Service Cloud Consultant
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Exam Overview
From the official exam guide
Questions
65
Duration
105 min
To Pass
67%
Pricing
$200 registration · $100 retake
Delivery
Online proctored or at a testing center
Experience
2+ years implementing Service Cloud
Prerequisites
Salesforce Certified Platform Administrator recommended
Exam Topics
Each topic section shows the topic weight, learning objectives, and links to study resources.
Industry Knowledge12%
Contact center KPIs and how to influence them, AHT versus FCR tradeoffs, CSAT and NPS measurement, business risk analysis, and contact center workforce management concepts.
- 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.
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Implementation Strategies12%
Consulting engagement best practices, discovery and requirements gathering, deployment and training strategies, data migration planning, data quality, governance, and large data volume considerations.
- 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.
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Service Cloud Solution Design15%
Service console architecture and customization, agent and customer experience design, page layouts and record types for cases, security model for service data, and solution trade-off analysis.
- 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.
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Knowledge Management12%
KCS methodology and article lifecycle, knowledge base configuration, data categories and visibility, article record types, search optimization, and Knowledge use in self-service and AI grounding.
- 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.
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Intake and Interaction Channels13%
Web-to-Case, Email-to-Case, On-Demand Email-to-Case, Omni-Channel routing modes, Service Cloud Voice and telephony, messaging and chat channels, AI agents and Agentforce for Service, Einstein Bots, and channel selection trade-offs.
- 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.
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Case Management13%
Case lifecycle from intake to closure, Web-to-Case and Email-to-Case configuration, assignment and escalation rules, case teams, entitlements and milestones, service contracts, assets, business hours, SLA design, and case automation.
- 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.
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Contact Center Analytics13%
Report types for case data, summary and matrix report formats, custom report types, dashboard design for supervisor visibility, queue depth monitoring, Omni-Channel Supervisor, CSAT and handle time reporting, and Service Intelligence dashboards.
- Given a scenario, develop reports and dashboards in Salesforce to provide relevant information to different stakeholders.
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Integrations10%
CTI and Open CTI for telephony, third-party telephony versus native Service Cloud Voice, API types and use cases for external system connectivity, AppExchange solutions for service operations, and middleware patterns.
- Explain the use cases and considerations for core Service Cloud integrations, including third-party solutions and connections to external sources of data.
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