What is the main goal of a SAFe DevOps transformation?
To create immutable infrastructure to avoid changes to the production environment
To align people across the Value Stream to deliver value continuously
To impleme
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What is the main goal of a SAFe DevOps transformation?
To create immutable infrastructure to avoid changes to the production environment
To align people across the Value Stream to deliver value continuously
To implement an advanced tool chain to automate the entire Continuous Delivery Pipeline
To create a strong DevOps team with leadership support
Which skill can significantly accelerate mean-time-to-restore by enabling support teams to see
issues the way actual end users did?
Session replay
Blue/green deployment
Page analytics
Incident management
Which two areas should be monitored in the Release on Demand aspect to support DevOps and
Continuous Delivery? (Choose two.)
Business Metrics
Agile Release Train velocity
Deployment cycle time
Full-stack system behavior
Build status
Who should be consulted first when calculating the % Complete and Accurate?
The lead developer
Testers
The people responsible for the next step
End users
What is the primary purpose of creating an automated test suite?
To increase the return on investment for finding defects
To increase unit test coverage during an Iteration
To enable continuous testing
To eliminate all manual testing
What falls outside the scope of the Stabilize activity?
Continuous security monitoring is done
Blue/green deployment
Features are monitored after release
Failover and recovery processes are in place
Who is responsible for building and continually improving the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
DevOps Teams
Scrum Teams
Agile Release Trains
System Teams
Why is it important to take a structured approach to analyze problems in the delivery pipeline?
It provides a structured roadmap for the SAFe implementation
It helps ensure that actual causes of problems are addressed, rather than symptoms
It ensures that solutions are more likely to be approved for implementation
It allows the solution to be demoed to key stakeholders
Which DevOps principle focuses on identifying and eliminating bottlenecks in the Continuous
Delivery Pipeline?
Automation
Lean flow
Recovery
Measurement
What are two aspects of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline, in addition to Continuous Integration?
(Choose two.)You have reached the max number of allowed answers
Continuous Release
Continuous Testing
Continuous Deployment
Continuous Improvement
Continuous Exploration
What is the correct order of activities in the Continuous Integration aspect?
Develop, Build, Test end-to-end, Stage
Build, Develop, Stage, Test end-to-end
Develop, Test end-to-end, Build, Stage
Stage, Develop, Build, Test end-to-end
Which two security skills are part of the Continuous Integration aspect? (Choose two.)You have
reached the max number of allowed answers
Network security practices
Application security
SOX compliance analysis
Security board review
Penetration testing
Value flows through which aspect in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
Continuous Integration
Develop
Monitor
Research
What is one recommended way to architect for operations?
Implement feature toggles
Create detailed run books
Establish an architecture review board
Require developers to support their own code
What is trunk-based development?
All teams committing their code into one trunk
Every team works in their own trunk
Teams with similar dependencies create one single branch for the team's work
Each developer maintains a separate branch
What is the primary goal of the Stabilize activity?
To establish quality-of-service agreements with customers
To enhance stability with blue/green deployment
To avoid unplanned outages and security breaches
To achieve active-active site replication
What are two important items to monitor in production to support the Release on Demand aspect
in SAFe? (Choose two.)You have reached the max number of allowed answers
System performance
Time-to-market
Lead time to defect fixing
Business value
Deployment lead time
What is the primary benefit of value stream mapping?
It fosters collaboration among development and operations managers
It creates the hypothesis of which Solution to build
It identifies how to build Agile Release Trains
It provides insight into organizational efficiency and value flow
What is the blue/green deployment pattern?
To decouple deployment from release
To deploy to only some data centers to reduce the deployment risk
To ensure no changes happen in production without going through the Continuous Delivery
Pipeline
To deploy between an inactive and active environment
What does Culture in a CALMR approach mean?
A culture where developers code and operations deploys
A culture where technical expertise is paramount
A culture of shared responsibility and risk tolerance
A culture where development and operations report to the same manager
Innovation accounting stresses the importance of avoiding what?
Quantitative metrics
Vanity metrics
ROI calculations
Objective metrics
Which term describes the time it takes value to flow across the entire Value Stream?
Rolled percent complete and accurate
Total lead time
Activity ratio
Deployment frequency
In what activity of Continuous Exploration are Features prioritized in the Program Backlog?
Synthesize
Finalize
Hypothesize
Research
Which technical practice is key to enabling trunk-based development?
Gated commits
Feature branching
Refactoring
Code freezes
What is a core DevOps principle?
Iteration review
Lean Budgets
Servant leadership
Culture
When preparing a DevOps backlog, prioritizing features using WSJF includes which two
factors? (Choose two.)You have reached the max number of allowed answers
Duration/job size
Team velocity
Business value
Cost of delay
Total count of items on the Program Backlog
Mapping the value stream helps accomplish which two actions? (Choose two.)You have reached
the max number of allowed answers
To prioritize the Program Backlog
To understand how the flow of value can be improved
To gain insight into organizational efficiency
To add or remove user segments based on business decisions
To serve as a blueprint for development
Why are canary releases used?
To reduce deployment times
To allow incremental release
To prevent outages
To introduce minimum viable features
After the team maps the steps of the current state Value Stream during value stream mapping,
what are the next two steps? (Choose two.)
Identify who is involved in each step of the delivery pipeline
Perform a SWOT analysis
Discuss the current state and perform an improvement analysis
Measure the performance at each step
Identify bottlenecks in the delivery pipeline
The Release on Demand aspect enables which key business objective?
