This week I have mostly been getting Scrum certified
Brilliant! I passed my Professional Scrum Master 1 exam. Aren't exams brilliant? Eh? No?
I am not sure if it is my age or the difficulty of the exams but the last two exams, APMP was the other one, have been the most stressful have had, I was right up to the wire time wise, did not get a chance the review all my bookmarked questions and in the APMP I did not answer all parts of all 10 questions. Maybe I am a bit more invested in getting the result because I value my time more than I did when I was younger.
Anyway here are the tools I used
- Two day training course for QA Training, really good grounding in the Scrum principles and as it was a instructor lead course the real life experience from the other attendees allowed you to put the framework in context. Here's a link to their course
- Audio version of the Scrum guide, with an hours drive for me it is idea prep. Here's a link
- Practice assessments - I took them till I got near a 100% as recommended by a colleague and printed out my results to refer to if needed here's the link
- A couple of Mind maps people have constructed here's the link to one
- The html version of the scrum guide, saved locally
And here are a few tips
- You have to have registered on scrum.org first so don't all revved up and sat at you PC ready to take the exam - register in advance
- Have all of the above tools open to you, I have 4 computers involved
- one taking the exam
- one with previous assessments results
- one with the scrum guide on
- one with the mind map on
- Only have one of your PCs connected to interweb
- Reboot your PC that you are going to take the course on - mine did an update which could have kicked in part way through the exam
- Switch off phone so it is not consuming bandwidth
- Ask others in house to leave Facebook and Netflix alone too
- Use the bookmark feature it will help you check back
- Bookmark any your are not quite sure, you might kcik youself if you can't find it
- Be prepared to have book marked more than you thought
- Because you booked marked so many, assume you will not get to go through all your book marked ones
- Have glass of water to hand, oh and a wee before you start
Nige