Advanced Certified Scrum Developer (A-CSD)

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Advanced Certified Scrum Developer (A-CSD)

A-CSD

We scored 50 real Advanced Certified Scrum Developer (A-CSD) exam questions 1-10 on question complexity and broke the result down by exam domain.

50 questions scored
6 domains
2.0/10 overall complexity

Complexity by exam domain

Higher scores mean more demanding question formats. The exam score is computed over the whole bank, not averaged across domains.

Exam complexity score2.0/10Gentle · measured across 50 bank questions
  • Agile Engineering Practices10 questions · complexity 1.8/10 · Gentle

    30% multi-select · 0% scenario · 30% interactive

  • Scrum Artifacts8 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    38% multi-select · 0% scenario · 25% interactive

  • Scrum Events10 questions · complexity 2.5/10 · Gentle

    40% multi-select · 10% scenario · 30% interactive

  • Scrum Roles8 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    38% multi-select · 0% scenario · 25% interactive

  • Scrum Theory & Values7 questions · complexity 1.7/10 · Gentle

    29% multi-select · 0% scenario · 29% interactive

  • Team Collaboration & Technical Practices7 questions · complexity 1.7/10 · Gentle

    29% multi-select · 0% scenario · 29% interactive

Full per-domain breakdown

Blueprint weight, bank size and question format mix for every domain of the exam.

DomainBlueprintQuestionsSingleMultiInteractiveComplexity
Agile Engineering Practices20%104331.8/10Gentle
Scrum Artifacts15%83322.0/10Gentle
Scrum Events20%104332.5/10Gentle
Scrum Roles15%83322.0/10Gentle
Scrum Theory & Values15%73221.7/10Gentle
Team Collaboration & Technical Practices15%73221.7/10Gentle

How the score is calculated

The formula is fixed and public, so anyone can reproduce these numbers from the same bank.

Every question in the Advanced Certified Scrum Developer (A-CSD) bank is measured on four signals that can be read directly from the database. Each signal is expressed as a share of the questions in the domain, and the four shares are combined with fixed weights:

  • Multi-select questions (40% weight). Items with more than one correct answer. The candidate has to find all of them, which is the single hardest format in the bank.
  • Scenario questions (30% weight). Questions longer than 150 characters, which describe a situation instead of a definition and therefore test reasoning rather than recall.
  • Interactive questions (20% weight). Items that require reading code or a configuration snippet.
  • Deep explanations (10% weight). Questions whose explanation runs past 300 characters, which signals a concept with real nuance behind it.

The combined share is multiplied by ten to produce a 1-10 score. The exam-level score is computed over the whole bank rather than averaged across domains, so a small domain cannot distort the total. Figures on this page are recomputed from the live bank on every crawl.

Data set: Certilum Advanced Certified Scrum Developer (A-CSD) Foundation question bank, 50 questions, 6 domains. Published by CERTILUM. This is Certilum’s own measurement of its own question bank and is not an official Scrum Alliance statistic.

Questions analysed
50
Exam domains
6
Hardest domain
Scrum Events (2.5)
Most approachable domain
Scrum Theory & Values (1.7)
Question mix
20 single · 16 multi · 14 interactive
Measured on
Foundation

Frequently asked questions

What our Advanced Certified Scrum Developer (A-CSD) complexity numbers mean and how they are produced.