Health Check, Security Center and release updates
How to review and fix security settings with Health Check (baselines, score, Fix Risks, notifications), when Security Center adds a multi-org view and alerts, and how to test and complete release updates and security enforcements before they change access.
Explain how to review and troubleshoot security settings including pending updates that may change system access.
~7 min read · 8 practice questions ·
What the exam expects
- Read a Health Check score against a baseline, remediate risks with Fix Risks or the Edit link, and explain why a score changes.
- Choose the Health Check permission for viewing, exporting or importing baselines.
- Decide when Security Center is needed instead of Health Check: many orgs, trends and alerts.
- Use the Release Updates page tabs, test runs and Complete Steps By dates to prepare for updates that change access, including MFA and step-up authentication.
Key terms: baseline (recommended values for each security setting, the Salesforce Baseline Standard or a custom one); Fix Risks (changes selected settings to the baseline's values); release update (a platform change scheduled for enforcement in a release); test run (a toggle that enables an update early); parent tenant (the Security Center org that shows connected child tenants).
Key facts
- Detail
- Up to five
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- New signals can be introduced
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- Change it with the Edit link
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- Weekly, to chosen users, when the score decreases
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- View Health Check
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- Add-on for Enterprise and Unlimited; free in Developer Edition
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- Stored for 6 months
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- Past Complete Steps By, steps not done
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- Enables the update immediately; sandbox periods may end earlier
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- Non-Salesforce MFA methods can't satisfy it
- Why can a Health Check score drop when the Setup Audit Trail shows no changes?
- When is Security Center needed instead of Health Check?
- What happens when you enable a release update's test run?
- Why should SSO users register a Salesforce MFA method before step-up authentication for reports is enforced?
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