CSA Study Guide 2026
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📋 CSA Exam Format at a Glance
📚 CSA Topics to Study (71)
✍️ Sample CSA Questions & Answers
1. What happens to child records in a Master-Detail relationship when the parent record is deleted?
In a Master-Detail relationship, deleting the parent automatically deletes all associated child records (cascade delete).
2. Which Salesforce feature allows you to restrict which connected apps and OAuth flows a user can authorize?
Connected App Policies combined with profile-level permissions control which connected apps users can authorize and what OAuth scopes they can grant.
3. Which Salesforce feature enables administrators to expose Salesforce data to external systems via a standard REST API without writing code?
The Lightning Platform REST API provides standard endpoints to access Salesforce data and metadata for external integrations.
4. An administrator is testing a data import using Data Loader and some records fail. What file should they examine to understand which records failed and why?
Data Loader generates an error log CSV file that identifies which records failed and provides the error messages for each.
5. What is the primary purpose of the Data Import Wizard in Salesforce?
The Data Import Wizard provides a step-by-step UI for importing up to 50,000 records for supported standard and custom objects.
6. An admin wants to give a specific user extra permissions without changing their profile. What should the admin use?
Permission Sets grant additional permissions to individual users on top of what their profile already provides.
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