Adobe Marketo Engage Architect Master AD0-E556 Exam Preparation Guides

1. Refer to the case study.

UNICORN FINTECH COMPANY PROFILE

Unicorn Fintech is a mobile-only financial-services startup created by a consortium of consumer banks to resell savings, checking, loan, transfer/remittance, and other services from a secure smartphone app. The company is venture-funded, and plans to reach profitability before a planned IPO in two years.



Business issues and requirements

Marketing is responsible for acquiring new customers 0 through online, television advertising, and email campaigns, and for cross-selling new services to customers through IM, email, and in-app campaigns. Evaluating the success of these campaigns has been a persistent problem: although the company can track revenue by product line, it can't attribute those revenues to campaigns: for example, did a new loan come from onboarding a new customer, or by cross-selling a savings-account customer? Marketing currently uses crude, manual tools and guesswork to evaluate the quality and lifespan of new leads, and even the deliverability of emails in its external campaigns. As a result, the department can't allocate spending to the most productive campaigns, or decide how much different touchpoints in multi-stage campaigns contribute to revenue. Operational processes to connect lead data to CRM and other databases are entirely manual.



Staffing and leadership

Unicorn has fewer than 200 employees, and roles aren't always defined in traditional ways. Since customer acquisition and cross-selling are primarily through electronic channels, Marketing and IT roles especially often overlap. The traditional Sales role falls entirely to Marketing, and IT is responsible for the Salesforce CRM system, Google Analytics, and a handful of third-party integrations. The CMO and CIO work closely together on most initiatives, and budgets are typically project-driven rather than fixed annually. Individual contributors to Marketing campaigns include the Marketing Operations Manager, responsible for lead scoring and analytics. Key IT contacts include the CRM Administrator and Web Developer. Incidental contributors are the Corporate Attorney, who signs off on opt-in/out and DMARC policies.



Revenue sources

Unicorn earns commissions on financial services delivered by the banking consortium through its apps, including fixed finders' fees for what the company calls "skips"-customers who initially engage with Unicorn, but then "skip" to receive services directly from a consortium bank. Unicorn needs to attribute revenue from these customers to its own campaigns; currently, it's impossible to attribute ROI to individual campaigns, or provide documentation to claim commissions on "skips."



Current and aspirational marketing technology

Current Marketing technology consists of Marketable,an open-source lead management solution supported by a set of spreadsheets and scripts developed in-house. Marketable offers lead tracking and source attribution, but not multi-touch source attribution. Unicorn Fintech Marketing has difficulty linking the different stages of customer campaign journeys, and relies on scripts to translate Marketable's "sales alerts" into next steps it could use in multi-touch campaigns. IT has worked out scripts to input Marketable qualified leads into Salesforce, but the system is brittle and often requires manual intervention.





Current campaign management processes

A typical email campaign:

• Addresses a purchased (for customer acquisition) or0 in-house (for cross-sell) list. Purchased lists range from 300,000 to 1.5 million addresses

• Is sent from multiple data centers in the US and Canada

• Includes an "unsubscribe" opt-out below the message

• Is static; there are no formula fields

• Uses no deliverability authentication, nor integration 0 with any email management platform.

All campaigns to date direct respondents to a single 0 landing page with the company's "all markets" message. More sophisticated targeting is a high priority.

Current lead management and attribution

Unicorn's lead-management process follows

Marketable's "out of the box" defaults: lead evaluation levels 1 through 3, lifecycle stages "unqualified" and "qualified." The qualification processes are manual, and highly subjective: Marketing staff classify leads according to prospect email responses, including free-form comments. "Sales" followup is by email forms prompting higher levels of engagement. The company intends to phase out Marketable and replace spreadsheets and scripts with native features of whatever solution set it adopts.

Attribution processes are binary: response to a campaign email or web visit is rated a success if it results in a sale: there is no success rating assigned to TV ads that result in web visits, for example. Cost are not allocated to individual campaigns.

The Marketing department plans to expand outreach to social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, in-house and third-party financial blogs), and wants to make sure it can assess the ROI of these channels, and the overall social media program.



Current governance processes

Currently, the Marketing department assigns content development and campaign management duties to team members on a campaign-by-campaign basis. All team members (and IT) have access to all assets and tools, which sometimes leads to duplication and conflicts. The CMO realizes that a more specialization will be necessary to support the social media campaigns, but hasn't decided on the optimal organizational model.



