DF Process Automation an Logic P4 Flashcards
A Salesforce developer noticed that an Apex method used in their custom Contact management application has been throwing null pointer exceptions on certain occasions.
Upon investigation, it was identified that the error was due to code that accesses the Account field of a Contact record, which may not be associated with an Account, and then calls the isSet method on the Account sObject.
Given a snippet of the code below, which of the following options can be used to avoid the exception?
public static void assignPrimaryContact() {
Contact con = getContact();
Boolean hasAssigned = con.Account.isSet('Has_Primary_Contact\_\_c');
// ...
}
A.
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Boolean hasAssigned = con.Account:Account.Has_Primary_Contact__c?null;
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B.
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Boolean hasAssigned = con.Account.?isSet(‘Has_Primary_Contact__c’);
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C.
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Boolean hasAssigned = con.Account?Account.Has_Primary_Contact__c:null;
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D.
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Boolean hasAssigned = con.Account?.isSet(‘Has_Primary_Contact__c’);
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D.
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Boolean hasAssigned = con.Account?.isSet(‘Has_Primary_Contact__c’);
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The safe navigation operator can be used for replacing explicit checks for null references and uses the syntax “?.”, which is a question mark followed by a period. If the left-hand side of the operator evaluates to null, null is returned. Otherwise, the right-hand side, which can contain a method, variable, or property, is chained to the left-hand side of the operator and returned. In this case, the chained value is the ‘isSet’ method.
So, in the correct answer above, the resulting value that is returned to the ‘hasAssigned’ variable will be expressed as getContact().Account.isSet(‘Has_Primary_Contact__c’) if the contact is related to an account.
The other options contain invalid syntax or return values.
A junior Salesforce Developer at Global Containers is working on an after update trigger on the Opportunity object.
Given the code snippet below, what would be the result when a mass update is made to 200 Opportunity records with amounts over $1,000,000, assuming there is a user in the org with the role ‘Sales Manager’?
trigger OpportunityTrigger on Opportunity (after update) {
User u = [SELECT Id FROM User WHERE UserRole.Name = 'Sales Manager' LIMIT 1];
for (Opportunity o : Trigger.new) {
if (o.Amount >= 1000000) {
o.OwnerId = u.Id;
update o;
}
}
}
A. Nothing since the code will not compile
B. A Final Exception will occur
C. A Limit Exception will occur
D. A DMLException Will ocurr
B. A Final Exception will occur
A FinalException error will be thrown when the code reaches the ownerId assignment line since ‘Trigger.new’ records can only be edited in ‘before’ triggers. The compiler will not detect this and the code will still be compiled.
Since the code never reaches the update DML operation, no LimitException or DmlException will occur.
A Salesforce Administrator is working on a flow screen for capturing student registrations in a university. One requirement is that certain fields in the form should be displayed only when those fields are relevant or needed.
What feature can be used to meet this requirement?
Answer Choices:
A. Component visibility criteria can be defined on the screen components
B. Standard screen components should be used on the flow screen
C. Page Layouts can be assigned to the form based on state of screen components
D. Lightning record pages can be configured to control the visibility of screen components
A. Component visibility criteria can be defined on the screen components
Screen components can use conditional visibility filters which can be configured to make screen components visible if criteria are met. For example, a screen component can be made visible on the form only if a checkbox is ticked.
Conditional visibility filters are available for standard/custom/AppExchange screen components. Lightning record pages can be used to control the visibility of Lightning components, but not flow screen components. Page Layouts can only be assigned to record types.
Dynamic Activities is a tour agency that organizes group trips to climb mountains and explore dungeons. On the custom Reservation object, there is a custom picklist field that stores the type of activity. The picklist contains four values:
Mountain A
Mountain B
Dungeon A
Dungeon B
Apex code needs to be written so that, based on the activity type, a specific guide (User) is assigned to the reservation via a user lookup field.
Which statement will result in shorter and more readable code in this scenario?
Answer Choices:
A. SWITCH statement
B. FOR loop
C. IF-ELSE statement
D. SOQL FOR loop
A. SWITCH statement
When you have a fixed set of known values (like a picklist with 4 options), and need to execute different logic depending on each value, the switch statement in Apex is the best fit for clean and readable code.
Question (Rewritten in English):
A Salesforce Administrator for a digital marketing company has created a custom object called Expense and set its organization-wide default (OWD) sharing setting to Private.
The object is used for tracking and reimbursing expense claims. A Lightning page with a Flow was built to retrieve Expense records submitted by different users across the role hierarchy.
However, it was found that the flow is unable to return all Expense records because of sharing restrictions tied to the user’s role and the OWD setting.
What should be done to allow the application (the Flow) to retrieve all Expense records?
