Salesforce has introduced the Salesforce Agentforce Specialist certification, also known as AI-201, to address the growing need for AI skills among Salesforce professionals. The certification validates skills to design, configure, and manage AI agents implemented using Salesforce Agentforce, measuring proficiency in building AI agents and implementing them in processes such as automating customer service or optimizing business procedures. The exam contains 60 multiple-choice and multiple-select questions to be answered within 105 minutes, with a passing grade of 73%, and can be taken online and at certified test centers. A retake is possible after failing but costs additional money. The certification requires experience implementing AI agents on the Salesforce platform. It matters because companies need software that can reason, retrieve data, and take action, not just automate repetitive tasks, and it signals that professionals in the Salesforce AI ecosystem have combined platform skills with AI. Key skills covered include AI agents and reasoning, Prompt Builder and prompt engineering, Data 360 grounding, and testing, deployment, and governance.