Input of qualified leads from Marketable into

Salesforce is by manual cut-and-paste, assisted by scripts; inconsistency of input practices across Marketing team members is a known problem; individual members have their own "go-to" fields: where one member might check "TV ad" as Lead Source, another would put that in the comments field.



CMO

The CMO's most important concerns are:

• The current solution has too many manual steps to scale with anticipated growth

• Without more sophisticated attribution, the company will overinvest in less productive campaigns, and underinvest in better ones

• In general, analytics integrations are manual, slow, and unreliable

• The current system completely misses "skips"-customers switching from the Unicorn app to consortium banks-an important source of revenue

• Documenting the value of Unicorn's Marketing processes is essential to the success of the planned IPO, and millions of dollars in stock valuation hangs in the balance.



CIO

The CIO is concerned primarily with:

• The amount of time his team spends patching up Marketing campaigns and CRM data transfers, at the expense of other, critical initiatives

• Quality and reliability of the Analytics information his team provides to Marketing



MARKETING STAFF

Marketing Operations staff concerns:

• Campaigns require so much work that they can't run as many of them as they need to

• Multi-touch cross-selling campaigns (for example, savings accounts to loans) with excellent margins, but no way to know which campaign touches perform best

• Getting swamped with manual record-keeping; for example, spreadsheet mistakes take hours to find and



fix

• Poor integration with third-party tools for preparing, sending, and evaluating campaign materials, for

Example.

o Webhook not firing,

o Reaching API limit

o Synchronization errors with third-party tools and Salesforce

• Inadequate number of lead stages and qualification levels, making it difficult to evaluate lead value, especially in multi-touch campaigns

Despite the absence of an external Sales team,

Marketing Operations would like to improve the granularity of their lead tracking, including both lifecycle stages and quality levels, with "no score" and negative levels.



Unicorn Fintech is using Salesforce and Adobe Marketo Engage. They want to change their lead sync and lead routing rules for new leads that are generated through Marketo Engage forms. The Marketing Operations Manager needs to help them build new automation. Leads must reach a minimum lead score of 50 prior to being synced for Inside Sales to follow up. Prior to syncing to Salesforce, they want to make sure that each lead has a minimum data set of lead source and country. The Inside Sales Managers in each region cannot agree on a single global process for which leads should be assigned to which Inside Sales reps once the leads are created in Salesforce. They want the flexibility to decide at the country level.

What is the most appropriate, scalable process for the Marketing Operations Manager to build?

2. Refer to the case study.

UNICORN FINTECH COMPANY PROFILE

Unicorn Fintech is a mobile-only financial-servicesstartup created by a consortium of consumer banks to resell savings, checking, loan, transfer/remittance, and other services from a secure smartphone app. The company is venture-funded, and plans to reach profitability before a planned IPO in two years.



Business issues and requirements

Marketing is responsible for acquiring new customers 0 through online, television advertising, and email campaigns, and for cross-selling new services to customers through IM, email, and in-app campaigns. Evaluating the success of these campaigns has been a persistent problem: although the company can track revenue by product line, it can't attribute those revenues to campaigns: for example, did a new loan come from onboarding a new customer, or by cross-selling a savings-account customer? Marketing currently uses crude, manual tools and guesswork to evaluate the quality and lifespan of new leads, and even the deliverability of emails in its external campaigns. As a result, the department can't allocate spending to the most productive campaigns, or decide how much different touchpoints in multi-stage campaignscontribute to revenue. Operational processes to connect lead data to CRM and other databases are entirely manual.



Staffing and leadership

Unicorn has fewer than 200 employees, and roles aren't always defined in traditional ways. Since customer acquisition and cross-selling are primarily through electronic channels, Marketing and IT roles especially often overlap. The traditional Sales role falls entirely to

Marketing, and IT is responsible for the Salesforce CRM system, Google Analytics, and a handful of third-party integrations. The CMO and CIO work closely together on most initiatives, and budgets are typically project-driven rather than fixed annually. Individual contributors to Marketing campaigns include the Marketing Operations Manager, responsible for lead scoring and analytics. Key IT contacts include the CRM Administrator and Web Developer. Incidental contributors are the Corporate Attorney, who signs off on opt-in/out and DMARC policies.



