Salesforce Certified Administrator

Measured data

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Salesforce Certified Administrator

ADM-201

We scored 60 real Salesforce Certified Administrator exam questions 1-10 on question complexity and broke the result down by exam domain.

60 questions scored
8 domains
2.1/10 overall complexity

Complexity by exam domain

Higher scores mean more demanding question formats. The exam score is computed over the whole bank, not averaged across domains.

Exam complexity score2.1/10Gentle · measured across 60 bank questions
  • Agentforce5 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    40% multi-select · 0% scenario · 20% interactive

  • Automation9 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive

  • Configuration and setup9 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive

  • Data and analytics management10 questions · complexity 1.8/10 · Gentle

    30% multi-select · 0% scenario · 30% interactive

  • Object Manager and Lightning App Builder9 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive

  • Productivity and collaboration6 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive

  • Sales and marketing applications6 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive

  • Service and support applications6 questions · complexity 3.0/10 · Gentle

    33% multi-select · 33% scenario · 33% interactive

Full per-domain breakdown

Blueprint weight, bank size and question format mix for every domain of the exam.

DomainBlueprintQuestionsSingleMultiInteractiveComplexity
Agentforce8%52212.0/10Gentle
Automation15%93332.0/10Gentle
Configuration and setup15%93332.0/10Gentle
Data and analytics management17%104331.8/10Gentle
Object Manager and Lightning App Builder15%93332.0/10Gentle
Productivity and collaboration10%62222.0/10Gentle
Sales and marketing applications10%62222.0/10Gentle
Service and support applications10%62223.0/10Gentle

How the score is calculated

The formula is fixed and public, so anyone can reproduce these numbers from the same bank.

Every question in the Salesforce Certified Administrator bank is measured on four signals that can be read directly from the database. Each signal is expressed as a share of the questions in the domain, and the four shares are combined with fixed weights:

  • Multi-select questions (40% weight). Items with more than one correct answer. The candidate has to find all of them, which is the single hardest format in the bank.
  • Scenario questions (30% weight). Questions longer than 150 characters, which describe a situation instead of a definition and therefore test reasoning rather than recall.
  • Interactive questions (20% weight). Items that require reading code or a configuration snippet.
  • Deep explanations (10% weight). Questions whose explanation runs past 300 characters, which signals a concept with real nuance behind it.

The combined share is multiplied by ten to produce a 1-10 score. The exam-level score is computed over the whole bank rather than averaged across domains, so a small domain cannot distort the total. Figures on this page are recomputed from the live bank on every crawl.

Data set: Certilum Salesforce Certified Administrator Foundation question bank, 60 questions, 8 domains. Published by CERTILUM. This is Certilum’s own measurement of its own question bank and is not an official Salesforce statistic.

Questions analysed
60
Exam domains
8
Hardest domain
Service and support applications (3.0)
Most approachable domain
Data and analytics management (1.8)
Question mix
21 single · 20 multi · 19 interactive
Measured on
Foundation

Frequently asked questions

What our Salesforce Certified Administrator complexity numbers mean and how they are produced.