The Salesforce Certified Data Architecture and Management Designer credential is intended for the designer who assesses the architecture environment and requirements; and designs sound, scalable, and performant solutions on the Customer 360 platform. The Designer will also have experience working with the following:

· Data Modeling & Database Design

· Master Data Management

· Salesforce Data Management

· Data Governance

· Large Data Volume Considerations

· Data Migration

The designer has experience communicating solutions and design trade-offs to business and IT stakeholders.

A Salesforce Certified Data Architecture and Management Designer assesses the architecture environment and requirements and designs sound, scalable, and performant solutions on the Customer 360 Platform as it pertains to enterprise data management. The candidate is knowledgeable about information architecture frameworks covering major building blocks, such as data sourcing, integration/movement, persistence, master data management, metadata management and semantic reconciliation, data governance, security, and delivery.

The candidate also has experience assessing customers' requirements in regard to data quality needs and creating solutions to ensure high quality data (e.g. no duplicates, correct data) and can also recommend organizational changes to ensure proper data stewardship. The candidate has experience communicating solutions and design trade-offs to business stakeholders.

The Salesforce Certified Data Architecture and Management Designer candidate has the experience, skills, and knowledge of the following:

· Data modeling/Database Design

· Custom fields, master detail, lookup relationships

· Client requirements and mapping to database requirements

· Standard object structure for sales and service cloud

· Making best use of Salesforce standard and big objects

· Association between standard objects and Salesforce license types

· Large Data Volume considerations

· Indexing, LDV migrations, performance

· Salesforce Platform declarative and programming concepts

· Scripting using those tools (Data loader, ETL platforms)

· Data Stewardship

· Data Quality Skills (concerned with clean data)

A candidate for this exam is not expected to know the following:

· Non-Salesforce Technology/Database Concepts

· Configuration of Integration tools

· Experience with MDM Tools (Master Data Management)

· Lightning Development Experience/Expertise

· Programming Language(s)

Recommended by not required - Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder, Platform Developer I, and Platform Developer II.

The Salesforce Data Architecture and Management Designer exam measures a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the following objectives:

Data modeling/Database Design: 25%

Master Data Management: 5%

Salesforce Data Management: 25%

Data Governance: 10%

Large Data Volume considerations: 20%

Data Migration: 15%

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