🏄🏽‍♂️🏄🏽‍♂️ Certs Up! 🏄🏽‍♂️🏄🏽‍♂️

Good morning, Salesforce Nerds! In the world of Salesforce, cert'ing up can make you stand out among the competition. Are you a developer and want to become one these beasts w/ an F*** YOU amount of certifications on your LinkedIn profile? Do yourself a favor and check out this resource for study guides & practice exams!

Agenda for today includes

• Focus on Force

• Dev/Architect perspective

• All the Memes

Focus on Force

Focus on Force is an educational platform that helps Salesforce professional learn more Salesforce, develop their career and prepare for certification exams. If you've spent any time preparing for a Salesforce cert, chances are you've come across FoF and wondered if it's worth it. I'm here to tell you ... YES!

If you're preparing for any of the certifications in their list, I would recommend spinning up an account and dive right in! 🤿🤿 The investment is minimal and worth every penny (as of this writing it's a measly $19 to get practice exam or study guide). Considering most certification exams are $200 sit for - double for the Architect exams - this is a steal considering both the quantity & quality of resource you get in return.

Dev/Architect Perspective

This resource has been an important part of my certification journey. Having obtained more than 15 Salesforce certifications, Focus On Force was an important piece of my own preparation. If you're just starting your journey and you're curious what a certified developer & architect would recommend for technical certifications ... Focus on Force ➕ Trailhead ➕Real world experience proved to be a winning combination for me.

We all know the CTA is widely recognized as the pinnacle of Salesforce certs. If you check out the CTA pyramid and compare that against the cert prep resources from Focus on Force you'll notice they align quite nicely. At the time of this writing the only exams you can't find practice resources for on FoF is Development Lifecycle and Deployment along with IAM. No doubt they're working hard on closing this gap. Basically, you can study to obtain nearly both domain architect certifications.

My recommended FoF path:

1. Admin

2. Platform App Builder

3. Dev I

4. Data

5. Sharing/Visibility

6. Integration

These will set you squarely on the path toward eligibility for the CTA credential. As a bonus - you'll have earned your App Architect cert!

Once you're wrapped there, hit these up:

1. Dev II

2. Javascript Dev I

3. Experience Cloud

Good luck and go for it! Oh, and stay away from anyone promising cert exam dumps. Don't devalue the work others have put in and put it in yourself. You'll be much better for it.

Daily Principle

Marcus Aurelius was a Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher. The last of the rulers known as the Five Good Emperors, he reigned over an age of relative peace, calmness and stability.

Although, it wasn't always calm and stable for him. Marcus had more than his fair share of the obstacles to overcome. In Meditations he speaks of finding one's place in the universe and the importance of analyzing one's judgment of themselves and others.

and now....Your Daily Memes