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Salesforce ARC-101 Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | Salesforce |
|---|---|
| Exam Name: | Design and Build Integration Solutions |
| Exam Number: | ARC-101 |
| Certificate Validity Period: | 2 years |
| Passing Score: | 65% |
| Related Certifications: | Salesforce Certified Integration Designer Salesforce Certified Technical Architect Salesforce Certified System Architect |
| Real Exam Qty: | 60 |
| Exam Duration: | 105 minutes |
| Available Languages: | English |
| Exam Format: | Multiple-select, Multiple-choice |
| Exam Price: | $200 USD |
| Recommended Training: | ARC-101 Official Training Trailhead Integration Modules |
| Exam Registration: | Salesforce Certification Portal |
| Sample Questions: | DOWNLOAD DEMO |
| Exam Way: | Online proctored or onsite testing center |
| Pre Condition: | Recommended: Salesforce Certified Platform Administrator, Platform App Builder, or Platform Developer I; hands-on integration experience |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://trailhead.salesforce.com/credentials/platform-integration-architect |
Salesforce ARC-101 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Integration Overview | 15% | - Single view of the customer - Importance of integration and system landscape - ESB and ETL roles |
| Integration Patterns | 25% | - Remote Call-In - Remote Process Invocation — Fire and Forget - Remote Process Invocation — Request and Reply - UI Update Based on Data Changes - Data Virtualization - Batch Data Synchronization |
| Integration Capabilities & APIs | 35% | - Streaming API, Platform Events, Change Data Capture - Salesforce Connect, Heroku Connect - Outbound Messaging, Callouts, External Services - SOAP API, REST API, Bulk API |
| Integration Security & Best Practices | 25% | - Named Credentials, Remote Site Settings - Error handling, monitoring, and governance - TLS, certificates, encryption - Authentication and authorization |
Frequently Asked Questions: Salesforce Design and Build Integration Solutions
Salesforce Design and Build Integration Solutions is an official Salesforce certification exam, registered under the code ARC-101. Passing it awards the Salesforce Certified Platform Integration Architect certification, a credential at the Architect / Professional level. It also connects to Salesforce Certified Integration Designer, Salesforce Certified System Architect, Salesforce Certified Technical Architect. The exam is demanding by design, and that difficulty is precisely what makes the credential meaningful for career development.
The Salesforce Design and Build Integration Solutions exam presents 60 questions within 105 minutes. That is a brisk pace, and the candidates who handle it best are the ones who rehearsed it. Use the ActualPDF engine for full timed simulations, practice flagging and returning, and arrive on exam day with a pacing strategy already proven.
Passing Salesforce Design and Build Integration Solutions takes 65%, and official registration costs $200 USD. Retakes bill the full $200 USD again, so preparation is the least expensive insurance available. Let your ActualPDF practice scores guide the timing: book when you clear the requirement consistently, not occasionally.
Recommended: Salesforce Certified Platform Administrator, Platform App Builder, or Platform Developer I; hands-on integration experience
Policies get revised, so confirm the current requirements before you register on the official exam page.
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Salesforce Design and Build Integration Solutions is organized into 4 official domains. The most heavily weighted are Integration Overview (15%), Integration Capabilities & APIs (35%), and Integration Patterns (25%). The full breakdown appears above on this page; study the weightings and your preparation priorities set themselves.
Salesforce Design and Build Integration Solutions Sample Questions:
Sales representatives at Universal Containers (UC) use Salesforce Sales Cloud as their primary CRM. UC owns a legacy homegrown application that stores a copy of customer dataas well. Sales representatives may edit or update Contact records in Salesforce if there is a change.
Both Salesforce and the homegrown application should be kept synchronized for consistency. UC has these requirements:
1. When a Contact record in Salesforce is updated, the external homegrown application should be
2. The synchronization should be event driven.
3. The integration should be asynchronous.
Which option should an architect recommend to satisfy the requirements?
- A. Leverage Change Data Capture to track changes to the Contact object and write a CometD subscriber on the homegrown application.
- B. Leverage Platform Events to publish a custom event message containing changes to the Contact object.
- C. Write an Apex Trigger with the @future annotation.
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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An enterprise architect has requested the Salesforce Integration architect to review the following (see diagram & description) and provide recommendations after carefully considering all constraints of the enterprise systems and Salesforce platform limits.
* About 3,000 phone sales agents use a Salesforce Lightning UI concurrently to check eligibility of a customer for a qualifying offer.
* There are multiple eligibility systems that provides this service and are hosted externally. However, their current response times could take up to 90 seconds to process and return (there are discussions to reduce the response times in future, but no commitments are made).
* These eligibility systems can be accessed through APIs orchestrated via ESB (MuleSoft).
* All requests from Salesforce will have to traverse through customer's API Gateway layer and the API Gateway imposes a constraint of timing out requests after 9 seconds.
Which three recommendations should be made?
Choose 3 answers
- A. Recommend synchronous Apex call-outs from Lightning UI to External Systems via Mule and implement polling on API gateway timeout.
- B. ESB (Mule) with cache/state management to return a requestID (or) response if available from external system.
- C. When responses are received by Mule, create a Platform Event in Salesforce via Remote-Call-In and use the empAPI in the lightning UI to serve 3,000 concurrent users.
- D. Use Continuation callouts to make the eligibility check request from Salesforce from Lightning UI at page load.
- E. Implement a 'Check Update' button that passes a requestID received from ESB (user action needed).
Correct Answer: B,D,E 🗳️
An integration architect needs to build a solution that will be using the Streaming API, but the data loss should be minimized, even when the client re-connects every couple of days.
Which two types of Streaming API events should be considered?
Choose 2 answers
- A. PushTopic Events
- B. High Volume Platform Events
- C. Generic Events
- D. Change Data Capture Events
Correct Answer: B,D 🗳️
The director of customer service at Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) wants to capture and trend specific business events that occur in Salesforce in real time. The metrics will be accessed in an ad-hoc manner using an external analytics system. The events that are of interest are:
A customer has initiated a product exchange via a Case A customer service rep clicks on the "Authorize Exchange Product" menu item on the Case A customer has initiated a subscription cancellation via a Case A customer service rep clicks on the "Initiate Refund" menu item on the Case Which two solutions will meet these business requirements?
Choose 2 answers
- A. Case after insert Trigger that executes a callout.
- B. Case Workflow Rule that sends an Outbound Message.
- C. Custom Apex controller that publishes a Platform Event.
- D. Case after insert Trigger that publishes a Platform Event.
Correct Answer: C,D 🗳️
A large B2C customer is planning to implement Salesforce CRM to become a Customer centric enterprise. Below, is their current system landscape diagram.
The goals for implementing Salesforce follows:
1. Develop a 360 view of customer
2. Leverage Salesforce capabilities for Marketing, Sales and Service processes
3. Reuse Enterprise capabilities built for Quoting and Order Management processes Which three systems from the current system landscape can be retired with the implementation of Salesforce?
Choose 3 answers
- A. Case Management System
- B. Quoting System
- C. Order Management System
- D. Email Marketing System
- E. Sales Activity System
Correct Answer: A,D,E 🗳️
