Choose where things run
Pick the mix of on-platform and off-platform parts, licenses and org strategy that fits a scenario’s limits.
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Overview
Most exams ask you to choose an answer. This one asks you to defend a design.
Technical Architect is Salesforce’s top credential, for people with 5 or more years implementing and 3 or more as an architect. You design for a hypothetical scenario, present to a judge and defend it across security, data and integration. It has two stages, a 135-minute online Evaluation and the Review Board, and Application and System Architect come first.
14Modules
5Skills
4Industries
7Roles
What it tests
Learn all the way down.
Learn all the way down.
Perform when it matters.
Secure the model
Combine declarative and programmatic security features, and design an end-to-end identity solution.
Handle data at scale
Plan data models, large data volumes and migration with the right tools and trade-offs.
Justify the integration
Recommend an integration landscape and patterns, and defend each choice with its risks and limits.
Course outline
From a scenario on a page
From a scenario on a page
to an architecture you can defend.
We design this course ourselves. Salesforce runs the exam and issues the credential, and LUNARTECH is independent of Salesforce.
A scenario gives you requirements, constraints and gaps. You learn to read it for what is stated and what is missing, record assumptions, list the risks and set out the decisions that will shape every later choice.
- Separating requirements from constraints
- Finding gaps and stating assumptions
- Identifying stakeholders and their concerns
- Recording architecture decisions and reasons
- Drawing a landscape diagram
- Quality attributes: security, scale and availability
You build A decision log and landscape diagram for a scenario you are given.
Not everything belongs on the platform. You weigh what to build on Salesforce, what to place on external platforms such as Heroku and what to buy, judging each against the scenario’s limits for cost, skills and scale.
- What the platform does well and where it strains
- Heroku and other off-platform compute
- Channels and experiences for customers and partners
- Mixing on-platform and off-platform parts
- Total cost and team skills as design inputs
- Availability and limits of each choice
You build A component placement map that explains where each capability runs.
License choices shape cost, features and sharing for years. You compare license types for employees, partners and customers, and decide between one org and several, with the data, release and governance effects of each.
- License types for internal, partner and customer users
- Feature and limit differences that drive design
- Single-org strategy and its limits
- Multi-org: when and why to split
- Shared services across orgs
- Governance across more than one org
You build An org and license strategy for a company with several business units.
Users judge a platform by what it shows them and where their files live. You choose between native reporting, analytics tools and external business intelligence, and between Salesforce files and an external document store.
- Native reports and dashboards: reach and limits
- Analytics tools and external BI
- Volume and refresh as reporting constraints
- Files and content stored on the platform
- External document stores and linking
- Retention and legal hold for documents
You build A reporting and document strategy that fits a given scenario.
Record access is built from layers, and each layer has a cost at scale. You combine defaults, hierarchy, sharing rules, teams and programmatic sharing, then extend the model to portal and partner users.
- Org-wide defaults and least access
- Role hierarchy and its performance cost
- Sharing rules, teams and territories
- Apex managed sharing and sharing reasons
- Sharing for portals and partners
- Testing a model against real users
You build A record-sharing design for internal, partner and customer users.
Beyond records, you protect fields and prove who each user is. You choose field-level controls and encryption, then design identity from sign-in to provisioning across employees, partners and customers.
- Field-level security and what it does not hide
- Encryption options and their trade-offs
- Single sign-on and federation choices
- Multi-factor authentication and session policy
- User provisioning and deprovisioning
- Auditing access and login activity
You build An identity and field-security design covering three user populations.
A data model is hard to change once data arrives. You design objects and relationships for the scenario, choose between lookup, master-detail and junction patterns, and test the design against ownership and lookup skew.
- Choosing objects, record types and relationships
- Master-detail, lookup and junction patterns
- Many-to-many and hierarchical data
- External objects and big objects
- Ownership and lookup skew
- Sharing effects of data model choices
You build A data model for a scenario, with skew risks identified and addressed.
