Certified Platform Data Architect

Here you have the best Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect practice exam questions

  • You have 65 total questions across 13 pages (5 per page)
  • These questions were last updated on March 22, 2026
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Question 1 of 65
Universal Containers (UC) has implemented Sales Cloud for its entire sales organization. UC has built a custom object called Projects__c that stores customer project details and employee billable hours.
The following requirements are needed:
1. A subset of individuals from the finance team will need access to the Projects object for reporting and adjusting employee utilization.
2. The finance users will not need access to any sales objects, but they will need to interact with the custom object.
Which license type should a data architect recommend for the finance team that best meets the requirements?
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The suggested answer is C.

Question 2 of 65
Northern Trail Outfitters has decided that it is going to build a channel sales portal with the following requirements:
1. External resellers are able to authenticate to the portal with a login.
2. Lead data, Opportunity data, and Order data are available to authenticated users.
3. Authenticated users may need to run reports and dashboards.
4. There is no need for more than 10 custom objects or additional file storage.
Which Community Cloud license type should a data architect recommend to meet the portal requirements?
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The suggested answer is A.

Question 3 of 65
Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) has recently implemented Salesforce to track opportunities across all their regions. NTO sales teams across all regions have historically managed their sales process in Microsoft Excel. NTO sales teams are complaining that their data from the Excel files were not migrated as part of the implementation and NTO is now facing low Salesforce adoption.
What should a data architect recommend to increase Salesforce adoption?
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The suggested answer is D.

Question 4 of 65
Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) wants to capture a list of customers that have bought a particular product. The solution architect has recommended to create a custom object for product, and to create a lookup relationship between its customers and its products. Products will be modeled as a custom object (NTO_Product__c) and customers are modeled as person accounts. Every NTO product may have millions of customers looking up a single product, resulting in a lookup skew.
What should a data architect suggest to mitigate issues related to lookup skew?
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The suggested answer is B.

Question 5 of 65
Universal Containers is establishing a call center that will use Salesforce. UC receives 10 million calls and creates 100 million cases every month. Cases are linked to a custom call object using lookup relationship. UC would like to run reports and dashboard to better understand different case types being created on calls to better serve customers.
What solution should a data architect recommend to meet the business requirement?
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Suggested Answer

The suggested answer is D.

About the Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect Certification Exam

About the Exam

The Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect (Certified Platform Data Architect) validates your knowledge and skills. Passing demonstrates proficiency and can boost your career prospects in the field.

How to Prepare

Work through all 65 practice questions across 13 pages. Focus on understanding the reasoning behind each answer rather than memorizing responses to be ready for any variation on the real exam.

Why Practice Exams?

Practice exams help you familiarize yourself with the question format, manage your time, and reduce anxiety on the test day. Our Certified Platform Data Architect questions are regularly updated to reflect the latest exam objectives.