MC-201 Sample Questions

MC-201 Sample Questions & Answers

Lead management, the heaviest area, pairs with forms, form handlers and landing pages, email versus email templates and reporting, Engagement Studio program building, visitor and prospect tracking, and field and account administration.

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  1. Question 1Intermediate

    Administration · Field Management and Sync Behavior

    An administrator is creating a new custom prospect field in Account Engagement to sync with a multi-select picklist field on the Lead object in Salesforce. The administrator wants to ensure that if a value is deleted from the picklist in Salesforce, the corresponding value is also removed from the prospect record in Account Engagement upon the next sync. Which sync behavior should be selected for the custom field?

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    Correct answer: A

    The 'Use Salesforce's value' sync behavior designates Salesforce as the master for that field. This means any changes made in Salesforce, including deleting a value from a multi-select picklist, will overwrite the value in Account Engagement during the next sync, ensuring data consistency.

  2. Question 2Intermediate

    Account Engagement Forms, Form Handlers and Landing Pages · Prospect Activity and Recycle Bin

    A prospect record exists in the Account Engagement Recycle Bin. The same individual, using the same email address, submits a new form on the company's website. What is the state of the prospect record immediately after the form submission?

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    Correct answer: B

    A form submission is considered a prospect activity that indicates renewed interest. Therefore, Account Engagement automatically undeletes (restores) the matching prospect record from the Recycle Bin and updates it with the information from the form submission.

  3. Question 3Intermediate

    Lead Management · Custom Redirects and Completion Actions

    True or False: A Custom Redirect can have completion actions that add a prospect to a Salesforce Campaign and assign a specific member status.

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    Correct answer: A

    This is true. Custom Redirects are a type of marketing asset that supports completion actions. One of the available completion actions is 'Add to Salesforce Campaign', which allows the user to specify the campaign and the desired member status for the prospect who clicks the link.

  4. Question 4AdvancedSelect 2

    Lead Management · Einstein Behavior Scoring

    A marketing team has enabled Einstein Behavior Scoring. However, after several weeks, scores are not appearing on any prospect records. The Salesforce connector is verified and running correctly. Which are TWO likely prerequisites that have not been met? (Select TWO)

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    Correct answers: B, D

    Einstein Behavior Scoring relies on the data and infrastructure provided by B2B Marketing Analytics. If B2BMA is not set up, the scoring model cannot be built or applied.

    The Einstein model learns what engagement patterns lead to success by analyzing historical data. It requires a minimum of 20 converted opportunities within the last two years to have a baseline dataset from which to build its predictive model.

  5. Question 5Beginner

    Engagement Studio · Program Components

    In an Engagement Studio program, what is the functional difference between a 'Trigger' step and a 'Rule' step?

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    Correct answer: A

    This is the core distinction. Triggers listen for an event to happen (e.g., email open, form submission, link click), which is action-based. Rules check the current state of a prospect's data (e.g., grade is 'A', custom field contains 'USA', score is greater than 100), which is criteria-based.

  6. Question 6Intermediate

    Engagement Studio · Program Management

    A marketer pauses a running Engagement Studio program to update one of the email templates used in a 'Send Email' action step. After updating and saving the template, they resume the program. Which statement correctly describes how this change affects prospects in the program?

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    Correct answer: D

    Engagement Studio dynamically pulls the most recent version of an asset (like an email template) at the moment a prospect hits that step. Therefore, any prospect who has not yet been processed by that 'Send Email' action will receive the newly updated version once the program is resumed.

  7. Question 7Intermediate

    Engagement Studio · Program Re-entry

    True or False: Once a prospect has finished an Engagement Studio program by reaching an 'End' step, they can be added back to the beginning of the same program if the recipient list criteria and program settings allow for re-entry.

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    Correct answer: A

    This is true. In the program's settings, you can allow prospects to re-enter the program more than once. If this is enabled, a prospect who has completed the program can start it again if they re-qualify for the recipient list (e.g., for a recurring webinar series or a re-engagement campaign).

  8. Question 8Beginner

    Account Engagement Forms, Form Handlers and Landing Pages · Form Settings

    What is the primary purpose of enabling Kiosk/Data Entry Mode on an Account Engagement form?

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    Correct answer: C

    Kiosk/Data Entry Mode is designed for situations like trade shows where a single person (e.g., a sales rep) is entering information for multiple people on the same device. This mode ensures that the sales rep's browser cookie is not associated with every prospect record being created, preventing all new prospects from being incorrectly cookied as the sales rep.

  9. Question 9Intermediate

    Account Engagement Forms, Form Handlers and Landing Pages · Dynamic Content

    A marketer is building a landing page and wants to display a different call-to-action banner based on the prospect's location. For prospects from California, a 'West Coast Summit' banner should appear. For all other prospects, a generic 'Global Webinar' banner should be shown. Which feature should be used on the landing page to achieve this?

    flowchart TD subgraph Landing Page Logic A[Prospect Views Page] --> B{Is Prospect Location California?}; B -->|Yes| C[Show 'West Coast Summit' Banner]; B -->|No| D[Show 'Global Webinar' Banner]; end

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    Correct answer: C

    Dynamic Content is the feature specifically designed for this purpose. It allows a marketer to define variations of content based on prospect field values (like State or Country). The system will check the viewing prospect's data and display the appropriate content variation in the designated spot on the landing page or in an email.

  10. Question 10AdvancedSelect 2

    Account Engagement Forms, Form Handlers and Landing Pages · Progressive Profiling

    To reduce form abandonment on a high-traffic resource download page, a marketing team wants to ask for minimal information initially (First Name, Last Name, Email) but gather more details on subsequent visits. Specifically, on a prospect's second form submission on the site, the form should also ask for their Company and Job Title. Which TWO features are required to accomplish this? (Select TWO)

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    Correct answers: B, E

    Progressive Profiling is the core feature that allows a form to display new fields to a prospect if the values for other fields are already known. This enables the gradual collection of data over multiple interactions.

    Within the Progressive Profiling setup, you configure the logic. The condition would be set to show the 'Company' and 'Job Title' fields if the data for previously shown fields (like Email, First Name, etc.) already exists for that prospect.

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