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Salesforce Data-Architect Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | Salesforce |
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| Exam Name: | Salesforce Certified Data Architect Exam |
| Exam Number: | Data-Architect |
| Certificate Validity Period: | 1 year (maintenance required annually via Trailhead certification maintenance) |
| Real Exam Qty: | 60 |
| Available Languages: | Japanese, French, English, German, Portuguese, Spanish |
| Exam Format: | Multiple Choice, Multiple Select |
| Exam Duration: | 105 minutes |
| Related Certifications: | Salesforce Certified Integration Architect Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Architect Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder |
| Passing Score: | 58% |
| Exam Price: | $400 USD |
| Recommended Training: | Salesforce Architect Trailmix Salesforce Data Architecture and Management |
| Exam Registration: | Salesforce Architect Credentials Overview Salesforce Certification Registration |
| Sample Questions: |  |
| Exam Way: | Online proctored exam or authorized testing center |
| Pre Condition: | No mandatory prerequisites. Recommended: experience with Salesforce platform architecture and related certifications such as Platform Developer I, Platform App Builder, and Integration Architect. |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/credentials/architectdatam |
Salesforce Data-Architect Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Objectives |
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| Topic 1: Large Data Volume and Performance | - Scalability considerations
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| Topic 2: Data Modeling and Database Design | - Data modeling concepts
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| Topic 3: Master Data Management (MDM) | - MDM architecture
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| Topic 4: Data Governance and Management | - Security and compliance
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| Topic 5: Data Integration | - Salesforce integration tools
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Your Salesforce Certified Data Architect Exam Questions, Resolved
The Salesforce Certified Data Architect exam is split across 5 areas, with Data Governance and Management, Data Integration, Data Modeling and Database Design carrying the most weight. Study in proportion to those shares — the full outline is in the section above this page.
The Salesforce Certified Data Architect exam costs $400 USD per attempt, with 58% required to pass. Fail, and that fee returns in full for the retake. Practice with ValidVCE questions until your timed mock scores clear 58% comfortably — then the exam fee is a single payment, not a subscription.
The Data-Architect exam is Salesforce's official certification test — passing it earns the Salesforce Certified Data Architect credential at the Expert level. Its influence comes from how practical it is: employers use the Salesforce Certified Data Architect certificate as proof that you can do the work, not just talk about it. It also connects to Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder, Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I, Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II, Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Architect, Salesforce Certified Integration Architect, giving the credential a natural next step.
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No mandatory prerequisites. Recommended: experience with Salesforce platform architecture and related certifications such as Platform Developer I, Platform App Builder, and Integration Architect. These rules are set by Salesforce and may change, so confirm the current requirements on the official exam page: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/credentials/architectdatam before registering for the Salesforce Certified Data Architect exam.
Salesforce Certified Data Architect Sample Questions:
Universal Containers (UC) is implementing a Salesforce project with large volumes of data and daily transactions. The solution includes both real-time web service integrations and Visualforce mash -ups with back -end systems. The Salesforce Full sandbox used by the project integrates with full-scale back -end testing systems. What two types of performance testing are appropriate for this project?
Choose 2 answers
- A. Stress testing against the web services hosted by the integration middleware.
- B. Pre -go -live automated page -load testing against the Salesforce Full sandbox.
- C. Pre -go -live unit testing in the Salesforce Full sandbox.
- D. Post go -live automated page -load testing against the Salesforce Production org.
Correct Answer: A,B 🗳️
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Cloud Kicks needs to purge detailed transactional records from Salesforce. The data should be aggregated at a summary level and available in Salesforce.
What are two automated approaches to fulfill this goal? (Choose two.)
- A. Third-party Integration Tool (ETL)
- B. Third-party Business Intelligence system
- C. Apex Triggers
- D. Schedulable Batch Apex
Correct Answer: A,D 🗳️
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Universal container (UC) would like to build a Human resources application on Salesforce to manage employee details, payroll, and hiring efforts. To adequately and store the relevant data, the application will need to leverage 45 custom objects. In addition to this, UC expects roughly 20,00 API calls into Salesfoce from an n-premises application daily.
Which license type should a data architect recommend that best fits these requirements?
- A. Lightning Platform plus
- B. Lightning platform Start
- C. Service Cloud
- D. Lightning External Apps Starts
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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UC has large amount of orders coming in from its online portal. Historically all order are assigned to a generic user.
Which 2 measures should data architect recommend to avoid any performance issues while working with large number of order records? Choose 2 answers:
- A. Salesforce handles the assignment of orders automatically and there is no performance impact.
- B. Create a role at top of role hierarchy and assign the role to the generic user.
- C. Clear the role field in the generic user record.
- D. Create a pool of generic users and distribute the assignment of memory to the pool of users.
Correct Answer: B,C 🗳️
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UC has a requirement to migrate 100 million order records from a legacy ERP application into the salesforce platform. UC does not have any requirements around reporting on the migrated data.
What should a data architect recommend to reduce the performance degradation of the platform?
- A. Implement a custom big object to store the data.
- B. Use the standard "Order" object to store the data.
- C. Create a custom object to store the data.
- D. Use a standard big object defined by salesforce.
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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