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Salesforce Certified Platform Strategy Designer
Salesforce certification validating expertise in using design methods to create experience strategies that drive business outcomes on the Salesforce Platform.
Licensing authority: Salesforce · Application information
Initial by examination
- Boundary
- Initial qualification only; maintenance is not submitted as an additional initial examination dependency.
- Conduct
- Accept the Salesforce Certification Program Agreement and Code of Conduct at the beginning of the exam. No hard-copy or online reference materials may be used.
- Dates
- The current official guide adopts Spring '23-aligned content without publishing an examination, credential or initial-route effective start/end date. All unpublished date boundaries remain null; Spring '23 is content alignment, not an inferred start date.
- Qualification
- Pass the current Salesforce Certified Platform Strategy Designer Exam; no prerequisite certification is specified.
- Recommended Experience
- The audience description recommends at least 3 years in strategy design or a similar role, 1-2 years with Salesforce Platform, advanced facilitation/consultative skills and at least 2 years leading complex projects; these recommendations do not replace the explicit prerequisite of None.
- Scheduling
- Log in to Trailhead Academy, select the exam and an available date/time; choose Pearson OnVUE online proctoring or a Pearson VUE testing-center venue. Online delivery requires system checks and qualifying ID; onsite ID must match the booking exactly.
Salesforce Certified Platform Strategy Designer Exam
- Provider
- Salesforce; proctored delivery through Pearson VUE / Pearson OnVUE
- Format
- Proctored multiple-choice examination, onsite at a testing center or online; no hard-copy or online reference materials
- Exam questions
- Total questions: 60–65; Scored questions: 60; Unscored questions: 0–5; The total includes the scored and unscored questions.
- Time limit
- 105 minutes
- Passing score
- 70%
- Exam fee
- Registration US$200 / JPY 30,000; retake US$100 / JPY 15,000, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
Examination outline
Value Design (32%)
- Challenge statements, business objectives, user problems and project scope
- Success metrics and signals
- Internal organizational dynamics and recommended approaches
- External context for innovation and organizational strategy
- Strategic rationale, business and user needs, and future implications
- Ethics and values for users and organizations
Tools and Artifacts (23%)
- Connecting user needs to Salesforce capabilities
- Feasibility, desirability and viability in user experience
- Co-creation methods with customers and stakeholders
Intangible Deliverables (26%)
- Strategies for alignment
- Key relationships under evolving internal dynamics
- Audience-specific vision presentation techniques
- Tools for productive cross-discipline collaboration
Leveraging Adjacent Roles/Skills (19%)
- Feasible implementation roadmaps preserving the vision
- Technical and business capabilities for solution delivery
- Collaboration across disparate business and technical deliverables
- Knowledge and skill infusions for vision creation
Examination sources
- Salesforce Certified Platform Strategy Designer Exam Guide
Purpose of This Exam Guide
- Salesforce Certified Platform Strategy Designer Exam Guide
About the Exam / Version
- Salesforce Certified Platform Strategy Designer Exam Guide
Exam Outline / introductory scope statement
- Salesforce Certified Platform Strategy Designer Exam Guide
Exam Outline / Value Design
- Salesforce Certified Platform Strategy Designer Exam Guide
Exam Outline / Tools and Artifacts
- Salesforce Certified Platform Strategy Designer Exam Guide
Exam Outline / Intangible Deliverables
- Salesforce Certified Platform Strategy Designer Exam Guide
Exam Outline / Leveraging Adjacent Roles/Skills
- Salesforce Certified Platform Strategy Designer Exam Guide
About the Exam / content through release alignment
- Salesforce Certified Platform Strategy Designer Exam Guide
About the Exam / additional unscored questions paragraph
- Salesforce Certified Platform Strategy Designer Exam Guide
About the Exam / registration, delivery, references and prerequisite
- Schedule a Salesforce Certification Exam
Schedule an Online-Proctored Exam (Pearson OnVUE)
- Schedule a Salesforce Certification Exam
Schedule an Exam at a Testing Center (Pearson VUE)
- Salesforce Certified Platform Strategy Designer Exam Guide
Audience Description / recommended experience