Be able to identify which SAFe practices build Team and Technical Agility: cross-functional self-organizing teams, collaborative Definition of Done, and Built-in Quality via Continuous Integration, Test-First, and refactoring. The key is choosing team-owned, iterative quality practices over imposed or deferred testing.
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Domain overview
This domain covers how Agile Teams deliver value with quality in SAFe: cross-functional collaboration, Built-in Quality, and technical practices like Continuous Integration, Test-First, refactoring, and collective ownership. Questions present team scenarios about forming quality standards, Iteration Goals, unplanned work, and PI readiness, asking you to select the SAFe-aligned practice or the best next action.
Exam objectives
Built-in Quality practices: Continuous Integration, Test-First, refactoring, collective code ownership, and automated testing
Team attributes for Team and Technical Agility: cross-functional, self-organizing, empowered, and accountable teams
How teams establish quality standards collaboratively using working agreements and Definition of Done
Using Iteration retrospectives and PI Planning to address unplanned work and improve flow
Treating Built-in Quality as a QA-only responsibility instead of a shared team practice embedded in every Iteration
Choosing top-down imposed standards or external audits rather than team-defined working agreements and Definition of Done
Confusing unplanned work fixes with capacity planning; SAFe favors visualizing and limiting unplanned work, not just adding buffer
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A Scrum Master observes that the team is consistently failing to complete their Sprint Commitment due to unanticipated technical debt. How should the team address this within the SAFe framework?
2A newly formed Agile Team is struggling to define their 'Built-in Quality' standards. What is the most effective way for them to establish these practices?
3Which TWO of the following are primary responsibilities of the Scrum Master in a SAFe context? (Select TWO)
4During a Sprint Review, a stakeholder expresses dissatisfaction with a feature. What should the team do next?
5Refer to the exhibit. The Agile Team is struggling to maintain their CI/CD pipeline due to flaky tests. Based on the configuration policy shown, what is the best approach for the team?
6Which THREE practices support the SAFe principle of 'Apply Systems Thinking'? (Select THREE)
7What is the primary purpose of the Iteration Review in SAFe?
8A team is struggling with frequent context switching. Which SAFe concept should the Scrum Master coach the team on to resolve this?
9An Agile team has a high velocity but is still missing their PI Objectives. What is the most likely cause?
10Which THREE items should be included in a team's Definition of Done (DoD)? (Select THREE)
11What is the primary role of the Product Owner in the team's Iteration Planning?
12Refer to the exhibit. A team wants to deploy a new feature to production, but the automated deployment process is blocked by the policy shown. What is the best way to handle this?
13What is the primary benefit of the Daily Stand-up for the Agile Team?
14An Agile Release Train is struggling with frequent integration bottlenecks because team members work in isolation on their own branches for weeks. As a SAFe Agilist, which approach should you recommend to establish technical agility and resolve this issue?
15A Scrum Master observes that a team is struggling to meet their Sprint Goals because they spend significant time resolving technical debt during the sprint. How should the team apply the concept of Built-in Quality to address this?
16An Agile Team is struggling to complete their planned Stories within the iteration, often carrying over 30% of their work to the next Iteration. During backlog refinement, the Product Owner insists on adding more scope to fill the velocity cap. Which action should the team and Scrum Master take to establish sustainable flow?
17Which TWO practices are essential for an Agile Team practicing Built-in Quality in a SAFe environment? (Choose two.)
18During a SAFe scrum team's Iteration Planning, the Product Owner presents a high-priority user story that requires a new microservice. The developers estimate it at 20 story points, but the team's velocity is 12 points per iteration. The team is concerned about committing to the story. What is the most appropriate action for the team to take?
19An Agile Team on an Agile Release Train is preparing for its first Program Increment. The team wants to ensure it can deliver a potentially shippable increment every two weeks. Which approach best establishes the team's Definition of Done as a living agreement?
20An Agile Team is struggling with frequent integration issues because team members work on long-lived feature branches and merge infrequently. The team wants to improve its continuous integration practice. What is the most effective action to take?
21An Agile Team is working on a feature that requires changes to both the front-end and back-end code. To ensure that the team can integrate and test continuously, what is the most effective approach for managing code changes?
