You're reading from Becoming a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect Build a strong command of architectural principles and strategies to prepare for the CTA review board

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803239439

Length 568 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Salesforce

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Tameem Bahri

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Starting Your Journey as a CTA

2. Chapter 2: Core Architectural Concepts: Data Life Cycle FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Core Architectural Concepts: Integration and Cryptography

4. Chapter 4: Core Architectural Concepts: Identity and Access Management

5. Chapter 5: Developing a Scalable System Architecture

6. Chapter 6: Formulating a Secure Architecture in Salesforce

7. Chapter 7: Designing a Scalable Salesforce Data Architecture

8. Chapter 8: Creating a Lean Solution Architecture

9. Chapter 9: Forging an Integrated Solution

10. Chapter 10: Development Life Cycle and Deployment Planning

11. Chapter 11: Communicating and Socializing Your Solution

12. Chapter 12: Practice the Review Board: First Mock

13. Chapter 13: Present and Defend: First Mock

14. Chapter 14: Practice the Review Board: Second Mock

15. Chapter 15: Present and Defend: Second Mock

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Appendix: Tips and Tricks, and the Way Forward

Forging an Integrated Solution

In this chapter, you will continue learning about Salesforce-specific knowledge areas a CTA must master. Integration architecture is the fifth domain out of seven. You will cover the needed knowledge and then complete a hands-on exercise using a mini hypothetical scenario for each domain.

The enterprise landscape is continuously growing and becoming more complex. There is hardly an enterprise today that would use Salesforce in isolation from other systems. Distributed solutions are the default nowadays because integration today is much simpler than before. Yet, it is still the area that has the most significant impact on an implemented software solution’s success.

Integration is a complex domain but has a limited number of unique use cases. This is somewhat similar to the Identity and Access Management (IAM) concepts you covered in Chapter 4, Core Architectural Concepts: Identity and Access Management, where the concept itself was challenging...