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Salesforce Plat-Arch-206 Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | Salesforce |
|---|---|
| Exam Name: | Salesforce Certified Heroku Architect |
| Exam Number: | Plat-Arch-206 |
| Exam Format: | Multiple-select, Multiple-choice |
| Certificate Validity Period: | 3 years (maintenance required) |
| Related Certifications: | Salesforce Certified Data Architecture and Management Designer Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II |
| Real Exam Qty: | 60 |
| Exam Duration: | 105 minutes |
| Exam Price: | $400 USD |
| Passing Score: | 70% |
| Available Languages: | English |
| Sample Questions: |  |
| Exam Way: | Online proctored or at a testing center (via Kryterion) |
| Pre Condition: | No formal prerequisites. Salesforce recommends practical experience with Heroku and Salesforce platform integrations. |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/credentials/herokuarchitect |
Salesforce Plat-Arch-206 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Objectives |
|---|---|
| Topic 1: Integrations | - Heroku Connect bidirectional sync with Salesforce CRM - Messaging and event-driven architecture (Kafka, Redis Pub/Sub) - Third-party service integration patterns (SaaS, APIs, webhooks) - Heroku Button and deploy-to-Heroku workflows - Integration with Salesforce Platform Events and Change Data Capture |
| Topic 2: Security | - TLS/SSL and certificate management - Trusted IP ranges and firewall rules - Heroku Shield and HIPAA-compliant architectures - Identity and access management (SSO, Heroku Teams permissions) - Private Spaces and network isolation - Compliance and security best practices (SOC 2, GDPR) |
| Topic 3: Heroku Enterprise | - Heroku Enterprise architecture and Private Spaces - Heroku Connect and Salesforce-to-Heroku data synchronization - Private Space peering and VPN connections - Regional deployment and data residency requirements - Heroku Enterprise account management and governance - Heroku External Objects and Connect REST APIs |
| Topic 4: Architecture and Application Design | - Performance tuning and scalability (autoscaling, dyno sizing) - API-first design and Heroku as a back-end for mobile/IoT apps - Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines - 12-factor app methodology and best practices on Heroku - Microservices and service decomposition on Heroku - Worker processes, background jobs, and queue processing (Heroku Redis, Apache Kafka) |
| Topic 5: Heroku Platform | - Heroku runtime and slug management - App lifecycle management (releases, rollbacks, preboot) - Logging, monitoring, and alerting (Logplex, Heroku metrics, third-party add-ons) - Heroku CLI and deployment workflows (git push, GitHub integration) - Add-ons ecosystem and marketplace - Heroku Teams and enterprise account management - Configuration management (environment variables, config vars) - Heroku architecture and components (dynos, dyno formation, process types) |
| Topic 6: Data | - Heroku Redis architecture and use cases - Heroku Postgres architecture, plans, and provisioning - Database migrations and schema management - Data replication and high availability strategies - Apache Kafka on Heroku architecture and use cases - Heroku Postgres administration (backups, forks, followers, data clips) |
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Salesforce Certified Heroku Architect Sample Questions:
Universal Containers has recently experienced a higher volume of traffic on their mobile app hosted on Heroku. When Universal Containers was running 4 standard-2x dynos with 1 GB RAM each, they encountered multiple H12 ("request timeout") errors. The app never consumed more than 800 MB of RAM.
They then switched to performance-m dynos, with 2.5 GB RAM, and set autoscaling to a maximum of 2 dynos. However, they still encountered H12 ("request timeout") errors.
What remediation should an Architect recommend to alleviate this problem?
- A. Move long-running tasks to worker dynos.
- B. Replace autoscaling with a manual scaling option of 2.
- C. Upgrade to performance-L dynos with 14 GB RAM.
- D. Add a logging add-on from the Elements marketplace.
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
A client's Heroku application is publishing messages to an instance of Apache Kafka on Heroku.
Whatdoes a second Heroku application need to do to consume those messages?
- A. Subscribe to the Kafka partition(s) that the messages are being published to.
- B. Subscribe to the Kafkatopic(s) that the messages are being published to.
- C. Join a consumer group that also includes the publishing application.
- D. Convert the publishing application into a stream processor.
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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A customer needs to test a database schema migration. Which approach should an Architect recommend?
- A. Fork the production database, and run the migration and tests against the fork
- B. Detach the Heroku Postgres add-on. and run the migration and tests against the database.
- C. Create a follower database, and run the migration and test against the follower database
- D. Place the app into maintenance mode, and then perform the tests
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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Which of the following is a Heroku CLI command?
- A. git pushheroku master
- B. git push
- C. heroku create
- D. heroku new
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
Universal Containers (UC) has an app that allows a costumer to schedule a compute-intensive job. It allows the costumer to schedule the job on an ad-hoc basis. UC has decided to break up the app into the following services: - Website: an Interface for their costumers; -Billing: generates monthly invoices based on usage metrics; - Traffic Cop: manages the job queue, job definitions and job schedule; - Job Runner; runs jobs that Traffic Cop queues up. It Is responsible for self-introspection and self-scaling. UC also wants to createa data lake for analytics. What foundational technology and design should an Architect use to manage communication between these services?
- A. Apache Kafka on Heroku Create a Kafka queue for each service. Create a central routing service that connects to all of the Kafka queues and routes data. The central router is attached to a data lake, and pushes every message into It.
- B. Heroku Connect and Salesforce Sync all relevant data into Salesforce and allow it to flow into each service Create custom objects for each serviceand alow them to post to each others' objects as needed.
Push data from Salesforce into Heroku Postgres for a data lake. - C. Heroku Redis, create a large Redis store. Allow each service to place messages with an agreed-upon format into a single queue, backed by the Redis storeServices listen for messages addressed to them and take action on them. Redis will serve as the data lake.
- D. Apache Kafka on Heroku as a bus between all services Create topics for billing, jobs, and website clicks Create an additional service, which will subscribe for all topics, and dump every message into a data lake
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
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