What is the primary purpose of a release management strategy in a Salesforce development context?

To ensure that changes are deployed to production in a controlled, predictable, and repeatable manner

To eliminate the need for testing by automating all deployments

To provide a direct connection between developers and production for faster deployments

To document every configuration change made by administrators in production

A company wants to adopt a release management strategy that supports continuous delivery. They currently use change sets and manual deployment steps. What is the most important change they should make?

Increase the number of sandboxes available to developers

Adopt a version control system and a CI/CD pipeline that automates deployments

Document all manual deployment steps in a wiki

Schedule more frequent CAB meetings

Which practice is essential for effective collaboration when using version control in a Salesforce project?

Using feature branches for each new development task

Committing directly to the main branch without review

Storing all metadata in a single large file

Avoiding the use of branches to keep the repository simple

What is the primary characteristic of a patch release in Salesforce?

It introduces new features that are available to all users

It requires a full sandbox refresh before deployment

It contains a small set of critical fixes that are deployed to a limited set of users

It is a scheduled release that occurs every three months

A team uses a third-party DevOps tool that integrates with their version control system. They need to deploy a specific branch to a sandbox for testing. What is the most efficient way to do this?

Manually copy the metadata from the branch and paste it into the sandbox

Use the Metadata API directly to deploy the branch

Use the DevOps tool to trigger a deployment from the branch to the sandbox

Create a change set from the sandbox and upload it to the target sandbox

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Given a Customer Scenario, Describe and Recommend an Appropriate Release Management Strategy. DEVELOPMENT-LIFECYCLE-AND-DEPLOYMENT-ARCHITECT Practice Questions (Page 2)

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