Salesforce Certified Data Architecture Practice Test

Salesforce manages object relationships primarily through the use of lookup and master-detail relationships.

In Salesforce, a lookup relationship is a one-to-one or one-to-many relationship between two objects, allowing for flexibility in how these objects relate to one another without enforcing strict data integrity rules. This means that the child record can exist independently of the parent record.

In contrast, master-detail relationships create a tighter coupling between the two objects. In this case, the child record (detail) cannot exist without the parent record (master), ensuring that the data integrity is maintained. This relationship also allows for automatic sharing of the parent record’s sharing settings and roll-up summary fields, where aggregate values from the child records can be summarized to the parent record.

These two relationship types are fundamental to modeling data effectively within Salesforce, enabling users to create interconnected data structures that reflect the underlying business processes accurately. Understanding how these relationships work is crucial for effective data architecture and for leveraging Salesforce’s capabilities in building complex applications. Other options, while relevant to different aspects of Salesforce management, do not pertain directly to how relationships between objects are structured and maintained in the platform.