Salesforce development lifecycle and deployment designer practice test

Exam Title: Salesforce Certified Development Lifecycle and Deployment Designer

Last update: Nov 27 ,2025
Question 1

Universal Containers is in the process of testing their integration between salesforce and their on-
premise ERP systems. The testing team has requested a sandbox with up to 10,000 records in each
object to benchmark the integration performance. What is the fastest approach an Architect should
recommend?

  • A. Spin off a partial copy sandbox using a sandbox template with all the objects required for testing the integration.
  • B. Spin off a Developer pro sandbox, migrate the metadata and load the data using data loader.
  • C. Spin off a full copy sandbox with all the objects that are required for testing the integration.
  • D. Spin off a Development sandbox, migrate the metadata and load the data using data loader.
Answer:

A

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Question 2

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.
Answer:

A, D

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Question 3

Universal Containers (UC) has a large user base (>300 users) and was originally implemented eight
years ago by a Salesforce Systems Integration Partner. Since then, UC has made a number of changes
to their Visual force pages and Apex classes in response to customer requirements, made by a variety
of Vendors and internal teams. Which three issues would a new Technical Architect expect to see
when evaluating the code in the Salesforce org? Choose 3 answers

  • A. Multiple triggers on the same object, making it hard to understand the order of operations.
  • B. Multiple unit test failures would be encountered.
  • C. Broken functionality due to Salesforce upgrades.
  • D. Duplicated logic across Visual force pages and Apex classes performing similar tasks.
  • E. Custom built JSON and String manipulation Classes that are no longer required.
Answer:

A, D, E

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Question 4

Universal Containers (UC) has been following the Waterfall methodology to deliver customer apps in
Salesforce. As the business is growing at scale and with demand to incorporate features and
functionality at faster pace, UC is finding the Waterfall approach is not an optimal process, and
intends to transition towards an agile development methodology. Which are the two strengths of
using an agile development methodology? Choose 2

  • A. Careful documentation is done at each step of the process so a target body of knowledge is available for inspection.
  • B. There are many small releases of functional code, allowing stakeholders to see and touch the work in progress.
  • C. All elements of the build are fully understood before work begins, reducing risk of unpleasant surprises.
  • D. The project requirements in later phases are expected and accommodated by the process, by design.
Answer:

B, D

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Question 5

Universal Containers (UC) innovative apps division is releasing an application which can be installed
in their trading partners Salesforce environment. The partners can then build on top of the
application with process builders and triggers so the container booking process can be integrated
with the trading partners own processes. What is the recommended mechanism for releasing the
application?

  • A. Zip file deployable by Force.Com Migration Tool.
  • B. Unmanaged Package.
  • C. Change Sets.
  • D. Managed Package.
Answer:

D

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Question 6

Universal Containers (UC) development team is using an Agile tool to track the status of build items,
but only in terms of stages. UC is not able to track any effort estimates, log any hours worked, or
keep track of remaining effort. For what reasons should UC consider using the agile tool for effort
tracking?

  • A. Allows the organization to track the Developers work hours for salary compensation purposes.
  • B. Allows the management team to make critical timeline commitments based solely on developer estimates.
  • C. Allows the Developer to compare their effort, estimates and actuals to better adjust their future estimates.
  • D. Allows the management team to manage the performance of bad developers who are slacking off.
Answer:

C

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Question 7

Universal Containers has multiple project learns building into single org. The project teams are
concerned with design conflicts and ensuring a common design process What should an Architect
recommend to prevent this conflict?

  • A. Create a Center of Excellence Charter document.
  • B. Create Design Standard for Governance.
  • C. Create a backup system using GIT Repositories.
  • D. Create a Release Management process.
Answer:

B

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Question 8

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.
Answer:

D

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Question 9

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.
Answer:

B, D

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Question 10

Universal Containers (UC) is using Salesforce for their sales organization. The sales users have created
several dashboards using multiple running users. The admins have also added a few workflow rues
that send email notifications to some sales users. What should an Architect consider while planning
the deployment of such components? Choose 2 answers

  • A. If the username in the source org doesn't exist in the target org, the deployment will continue and Salesforce will automatically create the username in the target org.
  • B. User fields are ignored during metadata deployments and all such users need to be manually created in the target org before starting the deployment.
  • C. If the username in the source org doesn't exist in the target org, the deployment will stop until the usernames are resolved or removed.
  • D. User Fields are preserved during metadata deployments and Salesforce attempts to locate a matching user in the target org during deployment.
Answer:

C, D

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