Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Sample Questions:

1. Universal Containers has asked the salesforce architect to establish a governance framework to manage all of those Salesforce initiatives within the company. What is the first step the Architect should take?

A) Implement a project management tool to manage all change requests on the project
B) Implement a comprehensive DevOps framework for all initiatives within Universal Containers
C) Establish a global Center of Excellence to define and manage Salesforce development standards across the organization
D) Identify relevant Stakeholders from within Universal Containers to obtain governance goals and objectives

2. Universal Containers (UC) is midway through a large enterprise project. UC is working in an agile model, and currently has four-week iterations, with a branching strategy supporting this approach. UC operates in a strict regulatory environment, and has dedicated teams for security, QA, and release management. The system is live with users, and a serious production issue is identified at the start of a sprint, which is narrowed down to a bug in some Apex code.
Which three approaches should an architect recommend to address this bug?
Choose 3 answers

A) Investigate potential data impacts.
B) Fix the bug in a hotfix branch.
C) Wait until the next release to deploy the fix.
D) Seek stakeholder approval for the hotfix.
E) Attempt to fix the bug directly in production.

3. Which two actions will contribute to an improvement of code security?
Choose 2 answers

A) Hire a company specialized in secure code review the current code.
B) Implement a pull request and secure code review.
C) Integrate a static code security analysis tool in the CI/CD process.
D) Use two developers to review and fix current code vulnerabilities.

4. Universal Containers (UC) is using Salesforce for their sales organization. The sales users have created several dashboards using multiple running users. The admins have also added a few workflow rues that send email notifications to some sales users. What should an Architect consider while planning the deployment of such components? Choose 2 answers

A) User Fields are preserved during metadata deployments and Salesforce attempts to locate a matching user in the target org during deployment.
B) User fields are ignored during metadata deployments and all such users need to be manually created in the target org before starting the deployment.
C) If the username in the source org doesn't exist in the target org, the deployment will continue and Salesforce will automatically create the username in the target org.
D) If the username in the source org doesn't exist in the target org, the deployment will stop until the usernames are resolved or removed.

5. An Architect is working on a Universal Containers project, and due to security concerns they cannot provide the Architect with production access. Instead, a central release management team will be responsible for performing production deployments for all development teams. How should an Architect leverage the Metadata API to ensure any metadata components necessary to deploy the project's functionality are properly communicated to the release management team?

A) Create a change set in each sandbox and download the package.xml file for the release management team
B) Send a package.xml file with associated metadata in a .zip file to the Release Management team
C) Provide a spreadsheet of all components and utilize the metadata API's readMetadata call
D) Provide the Release Management team a copy of the audit trail from the sandbox you wish to deploy from

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