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

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

If you are new for CTA Journey then please check our last session How to prepare for 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 finite number of questions to cover the complete scenario
• Different possibilities need different approaches
  • Solution is invalid
  • Missed a requirement / havent covered it because of time constraint
  • Solution is Sub optimal
  • Solution is Optimal, But rational is missing
  • Change of one solution / data model made another solution invalid

Required Skills / Approaches

My Experience dealing with Q&A

• Everything is interlinked
  • Right Approach of Preparation helps your Presentation and Q&A
  • Right Approach of Presentation helps your Q&A
• Try to cover as much details as possible in your artefact details and in the presentation narrative to cover the section requirements completely. So that we
• can avoid any specific questions in the relevant sections
• Build a mental map of the dependencies and the solutions
• Minimise 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 snowball Effect & Dominos 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 with out a need for questions in a
4. Q&A ?

Recording

Here is agenda of 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

Recording

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Further Learning

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