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Search Ads 360 Certification Exam Answers

Search Ads 360 Certification Exam Answers

Google Search Ads 360 Certification Exam Answers - Google Marketing Platform

 

Exam URL: https://skillshop.docebosaas.com/learn/courses/18610/search-ads-360-certification-2026/lessons/53333/search-ads-360-certification-exam

Number of questions 50
Minimum passing score 80%

 

 

Questions:

  1. An executive wants a single view that shows a scorecard for total spend, a line chart for conversion trends, and a note explaining the month's strategy. Which tool should be used to build this layout?
  2. A marketing team uses a Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) to connect their social engine to Search Ads 360. What's the specific role of the clickserver URL in this integration?
  3. A global retailer needs to make sure that their search advertisements always reflect the most current product availability and promotional pricing across thousands of individual items. What's the advantage of using Templates to manage this inventory?
  4. A senior analyst needs to grant a third-party auditor access to a Search Ads 360 sub-manager account. The auditor must be able to verify campaign structures and audit historical performance data, but the analyst must make sure that the auditor is technically restricted from modifying any campaign settings or managing other user invitations. Which access level should be assigned to meet these requirements?
  5. A travel agency wants to implement value-based bidding to prioritize high-margin bookings. They are currently passing hotel star ratings into Search Ads 360 at the time of purchase. Which feature should they use to automatically increase the reported conversion value by $30 specifically for 4-star hotel stays?
  6. A search specialist is reviewing a Bid Strategy Report to understand how long it takes for a click to result in a purchase. Which section of the report provides this specific data?
  7. While building a custom table in the Report Editor, a practitioner finds that the Return on Ad Spend (ROAS) metric appears greyed out and can't be added to their current selection of dimensions. According to the platform’s reporting logic, what's the cause of this restriction and how is it addressed?
  8. An agency just launched a target ROAS bid strategy for a premium branding client. Why should they wait for two to three conversion delay cycles before assessing the strategy's performance?
  9. An agency lead wants to replicate a successful brand campaign structure across five different client accounts. Which manager-level functionality should they use?
  10. A global marketing team needs to adjust the promotional messaging for a seasonal sale across multiple sub-manager accounts. According to the platform's cross-account management logic, what's the benefit of implementing these changes from the manager account level?
  11. An SEM manager wants to combine as many campaigns as possible into a single portfolio to allow the algorithm to find more opportunities. Which of the following is a constraint regarding campaign management?
  12. An advertiser is comparing a data-driven attribution (DDA) model to a standard last-click model and notices the generic campaign shows a 7.8% uplift in conversions. What should be their next step to capitalize on this insight?
  13. A marketing agency needs to consolidate performance data across a diverse ecosystem that includes major search engines, social platforms, and specialized regional engines without native API support. How does Search Ads 360 provide a unified source of truth for this varied inventory?
  14. An agency is using labels to organize their brand campaigns across a sub-manager account. What's the maximum number of labels an advertiser can have across their entire Search Ads 360 account?
  15. A recruitment firm wants to scale their advertising by automatically generating location-based campaigns for every city with an active job listing. What's the foundational step required to allow the system to build these location-specific campaign structures?
  16. A marketing team is using Search Ads 360 and Google Analytics to evaluate their digital strategy. They want to understand the unique value that Search Ads 360 provides compared to the cross-channel view found in Google Analytics. Which capability is a defining characteristic of Search Ads 360’s reporting logic?
  17. A digital marketer is managing campaigns across Google, Microsoft, and various social platforms. They need a unified tracking solution that makes sure a unique conversion isn't counted multiple times if a user interacts with ads on more than one channel. Which feature provides this accurate cross-channel measurement?
  18. An advertiser manages a diverse portfolio that includes both budget-constrained campaigns and ROI-driven goals. What's a benefit of using a plan within Search Ads 360?
  19. A global retailer needs to create more relevant, automated ad messaging at scale across various markets and languages using their existing data feeds. Which Search Ads 360 feature should they use to generate headlines and descriptions for responsive search ad templates?
  20. A digital marketer wants to see how their generic, brand, and competitor keywords interact to drive conversions. Which feature allows them to define these specific interaction types within a data-driven attribution (DDA) model?
