Salesforce 401 Developer Certification

Hello,

Today i Gave my Developer 401 Certification exam and thought I can share some of my experince with you all.

I am a salesforce developer since 4 years, never felt a need for certification.Last week i was tempted to do a certification just as a challenge and boom , that was it.
Being a salesforce developer i didnt felt the exam a tougher one but it was not easy too.

The exam is not a simple one if you dont have a hands on experince on salesforce.If you dont have a great experince on salesforce i suggest 3 weeks of study.
There were -60 multiple-choice questions, 90 min which is more than enough.

Study Guide-

There were no questions asking for the figures of any component available in salesforce(number of fields or relationships available).

Do not emphasis more on dump questions.Few questions form internet dumps matches but not the majority ones.Go through the salesforce org for each components.

Most of the questions are scenario based.

Understanding the question is most important.Take your time to understand the question.Mark the questions which you are not confident.you can get some hints for answers in questions ahead.

Please go through the fundamentals thoroughly-Fundamentals of salesforce-https://developer.salesforce.com/page/Force_Platform_Fundamentals

The Main areas of the questions are-

• Security Settings
• Field Level security- Most Importsnt
• Junction Obeject
• Master detail relationship
• Reports- Gauge and metric, Tabular and summary.
• Standard and Custom Controllers
• workFlow rules and Approval processes
• Currency fileds for the org
• Formula fileds
• encrypted fields

　All the best to all who are about ot get them certified.