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Today I took the PSM I exam online and I scored 76 out of 80, 95% of the points.

Since the passing mark is at 85%, I passed the exam!!!!

Here is what I did,

1. Read the The Scrum Guide once (http://www.scrumguides.org/docs/scr...de-US.pdf)


2. Read the MPlaza The Scrum Master Training Manual v1.3
(http://mplaza.pm/product/scrum-mast...g-manual/)
3. Read 3 more times The Scrum Guide
4. Practice with online test. Here is my sequence of tests and results
4.1 Scrum open first attempt (https://www.scrum.org/Assessments/Open-Assessments)
93.3%
4.2 Scrum open second attempt (https://www.scrum.org/Assessments/Open-Assessments)
96.7%
4.3 Mplaza first assessment from The Scrum Master Training Manual v1.2
(http://mplaza.pm/downloads/Scrum%20...anual.pdf)" target="_blank"
rel="nofollow">http://mplaza.pm/downloads/Scrum%20...anual.pdf) 93.3%
4.4 Mplaza second assessment from The Scrum Master Training Manual v1.2
(http://mplaza.pm/downloads/Scrum%20...anual.pdf)" target="_blank"
rel="nofollow">http://mplaza.pm/downloads/Scrum%20...anual.pdf) 95%
4.5 Mplaza third assessment from The Scrum Master Training Manual v1.2
(http://mplaza.pm/downloads/Scrum%20...anual.pdf)" target="_blank"
rel="nofollow">http://mplaza.pm/downloads/Scrum%20...anual.pdf) 100%
4.6 Free 10 questions at TestTaker
(https://testtakeronline.com/user/viewtestoptions.htm?id=1) 70%
4.7 Agile PM (http://www.agileprojectmanagementtraining.com/agile-exam-resources/)
100%
4.8 Mikhail Lapshin, REALLY GOOD TEST!!! (http://mlapshin.com/index.php/psm-
quiz/learning-mode/) 87.5%
4.9 Scrum open forth attempt (https://www.scrum.org/Assessments/Open-Assessments)
100%
4.10 Scrum open fifth attempt (https://www.scrum.org/Assessments/Open-Assessments)
100%
4.11 Scrum open sixth attempt (https://www.scrum.org/Assessments/Open-Assessments)
100%
5. Review failed questions from practice
6. Read The Scrum Guide
7. Read The Scrum Guide
8. Review failed questions from practice
9. Take the real exam

The reading of the documents (points 1 to 3) I did them during day 1 and 2. Then
all the practice tests and additional reading (points 4 to 6) I did them in day 3.
And points 7, 8 and 9 I did them in day 4.

The exam had a lot of question you find in the Scrum open tests, so do them until
you have seen all the question. As a general thing for any exam I create a file
with failed questions from practice to review them. The exam is easy and almost all
the content is in The Scrum Guide. There were a couple of questions in the exam
about burndown charts, so I would take a look at them.

The interface of the exam is the question, several answers (if more than 1 answer
is correct, the question will tell you how many to select. For example "Select 3
answers"), a button to bookmark the question, a button to move to the next
question, a button to move to the previous question, a button to see all the
bookmarked question and a timer.

As for the time, I went through the 80 questions and I still had 27 minutes left.
By the time I reviewed the 12 bookmarked questions I had 9 minutes left. Then my
browser FROZE!!! As recommended before starting the test, I refreshed my browser
(F5) and I was back in the exam. Then I clicked finish and I got my grades!

I hope this helps you. I will start looking at PSM II

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