SALESFORCE ADMIN CERTIFICATION QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS
How many custom fields can be created on an object? - Answer -Up to 800 custom
fields per object for unlimited Edition.
Master-Detail Relationships - Answer -.Child records must have a parent
.Record level security cascades from the parent to the child records
.Record deletion cascades from the parent to the child records (delete the parent, the
child is also deleted)
.Roll-up summary fields can be created on the parent record
.Standard objects cannot be the detail object in the relationship
Look-up relationships - Answer -.A parent isn't needed, meaning the relationship is
optional
.There is no impact to security. Security will be set independent of any related object
.Roll-up summary fields can not be created on lookup fields
What is the roll-up summary fields limit? - Answer -Can display the sum, min, or max
value of a field in a related list, or the record count of all records listed in a related list.
10
Visualforce expression - Answer -is any set of literal values, variables, sub-
expressions, or operators that can be resolved to a single value. Method calls aren't
allowed in expressions.
The expression syntax in Visualforce is: {! expression }
Coarse-grained components - Answer -Coarse-grained components provide a
significant amount of functionality in a single component, and might add a lot of
information and user interface to the page it's used on.
These components adds many fields, sections, buttons, and other user interface
elements to the page in just one line of markup
Fine-grained components - Answer -Fine-grained components provide more focused
functionality, and enable you to design the page to look and behave the way you want.
output components - Answer -components that output data from a record and enable
you to design a view-only user interface.
Sandbox storage limits - Answer -.Partial Copy sandboxes have a 5 GB of files and a 5
GB of data storage limit.
,.Developer Pro sandboxes have a 1 GB of files and a 1 GB of data storage limit.
.Developer sandboxes have a 200 MB of files and a 200 MB of data storage limit.
.Full sandboxes have the same storage limit as your production organization.
Standard List Controller - Answer -The standard list controller allows you to create
Visualforce pages that can display or act on a set of records.
Adding the standard list controller to a page is very similar to adding the standard
(record) controller, but with the intent of working with many records at once, instead of
one record at a time.
The standard (record) controller makes it easy to get a single record loaded into a
variable you can use on a Visualforce page. The standard list controller is similar,
except instead of a single record, it loads a list, or collection, of records into the variable.
How do you emulate salesforce1 from your desktop browser? - Answer -Add "
one/one.app" after your salesforce instance name in the URL.
Limitations of dynamic dashboards by Edition - Answer -Enterprise edition can have up
to 5, Unlimited and Performance Edition can have up to 10 and Developer Edition up to
3.
What is a controller? - Answer -Controllers typically retrieve the data to be displayed in
a Visualforce page, and contain code that executes in response to page actions, such
as a button being clicked.
The primary purpose of most controllers is to retrieve data for display, or handle
updates to data.
Describe the action types - Answer -.Quick actions (New Account, New Event, New
Task)
.productivity action (Call)
.standard buttons (Edit, Delete, Clone, Send an Email)
.Chatter actions (Poll, Post)
Apex triggers - Answer -Apex triggers enable you to perform custom actions before or
after events to records in Salesforce, such as insertions, updates, or deletions.
Use triggers to perform tasks that can't be done by using the point-and-click tools
(declarative) in the Salesforce user interface.
There are two types of triggers.
, .Before triggers are used to update or validate record values before they're saved to the
database.
.After triggers are used to access field values that are set by the system (such as a
record's Id or LastModifiedDate field), and to effect changes in other records. The
records that fire the after trigger are read-only.
What is the difference between force.com and salesforce.com license? - Answer -
Force.com is a PaaS product. It contains an application or Framework for you to build
Apps onto. This license gives no access to leads, accounts or opportunities. You would
have to build Apps, Tabs, Custom Objects, Workflow Rules all yourself to design the
kind of system that you want to use.
Salesforce.com is a SaaS with their three core products, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud
and Marketing Cloud.
When you purchase Salesforce.com Licenses for Sales Cloud, you get all of your
normal tabs (Leads, Accounts etc) plus the ability to customise the whole platform using
Force.com!
Who See What - Answer -Org Access:
Able to restrict access by IP address and login hours through profiles. At the org level,
only IP addresses are set. Login hours are only set at the Profile level.
Object Access:
Determine through assigned profile.
Record Access:
Determine through role hierarchy. E.g. US regional manager can see data in the US
region only.
Field Access:
Through field level security. Restricts field access (read/write/non) by profile.
Standard profiles - Answer -group, contact manager, professional edition have
standard profiles only.
Org Access through IP ranges - Answer -IP ranges can be set at the company level.
Users outside the IP ranges set at the Company level will be sent an activation code.
IP ranges can be set at the profile level. Users outside the IP ranges set at the Profile
level will be denied access.
Login hours - Answer -Login hours are set at the profile level only.
Field level security - Answer -only available in enterprise, unlimited and developer
editions.
