Salesforce Certified Data 360 (Data Cloud) Consultant Practice Test

What this exam covers

This course prepares experienced consultants for the Salesforce Certified Data 360 Consultant exam — designed for professionals who implement and advise on Data 360 and other enterprise data platforms in customer-facing roles. Ideal candidates bring backgrounds in Salesforce administration, business analysis, architecture, solutioning, or technical marketing, and have hands-on experience with data strategy, data modeling, and building solutions across Salesforce products.

The exam covers six domains:

• Solution Positioning — key terminology, business value, data ethics and governance, and Data 360's foundational role in generative and predictive AI (14%)
• Data 360 Setup and Administration — permissions, governance configuration, development lifecycle tooling, and troubleshooting (13%)
• Data Source Connection and Ingestion — transformation capabilities, ingestion processes, and data collaboration including Zero-Copy (18%)
• Harmonization and Unification — identity resolution, unification use cases, and data modeling in Data 360 (17%)
• Data Enhancements, Sharing, and Analysis — building insights, reporting and dashboards, AI tooling, and referencing Data 360 from external systems (18%)
• Data Activations and Utilization — segmentation, managing and publishing activations, acting on data, and using Data 360 in Salesforce flows (20%)

Recommended experience includes implementing Data 360 across multiple use cases with a strong grasp of its capabilities and terminology.