Salesforce Certified Platform Identity and Access Management Architect Practice Test

What this exam covers

Prepare for the **Salesforce Certified Platform Identity and Access Management Architect** exam with a course built around the real exam blueprint. This certification validates the ability to design secure, scalable identity and access management solutions on the **Customer 360** platform, including single sign-on (SSO), authentication, and user provisioning strategies, while communicating design trade-offs to technical and business stakeholders. The course covers the exam's core domains: - **Identity Management Concepts** – authentication patterns, trust between systems, user provisioning, SSO troubleshooting - **Accepting Third-Party Identity in Salesforce** – Salesforce as a Service Provider, B2E/B2C provisioning, third-party authentication, auditing and diagnostics - **Salesforce as an Identity Provider** – OAuth flows (Web-based, JWT, User-Agent, Device), Connected App scope and configuration, tokens and secrets - **Access Management Best Practices** – multi-factor authentication (MFA), role/profile/permission set assignment during SSO, login auditing - **Salesforce Identity** – Identity Connect, Customer 360 Identity, appropriate license types - **Community (Partner and Customer)** – Experience Cloud branding and authentication options, external IdP support, External Identity licenses, embedded login This course is designed for candidates in roles such as **Enterprise Architect**, **Technical Architect**, **Security Architect**, **Integration Architect**, **Identity Architect**, or **Solution Architect**, with hands-on experience designing and implementing SSO, SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, and user lifecycle management in Salesforce. Candidates should be comfortable with federated and delegated authentication concepts, though deep Apex coding, networking/domain administration, and knowledge of specific third-party IdP technologies fall outside the exam's expected scope.