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Salesforce Integration Architect Exam Questions with Answers Part-2
Question: 1
An Integration Architect has built a solution using REST API, updating Account, Contact, and other related information. The data volumes have increased, resulting in higher API calls consumed, and some days the limits are exceeded. A decision was made to decrease the number of API calls using bulk updates. The customer prefers to continue using REST API to avoid architecture changes. Which REST API composite resources should the Integration Architect use to allow up to 200 records in one API call?
A. SObject Collections
B. SObject Tree
C. Batch
D. Composite
Answer: B
Question: 2
A company’s security assessment noted vulnerabilities on the un managed packages in their Salesforce orgs, notably secrets that are easily accessible and in plain text, such as usernames, passwords, and OAuth tokens used in callouts from Salesforce.
Which two persistence mechanisms should an integration architect require to be used to ensure that secrets are protected from deliberate or inadvertent exposure? Choose 2 answers
A. Encrypted Custom Fields
B. Named Credentials
C. Protected Custom Metadata Types
D. Protected Custom Settings
Answer: A, B
Question: 3
Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) leverages Sales Cloud for tracking and managing leads, accounts, contacts, and opportunities- Orders and order fulfillment is taken care of by an Order Management System (OMS) in the back-office. When an opportunity has changed it’s status to “Closed/Won” and there are products attached, the details should be passed to the OMS for fulfillment operations.
The callout from Salesforce to the OMS should be synchronous.
What should an Integration Architect do to satisfy these requirements?
A. Write a trigger that invokes an Apex proxy class to make a REST callout to the Order Management System.
B. Use Process Builder to call an Apex proxy class to make a REST callout to the Order Management System.
C. Develop a batch Apex job that aggregates Closed Opportunities and makes a REST callout to the Order Management System hourly.
D. Build a Lightning Component that makes a synchronous Apex REST callout to the Order Management System when a button is clicked.
Answer: B
Question: 4
A company in a heavily regulated industry requires data in legacy systems to be displayed in Salesforce user interfaces (UIs). They are proficient in their cloud-based ETL (extract, transform, load) tools. They expose APIs built on their on-premise middleware to cloud and on-premise applications. Which two findings about their current state will allow copies of legacy data in Salesforce? Choose 2 answers
A. Only on-premise systems are allowed access to legacy systems.
B. Cloud-based ETL can access Salesforce and supports queues.
C. On-premise middleware provides APIs to legacy systems data.
D. Legacy systems can use queues for on-premise integration.
Answer: B, C
Question: 5
Northern Trail Outfitters has a requirement to encrypt few of widely used standard fields. They also want to be able to use these fields in workflow rules.
Which security solution should an Integration Architect recommend to fulfill the business use case?
A. Cryptography Class
B. Data Masking
C. Classic Encryption
D. Platform Shield Encryption
Answer: D
Question: 6
Northern Trail Outfitters uses a custom Java application to display code coverage and test results for all of their enterprise applications and is planning to include Salesforce as well. Which Salesforce API should an Integration Architect use to meet the requirement?
A. SOAP API
B. Analytics REST API
C. Metadata API
D. Tooling API
Answer: D
Question: 7
A large enterprise customer has decided to implement Salesforce as their CRM. The current system landscape includes the following:
1. An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution that is responsible for Customer Invoicing and Order fulfillment.
2. A Marketing solution they use for email campaigns.
The enterprise customer needs their sales and service associates to use Salesforce to view and log their interactions with customers and prospects in Salesforce.
Which system should be the System of record for their customers and prospects?
A. ERP with all prospect data from Marketing and Salesforce.
B. Marketing with all customer data from Salesforce and ERP.
C. Salesforce with relevant Marketing and ERP information.
D. New Custom Database for Customers and Prospects.
Answer: C
Question: 8
Northern Trail Outfitters is seeking to improve the performance and security of outbound integrations from Salesforce to on-premise servers.
What should the Architect consider before recommending a solution?
A. External gateway products in use
B. A Default gateway restrictions
C. Considerations for using Deterministic Encryption
D. Shield Platform Encryption Limitations
Answer: A
Question: 9
An Integration Architect has built a Salesforce application that integrates multiple systems and keeps them synchronized via Platform Events.
What is taking place if events are only being published?
A. The platform events are published immediately before the Apex transaction completes.
B. The platform events are published after the Apex transaction completes.
C. The platform events has a trigger in Apex.
D. The platform events are being published from Apex.
Answer: B
Question: 10
Northern Trail Outfitters’ ERP is integrated with Salesforce and syncs several million contacts per day. To prevent specific data from syncing, the integration uses a SOQL query filtered by sharing hierarchy. Which two things should an architect do to improve the performance of the integration? Choose 2 answers
A. Include non-selective criteria in query filters.
B. Remove the query filters.
C. Include selective criteria in query filters.
D. Remove the sharing restrictions.
Answer: C, D
Question: 11
Service Agents at Northern Trail Outfitters uses Salesforce to manage cases and B2C Commerce for ordering.
Which integration solution should an architect recommend in order for the service agents to see order history from a B2C Commerce system?
A. Salesforce B2C Commerce to Service Cloud Connector
B. A REST API offered by Commerce Platform
C. Mulesoft Anypoint Platform
D. REST API offered by Salesforce Platform
Answer: A
Question: 12
When user clicks Check Preferences as part of a Lightning flow in Salesforce, preferences from an externally hosted RESTful service are to be checked in real-time. The RESTful service has OpenAPI 2.0 JSON definitions, responding in data types of Boolean and string values.
Which integration pattern and mechanism should be selected to meet the conditions?
