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Spring’15 Developer & Administrator Release / Maintenance Exam Notes

March 18, 2015 by Sunil K. 1 Comment

Spring 15 Release ExamHere are my Spring’15 Developer & Administrator Maintenance Exam Notes. The exam was relatively simple with just 6 questions for Developer and 7 questions for the administrator exam.

As per the maintenance announcement email the following were the topics for which one has to prepare.

Salesforce Certified Administrator–Spring ‘15 Release Exam

You will have 3 attempts to pass the exam, there are 7 questions, and the passing score is 72%. The exam objectives include:

  • Describe the Enhancements to Chatter
  • Describe the Duplicate Management Feature
  • Describe the Capabilities of the Lightning Process Builder
  • Describe the Manager Groups Feature
  • Describe the Capabilities of the Analytics Cloud
  • Describe the Enhancements to Reporting

Salesforce Certified Force.com Developer–Spring ‘15 Release Exam

You will have 3 attempts to pass the exam, there are 6 questions, and the passing score is 83%. The exam objectives include:

  • Describe the Capabilities of the Lightning Process Builder
  • Describe the Manager Groups Feature
  • Describe the Capabilities of the Analytics Cloud
  • Describe the Enhancements to Reporting

 Wave – Salesforce Analytics Cloud

Some of the important points to note about wave are

  • It helps you explore millions of data points
  • It can be accessed from mobile devices like iOs, Android etc
  • It can help you share findings & collaborate with others
  • The wave data
    • Can bring data from cross business process
    • Consume data from multiple sources including from Salesforce and external sources
    • It can consume – structured, semi structures or unstructured data
  • Wave can scale
  • Wave is the cloud

Chatter

Some of the important Chatter enhancements to note are:

  • Now administrators can create new task action in drop down menu on the Chatter feed
    • Can create task from a chatter feed
    • You can add this action from the publisher section
    • Check the actions that you can perform on existing chatter post
  • Chatter Questions to Case
    • Can escalate unresolved Chatter questions to cases
    • Can use Lightning Process Builder to create cases

Salesforce 1 reporting

  • Users can get the report notifications by subscribing on the report
  • Each user can subscribe up to 5 reports
  • There is a new Subscribe button on report
  • Users can subscribe to reports based on a notification criteria – the end users can set the conditions
  • Users can also schedule i.e. set timings of the notifications and how they get the notification (as of now they can NOT schedule for other users or groups)

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Lightening process Builder

  • New graphical process builder to Automate tasks
  • Administrators can now create entire process at one place instead of multiple rules
  • It eliminates the use of apex in some cases
  • More actions are available than a workflow rule
  • The action types supported by Lightning process builder are
    • Create a record
    • Post to chatter
  • Lightning Process Builder is not a replacement for approval process or validation rules. It however does almost all the actions (except outbound message) that is in workflow.

General enhancements

  • Publisher actions are now called “Quick actions”
  • Renaming of terminology in the setup area – “Actions in the Publisher”

Manager Groups

  • Users can share records up or down the management chain
  • Users can share Manager groups through manual sharing, sharing rules and apex managed sharing
  • Manager groups can NOT be added to other groups
  • You can enable Manager Groups from Organization-Wide Defaults
  • Users with only Salesforce and Chatter Licence type can be included (Portal licenses not allowed)

Import accounts and contacts

  • Import accounts and contacts from 16 sources is implemented

Duplicate management

  • Admins can identify delicate by defining “Matching rules”
  • User data.com technology (license not required)
  • Administrators can control when to save duplicates and when to reject by making “Duplicate rules”

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About Sunil K.

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Sunil is working with DhruvSoft (Silver Cloud Consulting Partner) since 2008 with experience in multiple SFDC projects and full cycle implementations. He offers services for Salesforce.com Implementation, Deployment, Review.

Specialties Salesforce.com Business Consultant, Salesforce.com Administrator and Force.com Developer. Salesforce.com Life cycle requirements analysis, business process definitions and streamlining, process mapping best practices implementations, CRM systems migrations to Salesforce.com, project planning, project management, developing design documents, agile methodology, Salesforce.com administration/configuration and customization, APEX/Visualforce, functional test scripts, end user/executive training, administrator training.

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  1. Sachin says

    June 24, 2015 at 8:19 pm

    Very nice blog. All important features consolidated in an easy way.
    You can also find the questions and answers for Salesforce Spring 2015 Release Maintenance Exam (401 – Developers) on the WordPress link – https://dijjay.wordpress.com/2015/06/24/spring-15-salesforce-developer-maintenance-exam/

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