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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
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Section 2: Salesforce Data Architect Design
15
Section 3: Applying What We've Learned – Practice Questions and Revision Aids

Analyzing Salesforce license types and access to objects

In this section, we're going to cover how the different Salesforce licensing options affect the objects and standard functionality available to users. Given the vast array of functionality available in Salesforce products, it is important to ascertain what the required objects and functionality will be (from both an internal and external access perspective) so that the correct licenses can be purchased. As expected, certain licenses are more expensive than others—for example, Service Cloud licenses are more expensive than Sales Cloud. In the case of Experience Cloud, this type of license not only affects the objects available for users but can affect sharing rules and role hierarchy too. We'll get to those implications further along in this section.

Because of the cruciality of getting licensing correct, an important artifact produced during the Certified Technical Architect (CTA) review board is Actors and...