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Salesforce Platform App Builder Practice Exam Questions with Answers (Part 3)
Question: 1
How should an app builder configure access to a contact’s Twitter profile for Salesforce mobile app users?
A. Add a formula field to the Contact page layout.
B. Add an AppExchange Lightning Component to the mobile app.
C. Add the Twitter component to mobile view Lightning pages.
D. Add a Twitter Quick Action to the mobile navigation.
Answer: C
Question: 2
Universal Containers would like to collaborate with its customers within Salesforce, and has decided to enable the “Allow Customer Invitations” Chatter setting. What permission is granted to Customers when invited to Chatter Group?
A. The ability to invite members to groups of which they are a member
B. The ability to @mention accounts of which they are a contact.
C. The ability to request access to public groups
D. The ability to interact with members of their groups
Answer: D
Question: 3
Universal containers wants to display the real time stock price for each account on the account record page. How should an app builder implement this request?
A. Add a dynamic report to the page layout
B. Create a lightning web component
C. Install a solution from the appexchange
D. Build a visual flow that users API calls
Answer: C
Question: 4
Universal Containers would like to automatically assign a specific permission set to new users. How can this requirement be met? Choose 2 Answers
A. Create an approval process on the User object to assign a permission set
B. Create a flow on the user object to assign a permission set.
C. Create a lightning process on the user object to launch a flow.
D. Create a workflow rule on the User object to assign a permission set.
Answer: C, D
Question: 5
Containers have the Account object’s Organization-Wide Default set to Private. The marketing team owns Accounts; however, they also need to be able to see the sales team’s Accounts. Both the sales and marketing teams are in completely different branches of the rote hierarchy. What feature should be used to enable marketing to see sales-owned accounts.
A. Public Group
B. Flow
C. Workflow
D. Sharing Rules
Answer: D
Question: 6
An app builder installed a custom Lightning component from AppExchange and has deployed My Domain.
What should be done next in order to configure the component for use in a record page?
A. Edit a record page using Lightning App Builder > Drag the component onto the page.
B. Edit a record page using the Page Layout editor > Drag the component onto the page.
C. Edit a record page using the Page Layout editor > Drag the Visualforce component onto the page.
D. Edit a record page using App Manager > Drag the component onto the page.
Answer: A
Question: 7
What should an app builder consider when choosing a template for a new Lightning record page?
A. The template is unable to be changed after the initial save.
B. To view the record page, users need “View All Data” permissions for the object.
C. A Page structure will automatically adapt to the device being used to view the record page.
D. Select a new template for each type of device users use to view the record page.
Answer: C
Question: 8
DreamHouse Realty (DR) is expanding into subsidized housing by partnering with local government entitles. DR uses Sales Cloud and has enabled field history tracking on the Opportunity object. Due to increased Information requirements, the App Dev team is changing Text Area (Long) fields to Rich Text fields to allow for up to 1,000 characters and better descriptions.
Which two considerations should be made by the team? Choose 2 answers
A. Rich text field values of all lengths are displayed fully in reports.
B. Data loss may occur when changing custom field types.
C. Field History Tracking records value changes of 255 characters or less.
D. Audit Trail is available through REST API extracts.
Answer: B, C
Question: 9
Universal Containers wants to match Opportunity data from Salesforce to the records in a financial database.
What is required to configure an indirect lookup relationship in Salesforce between the Salesforce Opportunity records and those in a financial database?
A. Salesforce Record ID
B. TEXT(Id)
C. External ID
D. CASESAFE(Id)
Answer: C
Question: 10
Universal containers has 20 different workflows on the opportunity object. To ensure that updates are processing properly for all field updates uc has the re-evaluete workflow rules after field change checkbox checked. Recently after adding a new workflow, users have reported receiving errors about workflow limits. What should a app builder look at so address this?
A. Talk to a developer about apex code issues
B. Number of workflows per object limits
C. Workflows that cause each other to fire back and forth recursively
D. Workflows on other objects that are being re triggered
Answer: C
Question: 11
Ursa Major Solar wants to see the Type field from the parent object Galaxy listed on the child record Star. The app builder is receiving an error stating “Picklist values are only supported in certain functions”.
