ASIS PSP Pass Rate, Format & Study Guide

The certifying body does not publicly publish an official pass rate for this exam. Be wary of third-party sites citing a specific number here — treat any pass-rate claim you see elsewhere for this exam as unverified.

ASIS charges a flat $480 retake fee regardless of membership status. A specific mandatory waiting period between attempts was not found published on ASIS's public pages at write time — confirm current retake scheduling rules directly with ASIS's Certification Handbook before planning a retest.

PSP uses a scaled score from 0 to a set maximum, with 650 required to pass. As with most ASIS/psychometrically-designed certification exams, the scaled score does not equal your raw percentage of questions answered correctly — the passing threshold is set through a standard-setting process with subject-matter-expert panels, not a fixed percentage cutoff.

• Physical Security Assessment34%
• Application, Design & Integration of Physical Security Systems35%
• Implementation of Physical Security Measures31%

With 140 questions (125 scored, 15 unscored) over 2.5 hours, pacing works out to roughly one minute per question including the unscored pretest items you can't identify in advance. Since Application/Design & Integration (35%) and Physical Security Assessment (34%) together make up nearly 70% of the exam, weight your prep accordingly, then run at least 2-3 full-length timed mock exams in your final two weeks so pacing feels automatic on exam day.