Salesforce Agentforce-Specialist - Salesforce Certified Agentforce Specialist (AI-201)

The scenario involves a customer service representative needing to cancel flights due to a weather alert and review existing Knowledge articles for guidance on canceling and rebooking. Agentforce provides capabilities to streamline such tasks. The most suitable option is Option B, which allows the agent to "execute tasks based on available actions" (e.g., canceling flights via a predefined action) while "answering questions using information from accessible Knowledge articles." This capability leverages Agentforce’s ability to integrate Knowledge articles into the agent’s responses, enabling the representative to ask questions (e.g., “How do I cancel a flight?”) and receive AI-generated answers grounded in approved Knowledge content. Simultaneously, the agent can trigger actions (e.g., a Flow to update the custom object) to perform the cancellations, meeting all requirements efficiently.

Option A: Invoking a Flow to call external data and create a Knowledge article is unnecessary. The representative needs to review existing articles, not create new ones, and there’s no indication external data is required for this task.

Option B: This is correct. It combines task execution (canceling flights) with Knowledge article retrieval, aligning with the representative’s need to act and seek guidance from existing content.

Option C: Generating a new Knowledge article based on prompts is not relevant. The representative needs to use existing articles, not author new ones, especially in a time-sensitive weather alert scenario.

Option B best supports the representative’s workflow in Agentforce.

Bring Your Own Large Language Model (BYO-LLM) functionality in Einstein Studio allows organizations to integrate and use external large language models (LLMs) within the Salesforce ecosystem. Universal Containers can leverage this feature to connect and ground prompts with external LLMs, allowing for custom AI model use cases and seamless integration with Salesforce data.

Option B is the correct choice as Einstein Studio provides a built-in feature to work with external models.

Option A suggests using Apex, but BYO-LLM functionality offers a more streamlined solution.

Option C focuses on Flow and External Services, which is more about data integration and isn't ideal for working with LLMs.

UC wants to streamline the use of Generative AI by reducing the time reps spend typing prompts and ensuring consistency, leveraging their existing prompt knowledge. Let’s evaluate the options.

Option A: Agent Builder and Action: Query Records.Agent Builder in Agentforce Studio creates autonomous AI agents with actions like "Query Records" to fetch data. While this could retrieve information, it’s designed for agent-driven workflows, not for simplifying manual prompt entry or ensuring consistency across user inputs. This doesn’t directly address UC’s concerns and is incorrect.

Option B: Einstein Prompt Builder and Prompt Templates.Einstein Prompt Builder, part of Agentforce Studio, allows users to create reusable prompt templates that encapsulate specific instructions and grounding for Generative AI (e.g., using public models via the Atlas Reasoning Engine). UC can predefine prompts based on their known language, saving time for reps by eliminating repetitive typing and ensuring consistency across sales and service teams. Templates can be embedded in flows, Lightning pages, or agent interactions, perfectly addressing UC’s needs. This is the correct answer.

Option C: Einstein Recommendation Builder.Einstein Recommendation Builder generates personalized recommendations (e.g., products, next best actions) using predictive AI, not Generative AI for freeform prompts. It doesn’t support custom prompt creation or address time/consistency issues for reps, making it incorrect.

Why Option B is Correct:

Einstein Prompt Builder’s prompt templates directly tackle UC’s challenges by standardizing prompts and reducing manual effort, leveraging their familiarity with Generative AI language. This is a core feature for such use cases, as per Salesforce documentation.

According to the AgentForce Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, the three key dimensions for measuring AI agent quality are performance, correctness, and user satisfaction. To accurately monitor these, organizations should track:

Response times (to assess system and model latency),

Accuracy and relevance of answers (to measure the grounding and reasoning quality), and

Resolution success (to confirm task completion or problem-solving effectiveness).

These metrics provide a balanced evaluation of both technical efficiency and user experience.

Option A focuses on system usage metrics like tokens and duration, which are operational but do not assess correctness or success. Option B includes tone and CSATs, which are helpful but incomplete, as they do not measure factual accuracy or task resolution.

Thus, the correct answer is Option C – Response times, accuracy and relevance of answers, and resolution success, aligning with AgentForce’s standard evaluation practices.

According to the AgentForce Search Optimization Guide, when the use case requires retrieving exact matches (such as policy clause numbers, legal identifiers, or invoice IDs) from structured data, the recommended approach is to use keyword search. The documentation specifies: “Keyword search ensures deterministic retrieval of exact term matches from structured fields, preserving precision for identifiers, numeric values, and code references.”

Semantic search (Option C) uses contextual understanding and synonym expansion, which may yield near matches but not exact ones. Hybrid search (Option B) combines both semantic and keyword results for general knowledge retrieval, but it introduces probabilistic ranking—not suitable for exact legal or compliance queries.

Therefore, for the compliance use case where exact clause number matching is required, keyword search guarantees accuracy, speed, and compliance integrity.

