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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
14
Section 3: Putting It All Together

Data regulatory compliance

There are several data regulations in place based on industry standards and government regulations. These have been created to mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to corporate, personal, or government data. Some of the regulations that you may come across more frequently these days while designing a Salesforce solution include the following:

  • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
  • United Kingdom version of GDPR (UK-GDPR)
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
  • California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
  • Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACTA)
  • Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI)
  • Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB)
  • Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)

Failure to comply with these regulations can result in hefty fines and public damage to the enterprise's reputation, in addition to civil and criminal liability. We are not going to cover the details...