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Salesforce Arch-301 Exam Syllabus Topics:

Section	Objectives
Topic 1: B2B Solution Architecture Foundations	– Order Lifecycle Management 1. Order fulfillment and exception handling 2. Order capture and orchestration – B2B Commerce Architecture 1. Commerce cloud data model and storefront architecture 2. Pricing, promotions, and product modeling concepts
Topic 2: Integration and Data Architecture	– Data Architecture 1. Data synchronization and master data management 2. Data modeling for B2B commerce scenarios – System Integration Patterns 1. API-led connectivity and event-driven integration 2. Middleware and external system integration strategies
Topic 3: Solution Design and Architecture Strategy	– Scalable Solution Design 1. Trade-offs in B2B architecture decisions 2. Designing for scalability and performance
Topic 4: Security and Identity	– Access Control 1. Profiles, roles, and permission sets design 2. Customer identity and authentication patterns

Q17. Universal Containers (UC) u about to develop a new call center solution utilizing Salesforce productsincluding Service Cloud, LiveMessage, Experience Cloud, and MuleSoft. UC would prefer no real customer data to be stored within Salesforce but to be made view only. These views should only be utilized by a select few individuals that may be assigned the ability to view this data temporarily and have it removed.
Which two features should a Solution Architect suggest to maintain these constraints?

Apex Callouts, User Permissions Sets

Third-party ETL, Profiles

Salesforce Connect, User Profiles

Salesforce Connect, User Permission Sets

Q18. The business model of Universal Containers (UC) puts a strong emphasis on indirect sales and service processes. UC’s customers are primarily distributors, resellers, and service providers who either sell or service products independently,or collaborate with UC on joint opportunities and cases. In the past, collaboration was primarily driven through email but UC wants to bring both service and sales collaboration onto one consolidated platform.
Which solution should a Solution Architect recommend to create better collaboration and visibility for UC employees, resellers, and service partners?

Grant access to resellers and partners by providing Sales Cloud licenses and Service Cloud licenses.

Grant access to resellers and partners byproviding Partner Community licenses.

Grant access to resellers and partners by providing Customer Community licenses.

Grant access to resellers and partners by providing Customer Community Plus licenses.

Q19. Universal Containers (UC) has implemented a new ecommerce site for its resellers. UC is leveraging a multi- cloud architecture, B2B Commerce, for buildingthe storefront and Service Cloud Web2Case for offering case management functionality to its resellers. UC notices that the case volume is extremely high and a number of resellers are raising cases for trivial issues on the B2B Commerce site.
Which two recommendations should a Solution Architect make to help resellers use the site more efficiently and lower the case volume?
Choose 2 answers

Offload the number of cases received via Web2Case by using Email2Case.

Implement Case Deflection.

Disable anonymous users on the site.

Plan and conduct User Adoption Trainings for resellers on how to use the site.

Q20. During a go-live planning session, the business sponsor expressed some concerns related to achieving high adoption of the solution.
Which two recommendations should a Solution Architect provide that can achieve higher adoption rates for a Salesforce multi-cloud implementation?
Choose 2 answers

Create recurring office hours for end usersto call in to speak directly with the Solution Architect.

Create a feedback loop to give end users the ability to share ideas on how to improve the solution and report bugs.

Suggest that the executive team tie performance metrics to Salesforce usage.

Suggest continuous training methods such as Trailhead, in-app guidance, or embedded videos so end users feel supported using the solution.

Q21. A shipping and logistics company uses Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Marketing Cloud. It relies on Salesforce standard reports for its current KPIs. However, the company wants to see report trends and complex analytics. It also wants the reports to bevisible to salesforce users as well as non-Salesforce users.
Which recommendation should a solution Architect make to meet the company’s needs?

