Salesforce Certifications:Explained
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The document provides information about Salesforce certifications and the Salesforce Saturday user group. It explains that Salesforce Saturday is a volunteer-led group that meets weekly to learn about Salesforce certifications together. It then provides details about various Salesforce certifications like Administrator, Advanced Administrator, Platform App Builder, and Technical Architect. It describes the prerequisites, exam structure, costs and how to maintain the certifications for each. It also provides contact information for the user group organizer.
Salesforce Certifications:Explained
- 1. New Delhi Salesforce Developer User Group Salesforce Certifications: Explained
- 2. What is Salesforce Saturday? • First started by Stephanie Herrera in Austin, Texas. • Every Saturday we will meet either online or offline to discuss, learn about Salesforce, prepare for Salesforce Certifications. • Helping each other learning new stuff. • Volunteer based program where anyone can share any kind of expertise, they might have in Salesforce.
- 3. What is Salesforce Saturday? Stephanie Herrera • Salesforce MVP • Founder of #SalesforceSaturday Austin, Texas • She was recently interviewed on the #ButtonClickAdmin Podcast. Listen to the Podcast here: https://admin.salesforce.com/always-learning- stephanie-herrera Follow her on Twitter: @steph_herrera_
- 4. Who the hell am I? Atul Gupta • Organizer of New Delhi Salesforce DUG • Organizer of #SalesforceSaturday, Delhi Chapter • Active on Salesforce Success Community • Blogging at www.cloudvandana.com • Independent Salesforce Consultant/Developer • Find me on Twitter @atul31Gupta
- 5. Who the hell am I? Atul Gupta Twitter http://twitter.com/atul31gupta LinkedIn https://in.linkedin.com/in/atul31gupta Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/atul31gupta Blog www.cloudvandana.com
- 6. What are Salesforce Certifications? A series of certifications provided by Salesforce.com that individuals can take to prove and demonstrate their knowledge and expertise in different areas of Salesforce.
- 7. Salesforce Certification Program Administrator Track Manage and Configure Salesforce Implementation Expert Track Design Sales and Service Cloud Solutions Pardot Track Design and Deploy Automation Solutions Marketing Track Personalize and Customize the Customer Journey Declarative Track Build Custom Declarative Solutions Developer Track Develop Custom Force.com Applications Architect Track Architect a Complete Force.com Solution Prerequisite: Salesforce.com Certified Administrator Prerequisite: Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Developer OR Salesforce Certified Platform App Developer Prerequisite: Salesforce.com Certified Administrator
- 8. What is Salesforce University? An entity part of Salesforce that handles everything related to Salesforce Certifications, Trainings and Release Exams. For any updates related to these follow it on Twitter : @salesforceu Website : http://www.salesforce.com/in/services- training/training_certification/training.jsp
- 9. Why be Certified at all? • Certifications give credibility to your Salesforce expertise. • They are a proof of you Salesforce Knowledge. • They attract Employers. • Advanced Certified guys are quite in demand. • Companies need Certified People as these certifications get them customers. • Upping your Certifications can lead to major increase in your Salaries and demand in market.
- 10. Why be Certified at all? As per Salesforce Denver User Group yearly Survey
- 11. Find certifications relevant to you Depending on what you want to pursue and what direction you want to give your career, you can choose one of these 2 Tracks • Admin/Consultant Track • Developer Track
- 12. Find certifications relevant to you
- 13. Salesforce Certified Force.com Developer 1. This certification is no longer offered. 2. If you have already done with it, it still counts. 3. It still counts as a valid prerequisite to Salesforce Technical Architect Certification. 4. This certification proves that you are quite comfortable with declarative aspects of the Salesforce Platform.
- 14. Salesforce Certified Advanced Developer 1. This certification is no longer offered and have been replaced by Platform Developer II 2. If you have already done with it, it still counts. 3. This certification proves that you are very comfortable with the programmatic aspects of the Salesforce Platform. Apex and Visualforce are just a sleight of hand for you.
- 15. Salesforce Certified Administrator 1. This is available and thriving. 2. This certifications is the start of your Admin/Consultant Career 3. This is a prerequisite to the following certifications • Salesforce Certified Administrator • Salesforce Sales Cloud Consultant • Salesforce Service Cloud Consultant 4. This credential proves that you have a broad knowledge of Salesforce application, you can configure and manage Sales and Service Cloud Applications.
