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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

Understanding Large Data Volumes

While the Salesforce platform can cope with large amounts of data, some considerations apply to larger/massive amounts of data (referred to as Large Data Volumes (LDV)) and how performance on the platform is affected. This chapter covers LDV considerations and mitigations, as well as scalable data model design and data archiving strategies.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Designing a scalable data model
  • LDV performance mitigation strategies
  • Data archiving strategies

Unlike traditional applications that utilize a database, Salesforce stores all data in a few, large database tables. Therefore, traditional performance tuning techniques associated with databases don’t necessarily apply to the Salesforce platform. Instead, we, as data architects, must design our Salesforce implementations to handle large amounts of data. This is best achieved by understanding LDVs, their impact on Salesforce performance...