Free Salesforce Platform App Builder Practice Exam (with Answers)

Try our 60-question practice exam to see if you are ready to take on the real exam.

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As the Salesforce Administrator, you have been asked to arrange a backup of all Salesforce data, including attachments on a monthly basis. How could you achieve this?

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What type of Flow should be used to automatically deactivate users that have not logged in for a specific number of days? The Flow should check users every 7 days.

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Expenses and Expense Line Items are in a Master-Detail relationship. However, sometimes users wish to change the parent record on the Expense Line Items. As the Salesforce Administrator, what could you advise?

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Users have complained that one of the Lightning Record Pages is pretty busy and navigation is complicated. There are components on the page that are not always needed, but users still need an easy way to access these components. What could you suggest? (Choose 2)

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What feature can be used to highlight different summarized values in a report?

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Cloudy Computing has created a junction object called Application. What type of relationship does a junction object enable?

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The VP of Sales at Cloudy Computing would like to enhance the sales process using automation. When a new Opportunity is created, a Task should be created and assigned to the Opportunity Owner to follow up in 7 days. When a high value Opportunity is won or lost, an email alert should be sent to the VP of Sales. How should the Administrator achieve these requirements?

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What is not a type of access set at profile or permission set level?

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As an Administrator, hoping to get a better understanding of the existing data model in your new company, what tool could you use?

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When editing a page layout, what field properties can be applied? (Choose 2)

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Cloudy Computing would like to connect to their external ERP system. Accounts are stored in both Salesforce and the ERP, but Salesforce is the master system and the Salesforce Account object should be the parent. What type of relationship would support this?

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Support Agents at Cloudy Computing would like to have multiple tabs open at once, as well as easy access to their recent tabs. What features of Salesforce would you recommend? (Choose 2)

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Which of the following does not respect validation rules?

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Which feature sets the base level of access to an object's records?

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The four types of a roll-up summary functions are:

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Which of the following is not a valid return type of a custom formula?

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Sales users must enter a Closed Lost Reason when the Opportunity Stage is changed to Closed Lost. How could you enforce this?

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Where can you monitor a time dependent Workflow to troubleshoot?

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What can a cross-object formula reference?

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What are the types of actions that can be created for use in the Salesforce App and on mobile? (Choose 2)

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What are some useful features of the Lightning App Builder when creating a new Lightning page? (Choose 2)

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The Sales Manager would like to start tracking when the values in important fields on the Opportunity record are edited or deleted. What should the Administrator consider? (Choose 2)

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What is TRUE of both the Data Import Wizard and Data Loader? (Choose 2)

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Cloudy Computing would like to allow users to relate records to other records of the same object. What type of relationship is this?

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You have created a report to display Opportunities by Account Name. You would like to see the total number of Opportunity records, plus the total Amount (Opportunity value) per Account. What do you need to do as part of creating the report? (Choose 2)

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Select the data types that are supported by formula fields (Choose 3)

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What must be set up before creating an action to send a custom notification from a process?

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Cloudy Computing would like a new field on the Lead object, where users can select the various products that a Lead is interested in. The user should be able to select several options from the list. What type of field would fulfill this requirement?

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When importing via an API or Data Loader, which fields will be required? (Choose 2)

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With the retirement of Workflow Rules and Process Builder, what tool should be used to create Approval Processes?

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Cloudy Computing have developed an App that they would like to sell on the AppExchange. They should be able to offer upgrades and the source code must be protected. What type of package should they create?

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The Business Development team at Cloudy Computing needs to generate reports on their Leads. Only certain fields should be available on the report. The Business Development Manager would also like several default columns to be included every time a report is created. As the Administrator, what would you suggest? (Choose 2)

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Which Salesforce formula function can return a value based on more than two different field values?

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Cloudy Computing would like to import 10,000 Person Account records. You should ensure no duplicates are imported and workflow rules should not run during the import. What is the best tool to achieve this?

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Your company has a custom object called Projects with a Lookup relationship to Opportunities. Once an Opportunity is closed won, a project needs to be created automatically and assigned to a queue. What would be the best practice way to accomplish this requirement? (Choose 2)

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What are some examples of useful out-of-the-box components to add to a homepage specifically for Sales users in Lighting Experience? (Choose 3)

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At Cloudy Computing, Interview is the child object in a master-detail relationship with the Applicant object. Can the recruitment team change the owner on Interview records?

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Assuming your changes have been tested and validated already, when should you deploy changes from a sandbox to a production instance?

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What is the correct formula to make Lost Reason required when the Opportunity Stage is Closed Lost?

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Cloudy Computing have acquired a new company and are migrating them on to Salesforce. As part of this process, you have been asked to import their legacy CRM records into Salesforce. However, these records need to maintain the original system audit fields such as ‘Created Date’. What should you do?

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Your company needs to develop an Apex trigger in a sandbox to work with a large amount of records. The trigger needs to be tested with real records and the sandbox needs to be refreshed once a week. Which type of sandbox should be used?

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As the Salesforce Administrator, you have created a custom field on the Opportunity object. The field is read only in the field-level security settings. When you add the field to the relevant page layout, you accidentally make the field required. What behavior can we expect in this scenario?

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Which of the following are TRUE statements about profiles and permission sets? (Choose 2)

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You have created the field ‘Budget’ on the Account object and set the field to ‘Read-Only’ via the page layout. Will you be able to insert values into the field using Data Loader?

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What are some benefits of managed packages? (Choose 2)

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What happens when records are submitted into an approval process? (Choose 2)

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Cloudy Computing would like to do some forecasting at the Account level. They would like to see the maximum potential amount from Opportunities in the ‘Commit’ forecast category. They would like this information displayed on the Account page. How can this be achieved? (Choose 2)

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When can sharing rules be created? (Choose 2)

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What are the organization-wide access options for Campaign Member? (Choose 2)

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You are thinking of enabling ‘Roll up activities to a contact’s primary account’. What things must you consider before enabling this feature? (Choose 3)

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True or false: Standard picklist fields can be controlling or dependent?

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What types of Salesforce development would not require building and testing in a sandbox?

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What feature can you use to troubleshoot Flows?

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What are some features and considerations of Themes and Branding in Salesforce Lightning Experience? (Choose 3)

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What are the 3 types of Lightning Components on a Lightning Record Page? (Choose 3)

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Your company has the requirement to calculate complex commissions on Opportunities. You have limited in-house resources. What would be the best way to satisfy this requirement?

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As the Administrator, you wish to make sure that all fields on your new custom object are editable to all profiles, what should be checked on field level security?

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When inserting a field into a validation rule, what field information is used?

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What is the default email deliverability setting for Salesforce sandboxes?

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What happens when you select the setting ‘View Dashboard As Another Person’? (Choose 2)

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