The Salesforce Certified Technical Architect program is designed for experienced Salesforce Architects who would like to demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and capabilities in assessing customer architecture; designing secure, high-performance technical solutions on the Lightning Platform; communicating technical solutions and design tradeoffs effectively to business stakeholders; and providing a delivery framework that ensures quality and success.
Prerequisites
The Technical Architect candidate can assess the architecture environment and requirements; and design secure, high-performing technical solutions on the Lightning Platform. The candidate has experience communicating technical solutions and design tradeoffs to business stakeholders and providing a delivery framework for an end-to-end solution.
The candidate has the experience and skills outlined below.
- 5+ years of implementation experience, including development, across the full software development lifecycle.
- 3+ years of experience in an architect role
- 2+ years of experience on the Lightning Platform with at least one of those in a lead architect role, implementing Salesforce applications and technologies
- Has held a technical architect role on multiple complex deployments, OR has gained equivalent knowledge through participation and exposure to these types of projects
- Experience guiding a development team on the appropriate use of platform technology
- Can identify and mitigate technical risks across the architecture
- Exposure to globalization considerations on a project
- Experience with object-oriented design patterns
- Awareness of platform-specific design patterns and limits
- Experience developing code on the Lightning Platform
- Ability to identify development-related risks, considerations, and limits for the platform
- Experience with multiple development languages (for example, .net, java, or ruby) and design frameworks
- Experience with common integration patterns; experience with integration on the Lightning Platform
- Understanding of and ability to architect a solution to address security complexities, mechanisms, and capabilities on the Lightning Platform as part of a functional security model
- Understanding of data migration considerations, design trade-offs, and common extract, transform, load (ETL) tools
- Awareness of large data volume considerations, risks, and mitigation strategies
- Awareness of general mobile solutions and architecture and understanding of on-platform mobile solutions and considerations
- Experience with project and development lifecycle methodologies
Recommended training for this certification
To prepare for this exam, Salesforce recommends a combination of hands-on experience, training course completion, Trailhead trails, trailmixes, and self-study in each of the exam domain focus areas.
Exams
Exam Prerequisites:
- Architect Review Board Evaluation completed with a passing grade
Format:
- The candidate will review and solve a hypothetical scenario and then present it to a panel of CTA judges. The presentation is followed by a question and answer session with the judges.
Time allotted to complete the exam:
- 3 hours - review and solution preparation
- 45 minutes - presentation
- 40 minutes - Question and Answer session
The following materials are provided/allowed for the candidate for the exam. No other materials are allowed.
- An exam scenario in Google Doc
- A Google Slide deck
- A Google Sheet
- A blank Lucidchart with access to the Salesforce Shape Library**
- An onscreen timer
**Lucid Chart Templates are not permitted for any portion of the CTA Credential.
Restrictions:
- No hard copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam.
- Smart devices (watches, phones) must be removed and stored prior to starting the exam.