  21. A user creates a label in a Google Ads client account within Search Ads 360. Where will this label be visible and manageable?
  22. A retail advertiser needs to group a specific selection of Floodlight activities into a single reporting view to analyze their performance more efficiently. Which Search Ads 360 feature provides the capability to aggregate these individual metrics into a unified measurement?
  23. A finance advertiser wants to report on degree program performance across multiple sub-manager accounts using a nested structure that groups related data into parent-child categories. Which characteristic distinguishes custom dimensions from labels for this specific task?
  24. An SEM manager needs to present multiple tables, Sparkline Scorecards, and explanatory text summaries to a client in a single, customized screen view. Which tool should they use?
  25. An advertiser needs to determine how to allocate a monthly spend target across various lines of business without using manual spreadsheets. Which tool allows the advertiser to visualize incremental spend and track performance relative to a target?
  26. A retail manager needs to report on all conversions, but only for those that occurred on mobile phones. Which custom column feature should they use to isolate this data?
  27. An advertiser reviews an AI Spotlight opportunity card that suggests reallocating spend from an underperforming campaign to a high-performing campaign that's currently constrained. According to the platform’s optimization logic, what's the intended result of implementing this suggestion?
  28. A global marketing team manages multiple search engines across various regions and business units. They're currently struggling with fragmented reporting and inconsistent bidding across their diverse accounts. How does Search Ads 360 resolve these complexities for large-scale advertisers?
  29. A digital marketing team has activated Microsoft Advertising auction-time bidding (ATB) within their Search Ads 360 bid strategy. How do these two systems interact to optimize performance for the advertiser?
  30. While reviewing the AI Spotlight page, a specialist identifies a finding categorized as a configuration anomaly. According to the platform’s detection logic, what does this specific insight indicate?
  31. An agency is consolidating multiple Microsoft Advertising accounts into a single Search Ads 360 sub-manager to streamline their cross-account reporting. How must these individual engine accounts be linked to allow for accurate data synchronization?
  32. A digital marketer wants to see all labels associated with a keyword, including those applied directly and those inherited from the parent campaign. Which label filter should they use?
  33. A search specialist is tasked with providing a weekly performance summary to their executive team every Monday at 8am. To make sure the team receives the latest data without manual intervention, which workflow should be configured within the Search Ads 360 Report Editor?
  34. A global travel brand manages a diverse portfolio of search activity across Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, and regional engines like Naver. How does the Search Ads 360 interface allow the team to maintain a unified view of performance while accommodating these different engine types?
  35. A dental service provider wants to optimize for maximum revenue across different regional practices. They need to maintain specific efficiency targets for the West Coast vs. the Midwest. Which strategy allows this granular control within a single portfolio?
  36. An advertiser is managing a prestigious travel campaign and needs the campaign's ads to appear in a specific position for brand exposure. Which bid strategy goal should she select?
  37. A retail advertiser is migrating their cross-engine strategy to Search Ads 360 and needs to make sure that their most complex automated campaign types are fully supported. Which capability is available for both Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising accounts within Search Ads 360?
  38. A search director needs to review high-level performance findings and be alerted to configuration errors, such as missing campaign location targets, before they affect the budget. Which specific hub in the UI should they visit?
  39. A travel agent notices that clicks are unusually high on a specific Tuesday afternoon. Which card on the client account Overview page would highlight this specific pattern of behavior?
  40. A retail advertiser is using a budget bid strategy (BBS) to manage their monthly spend. How does a BBS differ from a standard ROI bid strategy?
  41. An agency wants to improve conversion measurement accuracy by matching hashed first-party user data against Google logged-in data to mitigate losses from browser changes. Which feature should they implement?
  42. A brand manager needs to produce a granular performance breakdown of daily impressions and costs, segmented by Designated Market Area (DMA). Rather than manually selecting dimensions and metrics, they use a chat-like interface to describe their requirements. How does Search Ads 360 fulfill this specific request?
  43. An administrator notices that the options available in their left-hand sidebar navigation have changed significantly after they selected a specific account from the top bar. What's the reason for this shift in the user interface?
