The marketing manager at Cloud Kicks plans to bring in corporate phone numbers for its
accounts into Data Cloud. They plan to use a custom field with data set to Phone to store
these phone numbers.
Which statement is true when ingesting phone numbers?
A. Text value can be accepted for ingestion into = phone data type field.
B. Data Cloud validates the format of the phone number at the time of Ingestion
C. The phone number field car only accept 10-digit values
D. The phone number field should be used as a primary key
A. Text value can be accepted for ingestion into = phone data type field.
✅ Explanation:
In Salesforce Data Cloud, when ingesting phone numbers:
Phone fields are treated as text fields under the hood, and can accept various formats (e.g., +1-800-555-1234, (800) 555-1234, 8005551234).
The Phone data type is primarily used for semantic purposes — to indicate that the field contains phone numbers, which helps with formatting and UI handling in some tools.
Therefore:
You can ingest phone numbers as text values, and they will be accepted into fields designated as Phone data type.