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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

Who this book is for?

This book is intended for Salesforce professionals who have a solid understanding of the Salesforce platform and who have racked up several years of experience as architects. These architects would ideally like to boost their careers further by targeting the Salesforce CTA credential. The book is also intended for architects who want to add more skills to their arsenal by learning how to design secure, high-performance technical solutions on the Salesforce Platform, along with how to communicate technical solutions and design trade-offs effectively to business stakeholders and how to adopt a delivery framework that ensures quality and success.

With the current rapid growth of the Salesforce ecosystem, the borders between traditional roles in some workplaces are blurring. And with that, the value of having people with exceptional talent to link the different teams becomes vital. Future CTAs are not afraid to dig deep into business challenges and ask tough questions to reveal the real business value behind a particular requirement. They like to get to the bottom of things and roll up their sleeves when necessary to try things out in order to select the right solution approach that serves current and future potential requirements. And they do not hesitate to jump into conversations with the development teams to give guidance and best practices and then work with the project management team to prepare that cutting-edge presentation for the stakeholders.