Salesforce Certified Identity and Access Management Designer

In the month of August 2017, I got a chance to appear in the Salesforce Certified Identity and Access Management Designer exam.

About the exam

• Prerequisite: None
• Multiple-choice/multiple-select questions = 60
• Passing Score = 65%
• Time allotted to complete the exam = 120 minutes
• Minimum correct answers = 60 * 65 / 100 = 39

Note: Please note that there might be 2 to 5 unscored questions in addition to the 60 scored questions. The additional 2 to 5 unscored questions are for the Salesforce university in order to gather data on questions performance (fail/pass rate).

Preparation

• Salesforce Certified Identity and Access Management Designer (Study Guide)
• Read all the questions in the study guide. Few questions might come in your exam!
• Identity and Access Management Resource Guide
• Read all the topics in the architect resource guide because this is the master guide to Pass the exam. Please do read every topic from this guide.
• Make sure you do practice at least one (1) time in Salesforce Developer edition.
• Salesforce Trailhead Modules
• Data Security
• User Management
• Secure Identity and Access Management
• Security Basics
• Transaction Security
• Salesforce1 Security and Compliance
• Shield Platform Encryption
• API Basics
• Apex Integration Services
• Develop Apps with Heroku Enterprise
• Salesforce Security Standard 
•  Session Settings
• Two-Factor Authentication
• Login Flows
• Salesforce Identity Connect
• Authentication with OAuth Flows
• SSO
• Service Provider Initiated Login (SP)
• Identity Provider Initiated Login (IdP)
•  Connected Apps
• High Assurance
• App Launcher
• Salesforce Client Certificate
• Salesforce Communities with SSO
• Social Sign On
• Authentication Provider

Other Useful Resources

• https://documentation.pingidentity.com/
• https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/21090/differences-between-oauth-web-server-flow-user-agent-flow-username-password-fl
• https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/159513/pros-and-cons-of-user-agent-flow-vs-web-server-flow

Suggestions & Tips

• Take any of the new Architect Journey exam as more to get the knowledge than the certification credentials!
• In order to pass this exam or any of the new Architect Journey exam, you must have read the Architect resource guide thoroughly and as well as hands on experience.
• If you don't have any practical experience, a Salesforce Developer edition will be the best option where you will have pretty much everything you need to have for this exam.
• Salesforce Trailhead is a great source, containing full of information for each area of the Salesforce platform.
• I learnt one thing in the new Architect Journey exams Don’t judge exam questions by its length! In any of the new Architect Journey exam you will find few questions very easy straightforward but those questions are very less in numbers. You will find majority of questions complex but interesting and every question will have a clue or point to select the correct answer(s).

I hope the content here helps you to get this Certification. Best of luck!