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  3. Identity and Access Management

Learn Identity and Access Management

Control who has access to what — ensuring the right people have the right permissions at the right time.

Why It Matters

  • Core for your role
  • Part of Platform Foundations
  • High demand
  • Salesforce Platform
  • Administrator
  • Architect
  • Cybersecurity Professional

Completed

Completed with Superbadge: User Access Fundamentals · May 2026

Learn it

Finish one badge with a hands-on challenge, or a superbadge, to complete Identity and Access Management.

Badges that complete it

  • Badge

    Precise Data Detection at Scale

    Find and classify sensitive data across your org with Data Detect policies.

    Hands-on challenge · Intermediate · 45 mins
    Start

Superbadges that complete it

For when you already know it.

  • Superbadge

    Superbadge: User Access Fundamentals

    Flex your security muscles by locking down record access.

    Intermediate · 1 hrCompleted
    Review

Certifications that cover it

Related learning: a certification doesn’t complete the skill.

  • 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.

    View Credential for Salesforce Certified Platform Foundations (opens in a new tab)
  • 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.

    View Credential for Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (opens in a new tab)

What you’ll be able to do

Every question and challenge for this skill checks one of these.

  • Identify where sensitive data hides in an org.
  • Create a policy that finds sensitive data.

Frequently asked questions

Control who has access to what — ensuring the right people have the right permissions at the right time.

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.

Identity and Access Management is core for Administrators, Architects, and Cybersecurity Professionals.

Yes. Salesforce Certified Platform Foundations (opens in a new tab) and Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (opens in a new tab) cover it.

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