SALESFORCE ADMINISTRATOR

You are preparing for your sales administrator certification. You must be wondering that there’s a lot that I need to cover up in the syllabus or in the course that is given in the study material provided by salesforce. 

I’m going to be telling you some important topics based on which you’re going to be finding most of the questions. With the help of that, you’ll be able to crack your salesforce certification exam, specifically the salesforce administrator certification exam, in one go. Let’s begin.

Automation:

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The number one topic that you need to master to crack your administrative certification exam is automation. Automation means 

  • process builder 
  • workflows 
  • approval process
  • flows 

Everything around these topics is a very important topic or is very important for you to understand and learn the basic concepts you have to learn which tool to use when and why. They’re going to be so many questions in the exam in which they’re going to give you a scenario, and based on that scenario, they’ll ask you which tool we need to use in this particular scenario. 

That is something that you need to master, that that is something that you need to ace. Though it is written that automation only includes 15% of the total weightage of the certification exam questions, many people have observed that there were way more questions from automation than what is written in the study material. In automation, you need to understand the different actions that you can do in different tools like in process builder, what you can do in workflow, what you can do and what you cannot do in approval process, what different type of actions we have got how actually to schedule automation or something related to that. They’re going to be so many questions out of this topic; if you master this topic, nobody can stop you from cracking the certification. 

Data Security

The second topic you need to master or race for cracking the salesforce administrator exam is data security. When I say data security, it includes 

  • organization Level security
  • object level security 
  • field-level security
  • record-level security

It would help if you learned all of them. You need to master all of them to completely set up or implement the security model for a particular organization or a particular. in this also, you need to know which type of setting or which type of permission. We need to apply in which situation there are going to be a lot of scenario-based questions which will be given to you, and based on that particular scenario; you need to suggest the best security setting that we have to make to achieve that scenario or the condition in that scenario. especially you need to understand the differences between object-level security and record-level security and when to apply both and also you need to understand that profiles restrict the access and permission sets opens up the access.

 Similarly, on the other hand, owd restricts access to record-level security and sharing rules, or role hierarchy or manual sharing opens up access. This is very important to answer the right answer to a scenario-based question they’ll be asking you in the salesforce certification exam. Talking about a salesforce certified administrator who doesn’t know data modeling is not a truth. 

Data Modeling:

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Data modeling, of course, we all know that there are so many things in data modeling that we need to master exactly like objects and field relationships. A relationship is a very important topic that you need to master because there will be so many questions out there in the exam that will be based on a relationship. There can be many questions from other chapters as well in which they’re going to be a scenario in which there will be a master-detail relationship given in the scenario and completely changes the answer to that particular question. So you need to master the concepts of relationships in the data modeling chapter inside the salesforce platform. Especially master-detail relationships apart from that they’re going to be many questions based on the formulas that we have in formula fields and validation rules is also an important topic. Still, preferably the questions on top of like in the exam will be based on the formulas that we have invalidation rules and formula fields. 

Cross Object Formula

Cross object formula fields you need to master your concepts on cross object formula fields as well like what exactly that is in which scenario we can create that is it possible to do it like this they’re going to be like so many questions out there in the exam based on cross object formula field. It would help if you mastered that to give the right answer to that particular question. 

Record Types:

In data modeling, we’ve got one more very, very important topic, and that is record types. Many people out there forget about record types, and that’s the biggest mistake they make while preparing for a certification exam. Because it seems very confusing, but do not make this mistake that you skip record types while preparing for your certification exam, especially the administrator and lab builder. 

Data Import and Export:

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Data import and export that we sometimes call data management in data management need to understand certain things number one the difference between insert update. There might be a position in which you can get a lot of questions based on this. If you’re doing an update, if you’re doing an upsell, if you’re doing an insert, so all the questions from the data management chapter are going to be stating these things only like the situation is we are inserting the records the situation is we are updating the records. Hence, we are upsetting the record, so you need to understand the difference between insert update and absorb after that. You need to know the differences between the different tools available to import and export the data from or to salesforce. 

You need to know all of these tools’ capabilities, like what we can do with a particular tool and what we cannot do with a particular tool. There’ll be scenarios or situations given to you. The question will ask you that this is the situation or the scenario in which tool you recommend to achieve this target. Hence, you need to like a master this topic about the tools as well a little tip for the certification exam whenever you find anything scheduled like if you want to schedule an import if you want to schedule an export or something like that, there is a tool out there with the help of which you can do that not all the tools can do it. Still, there is a certain tool you figure out.

The last thing that you need to master in data management or data import-export is the unique id that I with the help of which id we are making sure we are updating the recorder with the help of which external id we are updating or upsetting the records you need to know the difference between record id as well as an external id. because you’re going to be using either one of them to update or absurd the records inside your salesforce database, so you need actually to learn it thoroughly. 

Standard Objects:

The last but not the least topic that you need to master to crack yourself for certification administrator certification is standard objects specifically for salesforce administrator certification I’m talking about in here, not for the app builder one because in-app builder we do not have this topic included in the study material but for salesforce administrator certification exam we do have this topic, and that is standard objects when I say standard objects these are just the objects which are already presented to the salesforce data salesforce platform I will not say database like leads accounts contacts opportunities products price books cases solutions knowledge content so many of them you need to know the behaviors the patterns as well as the functionality or the usage of these different products which are already provided by salesforce to be used by a particular business. 

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So you need to master the need and the usage of all of the standard objects provided by the salesforce itself, specifically the ones that I have taken the name of right now. You’ll be able to understand what I’m talking about majority of the questions in your salesforce certification exam are going to be based on the standard objects only like no matter what the topic is in the scenario there will be probably any standard object that will be used to create that scenario to create that situation for which you need to answer or to for which you need to actually give the answer to that particular question.

So make sure that you know the behavior the relationship behavior of the different standard objects the relationship between all of these standard objects and how do they actually perform or how do they actually do the particular job that they are created for you need to actually master all of these and how you can do that is by just creating different different records of each of these standard objects and then creating their child records and then deleting them or like just creating deleting and performing different functionalities that are present on the salesforce platform for these standard objects. Suppose you can master all of the topics that I’ve mentioned over here. In that case, you’ll crack your salesforce certification. Specifically, salesforce administrators certification exam in one go, so what are you waiting for? Go and learn all of these topics to crack your salesforce certification exam, and once you’ve done once you’ve cracked the salesforce certification exam.

By Anurag Rathod

Anurag Rathod is an Editor of Appclonescript.com, who is passionate for app-based startup solutions and on-demand business ideas. He believes in spreading tech trends. He is an avid reader and loves thinking out of the box to promote new technologies.