Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant Exam Guide

About the Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant Exam
Audience Description: Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant
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 Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant Exam

The Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant Exam is designed for professionals who have experience implementing Salesforce Service Cloud solutions. The Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant is able to gather business requirements that meet customer objectives. They can translate the requirements to design, implement, and support maintainable and scalable solutions.

Audience Description: Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant

A Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant designs and implements solutions that support business processes and requirements using Service Cloud. This professional has customer support knowledge and expertise implementing Salesforce.

Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultants are interested in demonstrating their expertise as cloud computing implementation consultants with a specialty in the customer support domain.

The Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant typically has 2 to 5 years of professional experience and has developed the knowledge, skills, and abilities outlined below.

Knowledge

How and when to include AI agents (Agentforce) in the customer service business processes
Customer support management processes, workflows
Organization business unit processes (tech vs. customer support)
Knowledge-Centered Support (KCS)
Incident management
Common metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) (for example, average handling time, deflection)
Industry trends (for example, artificial intelligence, generative AI, Agentforce agents, data issues)
Intake channels
Automation practices for service efficiencies
Data migration, management, data availability, security, and quality

Skills

Highlight the impact of the Service Cloud solution using analytical means.
Build and apply entitlements and milestones, service-level agreements (SLAs).
Build end-to-end case management processes.
Design the service rep experience in Service Console (layouts, dynamic forms, record pages).
Recommend contact models/channels (Bot, Embedded Chat, Telephony, Messaging in App and Web, Social Media, Slack).
Understand web-to-case, tickets for support team, Experience Cloud sites, and self-service.
Build and utilize case processing (routing, auto-response, queues).
Set up and configure OmniChannel.

Abilities

Demonstrate foundational understanding of analytics and dashboards.
Gather requirements.
Prioritize and identify the correct solution.
Determine and explain benefits and limitations of standard solutions when compared to custom solutions.
Manage stakeholders.
Manage implementation scope.
Use telephony, SMS, and Service Cloud Voice.
Understand when to use declarative solutions.

Purpose of This Exam Guide

This exam guide is designed to help you prepare for the Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant 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 Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant Exam.

Content: 60 multiple-choice questions and up to five unscored questions
Time allotted to complete the exam: 105 minutes
Passing score: English version 78%; Japanese version 67%
Version: Exam questions align to the Summer ’25 Release.
Registration fee: US$200, JPY¥30,000, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
Retake fee: US$100, JPY¥30,000, 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.
Prerequisite: Salesforce Platform Administrator Certification

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 Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant Exam measures a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the following objectives.

Industry Knowledge: 12%

Explain the factors that influence key Contact Center metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs).
Determine the risks, benefits, and business challenges of meeting a client's desired outcome.

Implementation Strategies: 12%

Given a scenario, determine how to participate in a successful consulting engagement.
Given a scenario, recommend appropriate Service Cloud deployment and training strategies.
Explain the considerations and implications for data migration, data quality, data governance, and large data volumes.

Service Cloud Solution Design: 15%

Given a scenario, analyze customer requirements to determine an appropriate solution design considering capabilities, limitations, and design trade-offs for the service rep experience.
Given a scenario, analyze customer requirements to determine an appropriate solution design considering capabilities, limitations, and design trade-offs for the customer experience.
Given a set of customer data security and compliance requirements, determine a successful design to secure the data.

Knowledge Management: 12%

Explain the Knowledge article lifecycle, Knowledge Centered Service (KCS), and Salesforce Knowledge Management configuration.
Given a set of requirements, determine how to configure Knowledge to deliver service support and self-service processes.

Intake and Interaction Channels: 13%

Given business process requirements, recommend the appropriate approach to intake channels and their design.
Given a set of business goals, discuss the use cases and functionality for proposed interaction channels.
Assess the design considerations and best practices when configuring an interaction channel solution.
Given a set of business requirements, recommend an appropriate use for AI agents in the customer service process.
Explain agentic service capabilities, use cases, and configuration processes.

Case Management: 13%

Given a set of requirements or KPIs, design a case management solution from creation to closure.
Given a set of requirements, explain how case deflection strategies are delivered in Experience Cloud sites, Agentforce, and Knowledge.
Explain the capabilities, use cases, and how to configure service entitlements, milestones, assets, business hours, and service-level agreements (SLAs).
Differentiate the use cases and capabilities of Service Cloud automation.

Contact Center Analytics: 13%

Given a scenario, develop reports and dashboards in Salesforce to provide relevant information to different stakeholders.

Integrations: 10%

Explain the use cases and considerations for core Service Cloud integrations, including third-party solutions and connections to external sources of data.

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:

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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

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Maintaining Your Salesforce Certification

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