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The Salesforce Advanced Administrator Practice Exam tests your ability to handle complex administrative tasks and optimize Salesforce functionality. The exam outline includes areas like extending custom objects, managing advanced analytics, and configuring automation processes.
With our practice questions, you can build confidence, identify focus areas, and prepare to ace the certification. Start practicing today and take the next step in your Salesforce journey!
About Exam
- 60 multiple-choice/multiple-select questions – 105 mins
- Passing score: 65%
- Exam Sections and Weighting
- 20%: Security and Access
- 19%: Objects and Applications
- 10%: Auditing and Monitoring
- 11%: Cloud Applications
- 13%: Data and Analytics Management
- 7%: Environment Management and Deployment
- 20%: Process Automation
- The exam Fee is $200 plus applicable taxes
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Salesforce Advanced Administrator Practice Exam Questions and Answers (Part-1)
Question: 1
The director of sales wants to make sure that every opportunity has either a sales engineer or an account executive assigned to the deal.
How should the administrator meet this requirement?
A. Write a validation rule that checks if the fields are blank and require that one of them of completed in order to save the opportunity.
B. Create a different record type for deals with Sales Engineers and deals with Account Executives to capture one or the other.
C. Require the Sales Engineer and the Account Executive lookup fields on the page layout.
D. Assign a task to the owner if an opportunity is created without one of these fields filled out.
Answer: A
Question: 2
AW Computers has enabled the feature for Contact to multiple Accounts. A rep is trying to remove the primary Account from a Contact but Is unable to do so. The administrator has already updated the page layout to no longer require an Account. What could be the issue?
A. A primary Account relationship Is required on a Contact regardless of the page layout settings.
B. The Contact has Indirect relationships to other Accounts.
C. The Account Contact relationship record needs to be deleted first In order to disassociate Contact from the Account.
D. Private Contacts need to be enabled in Setup.
Answer: A
Question: 3
AW Computing it running a special bundle deal on monitors and keyboards. Normally, discounts need VP approval, but this special bundle is pre-approved.
What should the administrator recommend for these requirements?
A. Create a separate price book.
B. Implement CPQ.
C. Remove the approval process.
D. Enable Subscriptions.
Answer: B
Question: 4
DreamHouse Realty currently deals only with single-family homes but is expanding its business it include condos in large cities. There are some features and amenities that inly apply to condos, such as the amount of a deposit and concierge services.
How should an administrator configure the Opportunity object to ensure that only relevant fields are displayed on the record?
How should an administrator configure the Opportunity object to ensure that only relevant fields are displayed on the record?
A. Build a Lightning component to display fields that only apply to condos.
B. Create a Record Type for the type of property and custom page layouts for each.
C. Configure a validation rule to display fields based on the type of property the user is viewing.
D. Make is custom Lightning page to display specific fields based on the type of property.
Answer: B
Question: 5
A sales user is assigned to a permission set group that gives them Modify All access to
Accounts. An administrator assigns the same user to a muting permission set that mutes Deletes access on Account.
What level of access will the sales user have on the Account object?
A. Read-only
B. Modify All
C. Read, Create, and Edit
D. No Access
Answer: C
Question: 6
An administrator created a new custom object. When trying to upload new records to the custom object using.
Date Loader, they are unable to see the new custom object in the list of available objects. What should the administrator do to resolve the issue?
A. Assign a permission set to give them access to the new object.
B. Check the Field-Level Security of the new custom object’s Name field.
C. Ensure Allow Sharing is checked on the custom object.
D. Confirm the object us marked as deployed and not in development.
Answer: D
Question: 7
At Ursa Major Solar, there is a custom object called Galaxy. The sales director wants users to only see certain field market.
What Lightning will satisfy this requirement?
A. Record Detail Component
B. Fields component
C. Highlights Panel Component
D. Path Component
Answer: B
Question: 8
An administrator has been asked to enable permissions for users on the account services team to be able to edit and change ownership of Accounts owned by any of the team members. What should the administrator configure?
