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Salesforce CRM - The Definitive Admin Handbook - Fourth Edition

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Salesforce CRM - The Definitive Admin Handbook - Fourth Edition

Overview of this book

Salesforce CRM’s Winter ’17 release offers a host of new features for CRM designed to transform your sales and marketing requirements. With this comprehensive guide to implementing Salesforce CRM, administrators of all levels can easily acquire deep knowledge of the platform. The book begins by guiding you through setting up users and the security settings and then progresses to configuration, data management, and data analytics. We swiftly move on to the setting up of organization wide features that affect the look and feel of the application. Process automation and approval mechanisms are covered next, along with the functional areas of Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Salesforce Chatter. This book details Salesforce CRM system administration in a practical way and is an invaluable reference for both new administrators and experienced professionals. At the end of the book, techniques to further enhance the system and improve the return on investment Salesforce mobile apps and mobile administration are covered, along with Salesforce Adoption Manager. Every chapter is complete with a section containing example questions of the type that you might encounter in the certification examination.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Salesforce CRM - The Definitive Admin Handbook - Fourth Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Overview of the Salesforce Certified Administrator exam


The Salesforce Certified Administrator exam consists of 60 multiple-choice (or single-choice) questions and the maximum time allowed is 90 minutes. There is no mandatory prerequisite qualification or experience; however, Salesforce highly recommends that candidates have some real-world experience administering an organization or attend a suitable training course prior to sitting the exam, details of which are covered later in this chapter.

Note

The pass mark for the Salesforce Certified Administrator exam is currently 39 correct answers out of the available 60, which is specified as a percentage passing score of 65%. At the time of writing, the cost of registering for the exam is $200 USD and the cost of registering to re-sit the exam is $100 USD.

During the exam, no written or online resource may be referenced and when you submit the exam you are presented with your exam result immediately. The result is either a pass or fail; there is...