Free Practice Questions for Salesforce Marketing-Cloud-Account-Engagement-Specialist Exam

 Email deliverability is the measure of how successfully your emails reach the inbox of your recipients without bouncing or being marked as spam. Email deliverability depends on several factors, such as your sender reputation, your email content, and your email authentication. Two of the most important email authentication methods are Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM). SPF is a protocol that allows you to specify which IP addresses are authorized to send emails from your domain. DKIM is a protocol that allows you to digitally sign your emails with a private key and verify them with a public key published in your domain’s DNS records. Both SPF and DKIM help prevent email spoofing and phishing, and improve your sender reputation and deliverability

 An engagement studio program is a tool that allows the Marketing Manager to create and automate a series of steps that guide prospects through a marketing journey. An engagement studio program consists of three types of elements: actions, triggers, and rules. An action is something that the program does to or for the prospect, such as sending an email, adding them to a list, or notifying a user. A trigger is something that the program checks for or waits for the prospect to do, such as opening an email, clicking a link, or submitting a form. A rule is something that the program evaluates about the prospect, such as their score, grade, or field value8

Among the possible actions that can be taken in an engagement studio program, three of them are:

Add prospect to list. This action adds the prospect to a specified list in Account Engagement. This action is useful for segmenting prospects based on their engagement or moving them to a different list for further marketing8

Send email to prospect. This action sends an email to the prospect using an Account Engagement email template. This action is useful for delivering relevant and personalized content to the prospect based on their stage in the journey8

Notify a user. This action sends an email notification to a specified user or user group in Account Engagement or Salesforce. This action is useful for alerting the sales team or other stakeholders about the prospect’s engagement or readiness

The recommended way to identify the prospects who purchased a certain product within the last year and export them to a .csv file is to create a segmentation rule based on the Product Name field. A segmentation rule is a one-time rule that matches prospects based on certain criteria and performs certain actions. You can create a segmentation rule that matches prospects who have the specific product name in the Product Name field and the action to export them to a .csv file. This way, you can get a one-time export of all the prospects who have the product name before it changes. An automation rule, a completion action, or a dynamic list are not suitable for this goal, as they are either recurring, real-time, or based on an activity, not a one-time export based on a field value. References [Segmentation Rules Overview]

Express Export is a feature that allows you to export a list of prospects with only the default fields, such as email, name, company, score, and grade. This option is faster and simpler than the full export, which includes all the custom fields as well. You can use the Express Export option by selecting a list of prospects and clicking on the “Tools” button, then choosing “Express Export”. References: [Export Prospects], [Express Export]

In Salesforce Pardot, enhancing form security and preventing bot submissions can be effectively managed using two specific settings: reCaptcha and the Honeypot Technique.

reCaptcha: This is a service provided by Google that helps protect websites from spam and abuse. A "CAPTCHA" is a turing test to tell human and bots apart. It is easy for humans to solve, but hard for "bots" and other malicious software to figure out. By integrating reCaptcha, forms can verify that the person submitting the form is indeed a human, thus adding a layer of security against automated attacks.

Honeypot Technique: This is a clever and non-intrusive method of detecting bots. It involves adding an additional field to the form that is invisible to human users but visible to bots. The principle here is that while a human won’t see or interact with this hidden field, a bot will typically attempt to fill it out. When the form is submitted, if data is found in the honeypot field, the submission can be flagged as coming from a bot and thus be ignored or handled differently.

Both options are specifically tailored to enhance the security of forms in Pardot, helping to mitigate unwanted bot traffic and ensuring that engagement and leads generated are genuine.

 The automation tool that should be used to increase a prospect’s score an additional five points every time a specific form is completed is completion action. A completion action is an automated task that is triggered by a certain element in Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, such as a form, a form handler, a custom redirect, a page action, or a file download17. A completion action can perform various actions, such as adjusting score, adding to list, assigning to user, sending autoresponder email, and so on18. A completion action can be added to a form in the fourth step of the form builder tool, and it can be customized to execute only on prospects who meet specific criteria19. A completion action is not retroactive and will only apply to prospects who complete the chosen action moving forward

When prospects register via a Marketing Cloud Account Engagement form, they will still receive GoToWebinar’s reminder and registration emails. This is because Marketing Cloud Account Engagement integrates with GoToWebinar and automatically registers prospects for the webinar when they fill out the form. Marketing Cloud Account Engagement also syncs the attendance and other webinar data with the prospect records. However, Marketing Cloud Account Engagement does not send the webinar emails, which are handled by GoToWebinar. 

A form handler setting that allows prospects to receive multiple autoresponders from form submissions within a 24-hour period is Disable Visitor Activity Throttling and send autoresponder emails after every submission. This setting overrides the default behavior of Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, which is to throttle visitor activity and send only one autoresponder email per prospect per form per day2. This setting can be useful for forms that are used for multiple purposes, such as event registration, content download, or contact request

 The best way to track the number of visitors who access a file on a web page that the company does not own on the company website is to use custom redirects ©. Custom redirects are used to track links such as banner ad clicks, links to third-party sites, links on social media, and access to files hosted outside of Account Engagement. Link clicks appear as activity on a prospect’s record. Page actions (A) are not a valid option, as they are used to track and automate actions based on a prospect’s page views, not link clicks. Account Engagement form (B) is not a valid option, as it is used to capture and update prospect information, not track link clicks. Account Engagement tracking code (D) is not a valid option, as it is used to track and cookie visitors on the company website, not on a third-party site. References: Custom Redirects

 According to the Salesforce documentation, the types of fields that are not supported by the Marketing Cloud Account Engagement sync are: B) Formula fields, D) Geolocation fields, and E) Text Area (rich) fields. A Marketing Cloud Account Engagement sync is a feature that allows users to connect and exchange data between Marketing Cloud Account Engagement and Salesforce fields, such as name, email, score, or grade. A Marketing Cloud Account Engagement sync can be configured by the administrator in the connector settings, and it can be customized for different objects, fields, or actions. A Marketing Cloud Account Engagement sync can support different types of fields, such as text, number, date, checkbox, picklist, or lookup fields. However, a Marketing Cloud Account Engagement sync cannot support some types of fields, such as formula, geolocation, or text area (rich) fields. A formula field is a field that calculates a value based on a formula or an expression. A geolocation field is a field that stores the latitude and longitude coordinates of a location. A text area (rich) field is a field that allows users to enter formatted text, images, or links. These types of fields are not supported by the Marketing Cloud Account Engagement sync, as they are either incompatible, complex, or large for the data exchange. A record type field is a type of field that is supported by the Marketing Cloud Account Engagement sync, as it is a field that defines different business processes, page layouts, or picklist values for different users. A number field is also a type of field that is supported by the Marketing Cloud Account Engagement sync, as it is a field that stores numerical values. References: Salesforce documentation