Salesforce Development-Lifecycle-and-Deployment-Architect Exam Dumps

Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect (Plat-Arch-202)

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Exam Code	Development-Lifecycle-and-Deployment-Architect
Exam Name	Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect (Plat-Arch-202)
Questions	225 Questions Answers With Explanation
Update Date	04, 29, 2026
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Question # 1

Universal Containers (UC) development team is developing a managed package for AppExchange. The product team has finished developing and testing, and wants to submit a Security Review. However, the product manager has concerns on the few errors from the Checkmarx code scanner. How should the product team proceed?

 A. Review the Checkmarx errors. If there is no need to fix, mark them as false positive and attach explanation, then submit. 
B. Leave them to the Salesforce security review team, they would catch it if those are true problems. 
C. Leavee a partner support case, the partner manager will engage Salesforce support resources to help. 
D. Review the Checkmarx errors and fix all of them before submitting security review. Salesforce security review team will reject the request if any error remains. 

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Question # 2

Universal Containers has just initiated a project to implement partner community. The application will be deployed into a production environment currently in use by a large Salesforce user base. The project manager has insisted that the development and testing team use a single developer sandbox. What is the risk with this approach?

 A. Tester will encounter platform limits due to developer sandbox capacity limits. 
B. Testers will experience functional changes throughput testing due to not having isolation form development. 
C. Testers will hit governor limits due to large volume of users in the developer sandbox. 
D. Refreshing the developer sandbox will take significant time. 

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Question # 3

Which two actions will contribute to an improvement of code security? Choose 2 answers 

A. Hire a company specialized in secure code review the current code. 
B. Implement a pull request and secure code review. 
C. Integrate a static code security analysis tool in the CI/CD process. 
D. Use two developers to review and fix current code vulnerabilities. 

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Question # 4

Universal Containers (UC) is embarking on a large program of work, with different projects and different vendors. UC created a center of excellence (COE) that is struggling with scope creep between the different projects. What role should the architect suggest be added to the COE? 

A. Scrum master 
B. Release managers 
C. Product owner 
D. Change managers

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Question # 5

In architect is working on a project that relies on functionality that cannot be deployed via the Metadata API. What is the best practice for making sure these components are deployed successfully? 

A. Generate and deploy a change set that enables the required settings 
B. Generate and install a managed package that enables the required settings 
C. Utilize the metadata API's deployAllComponents call 
D. Document deployment steps for any components that cannot be automatically deployed 

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Question # 6

A technical lead is performing all code reviews for a team and is finding many errors and improvement points. This is delaying the team’s Deliveries. Which two actions can effectively contribute to the quality and agility of the team? Choose 2 answers 

A. Choose the most senior developer to help the technical lead in the code review. 
B. Create development standards and train teams in those standards. 
C. Skip the code review and focus on functional tests and UAT. 
D. Use static code analysis tool in the pipeline before manual code review.

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Question # 7

Universal Containers has a stable continuous integration process and all stakeholders are happy. However, user testing takes long time, as data has to be setup. What should an Architect do to address this problem? 

A. Include automated sample data during deployment. 
B. Advise the project manager to assign more users to create test data.
 C. Test data creation is outside the scope of continuous integration. 
D. Train business users to create test data more efficiently. 

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Question # 8

The CTO at Universal Containers is complaining to the software development managers that he has no visibility of their teams’ work status. What two software development methodologies should an architect suggest to solve this issue, and why? Choose 2 answers

A. Waterfall, because it defines a fixed schedule and duration for each activity. 
B. DevOps, because monitoring and logging practices help you stay informed of performance in real time. 
C. Scrum, because openness is one of the five core Scrum values. 
D. Kanban, because one of its basic elements is to make everything visible, creating consistent transparency of work items 

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Question # 9

Why does Salesforce prohibit Stress Testing against Production? 

