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Salesforce Plat-Arch-202 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Deploying (15%) | 15% | - Describe the approaches and considerations of the continuous integration - Describe the capabilities and considerations of the deployment tools |
| Testing (19%) | 19% | - Describe the testing frameworks - Describe the strategies for code coverage - Describe the considerations of Apex testing |
| Operating (13%) | 13% | - Describe the approaches to manage changes in a production environment - Describe the monitoring and troubleshooting of production environments |
| Building (17%) | 17% | - Describe the capabilities of the packaging - Describe the considerations of the version control systems - Describe the testing strategies and methodologies |
| Application Lifecycle Management (8%) | 8% | - Describe the stages of the application lifecycle - Describe the capabilities and considerations of the application lifecycle |
| System Design (15%) | 15% | - Given a scenario, determine the appropriate roles, responsibilities, and process - Describe the features and capabilities of the sandbox environment |
| Planning (13%) | 13% | - Describe the risk and considerations of changing production environments - Given a scenario, describe the appropriate governance strategies - Given a scenario, determine the appropriate environment |
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The Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect syllabus breaks into 7 domains, led by System Design (15%) (15%), Building (17%) (17%), and Testing (19%) (19%). Read those percentages as instructions: the heaviest domains produce the most points, so they deserve the deepest practice. The complete, domain-by-domain syllabus sits in the exam topics section above — plan your weeks around it.
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Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Sample Questions:
Universal Containers has discovered a Servo defect in production. Tens of thousands of records will be created with incorrect data in minutes, producing significant brand damage as a consequence.
The Salesforce administrator has suggested that the defective text field be replaced with a new picklist field directly in production. The page layout will be modified so that the text field is removed and the new picklist field added.
What should the Salesforce architect advise?
- A. Call the security team and begin organizing a penetration test.
- B. Pair with the administrator, and review each change as it happens
- C. Deny the suggestion and explain to everyone that the risk is too high and the next release window is on the weekend
- D. Explain that only developers are certified to make changes directly in production.
Correct Answer: B 🗳️
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Universal Containers (UC) maintains its Salesforce org using its internal tools and processes for managing its application lifecycle. The UC team has been facing challenges on their development processes in their recent two releases. The architect has recommended the UC team to follow the org development model to address the challenges faced.
Which two characteristics of the org development model will help UC address the challenges? Choose 2 answers
- A. Automated sandbox provisioning
- B. Automated change tracking
- C. Automated deployment
- D. Automated defect fixing
Correct Answer: B,C 🗳️
Since Universal Containers (UC) has adopted agile methodologies, the CEO is requesting the development teams to deliver more and more work in shorter time frames. The CTO responds by saying the developers are not able to deliver the jobs they are committing to.
What evidence can be gathered in an agile tool to support the CTO ' s claims?
- A. The definition of done (DoD)
- B. A Kanban board showing there ' s always the maximum allowed amount of work in progress (WIP)
- C. A burndown chart showing the team misses their forecast sprint after sprint
- D. A burndown chart showing team finishes early sprint after sprint
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
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Universal Containers (UC) is looking for advice on how often it should refresh its sandboxes. UC currently uses a development lifecycle that starts with developer environments and moves to integration testing, QA testing, UAT, and then production. They have many scrum teams working concurrently and the teams do not agree on when refreshes should occur.
What two recommendations should the architect suggest? Choose 2 answers
- A. Sandboxes should be refreshed on the day when the refresh is allowed for that type of sandbox.
- B. Integration sandboxes should be refreshed rarely because of the burden of maintaining the various API.
- C. Development environments should generally be refreshed after each working feature has been successfully migrated.
- D. Productions is the only pristine environment.
Correct Answer: C,D 🗳️
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Universal Containers (UC) has a customized repository that represents lots of different apps or projects. UC currently is trying to shift from the org development model to the package development model to manage changes. In the org development model, each developer starts their work within their own personal sandbox.
When it comes to choosing development environments, what should a Salesforce architect recommend?
- A. Keep developing in the dev sandboxes because scratch orgs are not within the code deployment path.
- B. Start using scratch orgs that tracks all of the changes automatically and proceed with a staggered approach since scratch orgs can coexist With other models.
- C. Start using scratch orgs because a developer can spin up a scratch org to start a new project, start a new feature branch, or start automated Testing.
- D. Keep developing in the dev sandboxes, so that the developers feel no impact at all as they are used to the sandbox development.
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
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