Salesforce Certified Industries CPQ Developer Exam Guide

About the Salesforce Certified Industries CPQ Developer Certification
Audience Description: Salesforce Certified Industries CPQ Developer
Purpose of This Exam Guide
About the Exam
Exam Outline
Recommended Training and Resources
Salesforce Certification Candidate Code of Conduct
Maintaining Your Salesforce Certification

About the Salesforce Certified Industries CPQ Developer Certification

The Salesforce Certified Industries CPQ Developer certification is designed for individuals who have experience developing configure, price, quote applications for the Salesforce Communications, Media, and Energy & Utilities Clouds. The Certified Industries CPQ Developer is able to build products, promotions, pricing, and rules for use in order and quoting processes.

Audience Description: Salesforce Certified Industries CPQ Developer

The Industries CPQ Developer candidate is interested in demonstrating their knowledge and skills in building configure, price, quote solutions using Industries CPQ.

The Salesforce Certified Industries CPQ Developer candidate ideally has 1 year of experience working with Industries CPQ plus three to six months of project implementation experience working with Industries CPQ in one or more of the roles below:

Salesforce Platform Developer
Salesforce App Builder
Solution Architect
Technical Architect
Support Engineer

Salesforce Certified Industries CPQ Developer candidate should have the experience and expertise in configuring products, promotions, pricing, and rules that meet business requirements. The Industries CPQ Developer should be able to configure basic order and quoting flows using CPQ for guided selling and digital commerce applications.

The Industries CPQ Developer candidate has the experience, skills, and knowledge outlined below.

Knowledge of Industries CPQ entities and their capabilities
Knowledge of the cart and its capabilities
Knowledge of basic opportunity, quoting, multi-site quoting, ordering processes
Build products and promotions using attributes, cardinality, and the object type hierarchy and inheritance
Build and troubleshoot pricing and the pricing plan
Build and troubleshoot context rules and advanced rules
Familiarity with Industries CPQ interfaces and implementations
Familiarity with Industries CPQ API methods and the basics of how and when to use them
Knowledge of when to run Industries CPQ jobs for cache management and for design/testing
Knowledge the basics of how to migrate catalog data and metadata from one org to another
Basic knowledge of org and catalog mastery strategy

A candidate for this certification is not expected to design technical products or order decomposition rules, design order orchestration and fulfillment, architect end-to-end solutions, or architect complex integration and authentication solutions across multiple platforms. The candidate will also not be expected to be able to read or write Apex code, write or customize Lightning Web Components (LWC) templates, design user experiences using FlexCards and OmniScripts, design integration solutions using OmniStudio data tools, or troubleshoot LWC templates.

Purpose of This Exam Guide

This exam guide is designed to help you prepare for the Salesforce Certified Industries CPQ Developer Exam. This guide provides information about the target audience, the recommended training and documentation, and a complete list of exam objectives. Salesforce highly recommends a combination of on-the-job experience and self-study to maximize your chances of passing the exam.

About the Exam

Here are details about the Salesforce Certified Industries CPQ Developer Exam.

Content: 60 multiple-choice questions and up to five unscored questions
Time allotted to complete the exam: 105 minutes
Passing score: 63%
Version: Exam questions align to the Summer '22 release.
Registration fee: US$200, JPY 30,000, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
Retake fee: US$100, JPY 30,000, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
Delivery options: Proctored exam delivered onsite at a testing center or in an online environment; find more information on scheduling an exam here.
References: No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam.
Prerequisite: None

This exam may contain up to five additional unscored questions to gather performance data. Unscored questions are randomly integrated and have no impact on your final exam result.

Exam Outline

The Salesforce Certified Industries CPQ Developer Exam measures a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the following objectives and has demonstrated the application of each of the features/functions below.

Products: 20%

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.

Promotions and Discounts: 7%

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.

Pricing: 17%

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.

Rules: 12%

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.

APIs: 12%

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.

Ordering and Quoting: 12%

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).

Troubleshooting: 20%

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

Recommended Training and Resources

As preparation for this exam, we recommend a combination of hands-on experience, training course completion, Trailhead Trails, and self-study in the areas listed in the Exam Outline section of this exam guide.

The self-study materials recommended for this exam include:

To review online documentation, tip sheets, and user guides, search for the topics listed in the Exam Outline section of this guide on Salesforce Help and study the information related to those topics.

Salesforce Certification Candidate Code of Conduct

At Salesforce, Trust is our #1 value. Protecting the security of Salesforce Certifications is up to all of us. As a participant in the Salesforce Certification Program, you’re required to review and accept the terms of the Salesforce Certification Program Agreement and Code of Conduct at the beginning of each exam.

Maintaining Your Salesforce Certification

One of the benefits of holding a Salesforce Certification is always being up to date on new product releases. You'll be required to complete the Salesforce Certified Industries CPQ Developer certification maintenance module on Trailhead once a year.

Don’t let your hard-earned certification expire! If you don't complete all maintenance requirements by the due date, your certification will expire.

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Salesforce Certified Industries CPQ Developer Exam Guide

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