QUESTION NO: 1
A company uses the Sales Qualification Agent to analyze leads and determine qualification probability.
The Sales Qualification Agent is configured in Research-only mode. The agent processes a lead and determines the lead's target customer profile suitability is Low.
You need to determine the outcome of the agent's action.
What should you infer about the agent?
A company uses the Sales Qualification Agent to analyze leads and determine qualification probability.
The Sales Qualification Agent is configured in Research-only mode. The agent processes a lead and determines the lead's target customer profile suitability is Low.
You need to determine the outcome of the agent's action.
What should you infer about the agent?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION NO: 2
A company uses the Sales Close Agent in Dynamics 365 Sales to help sellers close deals.
The sales managers want to ensure the agent is used only in specific scenarios.
You need to identify the behavior of the Sales Close Agent.
What should you use to review the agent's behavior?
A company uses the Sales Close Agent in Dynamics 365 Sales to help sellers close deals.
The sales managers want to ensure the agent is used only in specific scenarios.
You need to identify the behavior of the Sales Close Agent.
What should you use to review the agent's behavior?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION NO: 3
Hotspot Question
A sales manager wants to set up goals for all salespeople. The goal measurement is based on the total outgoing calls finished each year. The goals for the fiscal year are based on a calendar year, January-December.
You need to create the rollup query for the goal metrics.
Which option should you select? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Hotspot Question
A sales manager wants to set up goals for all salespeople. The goal measurement is based on the total outgoing calls finished each year. The goals for the fiscal year are based on a calendar year, January-December.
You need to create the rollup query for the goal metrics.
Which option should you select? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Correct Answer:
Explanation:
The correct date field is Actual End because the goal is based on calls that are finished during the calendar year. For the Phone Call table, Microsoft defines Actual End as the actual end date and time of the phone call, which is the proper date to evaluate whether the completed call falls within the January-December goal period.
The correct rollup field is Actual (Integer) because the goal measures the number of outgoing calls, not revenue or another money-based amount. Microsoft's goal metric guidance explains that goal metrics can use count/integer values, and specifically gives sales calls made by a salesperson as an example of an integer goal metric. The actual integer field represents the achieved count as of the latest rollup calculation.
The correct source record type status is Made because the requirement is for outgoing calls that were completed. Microsoft's Phone Call status reason options include Open, Made, Canceled, and Received; "Made" represents completed outgoing phone calls, while "Received" represents completed incoming calls. Therefore, the rollup must count Phone Call records with status Made, using Actual End as the date boundary and Actual (Integer) as the accumulated value.
QUESTION NO: 4
Hotspot Question
A sales manager needs to set up goals in Dynamics 365 Sales for salespeople.
The measurement of goals must be based on the total deal amount upon closing an opportunity.
The fiscal year for the goals must be based on the calendar year.
You need to create the rollup query for the goal metrics.
Which options should you select? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Hotspot Question
A sales manager needs to set up goals in Dynamics 365 Sales for salespeople.
The measurement of goals must be based on the total deal amount upon closing an opportunity.
The fiscal year for the goals must be based on the calendar year.
You need to create the rollup query for the goal metrics.
Which options should you select? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Correct Answer:
Explanation:
The correct table is Opportunity because the goal measurement is based on deal amounts when opportunities are closed. In Dynamics 365 Sales goal metrics, rollup fields define which table and source attribute are used to calculate actual or in-progress goal values. Microsoft's goal metric documentation gives the direct example of using the Opportunity table with the opportunity actual value/source attribute to track actual money amounts from opportunities closed as Won.
The correct date field is Actual Close Date because the goal period must be determined by when the deal was actually closed, not when the opportunity was created. Microsoft's goal metric configuration guidance states that the Date Field determines the goal period that records roll up into, and gives Actual Close Date as the relevant example.
The correct revenue field is Actual Revenue because the requirement is based on the total deal amount upon closing the opportunity. Budget Amount and Total Amount do not represent the final closed deal value for goal actuals. Goal rollup fields calculate actual performance values for completed measurable results, which fits closed opportunity revenue.
QUESTION NO: 5
Hotspot Question
You are configuring Dynamics 365 Sales for a company.
Sales leadership wants to track monthly revenue targets for each seller and evaluate whether targets are achieved.
The configuration must include the following:
- Define measurable sales targets.
- Aggregate opportunity revenue.
