Salesforce certification is well-known for enhancing your resume and providing high-level skills. Salesforce certifications will give you hands-on experience and will give you a competitive edge that will help you find new opportunities. You can also start to prepare for a skill-based certificate and accelerate your career. This allows you to apply the skills you have acquired to real-world business problems. What about the rest of the process, such as maintaining your certifications, checking for updated information, and retiring from exams?
Salesforce must keep up with the latest technology and innovations in order to keep everything on track. It is important to keep the certification current and its content up-to-date according to the latest technology, including exam retirement. Candidates can benefit from upgrading their skills so that they are more up-to-date. This blog will provide information about the Salesforce Certifications exams and their latest information. We will also discuss the process of maintaining certifications, exam retiring, and what’s new within the policy. Let’s first check out the exam changes and other important updates.
Salesforce Certification: What’s New?
Salesforce certification is a key component in validating technical skills and cloud knowledge for a successful career. This certification helps professionals to highlight the most in-demand skills and organizations that can help them create effective teams for cloud initiatives. There is an urgent need to adapt in order to keep up with the latest technologies.
1. Salesforce Certified Administrator – Course Outline Revised
It is important to know that the Salesforce Credentialing Team has made changes to the Certified Administrator exam on June 23, 2021.
Updated Exam Course Outline
Configuration and Setup: 20%
Lightning App Builder and Object Manager: 20%
Sales and Marketing Applications 12%
11% Service and Support Applications
Productivity and collaboration: 7%
14% Data and Analytics Management
Workflow/Process Automation: 16%
2. Changes in the Maintaining Certifications Process
For Salesforce certification maintenance, certified professionals must complete Trailhead maintenance modules that are specific to their certification. All certifications must now complete one maintenance module each year, starting with the Spring 20 release cycle.
If you fail to complete the maintenance module(s), your certification(s), or both, will be cancelled. To maintain your certifications, you will need to complete entry-level maintenance if you achieve a higher-level or advanced certificate. The Certified Administrator is an entry-level certification and maintains the Certified Advanced administrator certification.
Release CycleDate AvailableDue Date*Maintenance Modules AvailableSummer ’20August 26, 2020August 20, 2021Heroku Architecture DesignerPardot SpecialistAccredited B2B Commerce AdministratorWinter ’21December 9, 2020December 2021Marketing Cloud AdministratorPlatform App BuilderPlatform Developer IDesigner maintenance moduleSpring ’21April 14, 2021April 2022AdministratorB2C Commerce DeveloperCPQ SpecialistMarketing Cloud Email SpecialistTableau CRM and Einstein Discovery ConsultantComplete Your Maintenance and view your status. More information is available here
3. Exam Name Change
Salesforce Einstein Analytics and Discovery Consultant exam is now Salesforce Certified Tableau CRM and Einstein Discovery Consultant.
Updated Course Outline
Data Layer: 24%
Security: 11%
Administration: 9%
Tableau CRM Dashboard Design: 19%
Tableau CRM Dashboard Implementation: 18%
Einstein Discovery Story Design: 19%
We will now cover all Salesforce Exams in the next section.
Salesforce Certification: A Model Based Exam
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