Revenue sources

Unicorn earns commissions on financial services delivered by the banking consortium through its apps, including fixed finders' fees for what the company calls "skips"-customers who initially engage with Unicorn, but then "skip" to receive services directly from a consortium bank. Unicorn needs to attribute revenue from these customers to its own campaigns; currently, it's impossible to attribute ROI to individual campaigns, or provide documentation to claim commissions on "skips."



Current and aspirational marketing technology

Current Marketing technology consists of Marketable,an open-source lead management solution supported by a set of spreadsheets and scripts developed in-house. Marketable offers lead tracking and source attribution, but not multi-touch source attribution. Unicorn Fintech Marketing has difficulty linking the different stages of customer campaign journeys, and relies on scripts to translate Marketable's "sales alerts" into next steps it could use in multi-touch campaigns. IT has worked out scripts to input Marketable qualified leads into Salesforce, but the system is brittle and often requires manual intervention.



Current campaign management processes

A typical email campaign:

• Addresses a purchased (for customer acquisition) or0 in-house (for cross-sell) list. Purchased lists range from 300,000 to 1.5 million addresses

• Is sent from multiple data centers in the US and Canada

• Includes an "unsubscribe" opt-out below the message

• Is static; there are no formula fields

• Uses no deliverability authentication, nor integration 0 with any email management platform.



All campaigns to date direct respondents to a single 0 landing page with the company's "all markets" message. More sophisticated targeting is a high priority.

Current lead management and attribution

Unicorn's lead-management process follows

Marketable's "out of the box" defaults: lead evaluation levels 1 through 3, lifecycle stages "unqualified" and "qualified." The qualification processes are manual, and highly subjective: Marketing staff classify leads according to prospect email responses, including free-form comments. "Sales" followup is by email forms prompting higher levels of engagement. The company intends to phase out Marketable and replace spreadsheets and scripts with native features of whatever solution set it adopts.



Attribution processes are binary: response to a campaign email or web visit is rated a success if it results in a sale: there is no success rating assigned to TV ads that result in web visits, for example. Cost are not allocated to individual campaigns.



The Marketing department plans to expand outreach to social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, in-house and third-party financial blogs), and wants to make sure it can assess the ROI of these channels, and the overall social media program.



Current governance processes

Currently, the Marketing department assigns content development and campaign management duties to team members on a campaign-by-campaign basis. All team members (and IT) have access to all assets and tools, which sometimes leads to duplication and conflicts. The CMO realizes that a more specialization will be necessary to support the social media campaigns, but hasn't decided on the optimal organizational model.



Input of qualified leads from Marketable into

Salesforce is by manual cut-and-paste, assisted by scripts; inconsistency of input practices across Marketing team members is a known problem; individual members have their own "go-to" fields: where one member might check "TV ad" as Lead Source, another would put that in the comments field.



CMO

The CMO's most important concerns are:

• The current solution has too many manual steps to scale with anticipated growth

• Without more sophisticated attribution, the company will overinvest in less productive campaigns, and underinvest in better ones

• In general, analytics integrations are manual, slow, and unreliable

• The current system completely misses "skips"-customers switching from the Unicorn app to consortium banks-an important source of revenue

• Documenting the value of Unicorn's Marketing processes is essential to the success of the planned IPO, and millions of dollars in stock valuation hangs in the balance.



CIO

The CIO is concerned primarily with:

• The amount of time his team spends patching up Marketing campaigns and CRM data transfers, at the expense of other, critical initiatives

• Quality and reliability of the Analytics information his team provides to Marketing



MARKETING STAFF

Marketing Operations staff concerns:

• Campaigns require so much work that they can't run as many of them as they need to

• Multi-touch cross-selling campaigns (for example, savings accounts to loans) with excellent margins, but no way to know which campaign touches perform best

• Getting swamped with manual record-keeping; for example, spreadsheet mistakes take hours to find andfix

• Poor integration with third-party tools for preparing, sending, and evaluating campaign materials, for Example.

o Webhook not firing,

o Reaching API limit

o Synchronization errors with third-party tools and Salesforce

• Inadequate number of lead stages and qualification levels, making it difficult to evaluate lead value, especially in multi-touch campaigns

Despite the absence of an external Sales team,



Marketing Operations would like to improve the granularity of their lead tracking, including both lifecycle stages and quality levels, with "no score" and negative levels.



