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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

Exporting data from Salesforce

As much as we may want to maximize the investment our clients make in Salesforce by moving data into it, we should consider the requirements surrounding exporting data from Salesforce. This may involve exporting certain data (for example, to a data warehouse platform), which typically involves an automated process being performed at a scheduled interval (such as every night). As expected, several techniques can be used to accomplish this task.

Data Export

Salesforce offers two methods for exporting data out of the box. The first is the Data Export service, which is accessible from within the Salesforce setup. Data Export can be used to manually export data weekly or monthly (depending on the edition of Salesforce you have), as well as to schedule regular data exports weekly (every 7 days) or monthly (every 29 days).

The second method for exporting data is the humble Data Loader application from Salesforce. This can be used to extract object data...