The Purpose of a Leading SAFe (SAFe Agilist) practice exam is to gauge readiness for the official SAFe Agilist exam, identify knowledge gaps, improve time management, and build confidence.
Leading SAFe focuses on the principles and leadership skills needed to implement the SAFe framework across an organization. This program equips leaders with the knowledge and tools to build a culture of agility, align strategy with execution, improve productivity, and ultimately lead successful enterprise-scale change. It provides a high-level overview for those who are responsible for planning and making the changes necessary for an agile transformation.
The target audience is anyone leading or supporting a SAFe transformation initiative including executives, managers, and directors, change agents, coaches, RTEs, Product Managers, Solution and Systems Architects, program and project managers.
The Leading SAFe course curriculum (version 6.0) is structured around six modules. These modules guide attendees through the knowledge and skills necessary to lead a Lean-Agile enterprise using the Scaled Agile Framework.
The six modules are:
- Thriving in the Digital Age with Business Agility: Evaluates SAFe as an operating system for Business Agility and explores how the seven core competencies support this goal.
- Leadership and Culture. Becoming a Lean-Agile Leader and stablishing a new way of working within the organization. How to apply a Lean-Agile mindset at scale and how to apply SAFe principles to enable business agility.
- Establishing Team & Technical Agility: Accelerating value delivery. Focuses on forming cross-functional Agile teams and organizing Agile Release Trains (ARTs) around the flow of value.
- Building Solutions with Agile Product Delivery: Covers applying customer centricity and design thinking, participating in PI planning, and building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with DevOps.
- Exploring Lean Portfolio Management: Agility at the strategy level. Defines and connects the SAFe portfolio to enterprise strategy, managing vision, funding value streams, and establishing portfolio flow.
- Leading the Change: Focuses on navigating the transformation and leading the enterprise towards a Lean-Agile way of working.
The Leading SAFe practice exam is a mock test for the Certified SAFe Agilist (SA) 6.0 exam, which has 46 questions to be completed in 90 minutes, The passing score is 80% (36 out of 45 questions). See the companion article Leading SAFe (SAFe 6.0) for a detailed description.
Exam results should summarize overall score and highlight incorrect answers while providing the correct answers in each case.
Further Reading and Resources
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