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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

Presenting and justifying your solution

It is now time to create your presentation. This is something you will have to do on the go during the review board as you will likely consume all 3 hours in creating the solution and supporting artifacts.

This is why you need to develop your presentation and time management skills to ensure you describe the solution with enough details in the given timeframe. We will discuss some time keeping techniques in Appendix, Tips and Tricks, and the Way Forward.

In the previous chapters, we saw several examples of presentation pitches that dived into the right level of detail. This time, we will focus on shaping an actual review board presentation. We will also create presentation pitches for the following topics: the overall solution and artifact introduction, one of the business processes, and the data migration and LDV mitigation strategy. We will pick the customer registration process as it is the most complex and lengthy.

We will then hold...