The Salesforce Integration Architecture Designer credential is designed for architects, analysts, and application managers who want to design secure, scalable integrations with the Lightning Platform. The certification exam is designed to determine a candidate’s fluency in effectively communicating technical solutions to technical stakeholders and providing a project delivery framework that ensures quality and success.

A Salesforce Integration Architecture Designer assesses the integration requirements necessary to design secure, scalable solutions for integrating the Salesforce Platform. The designer has experience designing and implementing complex integration patterns on various platforms, as well as communicating the solution and design trade-offs to business and technical stakeholders alike.

The Salesforce Certified Integration Architect Designer candidate has the experience, skills, and knowledge to:

· Design high-performing, scalable, secure, and reliable integrations with the Lightning Platform and other enterprise applications.

· Analyze existing and future state integration architecture.

· Develop and maintain the Integration Architecture blueprint for the project.

· Integrate with other enterprise applications and cloud applications.

· Follow best Domain practices in integration.

· Add identify and apply appropriate integration patterns

· Recommend appropriate integration components and use appropriate platform capabilities

· Design with Platform Limits into considerations

· Familiarity with various Salesforce API and integration tools

· Leverage appropriate integration pattern given an integration scenario

· Understand considerations and use appropriate API for integration scenarios

· Identify security requirements for a given integration scenario

· Understand Error handling options

A candidate for this exam will likely need assistance to:

· Define best-choice Middleware tools in a given scenario (feature/functionality).

A candidate for this exam is not expected to:

· Non-Salesforce Technology/Database Concepts

· Configuration of Integration tools

· Experience with MDM Tools (Master Data Management)

· Lightning Development Experience/Expertise

· Programming Language(s)

The Salesforce Integration Architecture Designer exam measures a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the following objectives. A candidate should have hands-on experience with Integration Architecture application and demonstrate the knowledge and expertise in each of the areas below.

Evaluate the Current System Landscape: 8%

Evaluate Business Needs: 11%

Translate Needs to Integration Requirements: 22%

Design Integration Solutions: 28%

Build Solution: 23%

Maintain Integration: 8%

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