A. Fire and Forget: Process-driven platform events publishes events on Salesforce Event Bus.
B. Remote Call-In: Salesforce REST API with REST Composite Resources.
C. Request-Reply: Enhanced External Services invokes a REST API.
D. Data Virtualization: Salesforce Connect map data external REST data in external objects.
Answer: C
Question: 13
Universal learning (UC) is embarked on Salesforce transformation journey, UC will decommission the legacy CRM system and migrate data to Salesforce. The data migration team asked for a recommendation to optimize the performance of the data load to Salesforce. Which approach should used to meet the requirement?
A. Use Bulk API to process jobs in parallel mode.
B. Contact Salesforce support to schedule performance load.
C. Use Bulk API to process jobs in serial mode.
D. Use Bulk API to process jobs in high performance mode.
Answer: A
Question: 14
What should an Architect recommend to ensure all integrations to the Northern Trail Outfitters company portal use SSL mutual authentication?
A. Enable My Domain and SSL/TLS.
B. Enforce SSL/TLS Mutual Authentication.
C. Generate a Self-signed Certificate.
D. Generate a CA-signed Certificate.
Answer: B
Question: 15
Northern Trail Outfitters has had an increase in requests from other business units to integrate opportunity information with other systems from Salesforce. The developers have started writing asynchronous @future callouts directly into the target systems. The CIO is concerned about the viability of this approach scaling for future growth and has requested a solution recommendation. What should be done to mitigate the concerns that the CIO has?
A. Implement an ETL tool and perform nightly batch data loads to reduce network traffic using last modified dates on the opportunity object to extract the right records.
B. Develop a comprehensive catalog of Apex classes to eliminate the need for redundant code and use custom metadata to hold the endpoint information for each integration.
C. Refactor the existing ©future methods to use Enhanced External Services, import Open API 2.0 schemas and update flows to use services instead of Apex.
D. Implement an Enterprise Service Bus for service orchestration, mediation, routing and decouple dependencies across systems.
Answer: C
Question: 16
The Sales Operations team at Northern Trail Outfitters imports new leads each day. An integrated legacy territory management system assigns territories to leads before Sales team members can work on them. The current integration often experiences latency issues.
Which two recommendations should an Architect make to improve the integration performance? Choose 2 answers
A. Reduce batch size of asynchronous BULK API.
B. Reduce batch size of synchronous BULK API.
C. Legacy system should submit in serial mode.
D. Legacy system should submit in parallel mode.
Answer: A, D
Question: 17
A large enterprise customer operating in a high regulated industry is planning to implement Salesforce for customer facing associates in both Sales and Service, and back office staff. The business processes that Salesforce supports are critical to the business.
Salesforce will be integrated to multiple back office systems to provide a single interface for associates. Reliability and monitoring of these integrations is required as associates support customers.
Which integration solution should the architect consider when planning the implementation?
A. Architect Services in back office systems to support callouts from Salesforce and build reliability, monitoring and reporting capabilities.
B. Decouple back office system callouts into separate distinct services that have inbuilt error logging and monitoring frameworks.
C. Build a custom integration gateway to support back office system integrations and ensure reliability and monitoring capabilities.
D. Leverage Middleware for all back office system integrations ensuring real time alerting, monitoring and reporting capabilities.
Answer: D
Question: 18
A company has an external system that processes and tracks orders. Sales reps manage their leads and opportunity pipeline in Salesforce. In the current state, the two systems are disconnected and processing orders requires a lot of manual entry on sales rep part. This creates delays in processing orders and incomplete data due to manual entry.
As a part of modernization efforts the company decided to integrate Salesforce and the order management system. The following technical requirements were identified:
1. Orders need to be created in real time from salesforce
2. Minimal customization*, and code should be written due to a tight timeline and lack of developer resources
3. Sales reps need to be able to see order history and be able to see most up to date information on current order status.
4. Managers need to be able to run reports in Salesforce to see daily and monthly order volumes and fulfillment timelines.
5. The legacy system is hosted on premise and is currently connected to the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). The ESB is flexible enough to provide any methods and connection types needed by salesforce team.
6. There are 1000 sales reps. Each user processes/creates on average 15 orders per shift. Most of the orders contain 20-30 line items.
How should an integration architect integrate the two systems based on the technical requirements and system constraints?
A. Use Salesforce external object and OData connector.
B. Use Salesforce custom object, custom REST API and ETL.
C. Use Salesforce standard object, REST API and ETL.
D. Use Salesforce big object, SOAP API and Dataloader.
Answer: C
Question: 19
Customer is evaluating Platform Events solution and would like help in comparing/contrasting it with Outbound Message for a real-time / near-real time needs. They expect 3,000 consumers of messages from Salesforce.
Which three considerations should be evaluated and highlighted when deciding between the solutions?
Choose 3 answers
A. Both Platform Events and Outbound Message offer declarative means for asynchronous near-real time needs. They aren’t best suited for realtime integrations.
B. In both Platform Events and Outbound Messages, the event messages are retried by and delivered in sequence, and only once. Salesforce ensures there is no duplicate message delivery.
C. Message sequence is possible in Outbound Message but not guaranteed with Platform Events. Both offer very high reliability. Fault handling and recovery are fully handled by Salesforce.
D. Number of concurrent subscribers to Platform Events is capped at 2,000. An Outbound Message configuration can pass only 100 notifications in a single messages to a SOAP end point.
E. Both Platform Events and Outbound Message are highly scalable. However, unlike Outbound Message, only Platform Events have Event Delivery and Event Publishing limits to be considered.
Answer: B, D, E
Question: 20
An Integration Developer is developing an HR synchronization app for a client. The app synchronizes Salesforce record data changes with an HR system that’s external to Salesforce.
What should the integration architect recommend to ensure notifications are stored for up to three days if data replication fails?
A. Change Data Capture
B. Generic Events
C. Platform Events D. Callouts
Answer: A
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