A. Set the flow to run in system context without sharing.
B. Invoke an Apex method to perform the record queries.
C. Enable the ‘Grant Access Using Hierarchies’ option.
D. Configure the Lightning page to run as an administrator.
A. Set the flow to run in system context without sharing.
A flow can be set to run in a system context without sharing. That means that the object-level permissions and field-level security of the running user will be ignored, as well as organization-wide default sharing settings, role hierarchies, sharing rules, manual sharing, teams, and territories.
Although an invocable Apex method can be used, it is not necessary as a declarative solution is available. The ‘Grant Access Using Hierarchies’ option, which is enabled by default for all objects, will provide access to records owned and shared by subordinates of the current user in the role hierarchy. But, it cannot open up access to records owned and shared by users above the current user in the role hierarchy. A configuration to run a Lightning page as a specific user is not available.
Which of the following queries shows a valid SOQL syntax for querying data from related standard objects?
Choose 1 answer.
A. SELECT Id, (SELECT Name, BillingState FROM Account WHERE Account.BillingState=’Arizona’) FROM Contact LIMIT 50
B. SELECT Name, Contact.LastName, Contact.FirstName FROM Account WHERE BillingState=’Arizona’ LIMIT 50
C. SELECT Name, (SELECT LastName, FirstName FROM Contact) FROM Account WHERE BillingState=’Arizona’ LIMIT 50
D. SELECT Name, (SELECT LastName, FirstName FROM Contacts) FROM Account WHERE BillingState=’Arizona’ LIMIT 50
D. SELECT Name, (SELECT LastName, FirstName FROM Contacts) FROM Account WHERE BillingState=’Arizona’ LIMIT 50
A relationship query is a query on multiple related standard or custom objects. To create a join in SOQL, a relationship between the objects is required. Using a relationship query, it is possible to traverse parent-to-child and child-to-parent relationships between objects to filter and return results. For example, a SOQL query that returns data from the Account object can also retrieve the first and last name of each contact associated with each account returned by the query.
Dot notation is used to reference fields from parent objects (e.g: SELECT Account.Name, Account.BillingState FROM Contact), while a nested SELECT statement is used to query child records. Dot notation can’t be used to query fields on child records, and nested SELECT statements can’t be used to retrieve parent data. Standard child relationship names use the plural form of the child object as the relationship name, so from an Account object, the relationship to Contact records is named Contacts.
Which of the following options contain valid variable initializations?
Choose 1 answer.
A. Decimal num = 12345; Double num = 1234.5;
B. Double num = 1234.5; Long num = 1.2345;
C. Integer num = 123.45; Decimal num = 12345;
D. Long num = 1.2345; Integer num = 123.45;
A. Decimal num = 12345; Double num = 1234.5;
Primitive numeric data types form a hierarchy where lower types can be implicitly converted to higher types such as Integer -> Long -> Double -> Decimal. In the example statement above, an Integer can be assigned to a variable of Decimal data type without explicitly converting it to Decimal because Integer is a lower type compared to the Decimal type. Any number with decimal values can be assigned to a Double data type as long as the number is within the minimum and maximum limits of the Double data type.
A number with decimal values cannot be implicitly converted to Integer or Long types since Double and Decimal are higher types compared to Integer and Long.
The sales and support agents of Cosmic Supermarket frequently create account records manually in Salesforce. If the ‘Billing State’ of a new account is ‘New York’, then an email should be sent immediately to the manager of the account owner. In addition, a new task should be created and assigned to the account owner to reach out to the primary contact associated with the account. However, the task should only be created one week after the creation of the account. A Salesforce Administrator has decided to build a record-triggered flow for this requirement. What can be added to the flow to create the task record at a dynamically scheduled time?
Choose 1 answer:
A. Time-Dependent Action
B. Trigger
C. Scheduled Path
D. Apex Action
C. Scheduled Path
A part of a record-triggered flow can be run at a dynamically scheduled time after the triggering event occurs by adding a scheduled path to the flow. To meet this requirement, a scheduled path can be added and connected to a ‘Create Records’ element to create a task record 7 days after the ‘Created Date’ of a new account record. Note that a scheduled path can be configured to run before or after a specified number of minutes, hours, days, or months based on a specified Date/Time field on the triggering record. An email alert can be configured to be sent to the account owner’s manager immediately.
Using Apex is not necessary to schedule the creation of the task record. It is not possible to add a trigger to the flow. Time-dependent actions are available in workflow rules to schedule the execution of field updates, email alerts, task creation, or outbound messaging.
Run Part of a Record-Triggered Flow After the Triggering Event
A company uses Slack as its primary messaging tool for internal communications. The Sales Director wants to inform users whenever a new opportunity is created for one of their premium accounts by sending a notification in Slack. Which of the following is a valid consideration when using a custom notification to meet this requirement?