Some of Unicorn's customers use their financial products and services. Marketing wants to roll out a "Weekly rollup" email to customers who are opted in for email. This email will show a quick snapshot of how each product/service those customers have with Unicorn perform.



The data to send these emails must be set up to sync to the Adobe Marketo Engage instance for each customer. Each customer can own multiple of the same product, or a number of products/services.

How should this data be pushed into Marketo Engage to be used most effectively?

3. A company has a meeting with a third party that wants to begin submitting leads captured through various channels. These leads are aware that the third party will share their information with the company and have provided consent through their engagement. The third party will send the leads through a REST API.

Which steps should the Adobe Marketo Engage Architect take to make sure that the REST API is set up correctly?

4. A company has a Contact Us form that contains a text field called "Comments" where prospects describe their needs to provide sales with context for follow-up. When this form is completed, a Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) is generated and sent to sales. The "Comments" field is a custom text field. Leads often write lengthy descriptions that exceed 140 characters. The "Comments" field is not synced to CRM. Another field called "Notes" is synced to CRM. This is also a text field. The "Notes" field is often used by Sales and is commonly overwritten by Sales. Both Sales and Marketing agree that the "Comments" field is important and want to give the prospect space to describe their needs.

An Adobe Marketo Engage Architect needs to set up an interesting moment that is triggered upon the Contact Us form fill that contains the "Comments" value to give Sales immediate context of the inquiry.

Which two actions must the Marketo Engage Architect take to fulfill this request? (Choose

two.)

Which two actions must the Marketo Engage Architect take to fulfill this request? (Choose two.)

5. The VP of Marketing is concerned about the workload of the marketing team and wants to hire an agency to assist the team by building campaigns and programs within their Adobe Marketo Engage instance. The biggest concern is adding users who may be able to access and accidentally break established templates, nurture campaigns, and scoring. Therefore, the users will only be able to work in the Marketing Activities area.

The agency will have access to building programs, campaigns, emails, and landing pages.

What is the best set of user role permissions for the agency users?

6. A company has the native Adobe Marketo Engage sync with Microsoft Dynamics in place. The business consistently exceed their database limits. It needs to limit database growth and remove certain records from Marketo Engage.

Which two actions should the Marketing Operations team recommend to solve this issue? (Choose two.)

7. An Adobe Marketo Engage Consultant is reviewing all programs in an instance.

Each campaign in each program contains at least three flow steps:

• If Acquisition Program is Empty, change Acquisition Program to the current program's name

• Change the status in the program (based on the action)

• Write an Interesting Moment

These flow steps happen in almost every campaign.

How can the Consultant edit the programs for scalability and efficiency?

8. An enterprise software company sells its products directly to its B2B customers but also sells their product through third-party sellers. The company runs marketing campaigns directly to their B2B target audience. They also provide funds to the third-party sellers to run campaigns on the company's behalf. In return, the leads and engagement are provided by the third-party seller when a campaign is complete. Any data must be passed to Salesforce due to reporting being done in Salesforce.

Programs and channels should be set up to report on the efficacy of direct marketing and investment to third-party seller/partner marketing to determine how budget should be spent the following year.

How should this requirement be met?

9. Refer to the case study.

UNICORN FINTECH COMPANY PROFILE

Unicorn Fintech is a mobile-only financial-services startup created by a consortium of consumer banks to resell savings, checking, loan, transfer/remittance, and other services from a secure smartphone app. The company is venture-funded, and plans to reach profitability before a planned IPO in two years.



Business issues and requirements

Marketing is responsible for acquiring new customers 0 through online, television advertising, and email campaigns, and for cross-selling new services to customers through IM, email, and in-app campaigns. Evaluating the success of these campaigns has been a persistent problem: although the company can track revenue by product line, it can't attribute those revenues to campaigns: for example, did a new loan come from onboarding a new customer, or by cross-selling a savings-account customer? Marketing currently uses crude, manual tools and guesswork to evaluate the quality and lifespan of new leads, and even the deliverability of emails in its external campaigns. As a result, the department can't allocate spending to the most productive campaigns, or decide how much different touchpoints in multi-stage campaigns contribute to revenue. Operational processes to connect lead data to CRM and other databases are entirely manual.



