Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Certification Training

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The Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Certification validates skills in designing and implementing efficient software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes and deployment strategies. It covers areas such as continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), version control, environment management, and release automation. Aimed at architects and DevOps professionals, it ensures proficiency in optimizing development workflows, ensuring code quality, and automating deployment pipelines to achieve efficient software delivery. Certification demonstrates expertise in implementing best practices for agile development, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security in deployment processes. It enhances career prospects by validating knowledge in SDLC architecture, enabling professionals to drive effective software development and deployment strategies that meet business objectives.

Course Content

Application Lifecycle Management

Given the project risk and customer requirements, explain how to assess the benefits and risks of the different development methodologies and recommend the appropriate governance strategies based on the customer maturity

Planning

System Design

Building

Deploying

Testing

Releasing

Operating

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Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Certification Training

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Course Content

Application Lifecycle Management

Given the project risk and customer requirements, explain how to assess the benefits and risks of the different development methodologies and recommend the appropriate governance strategies based on the customer maturity

Planning

Given a complex customer scenario, assess Application Lifecycle Management maturity and identify the people, technology, and processes required

Understand customer environment risks and articulate appropriate mitigation strategies

Given a customer scenario, analyze and recommend the appropriate governance framework

Given a customer scenario involving a new Salesforce release (Summer, Winter, Spring), recommend the appropriate strategy to mitigate risks

System Design

Explain the advantages of using agile tools to support an agile development process

Given a customer landscape and their requirements, evaluate business, technical and architectural considerations which support the defined org strategy

Given a customer scenario, define an environment (sandbox) strategy that utilizes the correct sandbox types.

Given a scenario, compare, contrast and recommend the components and tools of a successful deployment strategy

Building

Given a customer scenario, explain how source control branching/versioning/merging can be used and recommend appropriate strategies

Describe the appropriate approaches to building test data strategy and unit test to ensure successful code (positive, negative, permission-based, large data volume)

Given a customer scenario, describe the appropriate development model (org-based vs package-based) and development environment (scratch org vs sandboxes)

Describe the methods to ensure the delivery of quality code, such as coding standards, pull requests, code review, and static code analysis

Deploying

Given a scenario, describe the capabilities, limitations and considerations when using the Metadata and Tooling APIs for deployment

Given a scenario, describe approaches to handle pre and post deployment steps, including items not supported via the APIs

Given a scenario, describe approaches to manage and deploy technical reference data

Testing

Given a customer scenario, describe and recommend an appropriate testing methodology

Given a customer testing strategy, describe the appropriate test execution methodology and coverage requirements

Given a customer scenario, describe and recommend a unified test data strategy that utilizes representative data in a secure manner throughout the development lifecycle

Releasing

Given a scenario, analyze and explain the use cases and considerations when using managed, unmanaged and unlocked packages

Apply map sandbox strategy to a specific Release Plan taking into consideration multiple project streams, training requirements, staging and hotfixes

Given a customer scenario, describe and recommend an appropriate release management strategy

Operating

Given a detailed customer environment scenario including a specific request, explain the implications for incorporating the request directly in a production environment

Given a customer scenario where changes are made directly in production, explain the implications on the development lifecycle and steps to integrate changes into Application Lifecycle Management

Given a multi-org customer scenario, compare and contrast approaches for managing common release artifacts

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