Exam Certified Platform Developer II topic 1 question 34 discussion

Actual exam question from Salesforce's Certified Platform Developer II

Question #: 34
Topic #: 1

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A company represents their customers as Accounts that have an External ID field called Customer_Number__c. They have a custom Order (Order__c) object, with a Lookup to Account, to represent Orders that are placed in their external order management system (OMS). When an order is fulfilled in the OMS, a REST call to Salesforce should be made that creates an Order record in Salesforce and relates it to the proper Account.
What is the optimal way to implement this?

A. Perform a REST GET on the Account and a REST POST to update the Order__c with the Account's record ID.
B. Perform a REST PATCH to upsert the Order__c and specify the Account's Customer_Number__c in it.
C. Perform a REST POST to update the Order__c and specify the Account's Customer_Number__c in it.
D. Perform a REST GET on the Account and a REST PATCH to upsert the Order__c with the Account's record ID.

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️

by thneeb at Feb. 4, 2023, 12:05 p.m.

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santo_aj

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Selected Answer: B

B is Correct. Body example: { "Name" : "Order name", "Price__c": "100$", "Account__r" : { "Customer_Number__c" : 123 } } Reference : https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/dome_upsert.htm

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cPickle

4 months, 1 week ago

Selected Answer: B

B is Correct. Reference : https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/dome_upsert.htm

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thneeb

6 months, 3 weeks ago

B. is wrong. The lookup to Account needs a Salesforce Record Id and not an External ID. A is correct

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Segre

5 months, 3 weeks ago

actually, you can use external id, https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/dome_upsert.htm