CDBG Administration

Why this course exists

The certification is the gate

Anyone administering a TxCDBG grant contract has to pass the Texas Department of Agriculture's TxCDBG Administrator Certification Test. That includes third party administrators, Council of Governments staff, and community staff who administer their own grant. It is 100 questions, 80 percent to pass, with 24 hours from start to submission. You may use the listed references but not help from other people. Certification runs in cycles: TDA says every certification held before 1 January 2026 has expired.

The permitted references are narrow: the TxCDBG Implementation Manual and its forms, the Survey Methodology Guide, and the TxCDBG Guide to Meeting a National Program Objective. Nothing else. Because you may use the references and have a full day to work, it is not testing recall. It is testing whether you can find the rule and apply it to a situation. That is what these lessons train.

The federal regulations in Title 24 of the CFR are the foundation underneath all of it, and they are what these lessons cite, because a rule you can trace to its source is a rule you can defend in a monitoring visit.

Status

All 16 lessons are live

Every lesson is written and published, sourced against the federal CFR and TDA's TxCDBG Project Implementation Manual, with a diagram, a glossary, 14 practice questions (20 in Lesson 16) and neural narration. A 100 question practice exam is available from Lesson 16, matching the real certification test's question count, drawn fresh every sitting from a 150 question pool and scored against the same 80 percent pass mark. It stays closed note and timed for a study session rather than the real test's 24 hour, references-allowed window.