ADM-201 Flashcards
Define Organization (org)
A deployment of Salesforce that has a defined set of licensed users. It includes all of your data and applications, and is separate from all others
What is a table of data where the records are rows and fields are columns
Object
What are customers, competitors and partners things that stores info such as name, address, and phone numbers?
Account
What are individuals associated with your business accounts that you need to track in SF?
Contact
What are sales deals that you want to track. Adding them also builds your pipeline, which will contribute to your forecast
Opportunity
What is the description of a customer’s feedback, problem, or question. It is used to track and solve customer’s issues
Case
What is a detailed description of a customer issue and the resolution of that issue?
Solution
What is an outbound marketing project that you want to plan, manage, and track within SF?
Campaign
What is a prospect or potential opportunity?
Lead
What are the 2 directions relationships are set up in SF
Related lists (down) Lookup (up)
What is the menu called where different applications are listed such as “Field Ticketing” and “sales & Marketing” (custom apps)
Force.com App Menu
What do custom apps accessible thru the Force.com app menu contain?
Custom tabs and objects
What is a view picklist for?
To create filtered lists
What displays the records related to an object?
Related lists
What is a field that is an active link
Lookup field
Whose records will you see in a global search chatter feed result?
All relevant public posts, including posts from people you are not following and from public groups you are not a member of.
Which gives more results in chatter a search in individual feed (magnifying glass) or global search?
Global
What happens when you click a topic in chatter
It takes you to a topic page which gathers and organizes everything in chatter related to that topic
What can you find on a chatter topic page?
Every post or comment, even from people you aren’t following and groups you aren’t a member of
Files uploaded recently and any people identified as experts on that topic
What happens when you follow a topic
Anytime anyone uses that topic it will appear in your feed
How can you keep track of posts that are not associated with a topic
Bookmarks
How do you access bookmarked chatters?
In your feed filters there is a bookmark filter click on it
What can you follow in chatter?
People, accounts, contacts, opportunities, files, groups and topics
What is data modeling?
Giving your data structure with objects, fields and relationships…what your database tables look like…collections of objects and fields in an app
What are SF standard objects?
Common business objects - account, contact, lead, opportunity
What are objects you create to store info specific to your company or industry?
Custom objects
What does Salesforce platform automatically build for a custom object?
Page layout for the user interface
What is a system field?
A field that is read only that provides info about a record from the system, like when it was created or when last modified
What is a name field?
It is the name of a record to distinguish the record from others - can be text or numerical- can make them auto-incremental such as for case #s (CA-1024)
What are custom fields?
Fields you create on standard or custom objects
What is an identity field?
A 15 character, case-sensitive field that is auto-generated for every record - found in record’s URL
What fields are standard on every object in SF?
Identity, system and name fields and a set of prebuilt standard fields
What determines the kind of info stored in a field? Examples.
Data type (such as checkbox, date/time, formula, text)
What is an easy way to tell if a field is a custom field?
If the field name has __c instead of _c
What is a special field type that connects 2 objects together?
Object relationships
What are the 3 types of object relationships?
Lookup relationships
Master-detail relationships
Hierarchical relationships
What is an object relationship where 2 objects are linked together so you can lookup one object from the related items on the other?
Lookup relationship
Which object relationship can be one-to-one or one-to-many?
Lookup relationship
What is an object relationship where one object controls the behavior of the other? (Like who can view the data)
Master-detail relationship
Which object relationship usually work as a stand alone object and has its own tab in the UI?
Lookup
How is a Master-detail object relationship set up?
the relationship field is created on the detail object
In what object relationships are one of the object dependent on the other and not stand alone?
Master-detail relationship
What type of object relationship is it when the relationships are only available on the User object? Used for creating management chains between users.
Hierarchical relationships
What do you need to remember when setting up object relationships in your data model?
When you change or delete objects, records or fields you have to remember what they may be related to
How do you create a lookup relationship?
Go to set up, the object, fields and relationships, new and “lookup relationship”
What is an object that maps to data outside your SF org?
External objects
Can a standard object be customized? In what way?
Yes can add custom fields and relationships, renaming tab and field labels
What let’s you know what you can customize on a standard object? How is it measured?
Standard object limits, by percentage
What are three things in SF that you can change its name? What is the problem with it?
Object
Field
Tab
Salesforce help and most pages in setup will display the original name for standard objects, fields and tabs
If you change the name to an object can you go back to the original name? How?
Startup, rename tabs and labels next to the tab name is “edit” and “revert” click revert
What limitation is there for changing a tab name or an object name?
You cannot use the name of another standard tab, custom object, external object or custom tab.
Which fields are omitted from renaming?
Standard fields like “created by” and “modified by” because the track system info AND “forecasts tab