Free SAFe Advanced Scrum Master Exam SAFe-SASM Exam Practice Test

What is one action the Scrum Master can take to help the team achieve transparency?

• Hold team members accountable to complete their tasks by monitoring task progress deviation
• Enforce Agile event timeboxes and working agreements
• Be aligned with Product Management when reviewing the Team's Backlog
• Ensure team velocity and WIP are a true representation of what is happening within the team

If the distance between the arrival and departure curves on a team's cumulative flow diagram is growing apart, what is likely happening?

• Lead time is increasing
• Unplanned work is pushed into the backlog
• WIP is decreasing
• The backlog is being reprioritized

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 PI and have nothing to show at the System Demo.The ART stakeholders are concerned. What should be done?

• Stop working on any new functionality and fully integrate and test the system; adjust scope based on what is learned
• 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
• Re-architect the system so that there are no dependencies between the teams; integration is not required at this time

Why is the program predictability measure the primary Metric used during the quantitative measurement part of the Inspect and Adapt event?

• To measure the predictability of business value delivered in the PI timebox
• To predict the scope of the remaining requirements in the Program Backlog
• To forecast when remaining features could be delivered to customers
• To match customer demand to the Agile Release Train's velocity

Which statement is true about work in process (WIP)?

• WIP should be managed by the team's capacity allocation
• WIP visibility increases cross-training opportunities
• More WIP leads to slower throughput
• Limits on WIP prevent visibility into bottlenecks

Lee is a developer on the team. At every daily stand-up Lee reports, "Yesterday, I worked on indexing. Today, I will work on indexing. I have no impediments." What coaching should the Scrum Master provide Lee to improve the team's visibility into his work?

• Ask the team to break Lee's Stories into tasks for better understanding
• Assign another team member to assist Lee with indexing and ask Lee to start a different piece of work
• Tell Lee to pair with another team member
• Have Lee discuss his progress in the context of the Iteration goals

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

• Identify enablers needed to build out the Architectural Runway
• Conduct a short team retrospective
• Review feedback from the System Demo
• Analyze quantitative & qualitative metrics

What is one outcome of an integration point?

• It provides an opportunity to pivot the course of action
• It extends the length of time of an Iteration
• It provides the opportunity to release code
• It aligns with a phase-gate milestone

A team consistently receives defect reports from production even though each Story is thoroughly tested. What is the first step to solve this problem?

• Invest in better Story and unit-test automation
• Represent a strict definition of done
• Ensure that development and testing environments are equivalent to production
• Create a story dependency with the systems team to collaborate on deployment

What are two ways a Scrum Master promotes T-shaped skill development across the team? (Choose two.)

• By having team members pair when working on Stories
• By requesting the Managers add skills training to the team members' development plans
• By having teams swap one of their members every other Iteration for cross-training
• By delivering cross-functional skills training
• By defining Stories that need cross-functional skills for the team to implement