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Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Exam Guide

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About the Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Exam
Audience Description: Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect
Purpose of This Exam Guide
About the Exam
Exam Outline
Recommended Training and Resources
Salesforce Certification Candidate Code of Conduct
Maintaining Your Salesforce Certification   

About the Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Exam

The Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Exam is designed for professionals who have the requisite skills and experience in applying DevOps, application lifecycle management, and governance topics to Salesforce that support client requirements as well as experience communicating solutions and design trade-offs to business and IT stakeholders.

 

Audience Description: Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect

The Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect has experience analyzing the environment and requirements to design an appropriate governance framework, and to manage the development and deployment lifecycle on the Lightning Platform. The architect has experience designing and implementing complex development and deployment strategies, as well as communicating the proposed solution and design trade-offs to business and technical stakeholders alike.



The Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect typically has the following background and experience.

  • B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent degree
  • 2 to 3 years of Salesforce Platform experience
  • 1 to 2 years working on Salesforce DevOps topics
  • 1 to 2 years experience working with governance committees
  • 1 to 2 years experience with application lifecycle management
  • Knowledge of project delivery methodologies — agile/waterfall/hybrid

 

Typical job roles may include:

  • Technical Lead
  • Delivery Lead
  • Release Manager
  • Environment Manager
  • Ops Manager
  • Test Manager
  • Technical Architect

 

The Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect candidate has the experience, skills, knowledge, and ability to:

  • Describe the work structure and trade-off for different development methodologies.
  • Design and analyze existing and future state DevOps architecture, including release management.
  • Effectively communicate DevOps design to various stakeholders at many levels.
  • Follow application lifecycle management best practices for design, operation, and reporting.
  • Effectively design and manage the development and test environment strategy, including data and security, for Salesforce releases.
  • Describe the characteristics, capabilities, and constraints of using Metadata and Tooling API.
  • Describe the capabilities and constraints of tools supporting the development lifecycle (AppExchange and third-party).
  • Describe source control, branching strategies, and continuous integration use in support of application lifecycle management.
  • Understand testing methodologies, including test automation and testing over Salesforce releases.
  • Understand the governance landscape and participate in governance entities.
  • Design an appropriate backup and restore strategy.

 

A candidate for this exam will likely need assistance with:

  • Environment configuration
  • Programmatic and declarative development
  • Test development
  • Configuring continuous integration/development architectures
  • Establishing a governance process
  • Understanding multi-org governance strategies

 

A candidate for this exam is not expected to know how to:

  • Write ANT/CLI migration scripts.
  • Set up the source control environment.
  • Set up continuous integration tools.

 

Purpose of This Exam Guide

This exam guide is designed to help you prepare for the Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Exam. This guide provides information about the target audience, the recommended training and documentation, and a complete list of exam objectives. Salesforce highly recommends a combination of on-the-job experience and self-study to maximize your chances of passing the exam.

 

About the Exam    

Here are details about the Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Exam.

  • Content: 60 multiple-choice questions and up to five unscored questions
  • Time allotted to complete the exam: 105 minutes
  • Passing score: 65%
  • Version: Exam questions align to the Spring '23 release
  • Registration fee: US$400, JPY¥60,000, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
  • Retake fee: US$200, JPY¥60,000, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
  • Delivery options: Proctored exam delivered onsite at a testing center or in an online environment; find more information on scheduling an exam here.
  • References: No hard copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam.
  • Prerequisite: None

This exam may contain up to five additional unscored questions to gather performance data. Unscored questions are randomly integrated and have no impact on your final exam result. 

 

Exam Outline

The Salesforce Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Exam measures a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the following objectives.

Application Lifecycle Management: 8%
  • Given the project risk and customer requirements, explain how to assess the benefits and risks of the different development methodologies and recommend the appropriate governance strategies based on the customer maturity.

Planning: 13%
  • Given a complex customer scenario, assess application lifecycle management maturity and identify the people, technology, and processes required.
  • Understand customer environment risks and articulate appropriate mitigation strategies.
  • Given a customer scenario, analyze and recommend the appropriate governance framework.
  • Given a customer scenario involving a new Salesforce release (Summer, Winter, Spring), recommend the appropriate strategy to mitigate risks.

System Design: 15%
  • Explain the advantages of using agile tools to support an agile development process.
  • Given a customer landscape and their requirements, evaluate business, technical, and architectural considerations that support the defined org strategy.
  • Given a customer scenario, define an environment (sandbox) strategy that utilizes the correct sandbox types (for example, multiple project streams, training requirements, staging, production, and hotfixes).
  • Given a scenario, compare, contrast, and recommend the components and tools of a successful deployment strategy.

Building: 14%
  • Given a customer scenario, explain how to use source control branching/versioning/merging, and recommend appropriate strategies.
  • Describe the appropriate approaches to building test data strategy and unit test to ensure successful code (positive, negative, permission-based, large data volume).
  • Given a customer scenario, describe the appropriate development model (org-based vs package-based) and development environment (scratch org vs sandboxes).
  • Describe the methods to ensure the delivery of quality code, such as coding standards, pull requests, code review, and static code analysis.

Deploying: 14%
  • Given a scenario, describe the capabilities, limitations, and considerations when using the Metadata and Tooling APIs for deployment.
  • Given a scenario, describe approaches to handle pre and post-deployment steps, including items not supported via the APIs.
  • Given a scenario, describe approaches to manage and deploy technical reference data.

Testing: 13%
  • Given a customer scenario, describe and recommend an appropriate testing methodology. 
  • Given a customer testing strategy, describe the appropriate test execution methodology and coverage requirements.
  • Given a customer scenario, describe and recommend a unified test data strategy that utilizes representative data in a secure manner throughout the development lifecycle.

Releasing: 13%
  • Given a scenario, analyze and explain the use cases and considerations when using managed, unmanaged, and unlocked packages.
  • Apply map sandbox strategy to a specific release plan, taking into consideration multiple project streams, training requirements, staging, and hotfixes.
  • Given a customer scenario, describe and recommend an appropriate release management strategy.

Operating: 10%
  • Given a detailed customer environment scenario including a specific request, explain the implications of incorporating the request directly in a production environment.
  • Given a customer scenario where changes are made directly in production, explain the implications on the development lifecycle and steps to integrate changes into application lifecycle management.
  • Given a multi-org customer scenario, compare and contrast approaches for managing common release artifacts.

 

Recommended Training and Resources

As preparation for this exam, we recommend a combination of hands-on experience, training course completion, Trailhead Trails, and self-study in the areas listed in the Exam Outline section of this exam guide.

The self-study materials recommended for this exam include:

To review online documentation, tip sheets, and user guides, search for the topics listed in the Exam Outline section of this guide on Salesforce Help and study the information related to those topics.

 

Salesforce Certification Candidate Code of Conduct

At Salesforce, Trust is our #1 value. Protecting the security of Salesforce Certifications is up to all of us. As a participant in the Salesforce Certification Program, you’re required to review and accept the terms of the Salesforce Certification Program Agreement and Code of Conduct at the beginning of each exam.

 

Maintaining Your Salesforce Certification

One of the benefits of holding a Salesforce Certification is always being up to date on new product releases. You'll be required to complete the Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect certification maintenance badge on Trailhead once a year.


Don’t let your hard-earned certification expire! If you don't complete all maintenance requirements by the due date, your certification will expire. 

Bookmark these useful resources for maintaining your certifications.

 
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