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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)
1
Section 1: Your Journey to Becoming a CTA
6
Section 2: Knowledge Domains Deep Dive
14
Section 3: Putting It All Together

Utilizing the appropriate security mechanisms and building your solution and presentation

Give yourself some time to quickly skim through the scenario, understand the big picture, and develop some initial thoughts about the solution. Once you've done that, we go through it again, section by section, and incrementally build the solution.

Understanding the current situation

First, let's try to understand the current PIR situation and landscape. We'll start with the paragraph in the preceding scenario that begins with the following line.

The organization is structured as two main departments – sales and service

We gained a lot of information from this paragraph. PIR uses a single org for both the sales and service departments across three regions: AMER, EMEA, and APAC. You need to keep that in mind while reading through the scenario and take notes if you believe they should consider a multi-org strategy.

We also learned that PIR is utilizing a specific...