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Salesforce Plat-Arch-201 Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | Salesforce |
| Exam Name: | Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect |
| Exam Number: | Plat-Arch-201 |
| Related Certifications: | Salesforce Certified Application Architect Salesforce Certified Technical Architect |
| Passing Score: | 65% |
| Certificate Validity Period: | 3 years |
| Exam Format: | Multiple-choice, Multiple-select, Scenario-based |
| Exam Price: | $400 USD |
| Exam Duration: | 105 minutes |
| Available Languages: | English |
| Real Exam Qty: | 60 |
| Recommended Training: | Architect Journey: Data Architecture and Management |
| Exam Registration: | Salesforce Certification Registration |
| Sample Questions: | Salesforce Plat-Arch-201 Sample Questions |
| Exam Way: | Online proctored or onsite proctored at authorized testing centers |
| Pre Condition: | Recommended: 1–2 years of Salesforce experience and 5–8 years of experience in data-centric projects; no mandatory prerequisites |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://trailhead.salesforce.com/credentials/dataarchitect |
Salesforce Plat-Arch-201 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Topic 1: Data Governance, Quality and Security | 15% | - Data quality management
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| Topic 2: Data Modeling and Database Design | 25% | - Data skew prevention
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| Topic 3: Data Migration | 15% | - Migration strategy and planning
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| Topic 4: Large Data Volumes and Performance | 20% | - Query and performance optimization
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| Topic 5: Data Integration | 20% | - Integration patterns and technologies
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| Topic 6: Master Data Management | 5% | - MDM implementation approaches
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Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect Sample Questions:
1. Northern Trail Outfitters would like to report on the type of customers. A custom field for customer type was created in Account object. Users need to be limited to the following defined choices when entering information in this field:
1. High Value
2. Medium Value
3. Low Value
Which strategy should a data architect recommend to configure customer type?
A) Single-select restricted picklist with defined choices.
B) Create a validation rule to limit entry to defined choices.
C) Provide help text to guide users with defined choices.
D) Lookup to a custom object with defined choices.
2. Universal Containers has been a customer of Salesforce for 10 years. Currently they have 2 million accounts in the system. Due to an erroneous integration built 3 years ago, it is estimated there are 500,000 duplicates in the system. Which solution should a data architect recommend to remediate the duplication issue?
A) Implement duplicate rules
B) Extract the data using data loader and use excel to merge the duplicate records
C) Utilize a data warehouse as the system of truth
D) Develop an ETL process that utilizers the merge API to merge the duplicate records
3. A customer wants to maintain geographic location information including latitude and longitude in a custom object. What would a data architect recommend to satisfy this requirement?
A) Create formula fields with geolocation function for this requirement.
B) Create custom fields to maintain latitude and longitude information
C) Create a geolocation custom field to maintain this requirement
D) Recommend app exchange packages to support this requirement.
4. Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) has implemented Salesforce for its sales users. The opportunity management in Saiesforce Is implemented as follows:
1. Sales users enter their opportunities in Salesforce for forecasting and reporting purposes.
2. NTO has a product pricing system (PPS) that is used to update the Opportunity Amount field on opportunities on a daily basis.
3. PPS is the trusted source within NTO for Opportunity Amount.
4. NTO uses Opportunity Forecast for its sales planning and management.
Sales users have noticed that their updates to the Opportunity Amount field are overwritten when PPS updates their opportunities.
How should a data architect address this overwriting issue?
A) Change Opportunity Amount field access to Read Only for sales users field-level security.
B) Create a custom field for Opportunity amount that PSS updates separating the field sales user updates.
C) Change PSS integration to update only Opportunity Amount field when the value is null.
D) Create a custom field for Opportunity amount that sales users update separating the field that PPS updates.
5. What 2 data management policies does the data classification feature allow customers to classify in salesforce? Choose 2 answer
A) Data governance policy.
B) Reference data policy.
C) Data sensitivity level
D) Compliance categorization policy.
Solutions:
| Question # 1 Answer: A | Question # 2 Answer: A | Question # 3 Answer: C | Question # 4 Answer: A | Question # 5 Answer: C,D |
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