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Distributed Marketing requirements, sending and scale limits
When Distributed Marketing fits a customer: required and optional products, supported editions, experiences, licences and recipients, how Quick Send and Campaign Send work through Journey Builder, and the user, send volume and business unit limits that decide viability.
Given a customer use case, recommend which extension product(s) addresses the requirement.
~7 min read · 12 practice questions ·
What the exam expects
- Confirm the products, editions, experience and licences an org needs before Distributed Marketing can be installed.
- Recommend which optional product a requirement adds: Marketing Cloud Connect, MobileConnect or SSL.
- Choose Quick Send or Campaign Send for a sending need, and explain which message channels support preview and collaboration.
- Name the records Distributed Marketing can send to, and the system user it needs per business unit.
- Spot the scale limits that make a design unviable: users per org, send volume and business units.
- Key terms: Distributed Marketing (corporate content that distributed teams personalize and send from CRM); Quick Send (one approved message from a record); Campaign Send (approved members entering a connected journey); Marketing Cloud Engagement system user (the dedicated user that authenticates one business unit).
Key facts
Required products
- Detail
- Engagement with Journey Builder, a CRM cloud, Salesforce Connect
Engagement account
- Detail
- Enterprise 2.0
Professional Edition
- Detail
- Supported with SOAP API purchased separately
CRM experience
- Detail
- Lightning Experience only
Marketing Cloud Connect
- Detail
- Optional; needed for Email Open in CRM and Sales or Service Cloud activities
Supported recipients
- Detail
- Contacts, leads, person accounts; not custom objects
Business units
- Detail
- Up to 200, one dedicated default-BU system user each
Users per org
- Detail
- No more than 150,000 with Standard or Admin permissions
Roll-up summary fields
- Detail
- No more than 500 messages per campaign per minute
High volume
- Detail
- Over 10,000 sends a minute or 600,000 an hour: contact the account team
Campaign Send release
- Detail
- Ready members follow the journey's cadence
- Why doesn't every adviser using Distributed Marketing need a Marketing Cloud Engagement licence?
- When a user rejects a pending campaign member by mistake, how is it undone?
- Why can't a Quick Send deliver a three-email onboarding series?
- What do Campaign Personalization Defaults change?
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