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1. A company’s security assessment noted vulnerabilities on the unmanaged packages in its Salesforce orgs; notably, secrets that are easily accessible and in plain text, such as usernames, passwords, and

OAuth tokens used in callouts from Salesforce.

Which persistence mechanisms should an integration architect require to be used to ensure that secrets are protected from deliberate or inadvertent exposure?

2. A customer is evaluating the Platform Events solution and would like help in comparing/contrasting it with Outbound Messaging for real-time/near-real time needs. They expect 3,000 customers to view messages in Salesforce.

What should be evaluated and highlighted when deciding between the solutions?12

3. A customer’s enterprise architect has identified requirements around caching, queuing, error handling, alerts, retries, event handling, etc. The company has asked the integration architect to help fulfill such aspects with its Salesforce program.

Which recommendation should the integration architect make?

4. An enterprise customer is planning to implement Salesforce to support case management.

Below is their current system landscape diagram. Considering Salesforce capabilities, what should the integration architect evaluate when integrating Salesforce with the current system landscape?

5. Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) uses Salesforce to track leads, opportunities, and order details that convert leads to customers. However, orders are managed by an external (remote) system. Sales reps want to view and update real-time order information in Salesforce. NTO wants the data to only persist in the external system.

Which type of integration should an architect recommend to meet this business requirement?

6. Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) uses different shipping services for each of the 34 countries it serves. Services are added and removed frequently. Sales representatives globally need to select between valid service(s) for the customer’s country and request shipping estimates.

Which solution should an architect propose?

7. An enterprise architect has requested the Salesforce integration architect to review the following (see diagram and description) and provide recommendations after carefully considering all constraints of the enterprise systems and Salesforce Platform limits.

About 3,000 phone sales agents use a Salesforce Lightning user interface (UI) concurrently to check eligibility of a customer for a qualifying offer.

There are multiple eligibility systems that provide this service and are hosted externally.

Their current response times could take up to 90 seconds to process and return.

These eligibility systems are accessed through APIs orchestrated via ESB (MuleSoft).

All requests from Salesforce traverse the customer's API Gateway layer, which imposes a timeout constraint of 9 seconds.

Which recommendation should the integration architect make?

8. A subscription-based media company's system landscape forces many subscribers to maintain multiple accounts and to log in more than once. An Identity and Access Management (IAM) system, which supports SAML and OpenID, was recently implemented to improve the subscriber experience through self-registration and single sign-on (SSO). The IAM system must integrate with Salesforce to give new self-service customers instant access to Salesforce Community Cloud.

9. A large consumer goods manufacturer operating in multiple countries is planning to implement Salesforce for its sales and support operations globally.

The Manufacturer has the following security requirements:

Internal users from each country have to be authenticated with their local active directory.

Customers can create their own login or use Google login.

Partners have to be authenticated through a central system which is to be determined.

Internal users will have access to the central Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) with their credentials maintained in the ERP system.

Additional internal systems will be integrated with Salesforce for sales and support business processes.

Which requirement should the integration architect evaluate while designing the integration needs of this project?

10. Given the diagram above, a Salesforce org, middleware, and Historical Data store exist with connectivity between them. Historical records are archived from Salesforce, moved to a Historical Data store (which houses 20 million records and growing), and fine-tuned to be performant with search queries. When reviewing occasional special cases, call center agents that use Salesforce have requested access to view the historical case items that relate to submitted cases.

Which mechanism and patterns are recommended to maximize declarative configuration?

11. Northern Trail Outfitters needs to make synchronous callouts “available-to-promise” services to query product availability and reserve inventory during the customer checkout process.

What should an integration architect consider when building a scalable integration solution?

12. Northern Trail Outfitters wants to use Salesforce as a front end for creating accounts using the lead-to-opportunity process.

An order is created in Salesforce when the opportunity is Closed/Won, but the back-end Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is the data Master for order.

The customer wants to be able to see within Salesforce all the stages of order processing, like Order Created, Order Shipped, and Order Paid, that are within the retention window.

Which message durability consideration should an integration architect make when designing a solution to meet these business requirements?

13. Northern Trail Outfitters is in the final stages of merging two Salesforce orgs, but needs to keep the retiring org available for a short period of time for lead management as it is connected to multiple public website forms. The sales department has requested that new leads are available in the new Salesforce instance within 30 minutes.

Which approach requires the least amount of development effort?

