API

Question 1

What authentication method does Marketing Cloud use?

Answer 1

OAuth 2.0

Question 2

What two parameters should you pass for Authentication?

Answer 2

Client Secret
Client ID

Question 3

What tasks does the REST API interact with?

Answer 3

Contact Builder
Content Builder
GroupConnect
Journey Builder
MobileConnect and MobilePush

Question 4

What does the REST API use for its Request and Response bodies?

Answer 4

JSON

Question 5

What are the timeout values for API calls?

Answer 5

120 seconds for non-tracking operations
300 seconds for tracking and data retrieval

Question 6

What does the SOAP API use for its Request and Response bodies?

Answer 6

XML

Question 7

What tasks does the SOAP API interact with?

Answer 7

Automations
Content Creation (classic, not content builder)
Subscribers and Lists
Tracking
Triggered Sends

Question 8

What are the seven SOAP methods?

Answer 8

Configure (Used to configure an account)
Create (Used to create individual or batches of objects)
Delete (Used to delete individual or batches of objects)
Describe
Execute
Extract
GetSystemStatus

Question 9

The SOAP API has 263 API objects that we can interact with, name 4 common ones?

Answer 9

Data Extension
Triggered Sends
Automations
ClickEvent

Question 10

What are the three Data Extension objects?

Answer 10

DataExtention (the actual data extension)
DataExtensionField (a field or attribute)
DataExtentionObject (a row in the data extension)

Question 11

What three objects need to be defined for a triggered send?

Answer 11

TriggeredSend
TriggeredSendDefinition
Subscribers

Question 12

What is a ClickEvent object?

Answer 12

An object that contains time, date, URL ID and URL information about a click on a link in an email.

Question 13

What is a Automation object?

Answer 13

Used to interact with an automation in Automation Studio. AutomationActivity is used to define activities in an automation.

Question 14

What is the REST API endpoint for Content Builder?

Answer 14

/asset/v1/content/assets

Question 15

What is the REST API endpoint for Contact Builder?

Answer 15

/contacts/v1/contacts

Question 16

What is the REST API endpoint for Journey Builder?

Answer 16

/interaction/v1/interactions

Question 17

What is the REST API endpoint for Triggered Sends?

Answer 17

/messaging/v1/messageDefinitionSends

Question 18

What is the REST API endpoint for Transactional Sends?

Answer 18

/messaging/v1/emailmm

Question 19

What is the REST API endpoint for Create Assets?

Answer 19

/asset/v1/content/assets
Requires JSON that contains information like asset type, name and content. Creates an asset with the information in Content Builder

Question 20

What is the REST API endpoint for Create Folder?

Answer 20

/asset/v1/content/categories
Requires a JSON that contains information to create a folder in a specified location

Question 21

What is the REST API endpoint for Update/Delete Assets?

Answer 21

/asset/v1/content/assets/{id}
Requires a JSON that contains information to delete or update an existing asset, identified using the asset ID in the URL

Question 22

What is the REST API endpoint for Create Contact?

Answer 22

/contacts/v1/contacts
Requires a JSON that contains information like contact key, contact ID and attributes.
Creates a contact with the information

Question 23

What is the REST API endpoint for Delete Contact?

Answer 23

/contacts/v1/contacts/actions/delete?type=keys/ids
Requires a JSON that contains contact keys or ids of the contacts to be deleted

Question 24

What is the REST API endpoint to fire an entry into a Journey?

Answer 24

/interaction/v1/events
Requires a JSON containing the ContactKey and EventDefinitionKey to fire the event that enters the Contact into a Journey

Question 25

What is the REST API endpoint to send a triggered email?

Answer 25

/messaging/v1/messageDefinitionSends/{triggeredSendDefinitionId]/send
Sends an email from a Triggered Send Definition. Note that this triggeredSendDefinitionId must be set up first before making this call, otherwise it won’t work

Question 26

What is the REST API endpoint to get the delivery details of a triggered send?

Answer 26

/messaging/v1/messageDefinitionSends/key:{key}/deliveryRecords
Gets the delivery details of an email sent from a triggered send