Salesforce Platform App Builder Practice Test

Answer choices

1. A. Use Lightning page activation and form-factor support for the mobile experience.
2. B. Create a new profile solely for every mobile device model.
3. C. Use organization-wide defaults to switch layouts by device.
4. D. Create a validation rule that redirects mobile users to another record type.

Wrong-answer review

• B. Create a new profile solely for every mobile device model.: A profile supplies baseline user permissions and settings. Changing it affects every user assigned to that profile and is not the targeted mechanism for a one-off additive access or record-sharing requirement.
• C. Use organization-wide defaults to switch layouts by device.: Organization-wide defaults establish baseline record access; they do not implement the UI, field-security, automation, or data-model behavior required here.
• D. Create a validation rule that redirects mobile users to another record type.: Validation rules block saves that violate conditions; they do not perform the different calculation, navigation, sharing, or automation behavior described by this option.

Answer choices

1. A. Activate the change set in the source sandbox because activation performs a no-commit deployment against production, moving supported metadata between connected Salesforce orgs.
2. B. Validate the inbound change set in the target org before executing the production deployment, moving supported metadata between connected Salesforce orgs.
3. C. Clone the production org because change sets cannot be validated without permanently deploying their metadata.
4. D. Run Data Loader in test mode because data import validation also validates metadata dependencies and Apex tests.

Answer choices

1. A. Use a second approval step with criteria that route only requests over $100,000 to the CFO.
2. B. Use final approval actions because final actions decide whether a second approver is needed.
3. C. Use OWD because sharing rules route high-value records to the CFO.
4. D. Use a record type because record types execute conditional approval steps.

Answer choices

1. A. Use a Developer Sandbox because it includes the complete production database.
2. B. Use a Full Sandbox because it provides the most complete production copy for full-volume testing.
3. C. Use a Partial Copy Sandbox because partial data is always equivalent to full production volume.
4. D. Use a change set because change sets create performance-test environments.

Answer choices

1. A. Edit the common profile to grant report export so the audit user and all coworkers have identical capabilities.
2. B. Assign a narrowly scoped permission set that grants the required report export capability to that user, limiting the added permission to the intended users.
3. C. Change the role hierarchy so the audit user is above coworkers because hierarchy level controls report export permissions, using managerial record access through the hierarchy.
4. D. Create a sharing rule for report folders because folder sharing grants the system permission to export report data.

Answer choices

1. A. Add a multi-select picklist of Courses on Student because picklists support relationship attributes.
2. B. Create a self-relationship on Student because self-relationships model many-to-many enrollment.
3. C. Store Course names in a long-text field on Student because text fields preserve relationship reporting.
4. D. Create an Enrollment junction object with master-detail relationships to Student and Course, storing Grade and Enrollment Date on Enrollment.

Answer choices

1. A. Use ISNEW(Discount__c) because it returns the field's prior value.
2. B. Use TODAY(Discount__c) because date functions expose historical field values.
3. C. Use PRIORVALUE(Discount__c) in the formula expression.
4. D. Use BLANKVALUE(Discount__c) because it retrieves the value from the previous transaction.

Answer choices

1. A. Use only compact layouts because compact layouts control business-process picklist values.
2. B. Use OWD because record-sharing baselines determine page-layout and picklist values.
3. C. Create appropriate record types and assign the corresponding page layouts to profiles as required.
4. D. Use dashboard filters because filters can switch record pages and picklists.

Answer choices

1. A. Keep adding record types because record types can implement arbitrary client-side interaction and custom server logic without code, separating business-process and picklist experiences declaratively.
2. B. Use organization-wide defaults because record-sharing configuration can replace custom user-interface and transaction behavior.
3. C. Use a formula field because formulas can render an interactive multi-step interface and call arbitrary server-side logic.
4. D. Escalate to a programmatic solution, such as a custom Lightning Web Component with supporting Apex when server-side logic is required.

Answer choices

1. A. Assess conversion compatibility and dependencies, then test the field-type change with representative data outside production.
2. B. Change the field type directly in production because Salesforce automatically converts every value and dependency without risk.
3. C. Delete and recreate the field because that is the only supported method to change the data type of a populated custom field.
4. D. Export only report definitions because field-type changes cannot affect stored data, formulas, or automation references.