22An Agile Team wants to improve its technical agility by adopting SAFe's built-in quality practices. Which two practices should the team implement to ensure that quality is built into the product rather than inspected at the end? (Choose two.)
23A Scrum Master notices that the Agile Team's Definition of Done (DoD) does not include any criteria for non-functional requirements such as performance or security. What should the Scrum Master do to help the team improve their DoD?
24During an Iteration retrospective, an Agile Team identifies that it frequently misses its Iteration Goals because of unplanned work. Which action best aligns with SAFe's principle of establishing team and technical agility?
25An Agile Team is struggling with test automation because their test suite has become slow and unreliable, with many flaky tests. As a result, they are unable to run the full suite on every commit and have started to skip tests. What is the most effective first step to address this issue?
26An Agile Team is adopting SAFe and wants to ensure its work is integrated with other teams on the Agile Release Train. Which approach best supports continuous integration at the ART level?
27An Agile Team is adopting SAFe and wants to ensure they are applying the core principles of Built-in Quality. Which two practices are essential for achieving Built-in Quality? (Choose two.)
28An Agile Team on an Agile Release Train has just finished a two-day workshop where they practiced test-driven development, paired programming, and collective code ownership. Six weeks later, the Release Train Engineer notices the team's automated test coverage has plateaued and integration defects are climbing. What should the team's Scrum Master do first to sustain the new technical practices?
29An Agile Team on a SAFe Agile Release Train has been delivering usable increments every two weeks, but the System Demo frequently reveals that the increment does not work end-to-end with other teams' components. The Release Train Engineer asks the team to strengthen its contribution to the Continuous Delivery Pipeline. Which approach best helps the team ensure its increment is integrated and demonstrable at the System Demo?
30During an Iteration, an Agile Team discovers that a planned feature will require more effort than estimated due to unexpected complexity. The team wants to maintain their Iteration Goals and avoid accumulating technical debt. What is the most appropriate action?
31During a Program Increment, an Agile Team's Continuous Integration pipeline takes over four hours to run, so developers batch their commits and merge only at the end of the day. Integration failures now surface late, and the team misses several Iteration Goals. Which action best addresses the root cause while preserving the team's ability to deliver value each Iteration?
32A SAFe Agile Team is preparing for its first Program Increment (PI) and wants to establish a solid foundation of technical agility. The team's Scrum Master suggests focusing on Built-in Quality practices. Which action best exemplifies applying Built-in Quality at the team level?
33An Agile Team on a SAFe train is struggling with frequent build failures that disrupt the Continuous Delivery Pipeline. The team's developers often commit code that breaks the main branch, and it takes hours to restore. The Release Train Engineer asks the team to improve its technical agility. Which practice should the team adopt to most directly reduce build failures and maintain a continuously integrable codebase?
34An Agile Team is preparing for its first Program Increment and wants to build the Team and Technical Agility competency. The Scrum Master is facilitating a working session on which attributes the team must develop. Which two attributes are core to this competency? (Choose two.)
35A SAFe Agile Team is working on improving its technical agility and wants to strengthen its Continuous Integration practices. The team's Scrum Master suggests adopting specific technical practices that support frequent integration and early defect detection. Which two practices should the team implement to directly support these goals? (Choose two.)
36Two Agile Teams on the same Agile Release Train regularly break each other's builds because they use different coding standards and inconsistent interface contracts. The Scrum Masters want to reduce integration friction without slowing either team. What should they do?
37An Agile Team consistently meets its Iteration Goals, but the features it delivers frequently fail in the staging environment because unit tests pass while end-to-end behavior is broken. The team's Definition of Done currently stops at code review and unit tests. What is the most effective next step to improve Built-in Quality?
38An Agile Team is consistently unable to complete its Iteration goals because unplanned work, such as production support and defect fixes, consumes a significant portion of its capacity. The team's Scrum Master wants to address this issue while maintaining technical agility. Which action best aligns with SAFe principles to improve the team's ability to meet its Iteration goals?
Be able to identify which SAFe practices build Team and Technical Agility: cross-functional self-organizing teams, collaborative Definition of Done, and Built-in Quality via Continuous Integration, Test-First, and refactoring. The key is choosing team-owned, iterative quality practices over imposed or deferred testing.
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