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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

Practice questions

Test your knowledge of the topics covered in this chapter by answering the following questions:

  1. What does LDV stand for?
  2. Which type of Salesforce object is used to store 1 million or more records?
  3. One account that contains over 10,000 child records is known as what?
  4. More than 10,000 records looking up to a single parent record is known as what?
  5. Utilizing data hosted on an external system is a technique known as what?
  6. What can be used to partition data and reduce the number of records returned by SOQL queries and reports?
  7. What can be used to avoid joins within queries to data held within a single object and speed up read-only operations?
  8. More than 10,000 child records belonging to the same parent record is known as what?
  9. Specify the type of index that’s used in the following scenarios:
    • When a SOQL query is executed against object data where that object contains 400,000 records, and the filter matches 40,000 or fewer records...