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This certification validates mastery in Marketo Engage solution design, project leadership, architecture design, reporting and attribution, and advanced operations. It is intended for experienced Marketo Engage professionals such as marketing technology managers, marketing operations leaders, solutions architects, and consultants. Candidates are expected to hold an active Adobe Marketo Engage Business Practitioner Expert certification before taking the exam. Passing demonstrates advanced ability to design, govern, and communicate Marketo Engage solutions.

Exam Topics

  • Section 1: Project Leadership and Change Management10%
  • Section 2A: Marketo Data Architecture Design18%
  • Section 2B: Marketo Campaign Architecture Design28%
  • Section 3: Reporting and Attribution20%
  • Section 4: Advanced Marketo Governance24%

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QuestionQ1

Section 2A: Marketo Data Architecture Design

When checking that a REST API Webhook has been completed correctly, two URLs are used to perform an initial validation to confirm that leads will pass through properly.

Which two combinations of URL and associated parameters should be used to validate the REST API?

Choose two
  • A Endpoint URL with Client ID, Your Email Address, and Client Secret
  • B Identity URL with Client Score and Client ID
  • C Endpoint URL with Access Token and Your Email Address
  • D Endpoint URL with Access Token and Client ID
  • E Identity URL with Client ID and Client Secret
Explanation

Validating a REST API Webhook requires testing both the authentication step and the data-call step. The Identity URL is used with the Client ID and Client Secret to authenticate and retrieve an Access Token (OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow). The Endpoint URL is then used with that Access Token along with the Client ID to make the actual API request and confirm that lead data passes through correctly. These are the two required URL/parameter combinations for validating the webhook.

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QuestionQ2

Section 2A: Marketo Data Architecture Design

A company sets up Workspaces and Partitions to support global regional marketing operations. They want to separate their Workspaces into North America, APAC, and EMEA regions so that each region cannot see another region's marketing activities. They also maintain a Default Workspace, which has access to all Person Partitions, while each regional Workspace only has access to its own regional Person Partition. The default dedupe key for the Unicorn Adobe Marketo Engage instance is email address.

A form that exists in the North America Workspace is filled out by a new person.

What default behavior should be expected?

  • A The new person will be created in the default Partition and immediately routed to the North America Partition
  • B The new person will be created in the North America Partition where the form exists
  • C The new person will be created in the default Partition and should remain there as long as the North America workspace has access to the default Partition
Explanation

When a new person fills out a form in a Workspace, Marketo creates that person record directly in the Partition associated with that Workspace. Since the North America Workspace is mapped to the North America Person Partition, the new lead generated from the North America form is created in the North America Partition immediately — there is no intermediate creation in a Default Partition followed by routing.

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QuestionQ3

Section 1: Project Leadership and Change Management

A consultant performing an audit of a company's Adobe Marketo Engage instance uncovers the following:

  • The instance reaches its API limit twice per month, which prevents leads from multiple third-party integrations from being consistently created or updated automatically.
  • The "Country" field is configured as a text field, resulting in inconsistent variations and misspellings of country values, which prevents leads from being routed to the correct regional sales team.
  • A Segmentation named "Region" is built using the "Country" field values; because of the field's inconsistency, most person records fall into the "Default" segment.
  • Lead routing relies on the "Region" segment, but no logic exists in the routing rules to handle leads that fall into "Default."

After presenting these findings to stakeholders, the consultant learns:

  • The Data Science team uses the Marketo Engage API to extract data twice monthly for an executive dashboard tracking quarterly goals.
  • The Sales team is significantly under target for qualified leads because the volume being routed to them is too low.
  • The Web team has seen below-average form conversion rates because too many fields are open text.
  • The Marketing team wants to send nurture emails localized according to the "Region" Segmentation.
  • The quarter will end in one month.

What should the consultant do first?

  • A Create a daily re-occurring batch that standardizes “Country” into clean values
  • B Change the “Country” field from a text field to a string field to standardize the values
  • C Advise the Data Science team to minimize their API query to reduce the consumption of the API limit
  • D Advise the company to increase its API limits to solve the API issue
Explanation

Because the quarter ends in one month and Sales is critically under target for qualified leads, the most urgent and fastest-to-implement fix is to correct the underlying data quality problem driving the broken Region segmentation and routing. Building a recurring (e.g., daily) batch campaign that cleans and standardizes the "Country" field values eliminates misspellings and variants, allowing person records to fall into the correct Region segment instead of "Default." This directly restores accurate lead routing to the appropriate regional sales teams in time to impact quarterly numbers, without the risk and lead time required to migrate the field type or redesign API integration strategy, both of which are lower urgency and do not resolve the immediate sales shortfall.

