Course introduction
The Gearset Academy Certification helps Salesforce professionals build hands-on experience with the leading DevOps platform in the ecosystem. Designed for admins, developers, architects, and release managers, this certification equips you with the tools and practical knowledge to use Gearset across the full Salesforce DevOps lifecycle — from deployments and automation to backup and CPQ.
Whether you’re supporting day-to-day delivery or driving a full DevOps transformation, this course will help you deepen your expertise and gain certification that demonstrates your skills in the Salesforce ecosystem.
Who is the Gearset Academy Certification for?
Admins, Developers, Team Leaders
This certification is ideal for Salesforce professionals looking to level up their DevOps knowledge while learning how to use Gearset effectively. Whether you’re already using the platform or evaluating tools for your DevOps team, the Gearset Academy Certification will help you build core skills and adopt best practices for managing metadata, data, automation, and more.
What you’ll achieve with the Gearset Academy Certification
- Master key Salesforce DevOps topics using real workflows and guided modules
- Learn how to apply version control, CI/CD, and release management in practice
- Protect your orgs with effective Salesforce backup strategies
- Explore advanced Gearset tools for successful adoption of sandbox seeding, CPQ, and automation
- Validate your DevOps knowledge with a practical certification
- Grow your career and credibility in the Salesforce ecosystem
What the Gearset Academy Certification includes
The Gearset Academy Certification combines tool-based learning with core Salesforce DevOps principles to help you gain true hands-on experience. By completing this track, you’ll:
- Get practical experience using Gearset across the full DevOps lifecycle — This isn’t just theory. You’ll use the app in real time to manage metadata, automate pipelines, seed sandboxes, and restore Salesforce data confidently.
- Build the confidence to lead DevOps adoption on the Salesforce platform — With guided modules and interactive learning, you’ll develop a deep understanding of how to apply best practices across teams, environments, and orgs — no matter your starting point.
- Understand how DevOps fits into broader Salesforce development workflows — From initial deployment to daily releases and compliance-driven data protection, you’ll learn how Gearset helps teams deliver faster, more reliably, and with greater visibility.
- Learn directly from real use cases and Gearset’s proven success with thousands of teams — You’ll explore how top-performing Salesforce teams solve challenges like CPQ deployments, cross-org data management, and setting up release pipelines — all with Gearset.
- Earn a recognised Gearset Academy Certification — After completing the modules and final assessment, you’ll receive an official certification that showcases your knowledge of Salesforce DevOps and your skill with Gearset’s tools.
Please note: To complete this course, you’ll need access to the Gearset app. If you don’t already have a license, you can use a 30-day free trial with full access to every feature. No credit card or installation required. Learn more about making the most of your Gearset free trial here.
Gearset Academy Certification content
Gearset Fundamentals Certificate — your intro to the leading Salesforce DevOps platform
Learn how to set up your Gearset account and team, connect your orgs, and how version control works with Gearset. We’ll then walk you through Gearset’s compare and deploy workflow, plus rollbacks and more.
Gearset Automation Certificate
Discover how to use Gearset’s powerful automation features to supercharge your end-to-end release pipeline. You’ll cover org monitoring, unit testing, CI and validation jobs, and reporting, audit and automation APIs. We’ll also run through how to choose and implement a branching strategy in Gearset, and how to visualize and control your release process with Pipelines.
Gearset for Backup
Learn how to set up and use Gearset’s backup functionality. We’ll cover the creation of a data backup job, and the various ways that you can restore your data and metadata.
Gearset Sandbox Seeding and Compliance
This course will show you how to use Gearset’s sandbox seeding feature to build and migrate data sets. We’ll cover how you can use Gearset to build the exact data set you need, apply masking for compliance purposes and migrate this data to seed your sandboxes.
Gearset for CPQ
This course will detail how to use Gearset to deploy CPQ configurations. You will be guided through the setup steps required to enable Gearset for CPQ and then how to compare and deploy CPQ config data between orgs.
Final assessment
Test your knowledge of the leading DevOps platform for Salesforce. You’ll be quizzed on how to connect your orgs, how version control works, how to automate your deployments and build a pipeline, how to effectively back up and secure your data and metadata, and how to use Gearset for sandbox seeding, compliance, and to overcome notoriously tricky CPQ deployments.
What our students say about the Gearset Academy Certification
“The Gearset Academy Certification laid a robust technical foundation, empowering me to implement best practices confidently across our CI/CD processes.”
Sipra Sahu, Senior Salesforce Developer
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FAQs
What is DevOps Launchpad?
DevOps Launchpad is a free training platform packed with courses and resources for anyone in the Salesforce ecosystem looking to upskill in Salesforce DevOps.
The certifications, courses, and quizzes on DevOps Launchpad are curated by experts in the field from Gearset, the leading DevOps platform for Salesforce. But the majority of content on DevOps Launchpad is all vendor-neutral, and useful for anyone learning more about Salesforce DevOps.
Who is DevOps Launchpad for?
Anyone involved in any aspect of the build, test and release cycle for Salesforce – it doesn’t matter if you’re brand new to the ecosystem or more experienced in Salesforce development.
Our courses are designed to upskill everyone in DevOps, regardless of role. Whether you’re an admin, a developer, an ISV partner or a technical architect, there’s something here for you.
How do I complete courses and get certificates?
DevOps Launchpad courses are broken down into modules. To finish a module, you usually complete a quiz to test your knowledge with multiple-choice questions. Once you finish all the modules in a course, you’ll earn a certificate which can be downloaded and saved to your resume, or shared on your social profiles.
Our certification tracks provide the opportunity to earn official certifications to demonstrate your DevOps prowess, by completing a number of courses in a guided learning pathway. You can learn more about certification tracks below.
How do I navigate the platform?
Click the Courses tab to see the courses and certification tracks that you’ve enrolled for. This page will be blank until you choose courses in the library. If you want to return to a course in progress or one that you’ve previously completed, head to this page.
The Results tab shows your progress through the courses you’ve completed, including any certifications and test results. It’s a great way to track your learning journey and see the skills you’re building.
The Library is where you can browse courses and enrol to continue building your skillset. Once you enrol for a course, it’ll be added to your courses page and you can start working through it.
How do I access my account?
You can access DevOps Launchpad in different ways:
- The DevOps Launchpad homepage
- Direct login
- For Gearset users: click the DevOps Launchpad icon in the Gearset app
How are certifications different from other courses?
Certifications are guided learning pathways which are made up of a set of DevOps Launchpad courses. For some certification tracks, you can choose to take courses individually or as part of a track, but you’ll only earn the track certificate if you’ve completed all the component courses.
I’ve signed up to the Gearset Academy Certification but I can’t see all the component courses
Courses will appear one by one on your Courses page, with a rosette icon top left to indicate that they’re part of a certification track. Once you’ve completed a course, the next one will appear, and so on until you reach the final assessment. You’ll need to pass the final assessment to complete the certification.
Do I have to complete the Gearset Academy Certification all in one go?
No, you can take modules and courses in your own time. Your progress will be saved, so you can come back whenever suits your schedule!
Do I get certificates for individual courses?
You will receive a certificate for each course that you complete. After you have completed all the courses and the final assessment, you will be awarded the official final certification.
What if I’ve already completed some of the courses on the Gearset Academy Certification?
DevOps Launchpad will register that you’ve already completed the course and jump to the next course in the track. If you’ve already completed all the component courses, you’ll jump straight to the final assessment. Even if you’ve completed all the component courses, you’ll need to pass the final assessment before gaining your certification.