Sales Cloud Einstein

Reporting snapshots

CRM Analytics

Standard Dashboards

Q22. Universal Containers (UC) wants to enhance the online purchase experience for its customers. The product and pricing information is managed in a separate ERP, while customer purchases are primarily triggered online through self-service. UC often offers promotions and discounts through various online seasonal events.
UC wants the ability to provide customized quotes based on its relationship with the customer, as well as proactively process and monitor renewal and upgrade opportunities.
A Solution Architect has identified Sales Cloud, CPQ, Billing, and B2B Commerce as part of a potential multi-cloud solution.
Based on the above considerations, which option identifies the optimal data flow for this solution?

Pricing and Product data should be pushed from ERP to B2B Commerce via the CPQ B2B Commerce Connector to CPQ. Promotions should be handled in B2B Commerce. Invoice and Billing should be maintained in Billing and surfaced on B2B Commerce via a Lightning component.

Pricing and Product data should be pushed from ERP to CPQ and from there to B2B Commerce via the CPQ B2B Commerce Connector. Promotions should be managed in CPQ as CPQ is the pricing master.
Invoice and Billing should be managed in B2B Commerce and pushed to Billing.

Pricing and Product data should be pushed from ERP to both CPQand B2B Commerce, keeping single source of truth. Promotions should be handled in B2B Commerce. Invoice and Billing should be maintained in Billing and pushed to B2B Commerce.

Pricing and Product data should be pushed from ERP to CPQ and from there to B2B Commerce via the CPQ B2B Commerce Connector. Promotions should be handled in B2B Commerce. Invoice and Billing should be maintained in Billing and presented on B2B Commerce via a Lightning component.

Q23. Universal Containers (UC) is currently utilizing Sales Cloud and Revenue Cloud for its direct Sales team. UC would like to create an indirect Sales team with its vendors using Experience Cloud as the front end with the same kind of quoting functionality the direct Sales team uses within Revenue Cloud. However, UC wants to ensure that data from the internal direct Sales team is not visible to the external indirect Sales team in Experience Cloud.
What is the first configuration a Solution Architect should consider when implementing Experience Cloud in this scenario?

Make internal organization-wide defaults Public Read Only to create external visibility.

Enable External Sharing Model to create external organization-wide defaults.

Start creating Sharing Sets for Experience Cloud users to access Sales Cloud.

Add Indirect Sales Team to existing Direct Sales Team Role Hierarchy.

Q24. Universal Containers (UC) recently completed a successful implementation of B2B Commerce classic andsaw an immediate increase in both its customer experience ratings and overall bottom line due to the influx of sales through its commerce application. After this initial experience, UC decided to target its internal Sales team for the same successful outcome with Salesforce CPQ and Sales Cloud.
UC’s requirements include that its internal Sales team be able to sell its current commerce catalog and expand this catalog to include even more products. In addition, UC wants to give its internal Sales team the ability to utilize CPQ’s discounting functionality, along with approval rules for its Sales leadership team. Today, product and pricing is mastered in B2B Commerce and orders are fulfilled in the ERP.
What should a Solution Architect recommend when architecting a solution to meet UC’s requirements?

The Product and Pricing Data should be mastered in the ERP and then integrated into both B2B Commerce and CPQ via REST API.

The Product and Pricing data should be mastered in B2B Commerce and integrated intoCPQ via REST API, and finally integrated to the ERP via SOAP API.

The Product data should be mastered inside B2B Commerce, while Pricing should be mastered inside CPQ. Both solutions should be integrated via Apex and then integrated to the ERP via SOAPAPI.

The Product and Pricing data should be mastered in CPQ and integrated to B2B Commerce via Apex, and then finally integrated into the ERP via a middleware solution.

Q25. Universal Containers (UC) is about to complete the first phase of its digital transformation with its new Lead to Invoice process that incorporates several clouds like Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Revenue Cloud, Experience Cloud, and MuleSoft. UC is now creating a Center of Excellence and focusing on a purely Agile methodology for working on new releases. UC wants to understand some of the considerations around release planning.
What are two recommendations a Solution Architect should make to ensure UC’s releases to production work within its release schedule and there are no delays in future releases?
Choose 2 answers

Fix the scope of the sprint during release planning regardless of how long it takes.

Create a regular sprint cadence across the different teams to demonstrate new functionality.

