It was a while since I took any certifications. The great promotion on Designer exams attracted and I decided to go for it.
I decided to go for Application Architect track, since I believe its much easier and wanted to ensure I get 2 certs free ;)
First up, Data Architecture and Management Designer. I cleared it yesterday. Yay!
As always I referred to the study guide for understanding the weightage and various topics covered, and go through blogs to learn from the experience.
Below are the blogs that I referred apart from thoroughly going through Resource Guide.
I decided to go for Application Architect track, since I believe its much easier and wanted to ensure I get 2 certs free ;)
First up, Data Architecture and Management Designer. I cleared it yesterday. Yay!
As always I referred to the study guide for understanding the weightage and various topics covered, and go through blogs to learn from the experience.
Below are the blogs that I referred apart from thoroughly going through Resource Guide.
- I am super impressed by the level of details and research Maciej has done in each of his blogs. His blog on Data Architecture & Management Designer is excellent.
- Gemma is awesome. All her blogs have been BIG help in all my designer certs. Here is her superb blog.
- She even created a Trailmix with great collection of Trailhead modules.
- As a revision, I went through this Quizlet.
Here are some of the topics that I have noted down post the exam:
- Working with Large Data Volume (LDV)
- Skinny Tables
- Indexes
- Mashups
- Defer Sharing Recalculation
- Bulk API - Serial & Parallel modes
- PK Chunking
- Duplicate Management
- Data.com Clean
- Advantage of Custom Metadata over Custom Settings
- Data Governance & Stewardship
- Measuring data quality - Age, Completeness, Usage, Accuracy, Consistency, Duplication.
Section-wise weightage and # of questions. This kind of helped me to go deeper into the each of sections which had more number of questions. Do refer to the latest study guide for any change in weightage.
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Weightage
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# of
questions
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Data
Modeling
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20%
|
12
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Data
Governance
|
7%
|
4
|
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Data
Archiving
|
10%
|
6
|
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Data
Migration
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10%
|
6
|
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Metadata
Management
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7%
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4
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BI,
Reporting & Analytics
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10%
|
6
|
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Performance
Tuning
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11%
|
7
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MDM
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10%
|
6
|
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Conceptual
Design
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15%
|
9
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I strongly believe you need to have good amount of experience along with studying these topics, as the questions are scenario based (and our favourite UC needs help).
All the best and do let me know if you need help.
