Psm1 Mock Test

[Shane Rouse]

Fromwhat I gather from other forum posts, using tests other than those on Scrum.org can run the risk of having poorly-worded questions and incorrect answers. The Scrum.org tests are quite good and I didn't need any others when I got my PSM-I.

I purchased 'Scrum Narrative and PSM Exam Guide' by Soukath Ali and Mohammed Musthafa from Amazon and that was a very good practice for the PSM 1. It's written specifically for PSM1 prep and keeps to very similar values to what Scrum.org offers.

I only used the scrum.org open assessment and all of the free recommended reading. I read, not skimmed, the entire Scrum Guide every other day for 2 weeks before I took the exam. I took the open assessment until I felt confident enough that I knew the material. I avoided any of the other free assessments. I learned from studying for non Scrum related things that the best source is the one for which you are attempting to satisfy. After passing the exam, I took some of the other free assessments and was actually astounded at what some of them claimed to be correct answers.

If you feel like you need some more knowledge before taking the PSM I after using all of the information provided/suggested by scrum.org, I suggest you take some of the other open assessments found here. Take the PSPO I or PSD I open assessments. They are covering the same basic material but from different perspectives. Take the PSM II open assessment. If you can get a good or passing score on that then you are ready to take the PSM I.

I agree! I'm done with 3rd party mock test. Way too confusing. Only problem is the open assessment only has 30 questions and I've done them a few times now and I just know the answer from seeing the first 3 words of the question. Need more material for open assessment.

The open assessments just let you know if you are able to answer questions around the basic subject matter, and are not there to be used as a guarantee that you are ready for the actual certification assessments.

@Priyanka if you truly want to learn to apply Scrum and not just receive the certification I suggest that you take a class. Our Professional Scrum Master class provides you with real-world activities that can be applied throughout your career while teaching your Scrum and setting your agile mindset. If you are focused on the test only, follow the reading in the Prepare for Assessment section on -scrum-master-i-certification with dozens of resources.

Looking at your test results, i suggest that you also reread the Scrum Guide several times until you have it committed to memory and are able to understand why what is in there is in there.

A practice test doesn't give you knowledge it gives you questions. The resources and classes provide a way to learn and interpret for application.

I gave PSM -1 exam on 25.09.2021 and I got 93.8%. To prepare I attended Scrum.org two day training workshop with Punit Doshi. I practiced from open assessments for SM, PO and Dev. Also I used i80 free simulator for PSM1 exam and M.Lapshin - Learning as well as Real time. Though the latter two helped me clear my concepts to a large extent but the foundational and more relevant were the open assessments. They gave me a 360degree view of how the Scrum Framework works in given situations. Reading Scrum Guide religiously, following the changes in 2020 vis-a-vis 2017 version of it, and open assessments are sufficient to build the understanding that this Exam tests. Good luck to all.

I passed the PSM1 test with 92.5%. I had some experience working with scrum, took a class from Franklyn Gleering on scrum.org, practiced Open assessments - Scrum Open, Developer Open, Product Owner Open several times with 100%. I also took test on -quizzes/ site (it is based on scrum guide v2017, so be careful of the answers). I genuinely practiced all these assessments/mock test, trying always to understand the question instead of memorizing the answers. In the test, all my efforts towards it helped but I could have done better if I had known that there will be many situational questions, with very little time I found them very difficult and surprising as those type of questions never appeared in assessments, so prepare well for them from anywhere you can (sadly I don't know from where). Hope it helps someone.

Just took the PSM-1 exam after getting 10, 100%'s on the Srcum.org assessment test and failed. The PSM-1 exam had questions on it that were much different then what I saw on the assessment. My results showed I need to improve my knowledge on both Facilition and Product Backlog Management. Is there a site that I can go to that had assessments longer than 30 questions and are designed more like the actual 80 question exam?

From my personal experience, Udemy had helped me to gain some confidence for real test AFTER repeated Open Assessments & 2-3x Mlapshin. I went through every correct and wrong answers with reference to Scrum Guide Book just to be sure.

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I am currently preparing to take the PSMI and it seems I am doing exactly what you did in terms of reading and mock test taking even before reading your post. So it's good to know that this level of preparation may lead to success on a first attempt.

Lots of questions from all the different sources were here in exam, like word-to-word questions... so to answer them was no-brainer, because you memorize everything during mock exams. But a few questions were rather challenging. Somehow I managed to nail most of them. I guess you just start thinking logically and apply common sense in such cases. I prepared lots of notes in advance, but oddly enough I didn't use them. Everything is my notes I remembered by heart, and for every "puzzling question" i could't find clear answer on the internet.

I've been studing for the test since last week: read the Scrum Guide many, many times, took my own notes and done the free mock tests (open assessments in scrum.org and michael). I started getting very good grades in a row (more tham 95% in average in both) and decided to buy the password for the certification.

Then I read your tips in the forum, and went in volkerdon.com as well. Harder mock tests, failed in the first one (40 test questions), barely passed in the second and third mocks. As you mentioned, `trickier` questions (attend x participate) , detailed questions not in the Scrum Guide (cone of uncertainty, scrum poker, technical debt, sucess metrics for PO, automated builds, scrum of scrums, integrated Increment) - though one can guess after a while.

For ELLA WODZINSKA, thanks for the suggestion of investing (not spending!) USD 10,00 in It was really worth for me. In my opinion their questions are the more similar ones to the real exam. Thanks also for the tip to "look for the obvious "no way!" answers and exclude them." Not so obvious if you only practice with the open assessments. Important tip for non-native speakers, like me.

And finally, thanks to Orkhan Efendiev for answering my previous questions. At that moment I was really panicking (could not find any other Brazilian which passed the test recently), so your answers gave me the confidence I needed to keep going, that I was in the right path.

2) I was really afraid about the site performance issues that were mentioned in many forums, but I didn't have any (maybe because it was Friday!). My tip is: try to select a time for the real exam where there are (probably) less users logged in.

3) I finalized the test in 45min, so I had time to go over all my bookmarked questions. In order words: manage time. Practice the other assesments (open, quizzes, mock) much as possible to finalize early, very early. It can be tough, because in real life, after all hours studying and knowing that you have only one attempt to pass, it's really tempting to submit the test and get the final results asap. By taking time to carefully review your bookmarked questions, for sure you will improve your score.

For ELLA WODZINSKA, thanks for the suggestion of investing (not spending!) USD 10,00 in It was really worth for me. In my opinion their questions are the more similar ones to the real exam. Thanks also for the tip to "look for the obvious "no way!" answers and exclude them." Not so obvious if you only practice with the open assessments. Important tip for non-native speakers, like me. And finally, thanks to Orkhan Efendiev for answering my previous questions. At that moment I was really panicking (could not find any other Brazilian which passed the test recently), so your answers gave me the confidence I needed to keep going, that I was in the right path.

Above you wrote that real exam on scrum.org was slow. How do you think (or maybe somebody else), is it enough 45 seconds per question or maybe due to slow the user will have only 35-40 seconds per question?

I just cleared PSPO I yesterday with 88.8% score. I think you would have sufficient time to answer all the questions and come back to bookmarked questions if you have gone through the open assessment practice tests and those on other free practice sites mentioned above with attention and prepared well.

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