At millions of records, small design choices become outages. You make queries selective, apply indexes and skinny tables, and plan archiving and deletion before volume forces the issue.
- What makes a query selective
- Indexes, custom indexes and skinny tables
- Reports and list views at scale
- Bulk API and PK chunking
- Archiving to big objects or external storage
- Deletion, the recycle bin and storage limits
You build A large-volume plan for one object, with query, index and archive choices.
Migration is where designs meet reality. You plan the order of loads, pick tools for each volume, protect data quality, and handle cutover and delta loads without breaking sharing or integrations.
- Load sequence and dependencies between objects
- External IDs and relationship resolution
- Choosing tools by volume and complexity
- Deferring sharing and automation during loads
- Cleansing and validating data before the load
- Cutover, delta loads and rollback
You build A migration plan with load order, tools and a cutover sequence.
Each requirement can be met in several ways. You compare flows, validation, Apex and Lightning components against limits, maintainability and team skills, and combine them without causing conflicts.
- Declarative first, and when to stop
- Flow, Apex and where they clash
- Lightning Web Components and standard UI
- Governor limits as a design constraint
- Maintainability and technical debt
- Combining automation without conflicts
You build A solution design that justifies code or clicks for each requirement in a scenario.
Buying or connecting an application changes more than a feature list. You assess marketplace apps and external systems for fit, security and lifecycle cost, and decide when to build instead.
- Build, buy or connect
- Assessing AppExchange packages
- Embedding external applications in the interface
- Data duplication and the system of record
- Vendor, security and upgrade risk
- Exit and replacement planning
You build A build-or-buy assessment for one requirement, with its risks.
Integration starts by drawing the landscape and naming the pattern for each connection. You work through remote call patterns, batch synchronization, remote call-in, UI updates and data virtualization, and when events replace polling.
- Drawing the system landscape and its flows
- Request-reply and fire-and-forget calls
- Batch data synchronization
- Remote call-in and UI updates on data change
- Data virtualization
- Events: platform events and change data capture
You build An integration landscape with a named pattern for each connection.
A pattern needs a technology and a plan for when it fails. You choose between APIs, middleware and callouts, size traffic against API and callout limits, and design retries, idempotency and error handling.
- REST, SOAP, Bulk and streaming APIs compared
- When middleware earns its place
- API limits, callout limits and traffic sizing
- Idempotency and retries
- Error handling and reconciliation
- Securing integrations and credentials
- Monitoring integrations in production
You build An integration design with limits worked out and failure handled.
Take a full scenario and produce the architecture across systems, security, data, solution and integration. You present it, answer hard challenges, and revise where a challenge is fair.
- Choosing the components and the org strategy
- Producing diagrams that carry the argument
- Presenting a design clearly
- Defending trade-offs under questioning
- Revising a design when challenged
You build A full architecture for one scenario, presented and defended.
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How you get there
Top-tier roles go to people who can do the work.
Top-tier roles go to people who can do the work.
Here’s how you get there.
Know where you start.
Salesforce describes 5 or more years of implementation work, 3 or more years as an architect and 2 or more on the Lightning Platform, at least one of them as lead architect.
Work through the course.
Fourteen modules, designed by LUNARTECH, at your own pace.
Sit it with Salesforce.
Salesforce runs the exam and issues the credential, so you register and book directly with them.
Support
Support at every stage.
Support at every stage.
You won’t be working through this alone.
Before you start
Try it first.
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While you learn
Mentors within reach.
Stuck on a concept? Reach out to a mentor whenever you need help.
While you learn
One-on-one sessions.
On the yearly plan, one-on-one sessions give you dedicated support.
Any time
A team behind you.
Write to info@lunartech.ai at any point, from your trial onwards. If your employer is funding you, we’ll set it up with them directly.
All the way through
A schedule that fits around your life.
Your own paceFrom anywhereAt any hour
After the last lesson
Stay in the network.
Your alumni network stays with you: ongoing support, opportunities and industry insight.
