If you decided to earn a certificate at Scrum.org or just learn Scrum better, my quizzes should greatly help you:
- Professional Scrum Master™ (PSM I™) preparation quiz – learning mode | real mode
- Professional Scrum Product Owner™ (PSPO I™) preparation quiz – learning mode | real mode
- Scaled Professional Scrum™ (SPS™ aka Nexus™) preparation quiz – learning mode
When I decided to pass PSM I exam, I found no good free practice quizzes. The open assessments at Scrum.org are fine, but the number of available questions is too small. I decided to help all the Scrum learners by creating these free quizzes. You will learn the Scrum Guide by heart and get an idea of the real assessments.
There are two quiz modes:
- Learning Mode – Each question has an immediate explanation. No time limit. All quiz questions are available. Pass it several times and you will be prepared well for the real assessment.
- Real Mode – It is very similar to the real assessment. No correct answers and explanations. There are 80 randomly selected questions and 60 minutes. Try it and get the feeling of the real assessment!
All the quizzes based on the Scrum Guide v2017.
If you are looking for more questions or want to clarify some weird Scrum topic, take a look at Scrum Questions page.
Questions about the real exams and the quiz itself are answered at Quiz FAQ page.
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I’m strugglin to guide my team in the right direction on this. If the development team and UX team plan their work together in Sprint Planning, do they execute it separately during the sprint???
Hi,
Formally, you can consider this as a scaled Scrum effort. Read the Nexus Guide to get an idea.
These are two separate Scrum Teams. We can consider them as “component” teams (versus “feature” teams). The UX team produces “design” that will be consumed by the other team.
Usually, the UX team works on the stories one-two Sprints ahead of the Dev team. It makes sure the Dev Team has “design” ready to unblock the related Items for them.
An ideal Scrum approach would be to have UX expertise within the Dev Team (and Dev expertise within the UX team). However, the type of interaction would remain similar. Stories requiring UX design would be considered as “Epics” that should be handled in parts in different Sprints. And the UX part should be done first.
Thanks,
–Mikhail
In regards to Lean UX, do you think that EVERY experiment identify criteria by which its success or failure will be evaluated?
If you want to ensure UX is considered… should the product owner include Acceptance Criteria for “Run an experiment” or something similar as part of EVERY SINGLE PBI? That seems sort of overkill… and unnecessary
I know I have heard of Sprint 0 also known as Pre-Plan Sprint (Yes I know sprint 0 doesn’t exist) but would you agree or disagree that the first sprint can be most accurately described as the “Discovery Sprint”?
Yes, I agree. During the first Sprint the team usually addresses the most risky items like probing new technologies, trying different versions of the UX design mockups and so on. It is discovering the scope of the future work.
If you have the team using two backlogs… a discovery and delivery backlog. What can I expect to happen with my teams? Should an equal amount of work get done? will they swarm and pitch in where needed? I was thinking it was will be easier to track discovery versus delivery work. I also think they will function like two separate teams? But maybe i’m wrong!
I am a bit confused with the two backlogs. According to Scrum, every Product should have exactly one Product Backlog and one Product Owner.
Every Scrum Team should produce some user functionality every Sprint. It cannot be just some “delivery” work.
Thanks,
–Mikhail
If I was looking to reduce churn in later sprints, do you think the first sprint should be used to create a unifying UX design? probably right?
There is only one guidance from the Scrum Guide. The Scrum Team can decide to do anything during the next Sprint, however it should implement some user functionality (it does not matter how small it is).
Usually, during the first Sprints the team works on the most risky tasks such as probing new technologies, doing PoCs of the UX design and so on.
Thanks,
–Mikhail
I took PSM 1 today and passed with 98.8%.
Thanks for your mock tests and blog on scrum questions
Cool!
I am glad my quizzes helped you.
Thanks for sharing your success here!
–Mikhail
Hi Mikhail,
first of all thanks a lot for this platform. I am preparing for PSM I. I run your LM quizz and have three questions:
1. Regarding the role of the Scrum master: In context of the PO you define the answer “Leading and Coaching the organization in its Scrum adaption” as WRONG, in context of the organization the answer is RIGHT. Is it really only of the context?
2. Daily Scrum: In one question your answer is that PO and SM are not allowed to participate in the Daily Scrum. But as I learnt they can participate (passively) when DT allows that?
3. Multiple teams working on one product. Can there be different “Definitons of Done”: Your answer is “true”, but in the assessments on scrum.org the answer is “All Development Teams must have a definition of Done that makes their combined work potentially releasable.”
Would be great if you can figure out why there might be a discrepancy.
