Book Image

Becoming a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect

By : Tameem Bahri
5 (1)
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

Exploring data categories

Reference data and master data are two common data categories that an architect would typically come across in most projects. In addition to these, in this section, we will also discover the characteristics of transactional data, reporting data, metadata, big data, and unstructured data. Having a deeper understanding of these different data categories will help you craft your overall data strategy, including data governance. This will also help you speak the same language your data architects prefer to use. Let's have a look at each of them closely.

Transactional data

Transactional data is generated by regular business transactions. It describes business events. Normally, it is the most frequently changing data in the enterprise. Transactional data events could include the following:

  • Sold products to customers
  • Collected payments
  • Created quotes
  • Shipped items to customers

Transactional data is normally generated and managed...