CTA Awareness case studies
CTA Awareness · Put your knowledge to work in context.
CTA Awareness is a study-focused introduction to the Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) credential, aimed at senior developers, lead consultants, and solution architects who are considering the review-board path or want to understand the standard it represents. The CTA is a scenario-based architecture credential: candidates are typically asked to design a solution against business requirements and then defend and extend that design under questioning. The CTA Awareness case studies are 5 cases and about 4,505 words.
1Twelve Million Assets, Three Filters, One Timeout
A global manufacturer stores 12 million Asset records against 400,000 Accounts. Field service agents open an Asset list view filtered by Status, Service Region c (picklist with 6 values) and Warranty End Date c (date).
936 words, about 5 min2A Five-Hour Nightly Load in a Three-Hour Window
A distributor runs Salesforce as its order front end while a legacy ERP remains the system of record for products and pricing. Every night the ERP emits about 850,000 OrderLine changes into a staging table that a middleware tool pushes into Salesforce using REST API calls in chunks of 200 records, with allOrNone set to true per chunk.
895 words, about 4 min3Guest User Reads 38,000 Cases Through an Apex Controller
A healthcare services company runs a Customer Community Plus site for 60,000 patient-account contacts and a separate internal area for 900 staff. During a penetration test, testers logged in as a guest retrieved 38,000 Case records including patient names through an Aura component backed by an Apex class declared without sharing.
903 words, about 5 min4340 Components, No Source Control, Three Failed Releases
A 400-user org has four developers, three full sandboxes and no source control. Releases are assembled as change sets of about 340 components, including 61 Apex classes, 22 triggers, 40 custom fields and 18 flows.
863 words, about 4 min5The Review Board Rejects a Hand-Built Pricing Engine
Business asks for real-time pricing on quotes: 45,000 quotes a month, three regions, 120 pricing rules that change roughly monthly, and a target save time under two seconds. The delivery team proposes an Apex before-save trigger on QuoteLineItem that runs twelve SOQL queries and six DML statements per line, iterating line by line, backed by six new custom objects holding rule metadata, with no caching.
908 words, about 5 min