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Question 13

Your CIO has approached you with a request to integrate Salesforce with another system that is used for Human Resources data. A new field is needed on the Contact Object in Salesforce that will hold the corresponding unique ID field from the Human Resources system. Which of the following types of fields would be best to accommodate this request?

  • A

    Number field

  • B

    URL field

  • C

    Text field

  • D

    Text field with External ID checked

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Correct answer: D

Explanation

You would need an External ID field, which can be signified on a few different types of fields in Salesforce, such as Text and Number, to name a few. Refer to https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=faq_import_general_what_is_an_external.htm&type=0&language=en_US&release=206.15 for more details.

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