{
  "id": 11134346,
  "title": "Blue Prism DEV01: Where the 60 Questions Come From and How to Spend 75 Minutes",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/blue-prism-dev01-where-the-60-questions-come-from-and-how-to-spend-75",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-01T07:16:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/palak_mazumdar_f5431445f6/blue-prism-dev01-where-the-60-questions-come-from-and-how-to-spend-75-minutes-1g7e"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Blue Prism Developer exam, called DEV01, consists of 60 questions that must be completed in 75 minutes. Roughly 70% of the exam's weight is focused on two main objectives: Object Development (35%) and Process Development (35%). The remaining 20% covers Process Implementation (20%), Best Practice (10%), and the exam is scored on a scale of 200-800, with a passing score being 600.\n\nBuilding objects and processes daily will likely prepare you for most of the exam content. The remaining topics include control room work, release files, and best practice guidelines. If you only focus on building, you may struggle with certain aspects of the exam.\n\nThe exam is aimed at developers and process analysts who build and configure Blue Prism processes and objects. While there are no formal prerequisites, SS&C recommends completing the Developer Learning Plan and gaining hands-on automation experience before taking the exam.\n\nThe 60 questions are distributed according to the fixed weights of the four objectives. For example, Object Development makes up 35% of the exam, translating to about 21 questions. Although SS&C provides the overall weights, the exact number of questions per objective is not disclosed, but most of the score is determined by these two objectives.\n\nDuring the exam, it's recommended to spend around 75 seconds per question initially, reserving about 15 minutes for questions that require more complex tracing or debugging. Prioritize areas such as exception handling, work queues, and loops, which often appear in scenario questions. Replicating real-world tasks, like testing actions and processes, debugging, running them from the Control Room, and creating release files, will help you feel more confident during the exam.",
  "summary": "The Blue Prism Developer exam (DEV01) gives you 60 questions in 75 minutes, and 70% of its weight sits in two objectives: Object Development and Process Development. If you build objects and processes every day, you already know most of the exam. The rest is control room work, release files and best practice, and that is where people who only build tend to lose points. This post breaks the…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}