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Frame
Extract drivers, constraints, scale, security, transition needs, and the decisions that actually matter.
CTA Boardroom · The Climb to the Peak
Know the architecture. Defend the decision.
A concentrated 16-session coaching program for experienced Salesforce architects who need domain depth, clearer executive communication, and repeated practice under CTA-style pressure.
Architecture firstBusiness drivers before product selection
Trace every choiceRequirement, rationale, risk, alternative
Board conditionsTimed presentation and judge-led Q&A
Actionable feedbackScorecard, gaps, and next-practice plan
The learning arc
Three moves, repeated until fluent.
The program turns knowledge into a board-ready habit. Every session connects business requirements to enterprise ownership, system responsibility, implementation choices, and operational consequences.
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Architect
Place capabilities in the right systems, justify the pattern, reject viable alternatives, and expose trade-offs.
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Defend
Present with a coherent story, withstand challenges, correct cleanly, and pivot when a premise changes.
Personalized from the start
Your plan follows the evidence, not a generic calendar.
Every candidate begins with a readiness baseline. The coaching emphasis then adapts to the recurring technical, reasoning, presentation, and Q&A gaps revealed by practice.
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Fit and readiness conversation
Confirm your target gate, preparation window, current experience, constraints, and whether this program is the right intervention.
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Personal Boardroom roadmap
Establish a baseline, identify high-risk domains and communication patterns, and agree the study and practice priorities.
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Evidence-based progress gates
Use written scorecards, recurring-gap tracking, corrected decisions, and mock performance to adjust the plan and assess readiness.
Candidate fit
Serious preparation for experienced architects.
CTA Boardroom is deliberately demanding. It works best when the candidate already has meaningful Salesforce delivery and client-facing architecture experience.
This is likely right for you if
- You are preparing for Architect Evaluation or the CTA Review Board.
- You can solve requirements but need stronger enterprise reasoning and defense.
- You want direct challenge, detailed feedback, and repeated timed practice.
- You can commit to preparation and correction work between sessions.
Build foundations first if
- You are early in your Salesforce architecture journey.
- You are primarily looking for certification memorization or product lectures.
- You cannot yet draw on delivery experience across security, data, integration, and lifecycle.
- You are not able to prepare scenarios or act on candid feedback between sessions.
Why CTA Boardroom
Concentrated, transparent, and built around performance.
A defined 16-session journey gives candidates clear scope while preserving enough flexibility to spend more coaching time where the evidence shows it is needed.
Built for both gatesEval.
Board.
Board.
One architecture muscle, trained at two depths.
Salesforce currently describes the Evaluation as 60 minutes to prepare, 30 minutes to present, and 30 minutes of Q&A. The final Review Board gives 180 minutes to prepare, followed by a 45-minute presentation and 40-minute Q&A.
- Short mocks build Evaluation pacing, prioritization, and concise defense.
- Long mocks build full-board synthesis, artifact discipline, endurance, and deep Q&A.
- Communication is coached in every session, not saved for the end.
Two CTA perspectives
Coaches who challenge the reasoning.
The program combines a primary coaching relationship with an additional CTA lens at selected checkpoints and mocks, giving the candidate exposure to different questioning styles.
Lead CTA CoachAustraliaVipul Jain
Salesforce Certified Technical Architect
Vipul leads the coaching journey with a practical Review Board lens: connect every recommendation to business value, make system boundaries explicit, and defend the trade-offs without hiding behind platform terminology.
Domain coachingMock boardsArchitecture defenseExecutive presence
Connect with Vipul on LinkedIn ↗
Guest CTA CoachIndiaNishit Raj Jain
Salesforce Certified Technical Architect
Featured by Salesforce for systems thinking and architecture leadership, Nishit brings cross-industry problem solving, decision clarity, and an enterprise view of how data, integration, security, AI, and operations affect one another.
Systems thinkingJudge Q&AEnterprise architectureCommunication
Read Salesforce's profile of Nishit ↗
Curriculum
Eight connected coaching tracks.
Each track produces a reusable architecture artifact and ends with a judge-style defense. The objective is not feature recall. It is sound enterprise reasoning under time pressure.
Accuracy note: Salesforce's published Review Board outline contains seven top-level headings. This curriculum creates eight teaching tracks by separating Governance from Development Lifecycle and Deployment because it deserves focused practice, while Communication remains an official domain and a cross-cutting skill.
