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Professional Scrum Master I

Standardize your team on Professional Scrum Master I with a structured Scrum.org training path — team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

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Course
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Core skills
$200
Exam fee (Scrum.org)
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Difficulty
Difficulty: 1 of 5 (Easy)
Easy
Exam fee (Scrum.org)
$200
Courses on path
1
Official source
Scrum.org’s official exam page
Exam code
  • PSM

Exam datasheet

Prerequisites
No official prerequisites
Recommended experience
Basic knowledge of Scrum framework and practices
Recertification
Indefinite
Testing center

Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$200

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the Professional Scrum Master I path takes PSM I.

  1. PSM IProfessional Scrum Master I
    Exam fee
    $200
    Exam length
    60 minutes
    Questions
    80
    Passing score
    85%

    Exam blueprint: PSM I

Skills your team builds

Scrum Framework ApplicationAgile PrinciplesScrum Roles and ResponsibilitiesScrum Events FacilitationScrum Artifacts and CommitmentsDeveloping Scrum TeamsProduct Ownership and Business Alignment

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full Professional Scrum Master I path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

  1. Start here · primary course

    PSM I

    Master the Scrum Framework and earn your PSM I certification in this expert‑led Professional Scrum Master I course. You’ll learn Scrum’s core principles (empirical process control, self-organization, collaboration, value-based prioritization, time-boxing, and iterative development) and how to coach, lead, and empower self‑managing teams. You’ll also develop skills in product vision, backlog management, continuous integration and delivery, and fostering agility across the organization. With bite-sized engaging lessons taught by experienced project manager Bob Mahler, you'll prepare for the PSM exam and build the Agile skills you need to lead with confidence.

    Bob Mahler
    8h
    Open course

Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Per-team completion reporting

Scrum.org career ladder

Where Professional Scrum Master I sits in your team's Scrum.org progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

  1. Professional level

    5 certs

    Professional Scrum Master I

    PSM I

    You are here

    Professional Scrum Master II

    PSM II

    Professional Scrum Product Owner I

    PSPO I

    Professional Scrum Product Owner II

    PSPO II

    Professional Scrum with Kanban I

    PSK I

Customer outcome

Build PSM capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the Professional Scrum Master I course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished — the view leadership uses to see Scrum.org skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

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Team capability

Make PSM a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on PSM gives leadership a clear picture of Scrum.org skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.

Credential: Professional Scrum Master I

Exam
  • PSM

Frequently asked questions about Professional Scrum Master I training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating Professional Scrum Master I training for their team.

How can Professional Scrum Master I support our governance and training documentation program?

Teams often cite Professional Scrum Master I when documenting that the people running delivery cadences hold a recognized Scrum.org credential in the Scrum framework. CBT Nuggets team reporting provides per-learner progress, completion and completion exports that can serve as audit evidence, while the auditor's own control crosswalk decides any formal mapping to a governance framework.

Which team members should hold Professional Scrum Master I, and what can a certified team take ownership of?

IT leaders typically assign it to the people who will act as Scrum Masters, to Team Leads facilitating delivery, and to staff working closely with product ownership. The linked course covers Scrum roles and responsibilities, Scrum events, artifacts and commitments, developing Scrum teams, and product ownership and business alignment, so a certified team can own how sprints are run, how work is made transparent, and how delivery stays tied to business priorities.

What does CBT Nuggets Professional Scrum Master I training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets Professional Scrum Master I courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to Scrum.org's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

How do I assign and track Professional Scrum Master I training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the Professional Scrum Master I courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

How much training time should IT leaders plan to certify a team on Professional Scrum Master I?

The linked CBT Nuggets course adds up to about 8 hours of video, including lessons on exam tricks and traps and final exam prep. Actual time to certify depends on each team member's starting point with Scrum and Agile principles.

What if Scrum.org updates the Professional Scrum Master I exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates Scrum.org course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When Scrum.org restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.

Ready to Professional Scrum Master I-certify your team?

Build Professional Scrum Master I capability across your team

See how CBT Nuggets helps IT leaders plan and track Professional Scrum Master I training across the team — reporting included.

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