DSNY2 took our Alteryx Designer Core Certifications at the end of week 3 on 10/21/22 - here's what I took away from it.
Tips for the Alteryx Designer Core Certification
- The number one thing that helped the most - Kinley bravely took the exam the evening before and gave us more specific tips, warned us about tricky questions, and provided more insight on what the practical questions looked like.
- Time management is key - two hours, 80 questions and 7 of those questions are more involved (practicals). I had answered about 40 questions (3 practicals included) after 40 minutes.
I also set a maximum amount of time I could spend on each multiple choice question before moving on - whether or not I could answer it. I went back to those flagged questions at the end and ended up finishing with about 20 minutes left.
- It’s ideal to have two screens - I had Alteryx and a web browser on one screen, and the exam on the other.
- This exam is open book. My web browser had the following links open, based on what I was less familiar with and wanted easily accessible.
Links that I had open
What I had open on Alteryx
- Create dummy data of different data types (string, integer, date time…) before the exam. I dragged different tools on it and saw all the different options - useful for answering more specific questions about a tool’s configuration pane.
- Due to the time you will not be able to remake tables in the multiple choice questions to check your answers, so choose wisely or plan to go back later to particularly challenging questions. Dummy data can help with this if you have it created in different shapes as well - data that can be transposed, cross tabbed, parsed, etc.
Here’s what the overview of my workflow during the test looked like at the end:
Good luck!