You need to configure the system so that the sales performance can be measured using defined targets.
What should you configure for each requirement? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Hotspot Question
You are configuring Dynamics 365 Sales for a company.
Sales leadership wants to track monthly revenue targets for each seller and evaluate whether targets are achieved.
The configuration must include the following:
- Define measurable sales targets.
- Aggregate opportunity revenue.
You need to configure the system so that the sales performance can be measured using defined targets.
What should you configure for each requirement? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Correct Answer:
Explanation:
The correct configuration for defining measurable sales targets is Goal metric. In Dynamics 365 Sales, goals are measured by using goal metrics, which define what is being measured and how performance is calculated. Microsoft's goal documentation explains that goals help measure progress toward targets such as revenue, while goal metrics and their rollup fields define the values used to calculate performance against those targets.
To aggregate opportunity revenue, use the Rollup column. A goal metric uses rollup fields/columns to calculate actual, in-progress, or custom values. Microsoft specifically describes a money-based goal metric that uses the Opportunity table and the opportunity actual revenue field to track money amounts from opportunities closed as won. This matches the requirement to aggregate opportunity revenue for monthly seller targets. Rollup query is not the best answer because it only adds filtering criteria to an existing goal metric, such as limiting records by owner, territory, or other conditions; it does not define the revenue aggregation itself. Goal hierarchy organizes parent-child goals, and forecasting supports pipeline projections, but neither defines the measurable target calculation or aggregates opportunity revenue for goal achievement.
QUESTION NO: 6
A representative asks Copilot why an opportunity is considered high priority. What information should Copilot most likely reference?
A representative asks Copilot why an opportunity is considered high priority. What information should Copilot most likely reference?
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION NO: 7
A company wants AI recommendations without replacing existing sales methodologies or approval processes. Which statement best reflects Dynamics 365 Sales AI?
A company wants AI recommendations without replacing existing sales methodologies or approval processes. Which statement best reflects Dynamics 365 Sales AI?
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION NO: 8
Case Study 2 - Contoso Ltd
Background
Contoso Ltd. is a global technology distributor headquartered in Redmond, Washington. The company sells networking equipment, cloud infrastructure, and managed services to enterprise customers across North America and Europe.
Contoso Ltd. currently manages its sales operations by using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and plans to enable Sales Insights in the future.
The leadership team wants to modernize the sales organization by introducing capabilities that help sellers prioritize leads, analyze opportunities, and accelerate deal closure.
The company has approximately 150 field sellers, 40 insider sellers, 20 sales managers, and a central IT team responsible for configuring the sales platform. Contoso Ltd.'s executive leadership has defined the following goals for the new sales platform implementation:
Improve seller productivity by reducing manual research and data entry.
Use Al insights to prioritize leads and opportunities.
Provide automated recommendations to sales representatives throughout the deal lifecycle.
Improve collaboration between sellers and sales managers.
Current Environment:
Sales platform
Contoso Ltd. uses Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales integrated with Microsoft 365 services.
The following components are currently deployed:
Data and lead management
Leads are important for driving new business at Contoso Ltd. They are generated from multiple sources including:
- Marketing automation campaigns
- Website registrations
- Partner referrals
- Trade show contact imports
Marketing teams import lead lists weekly into Dynamics 365 Sales by using spreadsheet imports.
Sellers currently evaluate leads manually.
Sales managers report that this process results in inconsistent prioritization across regions.
Opportunity management
Opportunities are tracked in Dynamics 365 Sales through a defined qualification-to-opportunity lifecycle to ensure accurate reporting.
Sales leadership has requested the Contoso Ltd. IT team to evaluate the following capabilities:
- AI-generated summaries of opportunity records.
- AI-driven research for customer organizations.
- Automated recommendations for closing deals.
Business Requirement:
Contoso Ltd.'s executives have defined the following business requirements:
Lead management
Inside sellers must use a seller engagement workspace that prioritizes leads automatically based on predicted likelihood to convert.
All sellers are guided through a consistent set of qualification steps aligned to Contoso Ltd.'s sales strategy.
Leads cannot be advanced to the development stage until a decision maker has been confirmed.
Sales leadership requires flexibility in how leads are converted. Inside sales need automatic opportunity creation. Field sellers need the option to manually decide whether an opportunity should be created when a lead is qualified.
Lead scoring must be implemented to help sellers identify high potential leads automatically.
