If there are no explicit permissions on an object, how are its permissions determined?

• A. They are always public.
• B. They must be granted individually to each user.
• C. They are inherited from the backing datasets.
• D. They are determined by the Data Connection.

Answer: (C)

Permissions on an object with no explicit settings are determined by inheritance from the backing datasets. In Foundry, access to a derived item follows the rights of the sources it’s built from, so if you don’t have access to the source data, you won’t get access to the derived object either. This keeps access control consistent across related assets. The other statements aren’t accurate here: the object isn’t automatically public, you don’t need to grant permissions to each user individually for the derived object, and the Data Connection doesn’t set the object’s permissions.