Salesforce Certified Identity and Access Management Architect

Towards the end of last week I sat the Salesforce Certified Identity and Access Management Architect exam. I’d really not been looking forward to this. Identity and Access Management are obviously Integrations related (which was my previous focus area) but I’ve generally not had to get too deep into the nitty gritty details. Anyway let’s see how I got on with this.

This is a well established certification within the Architecture Pyramid. It makes up 1/4 of the System Architect Certification so was in my path. This exam involves a lot of stuff that product development people at ISVs probably don’t need to think about too much. Salesforce license types, MS AD integration, different OAuth flows and more.

The Trailmix for this exam involves a lot of links to videos from old Dreamforces (hello current and former FinancialForce/Certinia colleagues!) and links to Salesforce help, blogs and guides. Be prepared to do so actual study rather than bashing out Trailhead modules. So what was the outcome?

I passed. The passmark for this exam is 67%. So a reasonably comfortable pass. I could have got 5 more questions wrong and still passed. I’m not sure why I did as badly as I did on the Salesforce as an Identity Provider section. I suspect it was questions on specific Salesforce licence types and what they give access to that were the question.

I made use of Focus on Force preparing for this exam and I would say it made a massive difference. The practice exams definitely helped and I’d say without FoF I would have failed. Right as I write this FoF has a 50% sale on and I’ve purchased courses for the next couple of planned exams. It’s that good.

With this one down I’m on 13 certifications. 10 this calendar year. And 1 more to go to get Systems Architect to go with the Application Architect I got earlier this year. You can probably guess what’s planned next!