You're reading from Becoming a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect Prepare for the review board by practicing example-led architectural strategies and best practices

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800568754

Length 628 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Salesforce

Concepts

Software Architecture

Author (1):

Tameem Bahri

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Your Journey to Becoming a CTA

2. Chapter 1: Starting Your Journey as a CTA FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Core Architectural Concepts – Data

4. Chapter 3: Core Architectural Concepts – Integration and Cryptography

5. Chapter 4: Core Architectural Concepts – Identity and Access Management

6. Section 2: Knowledge Domains Deep Dive

7. Chapter 5: Developing a Scalable System Architecture

8. Chapter 6: Formulating a Secure Architecture in Salesforce

9. Chapter 7: Designing a Scalable Salesforce Data Architecture

10. Chapter 8: Creating a Lean Solution Architecture

11. Chapter 9: Forging an Integrated Solution

12. Chapter 10: Development Life Cycle and Deployment Planning

13. Chapter 11: Communicating and Socializing Your Solution

14. Section 3: Putting It All Together

15. Chapter 12: Practice the Review Board – First Mock

16. Chapter 13: Present and Defend – First Mock

17. Chapter 14: Practice the Review Board – Second Mock

18. Chapter 15: Present and Defend – Second Mock

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix: Tips and Tricks, and the Way Forward

Summary

This was a long chapter, full of in-depth technical knowledge. We started by covering some general concepts regarding IAM. We learned the importance of crafting a well-designed IAM strategy and how that could significantly impact the end user experience as well as overall system security and compliance. We then became familiar with some key IAM terms and definitions, including identity, authentication, authorization, identity store, and others. We then moved on to discover some of the most common IAM standards, including SAML, OAuth2.0, OpenID Connect, and Kerberos, along with the different types of tokens they generate or use, such as the access token, refresh token, session token, and ID token.

That all set the scene to dive deeper into some of the common and standard authentication flows. We had an in-depth review of nine different flows, including SAML IDP-initiated, SAML SP-initiated, OAuth web server, OAuth JWT flows, and others.

That concludes this part of the...