A. Set organization-wide sharing for Account as Public Read Only.
B. Create a Sharing Rule on the Account object for all members of the account services role to have Read/Write access.
C. Update the profile Account object to Modify All.
D. Enable Account Teams and grant Read record-level access to account team members for the Account object
Answer: B
Question: 9
AW Computing has a private sharing model for Its accounts, but a sales rep occasionally needs ass/stance from an engineer. What feature should be used to grant the engineer access to the necessary account, while maintaining the company’s data security?
A. Permission Set
B. Permission Set Group
C. Account Teams
D. Custom Profile
Answer: C
Question: 10
Ursa Major Solar allows its scientists to log new stars as they find them, but on occasion, they log the same star by mistake. The administrator wants scientists to be notified when a record is deleted and by whom, and to maintain their own discovery information. What automation solution should be used to send the notification?
A. Heroku
B. Process Builder
C. Workflow Action
D. flow
Answer: D
Question: 11
DreamHouse Realty has a rental team and a real estate team. The two teams have different safes processes and capture different client information on their opportunities.
How should an administrator extend the Opportunity object to meet the teams’ different needs?
A. Leverage Opportunities for the Real Estate Team and create a new custom object for the Rental Team Opportunities.
B. Use separate record types, page layouts, and sales processes for the Rental and Real Estate Teams.
C. Create Opportunity Teams for the Rental and Real Estate Teams and make appropriate fields visible to only the necessary team.
D. Add a section for Rental and a section for Real Estate on the Opportunity Master Record Type to keep the information separate.
Answer: B
Question: 12
An administrator at Universal Containers has been asked to configure product schedules. What should the administrator consider before enabling this feature?
A. The Product Schedule is unavailable in Process Builder and Flow.
B. Line Item Schedule is unavailable In Process Builder and Workflow.
C. Customizable product schedule page layouts cannot be modified.
D. To remove o product schedule completely, remove It from the standard price book.
Answer: B
Question: 13
The administrator at Cloud Kicks has been requested to provide access to the Leads object to a contractor. The contractor currently has a profile that has access to a project management app within Salesforce. The contractor should only have View access to all of the Lead records. What should the administrator handle this request?
A. Assign a permission set that has View All on Leads. B. Add an app with the Leads tab to the user’s profile.
C. Assign the contractor a public group with Lead access.
D. Create a profile with Read Only for all Leads.
Answer: A
Question: 14
Cloud Kicks (CK) has deployed several new custom apps that use Lightning Web components. The administrator is now concerned that they may need to make some adjustments to CK’s org to make it more secure.
Which tools should the administrator use to expose possible security risks within a Lightning web component?
A. Health Check
B. Master Encryption Keys
C. Salesforce Optimizer
D. Self-signed Certificates
Answer: A
Question: 15
Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) is expending into the U.K. While most of NTO’s product are the same as in the US. Pricing will vary from product due to shipping and raw material cost differences. What should the administrator configure for a smooth rollout to the U.K.?
A. Configure a U.K Opportunity record type.
B. Write a flow the translates the currency from dollars to euros using a custom Exchange Rate field.
C. Add a new U.K Order Form that has the euro symbol instead of the dollar symbol.
D. Create a new Price Book for the U.K product pricing.
Answer: D
Question: 16
AW Computing wants to create a process to assign accounts to different salespeople based on the annual revenue…. of the company. The administrator has decided to create a flow.
Which two consideration should the administrator make sure to remember when creating the flow? Choose 2 answers
A. Use a Get Record component instead of hard coding record IDs.
B. The running user of a flow is the user that last saved the flow.
C. Update record elements should be placed outside the flow loop.
D. Update Record elements should be placed inside the flow loop.
Answer: A, C
Question: 17
The administrator at Cloud Kicks is troubleshooting an issue one user Is having with a flow. They have decided to add a debug log to that user. What debug log category should be used?
