MCE-Admn-201 Salesforce Certified Marketing Cloud Engagement Administrator Questions and Answers

To create and schedule a weekly report with high-level metrics, the Marketing Cloud admin should use Analytics Builder. Analytics Builder allows users to create, view, and share reports and dashboards. The Account Send Summary report shows how many emails were sent in a given time period.

To automatically add tracking parameters to links in emails:

Parameter Manager: Utilize the Parameter Manager in Marketing Cloud to configure and automatically append a set of predefined tracking parameters to all links within emails. This tool streamlines the process and ensures consistency across all sent emails.

Efficiency and Consistency: By using Parameter Manager, admins can ensure that all emails sent via Email Studio include the necessary tracking parameters without the need for manual entry or customization for each email.

Configure the business unit data retention setting to 12 months is the policy that the Marketing Cloud admin could configure in Setup. Business unit data retention setting is a setting that allows marketers to specify how long records in data extensions should be retained at the business unit level. By configuring the business unit data retention setting to 12 months, any inactive data that is older than 12 months will be automatically deleted from the data extensions in that business unit2

For the customer's requirement of retargeting subscribers based on click activity with dynamic content adjustment based on regional market, the necessary skill set is AMPscript. AMPscript will allow the team to dynamically populate email content based on data attributes such as regional market from the master subscriber data extension, and it can also handle complex decisioning based on subscriber interactions within the email (like clicks on links).

To enable Sales Cloud users to create and send Marketing Cloud emails:

User Mapping: Ensure there is a one-to-one relationship between Sales Cloud and Marketing Cloud users to facilitate seamless functionality and data consistency.

Deep Linking: Enable deep linking in Marketing Cloud Connect. This allows Sales Cloud users to access Marketing Cloud features directly from within the Sales Cloud interface, enhancing user experience and efficiency.

For a Membership Renewal drip campaign with a master audience updated in real-time:

Filter Activities: Use Filter Activities to segment the master data extension based on the renewal date criteria—one month prior, one week prior, and on the renewal date.

Send Activities: Follow each Filter Activity with a Send Activity targeting the specifically filtered audiences, ensuring that each email is sent at the correct time relative to the member's renewal date.

For a large retail company migrating to Marketing Cloud, proper IP warming is critical:

A. IP ramp-up takes four to six weeks to be able to fully send to all 3 million customers: It's essential to gradually increase the volume of emails sent from a new IP address to build a positive reputation with Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

D. IP ramp-up is important to establish a positive sender reputation: Establishing a positive sender reputation with ISPs during the IP warming process helps ensure high deliverability and avoids being flagged as spam.

These responses highlight the necessity and methodology of IP warming when transitioning to a new email platform to maintain deliverability standards.

For NTO to format links for Google Analytics 360 without including PII, they should use non-personally identifiable information in the query string parameters. Suitable options include:

A. Product Code: Identifies a product without revealing customer identity.

B. Application ID: An internal reference that does not disclose personal details.

C. Subscriber ID: A unique identifier for a subscriber that is not directly tied to personal details like an email or name.

To resolve the issue of "Insufficient User Permissions" while setting up Marketing Cloud Connect, the action that should correct this issue is to apply the appropriate user mappings in the CRM configuration. This involves ensuring that the Salesforce user is correctly linked with the Marketing Cloud user credentials and roles. The error indicates a mismatch or an incomplete configuration in linking Salesforce and Marketing Cloud users, which user mappings can correctly align.

To get the last 30 days of Bounce data in bulk and in a pre-defined format, a Marketing Cloud admin should use B. Automation Studio Tracking Extract. This tool allows the admin to extract detailed bounce data for a specified period, providing comprehensive insight into delivery issues. The Tracking Extract can output data in a CSV format, which can be imported into other systems for further analysis or reporting.

Assigning a role to the business unit allows the admin to apply specific permission restrictions to all users in that business unit. The role defines what users can access and do within Marketing Cloud. The other options are not valid ways to accomplish this requirement.