What formula should an app builder use to achieve the desired result?
A. ISPICKVAL(Galaxy__r.Type__c)
B. VALUE(Galaxy_r.Type__c)
C. TEXT(Galaxy_r.Type_c)
D. FIND(Galaxy__r.Type__c)
Answer: C
Question: 12
To increase adoption, Universal Containers is proposing changes to its Salesforce data model to allow easier visibility for sales reps into key metrics. The proposal has three custom objects related to the Account object, one with a master-detail, and two that are not. Each of these objects has 15 fields they would like to summarize on the Account object.
What are two considerations for this proposal? Choose 2 answers
A. Roll-up summaries allow MAX, MIN, SUM, COUNT, and AVG.
B. An object can have 20 object references.
C. An object can have 25 roll-up summaries.
D. Roll-up summaries are limited to master-detail relationships.
Answer: A, C
Question: 13
What are two capabilities of Schema Builder? Choose 2 answers
A. Editing custom settings
B. Creating a new record type
C. Showing selected objects on a page
D. Viewing page layouts in a new window
Answer: C, D
Question: 14
Manage at Universal Containers want a quick to create additional accounts to form a hierarchy from a parent account record. They want to auto-populate five fields based on the parent to make it easier for users to create the child accounts quickly.
A. Custom Global Quick Action B. Custom Global Quick Account.
C. Custom action on Account
D. Custom link on Account
Answer: B
Question: 15
DreamHouse Realty wants to import its property records from an external system into Salesforce.
The app builder will use an external ID field to house the property ID from the external system. Which two details should the app builder know when using external ID fields? Choose 2 answers
A. An external ID field can be a number field.
B. An external ID field can be a URL field.
C. An external ID field can be a phone field.
D. An external ID field can be a text field.
Answer: A, D
Question: 16
Universal Containers wants to display the real-time stock price for each Account on the Account record page.
How should an app builder implement this request?
A. Create a Lightning Web Component.
B. Install a solution from the AppExchange.
C. Build a Flow that uses API calls.
D. Use a scheduled Apex job.
Answer: B
Question: 17
Universal Containers wants to streamline its data capture process by linking fields together. They wish to do this so that the available value on dependents fields are driven by value selected on controlling fields. Which consideration supports the stated requirements? Choose 3 answers
A. The import wizard only allows value to be imported into a dependent picklist if they match the appropriate controlling field
B. Custom picklist field can be either controlling or dependent field C. Multi select picklist can be dependent picklist but not controlling fields
D. Standard and custom picklist fields can be dependent fields.
E. Checkbox fields can be controlling fields but not dependent fields
Answer: B, C, E
Question: 18
DreamHouse Realty is rethinking its sandbox utilization strategy after acquiring Cloud Kicks. The Salesforce COE already utilizes a partial and a full sandbox, which it refreshes on their own regular schedules. Teams are expanding and have to begin each of their small projects in a sandbox before committing to the larger pool for collaborative testing while still keeping costs down. What type of sandbox should each team member use?
A. Full sandbox
B. Developer sandbox
C. Developer pro sandbox
D. Partial sandbox
Answer: B
Question: 19
Ursa Major Solar’s sales team has been struggling to enter data on mobile since rollout; the team dislikes scrolling through all of the fields to input only the necessary data.
How could the app builder solve this with minimal impact to desktop users?
A. Filter components by device using Form Factor.
B. Reorder the fields to make sense for the reps when in the field.
C. Update the training documentation with better screenshots.
D. Deselect the phone radio button on the Lightning record page assignment.
Answer: B
Question: 20
An app builder is creating a Lightning record page and has added Mobile & Lightning Actions to the page layout.
What two components could be included on the layout to display the actions?
Choose 2 answers
A. Highlights panel
B. Chatter
C. Activities
D. Path
Answer: A, C
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