It has been a busy summer so far and I have not had a chance to update the blog in a while. The highlight was completing Preparing for Your Salesforce.com Administrator Certification (CRT-101). It clarified what I needed to study for and how. In particular, it’s a problem-solving exam and not a memorization test.
As an undergraduate engineer, most of my exams were problem-solving and not memorization. We were given a scenario and had to use the engineering principles we learned to provide an answer. As a practicing engineer, most of what I did was solving problems so my education and professional experience prepared me for this exam. I expect that it also prepared me for a career as a Salesforce Administrator.
My Doctoral Qualification Exam was similar in nature to the certification exam; multiple questions from a wide range of topics. When I studied for that exam I made a set of notes, from my notes that allowed me to solve almost any problem I was presented with (17 out of 20 in fact). I created a similar set of notes (click here) for the Salesforce Certification Exam based on the study guide (click here).
I had made my Doctoral Exam notes available to my colleagues, with the caveat that these were my notes and if they wanted to succeed, they should create their own. It was the process of creating the notes and not necessarily the actual notes themselves what was most useful.
The next step is to use these notes to solve a variety of scenarios that might be presented on the exam and refine my notes. There are a few sites with practice exam questions. The intent is not to memorize the answers but to learn to identify what the question is asking and solve the scenario.
Wish me luck!
