The Salesforce Catalyst Specialist exam preparation guide is designed to provide candidates with necessary information about the Catalyst Specialist exam. It includes exam summary, sample questions, practice test, objectives and ways to interpret the exam objectives to enable candidates to assess the types of questions-answers that may be asked during the Salesforce Certified Catalyst Specialist exam.
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Salesforce Catalyst Specialist Exam Summary:
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Exam Name
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Salesforce Catalyst Specialist |
| Exam Code | Catalyst Specialist |
| Exam Price |
Registration fee: USD 200 Retake fee: USD 100 |
| Duration | 90 minutes |
| Number of Questions | 45 |
| Passing Score | 70% |
| Recommended Training / Books | Driving Successful Business Outcomes with Catalyst |
| Schedule Exam | Kryterion Webassessor |
| Sample Questions | Salesforce Catalyst Specialist Sample Questions |
| Recommended Practice | Salesforce Certified Catalyst Specialist Practice Test |
Salesforce Catalyst Specialist Syllabus:
| Section | Objectives | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Apply Catalyst principles |
- Classify given activities, concepts, or assets as belonging to Catalyst Methodology, Catalyst Knowledge Hub (KH), Catalyst service offering. - Describe the terms of use and lifecycle of Catalyst itself. - Explain the defining characteristics and principles of Catalyst. - Identify Catalyst roles given engagement responsibilities. |
9% |
| Leverage Catalyst Knowledge Hub |
- Explain the structure and types of Catalyst-related content in Knowledge Hub: assets/articles, playbooks and their steps, delivery approaches and their steps. - Explain the types of assets in Knowledge Hub: standards, best practices, examples, tools, and templates. - Explain the difference between playbooks and delivery approaches and select the right one for a given purpose. |
7% |
| Architect to Catalyst Principles |
- Articulate the role architecture plays in aligning business and technology. - Organize business environment drivers, organizational vision, and strategic goals, objectives, KPIs, and initiatives into a logical network of influences. - Analyze the value of each principle of architecting with Catalyst for projects and engagements. - Articulate the role of integration architecture in realizing end-to-end business processes. - Create a backlog of architectural significance to capture engagement scope in a way that is conducive to architecting in a Catalyst context. - Critique too narrow engagement scope definitions and objections to their widening. - Architect to maximize reuse and reuse potential without neglecting short-term objectives. - Analyze the advantages that architecting on top of a digital platform brings to projects. - Apply an API-led approach to connectivity on the conceptual and logical level, making idiomatic use of interaction types and patterns. - Architect in the context of projects to support the productization of APIs. - Architect to achieve both short-term outcomes and long-term goals, in a balanced way. |
27% |
| Realize business outcomes with a Catalyst approach |
- Articulate key terminology, business and platform capability benefits, common mistakes when defining business outcomes, the Catalyst Business Outcome Playbook. - Discover and define business outcomes. - Align business outcomes with stakeholders. - Align engagement scope with stakeholders. - Measure and track business outcomes. |
11% |
| Implement a Center for Enablement (C4E) |
- Describe what C4E is and explain its value proposition. - Explain the difference between C4E and Center of Excellence (CoE). - Describe the C4E organizational models. - Describe the components of building a C4E. - Explain the concepts of C4E foundational assets. - Explain the importance and process of promoting a C4E. - Explain activities to maintain an operational and relevant C4E. |
15% |
| Position and reframe with Catalyst methodology |
- Position the benefits of a Catalyst approach to stakeholders. - Reframe the value of a Catalyst approach when the team is diverging from a Catalyst approach. - Resolve common objections to a Catalyst approach. |
11% |
| Design composable solutions |
- Describe the principles and properties of composability. - Identify the generic patterns, interaction types, and interaction patterns on the conceptual and logical levels. - Apply these generic patterns in a catalyst context to the most common integration architectural styles and designs such as API-led. EDA, Asynchronous, Batch, ETL, Multi-way synchronization, etc. - Address the cross-cutting concerns such as idempotency, transactionality, reliability, etc., in the solution design adhering to Catalyst principles. - Identify between composability and low coupling, high cohesion as well as the benefits and implications of DDD and Bounded Contexts. - Apply principles of API-led approach to connectivity to common integration patterns beyond simple RESTful APIs, incl. application integration scenarios, EDAs, batch, etc. - Articulate the benefits of Automation and Intelligently identify the use cases that benefit from it. |
20% |