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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

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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 7: Designing a Scalable Salesforce Data Architecture

In this chapter, we will continue looking at other Salesforce-specific knowledge areas that you must know about if you wish to pass the CTA review board. This is the third domain out of the seven mentioned earlier. We will go through the necessary knowledge and preparations for each domain and then complete a hands-on exercise using a mini hypothetical scenario.

The data domain is a broad domain with a lot of interdependencies. It impacts several other domains, and it is impacted, in turn, by several domains. We have come across several design decisions related to data in the previous two chapters already and will continue to come across more of them in the chapters to come.

This is because the data domain is at the center of any Salesforce solution. It involves understanding the key principles of designing your Salesforce data model, which is at the heart of your solution. There are hardly any successful enterprise...