Professional Scrum Developer (PSD)

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Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) Exam Format

PSD

Everything the official exam blueprint specifies: question count, time limit, scoring and the weight each domain carries. The Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) certification is designed to validate that a developer not only understands the Scrum framework but possesses the technical skills required to work effectively within a Scrum Team. Unlike general Scrum certifications, PSD focuses heavily on the intersection of agile principles and professional software engineering. It covers how Developers contribute to the Scrum Team, how they maintain high quality through technical excellence, and how they manage technical debt while delivering a valuable Increment. The exam ensures candidates can apply practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI), and automated testing to support the agility of the entire Scrum Team, ensuring that the Definition of Done is met consistently in every Sprint.

80 questions
60 min
85% to pass
4 domains

Exam facts at a glance

The published specifications for this certification.

SpecificationValue
Questions80
Time limit60 minutes (45s per question)
Passing score85% — 85%
Domains4
LevelProfessional
Question bank here80 questions
Published format80 questions, 60 minutes
SourceOfficial exam specification, published by the vendor

Official domain weights

The percentage of the exam each domain carries. Weight your revision by these numbers, not by what you find hardest.

DomainWeightTopicsPractice Qs
Developing People and Teams20%
  • Self-management in technical teams
  • Cross-functionality
  • Collaboration and communication
  • +2 more
16
Managing Products with Agility20%
  • Understanding the Product Goal
  • Increment quality standards
  • Responding to change in technical requirements
  • +2 more
16
Understanding and Applying the Scrum Framework30%
  • Scrum Theory and Values
  • Scrum Accountabilities
  • Scrum Events
  • +2 more
24
Developing & Delivering Products Professionally30%
  • Engineering practices (TDD, CI/CD, XP)
  • Test automation and quality assurance
  • Definition of Done (DoD) application
  • +2 more
24

The heaviest domain is Developing People and Teams at 20%, and that is where lost points cost you the most. Certilum scores you per domain so you can see the difference between a knowledge gap and a formatting problem.

Note from the vendor record: Course attendance not required (the APS-SD course includes a free attempt and a free second attempt within 14 days). scrum.org serves a bot challenge to automated clients, so the official URL was verified via reader fetch rather than a direct HTTP 200. Official exam page

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