Salesforce Platform Administrator exam topics and section weights

Short answer: the exam has 8 sections. Data and Analytics Management is the heaviest at 17%, and Agentforce is the lightest at 8%. Weights below are percentages of the exam.

Configuration and Setup (15%)

• Company settings and org setup
• User interface configuration
• User setup and licenses
• Org security controls
• Sharing model
• Profiles, permission sets, permission set groups and muting

Object Manager and Lightning App Builder (15%)

• Object architecture and relationships
• Fields and page layouts
• Record types
• Business processes
• Quick and global actions

Sales and Marketing Applications (10%)

• Sales process
• Opportunity tools, forecasting and territory management
• Lead automation and campaigns

Service and Support Applications (10%)

• Case management
• Assignment rules
• Queues
• Auto-response rules
• Escalation

Productivity and Collaboration (10%)

• Activity management
• Chatter
• Salesforce mobile app
• AppExchange and AgentExchange

Data and Analytics Management (17%)

• Data import, export, mass delete and backup
• Duplicate and matching rules
• Validation rules
• Reports and report types
• Sharing impact on reports
• Dashboards

Automation (15%)

• Choosing the right automation
• Flow types and order of execution
• Approval processes

Agentforce (8%)

• Capabilities and use cases
• Security and permissions
• Agent Builder prompts and instructions
• Light testing

Use the weights to decide where to spend study time; the study plan does exactly that.

Source: the official exam guide (Summer '25). Checked against the Summer '25 version of the guide on October 12, 2026; exam details can change, so confirm them on Salesforce's exam page before you book.

Last updated October 9, 2026.