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Hardest by stack:
— Application Architect: Sharing and Visibility
— System Architect: Identity
— Consultant: Service Cloud (it is quite thorough and a departure from the typical CRM core covered in Sales)
— Admin/Developer: PD2 (if you are trying to BS your way through it, but it’s ok if you have done any fair share of coding)
— Marketing: both consultant certs are challenging enough, but not unreasonable
— Honorable (?) mention: CPQ
Not considered in the analysis: niche certs like marketing or commerce developer.
…and I took it after doing one of Salesforce’s Fast Path webinars, and I got the certs without ever touching the product.
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Trailhead Ranger is easiest 😎
Easiest - Email Marketing Specialist
How’s you prep? Just trailheads?
easiest - platform builder, hardest - IAM
IAM was tough than Integration
IAM hardest. PD2 was also hard. Admin and app builder are the easiest for sure.
Pd1 was hardest for me as a non-dev. Sharing and visibility designer was easiest for me
Easiest - Admin, App Builder, Advanced admin
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Sure K1, Thank you!!
I think the sales/service
/marketing cloud ones are the hardest, because they are certs about how SF supports a particular process, with all they "quirks and features", they are the least "logic", SF choose to implement forecasting/knowledge/entitlements in a specific way and you have to know that exact way, without knowing the "why", because there is no "why". More platform related certs are more logical in my experience, more in line with general IT related stuff
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Heroku was the most difficult one for me
@KPMG, are you working in KPMG Global bangalore Salesforce Practice?
@ KPMG 2 true that! Any idea you can give me on what sort of hikes they give and bonus?
Also do they have onsite opportunities or possible opportunities can come up?
no cert for billing, but the billing superbadges are super hard
cpq is a tough cert
CPQ certification is CPQ specialist certification right? I haven’t seen Industries CPQ Developer certification discussed much here.