SF-Admin Agentforce AI Practice Question
An administrator is preparing to activate a new Agentforce Service Agent that handles password reset requests for an internal help desk. Before go-live, the administrator wants to validate that the agent behaves correctly and safely. Which TWO testing practices should the administrator perform? (Choose two.)
⚠ Common exam trap
Many candidates confuse configuration changes or production monitoring with actual pre-activation testing, which must be done in a controlled environment.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Use the Agentforce testing center to run predefined test cases against the agent and review pass/fail results.
Pre-activation validation combines automated test cases in the Agentforce testing center with manual conversation in the Agent Builder preview. Together they verify topic routing, action execution, and response quality against realistic password reset utterances. Activating in production, disabling topics, or granting excessive permissions are not testing practices and introduce risk rather than confidence.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Grant the agent's running user Modify All Data to ensure it can reset any user's password.
Why it's wrong here
Granting Modify All Data is a security anti-pattern and is not a testing practice. Least privilege should be applied to the agent's user, and the password reset action should be scoped to the requesting user. Broad permissions increase risk without validating correctness. Testing should confirm the agent works within appropriate permissions, not bypass them.
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Activate the agent in a production org and monitor real customer conversations for the first week.
Why it's wrong here
Testing in production with real users risks exposing sensitive behavior and poor responses before the agent is validated. For a password reset flow, a mistake could lock users out or leak information. Production monitoring is valuable after go-live, but it is not a pre-activation testing practice and does not satisfy the requirement to validate safely first.
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Use the Agentforce testing center to run predefined test cases against the agent and review pass/fail results.
Why this is correct
The Agentforce testing center lets admins define test cases with expected utterances and outcomes, then run them against the agent to catch regressions before activation. It provides structured, repeatable validation rather than ad hoc chat. For a password reset agent, this is the right way to confirm the agent routes to the correct topic and action without exposing credentials.
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Disable all topics except the password reset topic to force the agent to always use the correct flow.
Why it's wrong here
Disabling topics is a configuration change, not a testing practice. It would also mask routing problems that testing should reveal, and it could break the agent for other legitimate requests. The goal is to validate behavior, not to constrain it artificially. This does not verify response quality or action execution.
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Preview the agent in Agent Builder and manually converse with it using representative password reset utterances.
Why this is correct
The preview pane in Agent Builder simulates a live conversation so the admin can observe topic routing, action invocation, and response quality in real time. Manual testing with realistic utterances surfaces issues the admin might not have scripted, such as ambiguous phrasing. It complements automated test cases and is a standard pre-activation step.
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Last reviewed September 2026 · checked against the official Salesforce exam blueprint
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