Staffing and leadership

Unicorn has fewer than 200 employees, and roles aren't always defined in traditional ways. Since customer acquisition and cross-selling are primarily through electronic channels, Marketing and IT roles especially often overlap. The traditional Sales role falls entirely to Marketing, and IT is responsible for the Salesforce CRM system, Google Analytics, and a handful of third-party integrations. The CMO and CIO work closely together on most initiatives, and budgets are typically project-driven rather than fixed annually. Individual contributors to Marketing campaigns include the Marketing Operations Manager, responsible for lead scoring and analytics. Key IT contacts include the CRM Administrator and Web Developer. Incidental contributors are the Corporate Attorney, who signs off on opt-in/out and DMARC policies.



Revenue sources

Unicorn earns commissions on financial services delivered by the banking consortium through its apps, including fixed finders' fees for what the company calls "skips"-customers who initially engage with Unicorn, but then "skip" to receive services directly from a consortium bank. Unicorn needs to attribute revenue from these customers to its own campaigns; currently, it's impossible to attribute ROI to individual campaigns, or provide documentation to claim commissions on "skips."



Current and aspirational marketing technology

Current Marketing technology consists of Marketable,an open-source lead management solution supported by a set of spreadsheets and scripts developed in-house. Marketable offers lead tracking and source attribution, but not multi-touch source attribution. Unicorn Fintech Marketing has difficulty linking the different stages of customer campaign journeys, and relies on scripts to translate Marketable's "sales alerts" into next steps it could use in multi-touch campaigns. IT has worked out scripts to input Marketable qualified leads into Salesforce, but the system is brittle and often requires manual intervention.



Current campaign management processes

A typical email campaign:

• Addresses a purchased (for customer acquisition) or0 in-house (for cross-sell) list. Purchased lists range from 300,000 to 1.5 million addresses

• Is sent from multiple data centers in the US and Canada

• Includes an "unsubscribe" opt-out below the message

• Is static; there are no formula fields

• Uses no deliverability authentication, nor integration 0 with any email management platform.

All campaigns to date direct respondents to a single 0 landing page with the company's "all markets" message. More sophisticated targeting is a high priority.



Current lead management and attribution

Unicorn's lead-management process follows

Marketable's "out of the box" defaults: lead evaluation levels 1 through 3, lifecycle stages "unqualified" and "qualified." The qualification processes are manual, and highly subjective: Marketing staff classify leads according to prospect email responses, including free-form comments. "Sales" followup is by email forms prompting higher levels of engagement. The company intends to phase out Marketable and replace spreadsheets and scripts with native features of whatever solution set it adopts.



Attribution processes are binary: response to a campaign email or web visit is rated a success if it results in a sale: there is no success rating assigned to TV ads that result in web visits, for example. Cost are not allocated to individual campaigns.



The Marketing department plans to expand outreach to social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, in-house and third-party financial blogs), and wants to make sure it can assess the ROI of these channels, and the overall social media program.



Current governance processes

Currently, the Marketing department assigns content development and campaign management duties to team members on a campaign-by-campaign basis. All team members (and IT) have access to all assets and tools, which sometimes leads to duplication and conflicts. The CMO realizes that a more specialization will be necessary to support the social media campaigns, but hasn't decided on the optimal organizational model.



Input of qualified leads from Marketable into

Salesforce is by manual cut-and-paste, assisted by scripts; inconsistency of input practices across Marketing team members is a known problem; individual members have their own "go-to" fields: where one member might check "TV ad" as Lead Source, another would put that in the comments field.



CMO

The CMO's most important concerns are:

• The current solution has too many manual steps to scale with anticipated growth

• Without more sophisticated attribution, the company will overinvest in less productive campaigns, and underinvest in better ones

• In general, analytics integrations are manual, slow, and unreliable

• The current system completely misses "skips"-customers switching from the Unicorn app to consortium banks-an important source of revenue

• Documenting the value of Unicorn's Marketing processes is essential to the success of the planned IPO, and millions of dollars in stock valuation hangs in the balance.



