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I recently passed Scrum Alliance CSM test with 92%. I studied scrum concepts for one week after formal training of 2 days from Certified scrum trainer. How to pass CSM test? CSM course is practical oriented so two-days training is the most important thing of this course. After completing the training candidate must pass CSM test within 90 days to become certified ScrumMaster

Below are some of the tips to clear this test with less preparation.
  1. Understand the Rules and Roles in the scrum.
  2. Understand all of the artefacts of the scrum.
  3. Take a good look at all of the events/ceremonies in the scrum.
  4. Scenarios with multiples scrum teams and their integration for single product delivery.
  5. Agile vision, agile manifesto, Product vision.

Must important documents for study are 1. official scrum guide 2. Scrum Primer. I found scrum primer more helpful than official scrum guide.
  1.Official scrum guide: http://www.scrumguides.org/docs/scrumguide/v1/scrum-guide-us.pdf
  2.Scrum Primer: http://www.scrumprimer.org/scrumprimer20.pdf

Mock tests play the very important role to get comfortable with the type of questions and MCQ answers.
Note that most of the mock questions are very much easy as compared to CSM exam. CSM exam questions are tough and mostly scenario based.

You can take mock tests for practice.
1. Scrum Open – 30 mock questions.       https://www.scrum.org/Assessments/Open-Assessments
2. Mock Exam 4 U  Test – 50 questions each test. (Sometimes mockexam4u.com doesn't work but try your luck)
    http://mockexam4u.com/accredited-scrum-master-certication-test-1/
    http://mockexam4u.com/accredited-scrum-master-certication-test-2/
    http://mockexam4u.com/accredited-scrum-master-certication-test-3/
3. Scrum Source – This website has 3 mock tests with 30 questions each      http://scrumsource.com/
You can get general information about Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster on the official website here.
https://www.scrumalliance.org/certifications/practitioners/certified-scrummaster-csm


Happy Learning.

Update/21 June 2016 => Some of my friends used these mock tests and official scrum guides, They secured 100% in the CSM exam. If you are using these tests or any other source please let me know in comment section. I will update this blog with those new links. 

Related Post : Scrum & Agile cheat-sheet, Refcardz http://umarani.com/scrum-agile-cheat-sheet-refcardz

Update/20 October 2016 => As one of the blog reader commented here. Above all mock tests are more helpful when you are giving exam through Scrum Alliance. There is one more exam provider Scrum.org, if you are taking CSM exam through Scrum.org then according to Anita these mock tests are not that useful. See her comment below. 

Update/19 January 2017 => One of the blog reader commented here. That He used a paid mock test and it was helpful. Its cost is $15 check here: http://scrum-master.thinkic.com/courses/scrum-master-test-prep

Update/30 January 2017 => I got the personal message on twitter from one of the blog writers about free scrum dumps.
http://tutorials.algaeservice.com/2016/08/certified-scrum-master-question-dumps.html
http://tutorials.algaeservice.com/2016/08/certified-scrum-master-question-dumps-2.html

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Update/20 March 2017 => One of the blog reader (Gunjan) commented here in his comment, Below links are also helped take a look.
http://scrumtrainingseries.com/SprintPlanningMeeting/SprintPlanningMeeting_script.pdf
https://scrum.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/200113332-Certified-Scrum-Master-Free-CSM-test-question-examples

http://www.effectivepmc.com/agile-and-scrum/free-csm-psm-questions-scrum-master-certification-questions

Update/22August2017  => One of the blog reader Sam commented here about 10 more quizzes about scrum Check the link http://www.prepupzone.com/pi/index.php/quiz/open_quiz/

Update/27Oct2017 => A reader suggested mock test set : http://www.test-questions.com/csm-examquestions-01.php

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Submitted byRobin (not verified)on Mon, 01/08/2018 - 10:36

Just want to say thanks for providing the links to the mock tests. Some of the links provided are not complete; showing ellipses instead and hence the link does not work. Would you be able to update to provide the correct links?

Submitted byChintanon Tue, 01/09/2018 - 09:46

Hi Robin,

Thanks for the info, corrected the broken links.

Cheers \m/

 

Submitted byHarendra (not verified)on Sun, 01/14/2018 - 08:53

Hi , when you are saying most of the questions in CSM are scenario based , can you provide few examples for those questions. Thanks

Submitted bynitin (not verified)on Fri, 02/16/2018 - 14:49

Thanks Uma for detailed info.
For prepupzone quizzes, I doubt about their answers to some questions
Sample:
What is an epic?
Your Answer:A very large user story
Correct Options: An extended Sprint

Submitted bySum (not verified)on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 13:55

Hi Uma, Just started preparing for the Scrum master certification.
Wanted to understand if the Scrum Master training is mandatory for attempting the certification and need to know the total costs involved.

Could you kindly help me here?
Also, is it sufficient if we glance through all the mock tests and read all the links to pass the certifications.
Thanks,

Submitted byChintanon Tue, 03/20/2018 - 13:34

Hi ,


For Scrum Alliance certification classroom training is compulsory.
For Scrum.org classroom training is optional.

The two guides and mock tests are sufficient.
1.Official scrum guide: http://www.scrumguides.org/docs/scrumguide/v1/scrum-guide-us.pdf
 2.Scrum Primer: http://www.scrumprimer.org/scrumprimer20.pdf

Submitted byAnonymous (not verified)on Wed, 10/10/2018 - 11:44

Thanks..

Submitted byNalini Matha (not verified)on Thu, 03/07/2019 - 00:19

I have passed CSM with 92%, did some mock tests. it was not that hard what i thought while preparing the test. I suggest to Read the SCRUM GUIDE minimum 3 times, that will help you a lot.

Submitted byNalini Matha (not verified)on Thu, 03/07/2019 - 00:27

I nailed this CSM with 92%. It wasn't that hard than what i though wile preparing the exam.
Please Read the Scrum Guide more that twice, that way you know you will get more understanding about the rules/roles/events/artifacts etc involved in it. Thanks UmaRani for this page.

Submitted byMoiz Ali (not verified)on Sat, 10/19/2019 - 11:55

This article is really helpful. I have also passed the exams with 90% which was not that hard because of the Practice CSM Exams I had. It includes more than 1000 questions which were the main reason for me to like them. It will be really effective for actual CSM Exam Questions. Must-Try!

Submitted byShreya Shinde (not verified)on Wed, 11/20/2019 - 17:04

Good post. Thanks for your all valuable tips. I have done scrum master certification training in leanwisdom. They have highly experienced trainers who have huge experience in implementation. I have a great experience with them and recently I have completed safe agilist certification also .