Salesforce Certified Sharing Visibility Architect Tests 2026

Welcome to Exam Salesforce Certified Platform Sharing and Visibility Architect certification Exam Test 2026

The Salesforce Certified Platform Sharing and Visibility Specialist Exam is designed for architects, analysts, and administrators who want to demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and capabilities to design secure, scalable security models on the Salesforce Platform. A Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Specialist should be fluent in effectively communicating technical solutions to technical stakeholders and providing a project delivery framework that ensures quality and success.

Exam Outline

The Salesforce Platform Sharing and Visibility Architect Exam measures a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the following objectives.

Permissions to Standard Objects, Custom Objects, and Fields: 27%

• Given a scenario, recommend the right level of object permissions needed to provide the appropriate access to a set of users.

• Given a scenario, recommend the correct level of field permissions needed to provide the appropriate access to a set of users.

• Given a scenario, recommend the appropriate mechanism to hide data at the user interface level.

• Given a scenario, determine the appropriate access controls to protect sensitive data (e.g. PCI, PII, or HIPAA).

• Given a scenario, recommend the appropriate programmatic solution to ensure security settings are enforced.

Access to Records: 39%

• Given a set of conditions, recommend the appropriate organization-wide defaults to restrict access to records.

• Given a set of conditions, recommend a solution that leverages the role hierarchy to support the record access requirements.

• Given a set of conditions, determine how sharing rules can be implemented to support the record access requirements.

• Given a set of conditions, determine how groups can support the record access requirements.

• Given a set of conditions, determine how teams can support the record access requirements.

• Given a set of conditions, determine the correct object relationships that support record access sharing requirements.

• Given a set of conditions, determine how programmatic sharing supports the record access requirements.

• Given a set of conditions, determine what sharing mechanism is appropriate to share records with External Users.

• Given a set of conditions, determine how record access overrides support the record access requirements.

Access to Other Data: 16%

• Given a scenario, determine the appropriate access control needed to grant access to data that is not standard or custom objects.

Implications of Security Model Choice: 18%

• Given a scenario, determine the scalability implications of the sharing solution.

• Given a set of conditions, determine the license limitations that will impact the intended sharing solution.

• Given a set of conditions, determine how to test the sharing model.