CPSA Certification

The Certified Pega System Architect (CPSA) certification is a coveted credential for professionals aspiring to excel in Pega application development. This Certified System Architect certification validates your ability to design scalable solutions, optimize business processes, and deliver robust applications using Pega’s low-code platform.

With industries increasingly adopting automation and agile methodologies, holding a CPSA certification makes you stand out as a highly skilled professional. Not only does it enhance your technical expertise, but it also opens the door to exciting roles with competitive salaries. However, achieving success in the CPSA exam requires strategic preparation.

Unfortunately, many candidates make a critical mistake during their preparation - overlooking Case Management, which constitutes a whopping 33% of the exam. This article dives into this common error, why it happens, and how to overcome it, ensuring you’re fully equipped to ace the CPSA certification.

Updated on 21 September 2026. What’s new: every Pega exam live today with its questions, time, pass mark and fee, replacing the old list built on CPSA Version 23.

Pega offers eight live certifications, each tied to a role: three System Architect levels (CPSA, CPSSA and CPLSA) for developers, plus Business Architect, Decisioning Consultant, Data Scientist, Robotics System Architect and Customer Service Developer. Every exam costs USD $190 and has 50 or 60 questions. Most beginners should start with the System Architect exam.

Pega (Pegasystems) builds a low-code platform for case management, workflow automation, customer decisioning and robotic automation. Banks, insurers, telecom providers and government agencies run large parts of their operations on it, and they need people who can prove they know how to build on it. A Pega certification is that proof. It is issued by Pega Academy and tested by Pearson VUE, and each one is tied to a specific product release, so a current credential shows your skills match the platform as it is used today.

This guide replaces our older article on four Pega certifications. Pega's line-up has grown and changed since then, so here you will find every exam that is live today, what each one costs, how the exams compare, which path to follow and how to prepare for your first attempt.