Review a compact Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) cheat sheet for Scrum foundations, accountabilities, events, artifacts, commitments, servant leadership, and empiricism traps.
Use this Scrum Alliance CSM cheat sheet to review the Scrum decisions that matter before timed practice. Strong CSM answers increase transparency, preserve empiricism, support self-management, and keep the Scrum Master from becoming a project manager in disguise.
| Item | CSM cue |
|---|---|
| Provider | Scrum Alliance |
| Exam | Certified ScrumMaster |
| Format focus | 50 questions in 60 minutes after approved course access |
| Practice behavior | choose the Scrum Master action that supports empiricism, accountabilities, events, artifacts, and team ownership |
| PM Mastery status | live practice available |
| Area | What to know | Common trap |
|---|---|---|
| Scrum foundations | empiricism, transparency, inspection, adaptation, values, and iterative delivery | treating Scrum as a sequence of meetings |
| Accountabilities | Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developers, and shared Scrum Team responsibilities | making the Scrum Master the team manager |
| Events | Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective | converting events into status reporting |
| Artifacts and commitments | Product Backlog/Product Goal, Sprint Backlog/Sprint Goal, Increment/Definition of Done | confusing artifact ownership and commitment purpose |
| Servant leadership | coaching, facilitation, impediment removal, teaching, and organizational support | solving the problem for the team |
After each CSM diagnostic, classify misses by accountabilities, events, artifacts, commitments, empiricism, or servant leadership. If your answers keep making the Scrum Master the decision-maker, drill servant-leadership and self-management scenarios before returning to mixed sets.