Discovery and Customer Success27% of the exam

Discovery workshops, solution kits and success criteria

How a B2C solution architect runs discovery across Commerce, service and marketing: who defines requirements, which artifacts align executives, how solution kits and value maturity assessments feed a phased plan, and which requirement risks to document before design.

Official exam objective
Given a scenario, determine how to facilitate a successful customer engagement (agenda, plan, gather requirements, document, and design).

~8 min read · 14 practice questions

What the exam expects

  • Plan a requirements workshop: decide who defines the requirements for a use case that crosses B2C Commerce, Agentforce Service and Marketing Cloud Engagement, and who builds it.
  • Choose the discovery artifact for the audience: a business capability map, the Retail Operations Canvas or a value maturity assessment.
  • Use a Salesforce solution kit as a planning and design input, and add the checks it recommends to the plan before implementation.
  • Recommend a phased plan: proof of concept, prioritized use cases with confirmed success criteria, and an end-state architecture with options.
  • Document requirement risks surfaced in discovery (inventory forecasting, required fields, API and storage growth, feed timing) and set the agenda for a technical design workshop.

Key terms: solution kit (reference material for one cross-product use case); business capability map (drivers, capabilities and product positioning); Retail Operations Canvas (a visual of a retailer's operational steps); value maturity assessment (a workshop rating readiness to realize value); success metrics (quantifiable measures of progress).

Key facts

Kit contents
Detail
Required products, workflow, connecting technology, configurations, design considerations, resources
Requirement owners
Detail
Business owners and UX from Commerce, Service and Marketing
Before a reference implementation
Detail
Consider an environmental audit with an Engagement account executive
Business objectives
Detail
Follow the SMART framework
Contact creation
Detail
Service Cloud requires last name
Large catalogs
Detail
More than one million SKUs: import with delta files
Einstein data
Detail
Activation and testing on the primary instance group; data collected on production only
Sources for this section (6)
  • Why does the back-in-stock kit suggest an Einstein recommendations strategy for out-of-stock product pages?
  • When should the Engagement catalog be imported using delta files?
  • Why does a business value map require business objectives to be SMART?

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