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Salesforce Data Architect Certification Guide

By : Aaron Allport
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Salesforce Data Architect Certification Guide

By: Aaron Allport

Overview of this book

The Salesforce Data Architect is a prerequisite exam for the Application Architect half of the Salesforce Certified Technical Architect credential. This book offers complete, up-to-date coverage of the Salesforce Data Architect exam so you can take it with confidence. The book is written in a clear, succinct way with self-assessment and practice exam questions, covering all the topics necessary to help you pass the exam with ease. You’ll understand the theory around Salesforce data modeling, database design, master data management (MDM), Salesforce data management (SDM), and data governance. Additionally, performance considerations associated with large data volumes will be covered. You’ll also get to grips with data migration and understand the supporting theory needed to achieve Salesforce Data Architect certification. By the end of this Salesforce book, you'll have covered everything you need to know to pass the Salesforce Data Architect certification exam and have a handy, on-the-job desktop reference guide to re-visit the concepts.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Section 1: Salesforce Data Architect Theory
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Section 2: Salesforce Data Architect Design
15
Section 3: Applying What We've Learned – Practice Questions and Revision Aids

Understanding the Account and Contact model

The Account object is at the heart of many Salesforce core platform cloud products, such as Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Financial Services Cloud, and Experience Cloud. The Contact object represents a person that is associated with an Account record.

At its most basic interpretation, an Account record represents a company or similar entity from which one or more Contact records can be associated, such as employees. Therefore, an Account record can be thought of as a company or business. An Account record can have many Contact records, representing the employees of that company or business.

Let’s look at how this simple structure is represented diagrammatically:

Figure 8.1 – Simplified Account and Contact object relationship

As you would expect with Salesforce originally being focused on sales teams/selling (hence the company name), the Account object contains many useful standard fields that can...