We would like to advise that an updated version of the CPQ Exam Regulations has just been published. There are a small number of revision pertaining to the Professional Stage exams. It is useful, here, to confirm the following guidance and information for these exams:
Professional Stage exams (P2-P10)
- Documents are made available in the morning through the Digify app. This session is not invigilated.
- In this morning session, candidates are provided with pre-release documents pertaining to the afternoon exam. It is not possible to print the documents out and the Digify app restricts this.
- The purpose of providing these documents in the morning session is to reduce reading time in the afternoon exam. Candidates may start to consider what questions might be posed in the exam; however, there is no direction, at all, within the documents to consider what these questions might be.
- During this morning session, candidates may make notes. They may take up to five sheets of their candidate notes into the afternoon exam. The notes may be handwritten or printed but must be physical notes (up to five sheets of paper). It is not permitted to take digital notes into the exam on a device. Both of these points have been clarified in the newly published exam regulations (4.2):
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- 28: Trainees are permitted to make notes relating to the pre-release materials they review during the morning session (Previously, this stated ‘handwritten notes’ – ‘handwritten’ has now been removed and they may now be printed)
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- 33 (table): Up to 5 sheets of your notes based upon the preliminary documents that were made available on the morning of the exam (Previously, these notes were referred to as ‘research notes’, they are now termed as ‘notes based upon the preliminary documents’. Further, the maximum number of allowable sheets has now been stated – five pages)
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- Appendix 1 (Exam Violations – iii) – this has now been updated to reflect the above two changes: The exception is P2-P10 where trainees are permitted to bring in up to 5 sheets of their notes based upon the preliminary documents that were made available on the morning of the exam.
- Candidates may also take a maximum of five sheets of blank or lines paper into the afternoon exam. This has not changed.
The CPQ Exam Regulations (v4.2 – Issue date November 2025) can be accessed by candidates via your MyCILEX portal.