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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
9
Section 2: Salesforce Data Architect Design
15
Section 3: Applying What We've Learned – Practice Questions and Revision Aids

Exploring the Contacts to multiple Accounts feature

As you would expect, the Contacts to multiple Accounts feature allows a Contact record to be associated with more than one Account record. When Contacts to multiple Accounts is enabled, Contact records essentially have a primary Account record relationship and zero or more indirect Account relationships.

Important note

Disabling the Contacts to multiple Accounts feature will effectively delete all indirect Account relationships for your Contact records.

When enabled, the Account object’s standard Contacts-related list can be replaced on page layouts with the Related Contacts list instead. Contact page layouts can have the Related Accounts list added to them. Person Accounts can have both related lists added to their page layouts.

Important note

By default, any activities associated with a Contact record will roll up to the primary Account record for the contact. It is possible to disable this default behavior...