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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

Understanding Salesforce sharing and security

Any data access in Salesforce is determined by a layered security model. With each layer, data access is gradually opened up. Therefore, it is imperative that at the lowest level the sharing and security requirements are well understood in order to configure the security settings as appropriate. The layers of the Salesforce security model can be visualized as follows:

Figure 2.6 – A visual representation of the layers of the Salesforce security model

The layers that make up the security model, how they are configured, and their impacts are explained in this section.

Organization-Wide Defaults

The access that users have to each other's records by default is specified in the Organization-Wide Defaults (OWDs) for a Salesforce instance. Essentially, OWDs lock data access down to the most restrictive level, and then the other sharing and data access tools (explained in the following sections) are used...