MONITORING INTEGRATION-ARCHITECT Practice Questions (Page 2)

Questions 6–10

1. 6application · medium

   A company integrates Salesforce with a legacy CRM using a custom REST API. The integration works, but users complain that records created in Salesforce take up to 15 minutes to appear in the legacy CRM. The legacy API only supports synchronous calls. What is the most likely cause of this delay?

   • AThe network between Salesforce and the legacy CRM is slow.
   • BThe integration is using a polling mechanism that checks for changes every 15 minutes.
   • CThe legacy CRM has a slow database that takes 15 minutes to process each record.
   • DSalesforce is batching the records and sending them every 15 minutes.
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2. 7foundation · easy

   An integration between Salesforce and an on-premises ERP is experiencing slow response times during peak hours. Users report that API calls sometimes time out. Which integration challenge is most directly indicated by these symptoms?

   • ASecurity vulnerability
   • BLatency
   • CData loss
   • DData inconsistency
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4. 8expert · hard

   A company has an integration that syncs orders from an external e-commerce platform to Salesforce using a middleware tool. The integration runs every 5 minutes and uses a REST API to query new orders. Recently, the integration started failing with '401 Unauthorized' errors, but only during certain hours of the day. The middleware logs show that the access token is being refreshed successfully, but the API calls still fail. What is the most likely root cause?

   • AThe middleware is using the wrong API endpoint during those hours.
   • BThe external system is down during those hours, causing authentication to fail.
   • CThe access token is being invalidated by a security policy that rotates keys at specific times.
   • DThe external API has a rate limit that is being exceeded during peak hours.
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5. 9application · medium

   A real-time integration between an external ordering system and Salesforce occasionally fails because the external system returns a 5xx error during peak hours. The integration currently has no retry logic, so orders are lost. The business requires that no order be lost, but the external team cannot guarantee immediate availability. What is the best approach to ensure order reliability?

   • ASwitch the integration to a nightly batch process to avoid peak hours.
   • BIncrease the timeout on the integration call to allow the external system more time to respond.
   • CImplement an outbound message from Salesforce to the external system to confirm receipt.
   • DAdd a retry mechanism with exponential backoff and store failed messages in a dead-letter queue for manual reprocessing.
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6. 10expert · hard

   A company has an integration that uses a custom Apex REST endpoint in Salesforce to receive data from an external system. The integration works, but occasionally the external system receives a '500 Internal Server Error' from Salesforce. The Apex code has no try-catch blocks. The error logs show a 'System.LimitException: Too many SOQL queries: 101'. What is the most likely root cause?

   • AThe external system is sending too many requests at once, causing the Apex code to hit the SOQL query limit.
   • BThe external system is sending data that causes the Apex code to enter an infinite loop.
   • CThe Apex code is querying inside a loop, causing the SOQL query limit to be exceeded.
   • DThe Salesforce org has a custom setting that limits the number of SOQL queries per transaction.
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