I left early and I'm glad I did so that I was able to catch the Community Conference Keynote. Congratulations to all of the newly titled Salesforce MVPs; I hope to join your elite ranks some day. I skipped over breakfast in hopes of finding somewhere inexpensive after yesterday's buffet price shock. I did find a granola bar, banana, OJ, and some coffee.
I was able to slide in some studying time while in the exam check-in line. Maybe I should have got in that line a little bit earlier. I met another guy who had taken the same exam three times without passing; needless to say my optimism skyrocketed.
Unfortunately, I didn't pass, but I've got a much better idea of what is on the exam than what is located here: http://www.salesforce.com/assets/pdf/misc/SG_CertifiedADVDeveloper.pdf
Things that come to mind that I want to check on:
When to system validation rules occur?
Does only the administrator have the ability to execute Anonymous Blocks?
Are Anonymous Blocks executed as the system user or current user?
Correct environments to do certain things: config only, developer, and full sandboxes, developer edition
Advantages of managed packages and ANT deployment
I'll try to add more as I think of them.
Anyway, after that little bit (a limited bit of disappointment of course, I'm at Dreamforce. I've never not passed a cert exam before, but then again every other one came with failure making my wallet lighter. I'd rather fail for free than fail for $400.
Next, I quickly grabbed lunch at the "Cloud Dine" and made my way over to the Mascone South for the "New to Dreamforce" session. To the disappointment of more than 100 pre-registered people at the door, they were booked past capacity. Rumors are flooding the Chatter feeds that they didn't scan passes. Major disappointment there.
I ran back to the hotel to grab my laptop and check in with work then quickly left to be early for my next session, "Using Chatter to Transform Your Business" where I'm currently at. To be continued!
