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Salesforce Certified Platform Integration Architect Exam Guide

Contents

About the Salesforce Certified Platform Integration Architect Exam
Audience Description: Salesforce Certified Platform Integration 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 Integration Architect Exam

The Salesforce Certified Platform Integration Architect Exam is designed for architects, analysts, and application managers who want to design secure, scalable integrations with the Lightning Platform. The certification exam is designed to determine a candidate’s fluency in effectively communicating technical solutions to technical stakeholders and providing a project delivery framework that ensures quality and success.

Audience Description: Salesforce Certified Platform Integration Architect

A Salesforce Certified Platform Integration Architect assesses the integration requirements necessary to design secure, scalable solutions for integrating the Salesforce Platform. The architect has experience designing and implementing complex integration patterns on various platforms, as well as communicating the solution and design trade-offs to business and technical stakeholders alike.

The Salesforce Certified Platform Integration Architect has the following background.

  • 1–2 years of Salesforce Platform Integration Architecture experience
  • 2–3 years of hands-on Salesforce administration and/or developer experience
  • 1 year minimum of experience in supporting or implementing data-centric enterprise integration solutions

Typical job roles may include:

  • Technical Architect
  • System Architects that work in the integration domain
  • Programmer Analyst
  • Application Manager
  • Integration Architect
  • Solution Architect

The Salesforce Certified Platform Integration Architect candidate has the experience, skills, and knowledge to:

  • Design high-performing, scalable, secure, and reliable integrations with the Lightning Platform and other enterprise applications.
  • Analyze existing and future state integration architecture.
  • Develop and maintain the Integration Architecture blueprint for the project.
  • Integrate with other enterprise applications and cloud applications.
  • Follow best Domain practices in integration.
  • Add identify and apply appropriate integration patterns.
  • Recommend appropriate integration components and use appropriate platform capabilities.
  • Design with Platform Limits into considerations.
  • Familiarity with various Salesforce application programming interface (API) and integration tools.
  • Leverage appropriate integration pattern given an integration scenario.
  • Understand considerations and use the appropriate API for integration scenarios.
  • Identify security requirements for a given integration scenario.
  • Understand error handling options.

A candidate for this exam will likely need assistance to:

  • Define best-choice middleware tools in a given scenario (feature/functionality).

A candidate for this exam is not expected to know/have:

  • Non-Salesforce technology/database concepts
  • Configuration of integration tools
  • Experience with master data management (MDM) tools
  • Lightning development experience or expertise
  • Programming language(s)

 

Purpose of This Exam Guide

This exam guide is designed to help you prepare for the Salesforce Certified Platform Integration 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 Integration Architect Exam.

  • Content: 60 multiple-choice questions and up to five unscored questions
  • Time allotted to complete the exam: 105 minutes
  • Passing score: 67%
  • Version: Exam questions align to the Summer '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 Certified Platform Integration Architect Exam measures a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the following objectives. A candidate should have hands-on experience with Platform Integration Architecture application and demonstrate the knowledge and expertise in each of the areas below.
 

Evaluate the Current System Landscape: 8%
  • Given a set of business requirements, identify the current system landscape and determine what standards, limitations, boundaries, and protocols exist.
  • Given an existing system landscape, analyze for constraints and/or pain-points to satisfy a business requirement(s).
  • Given a set of requirements, evaluate the authentication and authorization needs based on the system landscape.

Evaluate Business Needs: 11%
  • Given a use case, identify functional and non-functional requirements needed for integration.
  • Based on a given integration requirement, identify and classify data into Confidential/Secure/Public.
  • Given a use case, identify key factors for CRM success that should be included as integration requirements.
  • Given a use case, identify the business growth and regulatory factors that can impact choice of integration solutions.
 
Translate Needs to Integration Requirements: 22%
  • Given an existing system landscape diagram, create an inventory of the systems and integration patterns.
  • Given a use case and business process, evaluate system and process constraints.
  • Given a use case, identify integration security/authentication/authorization requirements. 
  • Given a use case, identify performance needs (volumes, response times, latency) and propose appropriate integration solutions that will meet business requirements.
 
Design Integration Solutions: 28%
  • Given a use case, identify the integration pattern that meets business requirements.
  • Given a use case, define the components which create a solution that meets business requirements. 
  • Given a use case, identify the trade-offs, limitations, and constraints that meet the proposed solution.
  • Given a use case that includes technical requirements, constraints, or drivers, specify the appropriate Salesforce application programming interface(s) (API) for the proposed solution.
  • Given a use case that includes technical requirements, constraints, or drivers, determine the standards, components, techniques, and security mechanism that should be used.
 
Build Solution: 23%
  • Given a use case that includes technical requirements, constraints, or drivers, identify the considerations when designing and implementing an API(s), both Salesforce as an API provider and Salesforce as an API consumer.
  • Given a use case, identify the considerations when choosing the right option in making an outbound call to an external system.
  • Given a use case, describe what should be considered when building a scalable solution.
  • Given a use case, determine error handling for different integration options.
  • Given a use case, create a security solution for inbound or outbound integrations.
  • Given a use case, identify the factors needed to build resilience in an integration solution for system updates.
 
Maintain Integration: 8%
  • Given an integration maintenance use case, identify performance monitoring needs for integration requirements.
  • Given a use case, identify the appropriate error handling, escalation, and recovery procedures for a failed integration.
  • Given a use case, identify reporting needs for integration monitoring.

 

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 Integration 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. 

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