Salesforce Certified System Architect

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Salesforce Certified System Architect Pass Rate

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The score you need to pass the Salesforce Certified System Architect certification exam, what the cut score actually means, and how to read your mock results against it.

65% to pass
60 questions
2.2/10 difficulty

The number you need to hit

Published cut score for this certification.

Our pass-mark benchmark
65%
Not published by Salesforce
Margin
35%
room for wrong answers, on a flat mock
Wrong answers allowed
21
out of 60 questions

Pass score vs pass rate

Two different numbers that get mixed up constantly.

Pass score (cut score)

The scaled score the vendor publishes. For the Salesforce Certified System Architect it is 65%. This is the number you can actually prepare against, and it is the one that decides your result on exam day.

Pass rate (percentage of candidates)

The share of candidates who pass. Salesforce generally does not publish this for individual exams, and the numbers you find online usually come from candidate self-reported surveys. We would rather tell you nothing than tell you a figure we cannot source.

Where you lose points

The exam is not scored flat. Each domain carries its own weight, so a domain where you lose everything can sink a score that looks fine on paper.

Integration Architecture25%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 25% of the exam, and it has 15 practice questions here.

Data Modeling & Management25%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 25% of the exam, and it has 15 practice questions here.

Identity and Access Management25%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 25% of the exam, and it has 15 practice questions here.

Platform Development Lifecycle & Deployment25%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 25% of the exam, and it has 15 practice questions here.

About these numbers: Salesforce does not publish a numeric cut score for the Salesforce Certified System Architect, so the figure above is Certilum's own benchmark rather than an official threshold. We would rather show you that than present an invented percentage as fact.

The practical version: the Salesforce Certified System Architect is not passed by knowing most of the content. It is passed by being strong in the domains that carry weight, and by not leaving one of them empty.

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