

First-hand experience is always an important part of learning a new skill, especially within Salesforce because of the intricacies of the tool. Most trailheads will walk you step by step on what to do in your Salesforce Sandbox so that you are actually in there doing the things. Which is essentially your very own Salesforce org. Trailhead also walks you through creating your own Sandbox. Which is a module that guides the user through various activities such as setting up security, creating fields and objects, building automations, creating reports, and performing data migrations. Additionally, on just about any Salesforce-related topic, a user can take a Trail. Trailhead guides the user through creating their Salesforce sandbox, which is basically a site (or org) that replicates most Salesforce functionality, and it allows you to practice with many Salesforce features.

Trailhead is a free educational service provided by Salesforce. For me, the best teacher is experience: it’s one thing to read about how something works it’s quite another to get experience making that something work.


While the Focus on Force materials are great, they may not be sufficient enough for success on these exams. The beauty of the exam guide is that the questions closely replicate what one might see on an actual exam explanations as to why an answer is right or wrong are also provided. Each guide costs anywhere between $19-24, and one can also purchase the corresponding exam guide, which contains topic-specific exams and practice exams. Through what’s essentially a PowerPoint or Slide Deck presentation, the user is guided through a plethora of information and images. For the Salesforce Administrator exam, for example, Data Management covers 10% of the exam, while Security and Access covers 13%, and so on. Each topic covers a certain percentage of the exam. Focus on Forceįocus on Force provides an exhaustive overview of each topic covered by a Salesforce exam. Now, there may be multiple methods to best go about passing these exams, but I will focus on two that worked for me: (1) Covering Focus on Force material and (2) interacting with the Platform through both Trailhead and app creation. So it’s not as if anyone can breeze through these exams. On the other hand, Salesforce certification exams are by no means trivial the questions dive into the dark recesses of the Platform. The excitement comes from getting to learn a popular CRM platform, one where users can be infinitely creative when designing and building Salesforce Apps. Getting Salesforce Certified can be both fun and challenging. The focus of this post will be one’s journey towards earning the Salesforce Admin Certification. It’s often a prerequisite for other certifications, and many employers looking for a Salesforce admin require applicants to have it. The Salesforce Admin exam is most likely many peoples’ first certification.