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For Northern Trail Outfitters' scenario, where they need to send one of three different emails randomly to new subscribers within a journey, the most suitable activity to accomplish this with the fewest steps would be using:

B. Engagement Split

However, the correct answer for randomly distributing different email versions in a journey is not listed among the options provided under typical usage. Normally, the Engagement Split is used to branch the journey based on how subscribers interact with emails (e.g., opens or clicks).

The ideal solution for NTO's need to send one of several different emails at random would be the "Random Split" activity in Journey Builder, which is not listed in the options. Since the closest option provided that would allow for varying paths (though not randomly) is the Engagement Split, it could be considered, but it does not fulfill the requirement as described.

Therefore, based on the given options and the actual functionality needed:

There seems to be a misunderstanding in the options provided. Normally, a "Random Split" would be used in this case.

If we must choose from the available options, none directly fulfill the requirement of randomly sending different email versions with the fewest activities possible.

Creating separate business units for each brand is necessary when:

Brand-specific Domains: Separate business units allow for the configuration of brand-specific private domains, which are crucial for maintaining brand identity and trust in email campaigns by customizing link and image paths.

Use Case: If different brands under NTO need to leverage their unique domains for sending emails and hosting content, setting up distinct business units allows each brand to manage its sender profiles, content, and subscriber interactions independently.

To differentiate between marketing and transactional emails effectively:

Sender Profile: Define separate sender profiles for marketing and transactional emails. This includes different From Names and possibly different From Email addresses to help recipients distinguish between different types of emails.

Delivery Profile: Set up different delivery profiles for marketing and transactional emails. These can specify different IP addresses, helping to segment and manage sender reputation for different types of email communications.

For Individual Email Results to be pushed back into Sales Cloud correctly, it's critical that the data extension used is specifically a Salesforce Data Extension. This type of data extension is designed to integrate with Salesforce CRM, allowing for the seamless flow of data back into Sales Cloud, such as Individual Email Results. This ensures that email interaction data recorded in Marketing Cloud is accurately reflected in Sales Cloud for comprehensive tracking and reporting.

To configure Sales Cloud objects to be synced and leveraged in Marketing Cloud, the Marketing Cloud admin should navigate to "Setup > Data Management > Synchronized Data Extensions" in Marketing Cloud. This path allows the admin to set up and manage the synchronization of specific Sales Cloud data objects and fields into Marketing Cloud, enabling the creation of segmented audiences based on this data.

To confirm the theory that the CSV file has an invalid format causing the automation to fail, the Marketing Cloud admin should C. Update the Import definition to include a notification email address. This setting allows the admin to receive notifications and a file of bad data rows when the import process encounters issues, such as invalid data formats, helping to quickly identify and resolve the format errors.

When encountering an issue with the availability of a desired SMS keyword such as "CELEBRATION":

Keyword Unavailability: The keyword may already be in use within another business unit within the organization, making it unavailable for use in the current context.

Solution: Check the keyword usage across all business units and, if possible, coordinate to see if the keyword can be shared or if an alternative keyword would be suitable.

To monitor whether all records are being added to the target data structure each day in a scenario like that of Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO), the feature "Run Completion" within the File Drop Automation is most relevant. This feature allows the admin to check the status and results of the file drop automation, which includes verifying if the automation successfully completed and how many records were processed and added to the data extension. Using this feature, NTO can monitor daily imports and identify any discrepancies in the number of records processed, which could explain why fewer subscribers than expected are being sent emails.

To verify if a Sender Authentication Package (SAP) has been set up, check:

Tracked Links Prefix: If all links in emails sent start with click.email.nto.com, it indicates that a SAP is configured for link rewriting to include the company’s domain.

CloudPages URL: Personalized URLs for CloudPages that use the domain cloud.email.nto.com also suggest that SAP is set up, ensuring that all customer-facing URLs reflect the organization’s branding.

