PSPO I Question Bank

A popular belief says the PSPO I is a test of writing good user stories. It is not. Scrum.org's Professional Scrum Product Owner I assessment checks whether you understand how a Product Owner maximizes value inside Scrum. You get 80 questions, 60 minutes and a pass mark of 85%, the fee is $200 USD per attempt, no course is required, and the certification never needs renewing.

That belief matters because it shapes how people study. Candidates who prepare by polishing backlog-writing technique often walk into questions about empiricism, Sprint cancellation, stakeholder influence and forecasting, and discover that the assessment is really about accountability and judgement. This page was first written several years ago and has been rebuilt around the assessment Scrum.org runs today, with every detail checked on Scrum.org's own pages in September 2026. It covers what the certification proves, how the test is set up, the focus areas and topics behind the questions, the Product Owner rules that trip people up, a four-week preparation route and a plan for the sixty minutes themselves.