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Question 1
Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) has multiple Salesforce orgs based on regions. Users need read-only access to customers across all Salesforce orgs. Which feature in Salesforce can be used to provide access to customer records across all NTO orgs?
Question 2
Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) plans to maintain contact preferences for customers and employees. NTO has implemented the following: Customers are Person Accounts for their retail business. Customers are represented as Contacts for their commercial business. Employees are maintained as Users. Prospects are maintained as Leads. NTO needs to implement a standard communication preference management model for Person Accounts, Contacts, Users, and Leads. Which option should the data architect recommend to satisfy this requirement?
Question 3
Universal Containers (UC) has a requirement to migrate 100 million order records from a legacy enterprise resource planning (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 performance degradation of the platform?
Question 4
Universal Containers is migrating individual customers (B2C) data from legacy systems to Salesforce. There are millions of customers stored as accounts and contacts in the legacy database. Which object model should a data architect configure within Salesforce?
Question 5
Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) wants to start a loyalty program to reward repeat customers. The program will track every item a customer has bought and grants them points for discounts. The following conditions will exist upon implementation: Data will be used to drive marketing and product development initiatives. NTO estimates that the program will generate 100 million rows of data monthly. NTO will use Salesforce's CRM Analytics and Discovery to leverage their data and make business and marketing decisions. What should the Data Architect do to store, collect, and use the reward program data?
Question 6
Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) needs to extract 50 million records from a custom object every day from its Salesforce org. NTO is facing query time-out issues while extracting these records. What should a data architect recommend in order to get around the time-out issue?

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