Free Certified Integration Architect Sample Questions — Certified Integration Architect

Which two system constraint questions should be considered when designing an integration to send orders from Salesforce to a fulfillment system? (Choose two.)

• A. Can the fulfillment system implement a contract first Outbound Messaging interface?
• B. Which system will validate order shipping addresses?
• C. Can the fulfillment system participate in idempotent design to avoid duplicate orders?
• D. What latency is acceptable for orders to reach the fulfillment system?

A company needs to be able to send data from Salesforce to a home grown system behind a corporate firewall. The data needs to be pushed only one way and doesn't need to be sent in real time. The average volume is 2 million records per day. What should an integration architect consider when choosing the right option in building the integration between the external system and Salesforce?

• A. Due to high volume of records, number of concurrent requests can hit the limit for the REST API call to the external system
• B. Due to high volume of records, the external system will need to use a BULK API Rest endpoint to connect to Salesforce
• C. Due to high volume of records, Salesforce will need to make a REST API call to the external system
• D. Due to high volume of records, a third party integration tool is required to stage records off platform

Northern Trail Outfitters use Salesforce to track leads and opportunities, and to capture order details. However, Salesforce isn't the system that holds or processes orders. After the order details are captured in Salesforce, an order must be created in the remote system, which manages the orders lifecycle. The integration architect for the project is recommending a remote system that will subscribe to the platform event defined in Salesforce. Which integration pattern should be used for this business use case?

• A. Remote Call-In
• B. Fire and Forget
• C. Batch Data Synchronization
• D. Request and Reply

Northern Trail Outfitters needs to make synchronous callouts “available-to-promise” service to query product availability and reserve inventory during customer checkout process. Which two statements should an integration architect consider when building a scalable integration solution? (Choose two.)

• A. The typical and worst-case historical response times
• B. The maximum query cursors open per user on the service
• C. How many concurrent service calls are being placed
• D. The number of batch jobs that can run concurrently

An integration architect has built a solution using REST API, updating Account, Contact, and other related information. The data volumes have increased, resulting in higher API calls consumed, and some days the limits are exceeded. A decision was made to decrease the number of API calls using bulk updates. The customer prefers to continue using REST API to avoid architecture changes. Which REST API composite recourses should the integration architect use to allow up to 200 records in one API call?

• A. Batch
• B. Composite
• C. SObject Collections
• D. SObject Tree

Northern Trail Outfitters has recently implemented middleware for orchestration of services across platforms. The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system being used requires transactions be captured near real time at a REST endpoint initiated in Salesforce when creating an order object. Additionally, the Salesforce team has limited development resources and requires a low code solution. Which two options will fulfill the use case requirement? (Choose two.)

• A. Use Process Builder to create a platform event, selecting the record type as the platform event name on insert of record
• B. Implement Change Data Capture on the order object and leverage the replay ID in the middleware solution
• C. Use Remote Process Invocation Fire and Forget pattern on insert on the order object using Flow Builder
• D. Implement a Workflow Rule with Outbound Messaging to send SOAP messages to the designated endpoint

Northern Trail Outfitters is in the final stages of merging two Salesforce orgs, but needs to keep the retiring org available for a short period of time for lead management as it is connected to multiple public web site forms. The Sales department has requested that new leads are available in the new Salesforce instance within 30 minutes. Which approach requires the least amount of development effort?

• A. Configure named credentials in the source org
• B. Use the Composite REST API to aggregate multiple leads in a single call
• C. Use the Tooling API with Process Builder to insert leads in real time

Universal Containers (UC) currently owns a middleware tool and has developed an API-led integration architecture with three API tiers. The first tier interfaces directly with the systems of engagement, the second tier implements business logic and aggregates data, and while the third tier interfaces directly with the systems of record. Some of the systems of engagement will be a mobile application, a web application, and Salesforce. UC has a business requirement to return data to the systems of engagement in different formats while also enforcing different security protocols. What should an integration architect recommend to meet these requirements?

• A. Enforce separate security protocols and return formats at the second tier of the API-led architecture
• B. Leverage an Identity Provider solution that communicates with the API tiers via SAML
• C. Implement an API Gateway that all systems of engagement must interface with first
• D. Enforce separate security protocols and return formats at the first tier of the API-led architecture

Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) has a requirement to encrypt a few of widely-used standard fields. NTO also wants to be able to use these fields in workflow rules. Which security solution should an integration architect recommend to fulfill the business use case?

• A. Cryptography Class
• B. Classic Encryption
• C. Data Masking
• D. Shield Platform Encryption

A company wants to standardize exception tracking, handling, and analytics. The company will complete the following: 1. Build a company wide logging service hosted on a middleware platform. 2. Create case object records for exceptions based thresholds. 3. Change all their Apex Loggers to publish Application Exceptions as custom platform events. Which two specifications should the integration architect include in the logging service architecture? (Choose two.)

• A. Receive Application Events through Change Data Capture (CDC)
• B. Create Salesforce Cases conditionally using automatic Case creation rules
• C. Create Salesforce Cases using the Salesforce REST, SOAP, or Bulk API
• D. Subscribe to the Application Exceptions using the Salesforce Streaming API

When a user clicks “Check Preferences” as part of a Lightning flow in Salesforce, preferences from an externally hosted RESTful service are to be checked in real time. The RESTful service has OpenAPI 2.0 JSON definitions, responding in Boolean and string values data types. Which integration pattern and mechanism should be selected to meet the conditions?

• A. Fire and Forget: Process driven Platform Events publishes events on Salesforce Event Bus
• B. Data Virtualization: Salesforce Connect maps external REST data in external objects
• C. Remote Call-In: Salesforce REST API with REST Composite Resources
• D. Request and Reply: Enhanced External Services invokes a REST API

Northern Trail Outfitters needs to use Shield Platform Encryption to encrypt social security numbers in order to meet a business requirement. Which two actions should an integration architect take prior to the implementation of Shield Platform Encryption? (Choose two.)

• A. Review Shield Platform Encryption configurations
• B. Encrypt the data using the most current key
• C. Use Shield Platform Encryption as a user authentication or authorization tool
• D. Encrypt all the data so that it is secure

Northern Trail Outfitters needs to send order and line items directly to an existing finance application webservice when an order is fulfilled. It is critical that each order reach the finance application exactly once for accurate invoicing. Which solution should an architect propose?

• A. Outbound Messaging, which will automatically handle error retries to the service
• B. Button press invokes synchronous callout, with user handling retries in case of error
• C. Trigger invokes Queueable Apex method, with custom error handling process
• D. Trigger makes @future Apex method, with custom error handling process

A customer of Salesforce has used Platform Events to integrate their Salesforce instance with an external third-party artificial intelligence (AI) system. The AI system provides a prediction score for each lead that is received by Salesforce. Once the prediction score is received, the lead information is saved to Platform Events for other processes. The trigger on the Platform Events has failed ever since it was rolled out to production. What type of monitoring should the integration consultant have considered to monitor this integration?

• A. Set up debug logs for Platform Event triggers to monitor performance
• B. Monitor Platform Events created per hour limits across the Salesforce instance
• C. Validate the Platform Event definition matches leads definition
• D. Monitor the volume of leads that are created in Salesforce

An architect is required to integrate with an External Data Source via a Named Credential with an Apex callout due to technical constraints. How is authentication achieved?

• A. Connect via Salesforce Connect
• B. Connect via Communities
• C. Handle authentication with login flows
• D. Handle authentication in the code