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Salesforce Advanced Administrator exam sections

Below are all the sections, which will be tested during the exam.

A candidate should have a hands-on experience and deep understanding of the following areas.

Security and Access: 20%

• Given a scenario, determine the implications to record and field data access (Sharing model, controlled by parent, grant access by hierarchies, dashboard and report folders access, email folder access, Territory Management).
• Compare and contrast the capabilities of custom profiles, permission sets, and delegated administration.
• Given a scenario determine the implications of user authentication.
• Compare and contrast the capabilities of a complex business model (Person accounts, Account, Contacts, and Contact to multiple Accounts).

Objects and Applications: 19%

• Given a scenario, determine the appropriate solution to enhance or extend objects (master-detail, lookup, junction object, related list, record type, schema builder, and object creator).
• Given a scenario, determine the appropriate solution to enhance or extend the UI/UX with applications (app manager, lightning app builder, dynamic forms, standard lightning page components, console, and lightning page analyze button).

Auditing and Monitoring: 10%

• Given a scenario, determine the appropriate tools for monitoring and troubleshooting system activity (debug log, set up audit trail).
• Explain how to ensure sensitive data is setup to support a business/legal/compliance use case in production and sandbox environments.
• Explain how to review and troubleshoot security settings including pending updates that may change system access.

Cloud Applications: 11%

• Describe the features of Salesforce which enable Sales users to conduct the sale process, including products, price books, schedules, orders, and quotes.
• Distinguish and understand the implications and capabilities of Forecasting and Territory Management.
• Explain how to create and maintain Salesforce Knowledge (article record types, data categories).Explain how to create and maintain service entitlements and entitlement processes.
• Describe the features of Salesforce which enable interaction between support agents and customers (Chat, Case Feed, Service Cloud Console, Experience Cloud sites, Omni-Channel).
• Given a scenario, understand the standard Salesforce suite of products that enable extending the core platform.

Data and Analytics Management: 13%

• Explain the tools and best practices for assessing, improving and enriching data quality (data types, validation, managing duplicates, enriching, archiving).
• Given a scenario, determine the appropriate analytic tools to meet complex reporting requirements (custom report types, reporting snapshots, complex charting, custom summary formulas, bucketing, joined reports, cross filters, dynamic dashboards, dashboard filters).
• Understand methods to connect to, access, backup/restore, or archive data outside of the Salesforce platform (big objects, data warehouse, external objects, data lakes, third-party solutions, and Salesforce Connect).
• Given a scenario, identify the appropriate tools and methods for importing data into Salesforce (data import wizard, data loader, and external ID).

Environment Management and Deployment: 7%

• Describe the options available to move metadata between environments (change sets, sandboxes, and AppExchange – managed/unmanaged).
• Describe the capabilities and best practices for using change sets to move metadata between environments.

Process Automation: 20%

• Given a complex scenario, determine the solution using the best tool, or combination of tools to solve a business problem.
• Given a scenario identify the appropriate tool or method for troubleshooting declarative automation.
• Given a scenario, explain the capabilities and limitations of each declarative automation tool.
• Understand the implications of the order of execution when using automation tools.

For the reference: Check Salesforce official Exam Guide.