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Salesforce Certified Platform User Experience Designer
Salesforce certification for aspiring or experienced designers who build and design human-centered experiences on the Salesforce Platform.
Licensing authority: Salesforce · Application information
Initial by examination
- Applicability
- The currently served official guide explicitly aligns exam questions to Winter '24. No official start or end date for this content boundary is stated; none is inferred from the release name or retrieval date.
- Conduct
- Accept the Salesforce Certification Program Agreement and Code of Conduct at the beginning of the exam; no hard-copy or online materials may be referenced.
- Passing Score
- 65%
- Prerequisite
- None.
- Recommended Experience
- At least 6 months of hands-on experience as a UX designer, engineer, administrator, stakeholder, facilitator, or researcher, and 3 to 6 months utilizing UX design concepts on the Salesforce Platform; these are audience recommendations, not an additional prerequisite examination.
- Scheduling
- Rolling appointment: log in to Trailhead Academy, select this exam, choose online-proctored or onsite testing-center delivery, select a date/time or local venue/time slot, and complete checkout. For online delivery, review technical requirements, confirm ID requirements and run the system test; onsite ID must match the booking exactly.
Salesforce Certified Platform User Experience Designer Exam
- Provider
- Salesforce; proctored delivery through Pearson VUE / Pearson OnVUE
- Format
- Proctored multiple-choice examination, onsite 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
- 65%
- Exam fee
- US$200 plus applicable taxes; retake US$100 plus applicable taxes
Examination outline
Discovery (13%)
- Research methodology and tools for business requirements
- Requirements gathering and strategy based on current user experiences
- Salesforce UX personas and processes
- Salesforce value for user experiences
UX Fundamentals (16%)
- UX methods for defining user experiences
- Corporate branding and styling
- Accessible and engaging design principles and tools
- Mobile UX design fundamentals
Human-Centered Design (12%)
- Human-centered design in customer solutions
- Inclusive design
Declarative Design (27%)
- Core Salesforce objects, end-user experience and customization
- Information presentation, hierarchy and architecture in static experiences
- User efficiency across a series of steps
- Global Salesforce configuration for user flow
- User onboarding, support and learning
- Applying branding to a solution
Testing (11%)
- Design validation and testing with end users
- Testing techniques for optimal user experiences
- Evaluating and managing design changes
Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS) (21%)
- SLDS and its purpose
- Out-of-the-box Lightning Experience design and configuration
- New and customized component functionality using SLDS
Examination sources
- Salesforce Certified Platform User Experience Designer Exam Guide
Purpose of This Exam Guide
- Salesforce Certified Platform User Experience Designer Exam Guide
About the Exam — Version
- Salesforce Certified Platform User Experience Designer Exam Guide
Exam Outline — introductory paragraph
- Salesforce Certified Platform User Experience Designer Exam Guide
Exam Outline — Discovery
- Salesforce Certified Platform User Experience Designer Exam Guide
Exam Outline — UX Fundamentals
- Salesforce Certified Platform User Experience Designer Exam Guide
Exam Outline — Human-Centered Design
- Salesforce Certified Platform User Experience Designer Exam Guide
Exam Outline — Declarative Design
- Salesforce Certified Platform User Experience Designer Exam Guide
Exam Outline — Testing
- Salesforce Certified Platform User Experience Designer Exam Guide
Exam Outline — Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS)
- Salesforce Certified Platform User Experience Designer Exam Guide
About the Exam — Content and unscored-question explanation
- Salesforce Certified Platform User Experience Designer Exam Guide
About the Exam — paragraph following Prerequisite
- Salesforce Certified Platform User Experience Designer Exam Guide
About the Exam — Passing score
- Salesforce Certified Platform User Experience Designer Exam Guide
About the Exam — Prerequisite
- Salesforce Certified Platform User Experience Designer Exam Guide
Audience Description — recommended experience
- Schedule a Salesforce Certification Exam
Schedule an Online-Proctored Exam (Pearson OnVUE) — registration steps
- Schedule a Salesforce Certification Exam
Schedule an Exam at a Testing Center (Pearson VUE) — registration steps and ID requirements
- Salesforce Certified Platform User Experience Designer Exam Guide
About the Exam — References
- Salesforce Certified Platform User Experience Designer Exam Guide
Salesforce Certification Candidate Code of Conduct