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Salesforce Certified Data Architect

DATA-ARCHITECT

The Salesforce Certified Data Architect certification validates your ability to design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performing data models on the Salesforce platform. It is for experienced architects who translate business requirements into robust data strategies, including data migration, integration, and governance. Earning it proves you can architect data solutions that drive business success.

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9Domains

21Objectives

108Practice pages

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DATA-ARCHITECT free practice questions

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Compare and contrast various techniques and considerations for designing Lightning Platform data model (e.g., objects, fields & relationships, object features).

15 questions · 3 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15

Given a customer scenario, design a data model that is scalable, supports all business processes with appropriate level of customizations (click vs. code), while considering performance for large data volumes.

14 questions · 3 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–14

Given a customer scenario, identify the issues impacting data quality along key dimensions (such as data duplication, completeness, accuracy, integrity, etc.).

20 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20

Compare and contrast the various techniques, approaches and considerations for implementing Master Data Management Solutions (e.g., MDM implementation styles, harmonizing and consolidating data from multiple sources, establishing data survivorship rules, thresholds & weights, leveraging external reference data for enrichment, Canonical modeling techniques, hierarchy management).

33 questions · 7 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–33

Compare and contrast various techniques, approaches and considerations for capturing and managing business and technical metadata (e.g., business dictionary, data lineage, taxonomy, data classification).

35 questions · 7 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35

Compare and contrast various approaches and considerations for arriving at a data archiving and purging plan. Discuss export mechanisms, restore mechanisms, and merits of various options for archiving on Salesforce platform vs. off-platform (e.g., Bulk API call with hard delete option, triggers to copy aggregated data into a custom object, storing summarized data using analytic snapshots, and/or when to move data to an external system and how to make it available to core CRM).

31 questions · 7 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–31

Compare and contrast various approaches and considerations for designing and implementing an enterprise data governance program while taking into account framework for defining roles and responsibilities (e.g., stewardship, data custodian, etc.), policies and standards, ownership and accountability, data rules and definitions, monitoring, and measurement.

28 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–28

Compare and contrast approaches and techniques for creating analytical reports and dashboards, discuss Salesforce offerings such as Wave, options available on AppExchange for exposing data quality metrics, adoption metrics, etc.

18 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–18

Compare and contrast various techniques for improving performance when migrating large data volumes into Salesforce, generating reports and dashboards, and querying large data sets in Salesforce.

16 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–16

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Salesforce Certified Data Architect

DATA-ARCHITECT free practice questions

Domain 1 · DATA MODELING6% of practice bank · 2 objectives · 29 questions6%

Domain 2 · CONCEPTUAL DESIGN19% of practice bank · 4 objectives · 97 questions19%

Domain 3 · MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT18% of practice bank · 3 objectives · 92 questions18%

Domain 4 · METADATA MANAGEMENT12% of practice bank · 2 objectives · 59 questions12%

Domain 5 · DATA ARCHIVING12% of practice bank · 2 objectives · 59 questions12%

Domain 6 · DATA GOVERNANCE15% of practice bank · 3 objectives · 76 questions15%

Domain 7 · BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, REPORTING & ANALYTICS7% of practice bank · 2 objectives · 38 questions7%

Domain 8 · DATA MIGRATION8% of practice bank · 2 objectives · 41 questions8%

Domain 9 · PERFORMANCE TUNING3% of practice bank · 1 objectives · 16 questions3%