CIO

The CIO is concerned primarily with:

• The amount of time his team spends patching up Marketing campaigns and CRM data transfers, at the expense of other, critical initiatives

• Quality and reliability of the Analytics information his team provides to Marketing

MARKETING STAFF

Marketing Operations staff concerns:

• Campaigns require so much work that they can't run as many of them as they need to

• Multi-touch cross-selling campaigns (for example, savings accounts to loans) with excellent margins, but no way to know which campaign touches perform best

• Getting swamped with manual record-keeping; for example, spreadsheet mistakes take hours to find and fix

• Poor integration with third-party tools for preparing, sending, and evaluating campaign materials, for Example.

o Webhook not firing,

o Reaching API limit

o Synchronization errors with third-party tools and Salesforce

• Inadequate number of lead stages and qualification levels, making it difficult to evaluate lead value, especially in multi-touch campaigns



Despite the absence of an external Sales team,

Marketing Operations would like to improve the granularity of their lead tracking, including both lifecycle stages and quality levels, with "no score" and negative levels.

Unicorn Fintech launches a new paid subscription app where users can sign up to read financial advice. Access to Unicorn Fintech's new app is renewed each year, and the App User Expiry Date is a date field that is updated hourly from CRM to Adobe Marketo Engage. Another string type field called App User Status changes to a status of "Current" in Marketo Engage when the App User's access becomes valid, and changes to "Lapsed" if the App User fails to renew.

The Marketing team wants to add App Users who have not yet renewed to an Engagement Program to nurture them 2 months prior to their App User Expiry Date, and then remove the App User from the nurture if they renew.

Which smart campaign setup is the most efficient to manage adding the App User to the nurture?

10. An Adobe Marketo Engage Architect is integrating a Marketo Engage instance for a nonprofit client with two different third-party platforms.

The requirements are outlined below:

Scenario 1: Automatically clone existing default programs on Marketo, build the email using the RSS feed of blog section, and schedule the email on every Thursday.

Scenario 2: Before deleting any record on Marketo, push the data to "Donor System".

How should the Marketo Engage Architect approach the platform integration?

11. An Adobe Marketo Engage Consultant is assigned to audit an existing Marketo Engage instance. This is a 10-year-old instance. Due to high turnover within the Marketing Operations team, the team does not have the MQL assignment process documented. Marketing Operations does not have access to Salesforce. The sales team reports that they receive only 10 MQLs in a week. The Marketing team shows on average 50 MQLs in a week. The Sales team members do not get any MQL alert from Marketo Engage. They see the lead assignment only when the leads are assigned to "Sales Queue" on Salesforce. The Marketo Engage sync on Salesforce is properly configured and has write access to all standard objects and fields.

While auditing Marketo Engage instance, the consultant finds the following issues:

• An average 40 leads are getting graduated to MQLs but not syncing with Salesforce. These records are already in Salesforce's lead object and belong to Hospitality Industry.

• The web-message field on the Marketo Engage form is not getting updated to Salesforce's Lead and Contact objects. The Marketo Engage Sync user has read and write access to "Web-Message" field on Lead, Contact, and Account objects.

Which two steps should the consultant perform to find the root cause? (Choose two.)

12. Won: Leads that are attached to opportunities that we have closed and Won

In a meeting to discuss how to increase the amount of sales leads, someone suggests scoring leads who have clicked a link in an email with +35 points.

As the Adobe Marketo Engage Consultant, what are the effects of the lifecycle if this suggestion is implemented? (Choose two.)

13. An Adobe Marketo Engage Architect is working for Too Big to Fail Co., an enterprise company that has an 8-year-old Marketo Engage instance (A). Too Big to Fail Co. recently purchased start up Treat Snack LTD, which has 100 employees and its own Marketo Engage instance (B). The Architect needs to merge the two instances and maintain business continuity. No additional budget, funding, or resources are available for the merger and migration.

The Architect needs to determine the most important actions to take for the minimum viable solution to meet the business needs. The two instances need to be merged in 3 months.

Which actions should the Architect take?

14. An Adobe Marketo Engage Architect needs to audit an existing Marketo Engage instance. Upon inspection, more than 1000 fields that only live in Marketo Engage were created for a single use to collect information for a specific event, or ask a specific question during the registration of an event.

What should the Architect recommend to their client regarding field creation best practices?