SAFe® 5 DevOps Certification Cheat Sheet 2026

The 30 highest-yield SAFe® 5 DevOps Certification facts, distilled from real exam questions. Print it, save it as a PDF, or study it here — free, no sign-up.

1. In SAFe, who typically makes the Release on Demand decision for a PI increment? → Business owners and product management
2. What are two benefits of agile development over waterfall development? (Select two.) → It increases productivity and employee engagement
3. Batch production permits earlier identification of a quality issue than piece-by-piece production. → FALSE
4. Which two SAFe roles at the Portfolio layer do LPM work with? → Enterprise Architect ; Epic Owners
5. Which state of the Portfolio Kanban would the LPM team make the Go/No-Go determination? → Analyzing state
6. The synchronization of the production process is not displayed by VSM. → FALSE
7. Which two perspectives are provided into the program by the iteration review? (Select two.) → How the team did on the Iteration
8. The separation of processes by substantial inventory enables a faster and more efficient material flow. → FALSE
9. Which state of the Portfolio Kanban would the LPM team use to calculate WSJF? → Review state
10. Which role in SAFe is primarily responsible for defining and prioritizing hypotheses to be tested during Continuous Exploration? → Product Owner and Product Manager
11. What is shift-left security in the context of SAFe DevOps? → Moving security testing and considerations earlier in the development lifecycle
12. What is the name of the strategy that the text describes? → CALMR Approach
13. Which curves are the focal point of a cumulative flow diagram? → Arrival curve (“to-do”) and Departure curve (“done”)
14. Which ideas are included in Kanban for teams? → Visualize work flow, limit WIP, improve flow
15. Which team task falls under the purview of the Product Owner? → To sequence backlog items to program priorities, events, and dependencies
16. What else is included in SAFe's first Lean-Agile Principle, "Deliver early and often"? → Deliver value incrementally
17. Which technique helps SAFe teams visualize the customer's end-to-end experience across all touchpoints to identify improvement opportunities? → Customer Journey Mapping
18. What is the primary business benefit of shift-left testing in a SAFe DevOps environment? → It reduces the cost of fixing defects by finding them much earlier in development
19. In SAFe® 5 DevOps, which practice ensures that deployment scripts and infrastructure definitions are treated as first-class code artifacts? → Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
20. What does 'validated learning' mean in the context of SAFe Continuous Exploration? → Gaining empirical evidence that confirms or refutes what customers actually want
21. The resolution range of suggested modifications and enhancements implied by VSM should fall within... → Weeks
22. Which statement about the similarities and differences between Agile and DevOps is true? → Agile is a change of thinking whereas DevOps is actual organisation cultural change
23. Which metric best measures an organization's Continuous Deployment effectiveness in SAFe® 5 DevOps? → Deployment frequency and change failure rate
24. The CALMR Approach provides a framework for addressing problems in a ___ setting. → System
25. Which of the following statements about DevOps is true? → All of the above
26. Which SAFe® 5 concept emphasizes deploying to production continuously while decoupling when features are released to users? → Decouple Deployment from Release
27. In SAFe DevOps, customer centricity primarily means: → Aligning the entire delivery pipeline to maximize customer value and outcomes
28. In a blue/green deployment strategy, what happens when a critical problem is detected after releasing to the 'green' environment? → Traffic is instantly switched back to the stable 'blue' environment
29. What is the DevOps process loop defined as? → Plan, code, build, test, deploy, operate, monitor, plan
30. Which task is essential to implementing the Scaled Agile Framework successfully? → Use a cadence-based PI Planning process