Choose 1 answer:
A. The company Slack workspace needs to authorize the action in Flow Builder
B. A Slack app does not need to be installed to distribute custom notifications in Slack
C. A Slack custom notification can be created and then sent using Flow Builder
D. A Slack-enabled notification type can be cloned and should be sent using Apex
C. A Slack custom notification can be created and then sent using Flow Builder
A Slack custom notification type can be created in Notification Builder in Setup. To support sending this type of notification, a Slack app such as the ‘Sales Cloud for Slack’ app, for example, needs to be installed in Slack and connected with the Salesforce account of the user. Once the Slack notification is created, the ‘Send Notification’ core action in Flow Builder can be used to send the notification when a new opportunity that meets the criteria is created.
Slack-enabled standard notifications can be cloned and sent using Flow Builder. Apex is not required to send Slack notifications unless complex logic is required. Authorizing the Flow Builder action in the Slack workspace is not a valid configuration step.
A developer is creating a flow with a decision point that involves a Geolocation field. What should the developer keep in mind when working with Geolocations?
Choose 1 answer:
A. Equality and comparison operators can be used with Geolocation fields.
B. Only ISBLANK, ISCHANGED and ISNULL functions can be used in formulas dealing with Geolocation fields.
C. It is possible to specify a latitude without a longitude when saving a Geolocation field.
D. A Geolocation field is essentially a String data type used for storing coordinates.
B. Only ISBLANK, ISCHANGED and ISNULL functions can be used in formulas dealing with Geolocation fields.
Geolocation is a compound data type consisting of 2 components: Latitude and Longitude. A Geolocation field can either be completely blank or it must have both the latitude and longitude fields filled in. Because Geolocation is a compound data type, each of its components must be accessed separately for evaluation using a numeric data type such as a Double or Decimal. The only formula functions that work with Geolocation are ISBLANK, ISCHANGED, and ISNULL. Also, equality or comparison operators can’t be used with geolocations.
An Apex trigger is subscribed to a platform event and generates invoice records upon receiving published event messages from an external order management system. However, an issue has been found with the record creation, and the Apex trigger needs to be modified. If it is required that no published event messages should be lost while the Apex trigger is being deactivated and fixed, which of the following should be performed?
Choose 1 answer:
A. Suspend the subscription of the Apex trigger to the platform event.
B. Schedule the receiving of platform event messages at a later date or time.
C. Deactivate the Apex trigger and pause the publishing of event messages.
D. Store any published event messages in a custom object temporarily.
A. Suspend the subscription of the Apex trigger to the platform event.
The Apex trigger needs to stop executing to prevent further issues in the org without losing any published event messages. To achieve this, the subscription of the trigger to the platform event can be suspended, which in this state, does not invoke the trigger to process any published event messages. The subscription can be resumed to either start with the earliest unprocessed event message when the subscription was suspended or process new event messages only.
Deactivating the Apex trigger or storing published event messages in a custom object is not required. Pausing the publishing of event messages is also not required and may not be feasible. Scheduling the receipt of platform event messages is not possible.
View and Manage an Event’s Subscribers on the Platform Event’s Detail Page
Manage Your Platform Event Trigger Subscriptions from the User Interface
Using the controller class below, what is the result after the following script is run:
ItemController i = new ItemController(); i.populate();
public class ItemController {
public void populate() {
Item\_\_c a = new Item\_\_c(Name = 'New Item');
Database.insert(a, false); // partial success
for (Integer x = 0; x < 150; x++) {
Item\_\_c b = new Item\_\_c(Name = 'New Item');
try {
insert b;
} catch (Exception e) {
System.debug('DML limit reached');
}
}
}
}
Choose 1 answer:
A. No records are created.
B. Only the first record is created because partial success is allowed.
C. “DML limit reached” is printed in the debug log.
D. The class cannot be instantiated because there is no constructor defined.
A. No records are created.
No records will be created. The total number of DML statements is 151, which exceeds the governor limit of 150. Since the limit is exceeded, all changes that occurred in the transaction will be rolled back.
Governor limit exceptions cannot be handled. So, the exception handler in the for loop will never be called. Even though partial success is set in the first insert statement, the record it created will be rolled back because it belonged to the same transaction. Constructors are not required in controllers, so the class can still be instantiated.
Which of the following represents a valid syntax of an interface implementation in Apex?
Choose 1 answer:
A. public interface MyInterface1, MyInterface2 {}
B. public class MyClass implements MyInterface1, MyInterface2 {}
C. public class MyClass extends MyInterface {}
D. public interface MyInterface {}
B. public class MyClass implements MyInterface1, MyInterface2 {}
Explanation:
In Apex (just like in Java), a class implements one or more interfaces, and extends a class (if there’s inheritance involved).