- 16. Salesforce Certified Administrator About the Exam • 60 multiple-choice questions • 90 minutes allotted to complete the exam • 65% is the passing score • Registration fee is USD 200 • Retake fee is USD 100 • Available in English, French, German, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, additional details here • No prerequisites; Administration Essentials for New Admins (ADM 201) course is recommended • For a full exam outline, click here for the Study Guide
- 17. Salesforce Certified Advanced Administrator 1. Salesforce Certified Administrator is a prerequisite. 2. This says that you have handled a fair share of Salesforce orgs. 3. That you are completely comfortable with designing robust and scalable applications for the clients.
- 18. Salesforce Certified Advanced Administrator About the Exam • 60 multiple-choice questions • 90 minutes allotted to complete the exam • 65% is the passing score • Registration fee is USD 200 • Retake fee is USD 100 • No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam • Current status as a Salesforce Certified Administrator is a prerequisite • Recommend taking Administration Essentials for Experienced Admin (ADM-211) • For a full exam outline, click here for the Study Guide
- 19. Salesforce Sales Cloud Consultant 1. You need to be a Salesforce Certified Administrator as a prerequisite to take this exam. 2. This proves that you are proficient in understanding customer’s needs. 3. You can design and maintain Sales Cloud Applications as per customer’s business requirements.
- 20. Salesforce Sales Cloud Consultant About the Exam • 60 multiple-choice questions • 105 minutes allotted to complete the exam • 68% is the passing score • Registration fee is USD 200 • Retake fee is USD 100 • No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam • Available in English, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese, additional details here • Current status as a Salesforce Certified Administrator is a prerequisite • Recommend online training, reference materials and full exam outlined in the Study Guide
- 21. Salesforce Service Cloud Consultant 1. You need to be a Salesforce Certified Administrator as a prerequisite to take this exam. 2. Having this certification proves that you are an Implementation Expert experienced in implementing Service Cloud solutions as per customer’s needs.
- 22. Salesforce Service Cloud Consultant About the Exam • 60 multiple-choice questions • 105 minutes allotted to complete the exam • 68% is the passing score • Registration fee is USD 200 • Retake fee is USD 100 • No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam • Available in English, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese, additional details here • Current status as a Salesforce Certified Administrator is a prerequisite • Recommend online training, reference materials and full exam outlined in the Study Guide
- 23. Salesforce Platform App Builder 1. This is the certification introduced to replace Salesforce Certified Force.com Developer. 2. It is a prerequisite to Salesforce Technical Architect Certification. 3. Apart from the usual declarative stuff, you should be comfortable with Lightning Experience, Lightning App Builder to create robust Salesforce applications.
- 24. Salesforce Platform App Builder About the Exam • 60 multiple-choice questions • 90 minutes allotted to complete the exam • 63% is the passing score • Registration fee is USD 200 • Retake fee is USD 100 • No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam • No prerequisites; recommend taking Building Applications with Force.com and Visualforce (DEV401) • For a full exam outline, click here for the Study Guide
- 25. Salesforce Platform Developer I 1. You must be proficient in building custom applications on Force.com Platform. 2. You are quite comfortable with the basic knowledge of Apex and Visualforce.
- 26. Salesforce Platform Developer I About the Exam • 60 multiple-choice questions • 105 minutes allotted to complete the exam • 68% is the passing score • Registration fee is USD 200 • Retake fee is USD 100 • No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam • No prerequisites; Programmatic Development Using Apex and Visualforce (DEV 450) course is recommended • For a full exam outline, click here for the Study Guide
- 27. Salesforce Platform Developer II 1. Platform Developer I is the prerequisite for this certification. 2. You must have mastered Apex and Visuaforce. 3. Apart from that you should have a pretty good idea about SOAP, REST APIs, Heroku and building Lightning Components.
- 28. Salesforce Platform Developer II About the Exam • 60 multiple-choice questions • 120 minutes allotted to complete the exam • 63% is the passing score • Registration fee is USD 400 • Retake fee is USD 200 • No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam • Current status as a Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I is a prerequisite • For a full exam outline, click here for the Study Guide
- 29. Pardot Consultant 1. If you are able to design pardot solutions as per the customer’s needs, this certification is for you. 2. You must have a good idea of Pardot Platform and its integration with Salesforce. 3. Know how to build forms, emails and automation tools.
- 30. Pardot Consultant About the Exam • 60 multiple-choice questions • 90 minutes allotted to complete the exam • 70% is the passing score • Registration fee is USD 200 • Retake fee is USD 100 • No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam • No prerequisites • For a full exam outline, click here for the Study Guide
- 31. Pardot Specialist 1. This certification validates your proficiency in designing and implementing marketing flows on the Pardot Platform. 2. Understanding of marketing processes and tools like lead scoring, email marketing, lead generation and reporting.
