Exam Name: Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect

Exam Code: Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect (Plat-Arch-202)

Related Certification(s): Salesforce Architect Certification

Certification Provider: Salesforce

Actual Exam Duration: 105 Minutes

Number of Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect (Plat-Arch-202) Practice Questions: 227 (updated: )

Expected Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect (Plat-Arch-202) Exam Topics:
Topic 1: Application Lifecycle Management
In this section, the exam covers topics such as project risk and customer requirements, describes how to evaluate the benefits and risks of the different development techniques, and suggests the appropriate governance strategies based on customer maturity.
Topic 2: Planning
In this section of the exam, the focus is on the application lifecycle management maturity and identifying the people, technology, and processes required.
Topic 3: System Design
This section covers topics such as the advantages of using agile tools to support an agile development process. In a given scenario, the section covers how to assess a business and its technical, and architectural considerations that support the defined org strategy.
Topic 4: Building
This section explains the utilization of source control branching and merging while suggesting the right techniques.
Topic 5: Deploying
In a provided landscape, this section of the exam covers explaining the capabilities, limitations, and considerations when using the Metadata and Tooling APIs for deployment.
Topic 6: Testing
This section covers topics such as how to describe and recommend an appropriate testing methodology. It covers how to describe the appropriate test execution methodology and coverage requirements.
Topic 7: Releasing
In a provided landscape, this section deals with how to analyze and explain the use cases and considerations when using managed, unmanaged, and unlocked packages. It also covers how to apply map sandbox strategy to a specific release plan, taking into consideration multiple project streams, training requirements, staging, and hotfixes.
Topic 8: Operating
In this section learners are assessed for describing the implications of incorporating the request directly in a production environment. It also covers explaining the implications of the development lifecycle and steps to integrate changes into application lifecycle management.
Free Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect (Plat-Arch-202) Exam Actual Questions
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Q1. Which two options should be considered when making production changes in a highly regulated and audited environment?

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Q2. 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?

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Q3. Universal Containers (UC) is preparing for the new Salesforce release in a couple of months, and has several ongoing development projects that may be affected.

Which three steps should the team at UC take to prepare for this release?

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Q4. Universal Containers (UC) has a large user base of over 300 users and was originally implemented eight years ago by a Salesforce Systems Integration Partner.

Since then, UC has made a number of changes to their Visualforce pages and Apex classes in response to customer requirements, made by a variety of vendors and internal teams.

Which three issues would a new Technical Architect expect to see when evaluating the code in the Salesforce org?

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Q5. Universal Containers uses multiple Salesforce orgs for its different lines of business (LOBs). In a recent analysis, the architect found that UC could have a more complete view of its customers by gathering customer data from different orgs.

What two options can an architect recommend to accomplish the customer 360-degree view?

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