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Salesforce Intergration Architect Exam Dump Questions with Answers Part-3
Question: 1
A customer is migrating from an old legacy system to Salesforce. As part of the modernization effort, they would like to integrate al existing systems that currently work with their legacy application with Salesforce.
Which three constraints and pain-points should an integration architect consider when choosing the integration pattern/mechanism? Choose 3 answers
A. System types – APIs, File systems, Email
B. Reporting and usability requirements
C. Multi-language and multi-currency requirement
D. Error handling mechanisms
E. Data Volume and Processing volume
Answer: A, D, E
Question: 2
An Integration Architect has designed a mobile application for Salesforce users to get data while on the road using a custom UI. The application is secured with oAuth and is currently functioning well. There is a new requirement where the mobile application needs to obtain the GPS coordinates and store it on a custom geolocation field.
The geolocation field is secured with Field Level Security, so users can view the value without changing it.
What should be done to meet the requirement?
A. The mobile device makes a SOAP API inbound call. The mobile device receives a REST Apex callout call.
C. The mobile device makes a REST API inbound call.
D. The mobile device makes a REST Apex inbound call.
Answer: C
Question: 3
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 representatives 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?
A. Data Visualization
B. Data Synchronization
C. Process Orchestration
D. Batch Processing
Answer: A
Question: 4
Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) has recently changed their Corporate Security Guidelines. The guidelines require that all cloud applications pass through a secure firewall before accessing onpremise resources. NTO is evaluating middleware solutions to integrate cloud applications with onpremise resources and services.
What are two considerations an Integration Architect should evaluate before choosing a middleware solution?
Choose 2 answers
A. The middleware solution is capable of establishing a secure API gateway between cloud applications and on-premise resources.
B. An API gateway component is deployable behind a Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) or perimeter network.
C. The middleware solution enforces the OAuth security protocol.
D. The middleware solution is able to interface directly with databases via an ODBC connection string.
Answer: A, B
Question: 5
Northern Trail Outfitters submits orders to the manufacturing system web-service. Recently, the system has experienced outages that keep service unavailable for several days.
What solution should an architect recommend to handle errors during these types of service outages?
A. Use middleware queuing and buffering to insulate Salesforce from system outages.
B. A Use Platform Event replayld and custom scheduled Apex process to retrieve missed events.
C. Use @future jobld and custom scheduled apex process to retry failed service calls.
D. Use Outbound Messaging to automatically retry failed service calls.
Answer: A
Question: 6
Northern Trail Outfitters needs to present shipping costs and estimated delivery times to their customers. Shipping services used vary by region, and have similar but distinct service request parameters.
Which integration component capability should be used?
A. Enterprise Service Bus to determine which shipping service to use, and transform requests to the necessary format.
B. Outbound Messaging to request costs and delivery times from Shipper delivery services with automated error retry.
C. APEX REST Service to implement routing logic to the various shipping service.
D. Enterprise Service Bus user interface to collect shipper-specific form data.
Answer: A
Question: 7
Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) is looking to integrate three external systems that run nightly data enrichment processes in Salesforce. NTO has both of the following security and strict auditing requirements:
1. The external systems must follow the principle of least privilege, and 2. The activities of the eternal systems must be available for audit.
What should an Integration Architect recommend as a solution for these integrations?
A. A shared integration user for the three external system integrations.
B. A shared Connected App for the three external system integrations.
C. A unique integration user for each external system integration.
D. A Connected App for each external system integration.
Answer: D
Question: 8
Universal Containers is a global financial company that sells financial products and services including, bank accounts, loans, and insurance. UC uses Salesforce Service cloud to service their customer via calls, live chat. The support agents would open bank accounts on the spot for customers who are inquiring about UC bank accounts.
UC Core banking system is the system of record for bank accounts and all accounts opened in salesforce have to be synced in real-time to the core banking system. Support agents need to inform the customers with the newly created bank account ID which has to be generated from the core banking system.
