The Salesforce Financial Services Cloud (FSC) Accredited Professional (AP-208) Exam (Financial-Services-Cloud)

Consent Management for Financial Services Cloud is a feature that helps financial institutions honor and respect their customers’ wishes when they request only specific forms of contact from their company or opt-out of certain types of data-sharing. This feature helps institutions comply with the data protection and privacy regulations that apply to their company11. A consultant can suggest the following actions to implement Consent Management for Financial Services Cloud:

Set up trackingand storage of certain dataprivacy preferences: This involves creating data privacy records for customers who have opted out of certain types of communication or data-sharing, and selecting the appropriate options in the record to indicate their preferences12.

Use the Consent API: This is an API that lets users query,create, update, or delete consent records for customers who have given or withdrawn their consent for certain types of communication or data-sharing.

Protect your Salesforce organization: This involves setting up organization-wide sharing settings, encryption, field-level security, and other measures to ensure that only authorized users can access or modify customer data according to their consent preferences.

Interest Tags are a feature of Financial Services Cloud that let users add custom tags to client records to capture client needs, interests, and prospecting opportunities. Some of the things to consider when configuring a report to show Interest Tags are:

When the user defines the custom report type, Topics should be selected as the Primary Object. Topics is the standard Salesforce object that stores the Interest Tags data4. The user can then add other objects as secondary objects, such as Accounts, Contacts,or Opportunities.

To show Interest Tags applied to specific objects, the user can add a filter in the report and select the object name. For example, to show only Interest Tags related to Accounts, the user can add a filter for Entity Type equals Account5.

To prevent the data import from creating duplicates when importing records from a system outside of Salesforce, you should use External ID. External ID is a custom field type that can be used to store unique identifiers from other systems. You can use External ID to match records during data import and avoid creating duplicate records in Salesforce. You can also use External ID to enable upsert operations, which can insertnew records or update existing records based on the External ID value. Verified References: : Salesforce Help Article [5] : Salesforce Help Article [6]

To design the future state business process using FSC features, the administrator should create an action plan with tasks to follow up in 2 days, 2 weeks, and 2 months when an account status is changed to “Customer”. An action plan is a feature that allows users to create templates for common client processes, such as account opening, loan application, or financial review. An action plan template consists of action plan items that define the tasks, subtasks, and deadlines for each step of the process. By creating an action plan with tasks to follow up in 2 days, 2 weeks, and 2 months when an account status is changed to “Customer”, the administrator can automate the email reminder process and track and report on the progress in FSC

To display the most important fields on the side panel of ARC, the Admin mustconfigure the Compact Layout for each object. The Compact Layout is a layout that determines which fields appear in key places in Salesforce such as record highlights areas, list views, lookup dialogs, and global search results. The Admin can use the Compact Layout to select up to 10 fields that are most relevant for each object and display them on the side panel of ARC

My Domain is a feature in Salesforce that allows you to create a subdomain for your org. You need to enable My Domain to access Financial ServicesCloud Lightning Components, such as Actionable Relationship Center, Relationship Map, Life Events & Business Milestones, etc. To enable My Domain, you need to do the following:

Register a subdomain using the My Domain wizard in Setup > My Domain.

Deploy itto your users after testing it in your sandbox or developer org. Verified References: : Salesforce Help Article [7]

To hide highly sensitive Life Events or Business Milestones until they happen, the Admin can hide them on the Events & Business Milestones Lightning Component page properties. The Events & Business Milestones Lightning Component isa component that displays a timeline of life events and business milestones for a client or a group. The Admin can use the page properties to customize the component and select which event types or milestone types to show or hide on the timeline2.Verified References: 2

Salesforce provides features and tools to help financial institutions improve the efficiency of their mortgage processes and provide better experiences for their customers. Some of the features and tools that a consultant can suggest to Cumulus Bank to implement are:

The standard mortgage flow templates to build a mortgage flow in Financial Services Cloud: These are prebuilt flow templates that guide users through the steps of creating a mortgage application, capturing borrowerinformation, and submitting the application for approval7. The templates can be customized to suit the bank’s specific needs and requirements8.

Flow Builder to automate these business processes: Flow Builder is a point-and-click tool that lets users create flows to automate business processes in Salesforce9. Flow Builder can be used to create custom mortgage flows that integrate with other Salesforce features, such as data models, objects, fields, validation rules, and actions10.