14. Universal Containers (UC) is a global financial company that sells financial products and services. There is a daily scheduled Batch Apex job that generates invoices from a given set of orders. UC requested building a resilient integration for this Batch Apex job in case the invoice generation fails.

What should an integration architect recommend to fulfill the requirement?

15. Northern Trail Outfitters has had an increase in requests from other business units to integrate opportunity information with other systems from Salesforce. The developers have started writing asynchronous @future callouts directly into the target systems. The CIO is concerned about the viability of this approach and scaling for future growth.

What should be done to mitigate the CIO’s concerns?

16. A company needs to send data from Salesforce to a homegrown system behind a corporate firewall.

The data is pushed one way, doesn't need to be real-time, and averages 2 million records per day.

What should an integration architect consider?

17. A Salesforce customer is planning to roll out Salesforce for all of their sales and service staff. Senior management has requested that monitoring be in place for Operations to notify any degradation in Salesforce performance.

How should an Integration consultant implement monitoring?

18. Northern Trail Outfitters is creating a distributable Salesforce package. The package needs to call into a Custom Apex REST endpoint in the central org. The security team wants to ensure a specific integration account is used in the central org that they will authorize after installation.

Which item should an architect recommend?

19. Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) is planning to create a native employee-facing mobile app with the look and feel of Salesforce Lighting Experience. The mobile app needs to integrate with NTO’s Salesforce org.

Which Salesforce API should be used to implement this integration?

20. 1.A large business-to-consumer (B2C) customer is planning to implement Salesforce CRM to become a customer-centric enterprise.

Below is the B2C customer's current system landscape diagram.

The goals for implementing Salesforce include:

Develop a 360-degree view of the customer.

Leverage Salesforce capabilities for marketing, sales, and service processes.

Reuse Enterprise capabilities built for quoting and order management processes.

Which three systems from the current system landscape can be retired with the implementation of Salesforce?

21. A large business-to-consumer (B2C) customer is planning to implement Salesforce CRM to become a customer-centric enterprise.

Below is the B2C customer's current system landscape diagram.

The goals for implementing Salesforce include:

Develop a 360-degree view of the customer.

Leverage Salesforce capabilities for marketing, sales, and service processes.

Reuse Enterprise capabilities built for quoting and order management processes.

Which three systems from the current system landscape can be retired with the implementation of Salesforce?

22. Salesforce is the system of record for Leads, Contacts, Accounts, and Cases. Customer data also exists in an ERP, ticketing system, and data lake, each with unique identifiers. Middleware is used to update systems bidirectionally.

Which solution should be recommended to handle this?

23. Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) has recently changed its Corporate Security Guidelines. The guidelines require that all cloud applications pass through a secure firewall before accessing on-

premise resources. NTO is evaluating middleware solutions to integrate cloud applications with on-premise resources and services.

Which consideration should an integration architect evaluate before choosing a middleware solution?12

24. A new Salesforce program has the following high-level abstract requirement: Business processes

executed on Salesforce require data updates between their internal systems and Salesforce.

Which relevant detail should an integration architect seek to specifically solve for integration architecture needs of the program?

25. A new Salesforce program requires data updates between internal systems and Salesforce.

Which relevant detail should an integration architect seek to solve for integration architecture needs?

26. Universal Containers (UC) is currently managing a custom monolithic web service that runs on an on-premise server. This monolithic web service is responsible for Point-to-Point (P2P) integrations between Salesforce and a legacy billing application, a cloud-based ERP, and a data lake. UC has found that the tight interdependencies are causing failures.

What should an integration architect recommend to decouple the systems and improve performance?

27. An enterprise customer is implementing Salesforce for Case Management. Based on the landscape (Email, Order Management, Data Warehouse, Case Management), what should the integration architect evaluate?

28. A company captures orders and needs to send them to the Order fulfillment system. The user is not required to have confirmation from the Order fulfillment system.

Which system constraint question should be considered when designing an integration to send orders from Salesforce to a fulfillment system?

29. Northern Trail Outfitters needs to use Shield Platform Encryption to encrypt social security numbers in order to meet a business requirement.

Which action should an integration architect take prior to the implementation of Shield Platform Encryption?

30. Northern Trail Outfitters is planning to perform nightly batch loads into Salesforce from an external system with a custom Java application using the Bulk API. The CIO is curious about monitoring recommendations for the jobs from the technical architect.

Which recommendation should help meet the requirements?

