Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Sample Questions:

1. Universal Containers (UC) is implementing a governance framework and has asked the Architect to make recommendations regarding release planning. Which two decisions should the Architect make when planning for releases? Choose 2 answers

A) How to roll back to the previous Salesforce release if there are issues.
B) Whether Salesforce will wait to upgrade the pod until after a UC release is complete.
C) When to test a new UC feature release if there are issues.
D) How to test existing functionality to ensure no regressions are introduced.

2. Universal Containers has discovered a Sev0 defect in production. Tens of thousands of records will be created with incorrect data in minutes, producing significant brand damage as a consequence. The Salesforce administrator has suggested that the defective text field be replaced with a new picklist field directly in production. The page layout will be modified so that the text-field is removed and the new picklist field added.
What should the Salesforce architect advise?

A) Call the security team and begin organizing d penetration test.
B) Explain that only developers are certified to make changes directly in production.
C) Deny the suggestion and explain to everyone that the risk is too high and the next release window is on the weekend.
D) Pair with the administrator, and review each change as it happens

3. Universal Containers has just initiated a project to implement partner community. The application will be deployed into a production environment currently in use by a large Salesforce user base. The project manager has insisted that the development and testing team use a single developer sandbox. What is the risk with this approach?

A) Testers will hit governor limits due to large volume of users in the developer sandbox.
B) Tester will encounter platform limits due to developer sandbox capacity limits.
C) Refreshing the developer sandbox will take significant time.
D) Testers will experience functional changes throughput testing due to not having isolation form development.

4. Universal Containers is a Salesforce AppExchange partner and they are planning to launch recommended that they use a partner development org for development. New app. The technical architect What are the three benefits of using a partner development org over an individual development org in this scenario?
Choose 3 answers

A) Only partner development org supports managed beta testing.
B) Partner development org offers more storage.
C) Partner development org offers higher API limit.
D) Partner development org never expires.
E) Partner development org has a greater number of licenses available for the team.

5. Universal Containers has recently acquired another business that uses Salesforce extensively. UC wants to merge their Salesforce Orgs to effectively sell and service customer under one business. Traditionally, UC has followed an agile development methodology to deliver Salesforce functionality. With the merging businesses, UC is convinced that adopting a Waterfall development methodology is the best approach. Which are two positive aspects of using a Waterfall development methodology?

A) Complex processes that will need to be built are thoroughly understood and documented before coding begins.
B) The costs of starting the project are low since much of the design work is pushed to later stages of the process.
C) Changes late in the process are expected and can be handled by integrating them into the requirements specs.
D) Milestones, timelines and estimates tend to be more accurate and predictable due to the upfront due diligence.

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