Which integration pattern is recommended for this use case?
A. Use streaming API to generate push topic.
B. Use outbound message.
C. Use salesforce platform event.
D. Use request and reply.
Answer: D
Question: 9
Northern Trail Outfitters requires an integration to be set up between one of their Salesforce orgs and an external data source us Salesforce Connect. The external data source supports Open Data
Protocol.
Which three configurations should an Integration Architect recommend be implemented in order to secure requests coming from Salesforce? Choose 3 answers
A. Configure Identity Type for OData connection.
B. Configure a Certificate for OData connection.
C. Configure Special Compatibility for OData connection,
D. Configure CSRF Protection for OData connection.
E. Configure CSRF Protection on External Data Source.
Answer: A, B, D
Question: 10
A company wants to standardize exception tracking, handling, and analytics. Given the following actions:
1. Build a company wide logging service hosted on a middleware platform
2. Create case object records for exceptions based thresholds
3. Change all their Apex Loggers to publish Application Exceptions as custom Platform Events.
Which two specifications should the integration architect include in the logging service architecture? Choose 2 answers
A. Receive Application Events through Change Data Capture (CDC).
B. Create Salesforce Cases using the Salesforce REST, SOAP or Bulk API.
C. Create Salesforce Cases conditionally using automatic Case creation rules.
D. Subscribe to the Application Exceptions using the Salesforce Streaming API.
Answer: B, C
Question: 11
Universal Containers (UC) uses Salesforce to track the following customer data:
1. Leads,
2. Contacts
3. Accounts
4. Cases
Salesforce is considered to be the system of record for the customer. In addition to Salesforce, customer data exists in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, ticketing system, and enterprise data lake. Each of these additional systems have their own unique identifier. UC plans on using middleware to integrate Salesforce with the external systems.
UC has a requirement to update the proper external system with record changes in Salesforce and vice versa.
Which two solutions should an Integration Architect recommend to handle this requirement? Choose 2 answers
A. Locally cache external ID’S at the middleware layer and design business logic to map updates between systems.
B. Store unique identifiers in an External ID field in Salesforce and use this to update the proper records across systems.
C. Use Change Data Capture to update downstream systems accordingly when a record changes.
D. Design an MDM solution that maps external ID’s to the Salesforce record ID.
Answer: C, D
Question: 12
A company needs to be able to send data from Salesforce to a home grown system behind a corporate firewall. The data needs to be pushed only one way and doesn’t need to be sent in real time. The average volume is 2 million records per day.
What should an integration architect consider when choosing the right option in building the integration between the external system and Salesforce?
A. Due to high volume of records, number of concurrent requests can hit the limit for the REST API call to external system.
B. Due to high volume of records, a third party integration tool is required to stage records off platform.
C. Due to high volume of records, the external system will need to use a BULK API Rest endpoint to connect to salesforce.
D. Due to high volume of records, salesforce will need to make a REST API call to external system.
Answer: B
Question: 13
Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) uses different shipping services for each of the 34 countries it serves. Services are added and removed frequently to optimize shipping times and costs. Sales Representatives serve all NTO customers globally and need to select between valid service(s) for the customer’s country and request shipping estimates from that service.
Which two solutions should an architect propose? Choose 2 answers
A. Use Platform Events to construct and publish shipper-specific events.
B. Invoke middleware service to retrieve valid shipping methods.
C. Use middleware to abstract the call to the specific shipping services.
D. Store shipping services in a picklist that is dependent on a country picklist.
Answer: B, C
Question: 14
A large enterprise customer with the following system landscape is planning to implement Salesforce Sales Cloud.
The following business processes need to be supported in Salesforce:
1. Sales Consultants should be able to have access to current inventory.
2. Enterprise Resource Planning System(ERP) is the system of record for pricing information.
3. Quotes should be generated in Salesforce with pricing from ERP.
4. Sales Management uses a Enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) tool to view Sales dashboards.
5. Master Data Management (MDM) is the system of record for customers and prospects.
6. Invoices should be accessible in Salesforce.
Which systems in the landscape should the Integration Consultant consider to be integrated with Salesforce to support the business requirements?