ANSWERS
How many custom fields can be created on an object? - Answer -Up to 800 custom
fields per object for unlimited Edition.
Master-Detail Relationships - Answer -.Child records must have a parent
.Record level security cascades from the parent to the child records
.Record deletion cascades from the parent to the child records (delete the parent, the
child is also deleted)
.Roll-up summary fields can be created on the parent record
.Standard objects cannot be the detail object in the relationship
Look-up relationships - Answer -.A parent isn't needed, meaning the relationship is
optional
.There is no impact to security. Security will be set independent of any related object
.Roll-up summary fields can not be created on lookup fields
What is the roll-up summary fields limit? - Answer -Can display the sum, min, or max
value of a field in a related list, or the record count of all records listed in a related list.
10
Visualforce expression - Answer -is any set of literal values, variables, sub-
expressions, or operators that can be resolved to a single value. Method calls aren't
allowed in expressions.
The expression syntax in Visualforce is: {! expression }
Coarse-grained components - Answer -Coarse-grained components provide a
significant amount of functionality in a single component, and might add a lot of
information and user interface to the page it's used on.
These components adds many fields, sections, buttons, and other user interface
elements to the page in just one line of markup
Fine-grained components - Answer -Fine-grained components provide more focused
functionality, and enable you to design the page to look and behave the way you want.
output components - Answer -components that output data from a record and enable
you to design a view-only user interface.
Sandbox storage limits - Answer -.Partial Copy sandboxes have a 5 GB of files and a 5
GB of data storage limit.
,.Developer Pro sandboxes have a 1 GB of files and a 1 GB of data storage limit.
.Developer sandboxes have a 200 MB of files and a 200 MB of data storage limit.
.Full sandboxes have the same storage limit as your production organization.
Standard List Controller - Answer -The standard list controller allows you to create
Visualforce pages that can display or act on a set of records.
Adding the standard list controller to a page is very similar to adding the standard
(record) controller, but with the intent of working with many records at once, instead of
one record at a time.
The standard (record) controller makes it easy to get a single record loaded into a
variable you can use on a Visualforce page. The standard list controller is similar,
except instead of a single record, it loads a list, or collection, of records into the variable.
How do you emulate salesforce1 from your desktop browser? - Answer -Add "
one/one.app" after your salesforce instance name in the URL.
Limitations of dynamic dashboards by Edition - Answer -Enterprise edition can have up
to 5, Unlimited and Performance Edition can have up to 10 and Developer Edition up to
3.
What is a controller? - Answer -Controllers typically retrieve the data to be displayed in
a Visualforce page, and contain code that executes in response to page actions, such
as a button being clicked.
The primary purpose of most controllers is to retrieve data for display, or handle
updates to data.
Describe the action types - Answer -.Quick actions (New Account, New Event, New
Task)
.productivity action (Call)
.standard buttons (Edit, Delete, Clone, Send an Email)
.Chatter actions (Poll, Post)
Apex triggers - Answer -Apex triggers enable you to perform custom actions before or
after events to records in Salesforce, such as insertions, updates, or deletions.
Use triggers to perform tasks that can't be done by using the point-and-click tools
(declarative) in the Salesforce user interface.
There are two types of triggers.
, .Before triggers are used to update or validate record values before they're saved to the
database.
.After triggers are used to access field values that are set by the system (such as a
record's Id or LastModifiedDate field), and to effect changes in other records. The
records that fire the after trigger are read-only.
What is the difference between force.com and salesforce.com license? - Answer -
Force.com is a PaaS product. It contains an application or Framework for you to build
Apps onto. This license gives no access to leads, accounts or opportunities. You would
have to build Apps, Tabs, Custom Objects, Workflow Rules all yourself to design the
kind of system that you want to use.
Salesforce.com is a SaaS with their three core products, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud
and Marketing Cloud.
When you purchase Salesforce.com Licenses for Sales Cloud, you get all of your
normal tabs (Leads, Accounts etc) plus the ability to customise the whole platform using
Force.com!
Who See What - Answer -Org Access:
Able to restrict access by IP address and login hours through profiles. At the org level,
only IP addresses are set. Login hours are only set at the Profile level.
Object Access:
Determine through assigned profile.
Record Access:
Determine through role hierarchy. E.g. US regional manager can see data in the US
region only.
Field Access:
Through field level security. Restricts field access (read/write/non) by profile.
Standard profiles - Answer -group, contact manager, professional edition have
standard profiles only.
Org Access through IP ranges - Answer -IP ranges can be set at the company level.
Users outside the IP ranges set at the Company level will be sent an activation code.
IP ranges can be set at the profile level. Users outside the IP ranges set at the Profile
level will be denied access.
Login hours - Answer -Login hours are set at the profile level only.
Field level security - Answer -only available in enterprise, unlimited and developer
editions.