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I am planning to attempt the Cert exam. I have attempted the practice tests. Where can I find cert days?
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Hi Nikita,
Grand, here is your one stop shop: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/credentials/cert-days/
Hi, I'm Tiffany. I'm fairly new to the Salesforce environment. I have been working my way through some badges for a few weeks, messing around in my playgrounds, and I just started a Virtual Salesforce Bootcamp with the goal of getting my SF Admin certification by the end of July. It's such a big ecosystem with so much to explore! Would love to hear about where any of you like to travel within it and what you think is cool or helpful to know!
Hi everyone,
I recently got my SF Admin certification, I am however looking for SF Admin volunteering roles, would be grateful if anyone here can help me with such an opportunity.
Thank you.
I'm not sure this is the correct place to post this, but I just finished 3 Superbadges + gained Ranger Status and I'm ecstatic! The TH Community has helped me so much on my journey to become a SF Admin. Thank you! Your posts have kept me going when I couldn't figure out a challenge!
Hello! I just passed my admin exam!!! Here are my 2 cents.
Studying for the SF Admin is like listening to your best friend, brother, and teacher tell you the same story with different details. You won't understand by listening to just one person. You need to listen to all of them.
1) Do the certification trailmix. https://trailhead.salesforce.com/credentials/administrator
When you're completing the module. Don't skim through the information and skip to the step by step exercise. Most of the valuable information is going to be in the paragraphs. Takes notes and pay attention. Now, if you already did the trailmix and you skimmed most of the info, go back and re-read the topics that are difficult for you.
2) At first I signed up to a few courses on udemy.com. Even though they are full of information, careful with the courses that are mainly "click here, click there, let me show you something." While informative, the test is scenarios and what you are allowed to do. Not "where do you click." Also, many of these videos will spend 30 extra minutes on information that's not coming on the test, which might be good for real world practice but not good if you just want to know what's important for the test. The videos can be a lot of "how to" but not many theoretical explanations. Also, videos could be outdated.
3) After I failed the exam the first time, I did focusonforce.com. It has study guides and practice exams. I liked it. It's a lot of reading so pace yourself. However, it has a lot of explanations but not many "how to" in terms of where you find the information on the org. So it's good to use your trailhead org to see where everything is. The practice exams are good. There are quizzes of the individual sections. They took questions from those sections and created 6 practice exams. You shouldn't take these just once. You should take it many time until you have the idea.
4) Salesforce Webinars are great. I took one in March and then another one in May. It was different instructors. Even though the power point is the same, both instructors explained things in different way which helps in understanding things better. My critique is that they don't go over Sales & Marketing and Service & Support section. Those are the sections I had the most trouble with. Plus, they give you a discount voucher on your next test.
5) If you don't have time for a 5 hours webinar, the Trailhead Live 30 min. videos are great. A lot of the videos are repetitive. For example, there's probably 5 videos on profiles with the same power point but with different instructors who explain things differently so it's good to hear different perspectives.
In general, you have to understand the concepts. If you take a practice exam and you see "workflow rule" and you have no idea what that is. Study it.
This was long but I know that many people are a bit lost on where to start. It helped me studying from different sources.
Hello Trailblazers,
I am looking for some guidance on career changes. I was laid off this past March from the hospitality industry and I have decided to take this opportunity to change careers. I was introduced to SF by a friend of my wife and I fell in love with the platform and the incredible community I saw built around of it. I have to admit this change is scary. I know I could go back to my previous job in a couple of months, but I decided to walk away from a 6 figure job to do something I love rather than be a slave for $.
That being said, can anyone tell me their experience finding jobs as SF Admin without previous user experience and only the certification? I do have years of experience on client relations ship, managing completion of projects, negotiating contracts and things of that nature, but I only have in SF what I am learning now.
How did you find your first job as an admin if you didn't have previous user experience?
I appreciate your time and feedback.
Thank you everyone for your feedback. I am now registered for Certification Days towards the end of August, I am in the @Jobs for Salesforce group and looked into Copado. Will dig a little deeper next. Now I need to look for a local group.
If there is anything else you can think of to help me along the way, I will appreciate it.
Hi Everyone - I work as a Tech Support Specialist and am familiar with SF. Currently I work incoming/outgoing cases, create contacts and reset passwords. I'm looking to get certified as a SF Admin. When I first got started working in SF (2018) I received a call from a gentleman who needed his pwd reset. After seeing his title I started asking him questions and he provided with a lot of helpful information. I looked into it but circumstances didn't allow me to pursue. Now i'm ready, focused and determined to get my certification and looking for any and all awesome mentors. Thank you to all in advance.
Hi - I am trying to add and edit subscribers of a dashboard - I can add all the names but then when I save I get the message "subscription unsuccessful - We couldn't set up your subscription. Try subscribing again. If you still can't subscribe, ask your Salesforce admin for help.'
I am the SF admin?! I have managed this successfully before with no problems, so I am not sure what I can do? please can anyone help??
Try this :
For user who have “subscribe to Reports”, but unable to subscribe
1. Enable report notifications for all users in the org
2. Enable in-app notifications for the org
3. Grant user “Schedule reports” permission
4. If the above fails, grant user “View setup and Configuration” permission