  44. A search specialist needs to track Floodlight conversions for an engine that isn't officially listed in the Search Ads 360 interface. Which workflow should they use to generate tracking URLs for this source?
  45. A manager at a large agency oversees several distinct brands, each with its own team. How should the account hierarchy be structured to allow the agency to manage all brands from a single location while keeping brand teams separated?
  46. A new online shoe retailer wants to maximize the revenue generated on their site at a specific return on advertising spend. What's the appropriate Search Ads 360 portfolio bid strategy?
  47. A nationwide retailer uses Google Ads auction-time bidding (ATB) in their Search Ads 360 strategy. How does this feature optimize performance at the moment of the auction?
  48. A retail advertiser is currently managing separate bid strategies for their Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising campaigns. They decide to consolidate these into a single Search Ads 360 portfolio to improve overall efficiency. According to the platform's optimization logic, how does this consolidated structure specifically address performance when one engine becomes budget-constrained?
  49. A marketing manager needs to activate time-sensitive promotional campaigns across 20 different client accounts housed under various sub-managers. To allow for consistency and minimize manual effort, which method should be used to manage these activations from a single location?
  50. A digital marketer is integrating social media campaigns into Search Ads 360 to achieve a consolidated view of the user journey. According to the platform's architectural logic, how does the management of these social entities differ from the management of search engine entities?
  51. Your client is a global sneaker brand launching regional-specific tennis shoes. They need to track performance by region and use that information to optimize monthly.What should they use within their Search Ads 360 account to do that?
  52. Your customer is aiming to not only drive conversions but also track how those conversions drive users to enroll in their weekly newsletter distribution list. When setting up their data-driven attribution model in Search Ads 360, what else should you set up
  53. How does Google Ads auction-time bidding differ from Search Ads 360 intraday bidding?
  54. What are three key functionalities of Search Ads 360?
  55. Your sneaker customer is using Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to track conversions of their new basketball sneaker release. GA4 is passing this data back to Search Ads 360. What's an advantage of using GA4 for your customer?
  56. What data is shared from Search Ads 360 (SA360) to Google Ads to enable Google Ads auction-time bidding in SA360?
  57. Your client is requesting an overview of their Search Ads 360 performance within a customized date range.What should you share with them?
  58. When setting up a bid strategy in Search Ads 360, your customer's main business goal is to determine how long it takes a user to purchase a pair of socks after selecting an ad. What metric is important for them to follow?
  59. You're working with a beverage customer who wants to share insights across multiple teams within the company. What tool in the Search Ads 360 platform should you use to share across users?
  60. What tool in Search Ads 360 allows you to plan, budget, manage your spend, and understand your campaign's success?
  61. Where can you apply labels within your Search Ads 360 campaign?
  62. Your airline customer is using feed data to add structure to their Search Ads 360 campaign templates. Competitive flight prices are a business goal for them, so they want to make sure that's highlighted in their campaign.What are the pricing options through feeds?
  63. What Google products can Search Ads 360 integrate with?
  64. What products are currently compatible with Google Ads auction-time bidding in Search Ads 360?
  65. Within your Search Ads 360 account, where can you access your reporting, campaigns, and ad groups?
  66. What type of account do you create for reporting on search campaigns that aren't directly supported by Search Ads 360?
  67. You're working with your customer to determine how to allocate their quarterly budget across each product and across each of their Search Ads 360 campaigns.Where, within Search Ads 360, should you go to help them with this task?
  68. Your customer, a local clothing store, is wondering where else their sales are coming from besides giving full credit to the paid search ads.What's another way they can segment conversions within Search Ads 360?
  69. Your athleisure brand customer wants to know what yoga pants drive the most sales.WIthin Search Ads 360, what should they set up in a Floodlight column to get more information about their conversions before the upcoming holiday season?
  70. You're working with a sports equipment brand. They want to understand what happens after basketball transactions occur on their site so they can look for cross-sell opportunities to learn what other products to include in their next campaigns.What tool within Search Ads 360 should they turn to?
