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Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Practice Test

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Salesforce 2026

Testing

Universal Containers (UC) has developed extensions of Salesforce Service Cloud for the use of its customer service Teams using the change set development model. Recently, UC acquired a company that develops extensions of an AppExchange app. The development team of the acquired company uses the org development model. The Universal Containers CTO wants both teams to work on a single org and follow the same set of processes. Which development model should the architect recommend to be used by the consolidated development team?

A. Org development model, because the acquired company ' s team is already using it, and it is better than the change set development model.

B. Package development model, because it allows packages to be created and deployed using declarative (point-and-click) development tools, without writing code.

C. Change set development model, because UC is already using it, so it will face less resistance.

D. Package development model, so teams can build release artifacts that can be tested and released independently from artifacts for other projects.

D.   Package development model, so teams can build release artifacts that can be tested and released independently from artifacts for other projects.

What are three benefits of managing change with Packaged Development? Choose 3 answers

A. Manage the number of sandboxes needed to successfully deploy.

B. Clearly divides developers and testers.

C. Modular development process with specification of dependencies among packages.

D. Versioning to help with change management.

E. Making the release cycle more efficient and agile.

C.   Modular development process with specification of dependencies among packages.
D.   Versioning to help with change management.
E.   Making the release cycle more efficient and agile.

What three tools should an architect recommend to support application lifecycle methodology? Choose 3 answers

A. Database management systems

B. Version control repository

C. Middleware

D. Continuous integration tool

E. Issue tracking Tool

B.   Version control repository
D.   Continuous integration tool
E.   Issue tracking Tool

The CEO at Universal Containers (UC) is receiving constant complaints from business stakeholders that the development teams are not frequently delivering value to the end-user. The CEO talked with the CTO, who argues the opposite, explaining that the development teams are delivering value every Sprint. The architect suggests to the CTO to implement Kanban to solve this disagreement. How can Kanban help clarify whether value is being delivered to the business?

A. Kanban teams respond to unplanned work and changes by dropping everything and jumping on the new request, ensuring agility.

B. Kanban traits includes metrics, like lead time and throughput, which increases transparency.

C. Kanban can make use of the Salesforce Agile Accelerator to speed up delivery.

D. Kanban limits work in progress, so the executives will know the development team is not overworked.

B.   Kanban traits includes metrics, like lead time and throughput, which increases transparency.

Universal Containers (UC) is using Salesforce Performance Edition. They are planning to host weekly training sessions for the next four weeks. Each training will be five days long and a new set of trainees will attend every week. UC wants to train these users on samples of production data and delete all the data generated during the training session at the end of the week. What optimal option should a technical architect recommend?

A. Refresh a Developer Pro sandbox every weekend and include an appropriate sandbox template.

B. Refresh a Partial Copy sandbox every weekend and include an appropriate sandbox template.

C. Refresh a Partial Copy sandbox every weekend and load data needed using data loader.

D. Refresh a Developer Pro sandbox every weekend and load data needed using data loader.

B.   Refresh a Partial Copy sandbox every weekend and include an appropriate sandbox template.

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