The CertifyForce Platform Administrator study guide covers the official Salesforce Platform Administrator exam outline in 28 units across all 8 exam sections, one unit per exam-guide topic. The exam itself has 60 scored questions plus 5 unscored, a 105-minute limit and a 68% passing score, and its largest section is Data and Analytics Management at 17%. Every unit is verified against official Salesforce documentation, cites its sources, and links to the practice questions that test it. Last updated September 26, 2026.
Focused on managing and configuring a Salesforce org, maintaining users, data, security, and automation.
28 units · 8 exam sections · about 4 h of reading ·
Every unit's summary, exam expectations, key facts and self-check questions are free to read. The Platform Administrator pack unlocks the core concepts, exam traps and worked scenarios, reading progress, personalised “read next”, and unlimited practice exams.
Partly. Every unit's summary and its "What the exam expects", "Key facts" and "Check yourself" sections are free to read without an account. The "Core concepts", "Exam traps" and "Worked scenario" sections, reading progress and unlimited timed mock exams come with the Platform Administrator pack (USD $19).
It is written to the current official Salesforce Platform Administrator exam outline, and each unit is checked against Salesforce documentation before it is published. The most recent update was September 26, 2026, and every unit shows its own last-updated date.
There is one unit per topic in the official exam guide, grouped under its 8 weighted sections: Configuration and Setup (15%), Object Manager and Lightning App Builder (15%), Sales and Marketing Applications (10%), Service and Support Applications (10%), Productivity and Collaboration (10%), Data and Analytics Management (17%), Automation (15%), Agentforce (8%). Each unit quotes the exam objective it covers word for word.
Each unit lists the reviewed practice questions that test it (312 questions are linked across the guide), so you can read a topic and drill it in one click. After a practice exam, every missed question links back to the unit that teaches it.