Training, exams and certification
Training, exams and certification
Fifty questions in fifty minutes, closed book, thirty to pass. A minute a question on the rules of Scrum — and the rules are short.
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Scrum Essentials is the entry-level Scrum certificate of the Agile Business Consortium, awarded by APMG International. It checks that you know the accountabilities, events, artifacts and commitments described in The Scrum Guide.
| Questions | 50, multiple choice |
|---|---|
| Duration | 50 minutes |
| Pass mark | 60% — 30 correct answers out of 50 |
| Materials | Closed book |
| Reference | The Scrum Guide (2020) |
| Prerequisites | None |
| Typical course | One day |
The Scrum Guide is a few pages long. The exam does not test how much you have read but how precisely: “accountable” is not “responsible”, the Developers own the Sprint Backlog, only the Product Owner can cancel a Sprint.
| Sprint | One month or less |
|---|---|
| Sprint Planning | At most eight hours for a one-month Sprint |
| Daily Scrum | 15 minutes |
| Sprint Review | At most four hours for a one-month Sprint |
| Sprint Retrospective | At most three hours for a one-month Sprint |
| Scrum Team | Typically 10 or fewer people |
Read The Scrum Guide twice, slowly, with a pen. Note every “only”, “must” and time-box. Then practise with timed sets: if you can explain why each wrong option is wrong, you are ready.
Fifty multiple-choice questions.
Thirty out of fifty — 60%.
Fifty minutes, closed book.
APMG International, for the Agile Business Consortium.
No. None of the three Scrum certificates has formal prerequisites.
Sources. Every figure on this page comes from APMG International’s published certification pages and candidate guidance, and from accredited training material, checked in October 2026.
We run it as a one-day in-company course with an APMG-accredited trainer, the exam at your premises or by voucher. From €640 per participant, exam included, minimum four.
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