Quick Base Certifications
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 attempt...
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Hey Evan
I appreciate you reaching out and trying to help, but the link posted to the blog post "Cheat Sheet" just really recommends using the University, and watching the Empower videos, which I have already done before attempting the exam, without success. The links on this blog post that are supposed to direct me to useful topics (Managing an Application's File Attachments, About List-User Fields, Set Record Display Fields) send me to a page in the "Quick Base Help" that just says "Sorry, but the Quick Base help page you're looking for cannot be found." Thanks again for trying to help. Still Fairly frustrated on the whole process. Unfortunately, I'm forced to get certified for my company and feel a bit like I've reached a dead end.
Thanks,
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Alex Bennett
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I appreciate you reaching out and trying to help, but the link posted to the blog post "Cheat Sheet" just really recommends using the University, and watching the Empower videos, which I have already done before attempting the exam, without success. The links on this blog post that are supposed to direct me to useful topics (Managing an Application's File Attachments, About List-User Fields, Set Record Display Fields) send me to a page in the "Quick Base Help" that just says "Sorry, but the Quick Base help page you're looking for cannot be found." Thanks again for trying to help. Still Fairly frustrated on the whole process. Unfortunately, I'm forced to get certified for my company and feel a bit like I've reached a dead end.
Thanks,
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Alex Bennett
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Hi Alex,
The test is absolutely meant to be challenging so it is understandable that you are finding it daunting. I would certainly suggest if you can breaking it apart and doing the individual tests instead of the combined test as that will allow you to focus down on specific chunks and not have quite so much content coming at you at once. A lot of the core content from the test is going to appear in the University classes and it is something that we go over at some of our previous Empower sessions. If they aren't helpful I would again suggest looking into the fundamentals training (the next one is November 10th-13th, 2:00pm - 4:00pm (ET)) and specific live training sessions, you might find live training to be more engaging and a bit less frustrating if you have specific topics you stumbled on before and need help with. You can ask questions and get insight from the trainers. If you had some topics you found especially frustrating I'm happy to chat with you about them and even recommend some specific help topics or how to articles/previous training recordings that might be helpful. (You can find me on our public slack if you want to chat there at some point as well and you can also chat with some other builders if you wanted to get some other perspectives).
Sorry that the links are broken, we have been doing some work on help and it must have broken the original links. I will pass that on to the team to get fixed up. In the meantime here are the direct topic links for that content as they can be helpful for some of those niche pieces:
https://help.quickbase.com/user-assistance/managing_file_attachments.html?Highlight=file%20attachments'
https://help.quickbase.com/user-assistance/specify_record_picker_fields.html?Highlight=set%20record%20picker%20display%20fields
https://help.quickbase.com/user-assistance/list_user_fields.html?Highlight=list%20user%20fields
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Evan Martinez
Community Marketing Manager
Quick Base
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The test is absolutely meant to be challenging so it is understandable that you are finding it daunting. I would certainly suggest if you can breaking it apart and doing the individual tests instead of the combined test as that will allow you to focus down on specific chunks and not have quite so much content coming at you at once. A lot of the core content from the test is going to appear in the University classes and it is something that we go over at some of our previous Empower sessions. If they aren't helpful I would again suggest looking into the fundamentals training (the next one is November 10th-13th, 2:00pm - 4:00pm (ET)) and specific live training sessions, you might find live training to be more engaging and a bit less frustrating if you have specific topics you stumbled on before and need help with. You can ask questions and get insight from the trainers. If you had some topics you found especially frustrating I'm happy to chat with you about them and even recommend some specific help topics or how to articles/previous training recordings that might be helpful. (You can find me on our public slack if you want to chat there at some point as well and you can also chat with some other builders if you wanted to get some other perspectives).
Sorry that the links are broken, we have been doing some work on help and it must have broken the original links. I will pass that on to the team to get fixed up. In the meantime here are the direct topic links for that content as they can be helpful for some of those niche pieces:
https://help.quickbase.com/user-assistance/managing_file_attachments.html?Highlight=file%20attachments'
https://help.quickbase.com/user-assistance/specify_record_picker_fields.html?Highlight=set%20record%20picker%20display%20fields
https://help.quickbase.com/user-assistance/list_user_fields.html?Highlight=list%20user%20fields
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Evan Martinez
Community Marketing Manager
Quick Base
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- Hey Even,
I understand the challenging part and that's fine. But I noticed getting asked certain questions that I never even remember seeing on any of the training. For ex. There was a few questions about Snapshots that just going off the university seems impossible to solve, as I was never taught about snapshots. Not trying to direct any frustration towards you Even, I do appreciate your help. Just very disappointed in the training and exams, I also did reach out to a trainer after a fundamental training last week (Oct 6th & 7th) to voice my concerns and asked for direction as well. I was again just directed to the University as well as "qbcares allows you to attempt the exam for free". Not very helpful. We can close this thread. I'll try to find other avenues for resources. Thanks for your help Evan!
Thanks,
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Alex Bennett
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