Platform Integration Architect Practice Exam: Test Your Knowledge 2025

A platform integration architect is evaluating a legacy CRM system that needs to integrate with Salesforce. The legacy system uses SOAP web services and has a custom database with 15 million records. What should the architect prioritize when documenting the current system landscape?

An enterprise has multiple systems including an ERP, marketing automation platform, and custom applications, all requiring integration with Salesforce. During landscape evaluation, the architect discovers that three systems cannot support real-time APIs. What is the most important consideration for the integration strategy?

A retail company wants to integrate Salesforce with their inventory management system. Business stakeholders report that sales representatives need to see real-time inventory levels during customer calls, but the warehouse only updates inventory every 4 hours. What should the architect recommend?

During requirements gathering, business users request that customer service agents see order history from an external ERP system within Salesforce. They mention needing 'all order data' available immediately. What is the architect's FIRST step?

A financial services company needs to integrate Salesforce with a legacy mainframe system that processes loan applications. The business requires loan status updates in Salesforce within 30 seconds of mainframe processing. The mainframe can only initiate outbound file transfers. What integration requirement should the architect define?

An organization needs to synchronize 5 million account records between Salesforce and an external system nightly. The business requires error records to be identified and reprocessed. What technical requirements should the architect specify?

A healthcare provider must integrate patient data from Salesforce Health Cloud to multiple downstream systems while maintaining HIPAA compliance and ensuring data lineage tracking. What non-functional requirements should the architect prioritize?

An architect is translating business requirements for a quote-to-cash integration. Sales operations states they need 'fast' quote processing. What should the architect do to create measurable technical requirements?

A company needs to integrate Salesforce with an external order management system. Orders created in Salesforce must appear in the external system within 5 seconds. The external system exposes a REST API that can handle 100 requests per second. Average order volume is 50 orders per minute with peaks of 200 orders per minute. What integration pattern should the architect design?

An enterprise architect is designing integration for a merger where two Salesforce orgs need to share account and opportunity data. Both orgs must remain operational independently. There are 2 million accounts and 10 million opportunities. What solution should the architect recommend?

A retail company needs to display product pricing from an external system on Salesforce account pages. Pricing changes frequently but is acceptable to be up to 15 minutes old. The external system has rate limits of 1000 API calls per hour. What design approach should the architect recommend?

An organization requires guaranteed delivery of opportunity closure events to three downstream systems (ERP, data warehouse, and marketing automation). Network failures and system outages are common. What integration pattern should the architect design?

A financial institution needs to retrieve customer credit scores from an external bureau API during the loan application process. The API takes 3-5 seconds to respond and occasionally times out. What design pattern should the architect implement?

An architect needs to design an integration where Salesforce receives real-time inventory updates from a warehouse management system (WMS). The WMS can send up to 1000 updates per minute during peak hours. What solution should the architect design?

A company is implementing an integration where Salesforce needs to send customer data to a third-party marketing platform. The marketing platform requires OAuth 2.0 JWT bearer flow for authentication. What design elements must the architect include?

An integration developer is implementing a REST API callout from Salesforce to an external system. The external system occasionally returns 500-series errors. What error handling strategy should be implemented in the Apex code?

A developer is building an integration using the Bulk API 2.0 to load 3 million records into Salesforce. What implementation approach should be followed?

A developer is implementing Platform Events for integration and needs to ensure subscribers can recover from failures. What must be implemented?

An integration between Salesforce and an ERP system has been running successfully for 6 months. The development team implemented comprehensive logging to custom objects. The architect notices the custom logging objects now contain 50 million records and are causing performance issues. What maintenance strategy should be implemented?

An organization's integration monitoring dashboard shows that an API integration's average response time has degraded from 500ms to 3000ms over the past month, although no changes were made to the integration code. What should the architect investigate first?