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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

Salesforce Data Management

With a grasp of Master Data Management (MDM) concepts under our belt, we can now look at Salesforce Data Management. In this chapter, we'll look at how the Salesforce data model and Salesforce licensing work together. The license types chosen for a solution have an impact on the objects available. This can extend to record sharing facilities available in the case of Experience Cloud license types.

We'll look at what data persistence looks like on the Salesforce Platform and how that works when governing solutions on the Salesforce Platform.

Next, we'll expand on our golden record theory from Chapter 3, Master Data Management, to explain what a Single Customer View (SCV) looks like on the Salesforce Platform, and how data from multiple Salesforce clouds and multiple Salesforce instances can be pieced together.

Therefore, in this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Analyzing Salesforce license types and access to...