The SS&C Blue Prism Developer exam, code DEV01, has 60 questions, a 75-minute limit and a pass mark of 600 on a scale of 200 to 800. Its outline lists 27 tasks in four objectives, and the weights are far from even: the five Object Development tasks carry as much of the exam as the fourteen Process Development tasks.
Every figure below was read on Blue Prism University and in the official handbook on 15 October 2026. Fees and rules change, so check them again before you book.
What is the Blue Prism DEV01 exam?
DEV01 is the exam behind the SS&C Blue Prism Developer certification. It checks whether you can build and configure Blue Prism processes and objects in a way that is efficient, well structured and easy for another developer to maintain.
Blue Prism's Developer certification page lists no formal prerequisite. It does recommend two things: completing the Developer Learning Plan and having three months of hands-on development work behind you. The handbook adds that passing the Associate Developer exam first is recommended, not required.
The roles Blue Prism has in mind are Junior Developer, Developer, Lead Developer, Technical Support and Process Analyst. In other words, people who already spend part of the week building processes and objects in Blue Prism.
How is the DEV01 outline weighted, task by task?
Blue Prism weights the four objectives, not the single tasks. Dividing each weight by the number of tasks under it gives a rough guide to where the points sit (our arithmetic, not Blue Prism's).
The Developer Certification Handbook, revision 4.0, lists these objectives:
Object Development, 35%: 5 tasks, about 7 percentage points per task.
Process Development, 35%: 14 tasks, about 2.5 points per task.
Process Implementation, 20%: 6 tasks, about 3.3 points per task.
Best Practice, 10%: 2 tasks, 5 points per task.
If the weights map straight onto the 60 questions, that would be about 21 questions each for Object and Process Development, 12 for Process Implementation and 6 for Best Practice. Blue Prism does not publish a question count per objective, so treat those numbers as a planning aid only.
The lesson is simple. A gap in one Object Development task, such as spy modes, can cost you almost three times as much as a gap in one Process Development task, such as environment locks.
Why do the five Object Development tasks matter so much?
Because each one stands for about a fifth of a 35% objective. These are the five tasks, in the handbook's words:
Create standard action types following best practice design standard.
Demonstrate how to organize and label Objects.
Demonstrate Application Modeller elements and labelling conventions.
Apply different spy modes to interact with various applications.
Build and use wait stages.
All five are about the business object layer: how a robot finds an element on the screen, waits for it and acts on it. If most of your project work has been in processes that call objects someone else built, this is the objective to practise first. Spy a browser page and a Windows form in the free Learning Edition, try more than one spy mode on each, then build the wait stages that make each one stable.
What do the 14 Process Development tasks cover?
They cover the whole process layer, so they read best in four groups.
Structure: process templates, and knowing when to reuse existing objects, pages and sub-pages.
Data and logic: Choices, Decisions, Calculations, Data Items and Collections built in the expression editor, advanced functions, and common process utilities.
Control: exception handling types, retry loops, breakpoints and blocks, loops, stop controls and environment locks.
Work and settings: building work queues and work queue actions, the credential manager, environment variables, and importing pre-built skills.
Each of these tasks carries less weight on its own, but together they make up a third of the exam. Exception handling and work queues also show up again when you test and debug a process, so time spent on them pays twice.
What does the Process Implementation objective ask you to do?
It is about running what you built. The six tasks are: testing actions and processes to reduce errors, creating debugging steps in different scenarios, running a process in Control Room and solving its errors, using stage logging properly, understanding how schedules run a process in production, and creating a release file in Release Manager.
In many teams, Release Manager and schedules are handled by a controller or an administrator, so a developer may rarely touch them (our observation). Walk through both at least once before the exam.
The last objective, Best Practice, has two tasks: applying best practice principles when you create processes, and knowing which documents to follow during automation development.
How is the DEV01 exam delivered and scored?
DEV01 is taken online with a remote proctor through Certiverse. Certiverse does not offer test centers, so you need a computer with a webcam, a reliable internet connection and a quiet room.
Blue Prism's certification FAQs set out the booking and exam-day rules:
You can book up to 60 days ahead, and no later than one business day before the exam.
Payment is by credit or debit card (Visa or Mastercard) on the Certiverse site.
If you have to pause during the exam, the timer keeps running.
You see your result as soon as the exam ends, and Certiverse emails a score report link.
A voucher expires 12 months after it is issued, and the date cannot be extended.
