CSM Certified Strategic Manager — is the exam actually as strategy-heavy as the study guide implies?

The Balanced Scorecard questions tend to be fairly detailed — not just recognizing the four perspectives but understanding cause-and-effect relationships between them and how you'd use lagging vs. leading indicators. A lot of people are shallow on this and it shows up consistently.

From my experience the exam is roughly balanced between strategic planning, implementation, and leadership/organizational behavior sections. Calling it strategy-dominant is a little misleading — the leadership and change management questions made up probably a third of what I saw. Your PMP background should serve you well there.

72–74% average with several weeks of prep still ahead is a reasonable position. I'd focus the next two weeks on your weak domains specifically rather than maintaining your strong ones — there's more upside in moving a 62% to 72% than a 78% to 82% in terms of overall exam outcome.

I took the CSM about 18 months ago and passed with a 76%. The strategic analysis questions were less about memorizing framework definitions and more about applying them to a given scenario — which lens fits the situation described. If you're drilling definitions rather than practicing scenario application, that might explain the 60–65% in that domain.