Preparing for your first Scrum role? Master the rules of the 2020 Scrum Guide and build exam-ready confidence for the industry's most recognized professional certifications.
If you are brand new to Scrum, gaining a universally recognized credential is your absolute first step toward becoming a legitimate Scrum Master or Product Owner. Prepare for the rigorous 80-question, 60-minute assessments setting the global industry benchmark.
Independent exam-prep test bank, separate from the interactive game simulations.
Servant leadership, removing impediments, timebox enforcement, and team facilitation, drilled until the answers feel obvious.
Value maximisation, Product Backlog ordering, Product Goals, and stakeholder alignment, framed exactly as the assessment frames them.
Free, no account needed. See roughly where you stand before you commit to the full timed simulator.
Professional Scrum Master™ (PSM I) and Professional Scrum Product Owner™ (PSPO I) are registered trademarks of Scrum.org. Scrumling is an independent study platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Scrum.org.
Both assessments are 80 questions in 60 minutes with an 85 percent pass mark, taken online, open book in theory and unusable as open book in practice. At roughly 45 seconds per question there is no time to look anything up, so the only thing that helps is having already made the judgement call once before.
Every question traces back to the 2020 Scrum Guide, a fourteen page document that is free to download. The difficulty is not the vocabulary. It is that the exam repeatedly offers a sensible looking answer that happens to be a practice the Scrum Guide never mandates, and a slightly awkward answer that is exactly what the framework says. Learning to spot that gap is the whole game.
Transparency, inspection and adaptation, and why the framework is deliberately incomplete. Expect questions that test whether you can tell a Scrum rule from a common practice bolted on top of it.
Three accountabilities, one team, no sub-teams and no hierarchy. The traps are questions where a manager, an architect or a Scrum Master is quietly given authority the Scrum Guide never grants.
Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective, with their purpose, attendees and maximum durations. Know who owns each event and what happens when one is cut short.
Product Backlog with the Product Goal, Sprint Backlog with the Sprint Goal, Increment with the Definition of Done. Most wrong answers come from treating the Definition of Done as optional or team-negotiable mid-Sprint.
PSPO I weights this heavily: ordering by value, evidence over opinion, stakeholder management, and the Product Owner as one accountable person rather than a committee.
Both exams include scenario questions where the correct answer is uncomfortable: the Sprint is not cancelled, the Scrum Master does not solve the problem, and the team does not commit to work it cannot do.
This is the plan we would give a colleague who asked how to pass without buying a course. It assumes about an hour a day and no prior certification.
Read the 2020 Scrum Guide end to end without notes. Read it again the next day and write down every sentence you would not have guessed. That list is your revision sheet.
Work through the foundations, Scrum Master and Product Owner modules here. Play the role simulations rather than skimming the reading blocks; the exam tests applied judgement, not recall.
Take timed 80-question mock exams. After each one, go back to the Scrum Guide for every question you missed and read the surrounding paragraph, not just the answer.
Score the free Scrum Open at scrum.org three times. Once you are at 100 percent there and above 90 percent on the mocks, buy the token and sit the exam while it is fresh.