Lead scoring must continuously improve based on historical sales outcomes.
Opportunity development
The opportunity flow must be improved by using Al-driven research and automated insights.
Field sellers must be able to access contextual research about customers and competitors while working on opportunities.
Opportunity records must display Al-generated summaries to reduce the time required to review historical activities.
Field sellers must use the Opportunity pipeline view to visualize, prioritize, and manage opportunities.
All opportunity revenue must be calculated using opportunity line items based on selected Contoso Ltd.'s products and standard pricing.
Sales managers must receive an external quarterly competitive intelligence brief to help with their research. This should be delivered as a PDF document.
Sales performance
Sales managers require improved pipeline and revenue forecasting capabilities. The managers need to report on their business performance and use insights, visuals, and recommended next actions.
The new solution must provide the following:
- Allow sales managers to configure forecasts for opportunity pipelines.
- Notify the seller's manager when a draft quote is created and requires approval.
- Allow leadership to track performance against revenue goals.
- Ask questions about Dynamics 365 Sales data to support executive analysis and decision making.
- Support data definitions used at Contoso Ltd. when reporting.
Technical Requirement:
Contoso Ltd.'s IT department defines the following priorities for the sales platform.
AI capabilities
The platform must support the following Al features:
- Lead scoring to guide sellers to priority items.
- Opportunity research insights to prepare deal analysis.
- Copilot-generated summaries of sales records to help with decision making.
- AI-powered research and analytics to aid leadership reporting.
- When performing sales research, sales managers must be able to save their favorite prompts.
Automation
Automation must be implemented to guide sellers through recommended next steps during the sales cycle.
Any approvals must use the Power Automate Approvals connector.
Field sellers use the existing Lead to Opportunity Business Process Flow to manage their leads.
A Power Automate desktop flow is used to process orders into a partner ordering application that completes fulfillment.
Collaboration
All sellers must be able to collaborate by using Teams and store related sales documents in SharePoint.
AI-driven insights
The company is deploying the Sales accelerator to guide seller activities.
The Sales Research Agent
Sales managers will use the Sales Research Agent to gather intelligence about customer organizations.
The sales managers have the following requirements:
- Must be able to reuse visualizations after they are created; they don't want to recreate them.
- Must have a consistent method to quickly return to a blueprint that they frequently use.
- Must be able to retain a library of questions to receive consistent responses based on definitions approved by the company.
- Should have Bing search enabled on the environment for generative Al feature settings.
Platform extensions
The IT department plan to extend the platform by doing the following:
- Create Power Automate flows to automate seller tasks.
- Embed Power Apps components inside model-driven forms.
- Embed Power BI reports for sales analytics.
Testing
The IT department is testing predictive lead scoring with a small group of sellers.
The IT department edits the existing lead scoring model by adding new fields.
Issues:
Users have reported the following issues:
- Field sellers spend a significant amount of time researching customers before engaging with prospects.
- Sales managers cannot easily identify the most promising opportunities across regions.
- Lead prioritization varies significantly between sales teams.
- Testers report they cannot access the field changes in the lead score.
- A sales manager generated a blueprint but forgot the competitive intelligence brief.
Hotspot Question
You need to configure AI capabilities that prioritize leads and improve scoring accuracy in Dynamics 365 Sales.
How should each requirement be configured? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
Case Study 2 - Contoso Ltd
Background
Contoso Ltd. is a global technology distributor headquartered in Redmond, Washington. The company sells networking equipment, cloud infrastructure, and managed services to enterprise customers across North America and Europe.
Contoso Ltd. currently manages its sales operations by using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and plans to enable Sales Insights in the future.
The leadership team wants to modernize the sales organization by introducing capabilities that help sellers prioritize leads, analyze opportunities, and accelerate deal closure.
The company has approximately 150 field sellers, 40 insider sellers, 20 sales managers, and a central IT team responsible for configuring the sales platform. Contoso Ltd.'s executive leadership has defined the following goals for the new sales platform implementation:
Improve seller productivity by reducing manual research and data entry.
Use Al insights to prioritize leads and opportunities.
Provide automated recommendations to sales representatives throughout the deal lifecycle.
Improve collaboration between sellers and sales managers.
Current Environment:
Sales platform
Contoso Ltd. uses Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales integrated with Microsoft 365 services.
