Best SAFe 5 Scrum Master (SSM) Exam Questions And Answers

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By Eleanor SAFe 5 Scrum Master, Scrum

Are you familiar with the SAFe 5 Scrum Master (SSM) exam? It helps you apply for the Scrum Master Role within a SAFe Enterprise. You do not need to worry about passing the SSM exam, we have the best SAFe 5 Scrum Master SSM exam questions and answers to make your preparation good. The best SSM exam questions of ITPreare allow you to assess your knowledge before taking the final SAFe 5 Scrum Master exam.

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1. What anti-pattern can emerge during the Scrum of Scrums?

Scrum Masters bring in risks and impediments for escalation

Scrum Masters work with the Release Train Engineer to resolve risks and impediments

Scrum Masters have a daily 15 minute meet-after with the Release Train Engineer

Scrum Masters report on the teams' task status each day

2. How do Kanban Teams implement the SAFe Lean-Agile mindset of relentless improvement?

By establishing a Kanban board to visualize the flow of work within Kanban team and aligning with the Program and the rest of the teams

By using Cumulative Flow Diagrams which objectively measure bottlenecks and variation in the flow which could be due to systemic factors

By estimating team velocity and comparing it across Iterations for continuous improvement

By creating Classes of Services and Policies to execute the work in a way that is aligned with Program and Large Solution Levels

3. An effective SAFe Agile team ensures process visibility to who?

The Release Train Engineer

Stakeholders

The Agile Release Train

Business Owners

4. A servant leader knows that his or her own growth comes from what?

Management support

Facilitating growth of others

Effective training

Implementing a CALMR approach to SAFe

5. What three attributes summarize DevOps?

A shared culture

A set of technical practices

A high performing devOps team

Strong organizational structure

A mindset

Combined deployment and release

6. Good coaches do not give people the answer, but instead they do what?

They hold them to their commitments

They make the decisions

They guide people to the solution

they limit the number of questions

7. Achieving the goals of Release on Demand requires an understanding of how to decouple what?

The release from deployment

The Iterations Demos

The System Demos

The Project Increment

8. There are two primary aspects of a lean-agile mindset lean thinking and what?

feature enablement

lean systems

systems engineering

embracing agility

9. An effective SAFe scrum master helps the team improve on their journey towards excellence through continuous integration, continuous development and what else?

Continuous exploration

continuous release

wip limits

state of the art build tools

10. Who commits to the plan at the end of iteration planning?

team

scrum master

product owner

solution owner

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11. The Scrum Master interacts with which level(s) of SAFe?

Portfolio Level

Program Level

Team Level

All Levels

12. what is an anti-pattern for the IP iteration?

to plan work for the IP iteration during PI planning

to allow for sufficient capacity in the program roadmap

to ensure all stories and teams' PI plans are completed prior to the IP iteration

to minimize lost capacity when people are on vacation or holidays

to wait for the IP iteration to fix defects

13. Who reviews the top capabilities for the upcoming PI?

Project Manager

Solution Architect/Engineer

Solution Management

Project Owner

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

a cross-functional skill set

commitment to the plan

measurements

team capabilities

15. Which meeting should the Scrum Master attend (not facilitate)?

Iteration Review

Scrum of Scrums

Daily Stand-Up

PO sync

16. What is one example of a servant leader behavior pattern?

Understands and empathizes with others

Focuses on individual task metrics

Thinks about the day-to-day activities

Uses authority rather than persuasion when necessary

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

Serving as a customer proxy

Writing stories and enablers

Managing architectural runway

Delivering through agile practices

18. What is the recommended duration of a SAFe iteration?

2 weeks

3 weeks

4 weeks

it depends

19. Scrum masters help remove impediments, foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics and what else?

Relentlessly improve

Continuously deliver

Form and re-form teams

Estimate stories

20. What is the SAFe recommended optimal duration of a PI?

It can be any duration

2 - 4 weeks

4 - 8 weeks

8 - 12 weeks

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21. What is the main reason why some teams never reach stage 4 in the stages of high performing teams?

because no one guides them

leadership is spontaneous

team is not structured correctly

there is too much conflict

22. What is one truth about teams?

Development teams can manage daily interruptions

Products are more robust when individuals on teams have specific skill sets

Changes in team composition do not impact productivity

Teams are more productive than the same number of individuals

23. Features lend themselves to the Lean UX process model. They include a description, benefit hypothesis

Scope and context

Content readiness

Acceptance criteria

IP outcomes

24. How does a Scrum Master lead a team's efforts in relentless improvement?

By facilitating a team meeting

By focusing on the Iteration goals

By facilitating the team retrospective

By eliminating impediments

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

team dependencies

prioritized objectives

user stories

features and benefits

26. How are the 3 Whys used?

to identify a root cause of a problem

to brainstorm ideas

to coach a team through powerful questions

to define acceptance criteria for a story

27. Which statement describes how Kanban Teams handle velocity in SAFe during PI Planning?

They need to estimate their velocity in story points

They use throughput as an indication of their velocity

They use cycle time because it is more objective and based on actual timestamps

They participate in scoring Business Value; however, they have a different measure than velocity

