About the Exam

Read on for details about the Salesforce Certified Marketing Cloud Next Consultant exam.

  • Content: 60 multiple-choice questions and up to five unscored questions
  • Time allotted to complete the exam: 105 minutes
  • Passing score: 72%
  • Version: Exam questions align to the Summer '26 release.
  • Registration fee: USD 200, JPY 30,000, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
  • Retake fee: USD 100, JPY 15,000, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
  • References: No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam.
  • Prerequisite: None


Exam Outline

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Section 1: Platform Setup & Governance 13%

  • Explain the environment setup for Marketing Cloud Next including Core Org Edition requirements, Data 360 provisioning, Marketing Data Kit installation, and permission sets.
  • Given a scenario, identify when Business Units are required and configure an appropriate content and user governance model using roles and Enhanced CMS Workspaces.
  • Given a scenario, configure self-service domain authentication or domain authorization for branded, authenticated email delivery.

Section 2: Consent 13%

  • Explain consent management concepts and the role of consent in customer engagement and compliance.
  • Identify the purpose and relationships of the platform consent objects used to capture and manage consent preferences.
  • Given a business requirement, determine the appropriate method for creating, managing, and updating consent records.
  • Given a scenario, configure a consent banner on marketing landing pages and external pages to support consent collection.

Section 3: Data Modeling, Identity Resolution & Segmentation 25%

  • Describe data object concepts in Data 360 and how they are used to connect, harmonize, unify, and activate customer data for audience segmentation and content personalization.
  • Given a business requirement, identify how CRM data, including objects, records, and Actionable Lists, can be ingested and used for audience segmentation, activation, and content personalization.
  • Given a business requirement, configure Identity Resolution to link multiple data sources into a unified profile
  • Demonstrate knowledge of Data 360 consumption-based entitlements and evaluate how marketing automation design decisions impact platform consumption and usage.

Section 4: Campaign Design, Flow Orchestration & Content 30%

  • Given a scenario, identify personalization methods using Handlebars, AMPscript, merge fields, repeaters, and content variations to personalize channel content with customer data.
  • Given a scenario, determine the appropriate flow type, trigger conditions, and configuration settings required to achieve the desired marketing or messaging outcome.
  • Given a scenario, determine the appropriate data source to add personalized customer data to messaging content.
  • Given a scenario, identify the appropriate flow elements, logic, and configuration required to automate business processes and messaging activities.
  • Given a scenario, configure activation templates to select the appropriate contact point value.
  • Given a business requirement, identify the components and configuration needed to build a landing page. 

Section 5: Agentforce & AI Innovation 11%

  • Given a scenario, automate campaign creation, audience segmentation, and content generation using marketing agents.
  • Given a scenario, configure conversational messaging to support customer engagement, response handling, and ongoing interactions across messaging channels.
  • Given a scenario, determine which predictive AI feature to use.

Section 6: Analytics & Performance Insights 8%

  • Given a scenario, identify a pre-built dashboard that best addresses the reporting and analytics requirements.
  • Given a scenario, describe how to surface marketing data and insights across the Salesforce platform.

Course Curriculum

    1. Section 1: Platform Setup & Governance 13%

    2. Section 2: Consent 13%

    3. Section 3: Data Modeling, Identity Resolution & Segmentation 25%

    4. Section 4: Campaign Design, Flow Orchestration & Content 30%

    5. Section 5: Agentforce & AI Innovation 11%

    6. Section 6: Analytics & Performance Insights 8%

    1. Marketing Cloud Next Consultant PDF

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Example Questions

Question 1:

A Marketing Cloud Next Consultant uses the Campaign Creation Agent to generate a campaign brief, flow, and email assets from a single prompt. They now need a matching audience segment without rewriting the audience description. How should the consultant generate the segment so it reflects the campaign brief?

A. Create a new segment, choose Segment Creation, and describe the Segment.

B. Ask the Campaign Creation Agent in the Agentforce chat to build the segment during campaign creation.

C. Open the segment builder from the Campaign, choose Segment Creation, and review the generated Segment draft.

Answer: C

Explanation: Salesforce supports generating a draft segment as part of an AI-assisted campaign when Einstein Segment Creation is enabled. The Campaign Creation Agent generates the campaign brief and campaign preview, and the resulting campaign can include a draft audience segment derived from the same campaign context. Therefore, the marketer doesn't need to recreate the audience definition manually. From the Campaign, the consultant can open the related segment experience, use Segment Creation, and review or refine the generated draft before publishing it. This preserves the target-audience logic already established by the campaign brief.

