SAFe Agilist (SA)

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SAFe Agilist (SA)

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We scored 45 real SAFe Agilist (SA) exam questions 1-10 on question complexity and broke the result down by exam domain.

45 questions scored
6 domains
2.0/10 overall complexity

Complexity by exam domain

Higher scores mean more demanding question formats. The exam score is computed over the whole bank, not averaged across domains.

Exam complexity score2.0/10Gentle · measured across 45 bank questions
  • Agile Product Delivery14 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    36% multi-select · 0% scenario · 29% interactive

  • Digital Age and Business Agility6 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive

  • Leading the Change3 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive

  • Lean Portfolio Management6 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive

  • Lean-Agile Leaders13 questions · complexity 1.8/10 · Gentle

    31% multi-select · 0% scenario · 31% interactive

  • Team and Technical Agility3 questions · complexity 3.3/10 · Gentle

    67% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive

Full per-domain breakdown

Blueprint weight, bank size and question format mix for every domain of the exam.

DomainBlueprintQuestionsSingleMultiInteractiveComplexity
Agile Product Delivery31%145542.0/10Gentle
Digital Age and Business Agility13%62222.0/10Gentle
Leading the Change7%31112.0/10Gentle
Lean Portfolio Management13%62222.0/10Gentle
Lean-Agile Leaders29%135441.8/10Gentle
Team and Technical Agility7%31113.3/10Gentle

How the score is calculated

The formula is fixed and public, so anyone can reproduce these numbers from the same bank.

Every question in the SAFe Agilist (SA) bank is measured on four signals that can be read directly from the database. Each signal is expressed as a share of the questions in the domain, and the four shares are combined with fixed weights:

  • Multi-select questions (40% weight). Items with more than one correct answer. The candidate has to find all of them, which is the single hardest format in the bank.
  • Scenario questions (30% weight). Questions longer than 150 characters, which describe a situation instead of a definition and therefore test reasoning rather than recall.
  • Interactive questions (20% weight). Items that require reading code or a configuration snippet.
  • Deep explanations (10% weight). Questions whose explanation runs past 300 characters, which signals a concept with real nuance behind it.

The combined share is multiplied by ten to produce a 1-10 score. The exam-level score is computed over the whole bank rather than averaged across domains, so a small domain cannot distort the total. Figures on this page are recomputed from the live bank on every crawl.

Data set: Certilum SAFe Agilist (SA) Foundation question bank, 45 questions, 6 domains. Published by CERTILUM. This is Certilum’s own measurement of its own question bank and is not an official Scaled Agile statistic.

Questions analysed
45
Exam domains
6
Hardest domain
Team and Technical Agility (3.3)
Most approachable domain
Lean-Agile Leaders (1.8)
Question mix
16 single · 15 multi · 14 interactive
Measured on
Foundation

Frequently asked questions

What our SAFe Agilist (SA) complexity numbers mean and how they are produced.