Salesforce Data-Architect Exam Study Material
Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect Plat-Arch-201- 257 Questions & Answers
- Update Date : May 28, 2026
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Question 1
Cloud Kicks has the following requirements: • Their Shipment custom object must always relate to a Product, a Sender, and a Receiver (all separate custom objects). • If a Shipment is currently associated with a Product, Sender, or Receiver, deletion of those records should not be allowed. • Each custom object must have separate sharing models. What should an Architect do to fulfill these requirements?
A. Associate the Shipment to each parent record by using a VLOOKUP formula field.B. Create a required Lookup relationship to each of the three parent records.
C. Create a Master-Detail relationship to each of the three parent records.
D. Create two Master-Detail and one Lookup relationship to the parent records.
Question 2
Universal Containers (UC) management has identified a total of ten text fields on the Contact object as important to capture any changes made to these fields, such as who made the change, when they made the change, what is the old value, and what is the new value. UC needs to be able to report on these field data changes within Salesforce for the past 3 months. What are two approaches that will meet this requirement? Choose 2 answers
A. Create a workflow to evaluate the rule when a record is created and use field update actions to store previous values for these ten fields in ten new fields.B. Write an Apex trigger on Contact after insert event and after update events and store the old values in another custom object.
C. Turn on field Contact object history tracking for these ten fields, then create reports on contact history.
D. Create a Contact report including these ten fields and Salesforce Id, then schedule the report to run once a day and send email to the admin.
Question 3
The data architect for UC has written a SOQL query that will return all records from the Task object that do not have a value in the WhatId field: Select id, description, Subject from Task where WhatId != NULL When the data architect usages the query to select values for a process a time out error occurs. What does the data architect need to change to make this query more performant?
A. Remove description from the requested field set.B. Change query to SOSL. ??
C. Add limit 100 to the query.
D. Change the where clause to filter by a deterministic defined value.
Question 4
NTO has decided that it is going to build a channel sales portal with the following requirements: 1.External resellers are able to authenticate to the portal with a login. 2.Lead data, opportunity data and order data are available to authenticated users. 3.Authenticated users many need to run reports and dashboards. 4.There is no need for more than 10 custom objects or additional file storage. Which community cloud license type should a data architect recommend to meet the portal requirements?
A. Customer community.B. Lightning external apps starter.
C. Customer community plus.
D. Partner community.
Question 5
Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) has implemented Salesforce for its sales users. The opportunity management in Saiesforce Is implemented as follows: 1. Sales users enter their opportunities in Salesforce for forecasting and reporting purposes. 2. NTO has a product pricing system (PPS) that is used to update the Opportunity Amount field on opportunities on a daily basis. 3. PPS is the trusted source within NTO for Opportunity Amount. 4. NTO uses Opportunity Forecast for its sales planning and management. Sales users have noticed that their updates to the Opportunity Amount field are overwritten when PPS updates their opportunities. How should a data architect address this overwriting issue?
A. Create a custom field for Opportunity amount that PSS updates separating the field sales user updates.B. Change PSS integration to update only Opportunity Amount field when the value is null.
C. Change Opportunity Amount field access to Read Only for sales users field-level security.
D. Create a custom field for Opportunity amount that sales users update separating the field that PPS updates.