Salesforce CRT-251 Salesforce Certified Sales Cloud Consultant (SU24) Exam Practice Test

The Scope section of a Statement of Work (SOW) is where the consultant should detail who will be responsible for training users on new features and how the training will be delivered. The Scope section outlines the specific tasks, deliverables, and responsibilities of both the consulting team and the client. Including detailed information about the training plan, including trainers, training methods, schedules, and any materials to be used, ensures that both parties have a clear understanding of the training expectations and responsibilities.

Salesforce Connect allows you to access data from external sources without copying it to Salesforce. You can create external objects that map to the data in the external system, and use them in Salesforce like any other objects. This can help you view and update customer billing information from another Salesforce org within your current org. Verified References:

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When enabling the Set Up Contacts to Multiple Accounts feature, it is essential to designate a default account as the Contact's primary account. This ensures that the primary relationship is clear, while still allowing the Contact to be associated with multiple accounts. Salesforce supports this feature natively, which eliminates the need for creating a custom junction object. By designating a primary account, you ensure data consistency and clarity in reporting and account management.

When troubleshooting why some leads are routing to the default lead owner after an update to the Web-to-Lead form, the consultant should validate that the new picklist values are part of the Lead assignment rule criteria. Lead assignment rules determine how leads are routed based on specified criteria. If the new picklist values are not included in these criteria, leads with those values will not match any rule and will be assigned to the default lead owner. Ensuring that all picklist values are accounted for in the assignment rules is crucial for proper lead routing.

Conducting discovery sessions and documenting existing business practices for each company is the recommended approach. This step ensures that the consultant understands the workflows, data usage, and business processes of both companies. It allows for a comprehensive assessment and aids in the creation of a well-informed integration and migration plan. According to Salesforce best practices, understanding the current state through discovery sessions is crucial before any data migration or integration can take place. It helps in identifying potential conflicts, redundancies, and areas for improvement, which can then be addressed in the project plan.

Advanced Currency Management allows you to specify different conversion rates for different time periods, such as monthly or quarterly, and use them in reports and forecasts. This can help you generate accurate reporting that reflects the currency fluctuations over time. Org-wide reporting can also display deal values in different currencies based on the user’s preference or the corporate currency. Verified References:

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Deal Insights within Pipeline Inspection in Salesforce provides sales reps with a single view to identify and manage stalled opportunities. This feature leverages AI to highlight deals that may require attention based on changes in engagement, activity, and other deal characteristics. It helps sales reps quickly identify which opportunities need follow-up and which are at risk of stalling, providing valuable insights for pipeline management.

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Pipeline Inspection and Deal Insights

Deal Insights Overview

When addressing performance measurement needs, it is crucial for a consultant to collaborate closely with the customer to understand their specific requirements. Each organization has unique goals, challenges, and metrics that are important to them. By working closely with the customer, the consultant can tailor the performance measurement criteria and system architecture to meet their specific needs, ensuring the implementation is aligned with the customer's business objectives.

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Understanding Customer Requirements

Sales Cloud Implementation Best Practices

During the planning stage, it is crucial to define clear goals, metrics, project schedule, and sales processes. This ensures that all stakeholders have a shared understanding of the project objectives, timelines, and success criteria. Defining these elements provides a structured framework for the implementation and helps in tracking progress and addressing issues proactively.

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Sales Cloud Implementation Best Practices

Project Planning and Management

Instructing sales reps to follow their opportunities and using Flow with a scheduled action and an email alert are two solutions that can meet the requirement of sending a notification to sales reps when their opportunities remain open past the close date. Following an opportunity allows sales reps to receive updates and reminders about the opportunity in their Chatter feed. Flow with a scheduled action and an email alert allows you to automate the process of sending an email notification to sales reps based on a time-based condition, such as the close date. Verified References:

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A cross filter is a feature that allows users to filter a report by related objects and their fields, such as accounts with or without opportunities. A cross filter can be added to any report type that supports cross filters, such as accounts, contacts, leads, or opportunities. By using a cross filter, Universal Containers can build a report that shows accounts with opportunities that are missing contacts, such as accounts with opportunities without contacts.

