SALESFORCE-PD1 Process Automation And Logic Practice Question
A developer has written a Batch Apex class to process millions of records. During execution, some transactions fail due to temporary external web service timeouts. What is the standard behavior of Batch Apex when an unhandled exception occurs in a batch execution?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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The specific batch scope fails, but the job continues processing subsequent scopes.
By default, if an unhandled exception occurs in the execute method of a batch class, that specific batch of records fails, and the batch job continues processing the remaining batches, logging the failure.
Answer analysis
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The specific batch scope fails, but the job continues processing subsequent scopes.
Why this is correct
Failed chunks do not halt the entire job by default; other scopes continue to execute.
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The entire job pauses indefinitely until an administrator manually resumes it via Setup.
Why it's wrong here
Salesforce does not pause batch jobs automatically on unhandled exceptions; they either complete with errors or abort entirely if limits are breached.
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The batch framework automatically retries the failed scope up to five times before moving on.
Why it's wrong here
The platform does not automatically retry failed execute scopes unless configured via specific retry mechanisms like custom exception handling or Platform Cache tracking.
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The entire batch job immediately aborts and rolls back all previously processed scopes.
Why it's wrong here
Batch Apex does not roll back previously successfully committed scope executions unless explicitly coded with transactional savepoints and rollbacks.
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