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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

Data Governance

Being able to safeguard data on the Salesforce platform is a key part of the Salesforce Data Architect’s role. This chapter covers the concepts behind building compliant solutions and how the Salesforce platform offers features that can help in the technological underpinning of an enterprise data governance strategy.

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

  • Considerations for implementing a compliant data model
  • Enterprise data governance

While data governance may be perceived by some as a somewhat dry or boring topic, read on and you’ll find out why it is important when designing scalable, secure solutions on the Salesforce platform. Data governance accounts for 10% of the certification syllabus, so that’s some valuable points that can be attained when taking the exam.

This chapter is the culmination of several topics that are interwoven when it comes to data management, security, and governance. By the...