Which mechanism is used to move configuration from Sandbox to Production?

• A. Copy and paste files
• B. Serializing to CSV and uploading
• C. Deployment/Package mechanism
• D. Manual re-entry of settings

Answer: (C)

Promoting configuration from Sandbox to Production is done with the deployment/package mechanism. This approach lets you bundle all the configuration items you’ve created or modified in Sandbox—workflows, templates, fields, permissions, automation rules—into a single package. You export that package from Sandbox and then deploy it into Production. The package preserves dependencies and relationships, ensures consistency, and provides versioning and an audit trail, making it safe to move changes through environments after testing. Manual methods like copying files, CSV uploads, or re-entering settings are error-prone, time-consuming, and don’t maintain integrity or traceability, which is why the deployment/package mechanism is the recommended path.