A Guide for Salesforce Certification
In today's world, Salesforce is a huge platform for all the developers, admins and consultants as well as for customers also. So Salesforce provides their different certifications to recognizes the skills and expertise. But many of us don't know about the Salesforce Certification.
Many questions arise like
- Are you a Marketing Expert or Specialist, who has the vision for marketing their product?
- Are you an Architect, who masterminds high-performance technical frameworks?
- Are you an Administrator, who keeps Salesforce running smoothly with the admin levels?
- Are you a Developer, who builds new apps to extend capabilities and customize the default features?
So whatever your role, you can achieve your goals by getting Certified. This guide will help you get there.
Following are different Salesforce Certifications:
SALESFORCE ADMINISTRATOR
This certification exam is intended for an individual who has experience in running Salesforce smoothly with all the admin levels as a Salesforce Administrator.
SALESFORCE ADVANCED ADMINISTRATOR
This certification is built for those who have advanced-level expertise in admin levels of Salesforce. For this, you have to prerequisite certification with SALESFORCE ADMINISTRATOR exam.
SALESFORCE PLATFORM APP BUILDER
This certification is built for those who can build and design custom apps using the capabilities of the Force.com platform.
PLATFORM DEVELOPER I
This certification is built for those who have basic knowledge in building custom declarative and programmatic apps on the Force.com platform with their skills, and experience in Coding. Its a mixture of coding skills with some of the custom defined automation.
PLATFORM DEVELOPER II
This certification is built for those who have advanced knowledge and skills in the programmatic capabilities. For this, you have to prerequisite certification with PLATFORM DEVELOPER I exam.
DATA ARCHITECTURE AND MANAGEMENT DESIGNER
This certification is built for those who have an ability to design, scalable, and high-performing solutions for the architecture environment on the Force.com platform as it related to enterprise data management.
DEVELOPMENT LIFECYCLE AND DEPLOYMENT DESIGNER
This certification is built for those who estimate the requirements and develop the architectural environment and then implement the management solutions to meet the requirements.
IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT DESIGNER
This certification is built for those who evaluate the architecture environment and design, scalable and high-performing solutions that meet the Single Sign-on (SSO) requirements.
INTEGRATION ARCHITECTURE DESIGNER
This certification is built for those who calculate and estimate the environmental architecture to design and high-level technical solutions that meet end-to-end integration process.
MOBILE SOLUTIONS ARCHITECTURE DESIGNER
This certification is built for those who have the quality of the architectural environment, design and implement the mobile solutions to meet the requirements.
SHARING AND VISIBILITY DESIGNER
This certification is built for those who evaluate the architectural environment, requirements and design and technical solutions to meet sharing and visibility requirements.
TECHNICAL ARCHITECT
This certification is built for those who have high skills in design secure, knowledge across multiple development platforms and high-performance technical solutions. For this, you have to prerequisite certification with APPLICATION ARCHITECT and SYSTEM ARCHITECT exam.
COMMUNITY CLOUD CONSULTANT
This certification is built for those who have experience in implementing and consulting on the Communities applications. For this, you have to prerequisite certification with ADMINISTRATOR exam.
MARKETING CLOUD CONSULTANT
This certification is built for those who can set up and implement Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email app tools, providing solutions to email campaigns. For this, you have to prerequisite certification with the MARKETING CLOUD EMAIL SPECIALIST exam.
PARDOT CONSULTANT
This certification is built for those who have experience implementing Pardot for customers business requirements.
SALES CLOUD CONSULTANT
This certification is built for those who have experience implementing Sales Cloud with their roles, successful designs and implementing solutions. For this, you have to prerequisite certification with ADMINISTRATOR exam.
SERVICE CLOUD CONSULTANT
This certification is built for those who have experience implementing Service Cloud and there customer-facing roles, successful designs and solutions. For this, you have to prerequisite certification with ADMINISTRATOR exam.
MARKETING CLOUD EMAIL SPECIALIST
This certification is built for those who have experience in implementing their knowledge and skills in email marketing best practices that includes message design, inbox delivery, subscriber and data management and external integrations.
MARKETING CLOUD SOCIAL SPECIALIST
This certification is built for those who have experience in implementing their knowledge and skills using the components of Social Studio for post creation, management and analysis of conversations and reporting.
PARDOT SPECIALIST
This certification is built for those who have experience in implementing their skills and knowledge in Pardot platform of designing, building and implementing marketing workflows.
Hope this blog helps you in choosing the right certification for your career.
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