance reports are rolled up into the:

Question80: Participating in PI planning enables teams to gain alignment and commitment around a clear set of what?

Question81: What is a common reason why a team is unable to estimate a story?

Question82: What does Little's Law tells us?

Question83: The Scrum Master is what above all else?

Question84: What is Cost of Delay?

Question85: According to the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, what is a team's ultimate competitive advantage?

Question86: The Inspect and Adapt (I&A) event has three parts; which of the below does NOT belong:

Question87: Reducing transaction costs reduces total costs and shifts:

Question88: When does the System Demo happen?

Question89: What is the goal of the scrum of scrums event?

Question90: When does the plan-do-check-adjust cycle occur in scrum?

Question91: During which of the following Agile Team events do team members estimate relative story sizes?

Question92: What is an example of an anti-pattern a Scrum Master might face?

Question93: The SAFe Scrum Master role includes responsibilities to which other group?

Question94: Which statement is true about the phase-gate milestone model and risk reduction?

Question95: Agile Release Trains are organized around the ability to release value on demand through the ________________________________.

Question96: ______________________ is made up of Strategy & Investment Funding, Lean Governance, and Agile Portfolio Operations.

Question97: What is one truth about teams?

Question98: When does the Inspect and Adapt event happen?

Question99: Why are scrum masters challenged differently in an enterprise?

Question100: Collective ownership addresses bottlenecks, increases velocity and encourages: (choose one)

Question101: What is one way a Scrum Master/Team Coach can support Iteration Execution?

Question102: What are two key areas a team should be organized around? (Choose two.)

Question103: SAFe's CALMR approach to DevOps does NOT include the following:

Question104: What is one of the most important tasks of a Scrum Master?

Question105: What is one way to improve the skills of a team member?

Question106: What is the purpose of the plan-do-check-adjust cycle?

Question107: What is one example of an Agile Team development practice?

Question108: During which of the following stages of team development do team members stop focusing on their own goals and begin focusing on developing better ways of working together?

Question109: what is an anti-pattern for the IP iteration?

Question110: In the context of a Team Increment, every Iteration each team plans, builds, tests, integrates, and?

Question111: What is one method a Scrum Master/Team Coach can use to help teams overcome a fear of conflict?

Question112: How are the 3 Whys used?

Question113: How does the Scrum Master help teams address the challenges from modern enterprises?

Question114: What is one example of a servant leader behavior pattern?

Question115: What is the first step of the problem-solving workshop?

Question116: Scrum Masters are effective by using scrum methods, supporting SAFe principles and practices, and what else?

Question117: According to SAFe, which of the following key traits of effective Scrum Masters/Team Coaches is crucial for team members to accept coaching?

Question118: What is one way uncommitted objectives help Agile Teams make a plan for the PI?

Question119: The 5-Whys is used to avoid: