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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

Persisting data

Ensuring data is persisted in a consistent manner is paramount to the long-term success of a Salesforce implementation. Therefore, it is important to understand the causes of data quality issues and the techniques available to improve data quality but ideally prevent it from happening in the first place as much as possible.

Data quality issues can arise due to the age of the data, how complete and accurate the data is, whether duplicate data exists, and the consistency in the way data is used. Data quality issues can cause users to be presented with incomplete or incorrect information, causing them to spend more time gathering that information (which may require them to spend time in multiple systems or with multiple data sources). Worse still, customers may be subjected to poor customer service caused by account managers or service agents having incomplete or incorrect information. Lastly, frustrated users may be deterred from utilizing a System Of Record (SOR)...