ADM-201 - Configuration and Setup (15% of the exam) - Section 1.1

Describe the company information, fiscal year, business hours, currency management, and user interface settings configured in Setup.

Locate and adjust org-wide company information such as the default locale, fiscal year, business hours, and holidays, and recognise that enabling multiple currencies is irreversible. Configure user interface settings - including the Lightning Experience UI, list view options, and the navigation menu - that change how every user experiences the org.

Company InformationFiscal yearMultiple currenciesUser interface settings

Practice question for this objective

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Perenjori Mining has just provisioned a new Salesforce org, and the administrator needs to set the organisation's default time zone, locale, and currency that will apply as the baseline for the org. Which Setup area holds these organisation-wide defaults?

ACompany Information, where the organisation's default locale, time zone, and currency are maintained. Correct
BEach user's own detail record, edited individually before those users first log in.
CThe User Interface settings page, which governs display defaults for the whole org.
DLanguage Settings within the Translation Workbench for the organisation.

Company Information in Setup holds the organisation's default locale, time zone, and currency. The organisation-wide default locale, time zone, and currency are configured on the Company Information page, which is why new users inherit these values as their starting defaults.

Why A is correct: Company Information is the single Setup page that stores the organisation's default locale, time zone, and currency, which then seed the baseline for the org and new users.

Why B is wrong: User records do hold locale and time zone, but they set values per person rather than the organisation default, so editing them one by one does not establish the org-wide baseline.

Why C is wrong: User Interface controls features like collapsible sections and inline editing, not the org's default locale, time zone, or currency, so the required fields are not there.

Why D is wrong: Translation Workbench manages translated labels and supported languages, which is close to locale conceptually but does not set the default time zone or currency for the org.

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Exam traps in Configuration and Setup

Answers that look right on this material and are not. Each one is a distractor from a different question in the ADM-201 bank for this domain.

Enabling multiple currencies immediately rewrites every existing currency record into the running user's personal currency.
Why it is wrong: This is tempting because personal currency does affect display, but enabling the feature does not overwrite stored record values; amounts remain in their record currency.
Change the corporate currency to Singapore dollars so the branch sees the right values.
Why it is wrong: There is one corporate currency and it is the reporting baseline; switching it would restate all org reporting into SGD, contradicting the need to keep corporate reporting in Australian dollars.
Change the corporate currency to each region's currency as deals close in that territory.
Why it is wrong: It sounds responsive to local sales, but an org has one corporate currency and switching it repeatedly would reconvert every record, so it cannot hold amounts in several currencies at once.

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