References (AgentForce Documents / Study Guide):

AgentForce Search and Retrieval Guide: “Choosing Between Keyword, Semantic, and Hybrid Search”

AgentForce Compliance and Legal Data Search Best Practices

AgentForce Study Guide: “Optimizing Structured Data Search for Exact Matches”

As outlined in the AgentForce External Services and Prompt Flow Integration Guide, when data is retrieved from a registered external service via REST API, the response payload is stored as External Service Records. These records can then be referenced dynamically within prompt templates through External Service Record merge fields.

This approach allows the large language model (LLM) to use the fetched data as contextual grounding during prompt execution, ensuring that generated responses are accurate and consistent with the latest API results.

Option B is incorrect because AgentForce does not use XML merge fields for API responses; JSON data is automatically mapped to object structures. Option C is also incorrect — the “Add Prompt Instructions” element modifies prompt context or tone but does not pass external data for merge use.

Therefore, the correct method is Option A – Use External Service Record merge fields, ensuring the external service data is directly available for prompt templates.

In Salesforce prompt templates, instructions that guide how the Large Language Model (LLM) should generate content (in this case, personalized emails) can be included by surrounding the instruction text with triple quotes ("""). This formatting ensures that the LLM adheres to the specific instructions while generating the email content.

The use of triple quotes allows the AI to understand that the enclosed text is a directive for how to approach the task, such as limiting the content to associated opportunity information or encouraging a specific action from the recipient.

Refer to Salesforce Prompt Builder documentation for detailed instructions on how to structure prompts for generative AI.

Universal Containers (UC) has deployed an Agentforce Service Agent on its website, but it’s failing to provide answers from Salesforce Knowledge articles. Let’s troubleshoot the issue.

Option A: The Agentforce Service Agent user is not assigned the correct Agent Type License.There’s no "Agent Type License" in Salesforce—agent functionality is tied to Agentforce licenses (e.g., Service Agent license) and permissions. Licensing affects feature access broadly, but the specific issue of not retrieving Knowledge suggests a permission problem, not a license type, making this incorrect.

Option B: The Agentforce Service Agent user needs to be created under the standard Agent Knowledge profile.No "standard Agent Knowledge profile" exists. The Agentforce Service Agent runs under a system user (e.g., "Agentforce Agent User") with a custom profile or permission sets. Profile creation isn’t the issue—access permissions are, making this incorrect.

Option C: The Agentforce Service Agent user was not given the Allow View Knowledge permission set.The Agentforce Service Agent user requires read access to Knowledge articles to ground responses. The "Allow View Knowledge" permission (typically via the "Salesforce Knowledge User" license or a permission set like "Agentforce Service Permissions") enables this. If missing, the agent can’t access Knowledge, even if articles are indexed, causing the reported failure. This is a common setup oversight and the likely issue, making it the correct answer.

Why Option C is Correct:

Lack of Knowledge access permissions for the Agentforce Service Agent user directly prevents retrieval of article content, aligning with the symptoms and Salesforce security requirements.

Context of the Question

Universal Containers (UC) wants to build a Flex prompt template that uses data returned by a Flow.

“Flex Prompt Templates” allow admins and Agentforce Specialists to incorporate external or dynamic data into generative AI prompts.

Why “Add Flow Instructions” Is Needed

Passing Flow Data into Prompt Templates: When configuring the prompt, you must specify how data from the running Flow is passed into the Flex template. The designated element for that is typically “Flow Instructions,” which map the Flow outputs to the prompt.

Other Options:

Add Flex Instructions: Typically controls how the AI responds or structures the output, not how to bring Flow data into the template.

Add Prompt Instructions: Usually for static or manual instructions that shape the AI’s response, rather than referencing dynamic data from the Flow.

Outcome

“Add Flow Instructions” ensures the prompt can dynamically use the data that the Flow returns—making Option C correct.

Salesforce Agentforce Specialist References & Documents

Salesforce Help & Training: Using Prompt Templates with FlowExplains how to pass Flow variables into a prompt template via a specialized step (e.g., “Flow Instructions”).

Salesforce Agentforce Specialist Study GuideOutlines how to configure generative AI prompts that reference real-time Flow data.

The AgentForce Retriever Configuration Guide specifies that filters are used to refine and constrain search results within a retriever setup. Filters operate by applying conditions (up to 10) on indexed fields such as document type, category, region, or update date. This targeted filtering ensures that the retrieved data is highly relevant to the current user query or context.

For instance, an AgentForce retriever could be configured to include only documents tagged as “Active” or within a specific product line, reducing noise and improving grounding accuracy for the LLM. This mechanism supports precision retrieval, which directly improves both the accuracy and reliability of generated responses.

Option B is incorrect because filters do not handle encryption or masking of sensitive data — those functions are managed through Data Cloud security and access controls. Option C is incorrect because retrievers do not aggregate or summarize documents; they retrieve data for grounding, leaving summarization to the LLM reasoning layer.

Therefore, the correct answer is Option A – Filters narrow search results using field-based conditions to improve relevancy and retrieval precision.