Salesforce Certified Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect

Last Friday I sat (and passed) this certification exam. I’ve got a goal for the end of the year and the summer season seemed like it might get in the way so I brought this forward into July (making it two certifications in a month). Let’s see how I did…

I can see how this exam could trip people up. If you’ve just leaned Salesforce then this is a bit of a change of pace. What is ALM? Hoe does it impact Salesforce development. What are all these different development (and deployment) methodologies? What is Waterfall?

However if you’ve been in the technology space for some time (in my case almost 25 years) you’ll have seen much of this already. You’ll maybe have had to try and enforce ALM strategies. Certainly you’ll have experienced the Waterfall to Agile transition first hand. So these parts won’t be too hard.

However what about the rest. Let’s see how I did…

So as expected the general technology areas were pretty good. But the Salesforce specific parts were a bit worse. Actually below the pass mark. Overall it was just ok. I scored the exact pass mark! Looking back at the questions I am pretty sure the ones I got wrong where mostly those with 3 correct answers. Two were dead certs and the third could be one of two. I struggled with these in the practice exams and feel I probably struggled with them here too.

Speaking of practice exams I feel the Focus On Force practice exams where particularly good here. Many of the final exam questions were pretty much exactly what was in the practice exam.

It’ll probably be a couple of months until the next certification exam so I hope to write about something else soon