A. ERP, Invoices system, Data Warehouse and BI Tool
B. ERP, Inventory, Pricing Engine, Invoices system
C. ERP, MDM, BI tool and Data Warehouse
D. ERP, MDM, Data Warehouse, Invoices system
Answer: B
Question: 15
A conglomerate is designing a Lightning Web Component (LWC) to display transactions aggregated from different sources. Their current system landscape is as follows:
1. Transactions are created at any time through their various on-premise and cloud-based systems.
2. All necessary transactions are replicated to a custom Transaction object in Salesforce. It is updated periodically so it only has a subset of the necessary transactions between updates.
3. Middleware supports publish-subscribe interactions and provides RESTful Enterprise APIs that can retrieve transactions from on-premise and cloud-based systems.
The company wants to address a usability concern regarding incomplete data displayed on the LWC component. What should the Integration Architect specify so the LWC will be able to display all the required transactions?
A. Use the Continuation class to call the Enterprise APIs and then process the response in a callback method.
B. Let the Lightning Data Service with an ©wire adapter display new values when the custom object records change.
C. Call the Enterprise APIs directly from the LWC’s JavaScript code and redisplay the LWC on receipt of the API response.
D. Publish a Platform Event, have the middleware subscribe and update the custom object on receipt of Platform Event.
Answer: C
Question: 16
Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) has an integration set up between a Salesforce org and a quoting system. NTO would like to show a notification to all sales representatives that use Salesforce anytime the quoting system will be taken down for maintenance.
Which Salesforce API should an Integration Architect use to fulfill this requirement?
A. Connect REST API
B. Tooling API
C. REST API
D. Streaming API
Answer: D
Question: 17
Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) has an affiliate company that would like immediate notifications of changes to opportunities in the NTO Salesforce instance. The affiliate company has a CometD client available.
Which solution is recommended in order to meet the requirement?
A. Create a connected app in the affiliate org and select the “Accept CometD API Requests”.
B. A Implement a polling mechanism in the client that calls the SOAP API getupdated method to get the ID values of each updated record.
C. Configure External Services to call the subscriber in Apex in the Onchange Trigger event as part of the flow.
D. Create a PushTopic update event on the Opportunity Object to allow the subscriber to react to the streaming API.
Answer: D
Question: 18
Northern Trail Outfitters needs to secure an integration with an external Microsoft Azure API Gateway.
What integration security mechanism should be employed?
A. Configure mutual server authentication with two-way SSL using CA issued certificates.
B. Configure a connected app with an authorization endpoint of the API gateway and configure OAuth settings.
C. Use an API only user profile and implement use an external identity provider with federated API access.
D. Implement Salesforce Shield with Encryption at Rest and generate a tenant secret.
Answer: A
Question: 19
Northern Trail Outfitters has recently experienced intermittent network outages in its call center. When network service resumes, Sales representatives have inadvertently created duplicate orders in the manufacturing system because the order was placed but the return acknowledgement was lost during the outage.
Which solution should an architect recommend to avoid duplicate order booking?
A. Use Outbound Messaging to ensure manufacturing acknowledges receipt of order.
B. Use scheduled apex to query manufacturing system for potential duplicate or missing orders.
C. Implement idempotent design and have Sales Representatives retry order(s) in question.
D. Have scheduled Apex resubmit orders that do not have a successful response.
Answer: A
Question: 20
Which two system constraint questions should be considered when designing an integration to send orders from Salesforce to a fulfillment system?
Choose 2 answers
A. What latency is acceptable for orders to reach the fulfillment system?
B. Which system will validate order shipping addresses?
C. Can the fulfillment system implement a contract-first Outbound Messaging interface?
D. Can the fulfillment system participate in idempotent design to avoid duplicate orders?
Answer: C, D
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