A. There is not enough CPU 
B. It is a shared environment 
C. It is blocked by data center infrastructure 
D. It causes Internet congestion 

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Question # 10

Universal Containers (UC) had implemented two full sandboxes. One, known as Stage, is used for performance, regression testing, and production readiness check. The other is used primarily for user acceptance testing (UAT). Both full sandboxes were refreshed two months ago. Currently, UC is targeting to start user acceptance testing in two weeks, and do production release in four weeks. An admin also realized Salesforce will have a major release in six weeks. UC needs to release on the current Salesforce version, but also wants to make sure the new Salesforce release does not break anything What should an architect recommend?

A. Refresh Stage now, and do not refresh UAT. This way, Stage will be on preview and UAT will not. 
B. Use the Sandbox Preview Guide to check if there is any necessary action needed. UC might have to prepare, refresh, and redeploy to UAT. 
C. Visit trust.salesforce.com to figure out the preview cutoff dates, if the dates had passed, work with support to get on the preview instance. 
D. Refresh Stage from UAT now. After preview cutoff, use the upgraded one for regression test, use the non-upgraded one for user acceptance Test. 

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Question # 11

Which two statements are accurate about why Mock objects are needed when writing test classes? Choose 2 answers 

A. Mock can also be used on the classes that extend the batchable interface to bypass the batch jobs. 
B. Using a Mock allows the test class to bypass the dependencies of other objects, methods, state, or behaviors. Therefore, the developer has total control of his own code. 
C. Some methods are invoking long running processes, using Mock is a shortcut of bypassing the long executions. 
D. A Mock is needed whenever the code makes an HTTP callout. 

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Question # 12

Universal Containers is working on the next phase of development for their Salesforce implementation involving a large amount of custom development. Which two strategies should be considered to address a critical production issue occurring in the middle of development? Choose 2 answers 

A. Create separate branches for current development and production bug fixes and deploy the fix with current development when ready 
B. Utilize one branch for both development and production bug fixes to avoid out-of-sync branches and simplify deployment 
C. Utilize a source control system to allow separate branches for current development and production bug fixes 
D. Refresh a sandbox for replication of the issue and testing the use -case scenarios once the code is fixed 

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Question # 13

When replacing an old legacy system with Salesforce, which two strategies should the plan consider to mitigate the risks associated with migrating data from the legacy system to Salesforec? Choose 2 answers? 

A. Identify the data relevant to the new system, including dependencies, and develop a plan/scripts for verification of data integrity. 
B. Migrate users in phases based on their functions, requiring parallel use of legacy system and Salesforce for certain period of time. 
C. Use a full sandbox environment for all the systems involved, a full deployment plan with test data generation scripts, and full testing including integrations. 
D. Use a full sandbox environment and perform test runs of data migration scripts/processes with real data from the legacy system. 

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Question # 14

Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) has well-defined release management processes for both large and small projects. NTO's development team created a workflow and a trigger for the changes in its opportunity renewal process. What should the architect recommend for release planning of these changes? 

A. Plan this as a patch release and align with the Salesforce patch release. 
B. Plan this as a major release and align with a Salesforce major release. 
C. Plan this as a minor release with training and change management. 
D. Plan this an interim release after checking with Salesforce support. 

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Question # 15

Universal Containers is having trouble deploying metadata from SIT to UAT. UAT is complaining that it does not recognize some new Salesforce metadata types to be deployed. The deployment from Dev to SIT worked perfectly What could be the problem?

A. There is no problem, this is expected behavior. 
B. UAT is on a preview release and SIT is not. 
C. SIT is on a preview release and UAT is not. 
D. Use the DX command line instead. 

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Question # 16

Universal Containers has asked the salesforce architect to establish a governance framework to manage all of those Salesforce initiatives within the company. What is the first step the Architect should take? 

