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Becoming a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect

By : Tameem Bahri
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Book Image

Becoming a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect

5 (1)
By: Tameem Bahri

Overview of this book

Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) is the ultimate certification to validate your knowledge and skills when it comes to designing and building high-performance technical solutions on the Salesforce platform. The CTA certificate is granted after successfully passing the CTA review board exam, which tests your platform expertise and soft skills for communicating your solutions and vision. You’ll start with the core concepts that every architect should master, including data lifecycle, integration, and security, and build your aptitude for creating high-level technical solutions. Using real-world examples, you’ll explore essential topics such as selecting systems or components for your solutions, designing scalable and secure Salesforce architecture, and planning the development lifecycle and deployments. Finally, you'll work on two full mock scenarios that simulate the review board exam, helping you learn how to identify requirements, create a draft solution, and combine all the elements together to create an engaging story to present in front of the board or to a client in real life. By the end of this Salesforce book, you’ll have gained the knowledge and skills required to pass the review board exam and implement architectural best practices and strategies in your day-to-day work.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: Your Journey to Becoming a CTA
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Section 2: Knowledge Domains Deep Dive
14
Section 3: Putting It All Together

Understanding what you should be able to do as a Salesforce integration architect

According to the Salesforce online documentation, the CTA candidate should be able to meet a specific set of objectives, which can be found at the following link: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/help?article=Salesforce-Certified-Technical-Architect-Exam-Guide&search=release+exam+schedule.

Let's have a closer look at each of these objectives.

Recommending the right integration landscape

Integration is a complex domain. Determining the components of an integrated solution includes the following:

  • How are they connected?
  • How do they securely interact?
  • What data is exchanged?
  • How does it require an in-depth understanding of the integration principles?

During my time working on Salesforce and non-Salesforce projects, I witnessed cases where a lack of understanding about the technology led to a circle of wasted efforts and fragile solutions.

On one occasion...