Free Heroku Architect Practice Test Questions (2026)
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Question 1Choose 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 recommen
d to provide additional value to UC following the acquisition?
Correct answer:
A. Heroku Connect can be used to synchronize data directly between the two Salesforceorgs.
Question 2Choose 1
Universal Containers (UC)uses Apache Kafka on Heroku to stream shipment inventory data in real time throughout the world. A Kafka topic is used to send messages with updates on the shipping container GPS coordinates as they are in transit. UC is using a Heroku Kafka basic-0 plan.The topic was provisioned with 8 partitions, 1 week of retention, and no compaction. The keys for the events are being assigned by Heroku Kafka, which means that they will be randomly distributed between the partitions.
UC has a single-dyno consumer application that persists the data to their Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). Recently, they've been noticing data loss in the EDW.
What should an Architect with Kafka experience recommend?
Correct answer:
C. Use Heroku Redis to store message receipt information to account for "at-least" once delivery, which will guarantee that messagesare never processed more than once. Scale up the consumer dynos to match the number of partitions so that there is one process for each partition.
Question 3Choose 2
A client provisions a Heroku Postgres database in the EU region.
Which two services related to Heroku Postgres are located in the U.S.? (Choose two.)
Universal Containers (UC) is using Field Service and has customer meetings at UC's offices. When booking meetings, they would like them to begin on the hour.every hour, between 9am-5pm.
How can this be achieved?
Correct answer:
D. Use Exact Appointments on the WorK Types.
Question 5Choose 1
What does a follower of Heroku Postgres leader database provide?
Universal Containers (UC) has a front-end web application and a back-end service application running on Heroku. The applications are running in the Common Runtime. Now, UC wants to prevent any public access to the back-end application. Which two Heroku features should an Architect propose?
Correct answer:
A. Private Space VPN Connections
B. Private Spaces DNS Service Discovery
Explanation:
- https //devcenterherokucom/articles/dataclips
Question 7Choose 2
A hospital wants to build a mobile app that allows patients to check the status of submitted insurance claims, which the hospital stores in Salesforce Health Cloud. The app's back end will run on Heroku.
Which two measures should an Architect recommend to help ensure that the app is compliant with HIPAA? (Choose two.)
Correct answer:
A. Use Heroku Shield Connect to sync claim data from Salesforce to a Heroku Postgres database.
C. Ensure that the back-end application's codeencrypts all claim data before writing it to a Heroku Postgres database.
Question 8Choose 1
A client wants to create a set of applications that all communicate with each other.Only one of the applications should be accessible from the public internet. This application will act as an API gateway and route requests to the interbak applications using HTTPS. Which architecture should an Architect recommend?
Correct answer:
D. Create all of the apps in a Private Space Create the internal apps with Internal Routing enabled. Create the gateway app as a web app
A client's Heroku web application displaysdata that is fetched from a back-end file storage system. The client now wants this data to be viewable, but not editable, from their Salesforce org.
Which recommendation should an Architect make in this scenario?
Correct answer:
A. Replicate the files to tables in a Heroku Postgres database, and use Heroku Connect to synchronize the tables to the Salesforce org.
Question 10Choose 2
Universal Containers is developing a Salesforce app thatinvokes a Heroku app's web service, which asynchronously generates customer invoices. The Heroku app is deployed to a Private Space. When an invoice is ready, the Heroku app sends a POST request to the Salesforce REST API. Which two options should an Architect recommend to ensure that neither the Salesforce nor the Heroku app is accessible from the public internet? Choose 2 answers.
Correct answer:
A. Restrict the Private Space's trusted IP range to Salesforce IP addresses
D. Restrict the Salesforce connected app's login IP ranges to the stable outbound IP addresses of the Private Space
Explanation:- This is no VPN connection and a trusted IP range is used to limit the trusted outside application's IP address And there is document related to this use case:
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About Salesforce Heroku Architect Exam (Plat-Arch-206)
Salesforce Heroku Architect certification validates your skills in integrating Heroku with Salesforce, managing app performance, and leveraging Heroku’s extensive tools and services to solve complex business challenges. This is part of the Salesforce Certified Application Architect track. Its ideal for developers, architects, and IT professionals aiming to expand their expertise in cloud application development and deployment using Heroku.
Key Facts:
Exam Questions: 60
Type of Questions: MCQs
Exam Time: 105 minutes
Exam Price: $400
Passing Score: 72%
Key Topics:
1. Heroku Enterprise Features: 28% of exam
2. Heroku Platform: 25% of exam
3. Architect Applications: 20% of exam
4. Data Services and Heroku Postgres: 17% of exam
5. Troubleshooting and Monitoring: 15% of exam
6. Integrations: 10% of exam
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