01System Architecture
Enterprise landscape, org strategy, scale, channels, reporting, licensing
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Coaching focus
- Choose the appropriate on-platform and off-platform mix.
- Define system, capability, data, orchestration, and reporting ownership.
- Defend single-org, multi-org, mobile, document, analytics, and license decisions.
Judge attack: Why does this capability belong in Salesforce, and what happens when volume, geography, or acquisitions change?
02Security & Identity
Least privilege, sharing, external users, SSO, access control, audit
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Coaching focus
- Design end-to-end identity, authentication, provisioning, and session controls.
- Apply object, field, record, and programmatic security deliberately.
- Cover encryption, monitoring, compliance, secure code, and privileged operations.
Judge attack: Show exactly how this user gets access, how it is revoked, and how the design prevents lateral visibility.
03Data Architecture
Model, ownership, migration, quality, LDV, retention, archive, analytics
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Coaching focus
- Build a logical data model with ownership and lifecycle.
- Handle large data volumes, skew, selectivity, retention, archival, and purge.
- Design migration reconciliation, cutover, rollback, and reporting continuity.
Judge attack: What is the system of record, why is all this data needed operationally, and how will you prove migration completeness?
04Solution Architecture
End-to-end process, capability placement, config vs code, UX, products
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Coaching focus
- Map user-to-process-to-system-to-data journeys.
- Select declarative, programmatic, packaged, or external capabilities.
- Expose non-functional consequences and operational ownership.
Judge attack: You solved each requirement, but is the result one coherent solution or a collection of features?
05Integration Architecture
Landscape, patterns, APIs, events, middleware, errors, transactions
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Coaching focus
- Select synchronous, asynchronous, event, batch, and virtualization patterns.
- Define contract, source, target, orchestration, security, idempotency, and SLAs.
- Design monitoring, retry, reconciliation, replay, and failure ownership.
Judge attack: What happens after timeout, duplicate delivery, partial failure, downstream outage, or a breaking contract change?
06Development Lifecycle & Deployment
Delivery method, environments, source control, CI/CD, quality, transition
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Coaching focus
- Design team topology, branching, packaging, environments, and release trains.
- Build automated test, static analysis, secret scanning, SAST, and approval gates.
- Plan deployment, rollback, data changes, hypercare, and support handover.
Judge attack: How can multiple teams release safely while production support and hotfixes continue?
07Governance & Delivery Assurance
Decision rights, standards, risk, quality, architecture authority, operations
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Coaching focus
- Define the governance bodies, decision rights, cadence, and escalation path.
- Connect architecture, security, data, integration, release, and operational governance.
- Use measurable exit criteria instead of generic steering committees.
Judge attack: Who can approve this exception, who owns the risk, and what evidence closes the gate?
08Communication & Board Defense
Story, diagrams, recommendations, objections, corrections, pivots
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Coaching focus
- Lead with business reasoning and architecture principles.
- Present one connected story with visible traceability and decisive language.
- Handle challenges, admit and correct gaps, and adapt to changed requirements.
Judge attack: Give me the recommendation first, then the rationale, alternative, trade-off, and pivot condition in under 60 seconds.
16-session plan
Eight domains. Eight mocks. One progression.
Each live session is 90 minutes. Preparation is completed asynchronously so coaching time is spent on reasoning, presentation, challenge, and feedback.
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System Architecture
Translate the landscape into system boundaries, ownership, org strategy, channels, scale, licensing, reporting, and an executable transition state.
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Security & Identity
Build the end-to-end access story for employees, partners, customers, integrations, and administrators using least privilege and defense in depth.
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Data Architecture
Model operational data, define ownership, address LDV and retention, and create a migration plan with validation, rollback, and reporting continuity.
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Solution Architecture
Turn fragmented requirements into one coherent user and business process, selecting the lowest-complexity defensible capability placement.
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Integration Architecture
Design APIs, events, batch, middleware, transaction boundaries, error handling, monitoring, security, and reconciliation as one operating model.
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Development Lifecycle & Deployment
Design team and environment topology, CI/CD, testing, security gates, releases, rollback, and safe coexistence during transition.
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Governance & Delivery Assurance
Make decision rights, technical standards, design authority, risk ownership, quality gates, and operational acceptance concrete.
