I have successfully passed Salesforce Certified Education Cloud Consultant exam on 19th January 2020. Here are few tips to pass the exam.
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Exam Outline
I have faced 60 questions and most of the questions are about Education domain knowledge, configuring HEDA and SAL, use case oriented questions.
Preparation
- Education Cloud Consultant Trailmix – This is must as it covers 100% in all sections.
- Getting Started with Salesforce + the Higher Education Data Architecture – Another must complete Trailmix.
- Education Cloud Acedamy – This contains 3 recordings and it explains the heda concepts very well. So highly recommended.
- Education Cloud Consultant Training Guide.
- Education Data Architecture documentation.
- Salesforce Advisor Link documentation.
- Article on roles at University
- Enrolment and Admissions Process
- FERPA Regulations
- Understanding FERPA & Education Records Disclosure
- Advancement/Alumni Relations
Core EDA Data Model
Core SAL Data Model
Topics Received on Exam
- Questions regarding to Administrative and Household Account Model
- Sequence of data load into Education Cloud instance.
- Consideration of installing education cloud when person account is enabled.
- Frequency of updates for education cloud managed package.
- TDTM Framework
- Importance of user managed and namespace field.
- Best practices to include own trigger in TDTM Framework
- Ways to handle former names in EDA
- Automation around addresses with Administrative and Household Account Model
- Use case to choose best product (Pardot vs. Marketing Cloud). Understanding the basic features and their differences is important for this one.
- Open Source solutions around HEDA
- Consideration when loading bulk data
- Data Skew
- Ownership Skew
- Questions on creating reports
- Understanding of data model and their relationship is important
- Once you have the relationship in mind, it will be easier for you to decide whether to create a new report type or use the existing one.
- Community Cloud Implementation strategies
- Sharing consideration
- License Type
- Use case to choose the correct API strategy –
- REST
- SOAP
- Streaming
- Salesforce Connect
- Roles and Responsibilities of CoE (Center of Excellence)
- Comparison between different sandbox types
Hope this will help you to clear the certification. Best of luck.
- Importance of user managed and namespace field.
- Best practices to include own trigger in TDTM Framework
- Data Skew
- Ownership Skew
- Understanding of data model and their relationship is important
- Once you have the relationship in mind, it will be easier for you to decide whether to create a new report type or use the existing one.
- Sharing consideration
- License Type
- REST
- SOAP
- Streaming
- Salesforce Connect
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Salesforce Education-Cloud-Consultant Exam