Platform-App-Builder Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder (Plat-Admn-202) Free Practice Exam Questions (2026 Updated)

The correct answer is B. Use an AppExchange solution.

UC has a time-sensitive need and the developers are delayed for several months. AppExchange is the best recommendation because it provides ready-to-install apps, components, and solutions that can extend Salesforce without building everything from scratch. Salesforce describes AppExchange as the marketplace for ready-to-install solutions, including apps, components, and experts.

A and C still require building the solution internally. D. Bolt solution is more specific to prebuilt Experience Cloud/community templates and is not the best answer for a general custom component requirement. Salesforce describes Bolt Solutions as combinations of Lightning apps, business process flows, and Experience Builder templates/pages.

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Feed Tracking is the correct feature because Salesforce can automatically generate feed updates when a tracked field changes on a record. Salesforce Help explains that feed tracking detects changes to tracked record fields and posts updates to the feed. It can also be configured for custom objects.

For this scenario, the app builder would track the travel request approval/status field. When the request becomes Approved, Salesforce posts that tracked change automatically on the record feed.

Why others are incorrect:

Auto-response rule sends automatic email responses, mainly for Lead/Case scenarios.

Approval process manages record approval routing, but the feature that creates automatic feed posts for field changes is Feed Tracking.

Feed quick action is manual, not automatic.

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The correct answer is D. Accordion.

For an object with 100+ fields, the app builder should avoid one large monolithic Record Detail area. Salesforce Trailhead explains that Dynamic Forms breaks the Record Detail component into individual field and section components, which can be placed in separate tabs and accordion sections.

Salesforce also states that moving lower-priority fields into tabs or accordion sections can improve page performance because the content is not visible when the page first loads.

A. Highlights panel is for key record fields and actions at the top of the page. B. Record detail would keep fields together in one large block. C. Field section groups fields, but the better component for breaking a large page into collapsible organized areas is Accordion.

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The correct answer is D.

Managers need to create child Accounts directly from a parent Account and auto-populate fields from that parent record. This is an object-specific custom action use case. Salesforce Trailhead states that object-specific actions can create records that have automatic relationships to other records and provide a streamlined experience across desktop and mobile. Salesforce also documents that predefined field values can be used with quick actions to set field values automatically, improving consistency and speed.

A. Global Quick Action is not ideal because it does not run in the specific parent Account context. B. Path does not create child records. C. Custom link is not the recommended Lightning approach for creating related records with predefined values.

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Users need Read access to both master objects.

Request Inventory is a junction object with two master-detail relationships: Inventory and Order. For junction objects, access is based on the associated master records and the sharing behavior of the master-detail relationships. Salesforce documentation for object relationship considerations explains that sharing access to a junction object record is determined by access to both associated master records.

Why not the others? Sharing rules are not created directly on a master-detail detail object in the same way, because it is controlled by parent. Apex-based sharing is not needed. Read access to only the first master object is not enough because the junction record connects two master records.

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This question is testing the classic Salesforce Process Builder automation best practice , not a generic Flow-only rule. Salesforce’s official process design guidance states that an org should have only one record-change process per object . The reason is simple: every time a record is created or updated, Salesforce evaluates the record-change processes for that object. If an object has multiple record-change processes, the automation becomes harder to predict, harder to troubleshoot, and more likely to hit governor limits. Salesforce specifically explains that consolidating automation into one record-change process gives admins a single view of all criteria and actions for that object, reduces duplicated automation overhead, and allows the app builder to control the order of criteria evaluation.

A is not the best exam answer here. In modern Flow architecture, “one Flow per object” is often discussed as a design pattern, but it is not the exact best-practice wording being tested by this Platform App Builder-style question. Salesforce Flow design is more nuanced today because record-triggered flows can vary by trigger timing and event. B is wrong because validation rules should be separated by validation requirement, not forced into one rule per object. C is wrong because invocable processes are reusable modular processes, not the main record-change automation container.

The Repeater component is specifically designed to collect and modify multiple instances of the same type of information within a Screen Flow. Salesforce supports using a record collection as the Repeater ' s data source, allowing existing records to be prepopulated. At runtime, users can modify those items and, when configured, add or remove additional instances. That directly matches the requirement to display existing Order Line Items while permitting users to add new line items within the same interactive screen. A Data Table is primarily intended to display and select records rather than provide this repeated add/edit data-entry pattern. Section only organizes screen components, while Slider captures a numeric value. Salesforce ' s current Repeater functionality explicitly supports prepopulated records together with user additions and modifications.

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The correct answers are C. Users, D. Public Groups, and E. Roles and Subordinates.

Manual sharing is used when the org-wide default is private and users need to share individual records on a case-by-case basis. Salesforce documentation confirms that manual sharing allows users to share individual records with other users, public groups, and roles.

