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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

Understanding the general concepts of IAM

The IAM architecture is the activity of defining the processes, tools, monitoring mechanisms, and governance required in order to grant the enterprise's internal and external users access to the right digital assets in a well-governed and secure manner. The IAM architecture needs to ensure that users are granted the right level of access privileges based on internal and external requirements, such as enterprise policies or regulatory compliance.

The users included in an IAM architecture could be external (and in this case, we usually use the term customer identity and access management (CIAM)) or internal (where we simply use the term IAM).

The IAM strategy aims at creating a unified digital identity for the enterprise's customers and employees, along with a set of tools and processes to manage this identity and the access rights associated with it.

The IAM architecture is critical in today's connected enterprise applications...