Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Sample Questions:

1. Universal Containers is about to begin Development work on a new project in their Salesforce org that will take many months to complete. UC is concerned about how critical bugs will be addressed for existing live functionality. What is the recommended release management strategy to address this concern?

A) Address critical bugs in the Development sandboxes and push those changes to production separately.
B) Utilize a dedicated developer pro sandbox to address critical bugs and release to production.
C) Keep teams separate until the end of the project and create a Full Copy sandbox to merge their work then.
D) Include fixes for critical bugs in the ongoing Development sandboxes so that they will be released with the other code.

2. Universal Containers has a complex deployment coming up. The deployment will include several Apex classes which depend on custom settings that hold important configuration. How should an Architect manage this deployment?

A) Manually deploy and populate custom settings in production using a change set
B) Script the deployment of all functionality via the Force.com Migration Tool
C) Create a custom metadata type and include this in your deployment to production
D) Manually deploy and populate the custom settings in production prior to the Apex Class deployment

3. Universal Containers has a stable continuous integration process and all stakeholders are happy. However, user testing takes long time, as data has to be setup. What should an Architect do to address this problem?

A) Advise the project manager to assign more users to create test data.
B) Train business users to create test data more efficiently.
C) Include automated sample data during deployment.
D) Test data creation is outside the scope of continuous integration.

4. A developer with Universal Containers recently created a flow in the developer sandbox. While working on the flow, the developer deactivated it and made updates multiple times before the flow worked as desired. Now the developer is planning to use a change set to migrate the flow to the QA sandbox.
What two statements should be considered when migrating the flow with change sets?
Choose 2 answers

A) When a change set with a multiple versioned flow is uploaded, it includes only the active
B) When a change set with a multiple versioned flow is uploaded, and no active version is
C) When a change set with a multiple versioned flow is uploaded, it includes all the versions
D) When a change set with a multiple versioned flow is uploaded, and no active version is

5. Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) has well-defined release management processes for both large and small projects. NTO's development team created a workflow and a trigger for the changes in its opportunity renewal process.
What should the architect recommend for release planning of these changes?

A) Plan this an interim release after checking with Salesforce support.
B) Plan this as a patch release and align with the Salesforce patch release.
C) Plan this as a minor release with training and change management.
D) Plan this as a major release and align with a Salesforce major release.

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