How to prepare for your Alteryx Designer Core exam!
Hello Reader,
Now there are a litany of blogs about passing the Alteryx exam here, all with sagacious advice on the topics that may emerge, or things to expect. This blog is focusing more on my personal experience taking the exam & is mainly going to revolve around the tool I used to conquer it - as somebody that didn't feel terribly confident going in. Therefore, this advice is less applicable to those of you reading this feeling confident in your skills in Alteryx & the other blog posts (if you've not yet read them), are incredible & you should read them regardless.
The tool and my saviour in question is : TEXT INPUT.
My largest disclaimer here though is; my Alteryx did in-fact crash due to the amount of Text Input's I had created, and due to my dual monitor setup, the error window had for some forsaken reason, appeared over my exam tab.
Despite this, I still passed.
The reason I used the TEXT INPUT tool is so that I could re-create the questions in Alteryx and ensure my answer was 100% accurate. As a result, I recreated a rather large amount of the questions. My advice for Future Tobias would be the following; multiple questions revolve around the same tiny datasets that they have made up; so making these datasets is a good idea - just not in the excess I did before. Simply create the tables and make the adjustments based on the questions requirements.
The only other advice I'd offer that is essential is the following: all of the questions offer the same level of marks: 1. so if a question seems particularly difficult, bookmark it and move on.
That is all I have for you reader, and I wish you luck in your Alteryx certification exam.