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Monday, May 30, 2011

How To Prepare For Salesforce.com - SFDC Dev 401 Certification

When I started preparing for the SFDC DEV-401 certification few months back, initially I was lost. How and where to start preparation from, were the first few questions in my mind. However as a freelance consultant the only thing I was having was my past project development experiences, though it doesn’t have any kind of relation with Force.com certification questions but helped me understanding this platform quite well.

I followed consistent steps for clearing SFDC dev-401 certification and thought of discussing with folks, who are just beginners and started preparing for certification under no guidance, so as I did.

Firstly create your developer account here and download the following books:
1) Force.com Platform Fundamentals
2) The Developer's Guide to the Force.com Platform

Force.com Platform Fundamentals guide us to develop Recruiting application by just point and clicks, no programming involved. Remember certification doesn’t require deep understanding of programming language (APEX) and User Interface Markup language (Visualforce) of force.com platform, basics will be helpful and you can find them in next book provided - The Developer's Guide to the Force.com Platform. Focus on declarative ways of MVC (Model, View and Controller) provided by salesforce.com.

Now once you have gone through these two books, spend some time in giving mock tests. Following links helped me a lot for preparing and testing my knowledge for the certification, once I completed the books listed above.

1) http://salesforceexamquestions.com/contactus.aspx

2) http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=salesforce-developer- 401-exam-quiz

3) http://www.allaboutsfdc.com/


Damm!!! I failed the very first time when I gave the Mock Tests, but failure is the only key for success (I feel so!!! :) ). I studied quite hard again and focused on developing my concepts; just developing Recruiting application didn’t helped much. Go through the tutorials here which really assist me clearing the certification in first attempt.

9 comments:

  1. Hi Saurav,

    Can you please send me the latest dumps for 401 exam, last june i have attent the exam but i was not able to complete it...will they ask the same question again...please advice.

    My Mail id : prabhu.issac1990@gmail.com

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  2. Hi Saurav,

    can you please provide the link to 2. The Developer's Guide to the Force.com Platform. I guess there is no link provided for that one.

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  3. i need dumps if one want to share with me riaz.s3tech@gmail.com

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  4. Latest PDF dumps for Dev-401 are available with km.krishnamohan25@gmail.com. Those who need the dumps can contact me or ping me in gtalk directly.

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    1. Hi Krishna,
      Could you please share latest Dev-401 dumbs to my mail id : vikikrish1690@gmail.com

      Thanks in advance,
      Vivek

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  5. i need dumps for 401 and 201 please share with me

    snadendla96@gmail.com

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  6. For latest dumps of all Salesforce exams with all the updates of Winter '16 please contact me at mikeshsfdc@gmail.com.
    For essential training videos to learn salesforce from scratch as well.

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  7. Hi Mikesh,
    Could you please share latest Dev-401 dumbs to my mail id : vikikrish1690@gmail.com

    Thanks in advance,
    Vivek

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  8. What is the pre-requisite for the exams? Should we have programming background or its more like configuration using GUI? I am into Infrastructure architecture and administration and wanted to know if this is the right path?

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