The following components are currently deployed:
Data and lead management
Leads are important for driving new business at Contoso Ltd. They are generated from multiple sources including:
- Marketing automation campaigns
- Website registrations
- Partner referrals
- Trade show contact imports
Marketing teams import lead lists weekly into Dynamics 365 Sales by using spreadsheet imports.
Sellers currently evaluate leads manually.
Sales managers report that this process results in inconsistent prioritization across regions.
Opportunity management
Opportunities are tracked in Dynamics 365 Sales through a defined qualification-to-opportunity lifecycle to ensure accurate reporting.
Sales leadership has requested the Contoso Ltd. IT team to evaluate the following capabilities:
- AI-generated summaries of opportunity records.
- AI-driven research for customer organizations.
- Automated recommendations for closing deals.
Business Requirement:
Contoso Ltd.'s executives have defined the following business requirements:
Lead management
Inside sellers must use a seller engagement workspace that prioritizes leads automatically based on predicted likelihood to convert.
All sellers are guided through a consistent set of qualification steps aligned to Contoso Ltd.'s sales strategy.
Leads cannot be advanced to the development stage until a decision maker has been confirmed.
Sales leadership requires flexibility in how leads are converted. Inside sales need automatic opportunity creation. Field sellers need the option to manually decide whether an opportunity should be created when a lead is qualified.
Lead scoring must be implemented to help sellers identify high potential leads automatically.
Lead scoring must continuously improve based on historical sales outcomes.
Opportunity development
The opportunity flow must be improved by using Al-driven research and automated insights.
Field sellers must be able to access contextual research about customers and competitors while working on opportunities.
Opportunity records must display Al-generated summaries to reduce the time required to review historical activities.
Field sellers must use the Opportunity pipeline view to visualize, prioritize, and manage opportunities.
All opportunity revenue must be calculated using opportunity line items based on selected Contoso Ltd.'s products and standard pricing.
Sales managers must receive an external quarterly competitive intelligence brief to help with their research. This should be delivered as a PDF document.
Sales performance
Sales managers require improved pipeline and revenue forecasting capabilities. The managers need to report on their business performance and use insights, visuals, and recommended next actions.
The new solution must provide the following:
- Allow sales managers to configure forecasts for opportunity pipelines.
- Notify the seller's manager when a draft quote is created and requires approval.
- Allow leadership to track performance against revenue goals.
- Ask questions about Dynamics 365 Sales data to support executive analysis and decision making.
- Support data definitions used at Contoso Ltd. when reporting.
Technical Requirement:
Contoso Ltd.'s IT department defines the following priorities for the sales platform.
AI capabilities
The platform must support the following Al features:
- Lead scoring to guide sellers to priority items.
- Opportunity research insights to prepare deal analysis.
- Copilot-generated summaries of sales records to help with decision making.
- AI-powered research and analytics to aid leadership reporting.
- When performing sales research, sales managers must be able to save their favorite prompts.
Automation
Automation must be implemented to guide sellers through recommended next steps during the sales cycle.
Any approvals must use the Power Automate Approvals connector.
Field sellers use the existing Lead to Opportunity Business Process Flow to manage their leads.
A Power Automate desktop flow is used to process orders into a partner ordering application that completes fulfillment.
Collaboration
All sellers must be able to collaborate by using Teams and store related sales documents in SharePoint.
AI-driven insights
The company is deploying the Sales accelerator to guide seller activities.
The Sales Research Agent
Sales managers will use the Sales Research Agent to gather intelligence about customer organizations.
The sales managers have the following requirements:
- Must be able to reuse visualizations after they are created; they don't want to recreate them.
- Must have a consistent method to quickly return to a blueprint that they frequently use.
- Must be able to retain a library of questions to receive consistent responses based on definitions approved by the company.
- Should have Bing search enabled on the environment for generative Al feature settings.
Platform extensions
The IT department plan to extend the platform by doing the following:
- Create Power Automate flows to automate seller tasks.
- Embed Power Apps components inside model-driven forms.
- Embed Power BI reports for sales analytics.
Testing
The IT department is testing predictive lead scoring with a small group of sellers.
The IT department edits the existing lead scoring model by adding new fields.
Issues:
Users have reported the following issues:
- Field sellers spend a significant amount of time researching customers before engaging with prospects.
- Sales managers cannot easily identify the most promising opportunities across regions.
