Salesforce Sharing and Visibility Certification Practice Exam

What describes Ownership Skew?

1. A user's ownership of too many records

2. A record's association with too many users

3. An object's lack of record owners

4. An object having no sharing settings

The correct answer is: A user's ownership of too many records

Ownership Skew is described as a situation where a particular user owns a disproportionate number of records compared to other users, which can lead to performance and visibility issues within Salesforce. When a single user has too many records under their ownership, it can create challenges in terms of data sharing, access rights, and overall system performance. This can impact how quickly Salesforce retrieves and processes data related to the records owned by that particular user, potentially slowing down operations and complicating sharing rules. The other options refer to different concepts within Salesforce sharing and visibility. For example, a record's association with too many users pertains to sharing rules that might make data accessible to numerous users, which isn’t the essence of ownership skew. Additionally, an object's lack of record owners or having no sharing settings does not relate to the idea of ownership skew, as these describe more fundamental aspects of data management rather than the distribution of record ownership among users.