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Today I added most important color to my certification journey. As of May 1st 2013, I am a Salesforce Certified Sales Cloud Consultant. After the straight forward questions and where is what in the Administration and Advance Administration exams, Sales Cloud Consultant examination is more like how are you going to achieve it. This is a 60 question exam with 105 minutes allowed to complete and a 73% is passing. This was the exam that took a lot of time, since the questions are tricky. Few helpful hints that will help you crack this exam. 1. Read. Read. Read. Read the questions carefully, very carefully. There were instances were most answers are straight forward wrong and some answers are completely confusing. Select two options and I thought all four correct. 2. Prepare throughly. Don't look for any documentation, dumps or any other material online or offline. Don't go for the questions captured in a word document that was shared to someone you know by someone h...

Lead Conversion is a process in Sales Cloud that helps users convert leads into related accounts and open new opportunities. This is useful in preventing rework of transferring data from lead fields to Account fields. The entire process of Copy Paste is done with a single touch of button and the data is transferred. However, on business end, the customer has just closed the deal and now the company has earned an Account  Salesforce allows you to streamline the business processes by field mapping. We can map custom fields on Lead object to Custom Fields on Contact, Opportunity or Account object using field mapping on Lead setup. However, there are times when we need to extend the standard the Convert functionality for a more complex purposes for e.g., 1. Transferring some related object from lead to Account, Opportunity or Contact. 2. Throwing an Error if the Opportunity is not created on Conversation In this example I am going to create a trigger ...