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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

Understanding data movement and its considerations

In this section, we’ll cover the various stages involved in data migration, and why it is important to invest time in the definition phase of data migration. When considering moving data from one system or another, it is important to ask yourself the following questions:

  • Is it appropriate to move the data?
  • What will I gain by moving the data?
  • Is the data of sufficient quality?
  • How would the data be maintained in the long term?
  • What governance or other processes should be put in place?

By tackling the questions, we’ve essentially started our data migration process. While one system in the IT enterprise may store a certain part of the data, it may not always make sense to move the data if it is being moved into a target system for the sake of it, just because that system is a shiny new piece of the IT enterprise. For example, I worked with a client in the past who invested in Salesforce to...