ED-Con-101 Salesforce Certified Education Cloud Consultant Practice Questions
Prepare for ED-Con-101 with more than an answer.
- Exam fee
- $200 USD
- Level
- Consultant (Specialty)
- Valid for
- Release-based maintenance required (Spring, Summer, Winter releases)
Domains covered on the exam 6
- Domain Expertise18%
- Education Cloud Configuration22%
- Implementation Strategies and Best Practices18%
- Solution Design19%
- Integration and Data Management16%
- Analytics7%
- 1
To support a complex student advising process, a university needs to integrate data from their Student Information System (SIS) into Salesforce. The data includes student grades, course history, and financial aid status. This data needs to be viewable by advisors in Salesforce in real-time but does not need to be stored in Salesforce due to storage constraints and data residency policies. Which integration strategy should the consultant recommend?
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Correct answer: C
Salesforce Connect allows you to view and search data stored outside Salesforce (like in an SIS) without copying it into the org. This meets the requirements for real-time visibility and avoiding data storage within Salesforce.
- 2
A college is implementing a new alumni portal using Experience Cloud. They want to ensure that alumni can only see and edit their own profile data and cannot access the data of other alumni unless they are in a specific shared group. Which sharing mechanism is essential to configure for this external user security requirement?
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Correct answer: A
For high-volume community users (like alumni on Customer Community licenses), Sharing Sets are used to grant access to records associated with their Contact or Account. This provides a scalable way to ensure users only see their own data.
- 3
While configuring Student Success Hub, a consultant needs to set up a visual tool that allows advisors and students to collaborate on degree planning, view course requirements, and track progress toward graduation. Which specific feature should be configured?
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Correct answer: D
Pathways is the feature in Student Success Hub designed specifically for degree planning. It provides a visual interface for students and advisors to see required courses, plan future terms, and track progress.
- 4
A university's recruitment team wants to implement a solution to manage the entire lifecycle of prospective students from the initial inquiry to the final application decision. They require a dedicated console that allows reviewers to evaluate applications, view supporting documents, and submit admissions decisions within a unified interface. Which Education Cloud solution should the consultant recommend?
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Correct answer: B
Admissions Connect is the specific Education Cloud product designed for recruiting and admissions. It provides the Admissions Connect Console and Reviewer Console to streamline application review and decision-making.
- 5
A large university is preparing for a new academic year and needs to import 50,000 new student records into their Education Data Architecture (EDA) environment. They are concerned about potential performance issues and Apex CPU time limit errors during the import process due to the heavy logic in the TDTM trigger handlers. What is the recommended best practice to optimize this bulk data load?
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Correct answer: D
In EDA, Table-Driven Trigger Management (TDTM) controls trigger execution. During large data loads, the overhead of these triggers can cause performance issues. The best practice is to analyze which handlers are necessary and temporarily disable non-essential ones (or all, if data is pre-validated) to speed up the load and avoid limits.
- 6
A consultant is designing an architecture for a K-12 school district. The district needs to track student attendance, behavior incidents, and family relationships comprehensively. They specifically require a data model that supports 'Attendance Events' and 'Behavior Responses' out of the box. Which product should the consultant select?
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Correct answer: B
The K-12 Architecture Kit is specifically built for K-12 needs and sits on top of the Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP). It includes specific objects for Attendance Events, Behavior Involvement, and Behavior Responses, which are not standard in the base EDA model.
