PSPO I prep
For Product Owners, product managers and business analysts who want to prove they understand Scrum and how a Product Owner maximizes the value of a product.
The real exam
| Questions | 80 |
|---|---|
| Time | 60 minutes |
| Pass mark | 85% (68 of 80) |
| Fee | $200 per attempt |
| Question types | Single answer, multiple answer, true/false |
| Format | Online, unproctored, paper references only |
| Based on | Scrum Guide 2020 plus product management and value topics |
| Validity | Lifetime, no renewal fee |
What you get
Mocks follow the real rules: 80 questions in 60 minutes, flag and review.
Syllabus
Scrum theory, the pillars of transparency, inspection and adaptation, and the values as they apply to product decisions.
The Product Owner accountability in depth, delegation, proxies and committees, and how the PO works with Developers and the Scrum Master.
What the Developers decide, what a Product Owner must not dictate, and how one product is shared by several teams.
The Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective from the Product Owner's point of view, including cancellation.
Product Backlog and Product Goal, Sprint Backlog and Sprint Goal, Increment and release decisions.
The Definition of Done, transparency of quality, undone work and technical debt.
Ordering, refinement, sizing, item types and complementary practices such as user stories and story maps.
Outcomes over outputs, the four EBM Key Value Areas, goal levels and experiments.
What a product is, product vision, the Product Goal and strategy treated as hypotheses.
Release decisions, frequent delivery, empirical forecasts, fixed dates and budgets.
Engaging stakeholders and customers, conflicting requests, saying no and feedback loops.
Course outline
- Scrum foundations for Product Owners · 4 lessons
- The Product Owner accountability · 4 lessons
- Events from the Product Owner's view · 4 lessons
- Artifacts, commitments and Done · 4 lessons
- Product Backlog management · 4 lessons
- Value and Evidence-Based Management · 4 lessons
- Product vision and strategy · 4 lessons
- Forecasting, release and stakeholders · 4 lessons
- Weak spots · 7 lessons
- Worked scenarios · 3 lessons
- Exam day · 1 lessons
Try a question
The Product Backlog shows several items as "almost done" but nobody can say what that means. What is the main risk for the Product Owner?A. Decisions about value and release may be based on a misleading picture of progressB. The Sprint Review must be postponed until every item is either finished or removedC. The Developers will have to stop refining items until the meaning is agreedD. The Scrum Master will need to report the problem to senior managementShow answer
Why is Scrum particularly suited to product development where customer needs are uncertain?A. It replaces customer research with the team's own judgementB. It uses short cycles of delivery and feedback to control riskC. It removes the need for planning beyond the current SprintD. It fixes scope early so that cost and date can be predictedShow answer
Passwell is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Scrum.org. PSPO and Professional Scrum Product Owner 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.