EAC a two-way sync for events and contacts means that EAC can synchronize events and contacts between Salesforce and the connected email and calendar applications, such as Gmail or Outlook. This minimizes the need for sales reps to manually create meetings and events that are stored on their calendars, as they will be automatically captured and displayed in Salesforce.

EAC supports emails, events, and contacts means that EAC can capture these types of activities from the connected email and calendar applications and display them in Salesforce. This allows sales reps to view and track their interactions with customers without having to manually log them in Salesforce.

Setting up an External ID field on the Account object with Read Only on the field security settings for all profiles except the admin profile ensures data integrity between the data warehouse and Salesforce. An External ID field is a custom field that has the “External ID” attribute, meaning that it contains unique record identifiers from a system outside of Salesforce. By making it Read Only for all profiles except the admin profile, the field value can only be updated by the integration or by the admin, preventing any accidental or intentional changes by other users. The External ID field can also be used to match records during data import or update operations, avoiding duplicate records or incorrect data.

Salesforce Connect is a feature that allows users to access and view data from external sources in real time, without copying or syncing the data into Salesforce. An external object is a special kind of custom object that maps to a data source outside Salesforce, such as an ERP system. By implementing Salesforce Connect and an external object, CK can view the product order information from the ERP system as a related list on the account record, without storing or updating the data in Salesforce.

Confirming that the custom matching rule is activated is the best way to resolve the issue of duplicate leads in Salesforce. A matching rule is a rule that defines how records are compared for duplicates based on fields and fuzzy logic. A custom matching rule is a matching rule that can be created and customized by users based on their needs and preferences. A custom matching rule must be activated before it can be used by duplicate rules or other features that prevent or allow duplicates. By confirming that the custom matching rule is activated, the admin can ensure that leads are matched according to their criteria and duplicates are detected and handled accordingly.

When addressing challenges within Cloud Kicks' Sales Cloud project, the consultant should prioritize assessing project requirements to decide if custom development or third-party apps are needed, considering budget and resources. This approach ensures that the solution is tailored to the specific needs of the project while balancing cost and resource constraints. By evaluating both custom development and third-party applications, the consultant can choose the most effective solution that meets the project's requirements and adheres to best practices for scalability and maintainability. Salesforce recommends evaluating standard features, custom solutions, and third-party apps to find the best fit for the project's needs.

Unchecking the Grant Access Using Hierarchies checkbox in Sharing Settings for the Complaints object and creating a criteria-based sharing rule that grants Read/Write access to the Complaints Specialist public group are two options that can meet the requirements of restricting access to Complaint records to only users within the Complaints Specialist public group. Grant Access Using Hierarchies is a setting that determines whether users above a record owner in the role hierarchy can access that record. By unchecking this setting for the Complaints object, the consultant can prevent managers or other users higher in the role hierarchy from viewing or editing Complaint records that they do not own. A criteria-based sharing rule is a rule that grants access to records that meet certain criteria, such as field values, record types, etc. By creating a criteria-based sharing rule that grants Read/Write access to the Complaints Specialist public group, the consultant can ensure that only users in this group can view and edit any Complaint record, regardless of who owns it.

Inbox is a suite of email productivity tools that integrates Salesforce with Outlook or Gmail. With Inbox, sales reps can sync their calender events between Salesforce and their email application, and log emails with related records in Salesforce without leaving their inbox. This way, they can easily track their customer interactions and report on them in Salesforce.

The Opportunity Percentage Split method in Salesforce allows for revenue sharing among team members. Each member can be assigned a specific percentage of the revenue. This method is ideal when the split percentage is less than 100% of the revenue amount because it allows for granular control over how revenue is distributed among team members. According to Salesforce documentation, Opportunity Splits can be set up to reflect different sales scenarios, including revenue recognition and compensation. The Opportunity Percentage Split method specifically supports scenarios where splits add up to less than 100%.

