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Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect (Plat-Arch-201) - Salesforce Exam Questions

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Universal Containers has defined a new Data Quality Plan for their Salesforce data and wants to know

how they can enforce it throughout the organization. Which two approaches should an architect recommend to enforce this new plan? Choose 2 answers
Select 2
Options
A Use Workflow, Validation Rules, and Force.com code (Apex) to enforce critical business processes.
B Schedule reports that will automatically catch duplicates and merge or delete the records every week.
C Schedule a weekly dashboard displaying records that are missing information to be sent to managers for review.
D Store all data in an external system and set up an integration to Salesforce for view -only access.
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How can an architect find information about who is creating, changing, or deleting certain fields within the past two months?
Options
A Export the metadata and search it for the fields in question.
B Create a field history report for the fields in question.
C Export the setup audit trail and find the fields in question.
D Remove "customize application" permissions from everyone else.
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Universal Containers is establishing a call center that will use Salesforce. UC receives 10 million calls and creates 100 million cases every month. Cases are linked to a custom call object using lookup relationship. UC would like to run reports and dashboard to better understand different case types being created on calls to better serve customers.

What solution should a data architect recommend to meet the business requirement?
Options
A Leverage big objects to archive records and Einstein Analytics to run reports.
B Leverage custom objects to store aggregate data and run analytics.
C Archive records to a data warehouse and run analytics on the data warehouse.
D Leverage out-of-the-box reports and dashboard on case and interactive voice response (IVR) custom object.
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For a production cutover, a large number of Account records will be loaded into Salesforce from a
legacy system. The legacy system does not have enough information to determine the Ownership for these Accounts upon initial load. Which two recommended options assign Account ownership to mitigate potential performance problems?
Select 2
Options
A Let a “system user” own the Account records and assign this user to the lowest-level role in the
Role Hierarchy.
B Let the VP of the Sales department, who will report directly to the senior VP, own all the Account
records.
C Let a “system user” own all the Account records without assigning any role to this user in Role
Hierarchy.
D Let a “system user” own all the Account records and make this user part of the highest-level role in
the Role Hierarchy.
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Universal Containers (UC) is implementing its new Internet of Things technology, which consists of smart containers that provide information on container temperature and humidity updated every 10
minutes back to UC. There are roughly 10,000 containers equipped with this technology with the
number expected to increase to 50,000 across the next five years. It is essential that Salesforce user
have access to current and historical temperature and humidity data for each container. What is the recommended solution?
Options
A Create a new Container Reading custom object, which is created when a new measure is received
for a specific container. The Container Reading custom object has a master-detail relationship to the
container object.
B Create a new Lightning Component that displays last humidity and temperature data for a specific container and can also display historical trends obtaining relevant data from UC’s existing data warehouse.
C Create a new Container Reading custom object with a master-detail relationship to Container which is created when a new measure is received for a specific container. Implement an archiving process that runs every hour.
D Create new custom fields for temperature and humidity in the existing Container custom object, as well as an external ID field that is unique for each container. These custom fields are updated when a new measure is received.
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