Salesforce Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Practice Test

Updated Winter 2025 | Salesforce Development Lifecycle & Deployment Architect certification with Verified Questions.

This Salesforce Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Practice Test is designed specifically to help you prepare for the Salesforce Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect certification Exam.

You will learn Salesforce DevOps concepts, CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and lifecycle management exam-aligned topics.

About this certification

The Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect credential is designed for professionals who have the requisite skills and experience in applying DevOps, application lifecycle management, and governance topics to Salesforce that support client requirements as well as experience communicating solutions and design trade-offs to business and IT stakeholders.

About the Exam

Read on for details about the Salesforce Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Exam.

• Content: 60 multiple-choice/multiple-select questions

• Time allotted to complete the exam: 105 minutes

• Passing score: 65%

• Version: Exam questions align to the Spring '23 release

• Registration fee: US$400, plus applicable taxes as required per local law

• Retake fee: $200, plus applicable taxes as required per local law

• Delivery options: Proctored exam delivered onsite at a testing center or in an online proctored environment; click here for information on scheduling an exam.

• References: No hard copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam.

• Prerequisite: None

Exam Outline:

The Salesforce Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Exam measures a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the following objectives.

Application Lifecycle Management: 8%

• 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: 13%

• 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: 15%

• 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 that support the defined org strategy.

• Given a customer scenario, define an environment (sandbox) strategy that utilizes the correct sandbox types (for example, multiple project streams, training requirements, staging, production, and hotfixes).

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

Building: 14%

• Given a customer scenario, explain how to use source control branching/versioning/merging, 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: 14%

• 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: 13%

• 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: 13%

• 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: 10%

• Given a detailed customer environment scenario including a specific request, explain the implications of 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.