Certified Sharing and Visibility Architect
Another month, another Certification! The Year of Certification is going really well. That makes four in four months this year, five months in a row if I include December last year. That’s also 3/4 of the Certifications for the Certified Application Architect done with only Platform Builder 1 to go.
This time round I didn’t have a book to guide me. This is a topic that I didn’t feel I had as much experience and confidence in so I wanted something more than the Trailhead guide. So I purchased the Focus on Force guide and practice exams ($48). Considering I was getting a $400 (+tax) exam for free through a Partner Voucher this seemed a reasonable investment.
I spent quite some time going through the guide, the section exams then the two practice exams. I did them more than once and was scoring 90%+. So when I sat down I was pretty confident. The pass mark for this exam is a relatively high 67% but I wasn’t worried as I was doing so well in the practice exams. So how did I do?
I passed! As is becoming pretty standard I took about half an hour completing one question every 30 seconds or so. Pretty fast, much faster than required but it works for me. If we weight the above section percentages by the section weightings that equates to a little under 74%. I had expected better based on the practice exams but there we go.
As the above shows I had three good sections and one terrible one. Luckily for me that is the section with the lowest weighting in the exam. So what went well? Clearly I learned a lot about the important parts. I felt very confident about the standard access controls and the implications.
However the Access to other Data section was clearly a disaster. I didn’t feel that the FoF practice exams and questions really prepared me for this well. There was very little on Content Delivery for example. And my mind basically went blank on the different types of Experience Cloud licenses. And there were multiple questions on that. I even went back and doubled down in one case reasoning if I answered one question one way I had to alter a very similar question to match. I think I got both wrong so should have spread my bets!
Anyway on to PD1