Free SAFe® Agilist Examination Practice Questions

Sample Practice Questions

Try these 10 sample questions from the SAFe® Agilist Examination practice bank. Each includes the answer and explanation. Continue with the interactive practice above to review the full question set.

1. 1A company's market changes faster than its annual planning cycle. Which outcome most directly demonstrates business agility?

   1. A.Keeping departmental utilization near its annual target
   2. B.Responding quickly with solutions for emerging customer opportunitiesCorrect answer: B
   3. C.Completing the original portfolio plan without scope changes
   4. D.Standardizing every team's technical implementation choices

   Explanation: SAFe defines business agility in terms of "quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities". B directly measures that responsiveness; utilization, plan adherence and technical uniformity can remain high while the company misses the market.

   Reference: Business Agility — Definition

2. 2Which two bodies of thought explicitly underpin the SAFe Lean-Agile Mindset?

   1. A.Critical-path scheduling and earned-value reporting
   2. B.Lean Thinking and the Agile ManifestoCorrect answer: B
   3. C.Resource utilization and functional cost accounting
   4. D.Phase-gate governance and fixed-scope contracting

   Explanation: The definition explicitly combines "Lean Thinking and the Agile Manifesto". B identifies those foundations; the other pairs are management techniques that do not define this mindset.

   Reference: Lean-Agile Mindset — Definition

3. 3What makes an Agile Team cross-functional in the SAFe definition?

   1. A.Its members all hold the same specialist qualification
   2. B.Its skills cover defining, building, testing and delivering customer valueCorrect answer: B
   3. C.Its testing is performed only after another team accepts the work
   4. D.Its members represent every management level in the enterprise

   Explanation: The definition requires "all the skills necessary to define, build, test, and deliver value". B covers the value-delivery skills. A narrows the skill set, C institutionalizes a missing capability, and D confuses management representation with cross-functionality.

   Reference: Agile Teams — Definition

4. 4A procurement group uses a purchasing system developed by another ART in the same company. How is the procurement group classified as a customer?

   1. A.An external customer because another ART developed the system
   2. B.A supplier because it did not buy the system from another company
   3. C.An internal customer because it is part of the company using the solutionCorrect answer: C
   4. D.A delivery team because only people outside the company can be customers

   Explanation: SAFe states, "Internal customers are part of the company." C applies that boundary; a different ART does not make the group external, and using a solution does not make the group its supplier or development team.

   Reference: Customer Centricity — What is customer centricity?, internal customers

5. 5What groups the value streams of a SAFe Portfolio into a coherent portfolio?

   1. A.A common project completion date and one temporary delivery team
   2. B.A common funding and governance model for delivering valuable solutionsCorrect answer: B
   3. C.A shared programming language used by every developer in the enterprise
   4. D.A single list of individual tasks assigned by one functional manager

   Explanation: The definition places the value streams "within a common funding and governance model". B describes the portfolio boundary. A uses a temporary-project boundary, C a technology convention, and D a task-assignment hierarchy.

   Reference: Portfolio — Definition

6. 6A leader promotes Lean-Agile behaviors in presentations but consistently uses contradictory behaviors in daily decisions. What does leading by example require?

   1. A.Keep the leadership behavior unchanged while increasing team compliance reports
   2. B.Model the expected behaviors through the leader's own words and actionsCorrect answer: B
   3. C.Delegate all cultural modeling to external trainers and consultants
   4. D.Treat leadership behavior as separate from the culture experienced by teams

   Explanation: The culture guidance states, "Leaders show expected behaviors through what they say and do." B makes the leader an example. A changes reporting rather than behavior, C delegates the example, and D denies its effect on culture.

   Reference: Leadership and Culture Discipline — Opening discussion

7. 7Customer validation contradicts the hypothesis behind a proposed digital service. Which response reflects the business-agility guidance?

   1. A.Increase production volume before revisiting the hypothesis
   2. B.Treat the initial hypothesis as a fixed customer requirement
   3. C.Change the hypothesis in response to the customer evidenceCorrect answer: C
   4. D.Use internal approval as a substitute for customer validation

   Explanation: The guidance calls for "validating innovations with customers" and changing course "when the hypothesis needs to change". C responds to the contradictory evidence. A scales before addressing it, B treats a hypothesis as a fixed requirement, and D substitutes internal approval for customer evidence.

   Reference: Business Agility — Business Agility, introductory discussion

8. 8A practitioner says that experience has permanently fixed how they think, so learning a different approach cannot help. Which belief would support the growth mindset described by SAFe?

   1. A.An established mindset can be changed only by changing job titles
   2. B.Greater process compliance removes the need to examine assumptions
   3. C.Personal thinking can improve as new abilities are developedCorrect answer: C
   4. D.Professional expertise prevents useful changes to existing beliefs

   Explanation: The mindset guidance says it is crucial to "believe that personal thinking can be improved". C directly addresses the fixed-ability belief; titles, compliance and presumed immunity from learning do not.

   Reference: Lean-Agile Mindset — What is a Lean-Agile Mindset?

9. 9Which pair of roles does SAFe's Agile Teams summary explicitly include in each Agile Team?

   1. A.Product Management and System Architect
   2. B.Epic Owner and Business Owner
   3. C.Product Owner and Scrum Master/Team CoachCorrect answer: C
   4. D.Release Train Engineer and Epic Owner

   Explanation: The summary names "the Product Owner and the Scrum Master/Team Coach". C identifies the team roles; the alternatives confuse team-level roles with ART, portfolio or specialist-support responsibilities.

   Reference: Agile Teams — Summary, team roles

10. 10An independent business licenses a solution to support its own operations. Which relationship matches SAFe's external-customer description?

    1. A.The business is a delivery-team member because it uses the solution
    2. B.The business is an external customer operating outside the provider's companyCorrect answer: B
    3. C.The business is an internal customer because it uses a licensed product
    4. D.The business is a shared service because it has its own operational goals

    Explanation: The guidance says, "External customers operate outside the company." B applies this organizational boundary to a licensee; using a product does not create internal employment, a delivery-team role or a shared-service role.

    Reference: Customer Centricity — What is customer centricity?, external customers