Crack Dev 401 certification

Hello Dev 401 aspirants,

Please note: Since Dev 401 certification has been discontinued by Salesforce, hence I will not be posting any update to this blog.

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I am creating this blog to share my experience on how I have cleared the Salesforce Dev 401 certification on 1st attempt within 3 weeks. In this blog, I will include all the study materials which I have referred, question patterns, all the mocks exams and sample questions with answers which were present in the exam.

I am from testing background and had a lots of queries when started preparing for this exam. Some of them are :

• What is Salesforce Dev 401 certification? 
• What are the topics? 
• How should I prepare for it? 
• What are the prerequisites for this exam?
• Where will I get the study materials?
• How much experience is needed to clear this exam? 
• Where do I get dumps/mock exams? 
• What is the passing score? 
• What is the exam pattern?
• How do I register for the exam?

If you are looking for all this answers you are in the right place! I will cover all of this questions in the upcoming posts. So you can navigate through to solve your queries.

Let me summarize what is Dev 401 exam:

The Salesforce Developer Certification tests your ability to 

• Building custom application using the point-and-click capability of the force.com platform.
• Designing the data model, user interface, business logic, and security for custom applications
• Designing reports, dashboards, and portals.

Note: Dev 401 certification does not expect you to be able to write code using Visualforce and Apex, however a introduction to them and where it is to be used is necessary.

Refer the official Study guide for the complete lists of topics. 

Exam pattern as on Summer ’14:

• 60 question, multiple choice exam (majority were multi-select questions)
• 68% is the passing score i.e. 41 questions correct (Around 40 questions were very easy)
• 90 minutes to answer all questions (you can complete it in 30 minutes)
• $200 fee with $100 retake fee. (3rd attempt costs again $200, 4th attempt costs $100 and so on)
• Prerequisite: None