PSM Professional Scrum Master I Practice Exam

PSM Professional Scrum Master I Practice Exam

The PSM I (Professional Scrum Master I) certification, offered by Scrum.org, validates your fundamental understanding of the Scrum framework and your ability to fulfill the Scrum Master role. 

Who should consider this Certification:

• Individuals new to Scrum: Gain a solid foundation in Scrum principles, practices, and values.
• Scrum Masters seeking to validate their skills: Demonstrate your competency in leading and facilitating Scrum teams.
• Project managers or team leads transitioning to Scrum: Adapt your existing knowledge and skills to the Scrum framework.
• Anyone seeking to understand and improve team collaboration and agile development practices.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Facilitating Scrum events: Guide the team through sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint review, and sprint retrospective, ensuring effective communication and collaboration.
• Removing impediments: Identify and address roadblocks hindering the team's progress.
• Coaching and mentoring the team: Guide team members in understanding and applying Scrum principles effectively.
• Protecting the team: Shield the team from external distractions and ensure they have the resources and environment needed to succeed.
• Promoting continuous improvement: Facilitate ongoing reflection and adaptation within the Scrum team.

Exam Details:

• Format: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer, True/False
• Number of Questions: 80
• Time Limit: 60 minutes
• Languages: English
• Passing Score: 85%

Course Outline

Below are the objectives for all the three levels of the Professional Scrum Master (PSM). 

1. Understanding and Applying the Scrum Framework

Scrum enables individuals and teams to deliver value incrementally through collaboration. As an agile framework, Scrum provides a flexible structure that teams can adapt by integrating practices suited to their context. The framework is grounded in empiricism, self-management, and continuous improvement.

Key focus areas:

• Empiricism

• Scrum Values

• Scrum Team

• Scrum Events

• Scrum Artifacts

• Definition of Done

• Scaling Scrum

2. Developing People and Teams

Scrum emphasizes teamwork and collaboration to enhance product agility. Success in Scrum requires team members to adopt various stances when engaging with others inside and outside the team environment. These stances support the development of individuals and teams.

Key focus areas:

• Self-Managing Teams

• Facilitation

• Leadership Styles

• Coaching

• Mentoring

• Teaching

3. Managing Products with Agility

Scrum Teams deliver value through products that serve users and meet organizational goals. Effective product management requires clarity of purpose, stakeholder involvement, and measurable value.

Key focus areas:

• Forecasting and Release Planning

• Product Vision

• Product Value

• Product Backlog Management

• Business Strategy

• Stakeholder and Customer Engagement

4. Developing and Delivering Products Professionally

Professional Scrum promotes the development of high-quality products that are delivered frequently and incrementally. These products are designed to align with stakeholder needs while offering adaptability for changing priorities.

Key focus areas:

• Emergent Software Development

• Managing Technical Risk

• Continuous Quality

• Continuous Integration

• Continuous Delivery

• Optimizing Flow

5. Evolving the Agile Organization

Scrum Teams operate within broader organizational systems that must support agile principles. Organizations must minimize friction and empower teams to manage themselves and make decisions close to the work being performed.

Key focus areas:

• Organizational Design and Culture

• Portfolio Planning

• Evidence-Based Management