Expected Salesforce Certified Platform Integration Architect (Plat-Arch-204) Exam Topics, as suggested by Salesforce :

• Module 1: Evaluate the Current System Landscape: This topic ensures Salesforce application managers can analyze a system’s current state to identify standards, limitations, boundaries, and protocols based on business requirements. It focuses on assessing constraints, identifying pain points, and aligning authentication and authorization needs with system landscapes to meet specific requirements.
• Module 2: Evaluate Business Needs: This section equips Salesforce application managers to distinguish functional and non-functional requirements for integration use cases. It emphasizes classifying data as Confidential, Secure, or Public and considers CRM success, business growth, and regulatory factors essential for choosing integration solutions.
• Module 3: Translate Needs to Integration Requirements: Salesforce application managers refine their ability to translate use cases into integration requirements. Sub-topics include creating system inventories, evaluating system constraints, identifying security and performance needs, and proposing integration solutions tailored to business requirements.
• Module 4: Design Integration Solutions: This topic enhances the skills needed to design robust integration solutions. It involves selecting integration patterns, defining solution components, addressing trade-offs, and leveraging appropriate Salesforce APIs, security mechanisms, and standards to meet technical requirements.
• Module 5: Build Solution: Salesforce application managers learn to design and implement APIs, build scalable solutions, and ensure error handling and resilience in integrations. It also covers considerations for outbound calls, creating security solutions, and maintaining system stability during updates.
• Module 6: Maintain Integration: This section focuses on integration upkeep, teaching Salesforce application managers to monitor performance, handle errors, and implement escalation or recovery procedures. It also covers reporting needs for effective integration monitoring and system continuity.