Salesforce Certified Associate Practice Exam

What does field level security in Salesforce control?

1. Access to record ownership

2. Access to view and edit individual fields

3. Overall user permissions

4. Sharing rules and criteria

The correct answer is: Access to view and edit individual fields

Field level security in Salesforce primarily controls access to view and edit individual fields within an object. This means that even if a user has access to a record, field level security determines which fields that user can see or edit on that record. This feature allows administrators to protect sensitive information by restricting visibility or edit rights to specific fields for different profiles or users. Consequently, it's a critical component of Salesforce's security model, ensuring compliance and data protection by allowing tailored access based on the needs of various roles within the organization. In this way, field level security is distinct from overall user permissions, which govern broad access to objects, and it does not affect record ownership or the more general sharing rules and criteria that encompass how records are shared among users.