Force.Com Dev 401 Certification Tips for Exam

Hi Guys,

This is my first blog, I am new to blogging :)

Ok now about force.com 401 certification.

When I started working on force.com, I had no idea about what I was doing, but As time passed I gained a little bit of knowledge on force.com and finally decided to go for force.com 401 certification,

I had a lot of tension of tension from where I should start and what should I Do ??? Blah Blah Blah

After waiting for almost an year(As in between I was working on Java) I decided to take a week off from my work and study hard on force.com platform and get ready for the certification.

What I will recommend to study before you go for certification is as follow,

1. Itunes Videos, The first 16 hours video after that it is all about Visual Force pages,

2. Recruting application PDF is must as the questions which come are more from this applications.

3. Help and support Training for un know topics.

4. Go through tabs on the sidebar of force.com once(Don't look into customize tab)

5. Data loader and import Wizard.

Tips for Exam,

1. When you go through the video, take screen shots of slides and go through it before exam.

2. Go through Props Exam.

What I can say about the exam is if you go through the above material, the exam is very easy, just you need to dedicate your 90 minutes in exam to read the questions carefully, there are almost 45 questions which have some direct and easy answers,

I fount around 8 questions which were tricky and difficult to understand.

I have made some analysis of number of questions for various topics in force.com platform, please see below

Application Design   :  3 Questions

Overview FDC         :  5 Quesions

Data Model           : 20 Questions

User Interface       :  7 Questions

Business Logic       : 13 Questions

Data Mgmt            :  6 Questions

Reports and Anlytics :  6  Questions

Total 60 Questions......

I am posting some questions, this is the format of questions asked...

Remember if you are prepared there are almost 45 questions which are very easy to understand and answer

Sample Questions :

1.In a MVC archietecture, which of the below corresponds to View (Select 2)
  a. Page layouts
  b. Validation rules
  c. Custom objects and Tabs
  d. Workflows

2. Can a standard object have more than one master Detail relationship ?

     a. True

     b. false

3. How can  user record be related to other user in the system ?

     a. Master- Detail

     b. Self Relationship

     c. Parent Child

     d. Hierarchical

4. How can you share a particular record with a user ?

     a. Sharing rules

     b. OWD

     c. Manual Sharing

     d. Role Hierarchies

5. Can you run a scheduled data import every night at 1 am, if so using which of the following:

     a. Import Wizard

     b. Data loader

     c. Data loader using command prompt

     d. Scheduled jobs

6. History tracking cannot be disabled for: 

     a. Cases

     b. Accounts

     c. Contacts

     d. Solutions

     e. Contracts

Please note this is not the exam questions, 

Be well prepared before you go for exam,

Please post a comment if you need any more info, this is my first blog. So little bit excited

You feel good once you are done with it(After all this preparation it took me only 40 minutes to complete the exam)

Some online Questions papers and important links for personal mock

http://salesforceexamquestions.com/Documents/401%20paper%201%20quiz.swf


http://salesforceexamquestions.com/Documents/401%20paper%202%20quiz.swf

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=dev-401-certification

http://www.forceprepare.com/forcecertificationfaq.html

http://www.salesforcetrainingpodcasts.com/podcasts/

http://salesforcechannel.com/pages/developer-training

All the Best :)

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