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The practice questions for Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect exam was last updated on 2025-09-15 .

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Question#1

Northern trail Outfitters (NTO) uses Sales Cloud and service Cloud to manage sales and support processes. Some of NTOs team are complaining they see new fields on their page unsure of which values need be input. NTO is concerned about lack of governance in making changes to Salesforce.
Which governance measure should a data architect recommend to solve this issue?

A. Add description fields to explain why the field is used, and mark the field as required.
B. Create and manage a data dictionary and ups a governance process for changes made to common objects.
C. Create reports to identify which users are leaving blank, and use external data sources o agreement the missing data.
D. Create validation rules with error messages to explain why the fields is used

Question#2

A shipping and logistics company has created a large number of reports within Sales Cloud since Salesforce was introduced. Some of these reports analyze large amounts of data regarding the whereabouts of the company's containers, and they are starting to time out when users are trying to run the reports.
What is a recommended approach to avoid these time-out issues?

A. Improve reporting performance by creating a custom Visualforce report that is using a cache of the records in the report.
B. Improve reporting performance by replacing the existing reports in Sales Cloud with new reports based on Analytics Cloud.
C. Improve reporting performance by creating an Apex trigger for the Report object that will pre-fetch data before the report is run.
D. Improve reporting performance by creating a dashboard that is scheduled to run the reports only once per day.

Question#3

The head of sales at Get Cloudy Consulting wants to understand key relevant performance figures and help managers take corrective actions where appropriate.
What is one reporting option Get Cloudy Consulting should consider?

A. Case SLA performance report
B. Sales KPI Dashboard
C. Opportunity analytic snapshot
D. Lead conversion rate report

Question#4

Universal Containers has 30 million case records. The Case object has 80 fields. Agents are reporting performance issues and time-outs while running case reports in the Salesforce org.
Which solution should a data architect recommend to improve reporting performance?

A. Create a custom object to store aggregate data andrun reports.
B. Contact Salesforce support to enable skinny table for cases.
C. Move data off of the platform and run reporting outside Salesforce, and give access to reports.
D. Build reports using custom Lightning components.

Question#5

Universal Containers (UC) is implementing aSalesforce project with large volumes of data and daily transactions. The solution includes both real-time web service integrations and Visualforce mash -ups with back -end systems. The Salesforce Full sandbox used by the project integrates with full-scale back -end testing systems.
What two types of performance testing are appropriate for this project?
Choose 2 answers

A. Pre -go -live automated page -load testing against the Salesforce Full sandbox.
B. Post go -live automated page -load testing against the Salesforce Production org.
C. Pre -go -live unit testing in the Salesforce Full sandbox.
D. Stress testing against the web services hosted by the integration middleware.

Exam Code: Salesforce Certified Platform Data ArchitectQ & A: 257 Q&AsUpdated:  2025-09-15

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