ADM-201 · Question #89
The administrator has created new users for 10 new employees at Universal Containers. Why are these users unable to access the account object in the Salesforce org"?
The correct answer is A. Users' profile requires permission to the account object. New users are unable to access the Account object because their assigned user profile lacks the necessary object permissions.
Question
The administrator has created new users for 10 new employees at Universal Containers. Why are these users unable to access the account object in the Salesforce org"?
Options
- AUsers' profile requires permission to the account object.
- BUsers' profile requires a sharing rule for accounts.
- CUsers' roles are low on the Role hierarchy.
- DOrganization-wide defaults are set to private.
How the community answered
(23 responses)- A91% (21)
- C4% (1)
- D4% (1)
Why each option
New users are unable to access the Account object because their assigned user profile lacks the necessary object permissions.
Object-level access in Salesforce is primarily controlled by a user's profile and permission sets. If a user's profile does not grant 'Read' or 'Edit' permission to the Account object, they will not be able to see or interact with Account records.
Sharing rules control record-level access for users who already have object access; they don't grant object access itself.
Roles in the Role Hierarchy control record-level access through sharing, not object-level access.
Organization-Wide Defaults (OWD) set the baseline record-level access but do not prevent users from seeing the object itself if their profile has permission.
Concept tested: Object-level security via profiles
Source: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.users_profiles_object_permissions.htm&type=5
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