New to Alteryx

[dong15728]

Hi, I am a student from CSUF and feel excited to join the Alteryx community. I am preparing for the Alteryx Designer Exam and want to know how to participate well in the exam. 

Thanks,

[Luke_C]

Hi @dong15728 

Check out the prep guide here. Being comfortable with the topics listed is key. I'd suggest doing some weekly challenges for additional practice. I'd also suggest taking the Alteryx Foundation Micro-Credential Exam as a warmup. There is now also the option to pass 4 core micro-certs in place of passing the full core exam in one shot. 

[amais_SparkED]

Awesome, @dong15728 ! We suggest checking out our Student board to interact with other students who have also passed the Core Certification exam.  You can also download the prep guide which will help you get a hang of everything you need to know.  Let us know how you do!

-Annie

[TheOC]

hey @dong15728 
I'd recommend checking out the revision guides found under https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Certification/bd-p/product-certification.

For learning the platform, be sure to look around the Community - it's a fantastic place for learning. A couple of resources I would especially recommend knowing about are:

• Alteryx Designer Discussions - A place where users can ask questions about specific Designer workflows they are working on and receive help from members of the Community. Typical response time (from what I've seen) is under 10 minutes for someone to reply with a potential solution, so it's a speedy resource for bespoke information. Additionally, you can search using the search function at the top right for specific issues if you happen to run into any that may have been faced by other users before.
• Alteryx User Groups - When I first got into Alteryx, I didn't join User Groups because I thought they would be very technical and need plenty of experience before diving in. However, they aren't. User groups are a peaceful environment to discuss workflows and what's going on in the Alteryx world and a great place to network with people in the Community. Even better, with the world still being very much virtual at the moment, most of the User Groups (including the North East UK User Group, which I am currently a leader of) are hosting virtual events, so they are easy to join.
• The Alteryx Academy - This is the easiest the best place to learn about Alteryx and how to use it. I recommend the learning paths, including short snippets of learning specific topics, including Alteryx for Excel users, which helped me translate much of my Excel knowledge into Alteryx. Alteryx also delivers weekly challenges based on real-life situations and community-submitted problems. They are a fantastic way to learn practical uses of Designer. Also, it's fascinating to see the many different approaches to answering the same problem. Once you have understood Alteryx, I recommend the Alteryx Certifications. They are free to do (Core and Advanced) and provide a valuable benchmark for your knowledge. You can also retake them in 7 days if you don't pass, so don't feel any pressure to know everything before giving them a go!

I hope you find Alteryx easy to learn and intuitive to use. Do remember that almost every tool has an example workflow and help documentation if you right-click the tool in the tool palette:

("Help" for the tool documentation, "Open Example" for the example workflow). 

And be sure to search for/ask for help in the Community if you need help. Alternatively, feel free to drop me a message here on the Community!

Cheers,

TheOC