Thanks a lot and kind regards
Marco
Hi Marco,
Thanks for the questions. Let me answer them.
#1
Yes, this is context only.
For sure, one of the SM duties is leading and coaching organization in its Scrum adoption. If you take a look at “The Scrum Master” section of the Scrum Guide, you will find it consists of the three parts: SM service to the PO, SM service to the DT and SM service to the Org. The “coaching organization” duty belongs to the last one.
So, look carefully at the wording of a question. Sometimes a correct statement is not the right answer.
#2
Good eye!
This question is asking about the difference between “participate” that means “come and speak” and “attend” that means “come and remain silent”. It was an important detail when I was taking the PSM exam. So, the PO and the SM can come to the Daily Scrum, but should not interrupt the meeting.
#3
No, there is no any contradiction. The teams should define the DoD together. However, some of the teams can decide to make it even stricter. As a result, teams have the same “base level” DoD and some of them have extra requirements on top of it like mandatory performance testing, etc.
Best Regards,
–Mikhail
Thanks a lot Mikhail for your answer and the entire Blog!
Hi Mikhail, I attempted an Scrum Open test and found few question & their answers bit confusing. Could you pls share your thoughts with regards to this.
A. Questions : Development Team membership should change:
Answer : As needed, while taking into account a short term reduction in productivity.
Note: what is “membership” in regards to development team in scrum
B. Who is required to attend the Daily Scrum?
I selected the choice as Development team and Scrum master because Dev team is required to participate and Scrum master can attend as watcher.
The difference between Attend and Participate ?
Thanks in advance and have a nice day,
Mohamed Riaz
Hi Mohamed,
Thanks for the questions.
A.
It looks like there are several Dev Teams in the Organization. So, Developers can move between the teams for any reasons. If a new Developer comes to a team, its productivity will decrease for a short term because the other team members will have to spend time on getting the new member up to speed.
B.
Yes, I think the question means the difference between Attend and Participate.
Best Regards,
–Mikhail
Hi Mikhail, Thank you and I liked the way you explained the context. Also, the way you answer other users questions, makes more sense to me now having completed the scrum guide.
Thanks again,
Riaz
My pleasure!
Your quizzes are a solid material for preparing for Scrum.org certifications, as well as learning the framework. They helped me a lot in the process of getting certified and I have been recommending them to everyone that asks for study advice. Thank you for building this and keep up the good work!
Thanks for preparing such a material for the PSM 1 exam, it helped me to pass the exam smoothly with 97% marks. My question is is it worth to go for the PSM 2? Do you share some reference materiel for the same.
Hi Mikhail, I need some help to understand where I went wrong. I recently did the PSPO 1 exam and failed by 1 question. My score was 100% in most sections expect Leadership styles where I got 0%, and I got 75-80% for Done, Product Backlog Management, Product Value, Stakeholders and Customers and Artifacts. I did your exams over 20/30 times until I was getting 100% or close to every-time. So I am really confused as to how I got such a low score. Also I don’t even know which questions they will ask for things like leadership style and some of the others. Can you please give me some guidance. Did I completely miss a section on reading or another guide ? Thanks
Can you please with the answers of these questions with explanation
1)A product’s success is measured by:(choose best 3)
A. Impact on customer satisfaction
B. Impact on Revenue
C. Impact on Cost
D. The delivery of agreed upon scope compared to the expected time
E. Impact on my performance rating
2) Dependencies could influence how the product owner orders product backlog items,true or false ?
3)Product Owners must specify complete acceptance criteria for a Product Backlog item before the team can select the item in Sprint Planning.true or false ?
4)Scrum requires product owner to use which of these ?(choose all of those who apply)
A)Release burndown diagram
B)Burndown chart
C)Feature burn-up
D)Critical Path Analysis
E)Refactoring
F)Project Gantt Chart
G)none of the above
5)What are three advantages of a Product Owner with a solid product vision?(choose best three)
A)It helps scrum team keep focus and they can check any decision against it ,even within a sprint.
B)It helps the scrum team maintain focus on when the complete product backlog should be finished.
C)It is easier to inspect incremental process at the Sprint Review
D)It’s not mandatory in Scrum.There’s no real advantage
E)It gives a good overall direction so Sprints will feel less like isolated pieces of work
Meanwhile I also passed my exams PSM I and PSPO I in the first attempt. Thanks a lot for this blog, Mikhail, it was really helpful. Of course I donated.
Hello Mikhail,
Please when can we expect the update for 2020. I am planning to attempt PSM-1 in coming week and very few resources to check your knowledge.