Given the website outage experienced by NTO during a peak shopping period:

D. Create and send an apology email that includes a discount for a future purchase to all customers: This action acknowledges the inconvenience caused by the outage and incentivizes customers to return to the site. Offering a discount can help mitigate any negative sentiment and encourage customers to complete their interrupted purchases.

This approach helps to maintain customer goodwill and potentially recover some of the lost sales due to the outage.

To create a suppression list for hard-bounced email addresses, the most direct approach is to query the Bounce Data View in SQL. This Data View contains all bounce-related information, allowing admins to specifically filter for hard bounces by the bounce category. Using a query activity, the admin can extract all hard bounce records and create a dynamic or static suppression list based on these results. This method is efficient and ensures that only relevant data is included in the suppression list.

Following a Contact Delete request in Salesforce Marketing Cloud, certain types of data remain within the account:

Contact data in sendable data extensions: This data is not automatically removed through a Contact Delete process unless specifically targeted. It requires separate processes to ensure data is cleansed.

General tracking data at the job level: This includes aggregate performance metrics from email campaigns, which do not store individual contact details but rather overall campaign performance stats.

For the financial services customer's need to manage multiple accounts that share the same email address but maintain separate subscriber attributes, the correct component to use is the Subscriber Key. This key uniquely identifies each subscriber in Marketing Cloud, enabling multiple profiles (each associated with different accounts) to share a single email address but retain distinct attributes and engagement tracking.

When enabling Multi-Org in Marketing Cloud Connect, it's important to consider:

The Multi-Org configuration does not support using a standard profile and preference center across connected business units. Each business unit operates independently.

Admins must consider alternative strategies for managing subscriber preferences across multiple Salesforce orgs linked to different business units in Marketing Cloud.

The Export Email Allowlist feature allows the admin to specify a list of email addresses that are authorized to receive data exports from Marketing Cloud. This feature can help protect against misuse of customer data by preventing unauthorized users from exporting data without approval. The other features do not directly address the requirement of restricting data exports.

For sending a promotional email to one million subscribers, a Data Extension is the most suitable data structure. Data Extensions offer robust data management capabilities, scalability, and flexibility for handling large volumes of data and complex segmentation, which is essential when dealing with a large audience size like one million subscribers. This setup allows for more detailed targeting and personalization strategies.

To sync specific contacts from Sales Cloud to Marketing Cloud without syncing all contacts, particularly when not all contacts need email communications, the admin should use a Boolean field to filter the contacts. This can be configured in the Contact Builder under Data Sources. A Boolean field allows for a simple true/false condition that can be set in Sales Cloud and used to control which records are synchronized based on their relevance for email communication. This method ensures that only contacts marked true (or false, depending on the setup) are brought into Marketing Cloud, efficiently managing the sync and keeping irrelevant contacts out of the system.

To efficiently manage limited licenses and ensure continuity in campaign management while the campaign manager is on parental leave:

Deactivate the Existing User: Temporarily deactivate the campaign manager's user account. This action frees up a license without deleting the user's historical data or settings.

Reassign the License: Assign the freed-up license to a new user who will temporarily fill the campaign manager's role. This approach maintains operational efficiency and compliance with license limitations.

The issue of reduced deliverability tied to hitting spam traps during large email sends is directly related to List Hygiene. Spam traps are often email addresses that are specifically set up by blacklist providers or others to catch spam, and hitting them can severely impact a sender’s reputation. Effective list hygiene practices, such as regularly cleaning the email list of inactive or invalid addresses and confirming the opt-in status of subscribers, help avoid these traps and maintain good deliverability.

When transitioning to a new IP address in Marketing Cloud, consider:

IP Warming: Gradually increase the volume of emails sent from the new IP address to build a good sender reputation with Internet Service Providers (ISPs). This involves carefully managing the list size and subscriber engagement to optimize deliverability.

Monitor Engagement: Monitor how subscribers interact with emails sent from the new IP. Engagement rates influence how ISPs perceive the quality of the sender.

