Explanation:

What is the "Affectivity Time Frame" in Salesforce CPQ?
It defines the valid date range during which a pricing charge (e.g., a price rule, discount, or surcharge) is applicable.
If a pricing charge's start or end date is outside the current date, the pricing element will not be applied.

Why Option C is Correct:
If a pricing charge's affectivity time frame expires (e.g., end date is in the past), the system stops using it for calculations.

Example: A promotional discount set to expire on Dec 31, 2023 will no longer apply to quotes generated in 2024.

Why Other Options Are Incorrect:
A. The affectivity time frame does not control product visibility in the cart (controlled by Product Rules or Setup).
B. It does not determine whether adjustments/overrides can be used (handled by Price Rules & permissions).
D. It is not paired with pricing variables for frequency (frequency is set in the pricing variable itself).

Explanation:

In Salesforce Industries CPQ Guided Selling, the cart is dynamically updated as users make selections. The methods responsible for adding or modifying items in the cart are specifically designed to handle these interactions efficiently.

✅ Why These Are Correct:

G. putCartItems
This method is used to update existing items in the cart — such as changing quantities, modifying attributes, or applying adjustments.
It’s ideal for scenarios where the cart already contains products and needs to reflect user changes.

H. postCartItems
This method is used to add new items to the cart during Guided Selling.
It handles the initial placement of selected products into the cart and triggers pricing and configuration logic.
Together, these two methods ensure the cart reflects the user’s selections and updates in real time.

❌ Why the Other Options Are Incorrect:

A. done
Not a method — likely a UI label or button, not part of the backend logic.

B. vlcCart
Refers to the cart component, not a method that updates items.

C. CpqAppHandler
A global Apex class that supports CPQ operations, but not directly responsible for updating cart items.

D. createCart
Initializes a new cart, but doesn’t update items within it.

E. getCartItems
Retrieves current cart contents — it’s a read operation, not an update.

F. getCartsProducts
Fetches product data for display, not for updating cart contents.

I. checkout
Finalizes the cart and transitions to order submission — doesn’t update items.

J. submit
Typically used to submit the order, not to modify cart contents.

Explanation:

When using context dimensions in Salesforce Industries (Vlocity) CPQ, the API and internal logic reference the context dimension developer name, which should not contain spaces.

In this scenario:

The developer created a context dimension named "Account Status" (with a space).

API calls and context rule evaluations use the API name (developer name), and spaces are not supported — they cause the evaluation to fail silently or not match.

Why not the others?

❌ A. Run the Product Hierarchy Maintenance job
This is needed to update product hierarchy for products or bundles. It does not impact context rule evaluation.

❌ C. Set the Rule Type to Evaluation
The developer correctly set Rule Type = Qualification, which is the correct type for qualifying promotions.

❌ D. Set the rule condition to have a Fail Level - Soft Fail
Fail level (Hard Fail or Soft Fail) controls whether the rule stops processing completely (hard) or just disqualifies the promotion (soft). In this case, the issue is not fail level but that the rule is not even evaluating because of the dimension naming.

Explanation:

Let’s look at the scenario:

You want to take 20% off the price of a child product in a promotion.
This means you’re discounting the price relative to the product’s normal price.

✅ A. An adjustment → Correct
✅ In Industries CPQ, an adjustment is the correct tool for:
Applying discounts (percentage or fixed amount)
Increasing or decreasing prices
Adding surcharges

Adjustments can be defined as:
Percentage-based → e.g. “-20%”
Fixed amount → e.g. “-$5”
For your scenario:
Apply a -20% adjustment to the child product’s price inside the promotion configuration.

This ensures:
The base price remains stored in the system.
The system tracks the discount as a separate pricing element.

Example configuration:
Adjustment Type: Percentage
Adjustment Value: -20%

Why the Other Options Are Incorrect
✅ B. An override → Incorrect
An override completely replaces the original price with a new fixed value.
For example:
“Set the child product’s price to exactly $50.”
You don’t want to replace the price; you want to discount it by 20%.

✅ C. A price list → Incorrect
The price list defines:
Which products exist in a catalog
The base price of each product
You wouldn’t use the price list directly to apply a promotional discount.

✅ D. A price list entry → Incorrect
A price list entry:
Stores the base price for a product
It’s where the base price lives—but discounts should be handled separately as adjustments.
Overwriting the price in a price list entry would remove visibility into the discount mechanics.

Explanation:

Salesforce offers advisory services and implementation expertise through their own professional services teams as well as through partners (e.g., Deloitte, Accenture, IBM).

These teams regularly help customers define and execute digital transformation strategies, including designing roadmaps, defining KPIs, and recommending best practices for rolling out Salesforce Industries (Vlocity) and other Salesforce solutions.

Their approach usually includes aligning business processes, organizational change management, and leveraging Salesforce’s extensive platform capabilities.