Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect Free Sample Questions

A global MedTech company, Vitality Health, is consolidating three regional Salesforce orgs (AMER, EMEA, APAC) into a single global org. Each region has a custom Patient__c object, but the data models have critical differences in fields, validation rules, and relationships to a custom Medical_Device__c object. The architect must design a unified, scalable data model that complies with GDPR and HIPAA, tracks device service history efficiently, and supports an anticipated volume of over 80 million patient records within two years.

Key Requirements:

• A single, global representation of a Patient.
• Strict compliance with regional data privacy laws (GDPR/HIPAA).
• A scalable many-to-many relationship between Patients and their assigned Medical Devices, including a detailed service history for each device assignment.
• High performance for patient record retrieval and reporting.

Which data model should the architect recommend to meet these complex requirements?

Nimbostratus Solutions has a custom object Project__c with over 50 million records, which is the child in a master-detail relationship to the standard Account object. A nightly batch job that updates a Status__c field on a large subset of Project__c records is frequently failing with UNABLE_TO_LOCK_ROW errors. Investigation reveals that many of the updated Project__c records are children of a few very large Accounts.

What is the most effective approach to mitigate these locking errors during the batch update?

An e-commerce company, ShopSphere, needs to store customer clickstream data and IoT device events in Salesforce. The anticipated data volume is several billion records per year. The data must be queryable for large-scale trend analysis and machine learning models, but it does not need to support standard sharing rules, triggers, or workflows. The solution must be native to the Salesforce platform.

Which TWO Salesforce technologies should an architect recommend for storing and querying this data? (Select TWO)

A consultant is migrating 500,000 Contact records into a Salesforce org where 10,000 corresponding Account records already exist. The source system provides a unique 'Legacy_Account_ID__c' on each Account. The Contact CSV file contains this same legacy ID to identify the parent Account.

What is the most efficient method to establish the relationship between the imported Contacts and the existing Accounts using Data Loader?

True or False: Once Salesforce Shield Platform Encryption is enabled for a field, users with the 'View Encrypted Data' permission can view the plaintext value in reports and list views without any further configuration.

FinServe Inc. is implementing a Master Data Management (MDM) strategy for their customer data, which is sourced from their Salesforce org, a marketing automation platform, and a billing system. The goal is to create a 'golden record' for each customer in Salesforce. The billing system is considered the most reliable source for customer address information, while the marketing platform has the most up-to-date email addresses.

Which MDM concept should be configured to ensure the final golden record uses the address from the billing system and the email from the marketing platform?

A data architect at Global Motors has identified significant account data skew on their Service_Request__c custom object, where a few global fleet accounts own millions of service request records. This is causing slow report performance and record locking issues during data updates. The relationship to the Account is a lookup.

Which is the most appropriate initial step to mitigate the performance impact of this lookup skew?

A company is experiencing low user adoption of their Salesforce CRM due to poor data quality. A data quality assessment reveals high rates of duplication, incompleteness, and inaccuracy in the Lead and Contact objects. The Data Architect has been tasked with recommending a solution to improve data quality at the point of entry.

Which declarative feature should be the primary recommendation to prevent the creation of new duplicate records?

Apex Innovations runs complex reports on their Opportunity and OpportunityLineItem objects, involving numerous formula fields and joins across 5 related custom objects. With over 20 million Opportunity records, these reports are frequently timing out. The most commonly used fields in the report filters and columns are spread across these objects.

What Salesforce feature should the architect propose to specifically address this report performance issue?

Quantum Corp, a large manufacturing firm, is migrating its legacy ERP data into a new Salesforce implementation. The migration involves approximately 100 million records across 15 related objects, including Account, Product2, Asset, and several custom objects for Work_Order__c and Maintenance_Plan__c. The business has mandated a maximum downtime window of 12 hours over a single weekend for the final data cutover.

Constraints & Requirements:

• The legacy system must remain operational until the final cutover begins.
• Data integrity and all complex relationships must be perfectly preserved.
• The migration must be completed within the 12-hour window.
• Performance of the new org must not be degraded post-migration.

Which data migration strategy should the architect propose?