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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)
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Section 1: Your Journey to Becoming a CTA
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Section 2: Knowledge Domains Deep Dive
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Section 3: Putting It All Together

Differences between classic RDBMS and Salesforce

People have used databases in their day-to-day activities for centuries. Although they have only been given the name "databases" recently, they have been developed for years and we've invented more and more use cases for them. Most modern applications utilize a database of some sort. Theoretically, a database is simply a collection of related data. We call the software system that manages this data a database management system (DBMS). The DBMS will also be responsible for controlling access to the database.

Databases have evolved over the years from simple file-based systems to sophisticated cloud-based relational database management systems and in-memory databases.

Understanding the problems of file-based systems could help you avoid challenges that could occur in modern database systems. File-based systems were designed for a specific set of use cases. This was primarily driven by an attempt to digitalize the activities...