Certified Data Cloud Consultant
The “Year of Certification” rolls on into its second month. And I passed my second Certification exam of the year! I’ve been doing a lot of learning and exploring with Data Cloud so I expected to be in a good place to pass this exam with a little extra study. So how did it go?
I’m getting pretty familiar and comfortable with the exam process now. I know it’ll take a few minutes to do the biometric authentication and get the exam up. So I don’t worry about how long that’s taking. I know the Launch button will appear 10 minutes before. So I launch 10 minutes early. And I know to not get worried no matter how it feels as I am answering the questions - more on that in a bit
I had studied up for this exam. To start with I completed the Partner Learning Camp curriculum. The non-hands on parts of this have now been migrated to the preparatory Trail Mix so anyone can access them. If you have access to the PLC definitely go and do the hands on available there as this will teach you so much more. I had also built my own little study guide as I went pulling in material from Salesforce help. I used that in the last few days running up to the exam.
In the end I used about my normal time: a little under 30 seconds per question. I would recommend sitting these exams at your own pace. They are not a sprint! You don’t get extra marks for being quick. However I generally know the answer or have a good educated guess and spending longer won’t change that. I do make sure I read the question twice to make sure I’ve fully understood it. This exam was also the first time in a Salesforce Certification exam that I’ve used the Review feature to come back to a question later.
The exam transcript shows quite a wide variation in scores for each topic. The pass mark for the exam is 62%. So I’m happy I scored at least that in each section. Given the section weightings the above equates to about 78%. Not bad (and comfortably above the pass rate) but not that amazing. The 100% section is good though!
That said at the end of the exam I was mostly just happy (and a bit relieved) to have passed. I was not feeling particularly happy about quite a few questions and more often than I’d like I felt like I was taking educated guesses. Not completely blind random guesses but I was definitely not sure.
In terms of areas for me to improve and areas I feel the Trail Mix does not cover well:
Right to Be Forgotten
B2C Integration
Marketing Cloud Integration
S3/Cloud Activation
If you are thinking of sitting this study on on those areas! For me the “Year of Certification” rolls on. I think my next exam (maybe a couple of months away) will be an Architect one.