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Salesforce Winter 17 Admin Maintenance Exam



As I had hoped, I was able to clear the Winter 17 maintenance exam as well for Salesforce Administrators yesterday. Now I am current and up to date with respect to this certification at least.
As with the previous one, i wanted to share some pointers to folks who will be taking this exam soon -

1.  With winter 17, we can now create quotes under opportunities in Lightning experience. Please read about this here -  https://releasenotes.docs.salesforce.com/en-us/winter17/release-notes/rn_sales_features_core_oppty_add_quotes.htm

2. The Napili template for communities is all the more powerful with new features like ability to show reports/dashboard components, field level help is visible to community users, sales path for leads and opportunities etc. Read about the enhanced community features here - https://releasenotes.docs.salesforce.com/en-us/winter17/release-notes/rn_networks_community_templates.htm

3. Customizable Campaign Influence -  It is now possible to create custom campaign influence models to distribute the amount from opportunity across all campaigns that influenced it. Read about this here - https://releasenotes.docs.salesforce.com/en-us/winter17/release-notes/rn_sales_features_core_campaign_influence2_setup.htm

4. Chatter feed enhancements - now chatter feed comments are live in Lightning Experience, meaning they refresh by themselves when there is a new comment! Also other key enhancements include ability to play videos directly from the feed, ability to edit posts etc. Read about these here - https://releasenotes.docs.salesforce.com/en-us/winter17/release-notes/rn_chatter_feeds.htm

These are the questions i remember from the test. I hope you find it useful!

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