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Salesforce Advanced Administrator Certification Guide

By : Enrico Murru
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Salesforce Advanced Administrator Certification Guide

By: Enrico Murru

Overview of this book

The Salesforce Advanced Administrator certification extends beyond administrator certification, covering advanced platform features and functions such as configuration, automation, security, and customization. Complete with comprehensive coverage of all these topics and exam-oriented questions and mock tests, this Salesforce book will help you earn advanced administrator credentials. You'll start your journey by mastering data access security, monitoring and auditing, and understanding best practices for handling change management and data across organizations. The book then delves into data model management for improving data quality and lets you explore Sales features such as products, schedules, quotes, and forecasting capabilities. As you progress, this book will guide you in working with content management to set up and maintain Salesforce content. You'll also master organizing your files and data using reports and dashboards. Finally, you'll learn how to use a combination of automation tools to solve business problems. By the end of the book, you will have developed the skills required to get your advanced administrator credentials.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Security, Access, and Organization Management
5
Section 2: Data Model Management
7
Section 3: Sales and Service Cloud Applications
10
Section 4: Data and Content Management
13
Section 5: Reports and Dashboards
16
Section 6: Process Automation
22
Section 7: Taking Your Certification Exam

Summary

Although this was an introductory chapter on Apex triggers and user interface customization, it should have given you the tools to understand how customization works with the coding approach. Summing up, we can build Apex triggers to deliver highly customized automation and provide granular control over what happens when a record is inserted, updated, deleted, or even undeleted. We have also learned how the process automation engine handles the order of execution among all the automation tools when a record is being saved in the database.

After a bit of theory, we created a complex trigger to handle some opportunity-related automation and also learned how to debug any unwanted exceptions that may be thrown.

In the last section, we saw how to create user interface customizations using the Visualforce, Aura, and Lightning Web Component frameworks, and we discussed the key...