The Salesforce.com Certified Advanced Administrator exam measures a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the objectives listed below. A candidate should have hands-on experience administering Salesforce CRM and have demonstrated application of each of the following features/functions. Software as a Service (SaaS) 8% Describe how to use Salesforce CRM applications for internal initiatives Describe the…
NOTE: I received an email from Salesforce on May 26, 2011 stating: “we will be phasing out the existing Salesforce.com Certified Consultant credential over the course of the year. In March 2012, the Salesforce.com Certified Consultant credential will expire.” “The new Salesforce.com Certified Sales Cloud Consultant and Salesforce.com Certified Service Cloud Consultant credentials will become…
The Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Developer exam measures a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the objectives listed below. A candidate should have hands-on experience developing custom applications on the Force.com platform and have demonstrated the application of each of the following features/functions. Application Design 5% List and describe components of an application Describe the model-view-controller…
The exam objectives should give you an idea how much of one subject area is stressed on an exam. For example, you’re thinking about taking the Certified Administrator exam but you’ve never configured Cases at your day job. How much of the exam covers Service and Support Administration? Answer – 5%. If you’re only weak…
By Salesforce.com Certification, the following lists the number of questions, passing scores and time allotted for each certification exam. Remember, you will not know your score after completing the test – it will simply say that you’ve either passed or failed. Again, be a smart test taker and know how the exam is structured before…
Is “Sites” Salesforce.com’s play into B2C? The business case for having a website powered by Salesforce in the cloud is not much different than using Salesforce as a platform to build an application. If you are running a website you have decisions about hosting, a Content Management System (CMS), which will need a database behind…
Let’s go back to the top of the page on Setup > App Setup > Customize > Self-Service > Self-Service Portal > Settings, and look at the button labeled “Generate HTML.” You’ve done all this work, so I bet you’re ready to try it out. 🙂 After clicking the “Generate HTML” button you will see…
Portal Users are simply Contacts already in Salesforce.com that you chose to have access to the Self Service Portal. Once you enable the Self Service Portal in your Salesforce instance, you will see a new button at the top of the Contact’s record (see screen shot below). Once you click that button, there are just…
Once you click save you should be back to Setup > App Setup > Customize > Self-Service > Self-Service Portal > Settings Now let’s go through the options available on this page. In the section labeled “Portal Page Sections” you are able to add branding (such as your company logo) to the Header and Footer…
So let’s get started. Go to Setup > App Setup > Customize > Self-Service > Self-Service Portal > Settings On the page that displays, you will see three buttons at the top. Let’s start with “Self-Service Setup.” As you can see there are a lot of options to configure. Let’s start at the top. In…