Salesforce Admin Certification

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Our experienced team is going to guide you step by step through the Salesforce Admin Certification (ADM-201) process in order to help you PASS the exam and become certified. 

Seventeen Tips to Pass the Salesforce Administrator Exam

1. Checkout the Exam Guide >> Overview of what to expect in the Exam 

  • About the Salesforce Administrator Exam and Program
  • Audience Description: Salesforce Certified Administrator
  • Purpose of this Exam Guide
  • About the Exam
  • Recommended Training and References
  • Exam Outline
  • Exam Candidate Code of Conduct
  • Maintaining Your Certification

2. Sign up and schedule an exam (3 months or 6 months ahead and put it on the calendar)

3. Find some study Buddies

4. Hands on Practice (Under Learn tab once you logged in to Trails and Trailmixes)

5. Trail >> Salesforce Administrator prep trail >> Covers all the topics that are contained Trailhead that will be in the exam

Trail Mix >> Salesforce Administrator prep trail mix >> Video Series

6. Take the Certification day prep webinar >> Free Webinar run by Salesforce Cert team

7. Take the Exam >> Make sure you’ve done all the materials to ROCK the exam

8. Good platform for SF practice exam

9. Exam Details

  • Total 65 Questions
  • Only score 60 of them and other 5 bonus questions
  • You will get 100% if you correct 60
  • Passing score: 65%

Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes (1.5 hours of MCQ exams)

  1. Organizational Setup – 3%
  2. User setup – 7%
  3. Security and Access – 13%
  4. Standard and Custom Objects – 14%
  5. Sales and Marketing Applications – 14%
  6. Service and Support Applications – 13%
  7. Activity Management and Collaboration – 3%
  8. Data Management – 10%
  9. Analytics – Reports & Dashboards – 10%
  10. Workflow/Process Automation – 8%
  11. Desktop and Mobile Applications – 3%
  12. AppExchange – 2%

10. Schedule the Exam

  • Sign up for Salesforce BA/admin tutorial : http://sfbatraining.com/
  • Schedule the exam with Webassessor >> https://www.webassessor.com/salesforce
  • Online or testing location
  • For online exam you have to download the program called “Sentinel“
  • Required to have Webcam for record whole exam
  • SF exams happen 3 times in Year >> Winter/Spring/Summer
  • You have 3 attempts to take the exam in one release cycle
  • If you fail first attempt, wait 24 hours to take next exam
  • If you fail second attempt, wait for 14 days to take third times
  • If you fail 3rd attempt, wait for next release cycle
  • Release cycle has 175 questions
  • 65 questions comes for this 175 questions all three times but not exact same one
  • to get this 175 questions, sign up for >> sfbatraining.com

11. Fees

12. First area to be Master on Automation

  • Process Builder
  • Approval Process
  • Workflow
  • Flows
  • You have to know which tool to use when and why

13. Second area to be master on Data Security

  • Organization level Security
  • Field Level Security
  • Object Level Security
  • Record Level Security
  • Difference between Object and Record level security. When to apply both
  • Profiles restrict the access vs Permission Open the access
  • AWD restricts the access on record level security vs sharing rules or role hierarchy or manual sharing opens up the access

14. Third area to be master on Data Modeling

  • Relations is very very important
  • Other very very important >> Record Types

15. Cross Object Formula fields

16. Data import and Export. Its also called Data Management

  • Difference between INSERT, UPDATE and UPSERT
  • Tools to imports and export >> what we can do with particular tool and what we cannot do ….
  • Schedule import and schedule export
  • Remember the unique ID >> when external id is using to update and upsert the records
  • Need to know Record ID and External ID

17. Last one to be master is Standard Object

  • LEADS
  • Accounts
  • Contacts
  • Opportunities
  • Products
  • Price Books
  • Cases
  • Solutions
  • Knowledge
  • Contents
  • Need to know all the above behavior, patterns, functionalities, usage