A public group can include users, roles, and roles with subordinates, which makes it useful when sharing records with departments or groups of people.

A. Permission Set Groups is incorrect because permission set groups grant permissions, not manual record-level sharing.

B. Private Groups is not the standard manual-sharing option tested here.

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The correct answer is D. For use on the utility bar.

For a custom Lightning web component to appear as an available component in the utility bar, it must be exposed in its metadata configuration with the lightning__UtilityBar target. Salesforce developer documentation states that lightning__UtilityBar enables a component to be used as a utility item in an app’s utility bar, and the component must be exposed with the appropriate target.

B. For use in Lightning App Builder is broader and not enough by itself for utility-bar availability. C. For use on record pages exposes the component for record pages, not the utility bar. A. For use in App Manager is not the correct component target wording.

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A Screen Flow is the best declarative tool when the user must answer questions through a guided UI and use those answers to update record fields. Salesforce documents that screen flows provide a UI that guides users through a business process, and they can be launched from quick actions or Lightning pages.

A custom button or action can launch the flow, collect the extra approval-related information, update the Account fields, and then continue the approval submission logic.

Why not others:

A. Custom object only stores data; it does not provide the popup/question flow.

B. Visualforce could be custom-coded, but Flow is the declarative App Builder solution.

D. Custom Lightning component requires development and is not the best declarative answer.

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Use a Component visibility filter. The issue is not object access or field access. The Contact Lightning record page is shared, but one component should be hidden for users with the Marketing profile. Salesforce Lightning App Builder supports visibility filters on Lightning page components, so the app builder can conditionally show or hide that component based on user/profile criteria.

Why not the others? AppExchange is unrelated. Detail page layouts control field layout, not visibility of a Lightning page component. Field-level security controls field access, not whether a large component appears on a Lightning record page.

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The correct answer is D. Approval process.

The marketing director wants all free parts to receive sign-off before they are allowed. Salesforce Approval Processes are used to automate how records are approved, define who approves at each step, and specify actions after approval or rejection. Trailhead describes approval processes as automation for record approval and explains that approval steps assign approval requests to specific users.

Chatter approval is not the standard feature for formal record sign-off. Slack post and automated email message can notify people, but they do not enforce approval. An Approval Process is the correct declarative feature for required business sign-off.

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The correct answer is D. Create an Apex Trigger on the Account object.

The requirement is conditional: allow Account deletion generally, but block deletion when the Account has open Opportunities. A validation rule is not the correct tool because validation rules evaluate record data during save operations, while this requirement is specifically about preventing a delete operation.

An Apex before delete trigger can query related open Opportunities and call addError() on the Account record to stop the delete. Salesforce Apex documentation confirms that triggers can run before or after delete events, and trigger errors can prevent DML operations from completing.

A is incorrect because removing Delete permission blocks all Account deletion.

B is incorrect because removing the Delete button is not security and does not stop deletion through other channels.

C is incorrect because validation rules are not the right mechanism to block conditional deletes.

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The Automation Lightning App ' s Monitor tab is Salesforce ' s centralized interface for examining failed and paused flow interviews. Salesforce states that the Monitor tab displays failed interviews, their error information, and details needed to determine why execution failed. From the failed interview details, an administrator can open the run in debug mode and inspect the execution information without requiring the user to reproduce the issue. This directly satisfies the requirement to troubleshoot intermittent production failures from historical flow runs. Option A focuses primarily on paused interviews and is not the current comprehensive monitoring experience. Apex Replay Debugger is intended for Apex debugging rather than declarative Flow execution. Running the flow manually as another user creates a new test execution rather than analyzing the specific production failures that already occurred.

A schedule-triggered flow is designed for batch automation that must execute at a defined time and frequency. Salesforce allows this flow type to run once, daily, or weekly and to select an object plus entry conditions in the Start element. Universal Containers therefore can configure Account as the target object, Weekly as the frequency, Sunday at 2:00 a.m. as the start schedule, and conditions that identify Accounts whose Last Activity Date is more than 90 days old. A scheduled path on a record-triggered flow is tied to individual record-triggering events rather than a weekly evaluation of all qualifying Accounts. Option D runs only once and fails the recurring requirement. Salesforce explicitly supports weekly schedule-triggered flows for this batch-processing pattern.

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The correct answer is C. AppExchange package.

The key word is daily. Salesforce’s native Data Export Service supports manual and scheduled exports, but Salesforce documentation states that backup files can be generated manually once every 7 days for weekly export or 29 days for monthly export, depending on edition. That does not meet an automatic daily backup requirement.

For daily automated backups, the app builder should recommend a backup solution from AppExchange. Report export is not an org backup, and refreshing a full copy sandbox is not a backup automation tool.

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