Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Architect Practice Test

What this exam covers

This course prepares you for the **Salesforce Certified Platform Sharing and Visibility Architect** exam, which validates the ability to assess security and sharing requirements and design secure, scalable solutions on the **Salesforce Platform**. It focuses on skills like architecting object relationships, organization-wide defaults, role hierarchy, sharing rules, teams, groups, and programmatic sharing, along with communicating security trade-offs to both business and technical stakeholders. The exam outline covers four major domains: - **Permissions to Standard Objects, Custom Objects, and Fields** – object and field-level access, UI-level data hiding, protecting sensitive data (e.g., PCI, PII, HIPAA), and programmatic enforcement of security - **Access to Records** – organization-wide defaults, role hierarchy, sharing rules, groups, teams, object relationships, programmatic sharing, external user access, and record access overrides - **Access to Other Data** – controlling access to data beyond standard and custom objects, such as Big Objects, reports, dashboards, and files - **Implications of Security Model Choice** – scalability considerations for large data volumes, license limitations, and testing the sharing model Candidates for this certification typically bring **2–3 years of Salesforce experience** and **4–5 years implementing complex security models**, along with an understanding of security methods and data policies for handling sensitive data. Typical job roles include **Advanced Administrator**, **Technical/Solution Architect**, and **Advanced Business Analyst**. The source material does not specify question count, exam duration, or passing score.