Salesforce Admin 201 Certification Preparation

  

Let’s make no bones about it the Salesforce Administrator ADM-201 is a tough certification to attain, remembering the Salesforce limits is tough as well as having to stop your thought process running away thinking “I know this can be achieved this way but would it be considered best practice”. There is a fine balance with the Salesforce Administrator exam between knowing too much and knowing to little. This is a certification however where corners cannot be cut, you either know it or you don’t.

Use Your Free Dev Org

To use an analogy from cycling when a reporter once asked Fausto Coppi (a famous cyclist) what it took to be a great champion, he replied “Ride your bike, ride your bike, ride your bike”. The Salesforce equivalent would be “Use your Dev Org, use your Dev Org, use your Dev Org”. It is paramount that you sign up for a free Dev Org (and use it) in order to expand your Salesforce knowledge, try out new functionality, find different ways of reaching a solution and most importantly will back up your knowledge in a practical way. In a perfect world we would all get the entire experience from our Salesforce based roles but this is very rare. Using the Salesforce Dev Org is fun too, like a big jigsaw puzzle.

Resources For Passing Salesforce Administrator Exam

ü  Get Started on Certified Administrator Credentials. 

ü  Force Platform Fundamentals

ü  Dreamforce ‘Hands-on-Training’

ü  Flash Card

Specific Areas To Pass The Salesforce Administrator (ADM-201)

ü  Standard Objects and Data Model

ü  Organization Wide Defaults (OWD)

ü  Record Types

ü  Salesforce Limits

ü  Role Hierarchy

ü  Security

ü  Roles and Profiles

ü  Lead assignment rules

ü  Reporting & Dashboards

ü  Chatter

Standard Objects and Data Model

ü  Object Reference for Salesforce and Force.com 

ü  Object Reference for Salesforce and Force.com 

ü  Salesforce Data Model – Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) 

ü  Standard Apps, Objects and Tabs 

Organization Wide Defaults (OWD)

ü  Who Sees What: Organization-Wide Defaults 

ü  Setting up Security Part 1 – OWDs, Sharing Rules and the Role Hierarchy 

ü  How to configure OWDs 

ü  Security model 

ü  The Definitive Guide to Salesforce Security

Record Types

ü  Record Types Overview 

ü  Record Types

ü  Tips and Hints for Record Types 

ü  Deep Diving into Salesforce Record Types 

ü  Record Type in Salesforce.com 

Salesforce Limits

ü  General Salesforce Limits 

ü  Salesforce Limits Quick Reference Guide 

ü  Salesforce Features and Edition Limits 

Role Hierarchy

ü  Who Sees What: Record Access via the Role Hierarchy 

ü  Control Access Using Hierarchies 

ü  Who Sees What: Record Access via the Role Hierarchy 

ü  Overview of Roles 

ü  Controlling Access Using Hierarchies 

ü  Setting up Security Part 1 

Security

ü  Who Sees What Series 

ü  Definitive Guide to Salesforce Security  

Roles and Profiles

ü  Overview of Roles 

ü  Roles 

ü  User Profiles Overview 

ü  Profiles 

ü  Standard Profiles 

Lead assignment rules

ü  Setting Up Assignment Rules 

ü  Lead Assignment Rules 

ü  Lead Assignment Rules 

Reporting & Dashboards

ü  Reports and Dashboards for Dummies 

ü  Hands-on Training: Get Started with Sales Reports and Dashboards 

Chatter

ü  Chatter (CoD)

For Preparation refer below links :

Sample Mock Question Part #1. (Click Here To Download)
Sample Mock Question Part #2. (Click Here To Download)
Sample Mock Question Part #3. (Click Here To Download)

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Happy Learning !!