To enable REST API access for external applications in Salesforce Marketing Cloud, permissions need to be configured within Installed Packages. This area allows administrators to manage API integrations and set authentication protocols.

Installed Packages: Navigate to this section in the Marketing Cloud setup menu. Create or select an existing package to configure API integration. Set up the API integration by generating the API key and secret, which are essential for authenticating the external application's API requests.

To manage user permissions for different campaign types in Marketing Cloud effectively:

Folder Structure: Organize data extensions into separate folders based on campaign type (B2C vs B2B).

Folder Permissions: Assign user permissions at the folder level, granting View and Update permissions to B3C sales campaign folders, while restricting access to B2B sales campaign folders.

The user in question holds roles that do not inherently include permissions to send emails. The roles assigned are:

Content Creator: Typically has permissions to create content but not necessarily to send emails.

Data Manager: Manages data but does not have email sending permissions.

Marketing Cloud Viewer: Can view campaigns and data but cannot execute or modify them.

To resolve this issue so that the user can send emails, the admin must: A. Edit permissions and Grant permissions to Send - This action involves customizing the user’s permissions to include the ability to send emails. This can be done either by adjusting the permissions in one of the existing roles (if customization is possible and appropriate) or by creating a custom role or permission set that includes email sending capabilities.

Regarding Send Logging in Marketing Cloud:

B. AMPscript can be used to pull data from Send Logs for use within emails: AMPscript can retrieve and display data stored in Send Logs during email sends, allowing for dynamic content based on previous interactions.

C. SQL Query Activities can reference Send Logs in combination with system data views: SQL Query Activities enable more complex data retrieval and analysis, including combining Send Log data with other system data views for comprehensive reporting and segmentation.

These points underscore the functionality and utility of Send Logs in enabling dynamic content and deeper data analysis within Marketing Cloud.

To configure multiple business units in Marketing Cloud to use the same SFTP directory, the most efficient method is to copy the parent SFTP user credentials into each child business unit. This approach ensures all business units access the same SFTP directory for file transfers, maintaining consistency and simplifying management of file access across the business units. This setup avoids the complexity and maintenance of separate SFTP users for each business unit, streamlining operations.

For displaying content based on gender within an email:

Dynamic Content Wizard in Email Studio: This tool allows the creation of content blocks that change based on subscriber attributes directly within the email. It is user-friendly and does not require advanced technical skills.

Implementation: By using the Gender field in the sendable data extension, the Dynamic Content Wizard can automatically display different content such as men’s or women’s shoes based on the subscriber’s gender, ensuring that the email content is appropriate and targeted.

To append UTM tracking parameters to links in emails:

Use Parameter Manager: This functionality within Marketing Cloud allows for the addition of UTM parameters to links across emails systematically. It provides a centralized control over tracking parameters, making it easy to manage and apply consistent tracking across various campaigns.

Configuration: Set up the UTM parameters in the Parameter Manager and these will be automatically appended to all links in the emails sent.

The out-of-the-box Subscription center can display Publication Lists and Lists as options for subscribers to opt in or out of. Data Extensions and Groups are not supported by the default Subscription center.

 The security setting ‘Enable Username and Password for Web Services’ allows users to access the API with their Marketing Cloud username and password. If this setting is deselected, users will need to use an API user or an installed package to access the API

To avoid storing sensitive data in the cloud, the admin should use Tokenized Sending. This feature allows Marketing Cloud to send emails without storing sensitive data such as credit card numbers or social security numbers. Instead, Marketing Cloud uses tokens that are replaced with actual data at send time by an external system.

For Northern Trail Outfitters to include a Campaign Identifier (utm_campaign) to the links within a specific campaign message using Parameter Manager, the utm_campaign value should be configured at the Email level. This allows the specific campaign identifier to be applied to all links within that particular email campaign, ensuring consistent tracking and reporting across all links included in that email.