PSM I Mock Exams

Mohamed,

Scrum.org takes care in not disclosing the exact assessment questions and their answers through any avenues. Their objective is to preserve the integrity of the assessment from becoming a vanity means to claim Scrum knowledge. some sites and sources provide mock questions. But beware of them. Usually, we find that those questions can be misleading.

Here are couple of items by me. It may sound like promoting, but I cant avoid as this will serve as direct response to your question. You may want to checkout and decide

Book:
Scrum Narrative and PSM Exam Guide :
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/592973 ( pdf / mobi / pdb / html / online / rtf / txt / lrf formats)
The author of this book respects Scrum.org view of not revealing original assessment questions. Rather than reproducing the original questions, the author has designed a full range of questions, around 250+ to completely practice Scrum knowledge areas and be comfortably positioned to answer PSM 1 questions.

Preparation Tips:
How to pass PSM in first attempt? Five steps to get the most meritorious Scrum certificate
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-pass-psm-first-attempt-five-steps-ge…

Dear Mohammed, I found your eBook in another thread, bought it - and am completely satisfied. I posted this review on amazon.de:

"Yesterday I passed PMI's "Agile Certified Practicioner" (PMI-ACP) and wanted to give PSM 1 a try before Christmas. Scrum is part of PMI-ACP, but not on a detailed level. In the past, I've read some books on Scrum, too, but that was some time ago. In addition, I have real live experience, but never before concentrated on learning Scrum by heart to get a certification.

Mohammed's book is a great source for preparing for PSM 1. I started reading it tonight and passed with 98% (85% required) 12 hours later. The eBook covers all the material in the Scrum Guide and delivers a lot of interesting and helpful knowledge that is relevant for implementing Scrum, and which is not included in it's core (clearly marked as 'detours'), a mapping of Scrum to the Agile Manifesto (which anyone interested in Agile should know by heart: agilemanifesto.org) and even some hints on different types of questions to be expected. The book provides a lot of test questions, too, which from my point of view very well resemble the character and difficulty of those in the real exam.

Other sources I used for preparation were (as recommended by Mohammed) the different open assessments on scrum.org (Scrum Master, Developer, Nexus) and a bit Wikipedia. Nothing more is really needed.

Thanks Mohammed for doing a great job in summing up everything that is relevant for the test in a very clear and concise way! Merry Christmas, Marcus"

Dear Marcus,

A huge THANK YOU for your great feedback and the review. I am very glad that the book - Scrum Narrative and PSM Exam Guide helped you.

My motivation to write this book came from two facts:
1..- Before writing PSM 1 assessment, I had plenty of years of experience in Scrum and few other agile manifesto compliant frameworks. PSM 1 was a surprising eye opener for me to understand Scrum for what it was, with its common sense based but groundbreaking fundamentals. Scrum Guide and many good sources recommended by Scrum.org for PSM 1 enriched my knowledge and I thoroughly enjoyed the new knowledge that started soaking in. Then came a thought - why not I crystallize my learning for others benefit. So, in a way, this book is sort of a thesaurus for Scrum Guide.
2..- Scrum has not only changed the way that I and my teams work, but has brought in a whole new perspective on how I approached other things outside the profession. The empiricism as a driver for scrum approach has answered many of the questions on the complexity of events and how to make decisions amidst this complexity. The second driver of scrum, namely the people aspect, made me realize the limitation of one man centered leadership styles and the subjectivity associated with that. A truly transformational concept changes your life not just professionally but personally as well. And Scrum had come to influence many of my other activities with examples such as
...The approach to planning and building a small construction project. Though I am an architect by education, I heavily utilized Scrum principles in evolving the design of the building, rather than the traditional approach of detailed upfront horizontal and vertical layout
...Personal Investment and portfolio building
...The amount of transparency that I brought in my communication with family, friends, and many other stakeholders in my professional network
...Many more….

I am little jealous that you got 98% in your first attempt while I could only clock 95% back then :)
If at all possible could you provide your email id that I can reach you? You can drop in at musthafa.s@gmail.com

Again, thank you so much and Season greetings!!

Dear Mohammed,

> I am little jealous that you got 98% in your first attempt while I could only clock 95% back then :)

But you did not have your book for preparation ;-)

> If at all possible could you provide your email id that I can reach you? You can drop in at musthafa.s@gmail.com

Of course: marcus.gemeinder@web.de

Bye,
Marcus

As I read your comments , i decided to purchase the book and read it . thank you for this guide .
Before taking the PSM 1 exam i decided to take some mock exams , so i purchased the testtakeronline one , but i really find their questions/ answers confusing
Do you have any feedback on this ?
Thank you for your answers ( if any :) )

Nouha,

As for the PSM questions, Scrum.org takes care in not disclosing the exact assessment questions and their answers through any avenues. Their objective is to preserve the integrity of the assessment from becoming a vanity means to claim Scrum knowledge. Some sites and sources provide mock questions. But beware of them. Usually, we find that those questions can be misleading.

Misleading sources – Example 1
Following are few examples of mistakes found in a popular training manual on Scrum.
• It introduces definition of “Done” as an artifact. In fact, definition of “Done” is not an artifact. There are only three artifacts defined by Scrum. So, after reading this manual, if you see a question like the following,

Which is a Scrum Artifact:
a) Definition of Ready
b) Definition of Done
c) Design Document
d) None of the above
You may choose ‘b’. But the correct answer is ‘d’

• The manual states that “The Sprint Backlog is frozen when the Sprint Planning is done” This is incorrect. Sprint Planning produces a Sprint Backlog with just enough detail. It is not frozen but emerges during the Sprint as the Development Team learns more about the work and accordingly modifies the backlog
• The central theory behind Scrum is empiricism. There is not even a mention about empiricism in the training manual.


Now to your question on some site. It is an example of poor articulation of the question itself.
I understand its intent. It requires some rephrasing.

Read it as follows (I just assume that is what they intended): o Which of those events Is an opportunity for the scrum team to inspect and adapt the scrum team itself : -Sprint Review -Sprint Retrospective -Daily Scrum -Sprint Planning. Now you know that - given the options, retro is the right choice.

Unfortunatley only scored 81.3% was able to pass all the open exams 100% 3 times in a row and read the scrum guide 3 times but a lot of the questions asked in the test are not in the sources suggested.

Also I find that the questions are asked in a confusing way and a lot of might's, coulds, possiblys and maybe's in stead of will, are, is etc. So any tips? I was unable to find the information required to pass the test in the sources given apparently.

could have one Developement Team two different Scrum Master?

> could have one Developement Team two different Scrum Master?

A Scrum Master can be replaced, so two different people may reasonably perform the role at different times.