B2C Commerce Architect
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Exam Overview
From the official exam guide
Questions
65
Duration
105 min
To Pass
65%
Pricing
$200 registration · $100 retake
Delivery
Online proctored or at a testing center
Experience
3-5 years B2C Commerce development recommended
Prerequisites
None (B2C Commerce Developer cert recommended)
Exam Topics
Each topic section shows the topic weight, learning objectives, and links to study resources.
Design/Discovery29%
Technical specification creation, architectural artifact authoring, requirements gap analysis, API and AppExchange solution evaluation, integration point diagramming, data volume and migration planning, and multi-site architecture patterns.
- Given a customer's business requirement, create a technical specification that accurately reflects the business requirement.
- Given business and technical requirement details, create standard technical artifacts that are complementary and accurate to the design and project needs.
- Given business and technical requirement details, review implementation specifications for solutions, future growth, and gap analysis to stakeholders and provide analysis to defend if necessary.
- Given systems integration requirements and technical details, evaluate applicable versions of AppExchange solutions, third-party technical specifications, and API documentation for integrations.
- Given the systems that are interacting with the platform, evaluate the integration points, data type and volume, and data migration approach, plus diagram the system architecture.
Resources
Build19%
Implementation quality oversight, SFRA cartridge layering and override patterns, best practices validation, load testing and KPI evaluation, CI/CD pipeline setup, code compilation, and deployment to B2C Commerce environments.
- Given a set of technical specifications, evaluate the implementation process to ensure the solution meets the business requirements.
- Given an implementation, validate that best practices are followed and guide their usage so that the end solution is secure, performant, and modular.
- Given a complex issue or set of issues, guide a development team in the steps toward resolution.
- Given an implementation and known key performance indicators (KPIs), support in load testing, evaluate results, and ensure the implementation meets expectations.
- Given a collection of cartridges and data, define a process to compile and deploy to Salesforce environments.
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Monitoring/Troubleshooting14%
Log Center configuration, quota violations and script execution timeouts, cache utilization and troubleshooting, service timeout diagnosis, WebDAV performance, performance analysis tooling, root cause identification, and proactive system health management.
- Given an implementation, evaluate the end-to-end needs for custom logging configuration and the ability to leverage Log Center, and investigate other tools required to identify potential and existing issues for governance, trust, and best practices.
- Given an implementation performance issue, demonstrate the ability to identify and address existing and potential performance issues, including quota violations, cache utilization, service timeouts, and optimization opportunities.
- Given an implementation issue, demonstrate the ability to identify root causes and recommend solutions.
- Given an implementation, evaluate and adjust the system proactively to ensure a healthy, scalable system for current and future business operational needs.
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Integrations and Customizations22%
SOAP vs. REST protocol selection, real-time vs. batch processing decision, Service Framework for synchronous integrations, Job Framework for batch operations, OCAPI vs. SCAPI, pipeline-to-controller migration, AppExchange cartridge evaluation, and integration security.
- Given a business requirement of integrating with a third-party web service, identify which protocol (SOAP/REST) and which approach (real-time vs. batch processing) should be used and then apply all security strategies and best practices that SFCC can support.
- Given a set of batch process requirements, leverage the productized Job Framework for batch process integration.
- Given a list of third-party AppExchange solutions, identify legacy code that still uses Pipelines and define an integration approach with Controllers.
- Given a set of real-time integration requirements, leverage the productized Service Framework for real-time integration.
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Launch16%
SEO alias configuration for domain, locale, and currency routing, hostname alias mapping rules, rollback planning, post-launch monitoring, data and code replication scheduling, and data migration process planning.
- Given requirements for a site, set up aliases that follow SEO best practices and accurately land customers on the desired domain, locale, and currency.
- Given a site launch checklist, identify required rollback steps, plan post-production activities, and ensure all launch tasks are completed.
- Given a site launch, monitor launch activities that cover all system health indicators.
- Given dependencies between sources of site data, define jobs and data replication schedules.
- Given data migration scenarios, plan and support the data migration process.
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