Use the last sprint of the release to stabilize it and eliminate identified issues.

Utilize the last sprint to include functionality that was missed from previous sprints.

Q26. Towards the end of the discovery phase, the sales manager and subject matter experts raise a request to get hands-on experience with the solution as soon as possible. They want to ensure the requirements they provided are correctly built out inSalesforce. The project sponsor is unsure how that request may affect the schedule.
Which method should a Solution Architect consider in this scenario to validate the requirements during the build sprint without impacting the project timelines?

Ensurethe project sponsor reviews and signs off on the Functional Specification Document as an acknowledgment that what was built aligns with the original requirements.

Run a User Acceptance Testing discovery session, based on the Functional Specification Document, to ensure the testing script meets the end users’ needs.

Give every end user the Functional Specification Document as their training materials and test them on the contents.

Give the end users access to a sandbox environment and a testing script for each of the user stories. Ask UAT testers to perform their tasks and collect feedback from them in the testing script.

Q27. Mask Makers LLC has a traditional sales channel that uses an existing CPQ implementation to process orders.
Customers frequently reorder previous purchases quickly and split the order into several deliveries for different locations. Additionally, these customers are given special pricing through Price Books m CPQ based on annual spending and other parameters. The customer currently makes their purchase by sending an email or calling their appointed sales representative, and then waits to receive a quote.
Mask Makers LLC wants to move away from this very manual and time-consuming process. The company wants to provide its customers with a personalized experience that is simplified and streamlined with existing special pricing visible and the option to self-serve- Mask Makers LLC would also like to deliver this within a short timeframe, as business must continue to grow.
Which design approach should a Solution Architect recommend to meet these requirements within the timeframe while adhering to best practices.

Implement B2B Commerce and use the CPQ B2B Commerce Connector to integrate to CPQ. Set B2B Commerce as the Product and Pricing master.

Implement B2B Commerce and use the CPQ B2B Commerce Connector to integrate to CPQ. Keep CPQ as the Product and Pricing master.

Implement B2B Commerce and use the CPQ B2B Commerce Connector to integrate to CPQ. Allow bidirectional updates to Products and Pricing.

Implement B2B Commerce and build a custom integration to CPQ. Keep CPQ as the Product and Pricing master.

Q28. Universal Containers (UC) wants to add and integrate Marketing Cloud Account Engagement after a recentacquisition. The integration into the global architecture will be as follows:
* Marketing Cloud Account Engagement will be used for lead nurturing with Engagement Studio.
* Marketing Cloud Account Engagement forms will be set up in a website.
* SalesCloud will manage leads created by Marketing Cloud Account Engagement.
UC wants to facilitate adoption by giving sales representatives and marketers enough time to learn about new features on a training platform.
Which approach should a Solution Architectrecommend in order to set up an environment in which users can test the functionalities from end to end?

Create a new Marketing Cloud Account Engagement business unit, recreate the configuration, and link it to a full copy Sales Cloud sandbox.

Create a new Marketing Cloud Account Engagement business unit, recreate the configuration, and link it to the production Sales Cloud org.

Create a new Marketing Cloud Account Engagement business unit, synchronize the production unit and the training unit, and link it to a full copy Sales Cloud sandbox.

Create Marketing Cloud Account Engagement training environments, synchronize the environments, and link it to a full copy Sales Cloud sandbox.

Q29. A team at Universal Containers (UC) is currently working on an initial release of Service Cloud. However, UC’s management team is very enthusiastic about new features of the platform and wants to go to market with the new Service Cloud solution as soon as possible. The current objective of their initial Service Cloud release is mostly about managing their case workload and case assignment processes. A Solution Architect is called into a management meeting and asked when UC can go live with automated chatbots, Einstein case classification, and CRM Analytics for data insights.
How should a Solution Architect respond to the management team considering their request for these new capabilities’?

Agree with the management team to postpone the go-live and increase the scope to include the desired features.

Explain to the management team that these features are still evolving and that it is best to wait a few releases so that they are stable before starting to use them in production.

