The
first time I was studying for the AdWords Fundamentals exam I was extremely
nervous. I had been managing accounts for about 4 months but was still unsure
if I knew enough to pass the exam. It didn’t help that we were told by those at
Hanapin who had already passed “no one has ever failed the AdWords exam, well
except for that one intern and nobody’s really sure what happened to him…”.
Needless to say I didn’t want to be the first one to fail.
The
first time I took the test I studied for about 2 weeks on and off going through
the materials and ended up passing with a 95%. The second time I reviewed only
what had changed in the exam lessons and passed with a 100%. If I still lived
at home I would have made my mom put the print out of the results on the
fridge. I wanted to share my experience with preparing for and taking the
AdWords Fundamentals Exam to alleviate any stress you may be feeling and to let
you know that even if you only have a few months of PPC experience you can ace
the exam.
Fundamentals
Exam Basics
I used two resources to study for Google’s Fundamentals Exam,
one free and one paid option. I can honestly say that I don’t think I would
have passed, and definitely not scored 100%, without either one of them. The
most important resource is the Google AdWords Learning Center. Here
you can access the study materials for the AdWords exams as well as see what
information is covered on each test. I prepped by reading through all of the
Fundamentals information from beginning to end and went through the elearning
presentations for any areas I needed extra review. The process was time
consuming, but worth it.
The second study resource I used was the Fundamentals practice
exam from iPassExam. The exam
costs about $28 for one month of access but it is the most similar practice
exam to the actual exam I have found. It offers over 400 questions covering all
of the exam lessons and is also revised pretty regularly to reflect updates to
the actual Fundamentals exam.
Below
are five tips that will help in taking the exam:
Take the exam in a quiet, comfortable
location. 113
questions is a lot to read through, so make sure you are taking the exam where
you won’t get distracted.
Once you start the exam, you can’t pause the
timer. Because of this I recommend you use the restroom beforehand or
else it could make for an uncomfortable test taking experience. Also make sure
your computer is fully charged or plugged into a power source. If you computer
shuts down or your browser closes the time will continue to run. You can reopen
the test but you can’t get the lost time back. If you do have any technical
difficulties you can email googlesupport@testsys.com where they will review the
circumstances.
You cannot open another browser during the
exam. The
AdWords exam will open up in its own browser page and you cannot access any
other part of your computer until the test has ended. This means you can’t look
up answers or chat on your computer while taking the exam.
You can mark questions for review and come
back to them later. If I
didn’t know the answer to a question within about a minute, I marked it for review
and moved on to the next. This way I answered all the ones I knew and could
spend time going through the more difficult ones without stressing about how
many questions I still had left. With the 3 hour exam limit I had more than
enough time to go through all of the questions I had marked.
Some questions have many right answers, but
only one best answer. Working
with PPC you know there are multiple ways to solve a problem and improve
performance so there were some questions where I could identify multiple
“right” answers. However, Google wants you to choose the “best” answer based on
the material from the Learning Center.
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