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Salesforce Opportunity Splits Overview

Setting Up Opportunity Splits

Account Roll-up Summary fields will update from the Opportunity object is something that Cloud Kicks should consider when enabling Advanced Currency Management in its Salesforce org. A Roll-up Summary field is a field that calculates values from related records, such as count, sum, min, max, etc. Advanced Currency Management is a feature that allows users to enable dated exchange rates and track historical exchange rates in Salesforce. By enabling Advanced Currency Management, Cloud Kicks can use dated exchange rates to convert currency amounts based on specific dates or ranges of dates. When using dated exchange rates, Account Roll-up Summary fields will update from the Opportunity object based on the close date of the opportunities, regardless of whether the opportunities are open or closed.

Adding a standard dashboard for Sales Cloud Einstein is the best approach to showcase the effectiveness of Einstein Lead Scoring. Salesforce provides pre-built Einstein Analytics dashboards that offer insights into lead scoring performance, helping the VP of sales visualize how lead scoring impacts the sales process. These dashboards include metrics and trends that demonstrate the value and accuracy of the Einstein Lead Scoring implementation.

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Sales Cloud Einstein Analytics

Einstein Analytics Dashboard for Lead Scoring

These are two Salesforce features that can help meet the requirement of returning or reducing the quantity of activated orders. An order is a confirmation of a sale that lists products sold or services rendered to a customer, along with prices and terms of delivery or service. An order can have different statuses, such as Draft or Activated. Some features that can help manage orders are:

Zero Quantity Orders: This feature allows users to create orders with zero quantity for products that are returned or canceled by customers. Zero quantity orders can be used to track returns or cancellations without affecting inventory levels or revenue forecasts.

Reduction Orders: This feature allows users to create orders with negative quantity for products that are reduced or partially returned by customers. Reduction orders can be used to track reductions or partial returns without affecting inventory levels or revenue forecasts.

Configuring a new Forecast Type on Opportunity Product grouped by Product Family can improve CK’s forecasts by dividing them by footwear line. A Forecast Type is a set of settings that define how forecasts are calculated and displayed for a specific business scenario, such as product line, territory, or revenue type. A Forecast Type can use either standard or custom opportunity fields to group and filter forecast data, such as Type, Product Family, or Territory. By grouping forecast data by Product Family, CK can see how much revenue they expect to close for each footwear line, such as Formal or Athletic.

Record types allow you to assign different page layouts, picklist values, and business processes to different users based on their profiles. You can create three record types for the three product lines, and assign them to the appropriate sales teams. You can also create three sets of opportunity stages that reflect the unique sales methodologies for each product line, and associate them with the corresponding record types. This can help you customize the Sales Cloud functionality for each product line and track their progress separately. Verified References:

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Revenue Schedules are a feature that allow users to track the revenue and quantity of products over time, such as for subscription or installment payments. Revenue Schedules can be enabled for any product that has a schedule type of Revenue or Quantity, and they can be customized to match the payment terms of each opportunity. By using Revenue Schedules, Universal Containers can capture the installment payment plan details for each product, such as the number of installments, the amount per installment, and the frequency of installments. This can help the finance department forecast the revenue and cash flow from each opportunity more accurately.

This is how CK can revoke Opportunity team access on an ad-hoc basis. Opportunity teams are groups of users who work together on an opportunity and share access to it. Users can add or remove team members as needed, and specify different levels of access for each team member. By removing a user’s Opportunity team member, CK can revoke their access to the opportunity without affecting other team members or changing the sharing model. Verified References: [Opportunity Teams]

