Given a Scenario, Recommend and Justify the Appropriate Integration Strategy and the Use of Common Integration Patterns. TECHNICAL-ARCHITECT Practice Questions (Page 4)

Questions 16–17

1. 16expert · hard

   A healthcare company is integrating Salesforce with an external lab results system. The lab system sends results asynchronously via a webhook. The company needs to update patient records in Salesforce and notify the care team. The integration must ensure that no results are lost and that the care team is notified within 5 minutes. The lab system does not guarantee message ordering. Which integration approach should the architect recommend?

   • AUse platform events to receive webhooks and process them in real time
   • BUse a middleware queue to receive webhooks, process them in order, and then update Salesforce and send notifications
   • CBatch process webhooks every hour
   • DDirectly call Salesforce REST API from the webhook without a queue
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2. 17foundation · easy

   A company needs to synchronize customer records between Salesforce and an external ERP system. The business requires that updates made in one system appear in the other within seconds. Which integration strategy best fits this requirement?

   • ABatch integration using nightly file transfer
   • BManual data export and import
   • CEvent-driven integration using platform events
   • DReal-time integration using synchronous API calls
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