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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

General solving tips

Let's start with a set of general tips on tackling, organizing, and structuring your solution. We have come across many examples in the previous chapters. Let's go through a few more.

Go through the scenario and annotate first

This is something we've repeated many times in previous chapters. Before you start with your incremental solving, go through the whole scenario, take notes, and add annotations next to each requirement.

You won't get a printed version of the scenario on a virtual review board. You will get an editable Word document instead. You can highlight sections and add annotations on the Word document directly. You can also use different colors to annotate various topics, for example, potential LDVs.

This activity should help you during both the incremental solving and the catch-all presentation stages. The review board scenarios are complex and lengthy (as you have experienced yourself in the previous four chapters)...