Essentials for New Lightning Experience Administrators

A.

The statement "You can use Sharing Rules to grant wider access to data" is true. Sharing rules are a mechanism that allows you to grant access to data beyond the organization-wide default (OWD) levels. OWD defines the default level of access to records for users in your organization. Sharing rules allow administrators to open up access to specific records or sets of records based on criteria such as ownership or criteria-based rules.

However, the statement "You cannot restrict access below your OWD levels" is false. Sharing rules cannot restrict access below OWD levels. They can only be used to grant wider access. If the OWD for a particular object is set to private, sharing rules cannot be used to restrict access to individual records beyond that level.

To summarize, sharing rules can be used to grant wider access to data, but they cannot be used to restrict access below OWD levels.