- 32. Pardot Specialist About the Exam • 60 multiple-choice questions • 90 minutes allotted to complete the exam • 67% is the passing score • Registration fee is USD 200 • Retake fee is USD 100 • No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam • No prerequisites • For a full exam outline, click here for the Study Guide
- 33. Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Specialist 1. One should have complete understanding of Marketing Cloud Email application 2. Thorough with email marketing best practices, terminology, message design, email automation, tracking and reporting metrics. 3. Understand external integrations with Marketing Cloud Email application.
- 34. Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Specialist About the Exam • 60 multiple-choice questions • 90 minutes allotted to complete the exam • 60% is the passing score • Registration fee is USD 200 • Retake fee is USD 100 • No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam • No prerequisites; recommend taking Email Essentials (EEB101) • For a full exam outline, click here for the Study Guide
- 35. Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Specialist 1. Thorough understanding of components of Social Studio and social media terminology. 2. Post Creation, conversion analysis and management. 3. Design workflows as per business needs.
- 36. Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Specialist About the Exam • 60 multiple-choice questions • 90 minutes allotted to complete the exam • 67% is the passing score • Registration fee is USD 200 • Retake fee is USD 100 • No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam • No prerequisites; recommend taking Social Studio (SS101) • For a full exam outline, click here for the Study Guide
- 37. And now the Juggernaut
- 38. Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) 1. You must be proficient in assessing customer‘s architecture and designing secure, high performance technical solutions on the Force.com Platform. 2. Come up with the right ways of integrating multiple platforms and applications with proper authentication. 3. Manage delivery lifecycle of applications.
- 39. Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) About the Exam The Salesforce Certified Technical Architect program has three components: (1) self-evaluation, (2) multiple-choice exam, and (3) review board presentation. To earn the Salesforce Certified Technical Architect credential, you must successfully complete all three components in this order. Successful completion of each component is required to move on to the next step.
- 40. Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) Self-Evaluation • 42 multiple-choice questions • 30 minutes allotted to complete the exam (online, non- proctored) • There is no registration fee • Current status as a Salesforce Certified Force.com Developer or a Salesforce Certified App Builder is a prerequisite
- 41. Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) Multiple-choice Exam: • 60 multiple-choice questions • 120 minutes allotted to complete the exam (proctored) • 63% is the passing score • Registration fee is USD 500 • Retake fee is USD 250 • No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam
- 42. Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) Review Board Presentation • Presentation and discussion of the architecture solution for a hypothetical scenario • Registration fee is USD 6000 and USD 3000 for each subsequent attempt • 4 hours allotted to complete the exam • No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam • Recommend training, reference materials and full exam outlined in the Study Guide.
- 43. Webassessor Webassessor is the site where you can register for all Salesforce Certifications
- 44. Webassessor
- 45. Maintaining Your Salesforce Credential • Three times a year (winter, spring, and summer), Salesforce releases new system feature updates. • In accordance with these updates, all certified professionals are required to maintain their certification by taking a maintenance exam aligned with the Salesforce product release cycles. • Depending on your Salesforce credential, the number of certification release exams published per year may vary. http://certification.force.com/pkb/articles/Public_KB/Maintainin g-Your-Salesforce-Credential/
- 46. About Release Exams • 30-minute online and non-proctored exams that you can take at your convenience. • Typically they up to 15 questions long, but can vary depending on the volume of new release changes. • The exams are also open note, so you can refer to the online training and release notes during the exam. • You are permitted three attempts at each release exam.
- 47. Certification Expiration • There is a due date to every release exam. • If you do not pass the release exam(s) by the required due date, all credentials maintained by that exam will either expire or, in some cases, become suspended.
- 48. Certification Expiration • If your Salesforce Certified Force.com Developer credential expires and you also hold the Salesforce Certified Force.com Advanced Developer and/or Salesforce Certified Technical Architect credential(s), those credentials will be placed in a suspended state. • You will then have one release cycle from the expiration date to recertify as a Salesforce Certified Force.com Developer, at which point the Salesforce Certified Force.com Advanced Developer and/or Salesforce Certified Technical Architect credential(s) will be reinstated. http://certification.force.com/pkb/articles/Public_KB/Informatio n-about-Certification-Expiration
- 50. Thank You Thank you for attending the session.
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- 52. Reach out to me !! Email gupta.atul31@gmail.com Twitter http://twitter.com/atul31gupta LinkedIn https://in.linkedin.com/in/atul31gupta Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/atul31gupta Blog www.cloudvandana.com