Cisco Customer Success Manager Specialist (820-605 DTCSM) Practice Exam

Cisco Customer Success Manager Specialist (820-605 DTCSM) Practice Exam

The Cisco Customer Success Manager Specialist (820-605 DTCSM) exam tests a candidate's knowledge and skills to develop and integrate solutions, identify adoption barriers and actions to remove them, implement adoption frameworks, and interpret customer usage data while leading customers to renewals and cultivate new sales opportunities through the entire customer lifecycle. 

Who should take the exam?

The Cisco Customer Success Manager v2.0 (820-605) exam is targeted towards individuals who want to validate their skills and knowledge in managing the customer lifecycle for Cisco products and solutions. The target audience includes:

• Customer Success Managers
• Account Managers or Sales Reps
• Anyone in a Customer-Facing Role

Exam Details 

• Exam Code: 820-605 CSM
• Exam Name: Cisco Customer Success Manager
• Exam Languages: English
• Time: 90 minutes

Course Outline 

The Cisco 820-605 Exam covers the given topics  -

Topic 1: Understand Customer Success Industry 15%

1.1 Explain the key drivers creating the need for Customer Success

1.2 Define customer success (expected and unexpected value)

1.3 Explain the customer lifecycle journey

1.4 Compare customer success, customer support and sales

1.5 Explain the value proposition for customer success

1.6 Explain different IT purchasing and consumption models

1.7 Identify the key metrics for customer success

1.8 Explain the financial implication of the following metrics

1.9 Describe customer engagement models based on customer segmentation

1.10 Describe the objectives of the Customer Success Manager

Topic 2: Learn about Success Plan Creation 25%

2.1 Identify the product or solution purchased

2.2 Identify key stakeholder roles

2.3 Validate the desired business outcome based on information obtained from key stakeholders

2.4 Identify critical success factors to connect to business outcomes

2.5 Analyze the account baseline to identify gaps

2.6 Analyze a customer health score

2.7 Describe the common elements of a customer success plan

2.8 Explain the purpose of targeted use cases

2.9 Identify the individuals and responsibilities within a RACI

2.10 Explain how outcomes, Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and metrics contribute to customer value achievement

Topic 3: Understand Barrier Management 25%

3.1 Identify types of customer barriers

3.2 Describe sources used to identify customer barriers

3.3 Identify customer barriers

3.4 Identify actions that impact time to value for common customer barriers

Topic 4: Understand Customer Success Management 20%

4.1 Explain the elements of customer onboarding

4.2 Explain the purpose of essential customer management activities

4.3 Explain communication needs of stakeholders

4.4 Describe the Quarterly Success Review process

4.5 Identify outcomes from a Quarterly Success Review

4.6 Identify opportunities for customers to act as advocates

Topic 5: Expand Opportunities and Renewal 15%

5.1 Describe types of expand opportunities

5.2 Identify potential expansion opportunities across the customer lifecycle from a customer success plan

5.3 Create an adoption campaign to identify expand opportunities

5.4 Update customer success plan with expand opportunities

5.5 Explain the elements of a renewal risk analysis

5.6 Create mitigation plans that address risk factors