Understanding Account Models inEducation Cloud: Education Cloud typically uses the Administrative Account model to manage relationships and hierarchies between contacts (students, parents, etc.) and accounts (departments, institutions, etc.).
Administrative Account Model: This model allows educational institutions to maintain a structured and organized view of their data, which is essential for managing various relationships and processes within the institution.
Migration Considerations:
Data Mapping: Map existing data fields from theprevious Education Data Architecture (EDA) to the new Administrative Account model.
Customizations: Ensure that any custom objects or fields are compatible with the Administrative Account model.
Testing: Rigorously test the migrated data to ensure integrity and accuracy.
Steps to Implement:
Data Export: Export data from the EDA org.
Data Transformation: Transform the data to fit the Administrative Account model structure.
Data Import: Import the transformed data into the new Education Cloud instance.
Validation: Verify that the data aligns with the Administrative Account model and functions as expected.
References:
Salesforce Education Cloud Documentation:Salesforce Help: Administrative Account Model

The consultant can meet the business requirement by setting View Dashboard As to the dashboard viewer and sharing it with program directors. This will allow the program directors to see the same reports as the Dean, but filtered by their own program, based on the sharing settings. Checking the Let Dashboard Viewers Choose Whom They View the Dashboard As on the Dean's dashboard, setting View Dashboard As to the Dean and sharing it with program directors, and adding a dashboard filter to the Dean's dashboard and saving it to All Folders are not options that can meet the business requirement. References:
https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.dashboards_running_user.htm & type=5
https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.dashboards_dynamic_filters.htm & type=5

Ownership data skew is what the consultant shoulddiscuss with the university, because it is a potential performance issue that can occur when a large number of records are owned by a single user. In this case, the Integration User owns over one million Contact records, which can cause slow or failed queries, reports, or list views. The consultant should advise the university to distribute the ownership of the records among multiple users or queues to avoid ownership data skew. API call limits, account data skew, and OAuth token limits are not relevant tothis scenario. References:
https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.data_skew_ownership.htm & type=5
https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/engineering/2012/04/avoid-account-data-skew-for-peak-performance.
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The consultant should recommendimplementing Marketing Cloud to manage recruitment campaigns, because this can help the university reach its goal of improving its MBA program rankings and increasing prospective student engagement across multiple channels. Marketing Cloud allows the university to create personalized and targeted email, social media, mobile, and web campaigns for prospective students. Marketing Cloud also provides analytics and insights that can help the university optimize its campaigns and measure its acceptance percentage. Leveraging Advisor Link, using Education Cloud, and implementing Pardot Lead Scoring are not solutions that can help the university reach its goal. References:
https://www.salesforce.com/products/marketing-cloud/overview/
https://www.salesforce.org/education/education-cloud-for-recruitment-and-admissions/

The best solution for the Recruitment and Admissions office to use Salesforce to track prospective students, recruitment events, student applications, digital engagement, and interactions with prospects on their mobile devices isC. Einstein Bots12. Einstein Bots are chatbots that use artificial intelligence (AI) to automate conversations with prospective students on various channels, such as SMS, social media, and email. They can provide information, answer questions, collect data, and hand off the conversation to a human agent if needed.
Einstein Bots can help the Recruitment and Admissions office to track digital engagement and interactions with prospects on their mobile devices, and improve the student experience12.
A third-party appis not a Salesforce solution and may not be compatible with the Salesforce platform or the Education Data Architecture (EDA) that the Recruitment and Admissions office uses.Salesforce Maps is a location intelligence solution thathelps sales and service teams optimize their territories, routes, and schedules3. It is not directly relevant to the scenario described in the question.