Salesforce Certified Data Architecture Practice Test

In Salesforce, the visibility of records based on user positions is primarily managed through the Role Hierarchy. When users are assigned roles within the system, it defines their position in the organizational hierarchy. Each role can inherit access to records owned by users in roles below them.

This hierarchical structure ensures that users higher up in the role hierarchy can see records owned by their subordinates, fostering collaboration and information sharing while adhering to organizational data access policies. This means that if a user is assigned to a higher role, they automatically gain access to the records owned by users in lower roles, simplifying the management of data access across teams and departments.

Other options like Record Sharing Rules, Public Groups, and Data Security Policies do contribute to data visibility as well, but they do not fundamentally control record access based on the hierarchical position of users in the same way that Role Hierarchy does. Sharing rules govern sharing settings between different groups or profiles, public groups enable collaboration among users regardless of role, and data security policies are more about overall security frameworks rather than role-specific visibility.