Media Cloud Accredited Professional Exam Guide

About the Media Cloud Accredited Professional Exam
Audience Description: Media Cloud Accredited Professional
Purpose of this Exam Guide
About the Exam
Exam Outline
Recommended Training and Resources
Salesforce Certification Candidate Code of Conduct
Maintaining Your Salesforce Certification

About the Media Cloud Accredited Professional Exam

The Media Cloud Accredited Professional is designed for individuals with experience to plan, design, and implement business value to customers through Media Cloud. Planning, designing, and implementing business value requires knowledge across products, including but not limited to OmniStudio, Industries CPQ, Industries Order Management, Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Document Generation, Digital Commerce, Advertising Sales Management (ASM), and the Salesforce Platform.

This exam is for those who want to demonstrate their skills and knowledge in designing and implementing Media Cloud solutions that meet customer business requirements and contribute to long-term customer success.

Audience Description: Media Cloud Accredited Professional

Accredited Professional exams are intended for Salesforce Partners with access to the Partner Learning Camp training and Partner Community.

Typical job titles include roles that require a business consulting skillset, such as:

Consultants
Architects
Salesforce Industry Developer

The duties and responsibilities of these roles include:

Bridging business needs and technical implementations to realize business value for the customer
Overseeing and steering requirements gathering conversations
Identifying the role of third-party systems within a customer’s processes and data needs
Informing customers and implementation teams about best practices and considerations
Driving customer experience solutions via prioritized use cases and confirmed customer success criteria
Evaluating and confirming end-state solutions
Supporting

Purpose of this Exam Guide

This exam guide is designed to help you prepare for the Media Cloud Accredited Professional Exam. This guide provides information about the target audience, the recommended training and documentation, and a complete list of exam objectives. Salesforce highly recommends a combination of on-the-job experience and self-study to maximize your chances of passing the exam.

About the Exam

Here are details about the Media Cloud Accredited Professional exam.

Content: 60 multiple-choice/multiple-select questions
Time allotted to complete the exam: 75 minutes
Passing score: 66%
Version: Exam questions align to the Summer '24 release
Registration fee: US$150, JPY ¥20,000, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
Retake fee: US$150, JPY ¥20,000, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
Delivery options: Proctored exam delivered onsite at a testing center or in an online environment; find more information on scheduling an exam here.
References: No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam.
Prerequisites: None

This exam may contain up to five additional unscored questions to gather performance data. Unscored questions are randomly integrated and have no impact on your final exam result.

Exam Outline

The Media Cloud Accredited Professional exam measures a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the following objectives.

Discovery: 27%

1.1 Given technical and business needs of a customer, outline the technical scope for a SOW using the core capabilities of Media Cloud applications.
1.2 Given a set of use cases, identify the steps that map to Salesforce components leveraging the standard Media Cloud capabilities.
1.3 Given a third party system or list of systems, determine how the ecosystem within Media Cloud works with the third party system(s).
1.4 Given business needs of a customer, identify different business processes and outline encompassing system flows based on an existing environment
1.5 Given a set of business needs, identify various non-functional requirements for the Media Cloud Application.

Design: 53%

2.1 Given business requirements, determine how to design flows using Media Cloud ASM capabilities.
2.2 Given the business requirements, determine how to create the solution design utilizing industry best practices and Media Cloud capabilities.
2.3 Given a customer's product portfolio, recommend the appropriate product model definition and pricing methodology using Media Cloud ASM.
2.4 Given a set of requirement specifications, identify the objects needed and their relationships using Media Cloud Data Model.
2.5 Given a customer's sharing and security requirements, determine the appropriate Media Cloud ASM permission sets and permission set groups.
2.6 Given a scenario for ASM, identify the integration points and target systems to interoperate in the context of Media Cloud boundaries.
2.7 Given a set of existing business processes, identify the solution in Media Cloud and third party systems.
2.8 Given reporting requirements, identify the right reporting solution and data sources leveraging the set of possible solutions.
2.9 Given information about a customer's deployment environment and Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI/CD) approach, determine the appropriate strategy and tools for a Media Cloud deployment.

Implement: 20%

3.1 Given the identified Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI/CD) approach, determine how to support the development and deployment processes of the Media Cloud solution.
3.2 Given a set of requirements, create a strategy for data migration using the knowledge of the Media Cloud data model.
3.3 Given customer integration requirements within a media-specific context, determine the appropriate Media Cloud integration approach, such as Integration Procedures, Data Mappers, or Orchestration Plans, taking into consideration best practice approaches to authentication and error handling.
3.4 Given the sharing and security requirements, implement the sharing and security setting in the org to ensure the data is only accessible to the right person.
3.5 Based on the business non-functional requirements (NFRs), determine how to implement requirements, which meet the defined key performance indicators (KPIs) for the non-functional aspects based on best practices.

Recommended Training and Resources

As preparation for this exam, we recommend a combination of hands-on experience, training course completion, Trailhead Trails, and self-study in the areas listed in the Exam Outline section of this exam guide.

The self-study materials recommended for this exam include:

Media Cloud Curriculum

To review online documentation, tip sheets, and user guides, search for the topics listed in the Exam Outline section of this guide on Salesforce Help and study the information related to those topics.

Salesforce Certification Candidate Code of Conduct

At Salesforce, Trust is our #1 value. Protecting the security of Salesforce Certifications is up to all of us. As a participant in the Salesforce Certification Program, you’re required to review and accept the terms of the Salesforce Certification Program Agreement and Code of Conduct at the beginning of each exam.

Maintaining Your Salesforce Certification

We’re working hard to revamp the entire certification maintenance program, including the Accredited Professional (AP) program. At this time, you don’t need to take any action to maintain your AP certification status. We will share more details about the new maintenance plan when they’re available.

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Media Cloud Accredited Professional Exam Guide

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