Salesforce Platform Developer Practice Exam

What will occur when trying to insert more than 10,000 records in Salesforce?

1. Error will occur

2. Insert all records

3. Insert 200 only

4. Records inserted successfully

The correct answer is: Error will occur

When attempting to insert more than 10,000 records in a single transaction in Salesforce, an error will occur. This is because Salesforce has a governor limit that restricts certain operations to a maximum of 10,000 records in a single DML transaction. If you exceed this limit, the operation will not proceed, and an error message will be generated indicating that the limit has been exceeded. In practice, developers managing bulk data operations need to account for this limit and can use strategies such as batching records into smaller sets. This ensures compliance with governor limits while successfully processing large volumes of data without running into errors.