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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
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Section 3: Applying What We've Learned – Practice Questions and Revision Aids

Lightning Platform Data APIs

There are 11 APIs available on the Salesforce Lightning Platform that cover all sorts of operations, including working with metadata (the Metadata API), building user interfaces that let users interact with Salesforce records (the User Interface API), and for use when building custom development modules or applications (the Tooling API).

I appreciate that not everyone reading this book will be a software engineer and therefore understand the intricacies of how APIs work. However, understanding how Salesforce programmatically exposes data-related operations is necessary. This will give you a more complete understanding of how data can be affected by operations on the Salesforce platform outside of general user interface interaction.

In a nutshell, an API provides a means by which two software applications can talk to each other. Typically, one of the applications exposes a select set of operations that other applications can invoke. APIs also support...