Development-Lifecycle-and-Deployment-Architect Exam Guide, Objectives & Preparation

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Exam Code	Development-Lifecycle-and-Deployment-Architect
Exam Name	Salesforce Certified Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect
Vendor	Salesforce
Total Questions	227
Last Updated	26-Oct, 2026

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Free Development-Lifecycle-and-Deployment-Architect Practice Questions

Explore 4 free practice questions for the Salesforce Development-Lifecycle-and-Deployment-Architect exam and review the answers and explanations to support your preparation.

Question 1
Single answer

Universal Containers has multiple projects being developed in parallel. One of the projects is in the testing phase and the testing team found a list of issues on the items that will be deployed to production. As the project deadline is short, the customer team proposes that the fixes be done in the test sandbox and then deployed to production. What should be the Architect recommend?
- Option A:
  Recommend the customer team's proposal to fix the issues in the testing env and deploy them to production.
  Correct
- Option B:
  Recommend fixing the issues in the development environment and deploying the changes to production.
  Correct
- Option C:
  Recommend fixing the issues in the development sandbox, migrating them to testing, and deploy to production after testing.
  Correct
- Option D:
  Recommend fixing the issues in the test environment and migrating the changes to the development sandbox.
  Correct
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Correct Answer: C
Question 2
Single answer

Universal Containers (UC) is implementing Service Cloud for their contact centers for 3000 users. They have ~10 million customers. The average speed response time expected is less than 5 seconds with 1,500 concurrent users. What type of testing will help UC measure the page response time?
- Option A:
  Unit Testing.
  Correct
- Option B:
  Load testing.
  Correct
- Option C:
  System Integration Testing.
  Correct
- Option D:
  Stress Testing.
  Correct
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Correct Answer: C
Question 3
Multiple answers

Universal Containers is considering developing a client application using the Metadata API for managing deployments to multiple Salesforce orgs. Which two use cases describe the usage of Metadata API? Choose 2 ans
- Option A:
  Perform CRUD operations o manage records in the organization.
  Correct
- Option B:
  Migrate configuration changes between two organizations.
  Correct
- Option C:
  Migrate data changes between two organizations using a csv file.
  Correct
- Option D:
  Export current customization in the organization as an xml file.
  Correct
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Correct Answer: B, D
Question 4
Single answer

Universal Containers has a stable continuous integration process and all stakeholders are happy. However, user testing takes long time, as data has to be setup. What should an Architect do to address this problem?
- Option A:
  Include automated sample data during deployment.
  Correct
- Option B:
  Advise the project manager to assign more users to create test data.
  Correct
- Option C:
  Test data creation is outside the scope of continuous integration.
  Correct
- Option D:
  Train business users to create test data more efficiently.
  Correct
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Correct Answer: A

Free Development-Lifecycle-and-Deployment-Architect Practice Questions

Question 1

Recommend the customer team's proposal to fix the issues in the testing env and deploy them to production.

Recommend fixing the issues in the development environment and deploying the changes to production.

Recommend fixing the issues in the development sandbox, migrating them to testing, and deploy to production after testing.

Recommend fixing the issues in the test environment and migrating the changes to the development sandbox.

Question 2

Universal Containers (UC) is implementing Service Cloud for their contact centers for 3000 users. They have ~10 million customers. The average speed response time expected is less than 5 seconds with 1,500 concurrent users. What type of testing will help UC measure the page response time?

Unit Testing.

Load testing.

System Integration Testing.

Stress Testing.

Question 3

Universal Containers is considering developing a client application using the Metadata API for managing deployments to multiple Salesforce orgs. Which two use cases describe the usage of Metadata API? Choose 2 ans

Perform CRUD operations o manage records in the organization.

Migrate configuration changes between two organizations.

Migrate data changes between two organizations using a csv file.

Export current customization in the organization as an xml file.

Question 4

Universal Containers has a stable continuous integration process and all stakeholders are happy. However, user testing takes long time, as data has to be setup. What should an Architect do to address this problem?

Include automated sample data during deployment.

Advise the project manager to assign more users to create test data.

Test data creation is outside the scope of continuous integration.

Train business users to create test data more efficiently.