Correct Syntax:
To implement multiple interfaces:
public class MyClass implements MyInterface1, MyInterface2 {
// Implementation of interface methods
}
Which of the options below represents a valid method declaration in Apex?
Choose 1 answer:
A. static Boolean public method(String param) { … }
B. public static Boolean method(String param) { … }
C. public Boolean static method(String param) { … }
D. Boolean static public method(String param) { … }
B. public static Boolean method(String param) { … }
The proper syntax of declaring a method in Apex is:
` [public | private | protected | global] [override] [static] return_data_type method_name(param_data_type1 param_name1, …)`
An access modifier such as public, or private, is used but optional depending on the requirement. The override keyword can be added to the declaration to override methods in a class that has been defined as virtual or abstract. The static keyword can be used to enable the method to be called without instantiating the class. If the method returns a value, the data type of the returned value must be specified before the method name. Otherwise, the void keyword is used. Enclosed in parentheses, input parameters are separated by commas where each is preceded by its data type. If a method does not have parameters, an empty set of parentheses is used.
A developer is chaining queueable jobs that perform callouts to an external endpoint. To avoid overloading the external system and minimize asynchronous Apex executions, a 10-minute delay must be added before each chained job runs. If myJob represents the queueable job, which of the following options shows the correct way to do this programmatically?
Choose 1 answer:
A. System.enqueueDelayedJob(600, myJob);
B. System.enqueueDelayedJob(myJob, 10);
C. System.enqueueJob(600, myJob);
D. System.enqueueJob(myJob, 10);
D. System.enqueueJob(myJob, 10);
Salesforce allows adding a scheduled delay to a queuable job using the System.enqueueJob() method. The delay value in minutes (minimum of 0 and maximum of 10) can be passed to the second parameter of the enqueueJob() method to determine the delay duration. Note that an org-wide default delay for all queueable jobs can be set in Setup > Apex Settings. Using the System.enqueueJob() method to delay a job overrides the org-wide default delay for the job.
Use the System.enqueueJob Method to Specify a Delay in Scheduling Queueable Jobs
A developer needs to find all Contacts and Leads whose Title contains ‘VP’, and then update certain fields on these records. It’s determined that a SOSL query will be used.
Which of the following data return types should be used to store the result of the SOSL query in a variable?
Choose 1 answer:
A. List<List<Contact>></Contact>
B. List<List<Lead>></Lead>
C. List<List<SObject>></SObject>
D. List<SObject></SObject>
C. List<List<SObject>></SObject>
A SOSL query returns a list of lists of sObjects, which is why the result of a SOSL query should be stored in a variable of List<List<sObject>>. Each list contains the search result for a particular sObject type.
A developer at Cosmic Solutions is deleting test Lead records and emptying them from the recycle bin programmatically.
Given the code snippet below, what would be the result of the System.debug() statement if the SOQL query returns 5 records?
List<Lead> testLeads = [SELECT Id FROM Lead WHERE Name LIKE 'Test%' LIMIT 5]; delete testLeads; Database.emptyRecycleBin(testLeads); System.debug(Limits.getDMLStatements() + ' out of ' + Limits.getLimitDMLStatements() + ' DML statements used');
Choose 1 answer:
A. 5 out of 150 DML statements used
B. 2 out of 150 DML statements used
C. 10 out of 150 DML statements used
D. 6 out of 150 DML statements used
B. 2 out of 150 DML statements used
The delete DML statement above will only count as 1 towards the governor limit of DML statements regardless of the number of records contained in the list. Similarly, the Database.emptyRecycleBin() will also count as 1 such that the total number of DML statements issued at the end of the transaction will be 2.
The Limits.getDMLStatements() returns the number of DML statements that have been invoked up to the point in the code where it is called, whereas the Limits.getLimitDMLStatements() displays the governor limit for DML statements, which is 150. The Database.emptyRecycleBin() method can be used to permanently delete records from the recycle bin and can take a list of record Ids, an sObject, or a list of sObjects as parameters.
If the DML operation below is performed, what is the expected result?
Lead master = [SELECT Id, FirstName, LastName FROM Lead LIMIT 1]; // returns 1 record List<Lead> mergeList = [SELECT Id, FirstName, LastName FROM Lead LIMIT 3 OFFSET 1]; // returns 3 records merge master mergeList;
Choose 1 answer:
A. The DML merge statement will throw an exception.
B. The records contained in mergeList will be reparented to the master record.
C. The master record will be merged into each record contained in mergeList.
D. The records contained in mergeList will be merged into the master record.
A. The DML merge statement will throw an exception.
The merge statement will throw an exception because the merge operation can only process up to three records at a time. The master record and the mergeList records have a combined size of four records.
In a successful merge scenario, records in the mergeList will be merged into the master record. After the merge, the records in mergeList will be deleted and any related records will be reparented.
