CPQ Administrator Study Guide
Every topic objective in the CPQ Specialist exam explained thoroughly. The most efficient way to study the key concepts in the exam.
Last Updated: May 2026
The overview
This is the starting point for your study, covering all of the exam guide objectives.
The Salesforce CPQ Administrator Study Guide incorporates all 20 Objectives within all 8 Sections of the official Salesforce CPQ Administrator Certification Exam Guide.
What's included?
- Covers all 8 Sections of the official Salesforce Certification Exam Guide
- Explains in detail all objectives within each section (a total of 20 objectives)
- Topic summaries that you can use to learn the topics efficiently
- Topic videos for selected topics by Guest Instructors explaining topics in detail
- Explanations in plain English, with screenshots and diagrams rather than endless, unremarkable text
- Easy to read bullet points
- Dynamic Code Exercises (for a realistic, hands-on coding experience)
- Easy to read bullet points
- Includes links to lots of extra resources for further reading
- Scenarios and requirements with sample answers to test your ability to determine solutions
- Unlimited Access and Updates for 12 months
Everything you need to prepare for Salesforce CPQ Administrator Specialist Certification
In order to pass the Salesforce CPQ Administrator certification, you’ll find that knowledge and experience of the Salesforce platform aren’t enough. You also need to get to grips with the exam itself.
That’s why we created the CPQ Administrator Study Guide.
Our study guide will help you understand confusing or difficult concepts from the official Salesforce CPQ Administrator Certification Exam Guide and brush up on your skills – all in a format that’s easy to digest and has been proven to work with thousands of happy customers.
The CPQ Administrator Study Guide will help you focus on the key points you need to know to pass the exam.
The Salesforce help pages and videos are great when you want to know all the details, but the CPQ Administrator Study Guide provides a summary of all topics in study guide format.
Each lesson in our study guide contains individual Topic pages that are assigned to each objective.
Why this guide is important?
Our study guide summarises the key certification objectives in plain English, using examples, diagrams, charts and topic reviews to make sure you’ve cemented your understanding.
The CPQ Administrator Certification Study Guide includes screenshots, summary points and diagrams to illustrate key concepts, as well as visually explain and demonstrate Salesforce functionality.
Course content
8 sectionsCPQ Platform 9 topics
- Design, configure, and troubleshoot Price Rules using lookup objects and formula fields to meet business requirements.
- Apply understanding of quote calculation sequence and Quote Line pricing fields to meet pricing and business requirements.
- Utilize out-of-the-box and custom permissions, record types, field sets, and page layouts to ensure users can fulfill their job requirements.
- Given a business process, demonstrate knowledge of CPQ data flow (for example, twin fields) across CPQ objects.
- Demonstrate knowledge about the CPQ object data model as it relates to data migration.
- Set up CPQ for localization and multi-currency for international customers and users.
- Given a scenario, determine the necessary CPQ package-level settings.
- Determine how the CPQ managed package fits within a Salesforce org.
- Knowledge Check
Bundle Configurations 3 topics
- Given a scenario, set up a bundle structure to meet business requirements.
- Given a scenario, set up Product Rules to meet business requirements.
- Knowledge Check
Pricing 3 topics
- Given a scenario, identify the appropriate pricing strategy (Discount Schedules, Block Prices, Contracted Prices, subscription pricing, percent-of-total).
- Given a scenario, determine expected pricing outcomes.
- Knowledge Check
Quote Templates 2 topics
- Given a scenario, set up a Quote Template to meet business requirements.
- Knowledge Check
Product Selection 2 topics
- Given a scenario, use Search Filters, field sets, and Custom Actions to enable product selection and configuration.
- Knowledge Check
Orders, Contracts, Amendments, and Renewals 4 topics
- Demonstrate understanding of the data required to generate Orders and Contracts.
- Demonstrate understanding of how to generate renewal and amendment Quotes to meet business requirements.
- Given a scenario, recommend when to use Orders, Contracts, Subscriptions, and Assets to meet business requirements.
- Knowledge Check
Products 3 topics
- Demonstrate how to set up Products, Price Books, and Price Book Entries.
- Demonstrate how product catalog setup impacts overall CPQ data flow.
- Knowledge Check
Approvals 2 topics
- Select and set up native or Advanced Approvals to meet business requirements.
- Knowledge Check
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