Salesforce Certified Integration Architect

A few days before the start of my Christmas break I sat the Salesforce Certified Integration Architect exam. This was the last exam for the year and the last I required to obtain the System Architect Certification. As my title was previous Technical Architect - Integrations I hoped I’d not find this one too hard.

I completed the Trailmix and purchased both the course and practice exams from Focus on Force. I was getting very high marks on the FoF practice exams so felt that this, coupled with my previous experience, and the overlap from the previous Architect exams meant this should be a fairly easy exam.

However almost as soon as I started I realised it wasn’t going to be the gentle ease into my break I was expecting. The questions were long and involved, some with diagrams. They were quite different to the FoF example questions and to the previous Architect exams. This seemed to be much more applied knowledge and problem solving than straight knowledge. Some of the questions appeared to have two correct answers (although only only one could be selected). I soldiered on and obtained this result.

Definitely closer than I’d like. You need to answer 40 questions correctly. So I had 4 spare but to only get half of the questions correct in a section is really not great. But a pass is a pass!

This of course also means I obtained the Certified System Architect taking me to 15 Certifications in total, 12 this year. A fitting end to my year of certification