Certified Salesforce Admin

Woohoo - this blog saved my employer $200 and pushed me to get certified! I entered a "blog or do trailhead for a free cert voucher" drawing, took the test without any special studying, and guessed well enough to pass! (We don't use Chatter, Communities, Cases, etc. so there was a LOT of guessing to do.) Fortunately, at least 1/3 of the questions were data-architecture type questions that made intuitive sense rather than requiring memorization. You'll want to have done some sort of formal studying being an admin (I took ADM201 when I started this job), but it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it'd be. The voucher was the difference between waiting until I was "ready" and taking the test "just to see what was on it" (as a woman in a developer community encouraged), so yay.