SAA Data Architecture & Management 2

Question 1

A company needs to store 500 million records in Salesforce. Which approach best addresses this volume concern?

Accepted Answer

Implement a data archiving strategy using Big Objects

Answer

Big Objects are designed to store and manage massive amounts of data natively in Salesforce, making them ideal for archiving historical records at scale.

Question 2

Which Salesforce feature allows you to define a custom index on fields that are not normally indexed to improve query performance?

Accepted Answer

Custom index request via Salesforce Support

Answer

Custom indexes on non-selective fields must be requested through Salesforce Support and are added by Salesforce engineers to improve query performance.

Question 3

An architect is designing a solution where data must be retrieved from Salesforce in real time by an external system. What is the most appropriate integration pattern?

Accepted Answer

Request-Reply using REST API

Answer

Request-Reply using REST API is the standard pattern for real-time synchronous data retrieval by external systems.

Question 4

What is the maximum number of records that a single SOQL query can return in Apex?

Accepted Answer

50,000

Answer

A single SOQL query in Apex can return a maximum of 50,000 records; exceeding this limit throws a QueryException.

Question 5

A company wants to enforce that no two Account records can have the same combination of Name and BillingCity. Which approach accomplishes this?

Accepted Answer

Duplicate Rules with a custom Matching Rule on Name + BillingCity

Answer

Duplicate Rules combined with custom Matching Rules allow you to define multi-field uniqueness criteria declaratively without code.

(SAA) Salesforce Application Architect Certification Practice Test

(SAA) Salesforce Application Architect Certification Practice Test

SAA Data Architecture & Management 2