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Salesforce CRM Administration Handbook
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We will cover the Salesforce exam topic more deeply in Chapter 12. Here, I will only highlight the most important topics related to the Salesforce exams in general:
Yes, some people have them all. No, more does not mean better.
The exception is the Salesforce Associate Certification, which is currently not multiselect.
You should know that some topics require a higher score than others as their wages are higher.
As the exam centers may not be available in your area, you may always take the online exam. The online exams are proctored, so this means that you will be assisted and monitored by a proctor through a webcam.
Currently, test questions are available only for Admin and Email Specialists. You can buy these official test questions to prepare yourself for those exams.
You will get additional time if you are taking an exam in English and your native language is not English. To get additional time, you need to contact Salesforce support before the exam.
For example, you need to be a Certified Administrator to be able to get an Advance Administrator certificate.
Some Salesforce certs are bound together and passing them all will ultimately give you the title of Application Architect and/or System Architect, which opens the door to becoming a Salesforce CTA – a Certified Technical Architect. The paths are known. Just follow the steps.
As I mentioned already, the Salesforce Certified Administrator exam will be covered in detail in another part of this book, so I would like to mention only that the Admin exam was, up until some time ago, the first exam that opened the doors to the Salesforce cert world. But as the exam scope is quite big and it’s better to be at least a Salesforce user on a daily basis to pass this exam, Salesforce some time ago introduced an easier exam called the Salesforce Certified Associate. Salesforce just recognized that it’s hard for Salesforce newbies to prepare for the Admin exam and start their careers without having at least a few months experience on the platform using Salesforce in the current work. The Salesforce Certified Associate is dedicated to Salesforce beginners with around three months’ experience on the platform, while the Admin cert is recommended to people with around six months’ Salesforce experience. The first three exams we recommend doing to jumpstart your Salesforce career are as follows:
You may ask, do I really need to do the Salesforce Certified Associate exam before trying to pass the Admin exam? The answer is simple: yes but no. Just joking. Yes, you may skip the Associate exam and go straight to the Admin exam. This is recommended especially if any of the following apply:
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You may already know that there is also another popular Salesforce certificate that is dedicated to programmers. It’s called Platform Developer 1. Some may say that you don’t need to do certs such as Admin or App Builder if you just want to be a programmer. They would be wrong. Salesforce is a platform where one of the most important rules is to try to not use Visualforce…Just kidding. The real rule is “try to configure before starting to code.” As Salesforce gives you a lot of customization possibilities, code-based automation options the starting point should always be declarative customization, click no code aka low code. For this reason, I recommend starting your Salesforce certificate journey with Admin, then App Builder as a prerequisite before jumping to Dev 1, even if you don’t want to be an Admin and do not know what App Builder really is.
Now that you have some basic context about Salesforce exams and being Salesforce certified, let’s see how to make the very first step toward your future Salesforce career and learn how to create your Salesforce test account.
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