Explain the long-term vision and roadmap, and thenpropose a logical phasing in which the planned minimum viable product (MVP) is the first step on the journey that will eventually include the desired features.

Agree that the new features are crucial to the success of the initiative and swap parts of the current scope for the most innovative feature.

Q30. Universal Containers (UC) is starting to go through an inventory of capabilities in regard to its many data warehouses. UC’s data warehouses are currently being provided with data from OMS, ERP, Accounting, and other inventory management systems. Data warehouses are utilized by those systems for storage or analytics purposes.
UC plans to utilize the Systems of Engagement framework to classify its systems based on how they will be utilized within the enterprise architecture. UC would like to understand which systems it should directly integrate with versus utilizing the data warehouses where that data may also be stored.
How should a Solution Architect classify the data warehouses as systems within the enterprise architecture of this scenario?

System of Reference

System of Engagement

System of Intelligence

System of Record

Q31. Universal Containers (UC) has a multi-cloud implementation in place covering Service Cloud and Experience Cloud. As part of UC’s support process, service agents often need to search across an external ERP that hosts the order information of its customers. They would like to see their ERP data in Salesforce but IT is weary of duplicating data across systems.
Which integration mechanism should achieve this with standard capabilities?

Salesforce Connect

SOAP API

Change Data Capture

Bulk Rest API

Q32. Universal Containers (UC) is using Service Cloud and B2B Commerce to allow resellers the ability to purchase and support farming equipment UC maintains. UC has invested in smart devices which allows that equipment to inform UC when a part becomes faulty. The data from these devices goes to a public cloud solution where every row of sensor data is received every second from every device. There are 100,000 devices on various farms being actively used. The CIO would like this data to be connected to Salesforce in some manner.
What kind of integration method should a Solution Architect suggest to accommodate this need?

Embed the devices’ sensor data in a view on the Assetrecord.

Load the public cloud solution directly to Salesforce using MuleSoft.

Utilize Platform Events based on the devices’ state change.

Utilize Apex Callouts based on the devices’ state change.

Q33. Universal Containers (UC) uses Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Experience Cloud. The implementation was completed 5+ years ago, and Service Cloud users are now expressing dissatisfaction with system performance. A custom Visualforce page was developed to show relevant data to Experience Cloud users.
The same page is used by the Support team but displays more information based on their profile. UC has a small internal Support team for Salesforce that periodically enables new features in production.
Which best practice should the Solution Architect recommend to avoid these types of issues in the future?

Assess the level of technical debt and test new features with the Product team in a Developer sandbox.

Assess the level of technical debt and test new featuresin a sandbox before enabling in production.

Assess the level of data quality and test new features with a pilot before enabling for all users.

Assess the level of data quality and test new features with a subset of users in production before enabling all users.

Q34. Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) is in the middle of the buildout of Marketing Cloud Account Engagement and Sales Cloud. NTO has multiple business units, and each business unit has different access to lead and contactrecords. NTO wants to see how marketing data Sharing Rules are working across different business units to ensure that different business units can only see lead or contact records for their business unit.
What should a Solution Architect demo to the Marketing team to show that the different business units are connected correctly?

Create a report in 626 Marketing Analytics to show the different business units and the total leads and contacts in each business unit.

Send test emails from Marketing CloudAccount Engagement to the same Iist of leads and contacts to show each lead or contact receiving emails from the various business units.

It’s not possible to have sandboxes with Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, and the Solution Architect will need todemo this with a Salesforce Sandbox fixed to a live Marketing Cloud Account Engagement environment.

Create a dynamic list m multiple business units with the same rules, and show the total leads and contacts m the list per business unit.

Q35. Universal Containers (UC) is concerned about potential data storage issues in Salesforce due to the Invoice, Order, and Inventory data that would be flowing infrom various on-premise legacy CRM and ERP applications. UC would like to view and occasionally report on this data on-demand for day-to-day operational processes and would prefer not to store the data in Salesforce due to data residency requirements.
Which recommendation should the Solution Architect make to meet this requirement?

