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Summary and recordings for Session 1 of Free Salesforce Admin Certification Training by Forcepective held on 8 Jan 2022.
1. Agenda
- What is Salesforce?
- Salesforce Trailhead
- Salesforce Certified Admin Exam
- About the Training
- Salesforce Platform Basics
- Data Security
- Permission Sets
- Assignments
2. What is Salesforce?
- Salesforce Company
- Customer Relationship Management Application & Cloud Solutions Company
- Subsidiaries
- MuleSoft
- Slack
- Tableau
- Salesforce CRM
- World’s No. 1 CRM
- Salesforce Lightning Platform
- Platform as a Service(PaaS) to build custom apps
3. Salesforce Trailhead
- Salesforce Learning Platform
- Best resource to learn Salesforce for free
- Trailhead URL: https://trailhead.salesforce.com
- Content
- Module – A module covers a specific subject.
- Trail – A trail is an ordered group of modules, projects, or both that provides a guided learning path to learning a new skill, product, or role.
- Project – A project is a series of hands-on steps that lets you learn Salesforce skills by putting them into practice.
- Trailmix – A trailmix consists of modules, projects, trails, and superbadges.
- Superbadge – Superbadges help you learn across an entire feature area by providing a real-life business scenario for which you have to build a solution.
- Salesforce Documentation URL: https://help.salesforce.com
4. About the Salesforce Certified Admin Exam
- Content: 60 multiple-choice/multiple-select questions and 5 non-scored questions
- Time allotted to complete the exam: 105 minutes
- Passing score: 65% (39 out of 60 Questions)
- Registration fee: USD 200 plus applicable taxes
- Retake fee: USD 100 plus applicable taxes
- Prerequisites: None
5. Salesforce Admin Certification Exam Outline
- Configuration and Setup: 20% (12 Questions)
- Object Manager and Lightning App Builder: 20% (12 Questions)
- Sales and Marketing Applications: 12% (7 Questions)
- Service and Support Applications: 11% (6 Questions)
- Productivity and Collaboration: 7% (5 Questions)
- Data and Analytics Management: 14% (8 Questions)
- Workflow/Process Automation: 16% (10 Questions)
6. Salesforce Admin Certification Trailmix
7. Salesforce Platform Basics
- Cloud Computing – Technology that enables Internet-based services that let you sign up and log in through a browser. Salesforce delivers its service in the cloud. Other familiar cloud computing services include Google Apps and Amazon.com
- Software as a Service (SaaS) – Software delivered not by traditional means (such as on disk) but in the cloud, as a service. There’s nothing to download or install, and updates are automatic.
- Multitenancy – Mode of operation of software where multiple independent instances of one or multiple applications operate in a shared environment.
- Salesforce Releases – Salesforce deliver hundreds of innovative features to customers three times a year during Salesforce seasonal releases: Spring, Summer, and Winter.
- Salesforce Editions
- Essentials
- Professional
- Enterprise
- Unlimited
- Org (Organization)
- Developer Org – https://developer.salesforce.com/signup
- Salesforce Navigation
- Trailhead Playground – An org you can use to complete hands on challenges and try out new features and customizations.
- Company Info – The Company Information page shows all the important information about your company. The page also includes the user and feature licenses purchased for your organization.
- Profile – Profiles define how users access objects and data, and profiles determine what users can do within the application.
- Role – Control how your organization reports on and accesses data.
- Permission Set – A permission set is a collection of settings and permissions that give users access to various tools and functions. Permission sets extend users’ functional access without changing their profiles.
- Permission Set Group – Bundle permission sets together based on user job functions.
- User – In Salesforce, each user is uniquely identified with a username, password, and profile. Together with other settings, the profile determines which tasks a user can perform, what data the user can see, and what the user can do with the data.
- Setup Audit Trail – Setup Audit Trail tracks the recent setup changes that you and other admins make.
- Login History – Represents the login history for all successful and failed login attempts for organizations and enabled portals.
- AppExchange – Enterprise cloud marketplace with ready-to-install apps, solutions, and consultants that let you extend Salesforce.
8. Data Security
- Organization
- Password policies – To ensure that the appropriate level of password security is used for your organization, specify password requirements with Password Policies settings for users assigned to a profile.
- Login Hours
- IP Ranges
- Objects
- CRUD
- Field
- Access
- Read only
- Records
- OWD – Oganization-wide sharing settings can be set to Private, Public Read Only, Controlled by Parent or Public Read/Write.
- Role Hierarchy – Determines whether users have access to records they don’t own, including records to which they don’t have sharing access, but someone below them in the hierarchy does.
- Sharing Rule – Use sharing rules to extend sharing access to users in public groups, roles, or territories. Sharing rules give particular users greater access by making automatic exceptions to your org-wide sharing settings.
- Manual Sharing – Manual sharing gives other users access to certain types of records, including accounts, contacts, and leads.
9. Assignments: Trailhead modules to be completed before Session 2
Configuration and Setup: 20% (12 Questions)
- Salesforce Platform Basics
- Prepare Your Salesforce Org for Users
- User Management
- View and Manage Users
- Customize an Org to Support a New Business Unit
- Identity Basics
- Control Who Sees What
- Data Security
- Permission Set Groups
- Protect Your Data in Salesforce
10. Useful Links
- Trailhead URL: https://trailhead.salesforce.com
- Developer Org Signup URL: https://developer.salesforce.com/signup
- What is Salesforce Admin?: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/career-path/admin
- Admin Certification Guide: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/help?article=Salesforce-Certified-Administrator-Exam-Guide
- How to get Free Salesforce Certification Voucher?: http://304.d65.myftpupload.com/how-to-get-salesforce-certification-voucher/
- Admin Certification Trailmix: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/users/strailhead/trailmixes/prepare-for-your-salesforce-administrator-credential
