Martin: Right. And I think an important point to mention is that there's no one single bullet. Yes, start with Trailhead, but there are a lot of different elements that you can put into your study mix. Other than Trailhead, there are other resources that you can find online — there are Instructor-Led courses both in person or online. And most importantly, hands-on experience. 

Martin: Let's not forget about what we talked about in one of the other questions where it really comes down to a combination of your knowledge and experience. I guess even if you don't have a job, you can get a dev org, you can work through different examples, and you can come up with your own projects. The best thing really is to combine all of these different ways of studying. Roy has mentioned previously around the community groups: there are the Certification Days groups and user groups. There's a lot of support out there. And obviously, we've mentioned Focus on Force there as a step before the actual exam. We have our study guides and our practice exams, but you know, we were saying it's not a silver bullet. It's not the only thing that you should use. You should use all of these different elements and put them all together. I think it's also important to just recognize that you really shouldn't rush this. And it's not about just passing the exam for it to actually have some meaning and for you to actually feel that you've achieved something. Working through it properly and going through all of the different topics that are in the exam, and making sure that you really feel comfortable and confident. And then you'll get to the point where you take that exam and you do recognize a lot of the things that are on there, and hopefully, you've come across some of them in your own experience. That really is the best way to combine all of these different ways to study.

Roy: Absolutely. There are so many variables: there's past experience; there's learning styles. I can't say it any better than you did — there's not one single bullet. It's finding a diverse portfolio of samplings of things that will help inform your knowledge. One of my favorite tips recently is the Hands-on Experience. Create a dev org, and use it to manage something that is part of your real-life — maybe use it to manage your home budget or your kids’ sports schedules. I use one to manage the local Colorado Springs User Group. And as you're studying for the exam — let's say you're studying for the Admin exam, for example. It's talking about validation rules and you haven't done many validation rules. Well, then you go to dev org and you create real validation rules for your schedule. So maybe you set up a validation rule that says the end time can't be before the start time and you put that in as a validation rule. And just that hands-on experience — if you're out of work, or if you're not working for a company that's giving you robust opportunities to build out things for them in Salesforce, then use the dev org, get that hands-on experience, use Trailhead, check out what’s on Google and YouTube, and the different things to see what resources are offered by reputable instructors. And all that I think is great input but I love the idea of using Focus on Force as the final step in the process because Focus on Force I think of all these tools is the one that will give you the most confidence to say ‘Yes, I really do understand this now after looking at these resources.’ The practice exams and study guides will solidify and get you past that final step for the Salesforce exam.

Martin: An important point as well on this that Roy mentioned are learning styles. People learn in different ways and so some people like to read the information, some people like to see it, some people like to watch it, some people really get more out of doing it with hands-on experience. So think about how you learn best but also try to combine all of these different elements, and then you'll get to the point where you feel confident.