Salesforce Certified Integration Architect — Question 2

A global financial company sells financial products and services that include the following:
1. Bank accounts
2. Loans
3. Insurance
The company has a state-of-the-art core banking system that is the master system to store financial transactions, financial products and customer information. The core banking system currently processes 10 million financial transactions per day. The CTO for the company is considering building a community portal so that customers can review their bank account details, update their Information and review their account financial transactions.
What should an integration architect recommend as a solution to enable customer community users to view their financial transactions?

Answer options

• A. Use Salesforce External Service to display financial transactions in a community Lightning page.
• B. Use Salesforce Connect to display the financial transactions as an external object.
• C. Migrate the financial transaction records to Salesforce custom object and use ETL tool to keep systems in sync.
• D. Use Iframe to display core banking financial transactions data in the customer community.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is B because Salesforce Connect allows for the integration of external data sources as external objects, enabling real-time access to financial transactions without the need for data migration. Option A is incorrect as Salesforce External Service is not designed for this specific use case. Option C suggests migrating data which is unnecessary and inefficient, and option D, while feasible, does not provide the same level of integration and user experience as Salesforce Connect.