  71. How many Facebook accounts can be linked to Search Ads 360 at a time?
  72. The top goal of your customer, a global beverage retailer, is brand exposure. What brand strategy should they implement in Search Ads 360?
  73. Where in Search Ads 360 can you find forecasting to assess incremental opportunities for your target return on ad spend (tROAS) strategy?
  74. Your customer, a local car dealership, frequently changes keywords in their campaign based on the previous week's sales. What should your customer use with their data-driven attribution model in Search Ads 360 to make sure the campaigns are updated correctly?
  75. When should you consider making optimizations to a newly launched bid strategy within your Search Ads 360 campaign, assuming there's no conversion delay?
  76. Your customer, an advertising agency, wants to create automated rules in Search Ads 360 for all the campaigns associated with their agency--but they can't see all their campaigns. What's one reason this might be happening?
  77. Between Search Ads 360 and Google Analytics 4, which of the following metrics differ but are still complimentary?
  78. Your customer is considering their reports and notices that Search Ads 360 is using a previously generated basic linear attribution model to track conversions instead of the data-driven attribution model they set up last week. Why might Search Ads 360 be defaulting to the previous model?
  79. Your customer sells beach vacation rental packages in the summer months. The pricing on their rentals changes frequently based on time of year and availability. What feature in Search Ads 360 should they use to make sure the campaign structure, targeting, and creatives are updated automatically to reflect those changes?
  80. Your winter sports store customer wants to change the flight date of multiple campaigns across multiple advertising platforms at the same time.What should they use in Search Ads 360?
  81. At what level should you evaluate performance for your Search Ads 360 bid strategies?
  82. How many bid strategies can each Search Ads 360 campaign have?
  83. Your retail clothing customer sells T-shirts that come out on a weekly basis and are for sale while supplies last. What do they need to do to make sure their Search Ads 360 campaigns are automatically updated to reflect the correct inventory available for purchase?
  84. Your customer, a health and wellness organization, wants to streamline their efforts and run all Search Ads 360 ads during afternoon commutes. How can they efficiently set this up within their account?
  85. What's the optimal window of time to review the performance of a Search Ads 360 campaign?
  86. What Google product connects with Search Ads 360 to give you a data visualization that includes a more robust view of your campaign?
  87. Your client, an agency, is setting up their Search Ads 360 account.What type of account should they set up first to help them manage all their customer accounts within their main account?
  88. What's Search Ads 360?
  89. Your client, a world-renowned jewelry designer, set up custom columns in Search Ads 360 to review their performance for the previous month. When they go back to consider their specific bid strategy performance, they get an error. What could be the reason for this?
  90. From what option in the navigation menu of Search Ads 360 can labels be created?
  91. If your customer wants to dig deeper into their Search Ads 360 campaign and view the reporting for how their business organization is set up, what do they need to have set up within their account?
  92. Your health and wellness client is using Search Ads 360 to add an owner to the custom column. Across what account levels can the owner access and manage columns?
  93. If your customer's business objective is to maximize conversions at a specific target spend, what should their Search Ads 360 bidding strategy be?
  94. Your client only has a certain amount of money to spend on their campaign but wants to gain a decent return on investment (ROI). What should they set up within the Performance Center of Search Ads 360 to accomplish this goal?
  95. Your customer, a wellness brand, has multiple types of natural supplements for stress and anxiety. To understand how buyers convert on the different varieties of supplements, what should you set up for your customer within their Search Ads 360 account?
  96. What's one way you can use custom dimensions in Search Ads 360 to help make business decisions?
  97. Your customer wants to define and view specific parts of their Google Ads data using custom columns. Within Search Ads 360, what are two types of custom columns they'd use?
  98. Your premium beverage customer set a target return on ad spend (tROAS) bid strategy in Search Ads 360. They noticed that when they evaluate how the strategy is doing, there's limited consistency and minimal automation. What might be happening?
  99. Your customer, a gourmet pet food company, is using custom columns to determine how their new dog food is performing. What specific action in Search Ads 360 does a custom column let them access for any formula?
  100. Your customer sells multiple sneaker styles depending on the season. They recently updated their campaigns to reflect new audience targets for their new basketball sneaker campaign. What can they use within their Search Ads 360 campaign to keep track of those changes?

