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Quick Base Certifications

  • October 8, 2020
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Hey everyone,

This is my first post on the community. I just wanted to get other users opinions on the exams. I've been struggling to get my certifications due to failing. I failed previous attempts at a practice exam for the builder certification, and just finished attempting my combined exam for the builder and expert certifications. I got 60% (failed). I've gone through all the modules in University over the past month as well as watched and studied Webinars and Empower videos provided. I'm feeling a bit stuck here as I've noticed being asked questions that are for things that were never taught in the University Training. Ex: Snapshots. I'm pretty discouraged on the quickbase training and unfortunately I need to get the certifications for my current position.

Just wanted to see if anyone else has had the same experiences or has any tips for finally being able to pass the exams. 
What's odd to me is that I have a programming background, and this stuff seems easy, but the questions are formatted in a way to try to trick the test taker. So I might fail a question because I don't answer in the way it's formatted, when if it was asked in a non-confusing way, I'd get the question right. Maybe why the "qbcares" code is there?

Sorry for the rant... Again, I just attempted the exam and failed. So a bit discouraged on the University training and where to go from here, because I've gone over the training provided and still can't seem to pass. If it wasn't required for my position, I wouldn't bother wasting anymore of my time.

Thanks,

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Alex Bennett
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  • EvanMartinez
  • Community Moderator
  • October 12, 2020
Hi Alex,

I am sorry to hear you had trouble with your first attempt at the certification exam. If you are looking for some materials to help we do have a blog that tackles some of the most common content for the test you can find here. The test is set up so that there is a roster of questions it can pull from so it isn't quite the same test from one attempt to the other, which does mean sometimes there are topics that come up and another time it might be a new topic that takes its place. I would also encourage you to take a peek at the events calendar here in Community, there are regular training events we do as well where the training team focuses in on specific topics and Fundamentals training where we go over a broad range of core concepts with time for Q&A so that can be helpful for preparing for a certification exam attempt. I hope you aren't feeling too discouraged and that you have good luck on your next time taking the exam. Certainly let me know if there are any topics you might want help finding content on or any questions you might have.

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Evan Martinez
Community Marketing Manager
Quick Base
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I too am having an incredibly hard time passing the builder exam as well. Same issues you are having. Were you able to pass? Any suggestions?

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Samira Shubash
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