Useful Question/Answers if you are Slack Admin / Slack Member / Slack User

Tarun Gupta
3 min readAug 12, 2024

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Workspace deletion is permanent and no messages or files can be recovered T OR F

Answer : True

System that enables users to securely authenticate (sign-in) with multiple applications, websites and services, through one log-in and one set of credentials.

Answer : Single Sign-on

Trusted third party that creates, maintains, and manages identity information (user records) and authenticates users for the benefits of service providers

Answer : identity provider

Provides services to the end user, such as email or content management. E.g. Slack

Answer : service provider

Once you’ve converted a channel to private, you cannot make it public again T OR F

Answer : True

People that have joined the workspace.

Answer : Members

People invited to your workspace, but have not accepted their invitation.

Answer : Invited Members

People that join your workspace, but have limited access.

Answer : Guest

___ in Slack control user permission levels, responsibilities and activities

Answer : Roles

3 types of slack Paid plans

Answer : Pro, Business, Enterprise Grid

A one-stop shop to manage settings, members, channels and more for all the workspaces in an Enterprise Grid org

Answer : enterprise grid admin dashboard

Gives Org Owners control over who can create workspaces using their company email address

Answer : claim domains

It’s not possible to leave a group DM, so you’ll need to ask one of the participants to create a new DM without you.

Answer : True

Notifies only active members of a channel

Answer : @here

Notifies all members of a channel active or not

Answer : @channel

Notifies everyone in your workspace-wide channel, can be used only in #general channel

Answer : @everyone

Comprised of a subset of users, unique to each workspace and can’t be accessed across all workspaces in the org

Answer : user groups

An open standard, XML-based, message-exchange framework that allows IdPs to pass authorization credentials securely to service providers.

Answer : SAML

Series of sequential tasks that need to be completed in order to reach a certain goal.

Answer : workflow

The ability of different systems, devices, applications or products to connect and communicate in a coordinated way, without effort from the end user.

Answer : interoperability

Used to grant an app permission to function in Slack

Answer : scopes

_____ might grant access to includes files, search, chat, reactions and more.

Answer : Object Scopes

A _____ refers to one of the three possible actions it allows:

1. read

2. write

3. History

Answer : scope

A Slack app’s capabilities are governed by ____ and ____

Answer : scopes, token

A visual tool for automating routine business processes in Slack

Answer : workflow builder

How your workflow will start

Answer : trigger

How people interact with your workflow

Answer : step

Information submitted to workflow that can be referenced in steps

Answer : variable

A member of your workspace with permission to manage your workflow

Answer : collaborator

Gives organizations control over how their company data is used and accessed on mobile devices

Answer : Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM)

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Tarun Gupta

Founder & CTO at Vivaansh Consulting l Consultant of Salesforce , Slack , DevOps & Copado | Community Group Leader #Slack #Salesforce #MomentMarkters #dataFam