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Gemma's Little Corner of the World
Gemma's Little Corner of the World
  • Home
  • About Gem
  • Learn Salesforce with Gemma
    • Learn Salesforce with Gemma – Homework and Recordings
      • Learn Salesforce with Gemma – Week 1
      • Learn Salesforce with Gemma – Week 2
      • Learn Salesforce with Gemma – Week 3
      • Learn Salesforce with Gemma – Week 4
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      • Learn Salesforce with Gemma – Week 14
  • More Salesforce
    • Gemma’s Trailblazer Video
    • Salesforce Certifications
    • JourneyToCTA
    • Trailblazer Community Stuff
    • Solutions
    • Projects
    • Trailhead
    • Superbadges
  • Ladies Be Architects
  • The Architech Club
  • Gemma’s Ongoing Breast Cancer Saga
    • Breast Cancer at 29 – REALLY?
    • Urgh, Not Again – Recurrence 2018
    • The Home Stretch

JourneyToCTA

by Gemma
comments 0 date 22/11/2022

How Failing the CTA Helped me Refocus

Hopefully you’ll have seen and read about my experience with the notorious Review Board exam earlier this year. Now I’d like to share with you why failing it has proven. read more…


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by Gemma
comments 0 date 05/01/2020

My First CTA Attempt

So, I failed it this time. I haven’t been in a hurry to write this particular experience up, because I’ve largely been licking my wounds and able to manage only. read more…


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by Gemma
comments 0 date 05/01/2020

How I’m Preparing for CTA

I’ve actually killed my ReMarkable’s battery today with all the notes I’ve been taking, so I decided to stop studying for today and tell you more about how I’ve been. read more…


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by Gemma
comments 1 date 05/01/2020

My Learnings from the CTA-601 Workshop

The craziness of September / October didn’t end with Dreamforce. In fact, it got crazier. I flew back to the UK, checked myself into a hotel and spent 16 hours. read more…


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by Gemma
comments 0 date 22/07/2018

Journey to CTA – Starting out

About a month ago, I started working towards my Certified Technical Architect (CTA) review board. It’s been an intensive process, consisting of mock review boards every week, with plenty of. read more…


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by Gemma
comments 0 date 05/01/2020

Making the Case to be a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect

We all know the Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) is expensive. Add $6k to the already-significant costs of completing the certifications needed to get to System Architect and Application Architect. read more…


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by Gemma
comments 1 date 22/07/2018

Why FAILING Identity and Access Management Designer was actually a good thing

This week hasn’t been too good; for the first time in ages, I failed an exam. I won’t lie, I spent two days with my tail tucked firmly between my. read more…


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comments 1 date 04/03/2019

Guest Post: Andrew Hart’s CTA Journey

By Andrew Hart, Certified Technical Architect I was previously Gemma’s boss, and remain her friend and mentor for her CTA journey. She asked me to share my CTA experience, which. read more…


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by Gemma
comments 0 date 22/07/2018

You Don’t Have to Code to Become a Certified Technical Architect

For the last month or so I’ve been thinking a lot about using downtime at work to improve my skills and standing as a Salesforce professional. When I started working. read more…


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