Industries CPQ Developer

4-Step Path to Passing

1
Complete the
Industries CPQ Trailhead modules
2
Look at the
Study Checklist
Every concept you need to know for your exam, available for free to check off as you learn.
3
Attempt
Practice Exams
4
Schedule Your Exam

Core Resources

Cert++ Practice Exam (1 free exam per cert, then paid)
Free practice questions with detailed explanations. $10/mo for access to all questions, features, and certifications.
certplusplus.com
Daily Certle Game (3 free questions per day)
Practice your Salesforce certification knowledge daily with a challenge inspired by Wordle. Topics might not perfectly align with your preferred exam, but there's a lot of overlap between the certs.
certplusplus.com

Industries CPQ Developer Certification Maintenance (Summer '25)
Required annual maintenance module to keep your Industries CPQ Developer certification current.
trailhead.salesforce.com

Official Exam Guide
Salesforce Help page with the official exam outline, objectives, format, and current exam details.
help.salesforce.com

Salesforce Certification Score Calculator
Check your exam score based on section results. Estimates your total score from category percentages (community-maintained third-party tool).
scuvanov.github.io

Exam Overview

From the official exam guide

Questions

60 scored5 unscored

Duration

105 min

1h 45m

To Pass

65%

Min. score

Pricing

$200 registration · $100 retake

Delivery

Online proctored or at a testing center

Experience

Hands-on experience implementing Industries CPQ (formerly Vlocity CPQ) recommended

Prerequisites

No prerequisites required

Exam Topics

Each topic section shows the topic weight, learning objectives, and links to study resources.

Products20%

Product catalog architecture, product bundles and bundle structure, object type hierarchies, attribute categories and attributes, product lifecycle states, and implications of bundle vs. standalone configuration.

Identify concepts required to configure product and product bundles.
Identify concepts required to configure object type hierarchies.
Identify concepts required to configure attributes.
Determine the implications of the configurations of a product.

Resources

Create a Roll-Up Summary Field
Hands-on practice creating a roll-up summary field as part of adding business logic to an app.
trailhead.salesforce.com

Promotions and Discounts7%

Promotion types and design, discount types (account-based, order-based, contract-based), choosing promotions vs. discounts, formula fields in pricing adjustments, and roll-up summary fields.

Identify concepts required to configure promotions.
Identify concepts required to configure discounts.
Determine when to use promotions and/or discounts.
Describe the capabilities and use cases for formula fields and roll-up summary fields.

Resources

Pricing17%

Price lists, pricing variables and elements, attribute-based pricing (standard, range, source-target), pricing adjustments, usage pricing, repricing, bundle pricing, cost and margin calculation.

Identify concepts required to build pricing.
Identify concepts required to configure attribute based pricing.
Define how to adjust pricing.
Determine which types of pricing to use and when.
Identify concepts required to create cost and margin.

Resources

Manage Products, Prices, Quotes, and Orders
Hands-on practice with product setup, price books, quotes, and order management.
trailhead.salesforce.com

Rules12%

Context rules (qualification, price list, price list entry), advanced rules (auto-add, attribute modification), interface implementations, product configuration procedures, and rule type selection.

Identify concepts required to build context rules.
Identify concepts required to build advanced rules.
Identify concepts required to build product configuration procedures.
Determine which type of rule to use and when.

Resources

Improve Data Quality for Your Sales and Support Teams
Hands-on practice with validation rules, formula fields, and lookup filters to enforce data quality.
trailhead.salesforce.com

APIs12%

Cart-based APIs (addItem, updateCart, getCart, deleteCartItem), digital commerce APIs for headless integrations, API method parameters and response shapes, sales catalog structure and the catalog API.

Determine when to use cart based APIs or the digital commerce APIs.
Differentiate among the cart based APIs methods, parameters, and how to use them.
Differentiate among the digital commerce APIs methods, parameters, and how to use them.
Identify concepts required to build sales catalogs.

Resources

Quick Start: MuleSoft API Designer
Hands-on practice designing, testing, and publishing an API specification using Anypoint Design Center.
trailhead.salesforce.com

Ordering and Quoting12%

CPQ cart user experience, order creation and submission, multisite quoting configuration, asset-based ordering (ABO) lifecycle and order actions, and order monitoring.

Describe the user experience of the cart.
Identify concepts required to configure multi-site quoting.
Identify concepts required to create basic configurations to ordering and quoting.
Describe asset based ordering (ABO).

Resources

Quick Start: Salesforce Order Management
Hands-on introduction to setting up and processing orders in Salesforce, from order capture through fulfillment.
trailhead.salesforce.com

Troubleshooting20%

Diagnosing misconfigured products, pricing failures, promotion and discount errors, rule evaluation issues, API parameter and response debugging, and LWC troubleshooting techniques.

Troubleshoot product, pricing, promotions and discounts, and rules.
Troubleshoot API parameters, responses, and requests.

Resources

Quick Start: Troubleshoot Code with Agentforce Vibes
Using Agentforce to diagnose and refine Apex and LWC code through natural language interaction.
trailhead.salesforce.com

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