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[Montray Yadav]

Iam 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.

I cleared the PSM1 certification today with a score of 96.3%. It was my first attempt and I must confess I was really nervous before clicking that 'Start Assessment' button. I would like to thank people in this forum who have shared their experiences and preparation strategies which worked tremendously for me. I have been practicing scrum since many years as part of the Development team and that really helped me in understanding the concepts of the Scrum Guide. My prep strategy:

6.Purchased the mock tests from www.volkerdon.com for 12$. A lot of their questions are really helpful and tricky and would clear a lot of your concepts which are not covered in the Open Assessments.

My main conclusion of this is that you don't need to have previous practical experience as Scrum Master. Currently I am working as Project Manager following PRINCE 2 methodology. This fact didn't impact my preparation for PSM I exam at all.

Just gave the exam and passed with 98.8% score in the first attempt : ). I was a bit slow and thought I would not be able to finish the exam and fail as I had finished just 40 questions in 40 mins but then I powered thru it.

Since it is a $150, one-shot-only exam, many people tend to feel they need to prepare a lot before taking it. In my experience, if you really understand the Scrum Guide (every single sentence of it) and do the open assessments, you will be in a good shape to take the exam. Here's what I did:

3rd - Read "The Scrum Narrative and PSM Exam Guide by Mohammed Musthafa Soukath Ali". This book is awesome easy reading and very detailed. It provided me with quizzes after each chapter as well as 5 mini test and one model assessment that mirrored the 80 questions. I took all of them in one day and re-read the scrum guide.

Let me first start off with there are a lot of sites out there that provide study material and sample questions. BECAREFUL OF YOUR SOURCES. I checkout other sites that had sample question answers marked as correct that the Scrum guide clearly indicated were wrong, what affected me is I started looking at these sites and sample questions a few days before I was planning to take the exam. Thankfully I realized my mistake and refocused my energy.

I noticed that it is not enough just to study the scrum guides and take the quizzes; for example I have a 25-30 questions about typical situations that can happen to a scrum master. Obviously they are questions to reasoning and this has impacted on the time available. Obviously the quiz and the scrum guide are enough for most of the questions

I did as others said and read the scrum master multiple times, did the open assessment and scored100 for a few days and did -quiz/ and scored 90 for a few days but did not pass. Score: 76.3% (61 points scored out of 80 maximum points)

I successfully passed the PSM I exam on my first attempt with only 3 days preparation. I learned about Agile 5 years ago when I took my master degree and haven't got a chance to test my knowledge since then.

6. Read Nexus Guide once and did Nexus Open Assessment(really weird that I was not getting a summary of wrong answers at the end of the assessment so really could study much but I still gave assessment twice

1. Try to pace yourself and keep a track of time, time is of the essence because there are 80 questions and you only have 60 mins to answer them. I took my time to read big questions and try to think and then answer but short questions and questions I know are easy & straight forward were answered in less than 10 seconds!

4. I applied this strategy which some of you can apply if you like - I never went back to check any of my previous questions because you have to keep clicking until you reach your answer and that is time consuming. I rather spent those few vital seconds on the question when I first came across and took my time to answer it!

I guess they all are the same (mplaza, volkerdon and so on). They are helpful but if you want to prepare for psm or pspo cert you have first to read good articles at scrum.org and the scrum guide. good luck!

I am happy to share that I completed PSM 1 certification with 93.8 % in my 2nd attempt.

In my 1st attempt I had 80%.

For the 1st attempt I was preparing myself just with Open assessment PSM1, Scrum Guide and mlapshin tests. It was not enough for me.

3. Read blogs on how to prepare for the exam. Scrum.org has few posts on this, which are sufficient and have links to other blog posts. Read all of them. There was something or the other that I memorized/learned from each of the blog posts, reading from other test taker's experiences

There were gaps in my preparation and had difficulty connecting back what I read earlier, so had to be rigorous with the open assessments. I did not really have a pressure of completing the certification just like that, so took time to go beyond and read a couple of books and feel satisfied with the preparation, instead of focussing only on questions and complete the exam. I skipped reading the Scaled Scrum Guide (Nexus), had heard from other test takers that there are 1 or 2 questions from that, but I did not get any in my exam. Doing PSPO and PSD open assessments helps in terms of the reinforcing the roles of PO and Development Team for the PSM1 exam. Reading books helps you give "form" and "life" to the Scrum Guide in your mind, otherwise, the Scrum Guide might end up being just a golden source of information for doing Scrum (which should not be the case). Books elaborate the Scrum Guide so you appreciate it more, and you get talking points in terms of "why"

Explanation: Software dependencies may really influence PBI ordering. It doesn't mean the Product Owner must always order the PBI by referring to software dependencies, but the question is "can" instead of "must". Maybe it is not very good practice but it is up to the Product Owner to decide if this factor is important for ordering the items or not. So it can be one of the reasons to re-order the item. This is one of many "confusing" questions you might face in the real exam.

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