Salesforce Advanced Administrator Practice Exam: Platform Administrator II Certification Practice Questions

What the Advanced Administrator exam tests on the current outline

We read the official exam guide on Salesforce Help, as we do for every cert page on this site. One warning before the table: the PDF study guide floating around developer.salesforce.com is from Winter '19. It still uses the retired "Certified Advanced Administrator" name and lists sections that no longer exist. If your prep material mentions "Extending Custom Objects and Applications" at 8%, it is seven years out of date. The live guide is authoritative, and these are its weights.

Security and Access plus Process Automation decide 40% of your score between them, and Objects and Applications takes the total to 59% across three sections. That is where your question volume belongs. Generate practice questions from your own Salesforce notes weighted the way the exam is weighted, and give Environment Management its 7% of attention rather than skipping it, because it is the section most admins have never touched at work.

Two things almost every prep source gets wrong

There is a third discrepancy worth knowing, and it is Salesforce contradicting itself. The exam guide says you maintain this credential by completing a Trailhead maintenance badge three times a year. Salesforce's current maintenance schedule says once a year, and that the Platform Administrator maintenance badge maintains both credentials together, with no separate Platform Administrator II module at all. The dedicated maintenance articles are newer and more specific than the line left in the exam guide, so once a year is the figure to work from. Confirm it in your Trailhead maintenance tab, which shows your actual due date.

One more honest note about currency: the guide states that its questions align to the Summer '22 release, despite the article carrying a 2026 update date. That is Salesforce's own admission, and it explains the missing AI content. Practically, it means you should study the platform as it worked a few releases back rather than assume the newest features are fair game.

Salesforce Advanced Administrator exam questions, answered

What is the passing score for the Salesforce Advanced Administrator exam?

65%, which is genuinely counterintuitive: it is lower than the 68% English bar on the Platform Administrator exam that gates it. The harder exam has the easier threshold. You face 60 scored multiple-choice and multiple-select questions plus up to 5 unscored ones, in 105 minutes, which works out to well under two minutes per question on a paper built from long scenarios.

How much does the Salesforce Advanced Administrator certification cost?

US$200 plus tax to register, US$100 plus tax to retake, matching the Platform Administrator and Platform App Builder exams. There is no free retake. The real budget question is the prerequisite: you cannot sit this without the Platform Administrator certification, so from a standing start the path is US$400 before any retakes. Many US employers reimburse both, and it is worth asking before you pay.

Do I need the Salesforce Administrator certification before Advanced Administrator?

Yes, and it is a hard gate rather than a suggestion. The Salesforce Certified Platform Administrator credential is required before you can book Platform Administrator II. This is unusual in the Salesforce lineup, where Platform App Builder and most others can be taken cold. If your admin cert has lapsed through missed maintenance, sort that out first.

Was the Salesforce Advanced Administrator certification renamed?

Yes, to Salesforce Certified Platform Administrator II. It follows the Platform Developer I and II convention rather than becoming "Advanced Platform Administrator", which is what most people assume after seeing the base admin exam get the Platform prefix. Trailhead's old advancedadministrator URL still works, so you can be on the correct official page and still see the old name in your search results. Everyone in the ecosystem still says Advanced Admin in conversation.

Does the Salesforce Advanced Administrator exam cover Agentforce?

No. We checked the current outline for it specifically and found no Agentforce, Einstein, AI, or Data Cloud content anywhere in it. That is a strange result given the Platform Administrator exam below it now devotes an 8% domain to Agentforce, and it is the single most likely thing to trip up someone who prepped for the admin exam recently and assumes the advanced one went further. It has not been refreshed that way. Its questions still align to Summer '22.

How hard is the Salesforce Advanced Administrator exam?

Hard in a different way from the admin exam rather than simply harder. The admin exam largely asks whether you know what a feature does. This one hands you a business requirement and several configurations that would all technically satisfy it, then scores whether you pick the one that scales. Security and Access and Process Automation carry 20% each, and both reward people who have cleaned up someone else's sharing model or untangled competing flows in a real org.

How do I maintain the Salesforce Advanced Administrator certification?

One free Trailhead maintenance badge per year, and there is a useful wrinkle: no separate Platform Administrator II module exists. The Platform Administrator maintenance badge maintains both credentials at once, so holding the pair is no more maintenance work than holding the entry-level one. Be aware the exam guide still carries stale text saying three times a year, contradicted by Salesforce's current maintenance schedule. Your Trailhead maintenance tab shows the real due date.

Is the Salesforce Advanced Administrator certification worth it?

For a working Salesforce admin in the US, it is one of the better returns in the ecosystem, and the prerequisite is why. Everyone holding it has passed two exams and demonstrated judgment about security models and automation at scale, which is exactly the line between an admin who executes requests and one who is trusted with architecture decisions. That line is where US pay bands separate in admin, consultant, and Salesforce architect roles. If you are not already administering an org day to day, the scenarios will feel abstract and the credential will not carry you.

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