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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
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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

Support Sales Strategies with Sales Cloud Features

In this chapter, we'll be dealing with Sales Cloud features. If you are wondering what Salesforce Sales Cloud is, it is the piece of our beloved CRM that is designed to support sales and marketing in both business-to-business and business-to-customer contexts. It supports lead management, campaign creation, deal closing, and product catalog definition. For the purpose of this book, we'll deal with Sales Cloud specifics such as product management, quote management, and opportunity forecasting, which will give you the confidence to implement an effective sales strategy.

In this chapter, we'll focus on the following topics:

  • Leveling up product management to better define your selling strategy and see how opportunities are tied to the selling process
  • Learning what quotes are and how they can be used along with quote...