- Lead prioritization varies significantly between sales teams.
- Testers report they cannot access the field changes in the lead score.
- A sales manager generated a blueprint but forgot the competitive intelligence brief.
Hotspot Question
You need to configure AI capabilities that prioritize leads and improve scoring accuracy in Dynamics 365 Sales.
How should each requirement be configured? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
Correct Answer:
Explanation:
The correct capability for automatically prioritizing leads based on conversion probability is Predictive lead scoring. Dynamics 365 Sales predictive lead scoring assigns scores to leads so sellers can prioritize the leads most likely to qualify or convert. Microsoft's Sales documentation states that predictive lead scoring helps sales teams prioritize leads based on scores and improve lead qualification outcomes. This directly matches Contoso's requirement to guide sellers toward high- potential leads and reduce inconsistent manual prioritization across regions.
To meet the requirement that lead scoring must continuously improve based on historical sales outcomes, configure the model to automatically retrain. Microsoft's predictive lead scoring guidance explains that retraining uses the latest leads in the organization to improve model accuracy, and automatic retraining allows the application to retrain the model every 15 days. This is the correct option because Contoso wants the scoring model to improve continuously as more closed lead outcome data becomes available.
"Lead scoring model" is too generic; the AI capability required is specifically predictive lead scoring. "Relationship intelligence" supports relationship analytics and engagement insights, but it does not score leads by conversion probability. "Configure forecast" applies to pipeline forecasting, not lead scoring accuracy.
QUESTION NO: 9
Case Study 2 - Contoso Ltd
Background
Contoso Ltd. is a global technology distributor headquartered in Redmond, Washington. The company sells networking equipment, cloud infrastructure, and managed services to enterprise customers across North America and Europe.
Contoso Ltd. currently manages its sales operations by using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and plans to enable Sales Insights in the future.
The leadership team wants to modernize the sales organization by introducing capabilities that help sellers prioritize leads, analyze opportunities, and accelerate deal closure.
The company has approximately 150 field sellers, 40 insider sellers, 20 sales managers, and a central IT team responsible for configuring the sales platform. Contoso Ltd.'s executive leadership has defined the following goals for the new sales platform implementation:
Improve seller productivity by reducing manual research and data entry.
Use Al insights to prioritize leads and opportunities.
Provide automated recommendations to sales representatives throughout the deal lifecycle.
Improve collaboration between sellers and sales managers.
Current Environment:
Sales platform
Contoso Ltd. uses Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales integrated with Microsoft 365 services.
The following components are currently deployed:
Data and lead management
Leads are important for driving new business at Contoso Ltd. They are generated from multiple sources including:
- Marketing automation campaigns
- Website registrations
- Partner referrals
- Trade show contact imports
Marketing teams import lead lists weekly into Dynamics 365 Sales by using spreadsheet imports.
Sellers currently evaluate leads manually.
Sales managers report that this process results in inconsistent prioritization across regions.
Opportunity management
Opportunities are tracked in Dynamics 365 Sales through a defined qualification-to-opportunity lifecycle to ensure accurate reporting.
Sales leadership has requested the Contoso Ltd. IT team to evaluate the following capabilities:
- AI-generated summaries of opportunity records.
- AI-driven research for customer organizations.
- Automated recommendations for closing deals.
Business Requirement:
Contoso Ltd.'s executives have defined the following business requirements:
Lead management
Inside sellers must use a seller engagement workspace that prioritizes leads automatically based on predicted likelihood to convert.
All sellers are guided through a consistent set of qualification steps aligned to Contoso Ltd.'s sales strategy.
Leads cannot be advanced to the development stage until a decision maker has been confirmed.
Sales leadership requires flexibility in how leads are converted. Inside sales need automatic opportunity creation. Field sellers need the option to manually decide whether an opportunity should be created when a lead is qualified.
Lead scoring must be implemented to help sellers identify high potential leads automatically.
Lead scoring must continuously improve based on historical sales outcomes.
Opportunity development
The opportunity flow must be improved by using Al-driven research and automated insights.
Field sellers must be able to access contextual research about customers and competitors while working on opportunities.
Opportunity records must display Al-generated summaries to reduce the time required to review historical activities.
Field sellers must use the Opportunity pipeline view to visualize, prioritize, and manage opportunities.
All opportunity revenue must be calculated using opportunity line items based on selected Contoso Ltd.'s products and standard pricing.
