DATA-ARCHITECT Exam Details

  • Exam Code
    :DATA-ARCHITECT
  • Exam Name
    :Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect (Plat-Arch-201)
  • Certification
    :Salesforce Certifications
  • Vendor
    :Salesforce
  • Total Questions
    :257 Q&As
  • Last Updated
    :May 28, 2026

Salesforce DATA-ARCHITECT Online Questions & Answers

  • Question 141:

    Universal Containers (UC) has lead assignment rules to assign leads to owners. Leads not routed by assignment rules are assigned to a dummy user. Sales rep are complaining of high load times and issues with accessing leads assigned to the dummy user.

    What should a data architect recommend to solve these performance issues?

    A. Assign dummy user last role in role hierarchy
    B. Create multiple dummy user and assign leads to them
    C. Assign dummy user to highest role in role hierarchy
    D. Periodically delete leads to reduce number of leads

  • Question 142:

    Universal Container (UC) has accumulated data over years and has never deleted data from its Salesforce org. UC is now exceeding the storage allocations in the org. UC is now looking for option to delete unused from the org.

    Which three recommendations should a data architect make is order to reduce the number of records from the org?

    Choose 3 answers

    A. Use hard delete in Bulk API to permanently delete records from Salesforce.
    B. Use hard delete in batch Apex to permanently delete records from Salesforce.
    C. Identify records in objects that have not been modified or used In last 3 years.
    D. Use Rest API to permanently delete records from the Salesforce org.
    E. Archive the records in enterprise data warehouse (EDW) before deleting from Salesforce.

  • Question 143:

    Universal Containers has a public website with several forms that create Lead records in Salesforce using the REST API.

    When designing these forms, which two techniques will help maintain a high level of data quality?

    A. Do client-side validation of phone number and email field formats.
    B. Prefer picklist form fields over free text fields, where possible.
    C. Ensure the website visitor is browsing using an HTTPS connection.
    D. Use cookies to track when visitors submit multiple forms.

  • Question 144:

    Universal Container is Implementing salesforce and needs to migrate data from two legacy systems. UC would like to clean and duplicate data before migrate to Salesforce.

    Which solution should a data architect recommend a clean migration?

    A. Define external IDs for an object, migrate second database to first database, and load into Salesforce.
    B. Define duplicate rules in Salesforce, and load data into Salesforce from both databases.
    C. Set up staging data base, and define external IDs to merge, clean duplicate data, and load into Salesforce.
    D. Define external IDs for an object, Insert data from one database, and use upsert for a second database

  • Question 145:

    Universal Containers (UC) requires 2 years of customer related cases to be available on SF for operational reporting. Any cases older than 2 years and upto 7 years need to be available on demand to the Service agents. UC creates 5 million cases per yr.

    Which 2 data archiving strategies should a data architect recommend? Choose 2 options:

    A. Use custom objects for cases older than 2 years and use nightly batch to move them.
    B. Sync cases older than 2 years to an external database, and provide access to Service agents to the database
    C. Use Big objects for cases older than 2 years, and use nightly batch to move them.
    D. Use Heroku and external objects to display cases older than 2 years and bulk API to hard delete from Salesforce.

  • Question 146:

    Northern Trail Outfitters has these simple requirements for a data export process:

    File format should be in CSV.

    Process should be scheduled and run once per week.

    The expert should be configurable through the Salesforce UI.

    Which tool should a data architect leverage to accomplish these requirements?

    A. Bulk API
    B. Data export wizard
    C. Third-party ETL tool
    D. Data loader

  • Question 147:

    Universal Containers (UC) is a major supplier of office supplies. Some products are produced by UC and some by other manufacturers. Recently, a number of customers have complained that product descriptions on the invoices do not match the descriptions in the online catalog and on some of the order confirmations (e.g., "ballpoint pen" in the catalog and "pen" on the invoice, and item color labels are inconsistent: "what vs. "White" or "blk" vs. "Black"). All product data is consolidated in the company data warehouse and pushed to Salesforce to generate quotes and invoices. The online catalog and webshop is a Salesforce Customer Community solution.

    What is a correct technique UC should use to solve the data inconsistency?

    A. Change integration to let product master systems update product data directly in Salesforce via the Salesforce API.
    B. Add custom fields to the Product standard object in Salesforce to store data from the different source systems.
    C. Define a data taxonomy for product data and apply the taxonomy to the product data in the data warehouse.
    D. Build Apex Triggers in Salesforce that ensure products have the correct names and labels after data is loaded into salesforce.

  • Question 148:

    UC developers have created a new lightning component that uses an Apex controller using a SOQL query to populate a custom list view. Users are complaining that the component often fails to load and returns a time-out error.

    What tool should a data architect use to identify why the query is taking too long?

    A. Use Splunk to query the system logs looking for transaction time and CPU usage.
    B. Enable and use the query plan tool in the developer console.
    C. Use salesforce's query optimizer to analyze the query in the developer console.
    D. Open a ticket with salesforce support to retrieve transaction logs to e analyzed for processing time.

  • Question 149:

    A casino is implementing salesforce and is planning to build a customer 360 view for a customer who visits its resorts. The casino currently maintained the following systems that records customer activity:

    1.Point of sales system: All purchases for a customer. 2.Salesforce: All customer service activity and sales activity for a customer. 3.Mobile app: All bookings, preferences and browser activity for a customer. 4.Marketing: All email, SMS and social campaigns for a customer.

    Customer service agents using salesforce would like to view the activities from all system to provide supports to customers. The information has to be current and real time.

    What strategy should the data architect implement to satisfy this requirement?

    A. Explore external data sources in salesforce to build 360 view of customer.
    B. Use a customer data mart to view the 360 view of customer.
    C. Migrate customer activities from all 4 systems into salesforce.
    D. Periodically upload summary information in salesforce to build 360 view.

  • Question 150:

    Northern Trail Outfitters would like to report on the type of customers. A custom field for customer type was created in Account object. Users need to be limited to the following defined choices when entering information in this field:

    1. High Value

    2. Medium Value

    3. Low Value

    Which strategy should a data architect recommend to configure customer type?

    A. Lookup to a custom object with defined choices.
    B. Single-select restricted picklist with defined choices.
    C. Provide help text to guide users with defined choices.
    D. Create a validation rule to limit entry to defined choices.

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