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Salesforce B2C Commerce Architect exam sections

Below are all the sections, which will be tested during the exam.

A candidate should have a hands-on experience and deep understanding of the following areas.

Design/Discovery: 29%

• 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 & technical details, evaluate LINK cartridges applicable versions, 3rd-Parties’ technical specifications, and API documentation for integrations.
• Given the systems that are interacting with the platform, evaluate the integration points, data type and volume, data migration approach, and diagram the system architecture.

Build: 19%

• 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 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.

Monitoring/Troubleshooting: 14%

• Given an implementation, evaluate the end-to-end needs for custom logging configuration, 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.

Integrations and Customizations: 22%

• Given a business requirement of integrating with a 3rd-Party web service identify what protocol (SOAP/REST) and what 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 LINK cartridge integrations, identify “legacy” LINK cartridges that are still using 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.

Launch: 16%

• Given requirements for a site, set up aliases that follow SEO best practices and accurately land customers on desired domain, locale, and currency.
• Given a site launch checklist, identify rollback steps possibly required, 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.

For the reference: Check Salesforce official Exam Guide.