Certified Marketing Cloud Administrator: Confirming Sender Authentication Package (SAP) Setup | Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO)

Confirming Sender Authentication Package (SAP) Setup

Question

Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) hired a new Marketing Cloud admin, who was told all emails come from

The previous admin did not leave any documentation.

What should confirm a Sender Authentication Package (SAP) has been set up on the account?

[email protected]

Answers

Explanations

Click on the arrows to vote for the correct answer

A. B. C.

B

To confirm whether a Sender Authentication Package (SAP) has been set up on the Marketing Cloud account, we need to understand what SAP is and how it works.

Sender Authentication Package (SAP) is a set of authentication protocols that helps ensure email deliverability and protects the sender's reputation. It includes several components such as Sender Policy Framework (SPF), DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), and Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC).

SPF allows email receivers to verify that an email was sent from an authorized mail server for a specific domain. DKIM adds a digital signature to the email header, verifying the email's authenticity and ensuring it has not been tampered with in transit. DMARC provides email senders with policy and reporting mechanisms to help protect their domain from fraudulent email.

Now, let's look at the answer choices:

A. The login page for Marketing Cloud Users is login.email.nto.com and is branded with NTO colors.

This answer choice is not related to SAP and does not help confirm whether it has been set up on the account.

B. Upon receiving an email, all tracked links start with click.email.nto.com.

This answer choice is also not related to SAP. Tracked links indicate whether recipients have clicked on links in the email, but they do not confirm whether SAP has been set up.

C. Users receive Marketing Cloud password reset emails from [email protected]

This answer choice is related to SAP, but it does not confirm whether it has been set up on the account. The email address [email protected] indicates that an email authentication protocol has been set up, but it could be SPF, DKIM, or both, and it may not be enough to protect the sender's reputation.

Therefore, none of the answer choices confirm whether SAP has been set up on the Marketing Cloud account. To confirm whether SAP has been set up, we need to check the account settings in Marketing Cloud or contact Salesforce support for assistance.