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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)
1
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

Methods for backing up and restoring data on the Salesforce Lightning Platform

Before we jump into methods for backing up and restoring data, let’s elaborate on the two data definitions we’re covering in this chapter, namely data and metadata, as both are interacted with differently when it comes to backup and restoration. Let’s start with metadata.

Introduction to metadata

Metadata is data that describes data. When we think of an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) file, that essentially is a file with data (the values) and metadata (the tags). For example, see the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<person>
  <firstname>Aaron</firstname>
  <lastname>Allport</lastname>
</person>

The code example shows a simple XML structure for a person with a first name and last name. Here, we can use the metadata (the person and the...