 

 

 

 


 

A retail manager needs to report on all conversions, but only for those that occurred on mobile phones. Which custom column feature should they use to isolate this data?

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A retail manager needs to report on all conversions, but only for those that occurred on mobile phones. Which custom column feature should they use to isolate this data?

  • MatchID attributes
  • Custom formula columns with filters
  • Conversion value rules
  • Custom conversion columns

 

Explanation

Custom formula columns can isolate reporting data by applying filters to selected metrics. In Search Ads 360, a metric such as conversions can be added to the formula and narrowed by dimensions such as device. Filtering the metric to Mobile phones reports only the conversion data associated with that device segment. This makes the column suitable for reporting all conversions while limiting the result to mobile phone traffic.

Why the other options are incorrect

Conversion value rules adjust conversion values, but they do not create a filtered reporting column for mobile-only conversions.

MatchID attributes support offline conversion matching, not device-based reporting segmentation.

Custom conversion columns report selected conversion actions, but this use case requires filtering the broader conversions metric by device.

Source for verification

https://support.google.com/sa360/answer/12157683

https://support.google.com/sa360/answer/9633916

 

An advertiser needs to determine how to allocate a monthly spend target across various lines of business without using manual spreadsheets. Which tool allows the advertiser to visualize incremental spend and track performance relative to a target?

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An advertiser needs to determine how to allocate a monthly spend target across various lines of business without using manual spreadsheets. Which tool allows the advertiser to visualize incremental spend and track performance relative to a target?

  • Shared library
  • Change history
  • App Switcher
  • Bidding and Planning

 

Explanation

Bidding and Planning is the correct tool because it includes plans built around a target spend and a defined time range. In Search Ads 360, a plan includes graphs, a budget pacing chart, and an allocation table to help visualize incremental spend over the selected period. The same planning workflow is designed to track and report performance relative to the amount the advertiser wants to spend. This makes it the platform feature intended for budget allocation across lines of business without relying on manual spreadsheets. Google Help

Why the other options are incorrect

Change history records edits and account changes, but it does not provide planning views for target spend, pacing, or incremental allocation. Google Help

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App Switcher is for moving between Google  Marketing Platform products, not for budget planning or spend visualization inside Search Ads 360. Google Help

Shared library stores reusable assets and settings, but it is not the planning workspace for spend allocation and target tracking. Google Help

Source for verification

https://support.google.com/sa360/answer/10058344

 

An SEM manager needs to present multiple tables, Sparkline Scorecards, and explanatory text summaries to a client in a single, customized screen view. Which tool should they use?

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An SEM manager needs to present multiple tables, Sparkline Scorecards, and explanatory text summaries to a client in a single, customized screen view. Which tool should they use?

  • Change history
  • Dashboards
  • Account picker
  • Report Editor

 

Explanation

Dashboards are designed to combine performance metrics into a single customized screen view. In Search Ads 360, they can include scorecards, report cards, and note cards. Scorecards can show metrics in numeric, sparkline, or percent-change formats. Report cards support tables and charts, while notes add explanatory context for client-facing summaries.

Why the other options are incorrect

Account picker is used to move between accounts, not to build a customized reporting view.

Change history records account changes, but it does not combine scorecards, tables, and notes.

Report Editor creates tables and charts, but it is not the single-screen dashboard container for multiple card types.

Source for verification

https://support.google.com/sa360/answer/13681418

https://support.google.com/sa360/answer/13681968

 

A finance advertiser wants to report on degree program performance across multiple sub-manager accounts using a nested structure that groups related data into parent-child categories. Which characteristic distinguishes custom dimensions from labels for this specific task?

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A finance advertiser wants to report on degree program performance across multiple sub-manager accounts using a nested structure that groups related data into parent-child categories. Which characteristic distinguishes custom dimensions from labels for this specific task?

  • Custom dimensions allow for a structured hierarchy, allowing the advertiser to group related data into clear, nested categories.
  • Labels are restricted to the keyword level, preventing the advertiser from aggregating performance data at the campaign or ad group level.
  • Labels don’t support the color-coding features required to distinguish between different high-priority and low-priority degree programs.
  • Custom dimensions provide the ability to automatically pause underperforming advertisements based on real-time shifts in the conversion rate.

