Salesforce Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Exam Sample Questions

Question #1

Universal Containers are concerned that after each release, reports and dashboards seem to roll back to previous versions. Executives spend many hours crafting these dashboards to perfectly meet their needs, and are now questioning the Salesforce platform's ability to save things, even data records.What can the Salesforce architect advise to stop the rollbacks from happening?

A. Use a third-party data warehouse

B. Remove the executive's ability to change reports, and only allow developers to do that

C. Ensure report metadata is exported daily and that it is merged into the developer branches before the next release

D. Back up all the reports just before the release, then reimport them after the release,

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Correct Answer: C

Question #2

By to What three tools should an architect recommend to support application lifecycle methodology?

A. Database management systems

B. Version control repository

C. Middleware

D. Continuous integration tool

E. Issue tracking tool

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Correct Answer: BDE

Question #3

The CTO at Universal Containers is complaining to the software development managers that he has no visibility of their teams' work status.What two software development methodologies should an architect suggest to solve this issue, and why?Choose 2 answers

A. Waterfall, because it defines a fixed schedule and duration for each activity

B. DevOps, because monitoring and logging practices help you stay informed of performance in real time

C. Scrum, because openness is one of the five core Scrum values

D. Kanban, because one of its basic elements is to make everything visible, creating consistent transparency of work items

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Correct Answer: CD

Question #4

Which two ways should a developer working on a data loading integration thatoperates between different Salesforce environments insert multiple related records in one call or transaction?Choose 2 answers

A. REST API SObject Tree Request

B. Bulk API 2

C. REST API Composite Request

D. Streaming API

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Correct Answer: AC

Question #5

Universal Containers CUC) is considering implementing a minor change policy for a series of low-risk user stories that are commonly received by the UC admins. The policy would allow admins to make these changes directly in production. UC does not have continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) in place.Which three best practices should the architect suggest UC follow for their new change policy? Choose 3 answers

A. Minor changes do not need to be documented and can be made at any time

B. Minor changes should be thoroughly documented and follow some type of standard cadence

C. All changes should still be tested

D. CI/CD is required in to successfully manage minor changes

E. Downstream environments will not be automatically updated when production changes

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Correct Answer: ACE

Question #6

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. Deny the suggestion and explain to everyone that the risk is too high and the next release window is on the weekend

B. Pair with the administrator, and review each change as it happens

C. Explain that only developers are certified to make changes directly in production

D. Call the security team and begin organizing d penetration test

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Correct Answer: B

Question #7

When replacing an old legacy system with Salesforce, which two strategies should the plan consider to mitigate the risks associated with migrating data from the legacy system to Salesforce? Choose two answers

A. Migrate users in phases based on their functions, requiring parallel use of legacy system and Salesforce for certain period of time

B. Identify the data relevant to the new system, including dependencies, and develop a plan/scripts for verification of data integrity

C. Use a full sandbox environment for all the systems involved, a full deployment plan with test data generation scripts, and full testing including integrations

D. Use a full sandbox environment and perform test runs of data migration scripts/processes with real data from the legacy system

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Correct Answer: AD

Question #8

Which are two characteristics of an effective communication plan? Choose 2 answers

A. Requesting feedback for outstanding architectural questions

B. Consistent communication to a pre -defined list of stakeholders

C. Reporting project status, timelines, and impacts

D. Communication to stakeholders on a "need -to -know" basis

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Correct Answer: BC

Question #9

Universal Containers has multiple project teams integrating Salesforce to various systems Integration Architects are complaining about the various integration patterns used by the teams and lack a common understanding of the integration landscape. What should architect recommended to address the challenges?

A. Implement a data governance policy and publish the documentation to all teams

B. Recommend an outbound message design pattern to be used for all teams

C. Recommend a fire-and-forget design pattern to be used for all teams

D. Create design standards focused on integration and provide training to all teams

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Correct Answer: D

Question #10

Universal Containers (UC) innovative apps division is releasing an application that can be installed in its trading partners Salesforce environments. The application lets the trading partners book containers from UC directly without leaving their own Salesforce environment.The partners can then build on top of the application with process builders and triggers so the container booking process can be integrated with the trading partners' own processes.What is the recommended mechanism for releasing the appli

A. Change sets

B. Unmanaged package

C. Managed package

D. Zip file deployable by SFDX or ANT

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Correct Answer: B

Question #11

Universal Containers CUC) has multi-cloud architecture in a single org. The Sales Cloud dev team is working in a Dev Pro sandbox (DevProl) of delivering a release In three months. The business requirements from Service Cloud warrant a quicker release in four weeks, but need part of the Sales Cloud work that is completed in DevProl. The decision of using a separate Dev Pro sandbox (DevPro2) is still pending. The DevProl was upgraded to preview for next salesforce major release two weeks ago.What should an Ar