28. What is the first step in the Problem-Solving Workshop?

Identify the root causes of possible problems

Create a summary report for leadership and management

Agree on the problem to solve

Record all brainstorming ideas

29. 1.According to the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, what is a team's ultimate competitive advantage?

Transparency

Teamwork

Accountability

30. According to Daniel Pink, which three factors drive motivation and lead to better performance and personal satisfaction? (Choose three.)

Reward

Mastery

Purpose

Recognition

Responsibility

Autonomy

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31. Who is responsible for prioritizing the iteration backlog?

Dvelopment Team

Product Owner

Scrum Master

Business Manager

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

Facilitate PI Planning readiness and the event itself

Understand Customer needs; validate solutions

Drive relentless improvement through Inspect and Adapt

Build an effective Product Owner / Product Manager team

Manage and prioritize the flow of work to the program

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

Provide clarifications necessary to assist the team with their story estimating and sequencing

review and prioritize the team backlog as part of the preparatory work for the second team breakout

Be involved in the program backlog refinement and preparation

identify as many risks and dependencies as possible for the management review

facilitate the coordination with other teams for dependencies

34. When does the Inspect and Adapt event happen?

At the end of the System Demo

At the end of every two weeks

At the end of the second day of PI Planning

At the end of each PI

35. Who can change the backlog during an iteration?

Agile Team

Scrum master

Release Train Engineer

Senior Management

36. The Development Team may need to learn or acquire new skills. Where is this list of skills found?

As part of the outcome of the PI Planning pre-meeting

In the Improvement Roadmap

As part of the outcome of the Team Retrospective

In the HR Training and Development Plan

37. Becoming a coach requires a shift from old behaviors to new ones.

What are three examples of old behaviors?

Focusing on deadlines

Focusing on business value delivery

Asking the team for the answers

Driving toward specific outcomes

Fixing problems for the team

Facilitating team problem solving

38. What is the value of periodic resynchronization?

Products that are delivered earlier provide more value

WIP is maximized

It causes multiple events to happen serially

It limits variance to a single time interval

39. What are two common PI planning anti-patterns?

Too much time spent analyzing each story

Too much time spent prioritizing features

Team decides which changes need to happen and when

Part-time scrum masters do not have time to plan as part of the team

Stories are created for the PI planning iterations

40. What is the basis for most team conflicts?

Lack of leadership

Ideological differences

Lack of common goals

Unexamined assumptions

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41. 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.)

Coach the team to honor their commitments

Take a 'wait and see' approach because the team assures they are still on track for the PI

Discuss the issue at the next Iteration Retrospective

See if the Product Owner is agreeable to moving the stories into the next Iteration

Perform the 5 Whys to find the root cause of all delays

42. 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?

iteration planning

solution planning

solution demo

backlog refinement

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

continuous integration

improvement

delivery

deployment

44. What are two good scrum master facilitation practices?

create an environment of safety so that everyone feels comfortable contributing to the discussion

llow unproductive conflict to encourage open communication

allow for deep meaningful conversations even if it is outside the scope of the agenda

ensure all voices are heard

do not enforce accountability as it creates an environment of distrust

45. When does the plan-do-check-adjust cycle occur in scrum?

at the iteration review

in the daily scrum

at all formal scrum events

as part of the iteration retrospective

46. What is one time when a scrum master participates but does not necessarily facilitate?

During team breakout sessions at PI planning

If the entire team is present during the daily stand-up

when using ad-hoc teams for inspect and adapt

when the agile release train does not require any team coordination

47. What is the purpose of the plan-do-check-adjust cycle?

To provide regular, predictable dev cadence to produce an increment of value

To give the ART members a process tool to keep the train on the tracks

To create a continuous flow of work to support the delivery pipeline

To allow the team to perform some final backlog refinement for upcoming iteration planning

48. Which type of enabler does a System Architect review during a System Demo?

Enabler Capabilities

Enabler Features

Enabler stories

Enabler Portfolio Epics

49. An effective Safe scrum master is a team-based servant leader who helps the team do what?

manage the team's own backlog

understand and operate within lean budgets

embrace relentless improvement through iteration retrospectives

develop better and more specialized skill sets

50. One of the Scrum Master's main responsibilities is to communicate with management and outside stakeholders to help the team in what way?

