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Salesforce Heroku-Architect Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Security and Compliance | 15% | - Network security: Private Spaces, Peering, VPN - Runtime selection: Private vs Common Runtime - Security certifications and compliance standards |
| Data Management | 17% | - Heroku Redis, Apache Kafka on Heroku - Dataclips, data sharing, third-party data services - Heroku Postgres: scaling, security, followers, backups |
| Heroku Enterprise | 28% | - Governance, Enterprise Teams, access control - Enterprise features: Private Spaces, Heroku Shield - Compliance, governance, and operational management |
| Heroku Platform | 10% | - Using Elements Marketplace: add-ons, buildpacks, Heroku Buttons - Designing scalable, high-performance architectures - Core concepts: buildpacks, slugs, runtime |
| Integrations | 15% | - Integrating Heroku with Salesforce and external systems - Heroku Connect: data synchronization, External IDs - API, event, and messaging integration patterns |
| Application Architecture | 15% | - Microservices and orchestration patterns - Designing for resilience, availability, and maintainability - Twelve-Factor methodology |
Salesforce Certified Heroku Architect FAQ: The Useful Parts
The blueprint above spans 6 domains — treat its weightings as a budget. A domain worth 15% of the score earns a matching share of your week, while lighter areas like Application Architecture get maintained, not marathoned. Walk the full topic list domain by domain, and let the percentages decide where your practice hours land first.
Think of the Heroku-Architect exam as Salesforce asking for proof, not promises: pass it, and you hold the Salesforce Certified Heroku Architect certification, a credential at the Architect / Professional level. The questions are built to measure applied skill across the Salesforce Certified Heroku Architect objectives — the kind employers hire for. It also sits within a broader certification family covering Salesforce Certified Technical Architect, Salesforce Certified Application Architect, so one exam's effort keeps paying into the next.
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Salesforce Certified Heroku Architect Sample Questions:
Salesforce Connect is used for:
- A. Replicatingexternal data into Salesforce
- B. Developing ETL services
- C. Bidirectional syncing of external data in Salesforce
- D. Proxying external data into Salesforce
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
A customer runs Production Check on an application from the Dashboard. Which two runtime issues does it check for? Choose 2 answers.
- A. CDN ensuring a CDN is available to the web dynos
- B. Dyno redudancy: ensuring at least 2 web dynos are available
- C. Production-tier database: ensuring aproduction-tier database is being used
- D. Worker dyno scale: ensuring at least 1 worker dyno is available.
Correct Answer: B,C 🗳️
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The Private Spacesfeature can be useful if you need to:
- A. None of these
- B. Speed up an application's response time by running it on dynos that are located geographically closer to your customers
- C. Ensure that your application's incomingtraffic originates from a whitellsted set of IP addresses
- D. Write Apex applications quickly
Correct Answer: B,C 🗳️
Universal Containers collects sensor data from millions of sensors that are located around the World. Now.
they want to process this data on Heroku. What are three advantages of using a microservices architecture with Apache Kafka on Heroku in this scenario? Choose 3 answers.
- A. Consumers and producers can be scaled independently.
- B. Kafka is highly available and fault-tolerant
- C. Individual services can be scaled easily for high-volume event processing
- D. Individual services can efficiently communicate with each other using REST APIs.
Correct Answer: A,B,C 🗳️
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Callouts from Salesforce to Heroku can be made using:
- A. Apex triggers or outbound messages
- B. Message bus
- C. Web sockets
- D. Corba
Correct Answer: A 🗳️


