We have covered all the topics on Force.com that are part of the Salesforce Certified Developer Exam. This chapter covers the basic FAQs about the exam and the questions.
- Overview of the exam
- Certification and maintenance releases
- Sample paper
- Additional resources
This is a brief chapter to give an overview of the exam and help you mentally prepare for what is coming.
The Salesforce Certified Developer Exam is a multiple choice question exam. The exam consists of 60 questions to be completed in 90 minutes. The pass score for the exam is 68 percent so roughly at least 40 questions should be answered correctly.
The exam is proctored and no reference material should be referred to while sitting the exam. The questions in the exam are multiple choice and multi-select. When there is more than one correct answer, it is specified in the question itself.
For example, Choose any 2, Choose any 3.
Anyone with good knowledge of the Salesforce.com and Force.com platform can appear for the exam. Salesforce also has DEV401 classroom training for the same. More information on DEV401 can be found at http://certification.salesforce.com/Developers.
Once you finish the exam, the result is conveyed instantly on the screen. The result shows only a pass or fail and the Developer Certificate is delivered through an e-mail. No grades or percentages are displayed on the result.
Once the exam has been taken, the candidate has to complete release-specific Developer Exams every three months (roughly). The release-specific exams are additional questions that cover the upgrades to Force.com in the releases. Only the upgrades on the topic part of Salesforce Certified Developer Exam syllabus are part of the exam.
Release exams are published three times a year for each of the Force.com upgrades released throughout the year. The candidate can sit for two release exams along with the Certification exam. An annual maintenance fee of $100 is charged to the candidate, which includes three release exams. Salesforce.com Certified professionals are notified automatically when new release training material and exams become available.