Professional Scrum Product Owner I

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Professional Scrum Product Owner I Pass Rate

PSPO I

The score you need to pass the Professional Scrum Product Owner I certification exam, what the cut score actually means, and how to read your mock results against it.

85% to pass
80 questions
2.2/10 difficulty

The number you need to hit

Published cut score for this certification.

Passing score
85%
85%
Margin
15%
room for wrong answers, on a flat mock
Wrong answers allowed
12
out of 80 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 Professional Scrum Product Owner I it is 85%. 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.org 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.

Developing People and Teams25%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 25% of the exam, and it has 20 practice questions here.

Managing Products with Agility40%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 40% of the exam, and it has 32 practice questions here.

Understanding and Applying the Scrum Framework35%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 35% of the exam, and it has 28 practice questions here.

The practical version: the Professional Scrum Product Owner I 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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