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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 standard, custom, external, and big objects

Salesforce objects can broadly fit into one of four types. While you will no doubt have worked with the standard and custom object functionality available on the platform, it is necessary to understand how they work at a lower level to truly understand what it means to issue SOQL queries against those object types and how it affects performance. Secondly, you may not have worked with external objects and big objects before. These are different when it comes to data storage and access (external object data isn't stored on the platform and is accessed on-demand through an external data source. Big object data ensures consistent performance but data lives in a separate location to standard/custom objects within the Salesforce platform).

sObjects

An sObject is the generic form of any Salesforce Object. The standard Salesforce objects and the custom objects you create are concrete types of sObjects (they all inherit common...