Scrum SAFe-RTE Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 21,2026- Exam Code: SAFe-RTE
- Exam Name: Certified SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE)
- Certification Provider: Scrum
- Latest update: Oct 21,2026
What is one way Kanbans are used in SAFe?
- A . To manage queue length
- B . To manage runway cadence
- C . To manage Program Increment (Pl) Objectives
Why should an RTE ensure that the SAFe principles are applied appropriately?
- A . To ensure that the SAFe House of Lean is reflected in standard operating proce-dure
- B . To build an understanding of why the lean-agile practices work
- C . To make sure that no modifications are made by the adopters of SAFe
- D . To maintain a central control of key decision-making
Which of the Core Competencies of Business Agility emphasizes a customer-centric ap-proach to defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services?
- A . Team and Technical Agility
- B . Enterprise Solution Delivery
- C . Lean Portfolio Management
- D . Agile Product Delivery
Release Train Engineers have the opportunity to regularly practice and improve which two skills? (Choose two.)
- A . Servant leadership
- B . Facilitation
- C . Test-driven development
- D . Return on investment projections
- E . Continuous Integration
What are two anti-patterns for the IP Iteration? (Choose two.)
- A . To minimize lost capacity when people are on vacation or holidays
- B . To plan work for the IP lteration during P Planning
- C . To allow for sufficient capacity in the Program Roadmap
- D . To wait for the IP Iteration to fix defects
- E . To ensure all Stories and teams’ Pl plans are completed prior to the IP Iteration
The Release Train Engineer ensures that Business Owners assign business value to what during Program Increment (PI) Planning?
- A . Program-level PI Objectives
- B . Stories
- C . Features
- D . Team-level PI Objectives
What does an effective Scrum Master help the team with?
- A . Risk mitigation
- B . Team metrics
- C . Relentless improvement
- D . Deploying work
At which Tuckman stage would an ART be if it is improving engineering practices and fostering more effective communication?
- A . Storming
- B . Performing
- C . Forming
- D . Norming
Which statement is true about estimating and forecasting the Portfolio Backlog?
- A . Feature estimates are rolled up into Epic estimates
- B . Refinement is necessary when estimating the effort needed to implement an Epic
- C . WSJF is used to assign Epics to Value Streams
Teams are reporting a high level of success through their individual quantitative meas-urements, but the system results say otherwise.
What should the Release Train Engineer do to help the teams deliver more value?
- A . Coach the Scrum Masters on good retrospective techniques and ensure teams are defining and taking a systems view approach to improvements
- B . Share the quantitative measurement results with Product Management and lead-ership and ask for their input
- C . Diagnose the differences between the measurements and the results and suggest improvement items to each team
- D . Work with the team that is struggling the most to discover patterns that can be ap-plied to the other teams