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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

Summary

In this chapter, we dived into the details of the Salesforce data architecture domain. We learned what a CTA must cover and at what level of detail. We then discovered some interesting principles that a Salesforce data architect needs to master and had an under-the-hood look at the causes, impacts, and mitigation strategies for LDV objects.

We then tackled a mini hypothetical scenario that focused on a data architecture, and we solutioned it together and created some catching presentation pitches. We identified several LDV objects and prepared a comprehensive mitigation strategy based on the business's nature and shared requirements.

If you are now part of a Salesforce implementation project, or you are administrating a running instance, you can practice the process of identifying LDVs. Start by analyzing the data model diagram (or create it if you still don't have one!), and use the tools and techniques we covered in this chapter to identify LDVs. Do your calculations...