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For Scrum Masters, team members and anyone who wants to prove a solid, Scrum Guide 2020 level understanding of Scrum and the Scrum Master accountability.

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The real exam

Questions80
Time60 minutes
Pass mark85% (68 of 80)
Fee$200 per attempt
Question typesSingle answer, multiple answer, true/false
FormatOnline, unproctored, paper references only
Based onScrum Guide 2020
ValidityLifetime, no renewal fee

What you get

49
lessons
5
hours of reading
430
original questions
5
full mock exams

Mocks follow the real rules: 80 questions in 60 minutes, flag and review.

Syllabus

Empiricism and Scrum theory8%

Scrum's definition, empiricism, lean thinking and the pillars of transparency, inspection and adaptation.

Scrum Values4%

Commitment, Focus, Openness, Respect and Courage, and how they support the pillars.

Scrum Team18%

Team composition and size, the accountabilities of Developers, Product Owner and Scrum Master, and multiple teams on one product.

Self-Managing Teams9%

Who decides who does what, conflict, impediments and the role of management.

Events20%

The Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective: purpose, attendees, timeboxes and cancellation.

Artifacts14%

Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and Increment, and their commitments: Product Goal, Sprint Goal and Definition of Done.

Done7%

The Definition of Done, usable Increments, undone work and technical debt.

Facilitation and Coaching6%

Scrum Master stances, facilitation, coaching, teaching and mentoring.

Product Backlog Management6%

Refinement, sizing and estimation, and complementary practices that are not Scrum rules.

Forecasting and Release Planning3%

Burn-downs, velocity myths, flow metrics and release timing.

Product Value and Stakeholders5%

Outcomes over output, stakeholder collaboration and Evidence-Based Management basics.

Course outline

  1. Scrum foundations · 4 lessons
  2. The Scrum Team · 6 lessons
  3. Scrum events · 7 lessons
  4. Artifacts, commitments and Done · 7 lessons
  5. People, coaching and facilitation · 4 lessons
  6. Value, stakeholders and forecasting · 5 lessons
  7. Scaling and complementary practices · 3 lessons
  8. Exam technique · 3 lessons
  9. Weak spots · 6 lessons
  10. Worked scenarios · 3 lessons
  11. Exam day · 1 lessons

Try a question

An organization uses Sprints and a Product Backlog but has decided not to hold Sprint Retrospectives and has no Definition of Done. Which statement is most accurate?
A. The organization may use parts of Scrum, but the result is not Scrum
B. The organization is using a valid lightweight variant of Scrum
C. The organization is using Scrum, adapted to its context
D. The organization is using Scrum if Sprints are one month or less
Show answer
Answer: A. The Guide's end note says the framework is immutable: you can implement only parts of it, but then what you have is not Scrum. Each element serves a specific purpose, and removing one leads to lost opportunities to inspect and adapt.
Why does Scrum use an iterative, incremental approach?
A. To make sure all requirements are captured before work starts
B. To allow the Scrum Master to track individual productivity
C. To optimize predictability and to control risk
D. To guarantee the release date agreed with stakeholders
Show answer
Answer: C. The Guide states that Scrum employs an iterative, incremental approach to optimize predictability and to control risk. Each Sprint limits risk to a short time frame and creates a chance to learn.

Passwell is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Scrum.org. PSM and Professional Scrum Master are trademarks of Scrum.org. All questions and lessons are original Passwell content. Concepts from the Scrum Guide 2020 by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland are explained in our own words, with short quotes attributed, under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Facts checked 2026-11-14.