A. Workflow
B. Callout C. System
D. Database
Answer: A
Question: 18
An administrator is planning he release process for the year. The team will be using change sets to process deployment to production.
Which three best practices should be considered?
A. Plan your deployments around the production and sandbox maintenance schedules.
B. Use matching names for global publisher layouts and Outlook publisher layouts.
C. Be sure to test only after business hours the data after deployment.
D. Make sure to deploy all dependent components.
E. Make sure change sets are limited to 10,000 files.
Answer: A, D, E
Question: 19
Cloud kicks has received feedback that customers are frustrated with the amount of time it takes to reach a support agent by area of expertise according to product information after a new case has been submitted.
Which feature should administrator configure in order to improve the case management process?
A. Omni-Channel
B. Escalation Rules
C. Macros
D. Knowledge Component
Answer: A
Question: 20
DreamHouse Realty wants to notify an assigned agent when an appointment Is booked on a custom object for one of their listed homes along with the total number of appointments booked so far. The administrator has configured a Roll-up Summary for the number of appointments as well as a flow to detect the creation of a new appointment and send the information to the agent.
What consideration about process automation should the administrator be aware of to ensure the right Information is delivered?
A. Only standard objects can be used with Roll-up Summary fields.
B. Rows can only be triggered from the records created on standard objects.
C. Roll-up Summary calculations will prevent a Mow from being triggered.
D. Roll-up Summary calculations run after processes and workflows.
Answer: D
Question: 21
A developer is getting errors for Production deployment. The test deployment in the Full sandbox, which included a local test run, was successful. The Full sandbox was last refreshed 2 weeks ago. Where should the administrator check to see what was recently changed?
A. Salesforce Optimizer
B. Dev Console
C. Field History
D. Setup Audit Trail
Answer: D
Question: 22
The administrator at Cloud Kicks built a flow in a sandbox. After testing and validating the flow, the administrator plant to promote the flow to the production environment with a change set. Which three considerations should the administrator be aware of when moving flows with a change sat? Choose 3 answers
A. Flows deployed are inactive and need to be manually activated.
B. Flow allows only one version of the flow when deployed with a change sat.
C. Deploying or redeploying a flow with change sets creates a version of the flow in the destination org.
D. All flow dependencies are automatically added to the change set.
E. Flows ere automatically activated upon deployment.
Answer: A, B, C
Question: 23
An administrator has created a flow that sends platform events whenever an opportunity is updated. An Apex developer has been tasked to write code that listens for these events. When reviewing the debug logs for a user, the developer can see that the flow ran, but the debug Information is missing. What should the administrator recommend to assist with debugging?
A. Select the Debug Enabled checkbox on platform events,
B. Platform events are unavailable for debugging.
C. Set a debug log on the Automated Process entity.
D. Search the AppExchange to And a tool that assists with debugging.
Answer: C
Question: 24
An administrator at Cloud kicks recently built a screen flow in a sandbox that creates a case and follow-up task. When the flow runs in the sandbox, it works just as expected. When tested in production, the flow errors when creating the records. Choose 2 answers
A. Change the user experiencing the issue to the System Administrator profile.
B. Open the flow In Debug mode and Run the Flow as another user.
C. Change the Default Case Creator to the user’s manager.
D. Log in as another user and run the flow.
Answer: B, D
Question: 25
Cloud Kicks (CK) has e sneaker maintenance plan that It Includes with all orders for Its new line of Bluetooth-enabled custom sneakers. The sneaker maintenance plan gives each customer 6 months of phone support in case they have Issues with their new sneakers. The administrator at CK is having a hard time keeping up with the work associated with managing the maintenance plan. What should the administrator do to help manage the plan?
A. Use Flow to automatically create and assign entitlements.
B. Create a support process for the maintenance plan.
C. Ensure milestones are in place for the maintenance plan.
D. Set up and configure entitlement templates.
Answer: D
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