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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

Master Data Management

Next up in our learning journey is Master Data Management (MDM). As part of the exam curriculum, you should be able to understand how to effectively design and implement an MDM strategy on the Salesforce platform, so we'll cover what MDM is and how to implement it.

In addition, you will be able to articulate the concept of a golden record, so we'll cover the background to this concept and some techniques for implementing it (because depending on the system landscape and what system is designated as the data master, the golden record may not necessarily be on the Salesforce platform).

We'll then turn our attention to preserving data traceability across multiple data sources and understanding how this affects the context in which business rules run.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Introducing MDM
  • Implementing MDM
  • The golden record
  • Consolidating data attributes from multiple sources
  • Preserving...