Platform Sharing and Visibility Architect Study Guide
Last Updated: June 2026
The overview
This is the starting point for your study, covering all of the exam guide objectives.
The Salesforce Platform Sharing and Visibility Architect Study Guide incorporates all 18 Objectives within all 4 Sections of the official Salesforce Certification Exam Guide.
What's included?
- Covers all 4 Sections of the official Salesforce Certification Exam Guide
- Explains in detail all 18 objectives
- Explanations in plain English, with screenshots, examples and diagrams
- Easy to read bullet points
- Review Flashcards (with questions and answers) for each section
- Includes links to lots of extra resources for further reading
- Detailed scenarios, requirements and sample answers to test your skills to define a solution
- Unlimited Access and Updates for 12 months
Everything you need to prepare for Platform Sharing and Visibility Architect
In order to pass the Salesforce Platform Sharing and Visibility Architect certification, you’ll find that knowledge and experience of the Salesforce platform aren’t enough. You also need to get to grips with the exam itself.
That’s why we created the Salesforce Platform Sharing and Visibility Architect Study Guide.
Our study guide will help you understand confusing or difficult concepts from the official Salesforce Certification Exam Guide and brush up on your skills – all in a format that’s easy to digest and has been proven to work with thousands of happy customers.
The Platform Sharing and Visibility Architect Certification Study Guide will help you focus on the key points you need to know to pass the exam.
Covering all objectives, this study guide includes videos, screenshots and diagrams to illustrate key concepts, as well as visually explain and demonstrate Salesforce functionality.
Why this guide is important?
The Salesforce help pages and videos are great when you want to know all the details, but the Salesforce Platform Sharing and Visibility Architect Study Guide provides a summary of all topics in study guide format.
You need a guide that summarizes the key certification objectives in plain English, using examples, explanation videos, diagrams, charts and topic reviews to make sure you’ve cemented your understanding.
Course content
4 sectionsPermissions to Standard Objects, Custom Objects, and Fields 6 topics
- Given a scenario, recommend the right level of object permissions needed to provide the appropriate access to a set of users.
- Given a scenario, recommend the correct level of field permissions needed to provide the appropriate access to a set of users.
- Given a scenario, recommend the appropriate mechanism to hide data at the user interface level.
- Given a scenario, determine the appropriate access controls to protect sensitive data (e.g. PCI, PII or HIPAA).
- Given a scenario, recommend the appropriate programmatic solution to ensure security settings are enforced.
- Knowledge Check
Access to other Data 2 topics
- Given a scenario, determine the appropriate access control needed to grant access to data that is not standard or custom objects.
- Knowledge Check
Access to Records 10 topics
- Given a set of conditions, recommend the appropriate Organization Wide Defaults to restrict access to records.
- Given a set of conditions, recommend a solution that leverages the Role Hierarchy to support the Record Access requirements.
- Given a set of conditions, determine how Sharing rules can be implemented to support the record access requirements.
- Given a set of conditions, determine how groups can support the record access requirements.
- Given a set of conditions, determine how Teams can support the record access requirements.
- Given a set of conditions, determine the correct object relationships that support record access sharing requirements.
- Given a set of conditions, determine how programmatic sharing supports the record access requirements.
- Given a set of conditions, determine what sharing mechanism is appropriate to share records with External Users.
- Given a set of conditions, determine how Record Access Overrides support the record access requirements.
- Knowledge Check
Implications of Security Model Choice 4 topics
- Given a scenario, determine the scalability implications of the sharing solution.
- Given a set of conditions, determine the license limitations that will impact the intended sharing solution.
- Given a set of conditions, determine how to test the sharing model.
- Knowledge Check
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Study guides cover all sections of the official Salesforce Certification Exam Guide, explaining all objectives in detail with topic summaries, explanations in plain English, screenshots, diagrams, easy-to-read bullet points, links to extra resources for further reading, and scenarios with sample answers.
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