The type of org that the associate should create from within Trailhead to quickly learn, practice, and develop Salesforce skills is a Playground. A Playground is a free, fully functional Salesforce org that you can use to test and explore the platform.  You can create multiple Playgrounds from Trailhead and use them to complete hands-on challenges and projects 1 . A Developer Edition is a type of org that you can create from the Salesforce website, not from Trailhead.  A Sandbox is a type of org that you can create from a production org as a copy of it for testing and development purposes

Permission sets are what should be used to allow additional field-level access to individual employees based on their job duties. Permission sets are a type of metadata that grant additional access and permissions to users based on their functional or departmental needs. Permission sets can include field-level security settings that allow read or edit access to specific fields on an object. Permission sets can be assigned to multiple users, regardless of their profile. Individual profiles are a type of metadata that define the baseline access and permissions for users based on their license type and job function. Profiles include field-level security settings that allow read or edit access to fields on an object. Profiles cannot be assigned to individual users, but to a group of users who share the same license and job function. Role hierarchy is a type of metadata that define the level of access and visibility of records for users based on their position in the organization. Role hierarchy allows users to access records owned by or shared with users below them in the hierarchy. Role hierarchy does not affect field-level access, but record-level access.

The role hierarchy is a way of controlling access to records based on the user’s position in the organization. A user can see all of the records owned by themselves and the users below them in the hierarchy, but not records owned by users above them or in a different branch.

The opportunities Kanban view is a visual summary of opportunities in a list view, where the associate can summarize, filter, and move opportunities along the pipeline by dragging and dropping them.

 Selecting Fields to Display is what the associate should do to add the missing key columns to the custom Contact list view. Selecting Fields to Display is a feature that allows the user to choose which fields to show as columns in the list view, and in what order. The user can select up to 15 fields to display, and drag and drop the fields to rearrange the column order. Editing list filters is a feature that allows the user to apply one or more criteria to filter the records that are displayed in the list view. The user can select a field, an operator, and a value for each filter, and combine multiple filters with AND or OR logic. Editing sharing settings is a feature that allows the user to control the access and visibility of records for different users and groups. The user can define the organization-wide default, role hierarchy, sharing rules, and manual sharing for each object.

 The type of group that the associate should create to share records about a carpool program with users is a public group. A public group is a set of users that can be used to define sharing rules, queues, and other features that require a group of users. A public group can include individual users, other groups, roles, or territories. A public group can be used to share records with a specific group of users who are interested in the carpool program. A private group is a type of Chatter group that is not related to record sharing. A queue is a feature that allows users to manage leads, cases, and other objects as a team, but it is not suitable for sharing records about a carpool program.

The functionality of Salesforce Reports that the associate should use to refresh a report and email it to an executive team each week is subscriptions.  Subscriptions let you schedule reports to run at regular intervals and send notifications to you or other recipients by email or Chatter 5 . You can also set conditions for when the notifications are sent, such as when the report returns no results or the results change.

 Trailmixes are the Trailhead feature that Get Cloudy Consulting should use to create a custom learning path for its employees. Trailmixes are collections of learning content that users can create, customize, and share with others.  Users can add modules, projects, trails, superbadges, and even external links to their trailmixes and assign due dates and points

The maximum number of rows that a report will display is 3,000. If a report returns more than 3,000 rows, only the first 2,000 rows are displayed and the rest are truncated.  To see all the rows, you can export the report to a CSV file

A developer org should be used to evaluate a new feature that requires a specific license before purchasing. A developer org is a free, full-featured copy of the Salesforce platform that allows developers to create and test applications and features.  A developer org can have access to all the licenses and features that are available in the Salesforce platform