Salesforce Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Practice Exam

The Salesforce Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect assess skills to design , building, testing, and deploying Salesforce solutions across various environments. It involves managing the entire application lifecycle, including version control, continuous integration, release management, and governance to ensure effective and scalable deployment strategies in Salesforce environments. The certification also focuses on automating processes and managing environments.
Why is Salesforce Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect certification important?

• Globally recognized certification
  
• Includes version control and governance in Salesforce implementations.
• Focuses on automating deployment pipelines for efficient release management.
• Showcase your skills in aligning Salesforce development with business goals and scalability.
• Certifies your risk mitigation skills by proper testing and quality assurance measures.

Who should take the Salesforce Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Exam?

• Salesforce Development Architect
• Salesforce Release Manager
• Salesforce Technical Lead
• Salesforce DevOps Engineer
• Salesforce Solution Architect
• Salesforce Technical Architect
• IT Operations Manager for Salesforce teams

Skills Evaluated

Candidates taking the certification exam on the Salesforce Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect is evaluated for the following skills:

• Version control and environment management.
• Salesforce release management processes.
• Continuous integration and deployment strategies.
• Change management and governance practices.
• Designing scalable and automated Salesforce solutions.
• Knowledge of tools like Git, Jenkins, and other CI/CD platforms.

Salesforce Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Certification Course Outline
The Salesforce Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Certification covers the following topics -

 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.