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Difficulty: HardEinstein Activity Capture and Sync Configurations

A system administrator is deploying Einstein Activity Capture (EAC) for a newly formed account management team. The administrator attempts to grant EAC user access by updating settings on the team's custom profile, but cannot locate any EAC user entitlement settings on the profile object. Furthermore, after successfully adding the users to an active EAC configuration, sales leadership notices that standard Salesforce Activity reports fail to include emails and events synced by EAC. Which statement accurately explains how EAC access is provisioned and how its captured data behaves in reporting?

  1. EAC functionality requires assigning an EAC permission set to users rather than configuring profile settings, and captured activities are stored off-platform in AWS storage, making them unavailable in standard Task and Event reports.Answer
  2. B
    EAC permissions must be enabled by creating a dedicated custom profile with API access enabled, after which captured activities automatically convert into standard Task records visible in standard reports.
  3. C
    EAC user access is inherited automatically by all users assigned to active configurations, but captured data requires enabling Shared Activities to display in standard reports.
  4. D
    EAC settings are configured on the Organization-Wide Defaults page for Activity Management, and captured activities are excluded from reports only if privacy settings are set to Private.

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EAC functionality requires assigning an EAC permission set to users rather than configuring profile settings, and captured activities are stored off-platform in AWS storage, making them unavailable in standard Task and Event reports.
The correct answer accurately reflects both EAC provisioning and storage behavior. EAC access is granted by assigning a permission set (e.g., Standard Einstein Activity Capture) to individual users, as profile settings do not control EAC feature activation. Additionally, EAC emails and events are stored off-platform in AWS rather than as standard Task and Event records in the Salesforce relational database. Consequently, standard Salesforce reports (which only query the Salesforce database) cannot render EAC activities unless Activity Metrics or CRM Analytics tools are utilized.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze how Einstein Activity Capture (EAC) user permissions are assigned in Salesforce.
EAC features require assigning an explicit permission set (such as Standard Einstein Activity Capture) or permission set license to individual users, rather than modifying user Profiles.
Salesforce uses permission sets for additive feature provisioning like EAC to maintain modular control across varied user roles.
2
Evaluate the storage architecture for EAC-captured emails and events.
EAC captures activities and stores them off-platform in an external AWS infrastructure, streaming them onto record activity timelines.
Storing high-volume activity data off-platform prevents database storage inflation but means activities are not standard CRM records.
3
Determine the impact of off-platform EAC storage on standard reporting.
Standard Salesforce reports query records residing in the core Salesforce database (Task and Event objects), so they cannot display EAC data stored in AWS.
Reporting on EAC data requires features like Activity Metrics or CRM Analytics (Tableau CRM) designed specifically to query off-platform activity data.

Key Concept

Einstein Activity Capture Architecture, Permission Set Assignment, and Off-Platform Data Storage Limitations
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Einstein Activity Capture and Sync Configurations

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