Data-Architect Exam Dumps : Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect (Plat-Arch-201)

The recommended data model for consumer account data to be stored in Salesforce is to use the Account object with Person Accounts and a new B2C page layout. Person Accounts are a special type of accounts that allow you to store information about individual consumers who are not associated with a business account2. Person Accounts have the following advantages3:

They allow you to use the same standard objects and features that you use for business accounts, such as contacts, opportunities, cases, etc.

They enable you to create different page layouts and record types for B2C and B2B customers, which allows you to customize the user interface and business logic for each segment.

They support large data volumes and can scale up to 50 million records or more, which meets the expected growth of consumers over the next five years.

The three considerations needed prior to a SF Connect implementation are to develop an object relationship strategy, identify the external tables to sync into external objects, and assess whether the external data source is reachable via an ODATA endpoint. SF Connect is a feature that allows integrating external data sources with Salesforce using external objects. External objects are similar to custom objects, but they store metadata only and not data. They enable on-demand access to external data via standard Salesforce APIs and user interfaces. To implement SF Connect, a data architect needs to consider how the external objects will relate to other objects in Salesforce, which external tables will be exposed as external objects, and whether the external data source supports ODATA protocol for data access.

Data Loader uses external Id fields to match records in the CSV file with records in Salesforce during an upsert operation. If the CSV file contains duplicate external Id values within the same file, Data Loader will throw an error saying “Duplicate Id Specified” and will not process those records. Therefore, it is important to ensure that the CSV file does not have any duplicate external Id values before using Data Loader to upsert records.