Exam Slack-Dev-201 Topic 1 Question 76 Discussion

Actual exam question for Salesforce's Slack-Dev-201 exam
Question #: 76
Topic #: 1
If your Slack app receives an HTTP 429 response ("Too Many Requests") from an API call, what should be your immediate course of action?

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Wait for the time specified in the Retry-After header before retrying When a Slack API call results in an HTTP 429 response, the correct action is to wait for the duration specified in the Retry-After header before retrying. This header provides the time in seconds to wait before making another request.
Why not the other options:
*Immediate retries can lead to further rate limit violations.
*Switching to a different API method doesn't address the rate limiting issue and could lead to similar problems with the new method.
*Contacting Slack support to increase rate limits is not a practical immediate response to a rate limit violation. Rate limits are in place to ensure fair usage of resources.

by Sharon at Jul 15, 2026, 04:07 PM

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