Hiring managers recognize Salesforce certifications on sight, and the Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Architect exam is the gate you have to pass through. The 80 practice questions at ActualCollection keep your preparation aligned with what the exam actually measures.
Salesforce Sharing-and-Visibility-Architect Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | Salesforce |
|---|---|
| Exam Name: | Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Architect Exam |
| Exam Number: | Sharing-and-Visibility-Architect |
| Passing Score: | 67% |
| Exam Duration: | 120 minutes |
| Related Certifications: | Salesforce Certified System Architect Salesforce Certified Application Architect |
| Real Exam Qty: | 60 |
| Available Languages: | English, Japanese |
| Exam Price: | USD 400 |
| Exam Format: | Multiple-select, Multiple-choice, Scenario-based |
| Certificate Validity Period: | Valid with annual maintenance; requires completing Trailhead maintenance modules |
| Recommended Training: | Architect Journey: Sharing and Visibility Trailmix |
| Exam Registration: | Official Registration |
| Sample Questions: | DOWNLOAD DEMO |
| Exam Way: | Online proctored or onsite at authorized Kryterion testing centers |
| Pre Condition: | No mandatory prerequisites; recommended 2–3 years of Salesforce experience, deep knowledge of security and sharing models |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://trailheadacademy.salesforce.com/certificate/exam-sharing-visibility---Plat-Arch-205-PV |
Salesforce Sharing-and-Visibility-Architect Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
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| Topic 1: Access to Other Data | 16% | - Territory management - Experience Cloud and community sharing
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| Topic 2: Permissions to Standard Objects, Custom Objects, and Fields | 27% | - Access modeling for standard and custom objects - Object-level security
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| Topic 3: Implications of Security Model Choice | 18% | - Programmatic sharing
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| Topic 4: Access to Records | 39% | - Organization-wide defaults (OWD) - Manual sharing and teams - Implicit sharing and record ownership - Role hierarchies - Sharing rules
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Salesforce Sharing-and-Visibility-Architect Certification Exam Q&A
Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Architect is an official Salesforce exam, registered under the code Sharing-and-Visibility-Architect. A passing score earns you the Salesforce Certified Platform Sharing and Visibility Architect certification, positioned at the Architect level. The credential also connects to Salesforce Certified Application Architect, Salesforce Certified System Architect, so it can anchor a broader certification path. Because Salesforce designs its exams around real job tasks, holding this certification signals practical skill rather than memorized theory.
Candidates face 60 questions inside a 120 minutes window on the Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Architect exam. That ratio leaves little slack, which is why pacing deserves as much practice as the content itself. Learn to budget your minutes, park stubborn questions instead of wrestling them, and rehearse under a real clock: a few timed runs in the ActualCollection test engine will make the official time limit feel routine rather than threatening.
The passing bar for Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Architect is set at 67%, and registering for the exam officially costs USD 400. There is no reduced price for a second try: fail, and you pay USD 400 in full again. That makes honest self-testing the cheapest insurance available, so hold off on booking until your ActualCollection practice scores sit clearly above the passing line, attempt after attempt.
No mandatory prerequisites; recommended 2–3 years of Salesforce experience, deep knowledge of security and sharing models
Vendor policies are revised from time to time, so double-check the eligibility details before registering on the official exam page.
Sign-up for the Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Architect exam is handled through the official registration channels listed here.
One practical detail: the exam is delivered Online proctored or onsite at authorized Kryterion testing centers, so plan your logistics accordingly.
Salesforce recommends the following training resources for candidates working toward Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Architect.
Training gives you the theory, but repetition locks it in. Pair any course with the 80 practice questions in the ActualCollection Sharing-and-Visibility-Architect package and you will know exactly how each topic shows up on exam day.
Absolutely. A free PDF demo of the Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Architect questions is available at ActualCollection, so you can inspect the quality and formatting before any money changes hands. Once you buy, updates are free for 365 days, and when that period runs out you can extend the update service at 50% off the regular price.
What if I don't pass the Sharing-and-Visibility-Architect exam, and when will I receive my purchase?
ActualCollection offers a 100% money-back guarantee with specific conditions. If you take the Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Architect exam within 60 days of purchase and fail, you may claim a full refund, provided the exam matches your product. Sitting the exam within 3 days of purchase disqualifies a claim, as do downloaded-but-unused products, free materials, and expired orders; the candidate name must also match the payer name. To file, submit a scanned enrollment slip and the official Score Report PDF within 2 days of the exam, and the claim is processed within 7 days. If you prefer, you can skip the refund and instead receive two other exam products of equal value at no charge while keeping the update service on your original purchase.
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Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Architect is divided into 4 official domains. Among the headline areas are Access to Other Data (16%), Permissions to Standard Objects, Custom Objects, and Fields (27%), and Implications of Security Model Choice (18%). Scroll up to the exam topics section for the full breakdown, and use it as a checklist: any line you cannot confidently explain deserves another round of practice.
Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Architect Sample Questions:
Sales operations at Universal Containers (UC) wants to create list views to filter opportunities for certain geographies.
How should UC hide list views that are not relevant to an individual user since there will be more than 50 list views?
- A. Share the list views with the appropriate role and internal subordinates.
- B. Share the list views with the appropriate queue.
- C. Share the list views with the appropriate individual users.
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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Universal Containers has a Performance Feedback custom object (Private organization-wide default) used by customers to report any issues with delivery drivers. Feedback should not be visible to the driver, but any feedback records should be accessible to people above them in the Role Hierarchy, even when the driver changes managers.
Assuming managers have Read access to the Feedback object, which three steps are necessary to solve these requirements?
- A. Remove Read permission on the Driver profile, have feedback ownership transferred to the driver when feedback is submitted, and use the Role Hierarchy to give access to a driver's manager
- B. Remove Read permission on the Driver profile, have feedback ownership transferred to the driver when feedback is submitted, and create an ownership-based sharing rule.
- C. Remove Read permission on the Driver profile, have feedback ownership transferred to the driver's manager when feedback Is submitted, and use the Role Hierarchy to give access to a driver's manager.
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
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Dreamforce presenters need to be able to edit their presention details (summary, presenter biographies, etc) on a private custom object in Salesforce (Presentation). All presenters for a presentation are captured on a Presenters junction object between Presenter and User.
How can this be accomplished?
- A. Give Edit rights to the Presentation record via a Permission set that is given to the Presenters for a record.
- B. Trigger on Presenter junction object that uses Apex Managed sharing to add or remove access to the related Presentation record.
- C. Trigger on Presenter junction object that adds the user to the Sales Team for the Presentation record.
Correct Answer: B 🗳️
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Universal Containers (UC) is looking to expand its delivery capabilities through a network of distributors that use a Partner Community license. UC employees currently can view all delivery records through the organization-wide default (OWD) setting of Public Read-Only.
Which approach should an architect recommend to limit the records a distributor can see?
- A. Set the External OWD to Private for the Delivery object.
- B. Create an ownership-based sharing rule to grant access to the distributor.
- C. Create a criteria-based sharing rule to grant access to the distributor.
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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Universal Containers' organization wide-defaults model is Private for the Account object. A sales rep owns two opportunities in one Account. The Sales Rep profile has Create/Edit access to opportunity records.
Which level of access will the sales rep have to the related Account record?
- A. Read/Create/Edit access
- B. Read access
- C. No access
Correct Answer: B 🗳️
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