Professional Scrum Product Owner I

Measured data

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Professional Scrum Product Owner I

PSPO I

We scored 80 real Professional Scrum Product Owner I exam questions 1-10 on question complexity and broke the result down by exam domain.

80 questions scored
3 domains
2.1/10 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 score2.1/10Gentle · measured across 80 bank questions
  • Developing People and Teams20 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    35% multi-select · 0% scenario · 30% interactive

  • Managing Products with Agility32 questions · complexity 2.3/10 · Gentle

    41% multi-select · 0% scenario · 31% interactive

  • Understanding and Applying the Scrum Framework28 questions · complexity 2.1/10 · Gentle

    36% multi-select · 0% scenario · 32% interactive

Full per-domain breakdown

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

DomainBlueprintQuestionsSingleMultiInteractiveComplexity
Developing People and Teams25%207762.0/10Gentle
Managing Products with Agility40%321111102.3/10Gentle
Understanding and Applying the Scrum Framework35%2810992.1/10Gentle

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 Professional Scrum Product Owner I 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 Professional Scrum Product Owner I Foundation question bank, 80 questions, 3 domains. Published by CERTILUM. This is Certilum’s own measurement of its own question bank and is not an official Scrum.org statistic.

Questions analysed
80
Exam domains
3
Hardest domain
Managing Products with Agility (2.3)
Most approachable domain
Developing People and Teams (2.0)
Question mix
28 single · 27 multi · 25 interactive
Measured on
Foundation

Frequently asked questions

What our Professional Scrum Product Owner I complexity numbers mean and how they are produced.