31. When a user clicks “Check Preferences” as part of a Lightning flow, preferences from an externally hosted RESTful service are to be checked in real time. The service has OpenAPI 2.0 definitions.

Which integration pattern and mechanism should be selected?

32. Northern Trail Outfitters needs to present shipping costs and estimated delivery times to its customers. Shipping services used vary by region and have similar but distinct service request parameters.

Which integration component capability should be used?

33. A company accepts payment requests 24/7. Once the company accepts a payment request, its service level agreement (SLA) requires it to make sure each payment request is processed by its Payment System. The company tracks payment requests using a globally unique identifier created at the Data Entry Point. The company's simplified flow is as shown in the diagram.

The company encounters intermittent update errors when two or more processes try to update the

same Payment Request record at the same time.

Which recommendation should an integration architect make to improve the company's SLA and update conflict handling?

34. The URL for a business-critical external service providing exchange rates changed without notice.

Which solutions should be implemented to minimize potential downtime for users in this situation?

35. Northern Trail Outfitters requires an integration to be set up between one of its Salesforce orgs and

an External Data Source using Salesforce Connect. The External Data Source supports Open Data Protocol.

Which configuration should an integration architect recommend be implemented in order to secure requests coming from Salesforce?

36. A business requires automating the check and updating of the phone number type classification (mobile vs. landline) for all incoming calls delivered to its phone sales agents. The following conditions exist:

At peak, the call center can receive up to 100,000 calls per day.

The phone number type classification is a service provided by an external service API.

Business is flexible with timing and frequency to check and update the records (throughout the night or every 6-12 hours is sufficient).

A Remote-Call-In pattern and/or Batch Synchronization (Replication via ETL: System -> Salesforce) are determined to work with a middleware hosted on customer premise. In order to implement these patterns and mechanisms, which component should an integration architect recommend?

37. An integration architect has built a Salesforce application that integrates multiple systems and keeps them synchronized via Platform Events.

What is taking place if events are only being published?

38. Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) wants to improve the quality of callouts from Salesforce to its REST APIs by adhering to RAML (REST API Markup Language) specifications. The RAML specs serve as interface contracts.

Which design specification should the integration architect include to ensure that Apex REST API Clients’ unit tests confirm adherence to the RAML specs?

39. An integration architect needs to build a solution that will use the Streaming API, but the data loss should be minimized, even when the client re-connects every couple of days.

Which two types of Streaming API events should be considered?

40. A customer is migrating from an old legacy system to Salesforce. As part of the modernization effort, the customer would like to integrate all existing systems that currently work with its legacy application with Salesforce.

Which constraint/pain-point should an integration architect consider when choosing the integration pattern/mechanism?

41. A company has an external system that processes and tracks orders. Sales reps manage their leads and opportunity pipeline in Salesforce. The company decided to integrate Salesforce and the Order Management System (OMS) with minimal customization and code. Sales reps need to see order history in real-time. The legacy system is on-premise and connected to an ESB. There are 1,000 reps creating 15 orders each per shift, mostly with 20-30 line items.

How should an integration architect integrate the two systems based on these requirements?

42. A customer imports data from an external system into Salesforce using Bulk API. These jobs have batch sizes of 2,000 and are run in parallel mode. The batches fail frequently with the error “Max CPU time exceeded”. A smaller batch size will fix this error.

What should be considered when using a smaller batch size?

43. An integration architect has built a solution using REST API, updating Account, Contact, and other related information. The data volumes have increased, resulting in higher API calls consumed, and some days the limits are exceeded. A decision was made to decrease the number of API calls using bulk updates. The customer prefers to continue using REST API to avoid architecture changes.

Which REST API composite resources should the integration architect use to allow up to 200 records in one API call?

44. Universal Containers (UC) is a leading provider of management training globally. UC embarked on a Salesforce transformation journey to allow students to register for courses in the Salesforce Community. UC has a learning system that masters all courses and student registration. UC requested a near real-time feed of student registration from Salesforce to the learning system. The integration architect recommends using Salesforce Platform Events.

Which API should be used for the Salesforce pl1atform event solution?

45. Northern Trail Outfitters has recently implemented middleware for orchestration of services across platforms. The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system being used requires transactions be

captured near real-time at a REST endpoint initiated in Salesforce when creating an Order object. Additionally, the Salesforce team has limited development resources and requires a low-code solution.

Which option should fulfill the use case requirements?