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PSM 1 Certification Test

Last post 04:15 am November 18, 2015 by Andrew Lishomwa
3 replies
Benjamin Dains
11:16 pm November 11, 2015

Quick question for all of the senior members:

I've watched many courses on Pluralsight including many of Benjamin Day's and David Starr's classes.
I've worked on a 'Scrum under a Waterfall' team for the last 2.5 years, but my mentor is a CSM and PSM II, so she always leads me in the right direction. :)
I am working on my MCSD: ALM Certification and I know the ins and outs of TFS, and how to utilize Scrum with all of the provided functionality.

I have recently re-read the Scrum Guide, and practiced the Open Test over and over until I could reproduce 100%'s over and over.

So, my question is: Do you think I am ready for the test?

I think I am, but I want to make sure I am 100% prepared. :)

Ramsay Ashby
02:55 am November 13, 2015

It sounds like it. If your mentor has achieved PSM 2 then you can be confident that they know the subject well and will have been steering you in the right direction, so if you have been constantly learning from them as well as doing your own study, and are now able to demonstrate that by consistently achieving 100% in the Open Assessments, I would encourage you to go for it!

Benjamin Dains
10:30 am November 13, 2015


Posted By Ramsay Ashby on 13 Nov 2015 02:55 AM
It sounds like it. If your mentor has achieved PSM 2 then you can be confident that they know the subject well and will have been steering you in the right direction, so if you have been constantly learning from them as well as doing your own study, and are now able to demonstrate that by consistently achieving 100% in the Open Assessments, I would encourage you to go for it!



Thanks for the reply!

I will study a little more today and this weekend and more than likely take the test next week. :)

Andrew Lishomwa
04:15 am November 18, 2015

Hi,

Good luck, sounds like good prep. I passed my PSM 1 a short while ago and have a similar background, I'm MCSD (but old track) and work with TFS as our tool of choice.

The only things I'd add is for safety also make sure you get 100% on all the open assessments, some of the questions will help. Also I found Mikhail Lapshin's free online test at http://mlapshin.com/index.php/psm-quiz/ to be hugely useful, I redid it until I could confidently get 100%, two questions I did not fully agree with but even that was useful as I went into them after researching myself, answered as per the suggested one but with the caveat in my mind that I'd answer slightly differently on the actual test if asked same. It's all about getting an understanding of the intentions

Good luck anyway!

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