Salesforce Certified Mobile Solutions Architecture Designer

In the month of November 2017, I got a chance to appear in the Salesforce Certified Mobile Solutions Architecture Designer exam.

About the exam

• Prerequisite: None
• Multiple-choice/multiple-select questions = 60
• Passing Score = 68%
• Time allotted to complete the exam = 120 minutes
• Minimum correct answers = 60 * 68 / 100 = 40.8 (at least 41)

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

Preparation

• Salesforce Certified Mobile Solutions Architecture Designer (Study Guide)
• Read all the questions in the study guide. Few questions might come in your exam!
• Salesforce Trailhead Modules
• Develop with Mobile SDK
• Visualforce Mobile
• Transform Your Business with Mobile
• Salesforce Certified Mobile Solutions Architecture Designer (Resource Guide)
• Read all the topics in the architect resource guide.
• Push Notifications
• Chatter REST API
• Salesforce1 Mobile App Developer guide
• Development Guidelines and Best Practices
• OAuth2 User-Agent vs Web-Server authentication flow
• Connected Apps
• SSO
• Communities
• Offline
• Lightning Pages
• Visualforce Pages
• Salesforce Mobile SDK Development Guide
• Difference between these mobile apps and when to use:
• Salesforce (Salesforce1)
• Native
• Native React
• Hybrid Local
• Hybrid Remote
• HTML5 Web App
• OAuth2 User-Agent vs Web-Server authentication flow
• Connected Apps
• SSO
• Communities
• Offline
• Lightning Pages
• Visualforce Pages
• Salesforce Setup
• Mobile Navigation
• Offline Settings
• Notification Settings
• Salesforce1 Settings
• Visualforce Performance: Best Practices

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!