Lesson 4: Development Lifecycle, DevOps, Governance, Documentation, and Architecture Defense
Lesson Overview
This lesson develops practical skills in development lifecycle, devops, governance, documentation, and architecture defense for Salesforce Application Architect Expertise (ARC901).
Topics Covered
Environment strategy, sandboxes, scratch org concepts, branches, packages, and metadata
CI/CD, testing pyramid, quality gates, security scanning, data deployment, and rollback
Center of excellence, standards, technical debt, roadmap, portfolio, and operating model
Release management, adoption, training, support, metrics, and continuous improvement
Architecture review boards, stakeholder presentations, cost, risk, and trade-offs
Architect capstone, scenario defense, and certification preparation
Practical Activity
Configure or analyze a scenario involving environment strategy, sandboxes, scratch org concepts, branches, packages, and metadata.
Build and validate an exercise covering ci/cd, testing pyramid, quality gates, security scanning, data deployment, and rollback and center of excellence, standards, technical debt, roadmap, portfolio, and operating model.
Use tests, logs, reports, or documentation to verify architect capstone, scenario defense, and certification preparation.
Key Takeaways
Explain environment strategy, sandboxes, scratch org concepts, branches, packages, and metadata in the context of Salesforce Application Architect Expertise (ARC901).
Apply practical methods for ci/cd, testing pyramid, quality gates, security scanning, data deployment, and rollback and center of excellence, standards, technical debt, roadmap, portfolio, and operating model.
Test, document, and troubleshoot architect capstone, scenario defense, and certification preparation.
