I'm not lying when I say that it took me seven years to get my first certification, the Platform Builder I.
I cleared it with my eyes closed. I'm not kidding: some of the answers were wrong for sure (I'm not infallible). I was super excited after I saw the Result: PASS message, and I felt so dumb that it had taken me so long to get the first certification.
After this first certification, I got one after the other, following the Administrator, Consultant and Architect paths, reaching an outstanding 20 total certifications (at the time of writing):
A list of all the certifications I got from 2016 to 2019
Two things helped me to achieve this result:
- Hard work and, of course, daily experience as a Salesforce technical and solutions architect (in WebResults, Engineering Group)
- No fear of failure (perhaps even a drop of recklessness...
