Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Sample Questions:

1. Universal Containers CUC) has multiple teams working on different projects. Multiple projects will be deployed to many production orgs. During code reviews, the architect finds inconsistently named variables and lack of best practices.
What should an architect recommend to improve consistency?

A) Require pull requests to be reviewed by two developers before merging.
B) Create a Center of Excellence for release management.
C) Use static code analysis to enforce coding standards.
D) Execute regression testing before code can be committed.

2. Universal Containers (UC) has recently acquired other companies that have their own Salesforce orgs. These companies have been merged as new UC business units.
The CEO has requested an architect to review the org strategy, taking into consideration two main factors:
* The CEO wants business process standardization among all business units.
* Business process integration is not required as the different business units have different customers and expertise.
Which org strategy should the architect recommend in this scenario, and why?

A) Multi-org strategy, as it is uncommon for the diversified business units to get used to working in the same space as the other business units.
B) Single-org strategy, as costs increase as the number of orgs go up.
C) Single-org strategy, as the high level of business process standardization will be easier to implement in a single org.
D) A Multi-org strategy, as they could deploy a common managed package into the orgs of the different business units.

3. Metadata API supports deploy () and retrieve () calls for file-based deployment.
Which two scenarios are the primary use cases for writing code to call retrieve () and deploy () methods directly?
Choose 2 answers

A) Development of a customization in a sandbox organization. The deployment team then
B) Development of a custom application in a scratch org. After completing development and
C) Team development of an application in a Developer Edition organization. After
D) Development of a custom application in a sandbox organization. After completing

4. Universal Containers is having trouble aligning releases between major, minor, and Salesforce seasonal releases.
What should an architect recommend?

A) Share the test plans between the teams on each release type.
B) Create a release calendar, train and align all the teams.
C) Gate all release decisions at the center of excellence.
D) Create a spreadsheet of metadata changes and reconcile the overlaps.

5. Universal Containers (UC) has a large backlog of work. They have noticed that despite their best efforts, valuable enhancements and updates are not being completed because they do not have the bandwidth to get them done. Many of these items are low effort and would not require experienced resources.
What should the architect recommend that will minimize additional costs and allow UC to accomplish more from the

A) UC should eliminate low-value items from the backlog.
B) UC should hire additional resources to reduce the backlog.
C) UC should start a citizen development program.
D) UC should hire a partner to complete the needed backlog items.

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