All (well most) of this week was spent – you guessed it! – studying for exams… I tried to take the Salesforce Certified Advanced Admin on Wednesday but due to hickups in the system at Webassessor I had to exit the exam and the new time slot I got I couldn’t do. So the exam is now scheduled for Monday. It’s going to be exciting. Whether I pass or not I’m at the point where I need to see some actual questions to gauge what they are asking for instead of simply trying to guess. My take on exams and certification hasn’t changed much and I still think that while certifications are nice the proof is in the pudding. Real experience is the only thing that matters.
On Thursday I thought that the AppBuilder certification should be attainable given the amount of effort I have been putting into studying so on Thursday night, with the rest of the house sleeping, I took the certification test. And passed!! Very happy. I have now have 2 of the 5 certifications I need.
I also did my first round of volunteering and logged 5 hours on that account at our pre-Christmas Party event on Friday for “Cykling uden alder”. While the whole volunteering thing still doesn’t come easy for me I feel that actually doing it makes it easier. I’m also volunteering all day Tuesday next week which will be good.
What did I learn
- More on SOQL especially using this nice article on SOQL
- Questions on the AppBuilder certification is tricky and takes careful reading and rereading
- Testing field level security should not be done as System Administrator as it settings doesn’t apply when you’ve been assigned Read All Data / Modify All Data. Instead clone something the Standard User profile and test with that
Status after this week
Trailhead points: 57000
Trailhead badges: 56
Certifications: 2 (Salesforce Certified Administrator, Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder)
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