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Question 1 of 65

Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) has an external product master system that syncs product and pricing information with Salesforce. Users have been complaining that they are seeing discrepancies in product and pricing information displayed on the NTO website and Salesforce.
As a data architect, which action is recommended to avoid data sync issues?

Use the Customer 360 data manager to sync product and pricing information from product master database to Salesforce.

Implement a manual process to update the products from an extract from the products master on a weekly basis.

Build a custom integration for one-way sync of product and pricing information from product master to Salesforce.

Build a custom integration for two-way sync of product and pricing information between product master to Salesforce.

Question 2 of 65

Universal Containers is implementing Sales Cloud for patient management and would like to encrypt sensitive patient records being stored in files.
Which solution should a data architect recommend to solve this requirement?

Store files outside of Salesforce and access them in real time.

Use classic encryption to encrypt files.

Implement a third-party AppExchange app to encrypt files.

Implement Shield Platform Encryption to encrypt files.

Question 3 of 65

Universal Containers (UC) has implemented a master data management strategy, which uses a central system of truth, to ensure the entire company has the same customer information in all systems. UC customer data changes need to be accurate at all times in all of the systems. Salesforce is the identified system of record for this information.
What is the correct solution for ensuring all systems using customer data are kept up to date?

Send customer record changes from Salesforce to the system of truth in real time.

Send customer data nightly to the system of truth in a scheduled batch job.

Send customer record changes from Salesforce to each system in a nightly batch job.

Have each system pull the record changes from Salesforce using change data capture.

Question 4 of 65

Universal Containers is preparing to implement Sales Cloud and would like its users to have Read Only access to an Account record if they have access to its child Opportunity record.
How would a data architect implement this sharing requirement between objects?

Add appropriate users to the Account team.

Create a criteria-based sharing rule.

Implicit sharing will automatically handle this with standard functionality.

Create an owner-based sharing rule.

Question 5 of 65

Universal Containers is building a Salesforce application to track Contacts and the respective Conferences that they have attended with the following requirements:
1. Contacts will be stored in the standard Contact object.
2. Conferences will be stored in a custom Conference__c object.
3. Each Contact may attend multiple Conferences and each Conference may be related to multiple Contacts.
How should a data architect model the relationship between the Contact and Conference__c objects?

Create a master-detail relationship field on the Conference__c object.

Implement a Contact Conference junction object with master-detail relationships to both Contact and Conference__c.

Create a lookup relationship field on the Contact object.

Create a master-detail relationship field on the Contact object.

Question 6 of 65

Which of the following best describes the approach used when configuring high availability across multiple regions to ensure minimal downtime during failover events?

Deploy active-active clusters with cross-region replication and automated DNS failover to maintain service continuity

Use a single-region deployment with periodic manual snapshots for disaster recovery purposes

Configure load balancers in each region with independent database instances and no synchronization

Implement cold standby servers that require manual intervention to activate during outages

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