Thank you
Thank you so much for the Scrum PSM1 Quiz. I found the questions to be more similar than the Official Open Assessment. I did not have any problems with it being 2017 vs 2020, although I am not saying there might not be some differences in the questions.
I took the CSM course first, but it is easier than PSM. I followed a lot of the learning path on Scrum.org and some online courses as well. I also made a mind map of the Scrum guide as well as reading it a few times. I did the Open Assessment multiple times until I was mainly hitting 100%. I did your assessment a number of times in both modes. I went through the actual assessment as quick as I could (around 40mins) bookmarking around 10 questions to go back to. I got 97.5% on my first attempt. I have made a small donation as a thank you. Good luck to everyone taking it!
Dear Mikhail,
thanks for your invaluable time to create these content for enthusiastic future Scrum practitioners. It’s a strong collaboration which makes the difference in quality in the first place.
I solved your tests a few times and I would like to give a few feedbacks on some questions. It seems the question databank is unfortunately not yet updated to the latest version of Scrum Guide (2021). Please feel free (anyone) to comment on them.
1. Who is the leader in terms of getting feedback from the Key Stakeholders in the Sprint Review?
The answer as per Quiz is “Product Owner”. However, this information is outdated. It was indeed PO in the previous version of Scrum Guideline but since the 2021 version this leadership has been assigned to the Scrum Team as a whole. Every individual in team is encouraged to get feedback from key stakeholders during the Sprint Review session.
2. The Development Team should be able to explain to the Product Owner and Scrum Master how it intends to work as a self-organizing team to accomplish the Sprint Goal and create the anticipated Increment.
The answer as per Quiz is “True”. Here I raise my eyebrow. The essence of being self-organising is to assume responsibility for their own actions and consequences, as opposed to traditional “Manager and the managed” method, where the manager has the responsibility of the actions of the team and therefore the team obeys every command of the manager. However, if someone “should be able to explain others about how they are going to work”, this automatically gives authority to the others, who would have a right to question the dev team. That is against the essence of self-organising and creates an environment of authority, which we do not encourage in Scrum. Also, as per Scrum Guide, dev team are free to choose from the methods of work and engineering as long as they reach the DoD status, which is already decided by the whole team in the first place and which in my opinion makes it obsolete to have an obligation to explain these methods to other members who are not experts in development. Please feel free to elaborate.
3. The Product Owner should be expertly aware of the marketplace for the product.
The answer as per Quiz is “True”. However, this is not always the case. Not every product or service developed in an agile environment targets or released to the marketplace. Some of them can be entirely for internal use or unique to the organisation, which may not have substitutes or anything to do with the open market. In such situations, it doesn’t make sense for the PO to be expertly aware of the marketplace for the product, especially if there is no marketplace for the product in the first place. So the right answer in my opinion should be “It depends”.
4.Who is responsible for creation of the Definition of “Done”?
The answer as per Quiz is “The Development Team”. However, this information too seems to be outdated. As per Scrum.org, although the Dev Team has the most technical know-how on the work they are going to carry out, the task of creating DoD is assigned to the Scrum Team as a whole. DoD may include not only the definition of final state of the increment, but also the quality level, security precautions, non-functional requisites and others, which the team as a whole can inspect and adapt.
I will continue to add to this list as I come across more outdated questions. Meanwhile, please feel free to comment or elaborate. Thank you.
Hello! May I know if the PSM1 exam is based on the latest Scrum Guide already or still based on the 2017 version. Thank you!
Thank you very much for your helpful mock test. I’ve learned a lot from your site.
I have a small question. Hope you can help me clarify it.
In your mock test, I saw a question:
Question: “Imagine the following situation. At the sprint retrospective meeting, the scrum team defines some improvement that can be done. What should the scrum team do? Select the best option.”
The correct answer is “Make sure the sprint backlog for the next sprint includes at least 1 high-priority process improvement.
However, in the open assessment of scrum.org, there is a similar question but the answer is different.
Question: The Scrum Team must choose at least one high-priority process improvement item, identified during the Sprint Retrospective, and place it in the Sprint Backlog. True or False?
Correct answer: False
Scrum open assessment explains that: “An earlier version of the Scrum Guide prescribed the practice of placing one improvement in the Sprint Backlog. This was removed in the 2020 update to the Scrum Guide because it was felt to be too prescriptive. However, if this practice provides value to you then you should adopt it. It is simply not prescribed anymore, but can still be valuable.”
Regarding to the latest scrum guide, it’s not mandatory to put at least 1 high-priority process improvement into the next sprint backlog, right? If so could you help adjust the question in mock test?
Or If It was my misunderstanding, could you please help me clarify it?
Thank you!