Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II (Plat-Dev-301) Exam - Topic 2 Question 127 Discussion

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Question #: 127
Topic #: 2

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A developer is working on an integration between Salestorce and an external system. The integration requires sending a large amount of data to the external systern, which can cause long response times and timeouts.

To optimize the performance and avoid timeouts, which technique should be used?

AUse a chained batch Apex to split the data into smaller batches.

BImplement an asynchronous callout using the Continuation class,

CIncrease the timeout limit in the callout options,

DUse the @future annotation to make the callout asynchronous.

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Suggested Answer: B

Implementing an asynchronous callout using the Continuation class is the optimal solution to handle long response times and avoid timeouts in Salesforce. It allows the Apex code to make a long-running request to an external service and free up the thread to serve other requests.

by Jaime at Apr 11, 2026, 02:41 AM

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Denise

3 days ago

I remember we discussed using asynchronous methods to handle long-running processes, but I'm not sure if @future or Continuation is better for this scenario.

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