Northern Trail Outfitters is spending daily batch files of customer data to Marketing Cloud
via file drops. When the Automation runs, the files are often empty and data points are not
available for processing.
Which component of Automation Studio ensures that steps within the Automation are only
executed when a certain is fulfilled?
A. Verification Activity
B. Skip Automation
C. Wait Activity
A. Verification Activity
Explanation:
Verification Activity is the correct answer. This activity allows you to set criteria for an
automation to run successfully or fail based on data counts or validation errors. For
example, you can use a verification activity to check if the file size or the number of records
in a file is greater than zero before processing it. This can help prevent empty files or data
points from being imported or processed by your automation. Wait Activity is not a valid
option, as this activity only allows you to pause an automation for a specific duration or until
a specific date or time. Skip Automation is not a valid option either, as this option only
allows you to skip an automation if it is already running when it is scheduled to run again.
You can learn more about this in the Automation Studio Basics module on Trailhead.