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Becoming a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect

Becoming a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect

By : Bahri
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Becoming a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect

Becoming a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect

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By: Bahri

Overview of this book

This book is a complete guide to learning essential architectural concepts that’ll enable you to deliver secure, high-performant Salesforce solutions and pass the Salesforce CTA review board exam with confidence. This second edition comes with updated content, additional supporting material such as cheat sheets, and detailed practical examples, and helps you learn key soft skills to craft a winning presentation. You’ll begin by reviewing vital architectural concepts needed to create a scalable end-to-end Salesforce solution. Next, you’ll find out how to identify requirements and break down a problem into smaller, more solvable parts. As you advance, you’ll gain practical experience in managing design decisions and defending them using real-world scenarios. The book also helps familiarize you with the correct methodology to structure your solution presentation and the necessary supporting artifacts. Finally, you’ll practice providing solutions for two full hypothetical scenarios and structuring your playback step by step. By the end of this Salesforce book, you’ll be able to design a highly scalable Salesforce solution and create suitable material to comfortably explain the end-to-end solution to the CTA review board and potentially your customer, and have a higher chance of passing.
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Explaining Data Modeling Concepts and Their Impact on the Database’s Design

Standard Salesforce objects are normalized. They store data efficiently in tables with relationships that minimize redundancy and ensure data integrity.

You can create custom objects that are normalized or denormalized. Due to the nature of Salesforce objects, you can use patterns that are considered sub-optimal in typical database systems, such as defining objects with a huge number of fields.

Records in Salesforce consume around 2 KB of data storage, regardless of the number of fields/columns (with few exceptions). Creating a denormalized object to store aggregated data is one of the LDV mitigation strategies you can use. It is considered a special case of data archiving.

Note

For more details about normalized and denormalized datasets, review Chapter 2, Core Architectural Concepts: Data Life Cycle.

In addition to that, you need to become familiar with data skew. Salesforce utilizes...

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