 

Explanation

In Search Ads 360, custom dimensions add extra information by defining a data table that can be attached to campaigns, ad groups, keywords, ads, or product groups. Each row contains a primary dimension value and can also include one or more secondary dimension values, which creates a structured parent-child reporting setup. Google specifically recommends custom dimensions for annotations that imply multiple levels or hierarchical relationships, because secondary dimensions add structure instead of relying on naming conventions. That makes them the better choice for grouping related degree-program data and summarizing performance across organized categories. Google Help+1

Why the other options are incorrect

Keyword-level restriction is incorrect because labels can be reported at the campaign, ad group, ad, and keyword levels, not only at the keyword level. Google Help

Automatic pausing is incorrect because adjusting bids, budgets, or pausing ads based on conditions belongs to automated rules, not to the defining purpose of custom dimensions. Google Help+1

Color-coding requirement is incorrect because Google distinguishes labels from custom dimensions by hierarchy, consistency, and reporting structure, not by color-coding features. Google Help

Source for verification

About custom dimensions Google Help

Use custom dimensions in reports and automated rules Google Help

 

A retail advertiser needs to group a specific selection of Floodlight activities into a single reporting view to analyze their performance more efficiently. Which Search Ads 360 feature provides the capability to aggregate these individual metrics into a unified measurement?

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A retail advertiser needs to group a specific selection of Floodlight activities into a single reporting view to analyze their performance more efficiently. Which Search Ads 360 feature provides the capability to aggregate these individual metrics into a unified measurement?

  • Custom variable adjustments, which permit the manual weighting of conversion values based on the original engine’s attribution model.
  • Custom conversion columns, which allow for the grouping of specific conversion actions and segments into a single reporting metric.
  • Custom executive summaries, which provide an automated narrative overview of top-performing conversion trends across multiple sub-manager accounts.
  • Custom dimension attributes, which provide the ability to tag individual campaigns with static labels for easier filtering and sorting.

 

Explanation

In Search Ads 360, custom conversion columns are used to report on conversions tracked by selected conversion actions or Floodlight activity groups. When creating one, the platform lets the advertiser choose the specific Floodlight activities or Floodlight groups whose data should be included in that single column. This creates one unified reporting metric from multiple individual conversion sources, which is exactly what is needed for aggregated performance analysis. The feature is built for reporting consolidation, not for tagging entities or changing conversion value logic. Google Help+2Google Help+2

Why the other options are incorrect

Custom dimension attributes add classification data for analysis and filtering, but they do not aggregate selected Floodlight activities into one conversion metric. Google Help+1

Custom executive summaries is incorrect because Search Ads 360 documentation for this task points to reporting columns, not an automated narrative feature for combining Floodlight metrics. Google Help+1

Custom variable adjustments change reported conversion value based on rules and conditions, but they do not group multiple conversion actions into a single reporting column. Google Help+1

Source for verification

https://support.google.com/sa360/answer/9157988

https://support.google.com/sa360/answer/14317283

 

A user creates a label in a Google Ads client account within Search Ads 360. Where will this label be visible and manageable?

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A user creates a label in a Google Ads client account within Search Ads 360. Where will this label be visible and manageable?

  • Only in the Search Ads 360 manager account
  • Only in the Search Ads 360 sub-manager account
  • Only in the Google Ads user interface
  • In both the Search Ads 360 and Google Ads user interfaces

 

Explanation

Labels created at the client account level are treated differently from labels created at a Search Ads 360 manager account. Client-account management data can be available in Search Ads 360 and in the connected external account when that account supports shared management. A Google Ads client account supports this shared-management behavior. This makes the label usable for organization and reporting across the connected interfaces.

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Why the other options are incorrect

Only in the Search Ads 360 sub-manager account is incorrect because the label is created at the client account level, not only at the sub-manager level.

Only in the Search Ads 360 manager account is incorrect because manager-created management data has different visibility rules from client-account data.

Only in the Google Ads user interface is incorrect because Search Ads 360 can also access supported client-account management data.

Source for verification

https://support.google.com/sa360/answer/9157799

https://support.google.com/sa360/answer/14268439