Sales managers must receive an external quarterly competitive intelligence brief to help with their research. This should be delivered as a PDF document.
Sales performance
Sales managers require improved pipeline and revenue forecasting capabilities. The managers need to report on their business performance and use insights, visuals, and recommended next actions.
The new solution must provide the following:
- Allow sales managers to configure forecasts for opportunity pipelines.
- Notify the seller's manager when a draft quote is created and requires approval.
- Allow leadership to track performance against revenue goals.
- Ask questions about Dynamics 365 Sales data to support executive analysis and decision making.
- Support data definitions used at Contoso Ltd. when reporting.
Technical Requirement:
Contoso Ltd.'s IT department defines the following priorities for the sales platform.
AI capabilities
The platform must support the following Al features:
- Lead scoring to guide sellers to priority items.
- Opportunity research insights to prepare deal analysis.
- Copilot-generated summaries of sales records to help with decision making.
- AI-powered research and analytics to aid leadership reporting.
- When performing sales research, sales managers must be able to save their favorite prompts.
Automation
Automation must be implemented to guide sellers through recommended next steps during the sales cycle.
Any approvals must use the Power Automate Approvals connector.
Field sellers use the existing Lead to Opportunity Business Process Flow to manage their leads.
A Power Automate desktop flow is used to process orders into a partner ordering application that completes fulfillment.
Collaboration
All sellers must be able to collaborate by using Teams and store related sales documents in SharePoint.
AI-driven insights
The company is deploying the Sales accelerator to guide seller activities.
The Sales Research Agent
Sales managers will use the Sales Research Agent to gather intelligence about customer organizations.
The sales managers have the following requirements:
- Must be able to reuse visualizations after they are created; they don't want to recreate them.
- Must have a consistent method to quickly return to a blueprint that they frequently use.
- Must be able to retain a library of questions to receive consistent responses based on definitions approved by the company.
- Should have Bing search enabled on the environment for generative Al feature settings.
Platform extensions
The IT department plan to extend the platform by doing the following:
- Create Power Automate flows to automate seller tasks.
- Embed Power Apps components inside model-driven forms.
- Embed Power BI reports for sales analytics.
Testing
The IT department is testing predictive lead scoring with a small group of sellers.
The IT department edits the existing lead scoring model by adding new fields.
Issues:
Users have reported the following issues:
- Field sellers spend a significant amount of time researching customers before engaging with prospects.
- Sales managers cannot easily identify the most promising opportunities across regions.
- Lead prioritization varies significantly between sales teams.
- Testers report they cannot access the field changes in the lead score.
- A sales manager generated a blueprint but forgot the competitive intelligence brief.
You need to configure the new lead qualification experience in Dynamics 365 Sales for field sellers. What should you configure?
Case Study 2 - Contoso Ltd
Background
Contoso Ltd. is a global technology distributor headquartered in Redmond, Washington. The company sells networking equipment, cloud infrastructure, and managed services to enterprise customers across North America and Europe.
Contoso Ltd. currently manages its sales operations by using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and plans to enable Sales Insights in the future.
The leadership team wants to modernize the sales organization by introducing capabilities that help sellers prioritize leads, analyze opportunities, and accelerate deal closure.
The company has approximately 150 field sellers, 40 insider sellers, 20 sales managers, and a central IT team responsible for configuring the sales platform. Contoso Ltd.'s executive leadership has defined the following goals for the new sales platform implementation:
Improve seller productivity by reducing manual research and data entry.
Use Al insights to prioritize leads and opportunities.
Provide automated recommendations to sales representatives throughout the deal lifecycle.
Improve collaboration between sellers and sales managers.
Current Environment:
Sales platform
Contoso Ltd. uses Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales integrated with Microsoft 365 services.
The following components are currently deployed:
Data and lead management
Leads are important for driving new business at Contoso Ltd. They are generated from multiple sources including:
- Marketing automation campaigns
- Website registrations
- Partner referrals
- Trade show contact imports
Marketing teams import lead lists weekly into Dynamics 365 Sales by using spreadsheet imports.
Sellers currently evaluate leads manually.
Sales managers report that this process results in inconsistent prioritization across regions.
Opportunity management
Opportunities are tracked in Dynamics 365 Sales through a defined qualification-to-opportunity lifecycle to ensure accurate reporting.
