A company wants to synchronize Salesforce contacts with a Google Sheets spreadsheet for a small marketing team. The team updates the spreadsheet manually, and they want changes in Salesforce to reflect in the sheet automatically. The company has no budget for additional tools. Which approach is most appropriate?

Use a scheduled Apex job to export contacts to Google Sheets via the Google Sheets API

Use Salesforce Connect to access Google Sheets as an external data source

Use Data Loader to export contacts to a CSV and then manually import to Google Sheets

Use a third-party app like Zapier

When comparing a custom-coded integration using Apex callouts to a middleware platform, which trade-off is most accurate?

Middleware platforms always have lower total cost of ownership than custom code

Middleware platforms have higher performance than custom code in all cases

Custom code typically has lower initial development cost but higher ongoing maintenance effort

Custom code is always more secure than middleware

A company is integrating Salesforce with a custom application that uses an API with a rate limit of 100 requests per minute. The integration needs to sync 50,000 records nightly. The company is considering using a custom Apex batch job versus MuleSoft. Which solution is more appropriate?

MuleSoft with a batch job and throttling

A customer wants to synchronize order data between Salesforce and an external system every 15 minutes. Which tool is most appropriate for this recurring, near-real-time integration?

Middleware platform such as MuleSoft

Data Loader with scheduled batch jobs

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A company wants to synchronize Salesforce contacts with a Google Sheets spreadsheet for a small marketing team. The team updates the spreadsheet manually, and they want changes in Salesforce to reflect in the sheet automatically. The company has no budget for additional tools. Which approach is most appropriate?
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When comparing a custom-coded integration using Apex callouts to a middleware platform, which trade-off is most accurate?
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A company is integrating Salesforce with a custom application that uses an API with a rate limit of 100 requests per minute. The integration needs to sync 50,000 records nightly. The company is considering using a custom Apex batch job versus MuleSoft. Which solution is more appropriate?
Select an answer first
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A customer needs to display data from an external ERP system in Salesforce in real time, without copying the data into Salesforce. Which tool should be recommended?
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15foundation · easy
A customer wants to synchronize order data between Salesforce and an external system every 15 minutes. Which tool is most appropriate for this recurring, near-real-time integration?
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When comparing a custom-coded integration using Apex callouts to a middleware platform, which trade-off is most accurate?

A company is integrating Salesforce with a custom application that uses an API with a rate limit of 100 requests per minute. The integration needs to sync 50,000 records nightly. The company is considering using a custom Apex batch job versus MuleSoft. Which solution is more appropriate?

A customer needs to display data from an external ERP system in Salesforce in real time, without copying the data into Salesforce. Which tool should be recommended?

A customer wants to synchronize order data between Salesforce and an external system every 15 minutes. Which tool is most appropriate for this recurring, near-real-time integration?

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