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Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect Sample Questions:

Question 1

Universal Containers (UC) is implementing its new Internet of Things technology, which consists of smart containers that provide information on container temperature and humidity updated every 10 minutes back to UC. There are roughly 10,000 containers equipped with this technology with the number expected to increase to 50,000 across the next five years. It is essential that Salesforce user have access to current and historical temperature and humidity data for each container. What is the recommended solution?

A. Create a new Container Reading custom object, which is created when a new measure is received for a specific container. The Container Reading custom object has a master-detail relationship to the container object.
B. Create a new Container Reading custom object with a master-detail relationship to Container which is created when a new measure is received for a specific container. Implement an archiving process that runs every hour.
C. Create a new Lightning Component that displays last humidity and temperature data for a specific container and can also display historical trends obtaining relevant data from UC's existing data warehouse.
D. Create new custom fields for temperature and humidity in the existing Container custom object, as well as an external ID field that is unique for each container. These custom fields are updated when a new measure is received.

Question 2

An Architect needs to document the data architecture for a multi-system, enterprise Salesforce implementation. Which two key artifacts should the Architect use? (Choose two.)

A. Integration specification
B. Data model
C. User stories
D. Non-functional requirements

Question 3

Universal Containers (UC) has implemented Sales Cloud for its entire sales organization, UC has built a custom object called projects_c that stores customers project detail and employee bitable hours.
The following requirements are needed:
- A subnet of individuals from the finance team will need to access to
the projects object for reporting and adjusting employee utilization.
- The finance users will not access to any sales objects, but they will need to interact with the custom object.
Which license type a data architect recommend for the finance team that best meets the requirements?

A. Light Platform Start
B. Service Cloud
C. Lighting platform plus
D. Sales Cloud

Question 4

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. Develop an ETL process that utilizers the merge API to merge the duplicate records
B. Implement duplicate rules
C. Utilize a data warehouse as the system of truth
D. Extract the data using data loader and use excel to merge the duplicate records

Question 5

Cloud Kicks currently has a Public Read/Write sharing model for the company's Contacts. Cloud Kicks management team requests that only the owner of a contact record be allowed to delete that contact. What should an Architect do to meet these requirements?

A. Check if the current user is NOT the owner by creating a "before delete" trigger.
B. Check if the current user is NOT the owner by creating a validation rule on the Contact object.
C. Set the profile of the users to remove delete permission from the Contact object.
D. Set the Sharing settings as Public Read Only for the Contact object.

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