Career support
Career support, past the last lesson. Coaching, a sharper resume, real interview preparation and the people to know.
Career direction
Tailored coaching helps you decide where to aim and how to get there.
Strong portfolio
Hands-on projects become work you can show, not just claim.
Resume and profile
Personalized refinement, so what you send says what you can actually do.
Interview preparation
Preparation for the questions that decide it, so you walk in ready.
Network and search
Connections with industry leaders, and an alumni network that stays with you.
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Why choose us
Built around how you actually learn.
One standard behind every course, from the first lesson to long after the last.
Hands-on practice
Apply every idea to real problems, so it becomes something you have used, not only seen.
Industry-aligned curriculum
We keep courses current with the tools, techniques and skills the field asks for.
Flexible learning
Study at your own pace, from anywhere, at any hour.
Certificate of completion
Finish the course and earn a certificate that shows what you have learned.
Focus on your success
Personalized learning plans and support structures carry you through the hard parts.
Lifetime alumni network
Stay connected after you finish, with ongoing support, opportunities and industry insight.
Your certificate
It doesn’t raise its voice. Neither will you.
Finish a LUNARTECH course and its certificate is issued in your name, under our signature. Salesforce’s credential comes from Salesforce, when you pass its exam.
Certificate of completion
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Technical Architect course
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Pricing
This course comes with the membership.
This course comes with the membership.
So does everything else.
One membership opens every course, certification, workshop and masterclass in the Academy. Every plan starts with a 3-day free trial. You register and book the exam directly with Salesforce.
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Included in every plan
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In practice
Seven roles.
Seven roles.
One credential across them all.
No single job owns it. Here’s where each role leans hardest, and where its work ends up.
- 01Architecture
- 02Security
- 03Data
- 04Solution
- 05Integration
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You own the design and have to justify it aloud. Trade-offs matter more than features.
Architecture, Solution, Integration
Large Salesforce programs, Consulting partners
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Portals mix internal and external users. The security model has to hold for both.
Security
Enterprise IT, Large Salesforce programs
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Every system on the landscape has its own limits. The patterns you choose have to respect them.
Integration, Architecture
Enterprise IT, Multi-org companies
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Large volumes break designs that worked at small scale. Migration plans have to expect that.
Data
Large Salesforce programs, Multi-org companies
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Several orgs and systems must fit one roadmap. The scenario tests how you draw those lines.
Architecture, Solution
Multi-org companies, Enterprise IT
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A team builds what its lead can explain and defend. The Review Board practises that defence.
Solution, Integration
Large Salesforce programs, Enterprise IT
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Clients ask why this design and not another. The judge questions you the same way.
Architecture, Security, Data
Consulting partners, Large Salesforce programs
- Large Salesforce programs
- Consulting partners
- Enterprise IT
- Multi-org companies
Technical Architect
You own the design and have to justify it aloud. Trade-offs matter more than features.
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The field
Anyone can use AI.
Anyone can use AI.
Few can engineer it. This is where that starts.
+340%growth in open roles requiring AI skills
Roles and pay
~35,000 open roles right now
Open roles: Built In, Greenhouse, LinkedIn.
Typical salaries: Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, Payscale, Indeed, Ravio, JobRise, U.S. BLS. Military: 2026 U.S. basic pay, drone officers with aviation incentive pay.
Updated November 2026.
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Evaluation, then board, in English, French, Japanese, Spanish.
Salesforce describes 5 or more years of implementation work, 3 or more years as an architect and 2 or more on the Lightning Platform, at least one of them as lead architect.
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The course
Build the skills behind Technical Architect.
Defend a whole Salesforce architecture in front of a judge. Start with a free trial, or enroll in a plan and work through the course at your own pace. Salesforce runs the exam and issues the credential.
LUNARTECH is independent of the vendors and certifying bodies listed here. Their names, exam titles and marks belong to them, exams are run by them, and credentials are issued by them. Reviewed 5 November 2026. Catalogues change often, so confirm the details on the official page before you book.