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QuestionQ4

Section 2B: Marketo Campaign Architecture Design

An Adobe Marketo Engage Architect observes that smart campaigns are executing slowly, and the Campaign Queue in Marketing Activities has a large backlog of campaigns. Alert notifications are firing with a delay. All of the alert smart campaigns are set up to trigger based on a first step of Change Data Value. All of the batch campaigns use an Advanced Wait Properties step as their first step so that the campaign runs every Monday at 8:00 PM PT.

Which steps should the Architect take to scale the execution of these campaigns?

  • A For campaigns sending alerts, move the Send Alert step to first. For batch campaigns, make sure that the wait time is less than 10 minutes.
  • B For campaigns sending alerts, move the Send Alert step to first. For batch campaigns, use batch campaign scheduler instead of Advanced Wait Properties.
  • C For campaigns sending alerts, add Sync to SFDC step to first. For batch campaigns, use normal Wait instead of Advanced Wait Properties.
Explanation

Placing the Send Alert step as the first step in the flow gives the alert action the highest priority in the trigger campaign queue, so it fires immediately instead of waiting behind other flow steps such as Change Data Value. Separately, using a Wait step (including Advanced Wait Properties) inside a campaign flow causes that campaign to be deprioritized in the queue and contributes to backlog buildup; the supported way to run a batch campaign on a specific recurring schedule (e.g., every Monday at 8:00 PM PT) is to configure the native Batch Campaign Scheduler on the Schedule tab of the batch campaign rather than using a Wait step to delay execution. Together these changes reduce queue congestion and eliminate the delay in alert delivery.

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QuestionQ5

Section 2A: Marketo Data Architecture Design

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Refer to the lifecycle model shown above.

A company wants to improve the efficiency of its sales follow-up and enhance its velocity reporting across the funnel. The company currently uses the out-of-the-box Adobe Marketo Engage success path modeler. The stages are defined as follows:

  1. Anonymous: Leads whose web activity is tracked, but whose identity is not yet known.
  2. Known: Leads for whom an email address or other information is available that allows marketing to them.
  3. Engaged: Leads that have engaged by filling out a form, clicking a link in an email, or visiting the website at least 10 times within a week.
  4. Lead: Leads with scores greater than 25.
  5. Sales Person: Leads with scores greater than 30.
  6. Opportunity: Leads who also have an opportunity attached to them; the Max Age is set to 7 days before moving to "Lost."
  7. Won: Leads attached to opportunities that have been closed and Won.
  8. Recycling: People with scores below 25 who need to be nurtured.
  9. Disqualified: People who are not a fit for the company's products and services and should no longer be marketed to.
  10. Lost: People attached to opportunities that have been lost.

Once leads reach the "Sales Person" stage, 50% of them are not followed up by Sales until 7 days later. The Sales leader wants a salesperson to follow up with leads within 4 days.

Once a lead is in "Opportunity," there is an additional step a salesperson must move the lead to before it can be considered "Won" in the CRM. If the salesperson does not update the stage within 3 days, the lead should be disqualified.

Which two modifications should the Adobe Marketo Engage Consultant make to the lifecycle model to achieve these goals?

Choose two
  • A Modify the “Opportunity” stage and update the Max Age from 7 days to 4 days
  • B Add an additional stage between “Opportunity” and “Won”. Set type to SLA and set Max Age to 3 days
  • C Add an additional stage between “Sales Person” and “Opportunity”. Set type to SLA and set Max Age to 3 days
  • D Modify the “Sales Person” stage from Type: Gate to Type: SLA and set Max Age to 4 days
  • E Modify the “Sales Person” stage from Type: Inventory to Type: SLA and set Max Age to 4 days
Explanation

Marketo lifecycle stage types are Inventory, Gate, and SLA. An SLA-type stage enforces a time-based expectation (Max Age) and triggers an action/alert if a lead remains in that stage too long, which is exactly what's needed for time-bound follow-up requirements. Since 'Sales Person' is currently a Gate (score-based) stage, converting it to an SLA stage with a 4-day Max Age enforces the sales follow-up timing requirement. Separately, because the CRM requires an additional step between Opportunity and Won before a deal is truly Won, a new stage must be inserted between those two stages; setting it as an SLA type with a 3-day Max Age ensures that if a rep doesn't advance the record within 3 days, it is automatically disqualified, satisfying the stated business rule.

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Section 1: Project Leadership and Change ManagementSection 2A: Marketo Data Architecture DesignSection 2B: Marketo Campaign Architecture DesignSection 3: Reporting and AttributionSection 4: Advanced Marketo Governance
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