The Salesforce Data Architect exam preparation guide is designed to provide candidates with necessary information about the Data Architect exam. It includes exam summary, sample questions, practice test, objectives and ways to interpret the exam objectives to enable candidates to assess the types of questions-answers that may be asked during the Salesforce Certified Data Architect exam.
It is recommended for all the candidates to refer the Data Architect objectives and sample questions provided in this preparation guide. The Salesforce Data Architect certification is mainly targeted to the candidates who want to build their career in Salesforce Technical Architect domain and demonstrate their expertise. We suggest you to use practice exam listed in this cert guide to get used to with exam environment and identify the knowledge areas where you need more work prior to taking the actual Salesforce Certified Data Architect exam.
Salesforce Data Architect Exam Summary:
| Exam Name | Salesforce Certified Data Architect |
| Exam Code | Data Architect |
| Exam Price |
Registration fee: USD 400 Retake fee: USD 200 |
| Duration | 105 minutes |
| Number of Questions | 60 |
| Passing Score | 58% |
| Recommended Training / Books |
Architect Journey: Data Architect Build Data Architect Expertise (ARC201) |
| Schedule Exam | Kryterion Webassessor |
| Sample Questions | Salesforce Data Architect Sample Questions |
| Recommended Practice | Salesforce Certified Data Architect Practice Test |
Salesforce Data Architect Syllabus:
| Section | Objectives | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Data modeling/Database Design |
- Compare and contrast various techniques and considerations for designing a data model for the Customer 360 platform. (e.g. objects, fields & relationships, object features). - Given a scenario, recommend approaches and techniques to design a scalable data model that obeys the current security and sharing model. - Compare and contrast various techniques, approaches and considerations for capturing and managing business and technical metadata (e.g. business dictionary, data lineage, taxonomy, data classification). - Compare and contrast the different reasons for implementing Big Objects vs Standard/Custom objects within a production instance, alongside the unique pros and cons of utilizing Big Objects in a Salesforce data model. - Given a customer scenario, recommend approaches and techniques to avoid data skew (record locking, sharing calculation issues, and excessive child to parent relationships). |
25% |
| Master Data Management |
- Compare and contrast the various techniques, approaches and considerations for implementing Master Data Management Solutions (e.g. MDM implementation styles, harmonizing & consolidating data from multiple sources, establishing data survivorship rules, thresholds & weights, leveraging external reference data for enrichment, Canonical modeling techniques, hierarchy management.) - Given a customer scenario, recommend and use techniques for establishing a "golden record" or "system of truth" for the customer domain in a Single Org. - Given a customer scenario, recommend approaches and techniques for consolidating data attributes from multiple sources. Discuss criteria and methodology for picking the winning attributes. - Given a customer scenario, recommend appropriate approaches and techniques to capture and maintain customer reference & metadata to preserve traceability and establish a common context for business rules. |
5% |
| Salesforce Data Management |
- Given a customer scenario, recommend appropriate combination of Salesforce license types to effectively leverage standard and custom objects to meet business needs. - Given a customer scenario, recommend techniques to ensure data is persisted in a consistent manner. - Given a scenario with multiple systems of interaction, describe techniques to represent a single view of the customer on the Salesforce platform. - Given a customer scenario, recommend a design to effectively consolidate and/or leverage data from multiple Salesforce instances. |
25% |
| Data Governance |
- Given a customer scenario, recommend an approach for designing a GDPR compliant data model. Discuss the various options to identify, classify and protect personal and sensitive information. - Compare and contrast various approaches and considerations for designing and implementing an enterprise data governance program. |
10% |
| Large Data Volume considerations |
- Given a customer scenario, design a data model that scales considering large data volume and solution performance. - Given a customer scenario, recommend a data archiving and purging plan that is optimal for customer's data storage management needs. - Given a customer scenario, decide when to use virtualised data and describe virtualised data options. |
20% |
| Data Migration |
- Given a customer scenario, recommend appropriate techniques and methods for ensuring high data quality at load time. - Compare and contrast various techniques for improving performance when migrating large data volumes into Salesforce. - Compare and contrast various techniques and considerations for exporting data from Salesforce. |
15% |