Passed PSM 1 92.5% - First try here's my experience!
I passed PSM 1 with 74/80 92.5% and I didn't expect it to be that tricky.
I been using scrum for more than 2 Years, 1 scrum team with 6 Developers and a product owner.
Since last week I read the scrum guide twice and a couple of questions came from the guide. Most of my Exam Questions were based on real day to day scrum experiences. At one point I felt like I started the wrong exam, scenario after scenario. Before the exam I did the open assessments scoring 100% 3 times but the questions were all the similar so i stopped and went for the real scrum test.
The test is worded differently like most of the guys mentioned. The scrum open assessments are easy, the scrum psm1 exam is not. You really need to understand scrum especially the teaching, coaching and facilitation as a scrum master. They ask you real world stuff like - how to solve most problems, team absenteeism, poor performance, lack of collaboration, reporting and dealing with multiple scrum teams. I'm not sure if there is a book that covers that content. I used my own experience to answer such.
Anyway good luck! Going for PSM2 next week after doing a few researches!
Ciao!
Congratulations, Hilary! Way to go!
Hello Hillary,
I passed PSMII few days ago and must admit that it is much more tricky as PSMI.
When answering a question, you will probably have many times to ask yourself, regarding the values of scrum and the wording of scrum master role, which answer would bring the more benefit for everyone to produce the most valuable increment.
Good luck for your PSM2.
Thank you Lawrence Dong.
@Florian thank you for the valuable info, wish to graze it fast :-). If you don't mind which material did you find useful for your PSMII study?
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