Question 2:

A Marketing Cloud Next Consultant wants to use marketing agents to automate the generation of a new campaign, draft email content, and build an audience segment in the company's account. What is the best workflow for the consultant to use?

A. Use the Campaign Creation Agent to generate the campaign record, content, and audience criteria, and then use audience criteria in Segment Creation to build the segment.

B. Use a custom agent configured with custom Prompt Builder and Data 360 actions to generate the campaign record, build the segment, and draft the content using a single prompt.

C. Use the Campaign Agent to natively build the segment, draft the content, and generate the campaign record using a single prompt.

Answer: A

Explanation: Marketing Cloud Next provides purpose-built AI capabilities rather than requiring marketers to construct a custom Agentforce agent for standard campaign creation. The Campaign Creation Agent can use a natural-language objective to draft a campaign brief, refine the campaign concept, generate campaign assets, and establish audience requirements. Audience generation is then completed through the dedicated Segment Creation capability, which translates natural-language audience requirements into Data 360 segment criteria that the marketer can review and publish. This separation is important. Campaign Creation and Segment Creation are specialized capabilities with related but distinct responsibilities.

Question 3:

Northern Trail Outfitters operates with a central corporate marketing team and regional marketing teams in multiple Business Units. The corporate team creates approved email templates in a central enhanced CMS workspace. The regional teams report that they cannot access these corporate templates for their campaigns. They can only see content created within their own Business Unit's workspace. What is the cause of this issue?

A. The regional users must be added as contributors to the enhanced CMS workspace.

B. The content in an enhanced CMS workspace is related to its Business Unit by default.

C. The corporate templates have not been published to the enhanced CMS workspace.

Answer: B

Explanation: Each Business Unit has one or more marketing workspaces, and a workspace is assigned within that Business Unit's configuration. When Business Units are created, a default marketing CMS workspace is assigned to each unit. Consequently, content created only inside the corporate Business Unit's workspace doesn't automatically become available as reusable content to marketers working within other Business Units. Salesforce provides Common Assets specifically to solve the cross-Business-Unit distribution problem. Content from one workspace can be posted to Common Assets, after which members of other Business Units can copy the approved asset into their own workspace. Adding regional users as contributors to the corporate workspace would weaken the intended Business Unit governance model. Publishing an asset within the corporate workspace also doesn't automatically distribute it across Business Units.

Question 4:

A financial services company is launching a Conversational Email campaign. The goal is to give customers the ability to reply directly to outbound promotional emails to initiate a real-time interaction with an AI agent. The Marketing Cloud Next Consultant has already built the required flow to handle the inbound routing. What is the required configuration step to ensure customer replies are successfully captured for response handling?

A. Configure Reply Mail Management (RMM) and set it to forward inbound replies to the AI agent's queue.

B. Configure the sending From Address's Agent Conversational Messaging and set the Routing Type to send inbound replies.

C. Configure the Route Work activity to successfully connect to the next flow to generate an email response.

Answer: B

Explanation: Salesforce instructs administrators to open Authenticated From Addresses in Unified Messaging, select the From Address used for the outbound campaign, and configure Agent Conversational Messaging for that address. The consultant then chooses the Routing Type that determines how incoming replies are handled. Supported routing targets include an Agentforce Service Agent, an Omni-Flow, or an Omni-Queue, followed by a fallback queue where appropriate. That configuration establishes the link between the outbound From Address and the conversational inbound-routing mechanism.

Question 5:

Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) uses a calculated insight in Data 360 to evaluate a 'Churn Risk' status. NTO's Marketing Cloud Next Consultant must automate a re-engagement email to send within 24 hours of when a customer becomes high risk. Which flow type and configuration should the consultant use?

A. Build a segment using the calculated insight as a criterion and configure an audience flow to send the email.

B. Build a Data 360-triggered flow on the Calculated Insights Object with the entry condition set to trigger when the status changes.

C. Build a record-triggered flow on the Calculated Insights Object with a changed status entry condition to send the email.

Answer: C

Explanation: You need real-time or near-real-time automation when a Calculated Insight (like Churn Risk) changes. Salesforce supports record-triggered flows on Data Cloud objects, including Calculated Insights, to react immediately to changes and send notifications or emails.

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