Split bigger work items where necessary

Protect them from uncontrolled addition of work

Manage the Iteration Planning Backlog

Accept stories

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51. In SAFe, who owns the decision for releasing changes into production?

product management

system architect

release train engineer

solution owner

52. Which statement is true about the phase-gate milestone model and risk reduction?

It does not mitigate risk as intended

It creates large batches of requirements

It reduces product increment values

It helps to visualize and limit WIP

53. What is a recommended story-splitting technique for Agile teams?

Validate design with stakeholders and build the functionality later

Start with the data structure and extend into the business logic and UI

Implement the 'happy path' first and the rest of the scenarios afterward

Implement the story UI first and build the business logic later

54. What are three benefits a Community of Practice offers? (Choose three.)

To drive craftsmanship

To provide a series of incremental steps forward through a shared and common framework and for implementing SAFe

To facilitate the adoption of new methods and techniques

To improve the confidence of stakeholders through a shared and common purpose

To provide routine, periodic presentations of the short- and longer-term Vision to the teams

To provide a place to acquire knowledge - WHY NOT THIS ONE

55. What are two critical areas that differentiate agile from waterfall dev?

Architectural runway

Staggered integration

Face-to-face interaction

incremental delivery of value

fast feedback

56. At the System Demo, each team demonstrates their own work but the system is not integrated. They say they underestimated the integration effort, but they cannot integrate every Iteration and meet the planned scope.

What should the Scrum Master suggest?

Integrate the system during the IP Iteration

Stop the Train and go back to waterfall until integration can occur

Defer integration until the train is in the sustain and improve the section of the Implementation Roadmap

Discuss removing scope with product management to allow for continuous integratio

57. What is one way to improve the skills of a team member?

Get them to work only on their specialty

Discuss their weaknesses

Pair-work with other team members

Ask them to work alone on something new

58. Why should team members continuously and actively engage with other teams during PI Planning?

To manage dependencies and resolve impediments

To understand how the other team is working

To foster an environment of capacity and velocity

To create a backlog of features the team can adopt

59. What are the three pillars of Scrum?

Agility

Transparency

inspection

adaptation

Courage

60. Which two actions enhance an Agile Release Train's performance? (Choose two.)

Team alignment

Reporting

Collaboration

Customer success

Reduction of total costs

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

Inspect and Adapt workshop notes

Improvement Roadmap

PI Planning meeting post-meeting notes

Team Iteration Backlog

62. What are the responsibilities of a Scrum Master on a train that go beyond basic team facilitation? (Choose three.)

Write an estimate features

Manage Daily Stand-up meetings

Facilitate team preparation for PI Planning

Participate in Scrum of Scrums

Facilitate preparation for the System Demo

Prioritize Program Backlog

63. What is the most effective way to establish built-in quality?

Run performance testing as well as the testing of other non-functional requirements every IP Iteration

Test each release more thoroughly

Perform as many types of testing within the Iteration boundaries as possible

Create more unit tests

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

Fine tune the Economic Framework

Meet compliance more rapidly

Lengthen the Architectural Runway

Continuously improve

65. What is an anti-pattern to motivation?

Maximizing purpose

Individualized compensation

Market disruption

Team goals

66. Which statement is true about scrum?

It is a software technical practice

It is an ideal method for static design requirements

it is based on empirical process control theory

it is a Lean system Engineering technique

67. When developing an Agile Team's skill set, what skill type is most typical?

E-shaped

T-shaped

M-shaped

I-shaped

68. What action should be taken on Relentless Improvement Backlog items from the Problem Solving Workshop?

Assign points or prioritization levels

Calculate for cost before continuing

Use as direct input into the PI Planning session that follows

Assign to the team best suited to solve

69. During PI planning who owns the planning of stories into iterations?

Agile teams

product management

system architect

scrum master

70. What are three Team Retrospective anti-patterns? (Choose three.)

When the Scrum Master decides what the Retrospective topic(s) will be and directs the team on specific improvement items to work on

When the team's people manager comes in to observe

When only part of the team attends

When the team commits to working on 1-2 improvement items and adds them to the next Iteration Backlog

When the team reviews their interactions during the last Iteration and identifies 1-2 improvement items to work on as a team

When the team reviews their interactions during the last Iteration and identifies 1-2 improvement items for the Product Owner to work on

Best SAFe 5 Scrum Master (SSM) Exam Questions And Answers

Best SAFe 5 Scrum Master (SSM) Exam Questions And Answers

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