Salesforce Data Cloud Certification Guide

You can get Data Cloud certified in two weeks. The time to start learning is now.

This year at Dreamforce Salesforce announced Agentforce: a new way of creating autonomous agents within CRM to help organizations create personalized experiences for their customers faster than ever before. However, the value of Agentforce cannot be fully realized without relevant data to properly ground each experience in facts rather than fiction. Salesforce Data Cloud provides that grounding and offers a new paradigm of operational data management for Salesforce, and its Certified Data Cloud Consultant credential is the key for individuals to demonstrate their knowledge and synthesis of its capabilities and business value.

Basically, if you want to maintain relevant and competitive in the CRM Consulting world, Data Cloud is a must-have certification, and my goal is to help you get it. This article contains a fast path for anyone looking to learn about Data Cloud, its place in the Salesforce ecosystem, and the value that it brings to customers.

Week 1: Attend a Certification Prep Cohort - 6 Hours

Register here: https://sfdc.co/dcpartnercertprep

Almost every week, Salesforce is offering its consulting partners live webinars that teach the basics of Salesforce Data Cloud. Learn its capabilities directly from experts who not only demonstrate the platform, but provide you with exam preparation at every step of the way.

Each session is packed with areas you'll encounter on the exam, sample questions that help test you on the concepts, and live Q&A to assist you whenever you need it.

PLUS: Registered Salesforce consulting partners that attend a certification prep cohort qualify to receive a free voucher to take the Data Cloud certification exam while supplies last.*

If you missed a session, can't make a live event, or simply want to watch previous sessions, you can catch previous recordings at https://sfdc.co/DCCertPrep

Additional: Unlock Your Data with Data cloud Trailmix on Trailhead

This extensive Trailmix on Salesforce's Trailhead platform builds on the concepts learned in the 6 hour certification prep cohort. Learn at your own pace the basic principles of data management within Data Cloud and how it applies to customer use cases.

Week 2: Go Hands-on & Get Certified

Hands-on exercises: https://sfdc.co/data-cloud-handson

Our partner-exclusive training includes opportunities for you to configure Data Cloud in a 30-day trial version of a real production org. Each course takes you through the various stages of ingesting and prepping data, harmonizing it to a uniform data model, unifying profiles to create a single view of the customer, and then taking action on your data in various ways. You'll even learn some basic troubleshooting and administration along the way.

Consultants that complete the hands-on training are 40% more likely to pass the exam.

Get the Consultant Exam Guide: https://sfdc.co/data-cloud-consultant-guide

Week 3: Get Ready for Implementations

Advanced Data Cloud Curriculum: https://sfdc.co/data-cloud-advanced

The Advanced Data Cloud Curriculum contains self-guided courses focused on topics and best practices related to Data Cloud Discovery, Use Cases, Implementation Considerations, and Planning and Estimation.

Implementation Readiness Webinars: https://sfdc.co/dcpartnerimplementready

Partners can get recognized as being "Implementation Ready" by attending this 4-hour webinar, which focuses on deeper best practices related to all aspects of platform implementation including identification of ideal use cases, ingestion and data analysis, harmonization and data modeling, identity resolution, acting on your data and getting value, licenses, credit consumption and utilization, with live support and answers to any questions by our expert team.

Week 4: Accelerate your Practice

Implementation Toolkit: https://sfdc.co/DCImpToolkit

Our Implementation Toolkits provide valuable accelerators for practices looking to get started with Data Cloud, offering valuable free resources like project plans, discovery questionnaires, estimation tools, and more.

Solution Kits: https://sfdc.co/DCSolutionKits

Our Solution Kits offer advanced points of view and best practices on a variety of considerations related to Data Cloud, including Credit Consumption, Data Modeling, and more.

Week 5 and Beyond: Connect, Maintain, & Grow

Slack & Partner Community: Keep the conversation going with our team as you begin your implementations by connecting across a variety of channels. Partners are welcome to join our Slack (through a private invitation link) and collaborate in the Data Cloud Partner Community as well. Slack invitations can be found within the Partner Learning Camp and Partner Community.

Weekly Office Hours: Partners involved in implementations are encouraged to meet up with our team every Wednesday at 8AM PT where partners can get advice on best practices and engage in general discussion with regards to their implementations in Data Cloud. Invitations are private but can be found within the Partner Community and Partner Learning Camp.

Data Cloud Digest: https://sfdc.co/dcdigest

Keeping up to date with a platform moving as fast as Data Cloud is tough, so every few weeks we post a digest of all the updates occurring in the Data Cloud world, including recaps of the latest features, upcoming enablement opportunities, important videos, and the latest resources and news applicable to partners.

*Vouchers are available while supplies last and are only available to registered Salesforce partners. Vouchers will be distributed to partners who have not yet passed the Data Cloud Certified Consultant exam. Only one voucher will be distributed per consultant. Partners must participate in a Data Cloud certification cohort session in order to qualify.