A. Implement a comprehensive DevOps framework for all initiatives within Universal Containers 
B. Establish a global Center of Excellence to define and manage Salesforce development standards across the organization 
C. Identify relevant Stakeholders from within Universal Containers to obtain governance goals and objectives 
D. Implement a project management tool to manage all change requests on the project 

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Question # 17

Ursa Major Solar (UMS) has used Aura components significantly in its Salesforce application development. UMS has established a robust test framework and the development team follows the Salesforce recommended testing practices. UMS team uses Salesforce’s test tool To check for common accessibility issues. In which two environments the UMS team can call Aura accessibility tests? Choose 2 answers

A. JSTEST 
B. ACCTEST 
C. WebDriver Test 
D. AuraDriver Test

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Question # 18

Universal Containers has multiple minor and major releases in a year .Minor releases have sample configuration changes, while major releases involve large number of complex code components. What is the deployment tools should an architect recommend for both types of releases? 

A. Change sets for minor releases and Force.com IDE for major releases.
 B. Change sets for both minor releases and major releases. 
C. Change sets for minor releases and metadata API for major releases.
 D. Force.com IDE for minor releases and metadata API for major releases. 

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Question # 19

Universal Containers (UC) is implementing Salesforce and wants the custom code to be unit tested for all the adverse conditions. Which two best practices should an Architect recommend while implementing Test Classes? Choose 2 answers 

A. Execute test classes under various profiles 
B. Test classes should not create custom setting data. 
C. Test classes must use existing data in the environment. 
D. Test data must have positive as well as negative data. 

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Question # 20

Universal Containers (UC) has used Salesforce for the last 6 years with 50% custom code. UC has recently implemented continuous integration. UC wants to improve old test classes whenever new functionality invalidates tests. UC also wants to reduce the deployment time required. What should Architect recommend? 

A. A Do not execute any test classes in sandboxes and Production. 
B. Do not execute test classes in sandboxes and all test classes in Production. 
C. Test classes cannot be executed in sandboxes. 
D. Execute all test classes in sandboxes and selected test classes in Production. 

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Question # 21

Universal Containers has seven orgs in different regions. Its processes are global and standardized but each region needs the flexibility to be able to understand the global code and customize some aspects for its regions. Which development model is optimized for this need? 

A. Use a managed package for global code and another managed package for ail regions code. 
B. Use a managed package to deploy the global code and allow local teams to request the addition of code within that package. 
C. Create a centralized Git with all the code and where the global team approves the changes made by the local teams. 
D. Use unlocked packages to deploy the global code and allow each country to create its customized unlocked package extensions, 

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Question # 22

A Salesforce Administrator has initiated a deployment using a change set. the deployment has taken more time than usual. What is the potential reason for this? 

A. The change set includes changes to permission sets and profiles. 
B. The change set includes Field type changes for some objects. 
C. The change set includes new custom objects and custom fields.
 D. The change set performance is independent of included components. 

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Question # 23

Universal Containers has discovered a Sev0 defect in production. Tens of thousands of records will be created with incorrect data in minutes, producing significant brand damage as a consequence. The Salesforce administrator has suggested that the defective text field be replaced with a new picklist field directly in production. The page layout will be modified so that the text-field is removed and the new picklist field added. What should the Salesforce architect advise? 

A. Deny the suggestion and explain to everyone that the risk is too high and the next release window is on the weekend. 
B. Pair with the administrator, and review each change as it happens 
C. Explain that only developers are certified to make changes directly in production. 
D. Call the security team and begin organizing d penetration test. 

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Question # 24

Salesforce has three major releases a year. Which type of change introduced by a release can cause automated browser tests to need updating? 

A. DOM changes 
B. New standard fields 
C. Metadata schema changes 
D. New Apex methods

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Question # 25

Universal Containers is delivering many changes to its Salesforce system. Adoption reports are discovering that many features are unused. The steering committee wants this to change and is looking to the architect for advice. What should an architect recommend to overcome this? 

A. Using Lightning Web Components for every user interface.
 B. Adopting user centered design to understand user needs before building the solution. 
C. Stop development until current features start being used. 
D. Sending weekly communication emails reporting on least engaged users 

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