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Education Cloud Consultant

Education Cloud Consultant

DineshYadav.com • Prospect, CT, US
16 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

About the Salesforce Certified Education Cloud Consultant Exam

The Salesforce Education Cloud Consultant credential is designed for consultants who have experience implementing Salesforce Education Cloud solutions in a customer-facing role.

  • Content : 60 scored, multiple-choice / multiple-select questions and up to 5 non-scored questions
  • Time allotted to complete the exam : 105 minutes
  • Passing score : 67% (41 out of 60 questions)
  • Registration fee : USD 200, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
  • Retake fee : USD 100, plus applicable taxes as required per local law

Domain Expertise : 18% (11 Questions)

  • Determine the solution set that satisfies customer requirements (marketing and engagement, recruitment and admissions, student experience, and advancement and alumni relations).
  • Explain the Education Cloud solution for K-12 customers.

    • Education Cloud Configuration : 22% (13 Questions)

  • Discuss the capabilities and considerations of Education Cloud, including compatibility with other Salesforce products and features.
  • Install and configure Education Cloud.

    • Implementation Strategies and Best Practices : 18% (11 Questions)

  • Facilitate a successful implementation (plan, gather requirements, design, build, test, document, deploy, and optimize).
  • Illustrate governance, change management, staffing, implementation strategies, deployment considerations, and adoption best practices including community resources for long-term solution success.

    • Solution Design : 19% (11 Questions)

  • Evaluate the similarities, differences, and relationships between Education Cloud account model considerations and standard Salesforce Account-Contact data models.
  • Design an appropriate and scalable solution for education customers.
  • Locate community and open-source solutions and resources.
  • Decide when to use Education Cloud, other Salesforce solutions, community open source solutions, and third-party applications.

    • Integration and Data Management : 16% (10 Questions)

  • Evaluate integration considerations for connecting systems in an Education Cloud implementation.

    • Analytics : 7% (4 Questions)

  • Distinguish between reporting solutions in Education Cloud.
  • Demonstrate when a data analytics solution is appropriate.

    • Salesforce Certified Education Cloud Consultant Certification Exam Trailmix

    5.1 Domain Expertise : 18%

  • Education Cloud : Set of solutions and products to empower education institutions with the technology needed to manage the entire K-20 student lifecycle
  • Admissions Connect is a recruiting and admissions tool that streamlines application review, drives applicant engagement and facilitates collaboration across team
  • Both Pardot and Marketing Cloud can be used for

    • Email Campaigns

  • Landing Pages
  • Basic Forms
  • Pardot vs Marketing Cloud

    • Pardot

    Marketing Cloud

    Lead Scoring & Distribution Overall Brand Journeys & Messaging

    Lead Scoring Transactional messages

    Lead Distribution Promotional Messages

    Sales Alert Web Behavior Tracking

    Social Ads

    Pardot Marketing Cloud

    Lead Scoring & Distribution Overall Brand Journeys & Messaging Lead Scoring Transactional messages Lead Distribution Promotional Messages Sales Alert Web Behavior Tracking Sales Cloud Feature Mobile Social Listening Social Ads Pardot vs Marketing Cloud

  • Salesforce Engage (a Pardot add-on) is designed to align sales and marketing teams
  • Key Features of Salesforce Engage

    • Engage Campaigns : Launch 1 : 1 or 1 : many campaigns directly from Salesforce using marketing-approved content

  • Engage Alerts : View real-time prospect activity in a card-based column view
  • Engage Reports : Analyze lead / contact interactions with Engage Campaigns
  • Engage for Gmail and Outlook : Send trackable emails directly from Gmail and Outlook
  • K-12 Architecture Kit is a single architecture for schools to collaborate around 360-degree views of students' needs
  • Education Data Architecture (EDA) is a data architecture designed for educational institutions
  • Standard Objects

    • Account

  • Contact
  • Lead
  • Case
  • Key EDA Objects

    • Object

    Description

    Address Address information for an Account or Contact. Allows for multiple and seasonal addresses

    Application Track information about a prospective student's application to your institution, from submittal through decision

    Test An instance of a student taking a test

    Test Score The score on a section of a specific test or a composite score

    Term A period of the academic year when your institution is in session

    Course Academic course offered by a Department or School

    Course Offering Joins a Course and a Term to store information about a specific occurrence of a Course

    Course Connection Connection between a Contact (student or faculty) and a Course Offering

    Program Enrollments Track a contact's connection to an academic program

    Time Block The specific Time Block associated with this Course Offering

    Term Grade Stores student grades for a specific grading period

    Behavior Involvement Stores information about the people involved in a Case that represents a behavior event

    Behavior Response Stores information about the response to a behavior event

    Program Plan Links Courses to an Academic Program

    Attendance Event Stores information about a student's attendance

    Relationships The relationship between two Contacts

    Affiliations The relationship between a Contact and an Organization

    Attribute A characteristic of or a credential held by the associated Contact

    Trigger Handler Stores which classes to run in response to DML

    Object Description

    Address Address information for an Account or Contact...

  • Household Account – Multiple Contacts per Account
  • Relationship – Reciprocal Method setting

    • List

  • Value Inversion
  • Table-Driven Trigger Management (TDTM)
  • The EDA Readiness Initiative on AppExchange

    • Self-certification criteria for EDA Ready

  • The Salesforce.org Open Source Commons Program
  • Salesforce.org Success Services
  • The Salesforce Pro Bono Program
  • Recommended Data Import sequence
  • Data import steps including School Information, Curriculum Information, Student Information, Suspect (Prospect / Lead)
  • Salesforce.org Elevate and Elevate Giving Pages
  • Accounting Subledger and related concepts

    • 5.3 Implementation Strategies and Best Practices : 18%

  • Phased approach to implementation
  • Focus on your data
  • 5 Reasons Why You Need Good Governance
  • Compliance
  • Cost Saving
  • Delivery
  • Innovation
  • Relationships
  • Governance operating models

    • Centralized

  • Decentralized
  • Hybrid
  • Application Lifecycle Management

    • Plan Release

  • Develop
  • Test
  • Build Release
  • Test Release
  • Release
  • Change Set Development Model
  • Org Development Model
  • Package Development Model
  • Notes on Salesforce.org release schedules
  • Advisor Link is now Student Success Hub for Higher Education
  • Student Success Hub is a managed package built on EDA to support the whole student
  • Student Portal requires a Customer Community Plus license
  • Latest version of EDA for higher ed or K-12 Architecture Kit
  • Full access to standard objects and Lightning Experience
  • Community licenses and enterprise edition considerations
  • Success Teams and Early alerts for student support
  • Pathways is a degree planning tool

    • 5.5 Integration and Data Management : 16%

  • Three types of Data Skew

    • Account Data Skew

  • Ownership Skew
  • Lookup Skew
  • Bulk Queries limitations
  • Truncating a custom object
  • Data management steps and optimization

    • Results are pushed to the users for review

    Users pull results to answer questions

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