Administering Cisco Contact Center Enterprise Free Sample Questions

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  1. Question 1

    A CCE administrator is configuring a new Outbound Option campaign using the Progressive dialing mode. The business requirement is to minimize the number of abandoned calls while ensuring agents are not idle for long periods. Which configuration parameter is most critical for the administrator to tune to achieve this balance in a Progressive campaign?

    Answer and explanation

    Correct answer: B

    In Progressive dialing mode, the Dialer dials calls only when an agent is available. The 'Lines per Agent' parameter determines how many lines are dialed simultaneously for that single available agent. Tuning this value (e.g., from 1.0 to 1.5) is the primary method to balance agent utilization against the risk of abandoned calls if more than one customer answers.

  2. Question 2

    A financial services company is implementing Cisco Mobile Agent to allow agents to work from home using their PSTN landlines. For security and quality management, all calls must be recorded via the central CCE recording infrastructure. Which Mobile Agent connection mode must be configured to ensure calls are anchored within the enterprise network and can be recorded centrally?

    Answer and explanation

    Correct answer: C

    Nailed Connection mode establishes a persistent call from the agent's remote phone to the contact center. All subsequent customer calls are conferenced onto this persistent call leg. This architecture ensures the entire conversation is anchored within the enterprise network, making it available for centralized services like recording, silent monitoring, and barge-in.

  3. Question 3

    A contact center manager wants to create a custom report in CUIC that shows the average handle time for agents who have been with the company for more than one year versus those who have been there for less than one year. The agent's hire date is stored in a custom database table, not in the standard UCCE HDS database. What is the correct approach to create this report in CUIC?

    Answer and explanation

    Correct answer: B

    CUIC allows administrators to define new Data Sources pointing to external databases (like the custom HR database containing the hire date). Once both the standard UCCE HDS and the custom database are configured as Data Sources, a custom Report Definition can be created with an SQL query that joins the relevant tables (e.g., Agent table from HDS with the custom table) to correlate performance data with tenure.

  4. Question 4

    During a review of the CCE system, an engineer notices that the Router component is logging a high number of 'MR_PG_IDLE_EVENT' messages. This indicates that the MR PIM is frequently going idle. What is the most likely cause of this issue?

    Answer and explanation

    Correct answer: B

    The Media Routing (MR) PIM on a Peripheral Gateway (PG) is responsible for managing requests for non-voice tasks or multichannel contacts. The MR PIM will go into an idle state if there are no agents associated with any MRDs (Media Routing Domains). This commonly occurs when no agents are logged in who are skilled for non-voice tasks like email or chat, causing the MR PIM to have no active targets to manage.

  5. Question 5

    Multiple answers

    A CCE administrator needs to create a basic ICM script that first checks if any agents are available in the 'Sales_Tier1_SG' skill group. If agents are available, the call should be queued to that skill group. If no agents are available, the call should be immediately sent to a CVP self-service application. Which two script nodes are essential to build this logic? (Choose two.)

    Answer and explanation

    Correct answers: A, C

    The 'If' node is required to create the conditional logic. It can be configured with a condition like 'SkillGroup(Sales_Tier1_SG).Available > 0' to check for agent availability.

    The 'Queue to Skill Group' node is used in the 'true' branch of the 'If' node to place the call in the queue for the specified skill group when agents are available.

  6. Question 6

    A new supervisor reports that they are unable to use the Barge-In feature on their team's calls, even though they can see the calls in their Finesse team view. The administrator has confirmed the supervisor is assigned to the correct team. What is the most likely configuration that is missing?

    Answer and explanation

    Correct answer: B

    Supervisor features like Barge-In, Silent Monitoring, and Intercept rely on the Built-in Bridge (BiB) functionality of the agent's IP phone. This setting must be enabled on the agent's phone device configuration page in Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM). If BiB is disabled, the supervisor's phone cannot be conferenced into the agent's call.

  7. Question 7

    A company is migrating its routing logic from traditional Skill Group routing to Precision Routing. An administrator needs to create an attribute that represents an agent's fluency in Spanish, which can be either 'True' or 'False'. What is the correct data type to select when creating this 'Spanish_Fluency' attribute?

    Answer and explanation

    Correct answer: D

    For attributes that represent a binary state, such as true/false or yes/no, the 'Boolean' data type is the correct and most efficient choice. This allows the administrator to assign a value of either true or false to each agent for that attribute, which can then be used in Precision Queue expressions.

  8. Question 8

    True or False: In a Packaged CCE (PCCE) deployment, the AW, HDS, Logger, and Router components are consolidated onto a single virtual machine known as the 'Controller'.

    Answer and explanation

    Correct answer: A

    This statement is true. A key architectural characteristic of Packaged CCE is the simplification of the core components. The Call Router, Logger, Administration & Data Server (AW/HDS), and Live Data components are combined into a single virtual machine, referred to as the Controller (or sometimes Side A/Side B Controller). This simplifies deployment and administration compared to traditional UCCE.

  9. Question 9

    An administrator is configuring the RONA (Redirect on No Answer) feature. The requirement is that if an agent fails to answer a call within 10 seconds, the call should be re-queued, and the agent should be automatically put into the 'Not Ready' state. Where in the CCE administration tools is the RONA timeout value primarily configured for an agent?

    Answer and explanation

    Correct answer: B

    The primary control for the agent-specific RONA timeout is the 'Redirect No Answer Timeout' field within the Agent Desk Settings. This setting determines how long a call will ring on an agent's desktop before the system takes the RONA action. This allows for different RONA timers to be applied to different groups of agents by assigning them to different Desk Settings.

  10. Question 10

    A developer is creating a CVP Call Studio application that needs to interact with an external REST API to fetch customer data. After the API call, the application must make a decision based on the 'customer_level' field returned in the JSON response. Which sequence of VXML elements should be used to accomplish this?

    sequenceDiagram participant CVP as CVP VXML Server participant App as Call Studio App participant API as External REST API CVP->>App: Executes Application App->>API: REST API Call (e.g., get customer data) API-->>App: JSON Response App->>App: Parse JSON & Check 'customer_level' App-->>CVP: Route based on level
    Answer and explanation

    Correct answer: B

    The correct sequence is to use the 'Web Services' element to make the REST API call. This element can parse the JSON response and store values in session data variables. Immediately following this, a 'Decision' element is used to evaluate the value of the 'customer_level' variable that was populated by the Web Services element, allowing the call flow to branch accordingly.

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