The Scrum Master Professional Certification – SMPC® validates your competencies in fulfilling the Scrum Master role as defined in the 2020 Scrum Guide — serving the Scrum team, the product owner, and the organization as a true leader who champions empiricism, self-management, and continuous improvement. This certification demonstrates your ability to facilitate Scrum events effectively, coach teams toward high performance, remove impediments, protect the team from external disruptions, and foster the agile mindset and behaviors that enable consistent, valuable product delivery — capabilities that are essential for professionals leading Scrum teams in professional development and organizational environments.

Designed for current and aspiring Scrum Masters, team facilitators, agile coaches, and delivery professionals ready to validate their Scrum Master expertise against the current Scrum Guide standard, the SMPC® credential recognizes your capacity to serve multiple stakeholders simultaneously — enabling team effectiveness, supporting product owner success, and driving organizational agile adoption. Your competencies are benchmarked against the 2020 Scrum Guide, agile leadership principles, and Scrum facilitation best practices — positioning you as a credible, standards-aligned Scrum Master professional ready to lead high-performing agile teams across the USA and global markets.

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WHY BECOME CERTIFIED?

• Validate globally recognized competencies in Scrum Master accountabilities, Scrum facilitation, and agile team servant leadership aligned with the 2020 Scrum Guide
• Demonstrate real-world capability to serve Scrum teams, support product owners, and drive organizational agile adoption as a professional Scrum Master
• Alignment with the 2020 Scrum Guide, agile leadership principles, empirical process control, and Scrum facilitation and coaching best practices
• Recognized competence in impediment removal, team self-management enablement, and iterative delivery optimization in fast-paced agile product development environments
• Career differentiation for roles in Scrum Master practice, agile team facilitation, delivery coaching, and organizational agile transformation support
• Global market positioning for high-demand Scrum Master positions across technology, financial services, product development, healthcare, and digital transformation industries in the USA and internationally

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SKILLS VALIDATION

• Ability to fulfill all three Scrum Master accountabilities — serving the Scrum team, the product owner, and the organization — as defined in the 2020 Scrum Guide, applying servant leadership, coaching, and facilitation across all three dimensions simultaneously
• Capability to facilitate all five Scrum events — sprint planning, daily Scrum, sprint review, sprint retrospective, and product backlog refinement — at a professional level that generates meaningful outcomes, maintains time-box discipline, and drives team alignment around the sprint goal
• Competence in coaching Scrum teams toward true self-management and cross-functionality — enabling teams to organize their own work, make independent delivery decisions, and continuously improve their practices without external direction
• Skills to identify, track, and remove team-level and organizational impediments — including process bottlenecks, stakeholder interference, and structural constraints — that prevent the Scrum team from achieving sprint goals and delivering value consistently
• Ability to support the product owner in effective product backlog management — including backlog ordering, item clarity, acceptance criteria definition, and stakeholder communication — to ensure the development team always has a well-refined, delivery-ready backlog
• Capability to protect the Scrum team from external disruptions, scope creep, and unplanned interruptions during the sprint — maintaining team focus, sprint integrity, and commitment to the sprint goal throughout the sprint cycle
• Competence in applying empirical process control — transparency, inspection, and adaptation — as the foundational operating principle for all Scrum team decisions, event outcomes, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Skills to lead effective sprint retrospectives that generate genuine insights, foster psychological safety, produce committed improvement actions, and build a team culture of continuous learning and honest self-reflection
• Ability to drive organizational agile adoption by educating stakeholders, influencing leadership behaviors, removing systemic agile adoption barriers, and advocating for the structural and cultural conditions that enable Scrum teams to thrive
• Competence in measuring Scrum team health and delivery performance using agile metrics — including sprint velocity, sprint goal achievement rate, team happiness, and escaped defect rates — and using these insights to guide team improvement conversations and coaching interventions

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EXAM DETAILS

• Exam Code: SMPC
• Format: Multiple choice
• Questions: 40
• Passing Score: 32/40 (80%)
• Duration: 60 minutes
• Exam Voucher Validity: 6 months

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IMPORTANT

• Candidates have up to 6 months to take the exam from the date of purchase.
• Exam vouchers are non-refundable once redeemed.

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CERTIFICATION POLICY

All Certiprof exams include one attempt. If needed, you can unlock a retake option.

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CERTIFICATION INCLUDES

• One Exam Attempt
• Digital Badge issued by Badge Claimed
• Certification valid for 3 years