A. Ask the second work stream team to work on the same DevProl sandbox

B. Clone the DevPro1 sandbox and name It DevPro2 for the second work stream to work on the Service Cloud requirements

C. Push back on the requirements because adding another work stream will bring some risks with it

D. DevPro1 cannot be cloned because it is on a different version from Production

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Correct Answer: B

Question #12

Universal Containers is in the final stages of building a new application to track custom containers. During a review of the application, a business subject Matter Expert mentioned that it would be nice to be able to track additional container types beyond what was originally scoped during the plan and design phase. Which two actions should be performed to mitigate the risk? Choose 2 answers.

A. Escalate and communicate to stakeholders the risk and mitigate it by allocating additional resources to support the new requirement based on stakeholders input

B. Have a discussion with the business subject Matter Expert and communicate that the Salesforce has limitations in supporting such a feature to mitigate the risk

C. Escalate and communicate to stakeholders the risk and mitigate it by extending the timeline of the project to support the new requirement based on stakeholders input

D. Have a discussion with the business subject Matter Expert and communicate that anew developer environment will be needed to mitigate the risk

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Correct Answer: AC

Question #13

Universal Containers business users often observe that newly released features are resulting in other previously existing and stable functionality being broken. Which approach should an Architect recommend to prevent regression?

A. Utilize the developer console to run test suites for the affected functionality

B. Utilize unit and functional test automation as part of a continuous integration strategy

C. Utilize Salesforce Apex Hammer to automatically test all functionality

D. Freeze development of new features and re -architect the system to remove the bugs

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Correct Answer: B

Question #14

Universal Containers has 80% code coverage. Despite the creation of a test plan for each sprint, the number of defects is large.What two items should the architect recommend to reduce defects?Choose 2 answers

A. The test script should be used to define the test classes

B. The code coverage should be increased to 95%

C. The test analyst who creates the test plan must also create the test classes

D. The acceptance criteria should have more details

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Correct Answer: AD

Question #15

Universal Containers (UC) had implemented two full sandboxes. One, known as Stage, is used for performance, regression testing, and production readiness check. The other is used primarily for user acceptance testing (UAT). Both full sandboxes were refreshed two months ago. Currently, UC is targeting to start user acceptance testing in two weeks, and do production release in four weeks. An admin also realized Salesforce will have a major release in six weeks.UC needs to release on the current Salesforce vers

A. Refresh Stage now, and do not refresh UAT

B. Use the Sandbox Preview Guide to check if there is any necessary action needed

C. Visit trust

D. Refresh Stage from UAT now

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Correct Answer: B

Question #16

In the effort of improving the code quality, Universal Containers (UC) has asked a third-party system integrator to perform some independent code reviews. One piece of the feedback is the development team is seemingly not doing enough negative unit testing. Which are three usual symptoms of inadequate negative tests Choose 3 answers

A. Developers often have to turn to the debug log for details of the failed Apex executions

B. When an Apex batch job runs at a scheduled time, an increased number of Apex execution errors occur over all

C. An Apex process runs into an un-handled exception when an HTTP callout has an unexpected status code in the response body

D. Developers constantly ask the testers for a screenshot of the error and the exact steps of reproducing the error

E. The delivered user interfaces are regularly not meeting the expectations of the business users

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Correct Answer: ABC

Question #17

Universal Containers is delivering many changes to its Salesforce system. Adoption reports are discovering that many features are unused. The steering committee wants this to change and is looking to the architect for advice.What should an architect recommend to overcome this?

A. Using Lightning Web Components for every user interface

B. Adopting user centered design to understand user needs before building the solution

C. Stop development until current features start being used

D. Sending weekly communication emails reporting on least engaged users

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Correct Answer: B

Question #18

What are two advantages of using an Agile Project Management tool? Choose 2 answers

A. Increased visibility into sprint and project status

B. Better relationships with business stakeholders

C. Consolidate project artifacts to a common repository

D. Improve governance with gate steps in development

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Correct Answer: AC

Question #19

Universal Containers (UC) has two subsidiaries which operate independently. UC has made the decision to operate two of separate Salesforce orgs, one for each subsidiary. However, certain functions and processes between the two orgs must be standardized. Which two approaches should UC take to develop customizations once, and make them available in both orgs? Choose 2 answers

A. Develop the functionality in a sandbox and deploy it to both production orgs

B. Set up Salesforce-to-Salesforce to deploy the functionality from one org to the other

C. Create a managed package in a sandbox and deploy it to both production orgs

D. Create a package in a Developer Edition org and deploy it to both production orgs

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Correct Answer: D

Question #20

Universal Containers wants to delete the day's test data in a partial copy sandbox every night, setting the sandbox back to a fresh state for tomorrows testing. The test data is approximately 1GB.What is the best strategy the architect should recommend?

