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

The anatomy of a review board scenario

As you have seen in Chapter 12, Practice the Review Board – First Mock, and in Chapter 14, Practice the Review Board – Second Mock, the review board scenarios are usually structured in a specific way. They typically contain the following sections:

  • Project overview: This section provides general information about the company (which is what the scenario all about), its services, pain points, geographic locations covered by the company, growth plans, and so on. This section is generally helpful for you to understand the bigger picture. It can also help you develop your initial understanding of potential actors (the group of users who would eventually interact with the solution).

    This section might include some important figures (however, this is not necessarily the only place where such figures might exist). We have learned from many previous scenarios that these figures could significantly impact the target data volume.

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