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Resources
Lessons
Data Modeling / Database Design
- Compare and contrast various techniques and considerations for designing a data model for the Customer 360 platform (for example, 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).
- Knowledge Check
Master Data Management
- Compare and contrast the various techniques, approaches and considerations for implementing Master Data Management Solutions (e.g., MDM implementation styles, harmonizing and 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 the 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.
- Knowledge Check
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.
- Knowledge Check
Data Governance
- PART 1: Compare and contrast various approaches and considerations for designing and implementing an enterprise data governance program.
- PART 2: Compare and contrast various approaches and considerations for designing and implementing an enterprise data governance program.
- PART 3: Compare and contrast various approaches and considerations for designing and implementing an enterprise data governance program.
- 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.
- Knowledge Check
Large Data Volume Considerations
- Given a customer scenario, design a data model that scales considering large data volume and solution performance.
- PART 1: Given a customer scenario, recommend a data archiving and purging plan that is optimal for customer's data storage management needs.
- PART 2: 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.
- Knowledge Check
Data Migration
- Given a customer scenario, recommend appropriate techniques and methods for ensuring high data quality at load time.
- PART 1: Compare and contrast various techniques for improving performance when migrating large data volumes into Salesforce.
- PART 2: 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.
- Knowledge Check
Hi Team – I cleared the Data Architecture & Management Designer Exam , thanks for the material.
I am planning to take Sharing and visibility exam next.
Good evening FoF! Just passed the Data Architecture exam which helped me achieve the Application Architect certification. Thank you so much for the wonderful study guides and practice exams – super helpful.! Cheers! 🙂
Awesome news, Maureen! Congratulations on clearing the exam, we are glad to know that our materials helped! Cheers!
Hi FoF, I passed the exam in first try with 72% after acing the practicing the exams.
Thanks for the courses.
Awesome news, Masood! Congratulations on clearing the exam! The whole team is happy to know that we are able to help! Cheers!
I successfully passed the exam. Thanks for the material.
Would be great to have material for System Architecture path as well.
Congratulations, Gerard! Thanks for sharing your experience, the whole team is happy to know that our materials helped!
I’ve managed to pass the exam with flying colors after using this Study Guide + Exam Tests. Prior to that I’ve read through the official Trailhead trailmix, which helped to get through this course even easier.
I think the majority of this course’s materials lay a pretty good foundation, and they are on-point and filler-free.
Expect to get 70%+ on average if you ace those.
Congratulations, Oleg! We are glad to know that our materials helped! Cheers!
I’ve cleared my Data Architecture and Management Designer exam today. Thanks so much team for these guided materials and these are really helpful not just exam specific!
Congratulations, Anil! Thanks for sharing your experience, the whole team is happy to know that our materials helped. Cheers!
I have just passed the Data Management and Architecture Designer! Thank you FOF for the study guides and exam-like questions!
Great news, Miha! Congratulations on clearing the exam! We are glad to know that we are able to help, cheers!
FOF Team,
With the help of your material and practice exams, I have successfully passed Data Arch and Mgmt Designer Exam today. I’m so glad to be a Certified Application Architect! Thank you so much for the wonderful material. They helped me a lot in understanding the concepts. Looking forward to courses on Sys Architect track.
Thanks,
Thripura
Hi Thripura, that’s great news, congratulations on passing Data Architecture! Thanks so much for providing your feedback, we are glad that you found the materials useful!
Just cleared Application Architect title mainly due to this website. I hope you guys can start to document for System Architect path.
Congratulations, Tomasz! We are glad to know that we are able to help. The System Architect courses are a popular request, our team will definitely consider it.
Totally agree! System Architect would be a great addition.
I absolutely second that, System Architect path certification prep course would be greatly appreciated.
Hi FoF team, thank you for the very good documentation and sample exam of Data Architecture certification . It was very helpful. I have passed my exam yesterday. 🙂 Cheers
Congratulations, Bhushan! We are glad to know that we are able to help, cheers!