Salesforce Certified AI Specialist

Months ago now (I totally forgot I had not posted this) I sat, and passed the relatively new AI Specialist Certification. Unusually I sat this in person (at Dreamforce). This exam was free at Dreamforce and is now, until the end of 2025, free for anyone to sit.

As a very new certification (when I sat this it had been available for about a month) there were no study guides, practice exams and the like available. I think that may have changed by now. However I did not think this was a particularly hard exam to pass. At least for me I’d done a lot of work in Prompt Builder and Agent Builder in the run up to Dreamforce so was in a good place to sit this exam. If you’ve not been working in this area the you’ll find the Trailhead is pretty good.

So I’ve already said I passed, but how did I do?

So that was a pretty solid pass. The pass rate is a reasonably high 73% on this exam. But I exceeded that comfortably (by about 11 correct answers). So that’s great. As you can see I had one section I was not too hot on - what the various Salesforce provided AI tools and features are. I’m not super interested in them so this is no surprise!

This was a quick exam for me: 19 minutes. So about 20 seconds a question.

This was, for me, a nice easy one to break up the Architect Certifications. Which I’ll be back to real soon…

Salesforce Certified AI Associate

Salesforce introduced this new certification a month or so ago. I sat (and passed) this today so thought I’d write a short entry about it.

First off this is an associate level certification. This means it is not as in-depth as the main certifications and as such I think the exams are easier. I’d say this certification mans the holder has a base level understanding of the topics but it does not test any real depth. Certainly this is not a technical certification.

In the current AI climate having some certification in this area is probably a good thing so it’s definitely worth doing. If you’ve been keeping up with the various AI trailheads (or just do the prep trailmix) you’ll be good to sit the exam. This is not one where you need to do any additional study or self-learning.

The exam itself consists of 40 multiple choice questions and the passing grade is set at a reasonably generous 65%. As you can see from the transcript I was well above that. You get a really generous 70 minutes to complete the exam. I did not feel I was rushing and.I took 10! The questions are akin to Trailhead module quiz questions.

This is a pretty cheap exam to take. If you are lucky enough that your employer will pay for it so much the better! I’d say pretty much everyone working on the platform might benefit from doing this one