SALESFORCE CERTIFIED ADMINISTRATOR
STUDY GUIDE 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ What are the Salesforce default company settings? Answer: PST USD
and English
◉ What is the identity license connected to? Answer: The experience
site or portal
◉ What are the two ways to restrict access to data in Salesforce?
Answer: Profile and Org Wide Defaults
◉ How does Salesforce set access at the org level? Answer: Trusted IP
Ranges, Login IP Ranges, Login Hours
◉ What two org access components are set at the profile level? Answer:
Login IP Ranges and Login Hours
◉ What org access component is set at the org level? Answer: Trusted
IP Ranges
◉ What license do you need to access data in Salesforce that you do and
don't own? Answer: Salesforce
,◉ How does Salesforce evaluate access? (three levels) Answer: License,
profile, permission set
◉ What is the way to restrict access to an object? Answer: Org Wide
Defaults
◉ What are the three key org wide default settings for record access?
Answer: Private, Public Read, Public Read Write Transfer
◉ Where is the CRED set in Salesforce? Answer: On the profile and
permission set
◉ What does CRED stand for? Answer: Create, Read, Edit, Delete
◉ What does CRED define? Answer: The things you can do with an
object as defined on the profile
◉ True or False: Ownership is shared vertically with role hierarchy
sharing Answer: True
◉ How might you define role hierarchy? Vertical or Horizontal
Sharing? Answer: Vertical (Up and down the role hierarchy)
, ◉ How might you define sharing rules? Vertical or horizontal? Answer:
Horizontal (within the same level of the hierarchy)
◉ What are the "horizontal" and "vertical" ways of record sharing?
Answer: Role Hierarchies and Sharing Rules
◉ What objects can Teams sharing be used on? Answer: TACO -
Accounts, Cases, Opportunities
◉ True or False: Field level security still allows access to the field data
in reports. Answer: False
◉ True or False: Page Layout allows field data to be accessed in reports.
Answer: True
◉ Which option suppresses data access: Field Level Security or Page
Layout? Answer: Field Level Security
◉ What security feature allows you to specify a name in your org
URLs? Answer: My Domain
◉ What are the object permissions on the profile that allow you to
bypass org wide defaults? Answer: View All and Modify All
◉ What does the profile determine? Answer: what you can see and what
you can do
STUDY GUIDE 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ What are the Salesforce default company settings? Answer: PST USD
and English
◉ What is the identity license connected to? Answer: The experience
site or portal
◉ What are the two ways to restrict access to data in Salesforce?
Answer: Profile and Org Wide Defaults
◉ How does Salesforce set access at the org level? Answer: Trusted IP
Ranges, Login IP Ranges, Login Hours
◉ What two org access components are set at the profile level? Answer:
Login IP Ranges and Login Hours
◉ What org access component is set at the org level? Answer: Trusted
IP Ranges
◉ What license do you need to access data in Salesforce that you do and
don't own? Answer: Salesforce
,◉ How does Salesforce evaluate access? (three levels) Answer: License,
profile, permission set
◉ What is the way to restrict access to an object? Answer: Org Wide
Defaults
◉ What are the three key org wide default settings for record access?
Answer: Private, Public Read, Public Read Write Transfer
◉ Where is the CRED set in Salesforce? Answer: On the profile and
permission set
◉ What does CRED stand for? Answer: Create, Read, Edit, Delete
◉ What does CRED define? Answer: The things you can do with an
object as defined on the profile
◉ True or False: Ownership is shared vertically with role hierarchy
sharing Answer: True
◉ How might you define role hierarchy? Vertical or Horizontal
Sharing? Answer: Vertical (Up and down the role hierarchy)
, ◉ How might you define sharing rules? Vertical or horizontal? Answer:
Horizontal (within the same level of the hierarchy)
◉ What are the "horizontal" and "vertical" ways of record sharing?
Answer: Role Hierarchies and Sharing Rules
◉ What objects can Teams sharing be used on? Answer: TACO -
Accounts, Cases, Opportunities
◉ True or False: Field level security still allows access to the field data
in reports. Answer: False
◉ True or False: Page Layout allows field data to be accessed in reports.
Answer: True
◉ Which option suppresses data access: Field Level Security or Page
Layout? Answer: Field Level Security
◉ What security feature allows you to specify a name in your org
URLs? Answer: My Domain
◉ What are the object permissions on the profile that allow you to
bypass org wide defaults? Answer: View All and Modify All
◉ What does the profile determine? Answer: what you can see and what
you can do