These are two steps that the consultant should take to meet the requirement of tracking closed won opportunities generated by a campaign over the last 30 days using standard functionality. Customizable Campaign Influence is a feature that allows users to measure and report on how campaigns influence opportunities throughout the sales cycle. Users can define different influence models, such as first touch, last touch, or custom rules, and assign percentages or amounts of credit to each campaign that influenced an opportunity. Auto-association settings are options that determine how campaigns are automatically associated with opportunities based on criteria such as contact roles, time frames, or record types. By adding criteria to limit the matches to the past 30 days, CK can ensure that only recent campaigns are associated with opportunities. By enabling Customizable Campaign Influence, CK can use reports and dashboards to analyze how many closed won opportunities a campaign has generated based on different influence models. Verified References: [Customizable Campaign Influence]; [Auto-Association Settings for Customizable Campaign Influence]

Mass transferring the records to another role in the role hierarchy and removing the users from the role hierarchy are two solutions that can resolve the issue of making changes to the sharing model taking increasingly more time for users who own more than 10,000 records. A mass transfer is an operation that allows users to transfer ownership of multiple records from one user to another user at once. A role hierarchy is a structure that defines how users are organized and how data access is granted based on their roles. By mass transferring the records to another role in the role hierarchy, Cloud Kicks can reduce the number of records owned by each user and distribute them more evenly among other users in different roles. By removing the users from the role hierarchy, Cloud Kicks can prevent these users from inheriting access to records owned by other users in their role or below their role, which can slow down the sharing model changes.

Creating a User report and filtering by login Subtype is the most efficient way to analyze how users are logging into Salesforce, whether through a mobile device or a browser. The login subtype provides specific information about the method of access, making it easier to assess user behavior and preferences accurately. This approach allows consultants to generate insights without manually reviewing individual login histories.

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Login History

Creating Reports on User Logins

This is the approach that the consultant should use for the source data migration. Accounts, Contacts, and Opportunities are related objects in Salesforce, and they have dependencies based on their lookup or master-detail relationships. Accounts are parent objects of Contacts and Opportunities, so they should be migrated first. Contacts are child objects of Accounts and parent objects of Opportunity Contact Roles, so they should be migrated second. Opportunities are child objects of Accounts and parent objects of Opportunity Products and Opportunity Splits, so they should be migrated last. Verified References: [Data Migration Best Practices]

Multiple Forecast Types must be created and activated to enable forecasting for different product lines that have different sales stages. A Forecast Type is a set of settings that define how forecasts are calculated and displayed for a specific business scenario, such as product line, territory, or revenue type. A Forecast Type can use either standard or custom opportunity fields to group and filter forecast data, such as Type, Product Family, or Territory. The Forecast tab should be visible to easily view the forecasts, as it allows users to see their forecast amounts, quotas, adjustments, and categories in a single page. Users can also drill down into forecast details, compare forecasts with other users or periods, and submit or approve forecasts from the Forecast tab.

In Salesforce, when the organization-wide default (OWD) setting for Account is Private, access to child account records does not automatically inherit from parent account access. Therefore, if a sales rep has access to a parent account, they do not automatically get access to the child accounts. Access to child account records needs to be shared manually through sharing rules, role hierarchy, or manually sharing the records.

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Understanding Sharing Settings

Account Hierarchies and Sharing

When working with Sales Territories and reassigning Accounts into new territories, the consultant should consider that a territory model must be activated in order to view reassigned accounts. Only once the model is activated will the new territory assignments take effect, and accounts will be reassigned according to the new rules defined in the model. This step is crucial for ensuring that the reassignment process is completed and visible to users.

To allow users to manually search for a territory in an active territory model and assign it to opportunities, the consultant should recommend updating the user profiles with the Manage Territory permission. This permission enables users to search for and assign territories within an active territory model to opportunities, providing the necessary access and control for managing territory assignments. Ensuring that users have the correct permissions is crucial for successful territory management and assignment.

To retain the company history of contractors who change companies often, the consultant should recommend implementing the Contacts to Multiple Accounts feature. This feature allows a contact to be related to multiple accounts without creating duplicate records. This way, CK can track the relationship between a contractor and all the companies they have worked with. The consultant can also create a custom role field on the account contact relationship object to indicate the role of the contractor at each company.

Einstein Activity Capture (EAC) allows users to store emails and attachments in Salesforce and have them visible in the Activity Timeline and Related Lists. Users can choose to show emails added via EAC in the Related Lists activities view.

