Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO)

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Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) Pass Rate

A-CSPO

The score you need to pass the Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) certification exam, what the cut score actually means, and how to read your mock results against it.

75% to pass
50 questions
1.9/10 difficulty

The number you need to hit

Published cut score for this certification.

Passing score
75%
Not published by the provider (no exam exists)
Margin
25%
room for wrong answers, on a flat mock
Wrong answers allowed
13
out of 50 questions

Pass score vs pass rate

Two different numbers that get mixed up constantly.

Pass score (cut score)

The scaled score the vendor publishes. For the Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) it is 75%. This is the number you can actually prepare against, and it is the one that decides your result on exam day.

Pass rate (percentage of candidates)

The share of candidates who pass. Scrum Alliance generally does not publish this for individual exams, and the numbers you find online usually come from candidate self-reported surveys. We would rather tell you nothing than tell you a figure we cannot source.

Where you lose points

The exam is not scored flat. Each domain carries its own weight, so a domain where you lose everything can sink a score that looks fine on paper.

Agile Coaching10%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 10% of the exam, and it has 5 practice questions here.

Product Vision20%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 20% of the exam, and it has 10 practice questions here.

Release Planning15%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 15% of the exam, and it has 8 practice questions here.

Backlog Management25%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 25% of the exam, and it has 12 practice questions here.

Metrics and Reporting10%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 10% of the exam, and it has 5 practice questions here.

Stakeholder Management20%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 20% of the exam, and it has 10 practice questions here.

The practical version: the Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) is not passed by knowing most of the content. It is passed by being strong in the domains that carry weight, and by not leaving one of them empty.

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