Dealing with critical piece of the CTA board – Q&A

Join us in our next session to learn about the Complexity of the Q&A in CTA Exam. In this session, Praneel PIDIKITI will talk about how he deal with a critical piece of the CTA board – Q&A.

If you are new to CTA Journey, please check our last session, How to Prepare for the Salesforce Technical Architect exam, and deep dive into #JourneyToCTA with key tips.

Why is Q&A critical in a Review Board

• Q&A is the last stage in the review board you will be confronting after 4+ hours of intense working
• This is when Judges actively participate in a conversation with you
• This is the last opportunity to fill the gaps in the overall solution
• Only a finite number of questions to cover the complete scenario
• Different possibilities need different approaches
  • Solution is invalid
  • Missed a requirement / haven’t covered it because of time constraint
  • The solution is Suboptimal.
  • The solution is Optimal, But the rationale is missing.
  • A change of one solution/data model made another solution invalid.

Required Skills / Approaches

My Experience dealing with Q&A

• Everything is interlinked
  • The right Approach to Preparation helps your Presentation and Q&A
  • The right Approach to Presentation helps your Q&A
• Try to cover as many details as possible in your artifact details and the presentation narrative to completely cover the section requirements. So that we
• can avoid any specific questions in the relevant sections
• Build a mental map of the dependencies and the solutions
• Minimize the unexpected/unknown.
• Pay special attention to the critical requirements.
• Judges are there to help us.

Key Takeaways

• Improve Overall Salesforce knowledge
  • Frequent assessments to find the weak areas
• Practical experience will help
• Get comfortable with the data model changes during the Q&A
• Avoid the snowball Effect & domino effect
• Understand why and what was being asked before answering
• Improve muscle memory for Q&A, make them as a reflex
  • Practice Flashcards every day
  • Practice OAuth flows and integration patterns
  • Cheat Sheets
• Practice section-based grilling sessions with study buddies.

Three Questions

1. How deep/detailed should my answers be?
2. Can I skip a question?
3. Can some sections be covered without a need for questions in a
4. Q&A ?

Dealing with critical piece of the CTA board – Q&A

Here is the agenda of the session

1. Why is Q&A Critical in a Review Board
2. Required Skills / Approaches
3. My experience dealing with Q&A
4. Key takeaways
5. Q&A about Q&A

CTA board – Q&A Recording

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Further Learning

• Salesforce Certified Technical Architect Exam Guide
• Building Artifacts from Requirements
• Salesforce Developer to Architect