What is a record type in salesforce

A Record type is a Salesforce tool that helps you configure various business processes, picklist values and assign page layouts. A Salesforce Record is used for the following:

Based on some specific criteria, exhibiting several age layouts for one object

Specifically as per the use criteria, displaying different picklist values

Supervising and executing multiple divisions within the same Salesforce instance.

Choosing the layouts as per the picklists values

All the functionalities that are important can be achieved by using Record Type in Salesforce without using any custom Apex code.