Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder — Question 218

Universal container has included its orders as an external data object into Salesforce. You want to create a relationship between Accounts and the Orders object
(one-to-many relationship) leveraging a key field for account which is on both external object and Account.
Which relationship do you create?

Answer options

• A. Lookup Relationship
• B. Hierarchical Relationship
• C. Master Detail Relationship
• D. Indirect Lookup Relationship
• E. External Lookup Relationship

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is D, Indirect Lookup Relationship, because this type of relationship allows Salesforce to connect an external object with a standard or custom object using an external ID. The other options are not suitable: A is for standard objects, B is specific to users, C requires a master-detail setup which is not applicable to external objects, and E is for linking external objects to Salesforce but not in a one-to-many context.