A. Manually delete all records individually

B. Execute a batch job that deletes all records created on the day

C. Create a new developer copy sandbox every night

D. Refresh the sandbox every night

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Correct Answer: B

Question #21

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. Tester will encounter platform limits due to developer sandbox capacity limits

B. Testers will experience functional changes throughput testing due to not having isolation form development

C. Testers will hit governor limits due to large volume of users in the developer sandbox

D. Refreshing the developer sandbox will take significant time

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Correct Answer: B

Question #22

Which two project situations favor an Agile methodology? Choose 2 answers

A. A digitization project to update an existing customer -facing process and enable quick adjustments

B. A project to be executed by a third party, with a fixed and formal scope, budget, and timeline

C. An environment with a heavy investment in DevOps capabilities for rapid testing and deployment

D. A project with well-defined requirements and complex interactions between front- and back -end systems

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Correct Answer: AC

Question #23

What is the process used to initiate a connection for change sets?

A. Modify the source org to allow an outbound connection to the target org

B. Modify the target org to accept an outbound connection from the source org

C. Modify the target orgto accept an inbound connection from the source org

D. Modify the source org to allow an inbound connection to the target org

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Correct Answer: AC

Question #24

Universal Containers (UC) is embarking on a large program of work, with different projects and different vendors. UC created a center of excellence (COE) that is struggling with scope creep between the different projects.What role should the architect suggest be added to the COE?

A. Scrum master

B. Release managers

C. Product owner

D. Change managers

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Correct Answer: A

Question #25

Which two groups are responsible for the creation and execution of Release Management processes? Choose 2 answers

A. Steering Committee

B. End Users

C. Dev/Build Team

D. Center of Excellence

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Correct Answer: CD

Question #26

Universal Containers is about to begin Development work on a new project in their Salesforce org that will take many months to complete. UC is concerned about how critical bugs will be addressed for existing live functionality. What is the recommended release management strategy to address this concern?

A. Include fixes for critical bugs in the ongoing Development sandboxes so that they will be released with the other code

B. Utilize a dedicated developer pro sandbox to address critical bugs and release to production

C. Address critical bugs in the Development sandboxes and push those changes to production separately

D. Keep teams separate until the end of the project and create a Full Copy sandbox to merge their work then

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Correct Answer: B

Question #27

Universal Containers wants to implement a release strategy with major releases every four weeks and minor releases every week. Major releases follow Development, System Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Training Minor releases follow Development and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) stages. What represents a valid environment strategy consideration for UAT?

A. Minor releases use Partial copy and Major releases use Full copy

B. Minor and Major releases use separate Developer pro

C. Minor releases use Developer and Major releases Full copy

D. Minor and Major releases use same Full copy

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Correct Answer: A

Question #28

Universal Containers has a stable continuous integration process and all stakeholders are happy. However, user testing takes long time, as data has to be setup. What should an Architect do to address this problem?

A. Include automated sample data during deployment

B. Advise the project manager to assign more users to create test data

C. Test data creation is outside the scope of continuous integration

D. Train business users to create test data more efficiently

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Correct Answer: A

Question #29

Universal Containers (UC) is developing a new Customer Community. Requirements for the Community are not fully defined. UC is planning on using an Agile methodology for this work and has promised delivery of the complete system in three months. What are two risks associated with this approach? Choose 2 answers

A. The functionality that can be delivered in 3 months is unknown, and may not meet the needs of the business

B. Given the lack of requirements and the three-month timeline commitment, the project may not be feasible

C. Agile is not an appropriate development methodology for Customer Community implementations

D. Agile does not allow for changes to requirements, so customers might not like the resulting solution

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Correct Answer: AB

Question #30

Universal Containers (UC) has recently acquired other companies that have their own Salesforce orgs.These companies have been merged as new UC business units. 1.The CEO has requested an architect to review the org strategy, taking into consideration two main factors:2.The CEO wants business process standardization among all business units. 3. Businessprocess integration is not required as the different business units have different customers and expertise.Which org strategy should the architect recommend in

A. Single-org strategy, as the high level of business process standardization will be easier to implement in a single org

B. Multi-org strategy, as it is uncommon for the diversified business units to get used to working in the same space as the other business units

C. A Multi-org strategy, as they could deploy a common managed package into the orgs of the different business units

D. Single-org strategy, as costs increase as the number of orgs go up

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Correct Answer: C

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