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Question 1

Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) has recently changed their Corporate Security Guidelines. The guidelines require that all cloud applications pass through a secure firewall before accessing on-premise resources. NTO is evaluating middleware solutions to integrate cloud applications with on-premise resources and services.

What are two considerations an Integration Architect should evaluate before choosing a middleware solution?

Choose 2 answers

A : The middleware solution is capable of establishing a secure API gateway between cloud applications and on-premise resources.

B : An API gateway component is deployable behind a Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) or perimeter network.

C : The middleware solution enforces the OAuth security protocol.

D : The middleware solution is able to interface directly with databases via an ODBC connection string.

Answer: A,B

Question 2

A new feature release in Salesforce will result in changes to the structure of certain objects that are used in an integration with an external system. What should be considered to ensure continued operation of the integration following the Salesforce update?

A : Inform the users about the upcoming changes

B : Review and adapt the integration to handle changes in the Salesforce object structure

C : Create backup Salesforce objects to replace the changed objects

D : Limit the number of API calls to the changed objects

Answer: B

Question 3

You are architecting an integration solution between Salesforce and an external system, where the use case requires transferring 500,000 account records from Salesforce to the external system twice a day. The business cannot tolerate more than 2 minutes of latency in this transfer. Which integration solution should you propose?

A : Use the SOAP API for robust, synchronous integration

B : Use the REST API for a stateless, cacheable integration

C : Use the Bulk API for handling large amounts of data

D : Use the Streaming API for continuous, real-time integration

Answer: C

Question 4

Northern Trail Outfitters is in the final stages of merging two Salesforce orgs but needs to keep the retiring org available for a short period of time for lead management as it is connected to multiple public web site forms. The sales department has requested that new leads are available in the new Salesforce instance within 30 minutes.

Which two approaches will require the least amount of development effort?

Choose 2 answers

A : Configure named credentials in the source org.

B : Use the Composite REST API to aggregate multiple leads in a single call.

C : Use the tooling API with Process Builder to insert leads in real time.

D : Call the Salesforce REST API to insert the lead into the target system.

Answer: A,B

Question 5

A customer's enterprise architect has identified requirements around caching, queuing, error handling, alerts, retries, event handling, etc. The company has asked the Salesforce integration architect to help fulfill such aspects with their Salesforce program.

Which three recommendations should the Salesforce integration architect make?

Choose 3 answers

A : Transform a fire-and-forget mechanism to request-reply should be handled bymiddlewaretools (like ETL/ESB) to improve performance.

B : Provide true message queueing for integration scenarios (including orchestration,processchoreography, quality of service, etc.) given that a middleware solution is required.

C : Message transformation and protocol translation should be done within Salesforce.Recommend leveraging Salesforce native protocol conversion capabilities as middle watoolsare NOT suited for such tasks

D : Event handling processes such as writing to a log, sending an error or recovery process, orsending an extra message, can be assumed to be handled by middleware.

E : Event handling in a publish/subscribe scenario, the middleware can be used to route requests or messages to active data-event subscribers from active data-event publishers.

Answer: B,D,E

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