Free Practice Questions for the Salesforce Consultant Analytics-Con-201 Exam (2026 Updated)
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A CRM Analytics consultant at Cloud Kicks is trying to upload data using an External Data API and the CSV file with the data wasuploaded successfully. Upon analyzing the data using a lens, they find
they are unable to perform any mathematical operations as all the data and fields are treated as dimensions.
What is causing the problem?
In Data Alerts, a field named Region is 96.5% North America. The consultant believes that this is an important field since the majority of sales is in the North American market.
What is the appropriate action?
A CRM Analytics consultant is asked to help a company report on its sales activity. The company wants to train some users to create dashboards. The company also wants one other specific team to be able to use the dashboards.
What should the consultant do to address these requirements?
Universal Containers uses CRM Analytics to build dashboards for different departments: Sales, Service, and Marketing. Users in the samedepartment have the same role and need to have access to the same dashboards. Dashboards for different departments use some common datasets with the same row-level security.
How should a CRM Analytics consultant address this need?
CRM Analytics consultant receives a new project from a client that wants to implement CRM Analytics. They do not currently have CRM Analytics but want guidance on how to ensure their users have the correct access.
They have 1,000 users with a small team of three people who will build both datasets and dashboards. An additional 15 people should be able to only create dashboards. The remaining users should only be able to view dashboards.
Which recommendation should the consultant give the client?
Which recommendation should the consultant give the client?
Universal Containers (UC) recently activated data sync in the CRM Analytics data manager. After running the sync, UC notices that the aggregate sum of a field within the company's dataset is different
than what they manually calculated by summing the same data in the Salesforce object.
What is causing the issue with the newly synced data?
A data architect wants to use a recipe transformation to implement row level security based on role hierarchy in Salesforce.
Which transformation should the architect use to level the dataset hierarchy?
A model created with a GLM algorithm produced unsatisfactory results.
When re-running the model, which type of algorithm should the consultant use to improve the results?
ACRM Analytics consultant is reviewing results from an Einstein Discovery story with a business user. They agree with the findings but notice that none of the fields used in the story have a correlation value greater than 4%. The client is now concerned that the model
may not be good enough to deploy.
Which action should the consultant take?
A CRM Analytics consultant has been tasked with providing access to CRM Analytics for a few users. They should be able to view the data but unable to export it.
Which permission should the consultant make sure to NOT include?
Universal Containers (UC) is looking to create a dashboard for whitespace analysis. UC wants to view a particularcustomer and see what similarcustomers have bought.
Which recipe transformation is helpful for the consultant to use while creating the dataset?
Cloud Kicks has informed CRM Analytics developers that they have two scenarios with restricted row-level security.
The parameters being:
1. Non-CXOs and VPs working in EMEA can have access to EMEA records only.
2. CXOs and VPs should have access to all data irrespective of the region (APAC, EMEA, etc.).
Which sharing method works for this scenario?
A system administrator and a CRM Analytics consultant are working together on deploying arecipe/dataflow and a dataset to another org. Prior to this deployment, a package was deployed with all the custom fields used in the dataflow and dataset.
While running the recipe/dataflow in the target environment, the consultant encounters multiple errors related to these custom fields.
How should this be resolved?
The administrator at Cloud Kicks has been asked to sync data from an external object created in Salesforce into CRM Analytics.
What should the administrator keep in mind?
A CRM Analytics consultant is working on Sales dashboards with multiple datasets and advanced queries in the Sales Analytics app.
Sales managers in the organization have been given Editor/Manager access to the app, whereas sales reps have been given Viewer access.
Some dashboards that are in progress are not ready to be rolled out to sales reps and should only be viewable by sales managers.
How should the consultant accomplish this?
A manager at Cloud Kicks wants to separate and analyze accounts based on numeric information of its opportunity records. The data includes things like amount, quantity of products, contacts, and
quotes.
How should the CRM Analytics consultant accomplish this?
A new picklist value was added for the Category field on the Account object. This field is already added as part of the Account object data sync and the respective recipe that uses this field.
The CRM Analytics team reports that when they start the recipe it runs successfully with no errors or warnings, but theyare unable to See this new valueson their existing dashboards.
What is the oridi4 of this issue?
A CRM Analytics consultant is asked to make changes to the current sales dashboard at Cloud Kicks. The dashboard is crucial to track the daily sales performance of the company and needs to be
available for other users while the consultant works on the changes.
How should the consultant proceed to update the dashboard?
Cloud Kicks (CK) wants to use CRM Analytics to analyze trends of its sales pipeline in order to accelerate the company's sales process. To do so, CK needs to know the average time an opportunity
spends in each stage. The data can be found in the Opportunity History object, but the value is not pre-calculated in Salesforce, so a consultant recommends using a recipe to calculate it.
How should the consultant use a recipe to calculate the average time an opportunity spends in each stage?
AW Computing will start using Tableau Online to report on some of its Salesforce data to users who do NOT have an SFDC license.
What is the first step the CRM Analytics consultant should take?
Cloud Kicks' Salesforce org has multiple currencies enabled. This company's business intelligence team uses CRM Analytics to build a dataflow/recipe that creates a dataset, "OpportunityDataSet", which is populated with data extracted from Opportunity. One of the extracted fields is the standard field, Amount.
Which currency will the Amount values be shown in "OpportunityDataSet"?
Cloud Kicks (CK) has a dashboard that is still showing 10 former account managers. CK has since expanded, and some have moved from their former roles. CK wants the dashboard to reflect current account managers and stay up to date as new team members join.
How should the CRM Analytics developer accomplish this?
A CRM Analytics consultant is building a dashboard for Cloud Kicks that is embedded in a separate Lightning page called "Management Dashboard" using a CRM Analytics Dashboard Component. The system administrator and the contract manager should both have access. The system administrator is able to see the dashboard and the data, but the contract manager sees a blank Lightning page.
What is causing the issue?
Universal Containers' CRM Analytics team is building a dashboard with two widgets, and the queries use different datasets.
1. List widget associated to the query "Type_2" and grouped by the dimension "Type" (multi-selection)
2. Donut chart widget associated to the query "Query_pie_3" and grouped by the dimension "Type"
The team wants any selection in the List widget to filter the Donut chart and vice versa. Users should be able to choose more than one Type (multi-selection).
What is the recommended way to accomplish the required filtering?
Cloud Kicks needs a CRM Analytics consultant to install the Appointment Analytics App. After installation, they realize the wrong field was picked and the app did not have access to a newly created field that should be used instead of the old one.
What is the first step the consultant should take to prevent erroneous dataset/dashboard creation?
A consultant runs the sharing inheritance coverage assessment for the Opportunity object and finds that some records exceed 400 sharing descriptors.
What should the consultant do?
Universal Containers builds a new sales dashboard and wants to makesure account managers can access the dashboard while traveling.
What should the consultant consider doing in this process?
A consultant sets up a Sales Analytics templated app that is very useful for sales operations at Universal Containers (UC). UC wants to make sure all of the data assets associated with the app, including:
recipes, dataflows, connectors, Einstein Discovery models, and prediction definitions are refreshedeveryday at 6:00 AM EST.
How should the consultant proceed?
Universal Containers intends to use a custom Salesforce big object in its org and visualize the data using CRM Analytics. As the number of rows to be synced is quite large, the CRM Analytics consultant is looking to set up an incremental sync with additional filters added as part of the data sync to improve performance.
What should the consultant keep in mind while implementing this?
