Google Adwords Certification Test

12 May 2006 at 19:26 by Eric Morgan

I took the Google Certification Test today, It was not as difficult as I had expected.

For those of you thinking about taking the Google Adwords Certification Test I would not stress too much about it. The test is $50 and if you fail you can take it again; you need 75% to pass. It was 104 questions and you have 1.5 hours to finish the test. They have a very comprehensive online study guide you can use before you take the test. Many of the questions are directly from the guide, although not all of them are. However I think almost all the questions were contained in the study guide, just not necessarily on the sample quizes.

If you are familiar with adwords you should pass the test without too much of a problem. The most difficult part for me was the billing section and international questions; so if you are not familiar with those you should study up on them. If anyone is thinking of taking the Adwords Test and you have questions about it let me know and I would be happy to let you know what the test is like.

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Hi There,

I want to take this test. Could you please guide me how should I start my preparations?

Regards,

Posted by: Avnish at November 29, 2006 01:47 AM

hi Eric
I am preparing for google test.Can you please just guide me how to crack it.I have taken all lessons.And want some more sample question.plz help me out.

Posted by: zaidan at April 18, 2007 05:48 AM

Avnish,

Man, I wish I could remember the questions but to be honest it has been almost a year since I took the test. Here is the best advice I can give though: if you are familiar with setting up a campaign and what not you should be fine. It is timed but you can open another browser and find the answers to the questions you need if you are quick at finding them, kind of like an 'open book' test.

The best thing you can do to prepare for the test is to go here: http://www.google.com/adwords/learningcenter/
Although the questions are not the exact ones (although I swear some of them were duplicates) if you can pass all the questions in the learning center you will pass the real exam for sure.

Good luck!

Eric

Posted by: Eric at April 18, 2007 07:24 AM

Hi Eric,

I am preparing for adwords certification and go through adwords learnig center at-http://www.google.com/adwords/learningcenter/
I learn a lot.

I would like to know that what is the process and are the questions are like quizz givn in the learnig centre?
Are the all questions are objective....please guide me..

thanks

Posted by: coolslko at July 13, 2007 01:27 AM

As far as the Google adwords test is concerned it has been almost 2 years since I took it; however I do remember that many of the questions were the exact same as the 'learning center' sample questions, but some were not. If you go through the learning center questions and pass those with a breeze you will do absolutely fine on the actual test.

Eric

Posted by: SEO Pro at July 13, 2007 07:30 AM

Hi,
While preparing for adwords certifiaction i go through learnig center at-
http://www.google.com/adwords/learningcenter/

the last chapter about AdWords API is really tough to understand as I am not a developer..can you please tell me that how much questions it cover. I also want to know that the exam contains 104 objective type questions and time period is half an hour ....

thanks

Posted by: coolslko at August 7, 2007 05:22 AM

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