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Difficulty: MediumPermission Sets and Permission Set Groups

A logistics enterprise relies on a single baseline profile for all 50 warehouse dispatchers. The administrator needs to grant two senior dispatchers elevated access to export freight records and edit the restricted 'Customs Priority' field on the Freight Manifest custom object, without expanding access for the remaining dispatchers. Which two administrative actions should be taken to meet this requirement following Salesforce security best practices? (Select 2 answers)

  1. Create a permission set granting the Export Reports system permission and Edit access to the Customs Priority field, then assign it to the two senior dispatchers.Answer
  2. Keep all dispatchers assigned to their existing baseline profile to preserve organizational least privilege principles.Answer
  3. C
    Clone the standard warehouse dispatcher profile, enable the export and field-level permissions on the cloned profile, and reassign the senior dispatchers to it.
  4. D
    Enable the Export Reports permission and Customs Priority Edit access directly on the baseline dispatcher profile to maintain a single profile configuration.

Answer

The administrator should create a permission set with the required export and field-level edit permissions for assignment to the two senior dispatchers, while keeping all dispatchers on their standard baseline profile.
The combination of creating a permission set for the specific elevated permissions and leaving all users on their baseline profile adheres to Salesforce best practices. Permission sets allow administrators to extend functionality to specific users on a case-by-case basis while maintaining clean, maintainable profiles.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Evaluate access requirements
Identify that only two out of fifty users require additional permissions.
Additive, user-specific permissions should be granted without altering the shared baseline for all users.
2
Build a targeted permission set
Configure a permission set containing 'Export Reports' and Edit access for 'Customs Priority'.
Permission sets extend user access privileges selectively without modifying baseline profile settings.
3
Assign the permission set to target users
Assign the new permission set directly to the two senior dispatchers.
This enforces the principle of least privilege while providing the necessary functional access.

Key Concept

Additive permissions via Permission Sets versus profile maintenance
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