The ProKanban.org Professional Kanban (PK I) assessment is a 60-minute timeboxed assessment. You need to score over 85% to pass and gain the PK I certification. The assessment contains 80 questions in English of multiple choice type.
You decide when and where to take the assessment. You are not required to attend an assessment centre and can take it online from a location of your choosing. There is no expiration date once you have purchased the assessment attempt.
Further details on what to expect from the assessment can be found on the ProKanban.org Professional Kanban I assessment page.
Here are some tips on how to prepare for and pass the assessment:
- Ideally, attend a ProKanban.org Applying Professional Kanban (APK) course and read back over the course notes.
- Read the Kanban Guide. Get really familiar with this content. This is the primary source of all answers for the assessment.
- Read as much as you can from the ProKanban.org study guide. This will be vital if you have not attended a course.
- Take the Kanban Open Assessment a few times until you have seen all the questions and can score 100%.
- Take our Free Kanban I (FK I) Practice Assessment. This offers different questions to the Kanban Open Assessment so is an additional opportunity to test your knowledge in advance of sitting the real assessment.
When you are ready to take the assessment:
- Have the Kanban Guide to hand to look up what you need.
- Answer all the questions even if you have to make an educated guess. The assessment is not negatively marked.
- Read the questions and answers carefully. One word misread can lead you to the wrong answer.
- Don’t spend too long on each question. If unsure of an answer, note down the question number and move on. Completing all the questions in the timebox can be challenging.
- Be aware of the difference between “must” (a mandatory thing) and “should” (an optional thing).
- Make sure you select the required number of answers as the platform will not prompt you. Choosing only 1 answer on a “Pick 2” style question is a quick way to drop points.
- Come back to the hard questions at the end and use your time to think them over.
- Aim to leave time to check all your answers before the end.
- Google the question if really unsure, but be careful as this takes time and there are lots of unreliable sources out there.
You can resit the assessment if you need to, but you will need to purchase another attempt from ProKanban.org.
I hope this information will help you to pass and achieve the Professional Kanban (PK I) certification from ProKanban.org. Let me know how you get on via the comments below and good luck!
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