The Salesforce Integration Architect credential is designed for architects, analysts, and application managers who want to design secure, scalable integrations with the Lightning Platform. The certification exam is designed to determine a candidate’s fluency in effectively communicating technical solutions to technical stakeholders and providing a project delivery framework that ensures quality and success.
Prerequisites
A Salesforce Integration Architect assesses the integration requirements necessary to design secure, scalable solutions for integrating the Salesforce Platform. The architect has experience designing and implementing complex integration patterns on various platforms, as well as communicating the solution and design trade-offs to business and technical stakeholders alike.
The Salesforce Certified Integration Architect has the following background.
- 1–2 years of Salesforce Integration Architecture experience
- 2–3 years of hands-on Salesforce administration and/or developer experience
- 1 year minimum of experience in supporting or implementing data-centric enterprise integration solutions
Typical job roles may include:
- Technical Architect
- System Architects that work in the integration domain
- Programmer Analyst
- Application Manager
- Integration Architect
- Solution Architect
The Salesforce Certified Integration Architect candidate has the experience, skills, and knowledge to:
- Design high-performing, scalable, secure, and reliable integrations with the Lightning Platform and other enterprise applications.
- Analyze existing and future state integration architecture.
- Develop and maintain the Integration Architecture blueprint for the project.
- Integrate with other enterprise applications and cloud applications.
- Follow best Domain practices in integration.
- Add identify and apply appropriate integration patterns.
- Recommend appropriate integration components and use appropriate platform capabilities.
- Design with Platform Limits into considerations.
- Familiarity with various Salesforce application programming interface (API) and integration tools.
- Leverage appropriate integration pattern given an integration scenario.
- Understand considerations and use the appropriate API for integration scenarios.
- Identify security requirements for a given integration scenario.
- Understand error handling options.
Recommended training for this certification
The self-study materials recommended for this exam include:
- Trailmix: Architect Journey: Integration Architecture
Exams
All proctored Salesforce certification exams can be scheduled as an onsite or online exam.
Quick facts about the exam:
- Content: 60 multiple-choice/multiple-select questions and up to five non-scored questions
- Time allotted to complete the exam: 105 minutes
- Passing score: 67%
- Version: Exam questions align to the Summer '23 release
- Registration fee: US$400, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
- Retake fee: $200, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
- Delivery options: Proctored exam delivered onsite at a testing center or in an online proctored environment; click here for information on scheduling an exam.
- References: No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam.
- Prerequisite: None