With my immense pleasure, I would like to share that I passed by Force.com Developer (DEV 401) certification today. It took me 64 minutes to go through all the questions and review them before I hit the submit button. After one more click of ‘Continue’ Button, ohoooo the screen says
“Result: Pass”.
After completion, I thought of sharing some of my experience regarding my preparation for the exam. So here we go >>
Basically someone who is sitting for the exam should have at least 6 months of experience working as Salesforce Developer. The experience gained from workplace while using the tool is irreplaceable.
Second thing is dowloading the Study Guide and making sure you know what you are trying to achieve and focus your further study towards the topics given in the study guide.
Third is actually studying the book and references, help and tutorial and going through the freely available Podcast. Following links are very beneficial for this.
Podcast:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/salesforce.com-training-certification/id325668840
Book:
1. Development with the Force.com Platform: Building Business Applications in the Cloud (2nd Edition)
2. Force.com Developer Certification Handbook (DEV401)
Links:
1. http://www.forceprepare.com/tutorial/intro.html
2. http://forcecertified.com/certifications/certified-developer/
Fourth step is to give some mock exams available in net. But, please make sure that you are giving the latest exams as there are so many outdated mock exams in net which in some cases are purely incorrect for the present scenario.
Following links are very beneficial for this.
1. http://www.allaboutsfdc.com/
2. http://salesforcedumps.blogspot.com/
3. http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/search.php?search=dev+401
3. Force.com Developer Certification Handbook (DEV401)
Finally arriving in the test center before time (unlike me.. :P), be confident and sit for the exam.
Wish you all the best if you followed this guide for your exam.
Please drop me comment whether or not this helped.
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