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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

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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
6
Section 2: Knowledge Domains Deep Dive
14
Section 3: Putting It All Together

Chapter 11: Communicating and Socializing Your Solution

In this chapter, we will continue with another Salesforce-specific knowledge area that is required to pass the CTA review board: communication. This is the seventh and final domain. We will go through the needed knowledge and preparations for this domain and then complete a hands-on exercise using a mini-hypothetical scenario.

Communication skills are crucial for a CTA. These skills allow you to explain your vision in a clear and detailed way, ensuring that your audience fully understands how everything is going to work together. This skill incorporates several sub-skills, such as the ability to create a descriptive diagram that can help you explain your solution and how to handle unexpected changes of scope and adjust your solution accordingly.

We have already practiced creating presentation pitches in the past six chapters. Each time, we ensured we utilized our diagrams to describe the end-to-end solution. We learned that...