Free Practice Questions for Salesforce Marketing-Cloud-Developer Exam

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is designed to protect data at rest by encrypting the underlying storage of the database. This method ensures that data is encrypted on disk to prevent physical data theft while allowing it to remain accessible to authorized users within the system.

When importing an encrypted file from the Enhanced FTP server, you need to move the file to the Safehouse first, and then decrypt it within the Safehouse.

Move to Safehouse: Use a File Transfer activity to move the encrypted file from the Enhanced FTP server to the Safehouse.

Decrypt in Safehouse: Use another File Transfer activity to decrypt the file within the Safehouse.

When batch deleting large volumes of contacts, it is important to consider the following factors:

Batch Deletion Limits: Up to one million records can be deleted in each batch. This helps manage and control the deletion process without overwhelming the system.

Suppression Status Visibility: The suppression status does not show for individual contacts until the entire batch processes. This means that you will not see the status updates for individual contacts until the deletion batch is fully processed.

AMPscript is evaluated in the following order before an email is sent:

Subject Line: Evaluates AMPscript in the subject line first.

HTML Body: Evaluates AMPscript within the HTML body of the email.

Text Body: Evaluates AMPscript within the text body of the email.

This order ensures that any dynamic content or personalization logic is correctly applied in all parts of the email.

To add an image to Content Builder via the API and retrieve the image's published URL, the developer should POST to the REST API/asset/v1/content/assets and parse the FileProperties parameter (D). This method uploads the image and returns metadata, including the published URL, which can be extracted from the FileProperties.

To automate the process of importing encrypted files from an external CRM, the following actions should be included:

File drop to the SFTP Import directory: Place the encrypted files in the SFTP Import directory to trigger the automation.

File transfer activity to the Safehouse for decryption: Move the encrypted files to the Safehouse for decryption, ensuring the data is securely handled.

Import definition to the necessary data extension: After decryption, import the data into the relevant Data Extension for use in marketing sends.

For pushing real-time updates to a data extension, the following API options are available:

Use the DataExtensionObject SOAP object (A) - This object allows you to perform various operations such as insert, update, and delete on data extensions through SOAP API calls.

Use the DataExtension SOAP object (C) - Similar to DataExtensionObject, this object provides capabilities to manage data extensions and their records via SOAP API.

These APIs allow for real-time interaction with data extensions, making them suitable for updating the product catalog.

The Contact Delete process in Marketing Cloud removes contact data from the contact model but does not remove records from the data extensions themselves.

Contact Delete Process: When you perform a Contact Delete in Contact Builder, it removes the contact data from the contact model but leaves the actual rows in the data extensions intact.