A consultant is making changes to compact layouts in the Education Data Architecture (EDA) and...

The consultant should clone the EDA Compact Layout as a step toaccomplish making changes to compact layouts in EDA and having those changes persist when a new release is pushed to the Salesforce environment. A compact layout is a layout that shows key fields of a record in a summary view, such as in a list view or a record highlight panel. Cloning the EDA Compact Layout means creating a copy of the default compact layout provided by EDA and making changes to it, such as adding or removing fields. Cloning the EDA Compact Layout can help the consultant accomplish makingchanges to compact layouts in EDA and having those changes persist when a new release is pushed to the Salesforce environment by ensuring that the custom compact layout will not be overwritten by EDA updates. Editing the Mini Page Layout, assigning the Mini Page Layout to all users, or creating a custom Record Type are not steps that the consultant should take to accomplish making changes to compact layouts in EDA and having those changes persist when a new release is pushed to the Salesforce environment. References:

https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.compact_layouts_overview.htm &type=5

https://powerofus.force.com/s/article/EDA-Compact-Layouts