Platform Administrator practice questions: Data and Analytics Management

Complete the statement: Dynamic dashboards...

1. ...let every viewer see the data that their own access allows.
2. ...refresh themselves automatically at fixed intervals.
3. ...resize automatically to fill the screen width.
4. ...can display data without an underlying report.
5. None of these.

Which report feature lets you group records into categories quickly without a formula or custom field?

1. Joined report
2. Matrix report
3. Bucketing
4. Export
5. Schedule

You run Data Loader from an IP outside your trusted range and logins fail even though your credentials are right and the browser login works. What is a valid reason?

1. Your Data Loader license expired.
2. Your Data Loader is outdated and needs a newer API version.
3. You did not append your security token to the password.
4. Your user account is locked.
5. You cannot log in from outside trusted IP ranges.

Which two things control a user's access to a dashboard? (select 2)

Choose two.

1. Access to the source report folder
2. Sharing rules
3. Dashboard properties
4. Access to the dashboard folder

Which is not a dashboard component type?

1. Visualforce page
2. Metric
3. Gauge
4. Chart
5. Snapshot

Nova Tech executives want to post individual dashboard charts to Chatter, but the option is missing. What should the admin enable?

1. Analytics folder viewer sharing
2. Dashboard feed tracking
3. Reporting snapshot subscriptions
4. Dynamic dashboard running user permissions

Metric Solutions needs one pipeline dashboard shared with executives and regional managers, each seeing only data they are allowed to see, without separate dashboards. How?

1. A static dashboard with an admin running user.
2. Private custom report folders.
3. Dashboard feed tracking with drilling disabled.
4. A dynamic dashboard that runs as the logged-in user.

Apex Health has three intake teams in a custom Intake Team field on Cases. The manager wants one dashboard filterable by team. How?

1. Enable dashboard feed tracking for team groups.
2. Add a dashboard filter on the Intake Team field.
3. Create three duplicate dashboards.
4. Add cross filters to the source reports.

Starlight Media wants one report where each account manager sees only the contracts they own, without a report per manager. What filter should be added?

1. Set the Contract OWD to Public Read-Only.
2. Add a cross filter linking Contracts to active users.
3. Filter where Contract Owner equals $USER.
4. Store the report in a private folder per manager.

A CSV import loaded the value Unassigned into the PriorityTier picklist even though it is not an active value. Why no error?

1. Administrator profiles skip picklist validation on imports.
2. The value came from a global value set.
3. The import added it to all record type assignments.
4. The field has Restrict picklist to the values defined in the value set deselected.

A senior account executive left. The admin must reassign all their Accounts and Opportunities to a replacement while preserving account and opportunity team assignments. Which tool?

1. Dataloader.io
2. Data Loader
3. Data Import Wizard
4. Mass Transfer Records tool

A lookup from Asset__c to Vendor__c exists, and the admin wants vendor address and support phone in an Asset report. What should be done?

1. Create a custom report type with Asset__c primary and Vendor__c related.
2. Enable history tracking on the lookup.
3. Build cross-object formulas on Vendor.
4. Add a dashboard filter to join the objects.

Vantage Energy wants regular automated account updates from data warehouse dumps. How should records be matched correctly?

1. Define an external ID field holding the warehouse system key.
2. Use a formula field combining account name and billing zip.
3. Create a junction object to map records manually.
4. Use the Salesforce record ID from the export.