Learn Platform Configuration and Administration
Configure, secure, and manage enterprise platforms to support business processes and user needs — applying declarative tools, governance models, and operational best practices to keep systems performant and compliant.
Why It Matters
- Core for your role
- Part of Technical Architect
- High demand
Completed
Completed with Superbadge: User Access Fundamentals · May 2026
Learn it
Finish one badge with a hands-on challenge, or a superbadge, to complete Platform Configuration and Administration.
Badges that complete it
Badge
Precise Data Detection at Scale
Find and classify sensitive data across your org with Data Detect policies.
Superbadges that complete it
For when you already know it.
Superbadge
Superbadge: User Access Fundamentals
Flex your security muscles by locking down record access.
Superbadge
Superbadge: Report Administration for Agentforce Readiness
Demonstrate your ability to administer platform reports for Agentforce readiness.
Also teaches it
Trails and Trailhead Journeys that include them
Certifications that cover it
Related learning: a certification doesn’t complete the skill.
Certification
Salesforce Certified Technical Architect
Certified Technical Architects possess broad knowledge across multiple development platforms. They use their skills and experience to assess customer requirements and architecture, then use that knowledge to design secure, high-performance technical solutions that maximize the potential of the Salesforce Platform.
Certification
Salesforce Certified Platform Foundations
The Salesforce Platform Foundations exam is designed for users with a fundamental awareness of how an integrated CRM platform solves the challenge of connecting departments and customer data, and who have up to 6 months of Salesforce user experience.
What you’ll be able to do
Every question and challenge for this skill checks one of these.
- Describe detection rules, scan scope, and results.
- Decide what to do with each sensitive data match.
- Administer reports and permissions so data is ready for agents.
- Govern how admin requests are taken in, approved, and tracked.
Frequently asked questions
Configure, secure, and manage enterprise platforms to support business processes and user needs — applying declarative tools, governance models, and operational best practices to keep systems performant and compliant.
Complete a badge with a hands-on challenge that teaches it, like Precise Data Detection at Scale. If you already know it, Superbadge: User Access Fundamentals completes it too.
Platform Configuration and Administration is core for Administrators, Developers, and Architects.
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