Salesforce Certified Heroku Architect Exam Questions

About the Salesforce Heroku Architect Credential

The Salesforce Certified Heroku Architect credential validates your ability to design secure, scalable, and high-performing solutions using the Heroku platform. It covers building and deploying applications, managing teams and workflows, and leveraging Heroku Enterprise features for enterprise-grade cloud solutions.

This certification is ideal for Salesforce professionals, architects, and consultants who want to strengthen their skills in cloud app development and Salesforce–Heroku integration. It highlights your understanding of best practices, scalable architecture patterns, and real-world Heroku use cases.

Key Exam Topics

The exam evaluates knowledge and skills in:

• Designing, building, deploying, and scaling applications on Heroku

• Managing apps, teams, infrastructure, and security with Heroku Enterprise

• Extending applications using add-ons like Heroku Postgres and Apache Kafka on Heroku

• Integrating Heroku apps with Salesforce through APIs, events, databases, and Heroku Connect

Candidates are encouraged to have experience in:

• Architecting scalable solutions using Heroku Postgres, Heroku Redis, Dataclips, and Private Space networking

• Applying the Twelve-Factor App methodology and microservices architecture

• Designing secure solutions using Heroku Shield, Enterprise Teams, and advanced security features

• Building event-driven architectures with Apache Kafka on Heroku

Exam Details

• Questions: 60 multiple-choice/multiple-select

• Duration: 105 minutes

• Passing Score: 72%

• Version: Spring ’23 release

• Fee: $400 (Retake: $200)

• Prerequisites: No formal prerequisites (recommended: 2+ years of Heroku experience)

• Format: Closed-book exam

Exam Outline

The Salesforce Certified Heroku Architect Exam measures a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the objectives listed here. A candidate should have hands-on experience with Heroku Architecture and demonstrate the application of each of the features/functions below.

Heroku Platform: 10%

• Demonstrate an understanding of the basics behind building and deploying apps on Heroku, including the role of buildpacks in slug creation.

• Architect scalable solutions that are performant even during high-traffic spikes.

• Architect and deploy solutions using add-ons and other components from the Elements Marketplace, including various add-ons, buildpacks, and Heroku Buttons.

Data: 17%

• Demonstrate knowledge of Heroku Postgres, including data handling, security, and common use cases for follower databases. Describe the use cases of Dataclips.

• Architect solutions using Apache Kafka on Heroku to facilitate streaming communication between applications, services, or functions.

• Architect solutions using Heroku Redis.

• Demonstrate the ability to prescribe a third-party add-on and add-on sharing, when appropriate.

Security: 15%

• Construct architectures that leverage Heroku to achieve different security certifications.

• Recommend Heroku Private Space Peering or VPN connections for appropriate use cases.

• Recommend when an app should run in the Private Space Runtime versus the Common Runtime.

Heroku Enterprise: 28%

• Demonstrate how features of Heroku Enterprise can improve a system's architecture.

• Recommend networking solutions that use Heroku Private Spaces or the Common Runtime, appropriately.

• Describe the compliance features of Heroku Shield.

• Describe the features of Enterprise Teams.

Architect Applications: 15%

• Recommend architectures that use the Twelve-Factor App methodology correctly.

• Construct solutions for creating an orchestration layer for building a microservices architecture using Apache Kafka on Heroku.

Integrations: 15%

• Recommend architectures that use Heroku Connect appropriately, including the correct use of External IDs.

• Recommend techniques to integrate Heroku apps with the Salesforce Lightning Platform, and understand when to apply particular techniques.