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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

Building your solution and presentation

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

Understanding the current situation

The first paragraph of the preceding scenario contains some general information about POZ's business model. It also contains some interesting figures, such as 5 million daily visitors and 150k orders per day, with an average of five items in each order. Take some notes about these figures. In some scenarios, there are figures that are not necessarily going to impact the solution from a technical perspective. However, they could be mixed up with other figures that you should be very careful writing about.

For example, at first glance, you will notice the huge number of daily visitors, which could impact the governor's limits in...