1.2 The Exam Topics Mapped to This Guide & a Study Plan
Key Takeaways
The January 2026 exam description lists Advanced Data Manipulation, Debugging, Advanced UI automation, REFramework, Orchestrator, Attended Automation, Autopilot, API Automation, Resource Management, Generic Automation Development, and complex Associate topics.
UiPath publishes no percentage weights, so every listed task is testable.
REFramework and Orchestrator have the longest task lists, and hands-on practice with both is the core of preparation.
Newer topics include Autopilot, API workflows, GenAI activities, context grounding, Data Service, agentic UI automation, and macOS automation.
1.2 The Exam Topics Mapped to This Guide
Core Concept: UiPath publishes a list of exam sections and the tasks a Minimally Qualified Candidate should perform. It does not publish percentage weights. So treat every listed topic as testable, and spend extra time on REFramework and Orchestrator, where the task list is longest. This section maps each topic in the January 2026 exam description to the chapter that teaches it.
The exam description names these sections:
- Advanced Data Manipulation
- Debugging
- Advanced UI automation
- REFramework
- Orchestrator
- Attended Automation
- Autopilot
- API Automation
- Resource Management
- Other advanced concepts, plus Generic Automation Development
- Complex topics from the Associate Automation Developer learning plan
Topic-by-Topic Map
| Exam section | Tasks listed in the exam description | Where this guide teaches it |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Data Manipulation | LINQ for Lists and DataTables; DateTime parsing, arithmetic, and conversion; Invoke Method and Invoke Code; data referencing in invokes (DataTable, List, Dictionary); JSON object manipulation; coded workflows | LINQ and DataTable chapter; Regex, DateTime, JSON and Invoke chapter; coded workflows in the Data Service chapter |
| Debugging | Remote debugging; profiling execution | Debugging, Remote Debugging and Profiling chapter |
| Advanced UI automation | UI automation with WebDriver; Remote Runtime; agentic UiTask/UiAct scenarios (healing, testing, attended); macOS automation, including native macOS apps, Office desktop apps, and AppleScript | Object Repository, Computer Vision and Remote Runtime chapter; Advanced UI Automation chapter |
| REFramework | Uses of REFramework and the Dispatcher/Performer (Producer/Consumer) model; template mechanisms; custom log fields; queue-based and tabular or collection-based transactional projects; adapting to a linear process; state machine components and building state machines; testing with and without queues | The two REFramework chapters and the State Machines, Custom Log Fields and REFramework Testing chapter |
| Orchestrator | Tenant entities (webhooks, alerts, packages) and folder entities (triggers, credential stores); unattended features such as folders, job priorities, background versus foreground processes, and license allocation per machine; API triggers; recording of queue transactions and jobs; Solutions Management; monitoring; Serverless and Cloud VM robots; tags | Queues chapter; Tenant and Folder Entities chapter; Unattended Execution chapter; Monitoring, Recording and Solutions chapter |
| Attended Automation | Long-running workflows; trigger-based automation; native event triggers with Run and Stop Local Triggers; the Event Inspection Tool; Assistant (widgets, configuration, Marketplace, schedules); Picture in Picture; Action Center; Apps (advanced widgets, multi-automation apps, Action Apps and schema, invoking Integration Service APIs); callouts | Long-Running Workflows, Action Center and Apps chapter; Trigger-Based Attended Automation chapter; Assistant and Robot Sessions chapter |
| Autopilot | Autopilot for Everyone; Autopilot for Developers | Autopilot chapter |
| API Automation | API workflows; the Integration Service Connector Builder; event triggers; GenAI activities; REST APIs and Orchestrator HTTP Request; HTTP Request activities for Integration Service connectors | API Automation and Integration Service chapter |
| Resource Management | Solutions Management; Data Service entities and the Data Service platform connector; context grounding; coded workflows (arguments, Orchestrator, UI automation, Microsoft 365 APIs, hybrid automations, custom services, imported libraries) | Data Service, Context Grounding and Coded Workflows chapter; Solutions Management section |
| Generic Automation Development | Tasks that combine the skills above | Integrated Scenario Practice chapter |
| Associate-level complex topics | Modern UI automation and selectors, Object Repository, exception handling, control flow, logging, RPA testing, and Orchestrator basics taught in more depth | Modern UI Automation, Advanced Control Flow, and RPA Testing chapters |
Environments You Should Be Comfortable With
The exam description also lists the tools a candidate should know: a general grasp of the software development lifecycle, Microsoft Excel and Outlook, a code editor such as Visual Studio Code, web browsers and HTML page elements, version control, UiPath Studio including the REFramework and Document Understanding templates, UiPath Communications Mining, AI Center, Action Center, Orchestrator, and UiPath Robots.
A Practical Study Plan
- Build a REFramework performer from scratch against a queue. Then convert it to read an Excel table, and then to a single linear run. Most REFramework tasks in the exam description are about those adaptations.
- Practice Orchestrator administration in a Community or trial tenant: create queues with Auto Retry, triggers of every type (time, queue, event, and API), assets, webhooks, and tags. Open the Monitoring pages while jobs run.
- Write LINQ, DateTime, and JSON expressions until you can predict their output without running them. Questions that show code as answer choices reward that fluency.
- Try the newer platform features the exam description adds: Autopilot in Studio, API workflows in Studio Web, GenAI activities with a context grounding index, Data Service entities, and one coded workflow that calls a low-code workflow.
- Debug remotely and profile a slow workflow at least once, so the Remote Debugging and Profiling panels are familiar.
- Take the free official practice test after you finish the chapters, and use its section feedback to choose what to review.
Tip
Many answer choices differ only in a name: a constant on the wrong sheet, an activity that does not exist, or a setting at the wrong level (process versus trigger). When you study, note exactly where each setting lives. That habit is worth more than memorizing long lists.
How should a candidate use the domain list in the UiPath-ADPv1 exam description when planning study time?
Spend time in proportion to the published percentage weight of each domain.
Skip Associate-level topics, because the Professional exam never repeats them.
Treat every listed task as testable, because UiPath publishes no weights, and give extra practice to the longest task lists such as REFramework and Orchestrator.
Study only the Attended Automation domain, because it has the most listed tasks.
Which of these topics appears in the January 2026 UiPath-ADPv1 exam description under Resource Management?
Context grounding and Data Service entities
Picture in Picture and Assistant widgets
Remote Runtime and WebDriver
Profile execution and remote debugging
Sections you finish are checked off in the contents.