Salesforce Certification Strategies with Adam Olshansky WizardCast 68

WizardCast

Adam Olshansky is a Salesforce MVP, Developer at YouTube and holds 14 Salesforce Certifications. He shares what Salesforce Certification means with him and shares his tips on how he got 6 Salesforce certifications in 8 months.

"Don't think of it as a failure, but more of a learning opportunity." - Adam Olshansky on failing Salesforce Certification exams.

Show Overview

00:00 Last Time On the WizardCast 01:10 Introduction 02:01 A Tearable Joke 03:25 World Tour Shout Out 03:46 Coffee Break https://twitter.com/petercoffee/status/979800598802415616 Moore's Law Rate 05:39 Mark Hamill TrailheadX marketers https://twitter.com/matthewsalibi/status/979490597055578113 08:47 Affiliate Mention: Libsyn Podcast Hosting Service. Free monthw with Libsyn PromoCode: podmagic 09:37 Introducing Adam Olshansky https://twitter.com/adam17amo 11:00 Salesforce Certification counterpoint to Carlos Siqueira. Why does Adam have so many Certifications? 14:40 Adam Olshansky's quick acquiring of Salesforce Certifications. 6 certs in 8 months! 21:20 Adam Olshansky's tips and process for preparing for Salesforce Certification exams 28:00 Methods for taking the certification exams 32:00 Advice for the actual Salesforce certification test 35:00 Mark's tip: Drink a lot to get better answers 36:58 Adam Olshansky talks about failing Salesforce Certification tests 40:45 RAD Women - Help teach women to code in APEX http://radwomen.org/ https://twitter.com/RADWomenCode 43:00 Mark wonders if Adam has bested Professor X's X-men. 44:30 Adam admits to having a Death Eater mask. 44:50 What 1 question would Adam Olshansky as Parker Harris? 45:50 What's the next iteration of Salesforce? 46:00 Why didn't Parker make sure Lightning worked "right" to begin with? 47:40 What's it like to do Salesforce at YouTube? 51:00 Outro with Thanks to Intern Micah Perry https://twitter.com/MicahDPerry 52:39 Closing Music 53:02 Post Credits bloopers Links in This Show

• Mark Hamill TrailheadX Marketing Conference https://twitter.com/matthewsalibi/status/979490597055578113
• Peter Coffee Twitter Coffee break: https://twitter.com/petercoffee/status/979800598802415616
• Adam Olshansky Twitter: https://twitter.com/adam17amo
• Salesforce Certification Study Guides http://certification.salesforce.com/
• Rad Women: http://radwomen.org/
• Rad Women Twitter:https://twitter.com/RADWomenCode
• Adam's Pluralsight Lightning Migration Course http://bit.ly/lightningmigration

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