Salesforce Certified Heroku Architect Sample Questions:

1. Universal Containers (UC) recently acquired another company, International Shipping. Each company has its own Salesforce org, and UC wants those orgs to remain separate for the foreseeable future. Given this scenario, which Heroku feature should an Architect recommend to provide additional value to UC following the acquisition?

A) Heroku External Objects can expose read-only data from both Salesforce orgs to Heroku Postgres.
B) Both orgs can be attached to the same Heroku application as an add-on to ensure data residency in the application's region.
C) Heroku Connect can be used to synchronize data directly between the two Salesforceorgs.
D) A Heroku Postgres database can sync data from both orgs for advanced querying capabilities.

2. Universal Containers wants to set up communication between multiple public-facing Heroku web applications hosted on the Common Runtime. Which solution should an Architect recommend?

A) Configure a worker process type for each application that listens for incoming remote procedure calls.
B) Send requests to each application's URL using HTTP/HTTPS.
C) Bind all of the Heroku applications to the same port
D) Movethe application to a Private Space, and enable Internal Routing for them

3. A customer would like to analyze data stored in a single, large, high-traffic Heroku Postgres database using a reporting tool that runslong-running, expensive read queries. What reporting architecture should be recommended?
A client wants to create a Heroku web application that needs to provide a low-latency experience for its users, who are based primarily in Japan. Many common user actions will result in synchronous writes to the application's Heroku Postgres database. The application does not have advanced compliance requirements.
Which should an Architect recommend?

A) Deploy the application to the Common Runtime in the U.S region and use a CDN to accelerate content delivery
B) Deploy the application to a Private Space in the Tokyo region
C) Deploy the application to the Common Runtime in the Tokyo region
D) Deploy the application to a Shield Private Space In the Tokyo region

4. A client currently runs a Ruby script in aone-off dyno each time they deploy their Go application to Heroku.
The development team wants the script to be executed before the application is deployed because it performs necessary database migrations. Which approach should an Architect recommend?

A) Convert the Ruby release script to Go and execute it on application startup
B) Modify the Go buildpacK to install Ruby, and run the script from the _profile
C) Define different process types for the Ruby script and the Go application in the app's Profile.
D) Use both Go and Ruby language buildpacks, and run the Ruby script with release phase

5. Which two conventions of the Heroku platform reflect the Twelve-Factor methodology's recommendation to
"execute the app as one or more stateless processes?" (Choose two.)

A) A Heroku app's config vars are deleted on deploys and app restarts.
B) Dynos have an ephemeral filesystem.
C) Log messages from each of an app's dynos are kept separate from each other.
D) Heroku apps define process types in a Procfile.

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