Managers at Universal Containers want to ensure that only decommissioned containers are able to be deleted in the system. To meet the business requirement a Salesforce developer adds…

A validation rule primarily fires during `insert` and `update` operations and cannot directly prevent the deletion of a record based on its field values.

An `after delete` record-triggered flow can be configured to evaluate the `Status__c` field of the records being deleted. If the status is not 'Decommissioned', the flow can explicitly throw an error or fault, which will cause the entire deletion transaction to roll back, thereby preventing the record from being deleted.

An Apex trigger with a `before delete` event is highly effective for this requirement. The trigger can inspect the `Status__c` field of the records in `Trigger.old` and, if the condition is not met, use the `addError()` method on the SObject to prevent the deletion and provide a custom error message to the user.

While a `before delete` record-triggered flow can also prevent deletion by throwing an error, the specific correct answers (B and C) indicate that an `after delete` flow (leveraging transaction rollback on error) and an Apex trigger are the intended solutions for this enforcement.