Salesforce Certified Platform Integration Architect

Salesforce Platform Integration Architect Certification: Design & Build Scalable Integrations

The Salesforce Platform Integration Architect certification validates your expertise in designing and implementing secure, scalable integrations on the Salesforce Lightning Platform. This credential is ideal for architects, analysts, and app managers responsible for connecting Salesforce with other systems. Demonstrate your ability to translate business needs into robust technical solutions and deliver high-quality integrations that drive successful outcomes.

Who is this Certification For?

A Salesforce Platform Integration Architect evaluates integration requirements and designs secure, scalable patterns to connect Salesforce with diverse systems. You possess hands-on experience building complex integrations across platforms and can clearly communicate design choices and trade-offs to both business and technical stakeholders.

Typical Roles:

• Technical Architect (Integration Focus)
• System Architect (Integration Focus)
• Programmer Analyst
• Application Manager
• Integration Architect
• Solution Architect

What Can a Qualified Candidate Do?

With this certification, you'll be able to:

• Design High-Performance Integrations: Create secure, scalable, and reliable integrations between Salesforce and enterprise/cloud applications.
• Assess Integration Architectures: Evaluate current and target-state integration architectures.
• Develop Integration Blueprints: Create and maintain comprehensive Integration Architecture blueprints for projects.
• Apply Best Practices: Apply domain best practices and select the optimal integration patterns.
• Optimize for Platform Limits: Design solutions with consideration for Salesforce platform limits.
• Leverage Salesforce APIs: Effectively use and differentiate Salesforce APIs and integration tools.
• Ensure Security: Define and meet security requirements for integrations.
• Plan for Resilience: Plan for error handling and resiliency in integration solutions.

Common Challenges Addressed

This certification helps you address challenges such as:

• Selecting the best-fit middleware based on specific scenarios and capabilities.

Note: This certification does not require deep knowledge of non-Salesforce technologies/databases, hands-on setup of third-party integration tools, experience with MDM platforms, Lightning component development expertise, or proficiency in general programming languages.

Why Pursue This Certification?

This guide helps you assess your readiness for the Salesforce Certified Platform Integration Architect exam. It outlines the target audience, recommended training resources, and detailed exam objectives to aid in your preparation. Salesforce recommends combining practical experience with coursework and self-study.

Exam Details

• Format: 60 multiple-choice/multiple-select questions + up to 5 unscored items
• Time: 105 minutes
• Passing Score: 67%
• Release Alignment: Summer ’23
• Registration Fee: US $400 (plus applicable taxes)
• Retake Fee: US $200 (plus applicable taxes)
• Delivery: Proctored, either at a test center or online (see scheduling info)
• References: No physical or online materials allowed during the exam
• Prerequisite: None

Exam Outline: Key Areas of Focus

The Salesforce Certified Platform Integration Architect Exam assesses your knowledge and skills across these critical areas:

1. Evaluate the Current System Landscape (8%):
   • Identify existing system landscapes, standards, limitations, and protocols.
   • Analyze constraints and pain points within existing systems.
   • Evaluate authentication and authorization needs based on the system landscape.
2. Evaluate Business Needs (11%):
   • Identify functional and non-functional requirements for integration based on use cases.
   • Classify data into Confidential/Secure/Public.
   • Identify key factors for CRM success to include in integration requirements.
   • Consider business growth and regulatory factors impacting integration solutions.
3. Translate Needs to Integration Requirements (22%):
   • Create system and integration pattern inventories from system landscape diagrams.
   • Evaluate system and process constraints based on use cases.
   • Identify integration security/authentication/authorization requirements.
   • Identify performance needs (volumes, response times, latency) and propose appropriate integration solutions.
4. Design Integration Solutions (28%):
   • Identify the integration pattern that best meets business requirements.
   • Define components for a solution that meets business requirements.
   • Identify trade-offs, limitations, and constraints for proposed solutions.
   • Specify appropriate Salesforce APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for technical requirements.
   • Determine standards, components, techniques, and security mechanisms for integration solutions.
5. Build Solution (23%):
   • Identify considerations when designing and implementing APIs (Salesforce as provider/consumer).