Marketing Cloud Engagement Basics22% of the exam
Salesforce Help, release notes and Trailhead resources
Where to get help and training for Marketing Cloud Engagement: logging support cases on Salesforce Help, the release schedule and its release notes, webinars and email sign-up, and the Trailhead credential page and trailmix, with the Trailblazer Community now read-only.
Identify different Salesforce curated resources for assistance, training, and support when using Marketing Cloud Engagement.
~6 min read · 5 practice questions ·
What the exam expects
- Choose the right resource for a need: a support case, release information, product ideas or exam training.
- Describe how a Marketing Cloud user logs a support case on Salesforce Help.
- Recall the release types and their cadence, and when release notes and webinars appear.
- Explain how non-admins get release emails, and where Salesforce's curated study path for this credential lives.
- Key terms: Trailblazer account (one login across Trailhead, Help, IdeaExchange and other Salesforce sites); major release (three a year, new and GA features); patch release (weekly bug and known-issue fixes); R1 and R2 (the two waves of a staggered major release); trailmix (a curated Trailhead playlist).
Key facts
Marketing Cloud support
- Detail
- Log In on Salesforce Help, then select Marketing Cloud
Org Picker scope
- Detail
- Only products accessed via login.salesforce.com
Designated Contact
- Detail
- Sees cases submitted by all org members
Major releases
- Detail
- Three a year, no downtime
Release wave
- Detail
- Set by your account's stack; about 75% of customers get R2
R1 share
- Detail
- About 25% of customers, by database instance
Release notes
- Detail
- On Salesforce Help two weeks before R1
Release emails for non-admins
- Detail
- Sign up in the Salesforce Preference Center
Exam study path
- Detail
- Trailmix linked from the credential page
Trailblazer Community website
- Detail
- Read-only; moving to Slack
Sources for this section (6)
- Trailblazer Account FAQhelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Get to Know the Release Scheduletrailhead.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Review the Release Lifecycletrailhead.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Prepare for a Releasetrailhead.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Foundations credentialtrailhead.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Community noticetrailhead.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- What share of customers receives a major release in R1?
- Why might one account get a major release weeks after another?
- Why can a Designated Contact see more support cases than a Standard Portal User?
- What has changed about the online Trailblazer Community?
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