Today, Salesforce announced that Salesforce certification maintenance exams on Trailhead will be free, starting with the Summer ’18 release cycle.
That is great news for you and me because it means maintaining our Salesforce credentials will get a lot more affordable.
Here is a copy of the email I got from Salesforce this afternoon.
Hi John,
We’re very excited to share some great news straight from today’s TrailheaDX opening keynote!
CERTIFICATION MAINTENANCE IS MOVING TO TRAILHEAD!
Effective with the Summer ‘18 release cycle, the Administrator, Platform App Builder and Platform Developer I maintenance exams will join the Marketing Cloud Email and Social Specialist maintenance exams on Trailhead. All other maintenance exams will remain in Webassessor, but will be migrated to Trailhead by the end of January, 2019.
MAINTENANCE WILL BE FREE STARTING SUMMER ‘18
You heard it here first. Beginning with the Summer ‘18 release cycle, all certification maintenance exams on Trailhead will be free!
NEXT STEPS
There’s no action needed from you today, you’ll still maintain your credentials the way you always have until the Summer ‘18 release cycle. We encourage you to follow-us in the Trailblazer Community to stay up to date on the latest from Salesforce certification. You can also check out this handy article for additional information.
Happy trails!
Happy trails indeed.
Salesforce has done a lot over the last few years to help Trailblazers around the world build careers on Salesforce, starting with the advent of Salesforce Trailhead in 2014. I am excited to see what else Salesforce has in store for us in the years to come.
Maintaining your Salesforce credentials
If you need to renew Salesforce credentials, you can register for Salesforce certification maintenance exams in the Salesforce Certification Center on Webassessor.
Did you forget when your Salesforce credentials expire? If so, check out my post on Salesforce’s new credential status request tool.
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