Alignment
Time-to-market
Quality
Business value
Who is responsible for ensuring quality is built into the code in SAFe?
Agile Teams
Developers
Testers
Product Owners
What are two activities performed as part of defining the hypothesis in Continuous Exploration?
(Choose two.)You have reached the max number of allowed answers
Elicit feedback
Use innovation assessments
Identify Metrics based on leading indicators
Define the minimum viable product
Use value stream mapping
What is the main goal of a SAFe DevOps transformation?
To align people across the Value Stream to deliver value continuously
To create immutable infrastructure to avoid changes to the production environment
To create a strong DevOps team with leadership support
To implement an advanced tool chain to automate the entire Continuous Delivery Pipeline
One goal of DevOps in SAFe is to fully automate the steps between which two pipeline
activities?
Code commit and release
Code commit and user acceptance testing
Code commit and deploy
Code commit and stage
What are two benefits of DevOps? (Choose two.)You have reached the max number of allowed
answers
Less time spent fixing security issues
Less time spent on new work
More lead time
Less frequent deployments
Fewer defects
Value stream mapping metrics include calculations of which three Metrics? (Choose three.)You
have reached the max number of allowed answers
Activity Ratio
Release Frequency
Emergency Change %
Total Process Time
Rolled % Complete and Accurate
Outage Frequency
Which statement is true about DevOps?
It enables low-risk releases and fast recovery with no room for errors
It enables a tolerance for low-risk, low-failure, and rapid recovery
It enables high-risk releases and fast recovery with fast fix-forward
It enables low-risk releases and fast recovery with fast fix-forward
Which practice prevents configuration drift between production and non-production
environments?
Immutable infrastructure
Self-service deployment
Deployment automation
Session replay
Which statement describes a measurable benefit of adopting DevOps practices and principles?
It guarantees an increase in profits and decrease in downtime
It identifies key Value Streams
It creates a highly functional, cross-team culture
It results in faster lead time, and more frequent deployments
What is the desired frequency of deployment in SAFe?
Daily
Continuous
Once per Iteration
Once per PI
Which statement describes the Lean startup lifecycle?
Define the hypothesis, build a minimum viable product (MVP), continuously evaluate the
MVP while implementing additional Features until WSJF determines work can stop
Create a hypothesis statement, assign an Epic owner, deliver Features created from the Lean
business case, deploy
Define the minimum viable product (MVP), build the MVP, implement Epic Features until
all Features are delivered
Define a Lean business case, build a minimum viable product, implement the Epic Features
until all Features are delivered
What does the %C&A metric measure in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
The percent concurrent and accurate process times of each pipeline activity
The percent of change averages of each pipeline activity
The percent of time downstream customers receive work that is usable as-is
The percent complete and average times of each pipeline activity
Which two technical practices focus on Built-in Quality? (Choose two.)You have reached the
max number of allowed answers
Pair work
Test-driven development
Feature toggles
Canary releases
Environment configuration
What is the purpose of a minimum viable product?
To demo to Product Management for feedback
To validate the hypothesis
To release to production
To sell to new markets
What are the first two actions for visualizing the current state of the Continuous Delivery
Pipeline? (Choose two.)You have reached the max number of allowed answers
Identify lead time
Identify the development methodology
Identify the steps
Identify the people
Identify throughput
DevOps is a key enabler of continuous delivery. What does continuous mean in this context?
To deploy to production as often as possible and release when the business needs it
To deploy to production multiple times per year and release on a cadence once or twice a
year
To deploy to production and release on cadence every Iteration
To deploy to production and release at least once every Program increment
What does the CALMR approach to DevOps mean?
Culture, Automation, Lean Flow, Measurement, Recovery
Continuous, Automation, Lean Flow, Metrics, Resilience
Collaboration, Adjustment, Lean Flow, Measurement, Reliability
Culture, Agile, Lean Flow, Metrics, Recovery
What is the primary purpose of mapping the value stream?
To understand how value flows through the system and various functions of the organization
To balance resources along the Development and Operation workflow
To provide a canvas for documenting DevOps transformation
To visualize steps in the value stream and make it easier to see the sequence of these steps
What is the lead time for a particular step in a value stream?
Waiting time at a particular step
Process time at a particular step
Time taken to complete a task at a particular step
Time from when the work is ready from the previous step to work completion
Process Time is a metric of the time it takes to do what?
To move work from idea to cash
For an individual to perform their assigned job in a step of the process
To complete work at particular step of the process
To move work form end of the previous step to the end of the current step
Total Process Time divided by Total Lead Time provides which metric?
% Complete and Accurate
Total Process Time
Activity Ratio
Actual Value-Added Work Time
Identifying the Minimal Marketable Feature is part of what?
Lean Startup
Lean Leadership
Lean Principles
Lean UX
What should be done first in test-driven development?
Write code
Write a test
Commit code
Refactor
What is the main intent behind deliberately creating an outage in an environment?
To exercise the recovery process and find potential areas of improvement
To test the accuracy of operations response documentation
To measure customer service response and customer satisfaction during the outage
To train the team to identify components that must be rearchitected to reduce outages
How frequently should Agile Release Trains release?
Continuously
On demand
Once per Iteration
Once per PI
What is measured in each step of the value stream during value stream mapping?
Lead Time, Lag Time, % Complete and Accurate
% Complete and Accurate, Cycle Time, Process Time
Lead Time, Process Time, % Complete and Accurate
Total Lag Time, Total Process Time, % Complete and Accurate
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