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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

Bringing it all together with data modeling

We've covered a lot in this chapter, but now it is time to put the theory into practice and produce something tangible in the form of a data model. Now we know the OWDs we can set, the relationships between objects we can influence, and the owners of records, we can bring them together to produce a data model.

Throughout this book, any data model diagrams will be drawn to the following format (essentially an expanded legend from the example diagram in Chapter 1, Introducing the Salesforce Data Architect Journey):

Figure 2.8 – The format for diagramming Salesforce objects used throughout this book

Now we've looked at the data modeling format, let's now look at a data modeling example.

Data modeling example and explanation

With our data modeling format now covered, let's take a look at an example data model to show how much information we can glean from a single artifact. Here&apos...