Use Salesforce Orchestrator with MuleSoft to retrieve the data when it is needed.

Push the data into Salesforce and implement an archival strategy.

Write custom Apex code to retrieve the data in real time from external systems.

Re-architect the implementation using Salesforce Connect and external objects.

Q36. UC Foods, a global manufacturing organisation, builds and sells a varietyof food processing equipment on its B2B Commerce site. Customers often tailor their equipment by selecting from several product variants.
Depending on the options selected, an order will sometimes require manual intervention by a sales person to determinethe price for the customized piece of equipment.
Once the machines have been purchased, each machine comes with a 1-year warranty, which entitles the customer to quarterly visits to inspect and perform maintenance on the machines to keep them in proper working order.
How can a Solution Architect use a multi-cloud solution to address the needs of the organization to efficiently support the selling of equipment and planning of quarterly visits for the machines?

Use a third-party plugin configurator to support the selection of the product options, then create a CPQ quote when manual intervention is required. For the quarterly visits, use Field Service Maintenance Plans.

Use the B2B Commerce aggregated product or dynamic kits to drive the selection of theproduct options, then create a CPQ quote when manual intervention is required. For the quarterly visits, use Field Service Maintenance Plans.

Use the B2B Commerce aggregated product or dynamic kits to drive the selection of the product options, then automatically create a case when manual intervention is required. For the quarterly visits, use Service Contracts and Entitlements.

Use the B28 Commerce aggregated product or dynamic kits to drive the selection of the product options, then create a CPQ quote when manual intervention is required. For the quarterly visits, use Service Contracts and Entitlements.

Q37. Different teams at Universal Containers (UC) are experiencing challenges using their existing tools. The Sales team can only access their application from the office, the Marketing team has to manually import leads coming from the website into their campaign tool, and the Support team lacks a communication history repository between email, social networks, and calls. The website was developed by the IT team, and the Legal team is responsible for the Consent Management Platform used to meet GDPR requirements.
UC wants to improve its relationship with customers, so a digital redesign program is starting with the goal of moving to Salesforce solutions.
Which three steps are necessary to set up a program roadmap?
Choose 3 answers

Identify the high-level workload capacity and planning of the IT and Legal teams.

Prioritize the transformation of activities involving the least development.

Create project plans for each of the projects that will be on the roadmap.

Prioritize the transformation of activities related to customers’ interactions.

Explain how the program contributes to the business’s goals.

Q38. A software solutions company has created several SaaS applications that it sells to its customers. The company would like an easier way to allow customers to renew their subscriptions each period. Today, the company has to run reports across multiple disparate systems to find out which products each customer has purchased, their usage levels, and when each customer needs to renew. Tracking and identifying when to contact customers is a very manual process and involves sates people sending emails with invoices attached.
Customersoften mail paper checks to the company, leading to disconnected invoicing and payment processing.
Which two products should a Solution Architect consider to resolve the subscription, invoicing, and payment issues the company is currently experiencing?
Choose 2 answers

Salesforce Billing

Salesforce Order Management

B2B Commerce

Salesforce CPQ

Q39. Universal Containers (UC) uses Salesforce Sales Cloud to track Opportunities, Quotes, and Orders and is interested in offering self-service capability to its customers via an Experience Cloud site. Most products that UC offers are relatively simple, but some are complex and need to be configured and reviewed by asales representative before an order can be officially placed. The CIO is concerned about the time to market and would like to see two options to address UC’s need.
Which two options should a Solution Architect recommend and present to UC?
Choose 2answers

Implement B2B Commerce on Experience Cloud to allow customers to purchase simple products withAdd complex product configurations in a follow-up phase.

Implement Salesforce CPQ internally first, then build “product configurator” functionalityin a custom Experience Cloud site in a follow-up phase.

Implement a templated self-service Experience Cloud site to show product information, add a “Request a Quote” component, and recommend B2B Commerce implementation in a follow-up phase.

Implement a custom Experience Cloud site with “product configurator” functionality first, then add headless commerce functionality in a follow-up phase.

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