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Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect

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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?

Salesforce Connect
Federated Search
Salesforce 2 Salesforce
External APIs

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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?

Use Individual objects to maintain the preferences with relationships to Lead, Person Account, and Users.
Create a case for contact preferences, and use this to validate the preferences for Lead, Person Accounts, and Users.
Create custom fields for contact preferences in Lead, Person Account, and Users objects.
Create a custom object to maintain preferences and build relationships to Lead, Person Account, and Users.

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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?

Use the standard "Order" object to store the data.
Use a standard big object defined by Salesforce
Create a custom object to store the data.
Implement a custom big object to store the data.

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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?

Leverage a custom account and contact object in Salesforce.
Leverage the person account object in Salesforce.
Leverage the standard account and contact object in Salesforce.
Leverage a custom person account object in Salesforce.

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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?

Have Einstein connect to the point of sales system to capture the Reward Program data.
Create a custom big object in Salesforce which will be used to capture the Reward Program data for consumption by Einstein.
Create a big object in CRM Analytics to capture the Loyalty Program data.
Create a custom object in Salesforce that will be used to capture the Reward Program data.

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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?

Use extract, transform, load (ETL) tool for extraction of records.
Ask Salesforce support to increase the query timeout value.
Use the Rest API to extract data as it automatically chunks records by 200.
Use a PK Chunking within the Bulk API.

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