Sales leadership has requested the Contoso Ltd. IT team to evaluate the following capabilities:
- AI-generated summaries of opportunity records.
- AI-driven research for customer organizations.
- Automated recommendations for closing deals.
Business Requirement:
Contoso Ltd.'s executives have defined the following business requirements:
Lead management
Inside sellers must use a seller engagement workspace that prioritizes leads automatically based on predicted likelihood to convert.
All sellers are guided through a consistent set of qualification steps aligned to Contoso Ltd.'s sales strategy.
Leads cannot be advanced to the development stage until a decision maker has been confirmed.
Sales leadership requires flexibility in how leads are converted. Inside sales need automatic opportunity creation. Field sellers need the option to manually decide whether an opportunity should be created when a lead is qualified.
Lead scoring must be implemented to help sellers identify high potential leads automatically.
Lead scoring must continuously improve based on historical sales outcomes.
Opportunity development
The opportunity flow must be improved by using Al-driven research and automated insights.
Field sellers must be able to access contextual research about customers and competitors while working on opportunities.
Opportunity records must display Al-generated summaries to reduce the time required to review historical activities.
Field sellers must use the Opportunity pipeline view to visualize, prioritize, and manage opportunities.
All opportunity revenue must be calculated using opportunity line items based on selected Contoso Ltd.'s products and standard pricing.
Sales managers must receive an external quarterly competitive intelligence brief to help with their research. This should be delivered as a PDF document.
Sales performance
Sales managers require improved pipeline and revenue forecasting capabilities. The managers need to report on their business performance and use insights, visuals, and recommended next actions.
The new solution must provide the following:
- Allow sales managers to configure forecasts for opportunity pipelines.
- Notify the seller's manager when a draft quote is created and requires approval.
- Allow leadership to track performance against revenue goals.
- Ask questions about Dynamics 365 Sales data to support executive analysis and decision making.
- Support data definitions used at Contoso Ltd. when reporting.
Technical Requirement:
Contoso Ltd.'s IT department defines the following priorities for the sales platform.
AI capabilities
The platform must support the following Al features:
- Lead scoring to guide sellers to priority items.
- Opportunity research insights to prepare deal analysis.
- Copilot-generated summaries of sales records to help with decision making.
- AI-powered research and analytics to aid leadership reporting.
- When performing sales research, sales managers must be able to save their favorite prompts.
Automation
Automation must be implemented to guide sellers through recommended next steps during the sales cycle.
Any approvals must use the Power Automate Approvals connector.
Field sellers use the existing Lead to Opportunity Business Process Flow to manage their leads.
A Power Automate desktop flow is used to process orders into a partner ordering application that completes fulfillment.
Collaboration
All sellers must be able to collaborate by using Teams and store related sales documents in SharePoint.
AI-driven insights
The company is deploying the Sales accelerator to guide seller activities.
The Sales Research Agent
Sales managers will use the Sales Research Agent to gather intelligence about customer organizations.
The sales managers have the following requirements:
- Must be able to reuse visualizations after they are created; they don't want to recreate them.
- Must have a consistent method to quickly return to a blueprint that they frequently use.
- Must be able to retain a library of questions to receive consistent responses based on definitions approved by the company.
- Should have Bing search enabled on the environment for generative Al feature settings.
Platform extensions
The IT department plan to extend the platform by doing the following:
- Create Power Automate flows to automate seller tasks.
- Embed Power Apps components inside model-driven forms.
- Embed Power BI reports for sales analytics.
Testing
The IT department is testing predictive lead scoring with a small group of sellers.
The IT department edits the existing lead scoring model by adding new fields.
Issues:
Users have reported the following issues:
- Field sellers spend a significant amount of time researching customers before engaging with prospects.
- Sales managers cannot easily identify the most promising opportunities across regions.
- Lead prioritization varies significantly between sales teams.
- Testers report they cannot access the field changes in the lead score.
- A sales manager generated a blueprint but forgot the competitive intelligence brief.
You need to configure the new lead qualification experience in Dynamics 365 Sales for field sellers. What should you configure?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION NO: 10
You use price lists in Dynamics 365 Sales. Some price lists have expired.
Users need to be able to continue to manage their opportunities.
Which option is possible?
You use price lists in Dynamics 365 Sales. Some price lists have expired.
Users need to be able to continue to manage their opportunities.
Which option is possible?
Correct Answer: B
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