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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

Chapter 3: Core Architectural Concepts – Integration and Cryptography

In this chapter, we'll continue to discover the general architectural concepts that a Salesforce CTA should be familiar with. In today's world, we rarely come across a single implementation where Salesforce is completely isolated. In most cases, Salesforce will become the heart of the enterprise's business transformation process, which means that it has to be connected with dozens of other new and existing applications. Integration cost is sometimes overlooked or underestimated, despite the different studies that point out that around 25-35% of the total project cost would likely be spent on integration.

Coming up with the right integration architecture is crucial to the success of a Salesforce project. Moreover, securing the internal and external integration interfaces is becoming more and more important, especially with the progressive move toward API economy and data monetization. The...