Salesforce Certified Data Architecture Practice Test

Implementing governor limits is a fundamental method to ensure that Apex transactions do not monopolize resources within Salesforce. Governor limits are a set of runtime limits enforced by the Salesforce platform to ensure a fair distribution of resources among all users and to maintain system performance and reliability. Each Apex transaction has restrictions on CPU time, the number of records processed, the number of SOQL queries, and various other aspects of resource consumption.

These limits prevent any single transaction from consuming too many resources, which could affect the performance of the platform for other users. This mechanism is crucial, especially in a multi-tenant environment like Salesforce, where many customers share the same infrastructure. By setting these limits, Salesforce emphasizes best practices in coding and promotes efficient resource usage, ensuring that all applications run smoothly without one dominating the system's capabilities.

Other choices do not serve the purpose of controlling resource usage effectively. For example, enabling all features of the Salesforce platform does not necessarily address resource management; rather, it could lead to inefficiencies if those features are not properly designed or implemented. Increasing the number of custom fields does not contribute to efficiency or resource management and could, in fact, lead to more complexity and potentially increase resource consumption. Allowing unlimited data storage might seem beneficial, but