Master the Salesforce Data Cloud Consultant Certification
Your Path to Becoming a Certified Salesforce Data Cloud Consultant Starts Here!
Are you ready to accelerate your Salesforce career and become a Salesforce Data Cloud Consultant? This comprehensive preparation course is designed to help you master the skills, knowledge, and strategies needed to pass the certification exam with confidence.
Exam Outline
The Salesforce Data Cloud Consultant exam measures a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the following objectives. Candidates should have knowledge and expertise in each of the areas below.
Data Cloud Overview: 18%
- Describe Data Cloud’s function, key terminology, and business value.
- Identify typical use cases for Data Cloud.
- Articulate how Data Cloud works and its dependencies.
- Describe and apply the principles of data ethics.
Data Cloud Setup and Administration: 12%
- Apply Data Cloud permissions, permission sets, and org-wide settings.
- Describe and configure the available data stream types and data bundles.
- Identify use cases for data spaces and create data spaces based on requirements.
- Manage and administer Data Cloud using reports, dashboards, flows, packaging, and data kits.
- Diagnose and explore data using Data Explorer, Profile Explorer, and APIs.
Data Ingestion and Modeling: 20%
- Identify the different transformation capabilities within Data Cloud.
- Describe processes and considerations for data ingestion from different sources into Data Cloud.
- Define, map, and model data using best practices and aligning to requirements for identity resolution.
- Use available tools to inspect and validate ingested and modeled data.
Identity Resolution: 14%
- Describe matching and how its rule sets are applied.
- Reconcile data and describe how its rule sets are applied.
- Describe the results of identify resolution and use cases.
Segmentation and Insights: 18%
- Define basic concepts of segmentation and use cases.
- Identify scenarios for analyzing segment membership.
- Configure, refine, and maintain segments within Data Cloud.
- Identify and differentiate between calculated and streaming insights.
Act on Data: 18%
- Define activations and their basic use cases.
- Use attributes and related attributes.
- Identify and analyze timing dependencies affecting the Data Cloud lifecycle.
- Troubleshoot common problems with activations including accepted/rejected counts, errors, and not seeing related attributes.
- Use data actions and identify their requirements and intended use cases.
Who Is This Course For?
- Salesforce professionals looking to enhance their expertise in Salesforce Data Cloud.
- Data architects, consultants, and administrators aiming to refine their skills.
- Individuals preparing for the Salesforce Certified Data Cloud Consultant exam.
- Professionals seeking to improve data management, integration, and analytics within Salesforce.
- Beginners interested in specializing in data solutions and cloud technologies.
What you’ll learn
- They will learn all the topics from the Data Cloud Study guide and will be able to pass the exam
- They will see the practical implementation of Data Cloud
- They will have practice tests to test their knowledge.
- They will build mini projects to gain in depth and practical knowledge on Data Cloud.
Are there any course requirements or prerequisites?
- You should be familiar with out of the box features of salesforce.
- No Programming experience is needed to take this course.
- Willingness to learn and an internet connection is needed.
Who this course is for:
- Salesforce professionals looking to enhance their expertise in Salesforce Data Cloud.
- Data architects, consultants, and administrators aiming to refine their skills.
- Individuals preparing for the Salesforce Certified Data Cloud Consultant exam.
- Professionals seeking to improve data management, integration, and analytics within Salesforce.
- Beginners interested in specializing in data solutions and cloud technologies.
Introduction to the Course
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Introduction
Data Cloud Overview (18%)
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What Is Data Cloud and its Benefits?
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What are the use cases of Data Cloud
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Data Cloud Lifecycle
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Provisioning Data Cloud
Data Cloud Setup and Administration (12%)
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Overview of the Project
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Create New Yahoo Email Account
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Data Cloud Tenant Endpoint
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Load Data into Contact Object
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Overview of the Data Cloud App
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What is Data Stream
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How to Create New Data Stream?
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What is Data Normalization?
Data Ingestion and Modeling (20%)
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What are DSO, DLO and DMO (Data Source Object, Data lake Object and Data Model)
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What are Data Spaces?
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Data Explorer and Query Editor
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Create New Amazon S3 account to upload Reservation and Contact Records
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Upload Files in Amazon S3
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Create Connection between Amazon S3 and Data Cloud
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Create Data Stream to bring Reservation Data from Amazon S3
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Mapping of Guest DLO to Individual DMO
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Mapping Reservation DLO to Reservation DMO
Quiz
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Quiz
Identity Resolution (14%)
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Identity Resolution
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What Are Matching Rules?
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How to create Matching Rules
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What is Unified Individual and Unified Individual Link
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Ran the Identity Resolution Ruleset
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What is Consolidation Rate and How to calculate Consolidation rate ?
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What are Reconciliation Rules ?
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Ignore Empty Value
Quiz
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Quiz
Segmentation and Insights (18%)
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Calculated Insights and Streaming Insights
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How to create Calculated Insights
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Check Data Inside Calculated Insights using Data Explorer
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What are Segments ?
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How to Create Segment ?
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Segmentation Operators in Data Cloud
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Include and Exclude Segment
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Important point about insights
Quiz
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Quiz
Act on Data (18%)
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Activation and Activation Target
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How to create Activation and Activation Target ?
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File Sent to Amazon s3
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DLO to DLO transform
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Populate Contact DLO with Phone numbers
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Create New Target DLO
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DLO to DLO transform Part 1
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DLO to DLO transform Part 2
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Ingestion API
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How to Create Ingestion API
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How to create Connected App
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Postman Collection to Insert Data
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Check the Data Inside Data Lake Object
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Query API
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Data Cloud One
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Enable Value Suggestion
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Important Point
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Data Action and Data Action Target
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How to Create Data Action and Data Action Target ?
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Install Streaming Monitor
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Insert Record via Postman
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Create a Platform Triggered Flow
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Check the Streaming Monitor
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Data Cloud Permission Sets
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Important Point
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Right to Be Forgotten and Consent API
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New Updates to Data Cloud / Data 360
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Product Name and Permission Set updates for Data 360
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Data Governance: Classification and Tagging
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How to apply tags to Data Cloud Objects
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Propagate tags to Downstream Objects
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Demo Project : Restricting access to Data Cloud Objects to users (Policy Update)
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Demo Project: Restrict Access to Credit Card Information using Tags and Policy
Quiz
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Quiz
Practice Test
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Test Part 1
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Test Part 2
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