Can an object be ingested more than once in Data Cloud?

• A. Yes
• B. No
• C. Always
• D. Sometimes

Answer: (B)

Idempotent ingestion and deduplication are at play here. In Data Cloud, an object is tracked by a unique identifier, and repeated ingestions of the exact same object are treated as the same event rather than creating a new, duplicate copy. This means you don’t end up with multiple independent instances of the same object—the system preserves a single representation. If the data changes and you need to reflect an update, you would re-ingest a new version or use an update/upsert flow rather than re-ingesting the same object as a new entry. So the answer is that an object cannot be ingested more than once in a way that produces duplicates. Choosing Yes, Always, or Sometimes would imply duplicates or inconsistent behavior, which these ingestion mechanisms are designed to avoid.