Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect (Plat-Arch-201) Free Practice Test

Question 1

NTO would like to retrieve their SF orgs meta data programmatically for backup within a various external. Which API is the best fit for accomplishing this task?

A. Metadata API

B. SOAP API

C. Bulk API in serial mode

D. Tooling API

Correct Answer: A

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Question 2

Which solution improves performance for frequently accessed fields?

A. Skinny Tables

B. External Objects

C. Big Objects

D. Data Categories

Correct Answer: A

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Question 3

Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) has an external product master system that syncs product and pricing information with Salesforce. Users have been complaining that they are seeing discrepancies in product and pricing information displayed on the NTO website and Salesforce.
As a data architect, which action is recommended to avoid data sync issues?

A. Build a custom integration for one-way sync of product and pricing information from product master to Salesforce.

B. Build a custom integration for two-way sync of product and pricing information between product master to Salesforce.

C. Use the Customer 360 data manager to sync product and pricing information from product master database to Salesforce.

D. Implement a manual process to update the products from an extract from the products master on a weekly basis.

Correct Answer: C

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Question 4

Universal Containers has a rollup summary field on account to calculate the number of contacts associated with an account. During the account load, Salesforce is throwing an "UNABLE
_TO_LOCK_ROW" error. Which solution should a data architect recommend to resolve the error?

A. Perform a batch job in parallel mode and reduce the batch size.

B. Leverage Data Loader's platform API to load data.

C. Defer rollup summary field calculation during data migration.

D. Perform a batch job in serial mode and reduce the batch size.

Correct Answer: D

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Question 5

Universal Containers is integrating a new Opportunity engagement system with Salesforce.
According to their Master Data Management strategy, Salesforce is the system of record for Account, Contact, and Opportunity data. However, there does seem to be valuable Opportunity data in the new system that potentially conflicts with what is stored in Salesforce. What is the recommended course of action to appropriately integrate this new system?

A. Stakeholders should be brought together to discuss the appropriate data strategy moving forward.

B. A policy should be adopted so that the system whose record was most recently updated should prevail in conflicts.

C. The Opportunity engagement system should become the system of record for Opportunity records.

D. The MDM strategy defines Salesforce as the system of record, so Salesforce Opportunity values prevail in all conflicts.

Correct Answer: A

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Question 6

Northern Trail outfitters in migrating to salesforce from a legacy CRM system that identifies the agent relationships in a look-up table. What should the data architect do in order to migrate the data to Salesfoce?

A. Migrate to Salesforce without a record owner.

B. Assign record owner based on relationship.

C. Create custom objects to store agent relationships.

D. Migrate the data and assign to a non-person system user.

Correct Answer: C

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Question 7

Universal Containers (UC) manages Vehicle and Service History in Salesforce. Vehicle (Vehicle__ c) and Service History (Service-History__ c) are both custom objects related through a lookup relationship.
Every week a batch synchronization process updates the Vehicle and Service History records in Salesforce. UC has two hours of migration window every week and is facing locking issues as part of the data migration process.
What should a data architect recommend to avoid locking issues without affecting performance of data migration?

A. Use Bulk API serial mode for data migration

B. Insert the order in another custom object and use Batch Apex to move the records to Service_ Order__ c object.

C. Change the lookup configuration to "Clear the value of this field" when lookup record is deleted.

D. Use Bulk API parallel mode for data migration

Correct Answer: A

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Question 8

A large multinational B2C Salesforce customer is looking to implement their distributor management application is Salesforce. the application has the following capabilities:
1. Distributor create sales order in salesforce
2. Sales order are based on product prices applicable to their region
3. Sales order are closed once they are fulfilled
4. It is decided to maintain the order in opportunity object
How should the data architect model this requirement?

A. Add custom fields in Opportunity and use triggers to update prices.

B. Manually update Opportunities with Prices application to distributors.

C. Create lookup to Custom Price object and share with distributors.

D. Configure price Books for each region and share with distributors.

Correct Answer: D

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Question 9

Universal Containers has implemented Salesforce for its operations. In order for customers to be created in their MDM solution, the customer record needs to have the following attributes:
1. First Name
2. Last Name
3. Email
Which option should the data architect recommend to mandate this when customers are created in Salesforce?

A. Configure Page Layout marking attributes as required fields.

B. Build validation in Integration with MDM to check required attributes.

C. Mark Fields for the attributes as required under Setup.

D. Create validation rules to check If the required attributes are entered.

Correct Answer: D

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