To use Einstein Activity Capture, users must connect their email accounts to Salesforce. They must also agree to the terms of the service provider before they can send emails in Lightning.

Contact roles on the Opportunity object allow sales executives to identify the contacts who are involved in the sales process and their roles, such as decision maker or influencer4. This helps sales executives prioritize their interactions with existing contacts and track their influence on the opportunity.

Setting up Account Teams with defaults for each sales rep is the best solution to meet the requirement of ensuring that the assigned sales ops specialist and sales engineer have access to the correct Accounts. An Account Team is a group of users who work together on an Account, such as sales reps, sales engineers, managers, etc. Each Account Team member has a role and a level of access to the Account and its related records, such as Contacts, Opportunities, Cases, etc. By setting up Account Teams with defaults for each sales rep, the admin can automatically add the sales ops specialist and the sales engineer to the Account Team whenever a sales rep creates or owns an Account. This way, the sales ops specialist and the sales engineer can view and edit the Account and its related Contacts.

Salesforce High Velocity Sales is a product that should be recommended for Cloud Kicks if they want to have their supervisors coach the consultants based on the call transcripts. High Velocity Sales is a set of tools that helps sales reps sell faster and smarter by providing them with best practices, automated tasks, and insights. One of the features of High Velocity Sales is Einstein Call Coaching, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze call transcripts and provide feedback and guidance to sales reps and managers.

Implementing a lead scoring strategy is the most effective way to help sales reps focus on leads most likely to result in a sale. Lead scoring involves assigning values to leads based on criteria such as demographic information, behavior, and engagement levels. This helps sales teams prioritize their efforts on high-quality leads, improving conversion rates and sales efficiency. According to Salesforce documentation, lead scoring can significantly enhance sales productivity by ensuring that the most promising leads are followed up on promptly.

The Lightning Usage App is a tool that provides insights into how users are adopting and interacting with Salesforce features, such as Salesforce Files and multi-factor authentication. The app includes dashboards and reports that show metrics such as file views, downloads, uploads, previews, shares, multi-factor authentication logins, and more. The app can help admins monitor user behavior and identify areas for improvement or training.

Recommending an integration with the marketing platform that creates leads in Salesforce is the best way to meet the requirement of handing off qualified prospects to the sales team. An integration is a connection between two or more systems that allows data exchange and synchronization. A lead is a record that represents a potential customer who has shown interest in a product or service. By integrating the marketing platform with Salesforce, the marketing team can automatically create leads in Salesforce when they qualify prospects based on their criteria, such as score, behavior, demographics, etc. This way, the sales team can access and follow up with the leads in Salesforce without having to manually enter them.

Using custom price books for domestic and international customers is the best way to improve usability for account executives who find the standard price book difficult to use because of different currencies and country-specific product variations. A price book is a list of products and their prices that account executives can use when creating opportunities. A custom price book is a price book that can be created and customized by users based on their needs and preferences. By using custom price books for domestic and international customers, account executives can easily select the appropriate price book for each opportunity based on the customer’s location, currency, and product requirements.

When project teams inform about events such as attending a conference, it impacts the project timeline. The best practice in such scenarios is to update the project plan to reflect any changes due to the team's unavailability. This ensures that all stakeholders are aware of the adjustments, and the project can proceed smoothly without unexpected delays. According to Salesforce's project management best practices, keeping an updated project plan and clear communication with stakeholders is crucial for maintaining project alignment and ensuring transparency throughout the project lifecycle.

When you adjust the exchange rates in a multi-currency org, the new rates only apply to new opportunities that are created or updated after the change. The old opportunities will retain the conversion rate that was in effect when they were last modified. This can help you preserve historical data and avoid recalculating closed opportunities. Verified References:

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To enable the sales team to create and edit leads, contacts, and opportunities with ease using the Salesforce mobile app, the consultant should recommend the use of Lightning Mobile Components. Lightning Mobile Components provide a customizable and flexible interface that enhances the mobile user experience, allowing sales reps to perform essential tasks quickly and efficiently. These components are designed to be mobile-friendly and support the creation and editing of various records directly from the mobile app.

