Salesforce Certified Data Cloud Consultant Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 3

Data Cloud is a platform that enables you to activate all your customer data across Salesforce applications and other systems. Data Cloud allows you to create a unified profile of each customer by ingesting, transforming, and linking data from various sources, such as CRM, marketing, commerce, service, and external data providers. Data Cloud also provides insights and analytics on customer behavior, preferences, and needs, as well as tools to segment, target, and personalize customer interactions. Data Cloud's primary value to customers is to provide a unified view of a customer and their related data, which can help you deliver better customer experiences, increase loyalty, and drive growth.

After ingesting data from different sources into Data Cloud, the additional configuration that is required before segmenting and acting on that data is Identity Resolution.Identity Resolution is the process of matching and reconciling source profiles from different data sources and creating unified profiles that represent a single individual or entity1.Identity Resolution enables you to create a 360-degree view of your customers and prospects, and to segment and activate them based on their attributes and behaviors2.To configure Identity Resolution, you need to create and deploy a ruleset that defines the match rules and reconciliation rules for your data3. The other options are incorrect because they are not required before segmenting and acting on the data.Data Activation is the process of sending data from Data Cloud to other Salesforce clouds or external destinations for marketing, sales, or service purposes4.Calculated Insights are derived attributes that are computed based on the source or unified data, such as lifetime value, churn risk, or product affinity5. Data Mapping is the process of mapping source attributes to unified attributes in the data model. These configurations can be done after segmenting and acting on the data, or in parallel with Identity Resolution, but they are not prerequisites for it.

The B2C Commerce Starter Bundles are predefined data streams that ingest order and product data from B2C Commerce into Data Cloud. However, the starter bundles only bring in the last 90 days of data by default. To bring in two years of transactional history, NTO needs to use a custom extract from B2C Commerce that includes the historical data and configure the data stream to use the custom extract as the source. The other options are not sufficient to achieve this because:

A . B2C Commerce Starter Bundles only ingest the last 90 days of data by default.

B . Direct Sales Order entity ingestion is not a supported method for connecting B2C Commerce data with Data Cloud. Data Cloud does not provide a direct-access connection for B2C Commerce data, only data ingestion.

C . Direct Sales Product entity ingestion is not a supported method for connecting B2C Commerce data with Data Cloud. Data Cloud does not provide a direct-access connection for B2C Commerce data, only data ingestion.

The feature that the consultant should use to solution for this use case is C. Activation alert. Activation alerts are notifications that are sent to users when an activation fails or succeeds for a segment. Activation alerts can be configured in the Activation Settings page, where the consultant can specify the recipients, the frequency, and the conditions for sending the alerts. Activation alerts can help the customer to monitor the status of their activations and troubleshoot any issues that may arise.

: A ''NO FILE FOUND'' error message indicates that Data Cloud cannot access or locate the file from the Amazon S3 source. There are two possible reasons for this error and two corresponding steps that a consultant should take to troubleshoot it:

The Data Cloud user does not have the correct permissions to read the file from the Amazon S3 bucket. This could happen if the user's permission set or profile does not include the Data Cloud Data Stream Read permission, or if the user's Amazon S3 credentials are invalid or expired. To fix this issue, the consultant should check and update the user's permissions and credentials in Data Cloud and Amazon S3, respectively.

The file does not exist in the specified bucket location. This could happen if the file name or path has changed, or if the file has been deleted or moved from the Amazon S3 bucket. To fix this issue, the consultant should check and verify the file name and path in the Amazon S3 bucket, and update the data stream configuration in Data Cloud accordingly.

Data Cloud is an open and extensible data platform that enables smarter, more efficient AI with secure access to first-party and industry data1. Two functional areas that the consultant should highlight in relation to managing customer data are:

Data Harmonization: Data Cloud harmonizes data from multiple sources and formats into a common schema, enabling a single source of truth for customer data1. Data Cloud also applies data quality rules and transformations to ensure data accuracy and consistency.

Unified Profiles: Data Cloud creates unified profiles of customers and prospects by linking data across different identifiers, such as email, phone, cookie, and device ID1. Unified profiles provide a holistic view of customer behavior, preferences, and interactions across channels and touchpoints. The other options are not correct because:

Master Data Management: Master Data Management (MDM) is a process of creating and maintaining a single, consistent, and trusted source of master data, such as product, customer, supplier, or location data. Data Cloud does not provide MDM functionality, but it can integrate with MDM solutions to enrich customer data.

Data Marketplace: Data Marketplace is a feature of Data Cloud that allows users to discover, access, and activate data from third-party providers, such as demographic, behavioral, and intent data. Data Marketplace is not a functional area related to managing customer data, but rather a source of external data that can enhance customer data.

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The Party Identification object is the correct object to use in identity resolution to perform exact match rules on the Loyalty ID. The Party Identification object is a child object of the Individual object that stores different types of identifiers for an individual, such as email, phone, loyalty ID, social media handle, etc. Each identifier has a type, a value, and a source. The consultant can use the Party Identification object to create a match rule that compares the Loyalty ID type and value across different sources and links the corresponding individuals.

The other options are not correct objects to use in identity resolution to perform exact match rules on the Loyalty ID. The Loyalty Identification object does not exist in Data Cloud. The Individual object is the parent object that represents a unified profile of an individual, but it does not store the Loyalty ID directly. The Contact Identification object is a child object of the Contact object that stores identifiers for a contact, such as email, phone, etc., but it does not store the Loyalty ID.

Data Modeling Requirements for Identity Resolution

Identity Resolution in a Data Space

Configure Identity Resolution Rulesets

Map Required Objects

Data and Identity in Data Cloud

The Sales Order subject area defines the details of an order placed by a customer for one or more products or services. It includes information such as the order date, status, amount, quantity, currency, payment method, and delivery method. The Sales Order subject area also allows you to track the revenue or quantity for an opportunity by product family, which is a grouping of products that share common characteristics or features. For example, you can use the Sales Order Line Item DMO to associate each product in an order with its product family, and then use the Sales Order Revenue DMO to calculate the total revenue or quantity for each product family in an opportunity.

To support separate Amazon S3 buckets for data ingestion and activation, you need to configure dedicated S3 data sources in Data Cloud setup.Data sources are used to identify the origin and type of the data that you ingest into Data Cloud1.You can create different data sources for each S3 bucket that you want to use for ingestion or activation, and specify the bucket name, region, and access credentials2.This way, you can separate and organize your data by different criteria, such as brand, region, product, or business unit3. The other options are incorrect because they do not support separate S3 buckets for data ingestion and activation.Multiple S3 connectors are not a valid configuration in Data Cloud setup, as there is only one S3 connector available4.Dedicated S3 data sources in activation setup are not a valid configuration either, as activation setup does not require data sources, but activation targets5.Separate user credentials for data stream and activation target are not sufficient to support separate S3 buckets, as you also need to specify the bucket name and region for each data source2.