The score is scaled. Your raw score, the number of correct answers, is converted to the 200 to 800 scale, and 600 or higher passes. Blue Prism says a 600 does not stand for a fixed percentage of correct answers.
Two smaller rules are worth knowing. Candidates who take the English exam in a country where English is not an official language may get 30 extra minutes, unless their native language is Japanese, Spanish, Simplified Chinese or Portuguese (Brazil), the other four exam languages. And the official page warns that syntax errors within the questions are deliberate, so read every expression slowly.
What does DEV01 cost, and what if you fail?
The fee is USD 150 in most countries. The handbook lists three exceptions: GBP 120 in the United Kingdom, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man and Jersey; EUR 135 in a list of euro countries such as Germany, France, Spain and Italy; and JPY 16,000 in Japan. The price depends on the country where the exam is proctored.
If you fail, you have to wait at least 30 days before a re-sit, and you pay the full fee again. You can book the re-sit during the wait, but the exam date has to be 30 days or more after your last attempt.
At that price, a failed attempt costs both money and a month. It is cheaper to find your weak objective before the real exam than after it.
How long is the Developer certification valid now?
Three years. From July 1, 2026, Blue Prism's three Automation Development certifications (Associate Developer, Developer and Professional Developer) expire after three years and have to be renewed.
The certification renewal program gives two tracks:
Passed on or before June 30, 2026: the first cycle ends on June 30, 2029, and the renewal window opens on January 1, 2029.
Passed on or after July 1, 2026: the certification runs three years from your pass date, and the window opens six months before it expires.
In both cases you renew by passing a shorter renewal exam inside the window. A failed renewal attempt means a 15-day wait. A pass resets the expiry to three years from the renewal exam date. If the certification lapses, you lose the right to the renewal exam and have to take the full exam again. Blue Prism says the renewal exam will cost less than the full exam and that pricing and format will be released in 2028.
The new Credly badges that came with the change show the expiry date, so employers can see at a glance whether a certification is current.
What does CertFun's DEV01 video cover?
The video below is from CertFun's YouTube channel and was made for this exam. In under three minutes it points to DEV01 sample questions and other resources for the Blue Prism Developer exam.
How should you split your study hours?
Let the weights decide, then let your own gaps adjust them. One way to do it (our suggestion):
Complete the free Developer Learning Plan at Blue Prism University. The handbook lists 21 courses in it, from Blue Prism Foundations and Work Queues to Browser Automation and Surface Automation Fundamentals.
Put about a third of your practice time into the five Object Development tasks, because each one is worth the most.
Spread another third across the 14 Process Development tasks, starting with exception handling and work queues.
Use the rest for Process Implementation and Best Practice, and walk through Release Manager and schedules at least once.
Take Blue Prism's own Developer Assessment and Developer Certification Practice Test, which the official page recommends.
For timed practice in the real format, CertFun's Blue Prism Developer DEV01 practice exam page offers timed online tests with a result report that shows your strong and weak areas. Review your misses by objective, because one weak Object Development task weighs more than any other single gap.
Keep the full task list next to you while you study. Tick each task only when you have done it in Blue Prism yourself, not just read about it.
CertFun's DEV01 exam syllabus puts all 27 tasks in one table under their four objectives, which makes a handy checklist. For the pass mark, go by Blue Prism's own figure of a scaled 600.
Frequently asked questions
1. How many questions are on the Blue Prism DEV01 exam?
DEV01 has 60 questions, and you have 75 minutes to answer them. Candidates taking the English exam in a country where English is not an official language may get 30 more minutes, with the exceptions Blue Prism lists.
2. What score do you need to pass DEV01?
You need a scaled score of 600 or higher on a scale of 200 to 800. Blue Prism says a 600 does not equal a fixed percentage of correct answers.
3. How much does the DEV01 exam cost?
The fee is USD 150 in most countries, GBP 120 in the United Kingdom, EUR 135 in listed euro countries and JPY 16,000 in Japan, as read on 15 October 2026.
4. Can you take DEV01 at a test center?
No. Certiverse delivers the exam online with a remote proctor only, so you take it from your own computer with a webcam and a stable internet connection.
5. Does the Blue Prism Developer certification expire?
Yes. From July 1, 2026 it is valid for three years. Holders who passed on or before June 30, 2026 have until June 30, 2029, with a renewal window opening on January 1, 2029.
Written by the team behind CertFun, an independent exam-prep site that is not affiliated with SS&C Blue Prism. Facts were checked against Blue Prism University on 15 October 2026.
