Certified Sharing and Visibility Designer

• Finally, after 8 months of planned date, I managed to pass “Certified Sharing and Visibility Designer ” @ Aug 28, 2020.

• I initially planned to take this exam by end of March 2020 but kept postponing till Aug 28. Many reasons, primarily COVID did distract me a lot.
• The dip in Stock Market in April pulled me into analyzing & buying stocks.
• Coming to the exam, i am very glad – to study and give this exam.
• There are many concepts i got to know due to this preparation – Primarily about “Group Maintenance” table.
• I had to re-study the concepts of “Territory Management”
• Two documents which i read page to page are “Record Level Access: Under the Hood” and “Designing Record Access for Enterprise Scale”
• I have never used communities so far, so i took this foundation course from pluralsight.
• There was one question around “no of partner roles” we can configure

• Encryption is another area i read a lot. You can’t use encrypted custom fields in criteria-based sharing rules.
• Read Implementing Shield Platform Encryption.
• There were lot of questions tricking us how we can control the sharing of child object in “Master Detail”. I sticked on to my quote “Child objects are always controlled by Master Object sharing Setting. Child Objects are always “Controlled By Parent”
• For Programmatic : There were lot of questions around “with sharing”
• It should take 3 months with 1- 2 hrs for anyone to study and clear the exam.