Hello Friends, I owe to write my experience in detail as I was referring this forum to get useful information during preparation period.
First of all I haven't worked in scrum team, Working in Support project for last 6 years so no development exposure however I have attended few scrum meeting from outside and observed even scrum master not following basic rules.
I have almost 10years of IT experience basically in traditional software development methodology.
To boost my career-growth I wanted to take this exam , I attended two days Scrum training(mar 2015) in my company premises hosted by In-house trainer. After that could not dare to take on exam as pass mark creates doubt in mind.
I was referring scrum guide after every 3-4 weeks , I read it almost 15-20 times then free assessment and had 100% all the time but still doubted myself as no experience of scrum. Then I started collected free materials over web. Management plaza training material which is very and detailed is good to read(at least 3 times) .
I was still not sure and not confident and wanted to try more questions so finally bought management plaza course on 17th april 2016 at 8PM in 37Euro (after company agreed to approve this ) and tested myself with their three practice sets (250 questions).
I just tried 3 times all three sets and at 12PM I purchased test and at 1 PM on 18th april 2016 I just rushed to complete it as I had delayed it for over an year and was frustrated reading same thing.
When I attended the test, I felt questions are not direct but similar and you can definitely answer if you have read at least those two books.
There were questions from mplaza practice set also but not that much. questions are pretty simple(except 2-4) so you need to have confidence.
Initial phase I bookmarked 8 questions and was thinking remaining 72 may have 3-4 wrong too. when I rechecked I was confident that I have answered 72 questions correctly and had doubt on 8.
When I clicked I was hoping 90% but got 95% ..:) ...first I saw 76 out of 80 correct and my mind was blank...I thought I am failed as I got 76% only ...but then saw 95% score card....
So my tips (for newbie to scrum like me (2 days training was not that in my mind after 1 yr) or for one who is experienced ) : -
1. read scrum guide - (no need to remember just understand , my count 10-15 times)
2. Free material of mplaza ...
3. free assessment on scrum.org
4. Practice more questions, if you can....
5. Don't delay....else it will get delayed always...the moment you feel comfortable just book the test and get it.
6. If you can manage mplaza practice question it would be good , else you can seek any oter source..
Hope this helps
If anyone require any help from my side , I would be glad to help them.... :)
First of all I haven't worked in scrum team, Working in Support project for last 6 years so no development exposure however I have attended few scrum meeting from outside and observed even scrum master not following basic rules.
I have almost 10years of IT experience basically in traditional software development methodology.
To boost my career-growth I wanted to take this exam , I attended two days Scrum training(mar 2015) in my company premises hosted by In-house trainer. After that could not dare to take on exam as pass mark creates doubt in mind.
I was referring scrum guide after every 3-4 weeks , I read it almost 15-20 times then free assessment and had 100% all the time but still doubted myself as no experience of scrum. Then I started collected free materials over web. Management plaza training material which is very and detailed is good to read(at least 3 times) .
I was still not sure and not confident and wanted to try more questions so finally bought management plaza course on 17th april 2016 at 8PM in 37Euro (after company agreed to approve this ) and tested myself with their three practice sets (250 questions).
I just tried 3 times all three sets and at 12PM I purchased test and at 1 PM on 18th april 2016 I just rushed to complete it as I had delayed it for over an year and was frustrated reading same thing.
When I attended the test, I felt questions are not direct but similar and you can definitely answer if you have read at least those two books.
There were questions from mplaza practice set also but not that much. questions are pretty simple(except 2-4) so you need to have confidence.
Initial phase I bookmarked 8 questions and was thinking remaining 72 may have 3-4 wrong too. when I rechecked I was confident that I have answered 72 questions correctly and had doubt on 8.
When I clicked I was hoping 90% but got 95% ..:) ...first I saw 76 out of 80 correct and my mind was blank...I thought I am failed as I got 76% only ...but then saw 95% score card....
So my tips (for newbie to scrum like me (2 days training was not that in my mind after 1 yr) or for one who is experienced ) : -
1. read scrum guide - (no need to remember just understand , my count 10-15 times)
2. Free material of mplaza ...
3. free assessment on scrum.org
4. Practice more questions, if you can....
5. Don't delay....else it will get delayed always...the moment you feel comfortable just book the test and get it.
6. If you can manage mplaza practice question it would be good , else you can seek any oter source..
Hope this helps
If anyone require any help from my side , I would be glad to help them.... :)