Salesforce Certified Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect — Question 47

An architect is working on a Universal Containers (UC) project, and due to security concerns, the UC security team cannot provide the architect with production access. Instead, a central release management team will be responsible for performing production deployments for all development teams.

How should an architect leverage the Metadata API to ensure any metadata components necessary to deploy the project’s functionality are properly communicated to the release management team?

Answer options

• A. Provide a spreadsheet of all components and utilize the metadata API’s readMetadata() call.
• B. Create a change set in each sandbox and download the package.xml file for the release management team.
• C. Communicate the unlocked package version to the release management team.

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is C because communicating the unlocked package version allows the release management team to know exactly which version to deploy, ensuring consistency and proper functionality. Option A is incorrect as just providing a spreadsheet does not facilitate deployment. Option B is also not appropriate since generating change sets and downloading package.xml files does not directly communicate the necessary components for the deployment process.