Salesforce Updated Platform-App-Builder Exam Questions and Answers by rayyan

The correct action is to validate the inbound change set in Production before the deployment window. Salesforce states that an inbound change set can be validated without deploying changes, and validation shows the same success or failure messages that would occur during an actual deployment.

This helps the app builder confirm whether Apex tests, dependencies, and deployment requirements will pass while the developer is away.

Why not others:

A is wrong because removing Apex classes would remove required code.

B is wrong because deployment validation is done from the inbound change set in the target org.

C is not the standard change-set validation process.

The correct answers are B. Roles and Subordinates, C. Public Groups, and D. Users / Individual Users.

Salesforce manual sharing allows record owners or users with proper access to share individual records with users, public groups, and roles. Salesforce documentation specifically states that manual sharing is used to share individual records with other users, public groups, and roles.

For Lightning manual sharing, Salesforce also describes entering groups, users, roles, or territories in the sharing search box.

So, based on your option wording:

B appears to mean Roles and Subordinates.

C is Public Groups.

D appears to mean Users / Individual Users.

A. Permission Set Groups is incorrect because permission set groups grant object, field, app, and system permissions, not case-by-case record sharing.

E. Private Groups is not the standard answer for this Platform App Builder manual-sharing question.

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The correct answer is B. Approval Process.

An Approval Process is used when a record must be reviewed and approved before moving forward. Salesforce Trailhead gives a very similar example: opportunities with high discounts requiring approval before proceeding.

Here, Cloud Kicks needs CFO sign-off when a major shoe retail deal has a discount greater than 30% before it can be closed. This is exactly what an approval process is designed to handle.

Why others are incorrect:

Slack message only sends communication.

Email alert only notifies someone.

Field update changes a field value but does not collect formal approval.

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Page layouts are metadata components. When an updated layout is included in a deployment, the target organization receives the source version of that layout rather than merging independent layout customizations field by field. Consequently, if three fields existed only on the production version but were absent from the sandbox version being deployed, those field placements can disappear when the source layout configuration replaces the target configuration. Salesforce ' s deployment documentation emphasizes that metadata deployments apply the layout configuration supplied in the deployment payload and warns that page-layout metadata and assignments require complete deployment planning. Option A cannot be correct because a failed deployment is rolled back. Missing field permissions affect visibility, but the scenario specifically identifies fields disappearing from the deployed layout configuration. Therefore, B best explains the behavior.

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