Exam Name: Salesforce Certified Platform Integration Architect

Exam Code: Plat-Arch-204

Related Certification(s): Salesforce Architect Certification

Certification Provider: Salesforce

Number of Plat-Arch-204 Practice Questions: 129 (updated: )

Recomended Plat-Arch-204 Exam Topics:
Topic 1: Evaluate the Current System Landscape
This domain covers analyzing existing technical environments to understand current systems, their standards, protocols, limitations, and boundaries, while identifying constraints and authentication/authorization requirements.
Topic 2: Evaluate Business Needs
This domain addresses gathering functional and non-functional requirements, classifying data by sensitivity, identifying CRM success factors, and understanding how business growth and regulations impact integration choices.
Topic 3: Translate Needs to Integration Requirements
This domain involves converting business needs into technical specifications by documenting systems and patterns, evaluating constraints, defining security requirements, and determining performance needs like volumes, response times, and latency.
Topic 4: Design Integration Solutions
This domain centers on selecting integration patterns, designing complete solutions with appropriate components, understanding trade-offs and limitations, choosing correct Salesforce APIs, and determining required standards and security mechanisms.
Topic 5: Build Solution
This domain covers implementing integrations including API design considerations, choosing outbound methods, building scalable solutions, implementing error handling, creating security solutions, and ensuring resilience during system updates.
Topic 6: Maintain Integration
This domain focuses on monitoring integration performance, defining error handling and recovery procedures, implementing escalation processes, and establishing reporting needs for ongoing integration health monitoring.
Free Salesforce Plat-Arch-204 Exam Actual Questions
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Q1. Universal Containers (UC) has a legacy homegrown application that stores customer data. Sales representatives edit contact records in Salesforce. UC requirements: 1. Salesforce updates should update the homegrown application.2. Synchronization should be event-driven.3. Integration should be asynchronous.Which option should an architect recommend?

Q2. 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?

Q3. Northern Trail Outfitters has a registration system that is used for workshops offered at its conferences. Attendees use Salesforce Community to register for workshops, but the scheduling system manages workshop availability based on room capacity. It is expected that there will be a big surge of requests for workshop reservations when the conference schedule goes live.

Which Integration pattern should be used to manage the influx in registrations?

Q4. 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?

Q5. NTO is merging two orgs but needs the retiring org available for lead management (connected to web forms). New leads must be in the new instance within 30 minutes.

Which approach requires the least amount of development effort?