Adding specific users as Opportunity team members with a role that grants Read/Write access allows account executives to share their Opportunities with other users who can help them qualify marketing Opportunities on their Accounts. Opportunity team members can view, edit, and delete the Opportunity, as well as add products, quotes, and activities. Sales management can report on which users are assigned to Opportunities by using the Opportunity Team Member report type.

Setting opportunity access on the role to View All opportunities associated with their accounts allows sales users to view all opportunities that are related to accounts they own or are above them in the role hierarchy. This meets the requirement of giving sales users access to opportunities that are tied to accounts they own. Setting organization-wide defaults for opportunities to Private restricts access to opportunities by default, so that only the owner and users above them in the role hierarchy can view them. This meets the requirement of giving sales users access to opportunities they own.

To assign territories in bulk to Opportunities, the consultant should run the filter-based Opportunity territory assignment. This feature allows users to apply territory assignments to a large number of opportunities based on specified criteria or filters. This method is efficient for bulk assignments and ensures that opportunities are accurately aligned with the appropriate territories based on predefined rules and conditions.

When emails sync by Einstein Activity Capture, the matching to Sales Cloud records is based on the standard Email field. Einstein Activity Capture automatically associates emails and events with the correct Salesforce records by looking at the email addresses of the recipients. The standard Email field on Contact, Lead, and User objects is used to make these associations, ensuring that activities are accurately reflected in the related records.

A communication plan is a document that outlines the objectives, methods, frequency, and stakeholders of project communication. It is essential for ensuring that everyone involved in the project is on the same page and aware of their roles and responsibilities. If the sales team at Cloud Kicks has been missing deadlines and meetings, it may indicate that there is a lack of communication or alignment between them and the customer. Therefore, the consultant should recommend revisiting the communication plan and setting up more frequent touch points with the customer to monitor progress, address issues, and manage expectations.

Arranging multiple sessions with small groups of employees is an efficient approach to conduct discovery meetings, as it allows the consultant to interact with different types of users and gather more detailed and specific feedback from them. Sending a survey to all employees asking for a list of desired changes is another efficient approach, as it enables the consultant to collect quantitative and qualitative data from a large number of users in a short time. Asking management to select which employees should participate in sessions is also an efficient approach, as it ensures that the consultant meets with the key stakeholders and representatives of each business unit or function.

Moving the invoice related list to a separate tab on the Lightning page can solve the issue of long rendering time, as it allows the account record to load faster without loading the invoice related list at the same time. The user can then click on the tab to view the invoice related list when needed. This also improves the user experience and the page layout by reducing clutter and scrolling.

To migrate all the sales data into CK’s Salesforce instance, the consultant should recommend the following data migration sequence for the objects:

Accounts

Opportunities

Contacts

Products

Product Line Items

Cases

Leads

Campaigns

This sequence ensures that all the parent records are created before their child records, and that all the lookup and master-detail relationships are preserved. For example, an opportunity must have an account before it can be created, and a product line item must have an opportunity and a product before it can be created.

Qualified contacts are the contacts that should be migrated from the marketing application to leads in Salesforce when following a new Salesforce implementation. A contact is a record that represents an individual who is associated with an account or business. A lead is a record that represents a potential customer who has shown interest in a product or service. A qualified contact is a contact who has met certain criteria or thresholds that indicate their readiness or willingness to buy, such as score, behavior, demographics, etc. By migrating qualified contacts from the marketing application to leads in Salesforce, Cloud Kicks can ensure that only the most promising prospects are handed off to the sales team for further follow up and conversion.

