Application Architect Data-Architect Salesforce Study Notes

Universal Containers (UC) uses Salesforce for tracking opportunities (Opportunity). UC uses an internal ERP system for tracking deliveries and invoicing. The ERP system supports SOAP API and OData for bi-directional integration between Salesforce and the ERP system. UC has about one million opportunities. For each opportunity, UC sends 12 invoices, one per month. UC sales reps have requirements to view current invoice status and invoice amount from the opportunity page. When creating an object to model invoices, what should the architect recommend, considering performance and data storage space?

Universal Containers (UC) is using Salesforce Sales & Service Cloud for B2C sales and customer service but they are experiencing a lot of duplicate customers in the system. Which are two recommended approaches for UC to avoid duplicate data and increase the level of data quality?

Universal Containers (UC) is going thought major reorganization of their sales team. This would require changes to a large a number of group members and sharing rules. UCs administrator is concerned about long processing time and failure during the process.

What should a Data architect implement to make changes efficiently?

Universal Containers (UC) has an open sharing model for its Salesforce users to allow all its Salesforce internal users to edit all contacts, regardless of who owns the contact. However, UC management wants to allow only the owner of a contact record to delete that contact. If a user does not own the contact, then the user should not be allowed to delete the record. How should the architect approach the project so that the requirements are met?