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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
I passed the Data Architect certification yesterday, it is my 4th one in 11 months and used focusonforce and trailhead modules for all of them. Thank you!
Hi Adriano! We are glad to know that you have passed the Certification for DA. Congratulations on this milestone. It is our honor to be able to prepare you well for the exam you had. Great job! On to the next goals that you have set! We wish you all the best on your next certifications. Job well done!
Hi Team of focusonforce,
I passed the Data Architect certification today, it is my 4th one in 10 months and I used focusonforce for all of them. I must say this one was quite hard, as it was often debatable which answer was the most suitable choice. However, the knowledge gained from previous certifications in combination with your study guide and the practice exams helped me get the job done.
Thanks and all the best,
Fabian
Hi Fabian! We are glad to know that you have passed the DA Certification. Congratulations on this milestone. It is our honor to be able to prepare you well for the exam you had. Great job! On to the next goals that you have set! We wish you all the best on your next certifications. Job well done!
Thank you, as always, Focus on Force! I passed the Data Architect exam today using a combination of the study guide and the practice exams. Content was pretty close, but the wording a little different. Definitely felt a couple of questions could have a couple of correct answers due to the wording.
This was my 6th certification achieved using Focus on Force!
Awesome news, Ron! Congratulations on clearing the exam! We are happy to know that we are able to help you with your certification goals!
Thank You. I passed the exam yesterday (29/1/2022). The study guide is very helpful for this exam.
Hi Joseph! This is a very nice message to start a brand new week. Congratulations on passing your DA Certification. We’re glad that we were able to help you in your Salesforce journey. Best of luck on the next certifications that you would be preparing for. Cheers!
Passed my exam. Thank you guys!
Hello Seyran! We are glad to hear that you are now a Certified Data Architect for Salesforce. Your preparation and diligence surely paid off. Congratulations and the whole FOF Team is happy for your new milestone!
Congratulations Seyran!! Any tips or comments are highly appreciated! Did you find this exam very difficult? Just wondering why they have reduced the passing percentage to 58 %?
Has passed this exam.
Thanks a lot!
Hello Wang! We are glad to hear that you are now officially certified. Your preparation and diligence surely paid off. Congratulations and the whole FOF Team is happy for your new milestone!
Thank you for the great content. Just passed the certification 🙂
Hello Marc! That’s great news. It’s a great honor for us to be a part of your Salesforce journey and preparations. Cheers to that!
I cleared the certification and I really appreciate the fantastic work your team has been doing on all these study guides and mock tests. Thank you!
Raghavendra, CONGRATULATIONS on passing the DAMD certification. We’re glad and pleased to learn that our Study Guides and Practice Exams proved valuable to you. We’re happy for this milestone of yours!
I passed first first Designer Certification Today to enter in the world of certified Architects. Thank you FocusOnForce for creating such a great content. Though I feel that the study course should also come with atleast one full practice exam.
Hello Puspendra! We are glad to hear that you have passed the Data Architecture and Management Designer Certification, that is great! We are happy that the materials were helpful to you in reaching your certification goals. Thank you also for the suggestion regarding the full Practice Exam. We can discuss this with our Team for future improvements. Cheers!
I passed the exam just a couple of hours ago. It’s my 5th certification. Thanks a lot for the great job you have done with the course and practice exams. Well done!
Awesome news, Marco! Congratulations on clearing the exam, our team is happy to know that we are able to help.