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Question 1

What advanced tool can Salesforce enable for large-scale role hierarchy realignments?

  • A. Set external organization-wide default to public read only
  • B. Granular locking
  • C. Partitioning by Divisions
  • D. Skinny Table Indexing
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Correct Answer:
B. Granular locking
Question 2

The architect has a requirement to create a criteria-based sharing rule based on the customer Social Security number. However, when setting up the rule in Contact Sharing, the field is not shown on the list of available fields. What might cause this?

  • A. Text fields with validation rules are not available for sharing rules
  • B. The architect’s profile does not have Field level Security (FLS) for this field
  • C. The field has been configured for encryption
  • D. The architect does not have permission to Compliance fields
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Correct Answer:
C. The field has been configured for encryption
Question 3

Universal Containers (UC) is a non-profit organization and has over 20,000,000 members (donors). The company decided to assign those accounts to Donations Reps based on their regions. Donations Reps ended up owning over 50,000 donors each. The donation reps started to see significant degradation of the system performance. What could be the reason for this problem?

  • A. The Donations Reps access to the assigned accounts
  • B. The Account (donor) object OWD is Private
  • C. There is an Account ownership data skew problem
  • D. Salesforce sharing recalculation kicked off
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Correct Answer:
C. There is an Account ownership data skew problem
Question 4

If a Case requires involvement from one of the Legal team, the Case owner adds one of the corporate lawyers to the Legal SME field on the case. Since cases are private, how can we grant a lawyer access to a specific case when their assistance is needed?

  • A. Use Apex Managed sharing in a case Trigger that shares the record to the user identified in the Legal SME field
  • B. Create a Criteria Based Sharing Rule that shares to the Corporate Legal Team Role when the “legal assistance needed?” field is checked
  • C. Create a Criteria Based Sharing Rule that shares to the Legal Public Group when the “legal assistance needed?” field is checked
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Correct Answer:
A. Use Apex Managed sharing in a case Trigger that shares the record to the user identified in the Legal SME field
Question 5

What should a Salesforce architect recommend to make sure that users that gained access to a custom object record through Apex managed sharing do not lose access to it when its owner is changed?

  • A. Use “With Sharing” keyword to make sure record visibility will be considered
  • B. Create a specific Apex Sharing Reason for the custom object
  • C. Create a new record in _Share object with RowCause “Manual”
  • D. Use “runAs” system method in Apex classes to enforce visibility
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Correct Answer:
C. Create a new record in _Share object with RowCause “Manual”
Question 6

Universal Containers implemented Sales Cloud and requested that only certain branch staff trained to sell high-risk products can create opportunities for high-risk products. How should an architect allow only specific branch staff to sell high-risk products?

  • A. Set the price book organization-wide default (OWD) to View Only and share the price book (High Risk) with the trained staff
  • B. Set the price book OWD to View Only and share the (High Risk) price book with the trained staff via a sharing rule
  • C. Set the price book OWD to View Only and share the (High Risk) price book with the trained staff via manual sharing
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Correct Answer:
C. Set the price book OWD to View Only and share the (High Risk) price book with the trained staff via manual sharing
Question 7

Universal Containers (UC) provides shipment tracking for its customers on a custom Shipment object. The total number of shipments made yearly by the customers should be available on the Account record to the Marketing team, but the Marketing team should not have access to Shipment records. What recommendation should an Architect provide to accomplish this?

  • A. Controlled by Parent (Account) on Shipment, trigger, and Master-Detail relationship to Account
  • B. Private organization-wide default on Shipment, trigger, and Lookup relationship to Account
  • C. Public organization-wide default on Shipment, process builder, and Lookup relationship to Account
  • D. Private organization-wide default on Shipment, rollup summary, and Master-Detail relationship to Account
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Correct Answer:
D. Private organization-wide default on Shipment, rollup summary, and Master-Detail relationship to Account
Question 8

The sales managers in Japan have asked the sales manager in Australia to assist them with closing their deals. How are these requirements achieved?

  • A. Create ownership-based sharing rule
  • B. Use sharing set to give the sales manager access to the deals
  • C. Assign the sales manager View All on the opportunity object
  • D. Use opportunity teams to automatically add the sales manager as a team member
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Correct Answer:
A. Create ownership-based sharing rule
Question 9

Which community function is impacted by having the Site User Visibility turned off in Sharing Settings?

  • A. Searching for internal users
  • B. Searching for other external users
  • C. Updating their user profile
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Correct Answer:
B. Searching for other external users
Question 10

Who can view a PDF that is uploaded to the Files Home private library by a user?

  • A. The user and users with View All Data permission
  • B. Only the user
  • C. The user and users above him/her in the Role Hierarchy
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Correct Answer:
B. Only the user
Question 11

Sales Operations at Universal Containers (UC) has created Public Report and Dashboard folders for sales managers that report to the VP of Sales. Sales Operations currently spends a few hours each month updating users that should have access to edit items in these folders. In which two ways can UC grant access to sales managers to automate access to these Reports and Dashboards folders? (Choose two.)

  • A. Share the folders with the “VP of Sales” Role and Subordinates
  • B. Share the folders lowest roles in the Role Hierarchy, superiors will get access automatically
  • C. Share the folders with a “Sales Managers” Public Group
  • D. Share the folders with the “Sales Managers” Queue
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Correct Answer:
  • B. Share the folders lowest roles in the Role Hierarchy, superiors will get access automatically
  • C. Share the folders with a “Sales Managers” Public Group
Question 12

Universal Containers requested to leverage Lightning Web Components (LWC) to improve support reps' user experience. LWC will be used as view layer, and Apex classes will have the business logic. Which attention points should the development team consider when implementing this solution?

  • A. Once that Apex runs on system mode, the development team needs to enforce record visibility
  • B. Create test classes including runAs to test different users accessing the data
  • C. Use isShareable, isEditable, and isCreatable to enforce field permissions
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Correct Answer:
A. Once that Apex runs on system mode, the development team needs to enforce record visibility
Question 13

Universal Containers’ organization wide-defaults model is private for the Account object. A sales representative user has Create/Edit access to opportunity records. Which level of access will the sales rep have to the related account record?

  • A. Read/Create/Edit access
  • B. No access
  • C. Read/Create access
  • D. Read-only access
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Correct Answer:
D. Read-only access
Question 14

Universal Containers (UC) uses a custom Lightning component with an Apex class to display shipment information (custom object, private OWD). UC sales managers are complaining about two important points: Shipment records that belong to their teams can be seen by other users. Shipment amount should be visible only by managers, but sales reps are able to view it. Which two features did the development team miss that is causing the problems? (Choose two.)

  • A. Use isSearchable keyword in Apex classes to assure record visibility
  • B. Use With Sharing keyword in Apex classes to enforce sharing rules evaluation
  • C. Use runAs in test class to enforce user permissions and field-level permissions
  • D. Use isAccessible() method in Apex classes to check field accessibility
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Correct Answer:
  • B. Use With Sharing keyword in Apex classes to enforce sharing rules evaluation
  • D. Use isAccessible() method in Apex classes to check field accessibility
Question 15

Sales reps at Universal Containers (UC) complain about the manual activities they need to perform in order to grant access to supporting internal users (legal, engineering, finance, etc.) for customer records when they need help. In general, the sales reps involved in the deals will not change. How should an architect help UC improve sales reps' productivity?

  • A. Leverage default Account team
  • B. Create a permission set with View All Data and assign to supporting users
  • C. Create a criteria-based sharing rule to grant access to other users
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Correct Answer:
A. Leverage default Account team

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