Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II — Question 232

Universal Containers has an Apex trigger on Account that creates an Account Plan record when an Account is marked as a Customer.

Recently a record-triggered flow was added so that whenever an Account is marked as a Customer, a ‘Customer Since’ date field is updated with today’s date. Since the addition of the flow, two Account Plan records are created whenever the Account is marked as a Customer.

What might cause this to happen?

Answer options

• A. The flow is configured to evaluate when a record is created and every time it is edited.
• B. The Apex trigger is not bulk safe and calls insert inside of a for loop.
• C. The Apex trigger does not use a static variable to ensure it only fires once.
• D. The flow is configured to use an ‘Update Records’ element.

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is A because the flow is triggering both on the initial creation of the Account and on subsequent edits, which results in the Apex trigger executing twice. Option B is incorrect as the problem is not related to bulk safety in this scenario. Option C is not the cause since the issue arises from the flow's configuration, not the trigger's execution method. Option D is irrelevant to the duplication issue, as the flow's use of 'Update Records' does not inherently cause multiple triggers.