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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

Your exam, your way

You have read this book and gone through several suggestions and recommendations. You will also read and hear a lot more from other CTAs, coaches, candidates, and experts while you prepare for your review board.

Some would recommend approaches different than others. If you speak to 10 different CTAs, you would probably hear 10 various bits of feedback on how they prepared and attended the review board. There will be significant overlap, but there will also be different points of view.

For example, some would recommend using PowerPoint presentations instead of flip charts. Others would recommend a different structure and time plan. Some might be entirely against the catch-all presentation stage, while others might support it. This feedback could be coming from actual CTAs, which means that what they have recommended actually worked. Yet, it might not work for you.

What you need to keep in mind that there is no right approach. You need to figure out the approach...