Dev 401 Certification Exam Pattern

I have successfully passed Dev 401 certification exam.

The developer 401 Force.com Exam is for people who do not know how to code as per say write a trigger or Visual Force Page. But does understand what the technical functions are in salesforce.com.

Exam Pattern:

• 60 multiple-choice/multiple-select questions
• Time allotted to complete the exam: 90 minutes
• Passing score: 68 percent

Topics from which questions came in my exam:

• Steps in creating Junction Object/many 2 many relationships, Significance of first master-detail relationship in junction object.
• Master-detail relationships (Maximum number of master-detail relationships on an object)
• Look up relationship – around 3 questions
• Cross object formula – 1 question
• Situational questions on Manual Sharing
• Situational questions on Field Level Security
• Situational questions on Record Level Security
• Purpose of Debug Logs – 2 questions
• Time Dependent work flows
• Parallel Approval Process
• Situational questions on Approval process – around 3 questions
• Final Rejection actions – 1 question
• Page layouts – around 3 questions - designer features, situational questions whether to use visual force page or not
• Features belonging to View layer of Model View Controller – 1 question
• Dashboard – 1 question
• Data Loader – around 4 questions (what CAN be done and what CANNOT be done)
• Analytical Snapshot – 1 question
• Force.com platform – around 2 questions. (Default sales force features available when Custom Object is created, Things that you need NOT do like deploying, installing database server etc)
• Formula Fields – 1 question (formula for date calculation)

Overall summary of the exam:

• 50% of the questions are multi-select options/answers
• Straight forward questions are only few i.e., around 10.
• More questions were from: platform related, sharing and security, work flow and approval processes, Page layouts, relationships.
• There were around 10 questions from mock exams in below link: http://salesforceexamquestions.com/contactus.aspx
• There were NO questions from Winter 12.
• There were NO questions from Chatter.

My Preparation:
I have prepared following:

1. Fundamentals 
2. Winter 12 release notes
3. Mock exam in http://Forceprepare.com
4. Tutorial in http://Forceprepare.com 
5. Mock Exams in  http://salesforceexamquestions.com/contactus.aspx

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