Activities logged and data quality score are two key metrics that can help measure user adoption of Sales Cloud solutions. Activities logged can indicate how often and how well users are recording their customer interactions and following up on their tasks. Data quality score can indicate how complete and accurate the data entered by users is, and how well it meets the data standards. Verified References:

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To ensure that steps in the sales process are clear and adhered to by the new inside sales team, the consultant should recommend creating a Path on the Opportunity object. Salesforce Path provides a visual representation of the stages in a business process. It allows administrators to define key fields, guidance for success, and specific steps that need to be completed at each stage. This feature is ideal for providing clear guidelines, support materials, and coaching tips for each step of the sales process, helping sales teams stay on track and adhere to best practices.

When a Salesforce admin assigns User A as the owner of an opportunity related to User B’s account, User A will have Read-Write access to the opportunity’s Account and its related contact records. This is because of the implicit sharing rules that grant access to parent and child records based on the organization-wide default settings. Since the organization-wide default setting for Account is set to Private, users are unable to see each other’s accounts by default. However, when a user owns an opportunity that is related to another user’s account, the user gains Read-Write access to that account and its related contacts, regardless of the sharing settings for those objects. This ensures that the user can view and edit the account and contact information that is relevant to their opportunity.

Using quotation marks operator around contact’s first and last name is a recommendation that can yield better search results when searching for contacts in global search. Global search is a feature that allows users to search for records or information across multiple objects and fields in Salesforce. Quotation marks operator is an operator that can be used in global search to find an exact phrase or match in a record or field. For example, searching for “John Smith” will return only records or fields that contain John Smith as an exact phrase or match, not John Doe or Adam Smith or John Smithson. By using quotation marks operator around contact’s first and last name, Cloud Kicks users can narrow down their search results and find the contacts they are looking for more easily and quickly.

This solution will meet the requirement by allowing the CEO to run reports from the sales team’s reports folder, the CEO’s assistant to control access to the reports, and the sales managers to change the reports when necessary. The View access level will allow the CEO to view and run reports in the folder, but not edit or delete them. The Manage access level will allow the CEO’s assistant to view, run, edit, delete, and share reports in the folder, as well as add or remove users from the folder. The Edit access level will allow the sales managers to view, run, and edit reports in the folder, but not delete or share them3

Creating a dashboard component and scheduling the dashboard to refresh monthly can help the VP of sales determine the number of closed deals on a monthly basis and compare the month-over-month results. A dashboard is a visual display of key metrics and trends for records in Salesforce. A dashboard component is a chart, table, metric, or gauge that shows data from a source report. Users can create a dashboard component that shows the number of closed deals for each month based on a report that filters opportunities by stage and close date. Users can also schedule the dashboard to refresh monthly, so that it always shows the latest data. Scheduling a reporting snapshot of the Opportunity History object to run monthly can also help the VP of sales determine the number of closed deals on a monthly basis and compare the month-over-month results. A reporting snapshot is a report that captures data at a specific point in time and stores it in a custom object. Users can create a reporting snapshot that captures data from the Opportunity History object, which tracks changes in amounts or stages for opportunities, and stores it in a custom object with fields such as Month, Year, Stage, and Count. Users can then schedule the reporting snapshot to run monthly, so that it always captures the latest data.

This solution should be recommended for Cloud Kicks if they have a complicated sales process and their sales reps often have difficulty deciding when to move opportunities through various stages. Activating Path and adding up to five key fields and Guidance for Success will allow Cloud Kicks to provide their sales reps with a visual representation of the sales process stages and helpful tips and resources for each stage. Path is a feature that helps sales reps move records along predefined steps by displaying key fields and guidance on each step. Guidance for Success is a customizable section on Path that can include text, links, images, or videos to assist sales reps in completing tasks or achieving goals at each stage.

A SIPOC diagram is a tool that can be used to show the high-level process areas within a business, as well as the inputs and outputs of each process, and the suppliers and customers involved. It can help provide an overview of how a business operates and how differentprocesses relate to each other. A SWOT diagram is used to analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of a business or a project. A value stream map is used to show the flow of value from customer demand to product delivery, and identify waste and improvement opportunities along the way. A capability model is used to describe the capabilities of a business or an organization, and how they support its goals and objectives