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Communication & Board Defense
Build the presentation story, simplify diagrams, sharpen recommendation language, and practice objection handling, correction, and pivots.
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Short Mock 1: Evaluation Baseline
Timed Evaluation-style scenario. Establish the baseline across coverage, decision quality, diagram clarity, pacing, and Q&A.
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Short Mock 2: Cross-Domain Cohesion
Focus on end-to-end traceability and the ripple effects between security, data, integration, delivery, and operations.
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Short Mock 3: Executive Story & Diagrams
Pressure-test presentation structure, visual economy, decisive language, business alignment, and control of the room.
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Short Mock 4: Hostile Q&A & Pivots
Rapid-fire challenge session emphasizing alternatives, assumptions, correction quality, changed requirements, and recovery.
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Long Mock 1: Global B2B
A full-board scenario spanning multi-country operations, partner access, enterprise integration, data ownership, and rollout.
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Long Mock 2: High-Volume B2C
A scale-heavy scenario covering digital experience, identity, service, privacy, performance, analytics, and operational resilience.
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Long Mock 3: Multi-Cloud Enterprise
A complex landscape involving sales, service, field operations, ERP, analytics, acquisitions, and phased coexistence.
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Long Mock 4: Final Readiness Board
A no-coaching simulation followed by calibrated feedback, recurring-pattern analysis, and a personal go/no-go readiness plan.
Before each session
Scenario or domain assignment, timed preparation, and a written recommendation with assumptions and decisions.
During each session
Presentation, targeted teaching, judge-style challenge, alternative analysis, and cross-domain consequence checks.
After each session
Scorecard, priority gaps, corrected decisions, reusable artifact, and a focused practice assignment.
Recommended launch pricing
Choose the gap you need to close.
Three clear options let candidates enter at the right stage. The complete package is intentionally priced below the two specialist packages purchased separately.
Private coaching. USD pricing.
Pricing assumes 90-minute live sessions, asynchronous preparation by the candidate, coach review of submitted work, session scorecards, and a primary CTA coach with a guest CTA joining selected checkpoints.
Pilot cohort pricing
Study preparation
Domain Mastery
$2,000 USD
8 domain sessions · $250 per session
- Readiness baseline and personal roadmap
- All eight coaching tracks
- Eight reusable architecture outputs
- Guided study priorities by domain
- Communication coached throughout
- No formal timed mocks
Complete journey
Evaluation + Board
$3,600 USD
16 sessions · 24 live hours · $225 per session
Save $600 vs. separate packages
- Readiness baseline and personal roadmap
- Eight domain sessions
- Four short Evaluation-style mocks
- Four long Review Board-style mocks
- Written scorecard after every mock
- Recurring-gap and progress tracker
- Guest CTA challenge sessions
- Final readiness recommendation
Exam preparation
Mock Accelerator
$2,200 USD
8 mocks · $275 per mock
- Mock-readiness baseline
- Four short Evaluation-style mocks
- Four long Review Board-style mocks
- Scenario pack and scoring rubric
- Written presentation and Q&A feedback
- Personal recurring-gap tracker
Fit before commitmentA readiness conversation confirms your target, timing, and best-fit package before you enroll.
Payment flexibilityAsk about a two-payment schedule for the Complete Journey. Program access and scheduling are confirmed in writing.
Evidence base
Built from official guidance and supplied references.
The curriculum paraphrases source objectives. It does not reproduce exam questions or proprietary scenario content.
Current CTA credential page
Official Evaluation and Review Board sequence, current formats, timing, prerequisites, and preparation recommendations.
Open Trailhead credential page ↗Official CTA Exam Guide
Salesforce's published Review Board objectives for System Architecture, Security, Data, Solution Architecture, Integration, Development Lifecycle and Deployment Planning, and Communication.
Open official PDF ↗Salesforce Architecture resources
Current Salesforce guidance on fundamentals, diagrams, decision guides, Well-Architected practices, and communication for CTA candidates.
Open Salesforce article ↗Supplied preparation references
CTA Review Board Quick Guide, Becoming a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect by Tameem Bahri, the Salesforce Professional Services Methodology reference, governance and ARM guides, and the supplied CTA Prep - Tyneq workbook informed the session rhythm and deliverables.
Independent program: This coaching offer is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Salesforce. Salesforce, Trailhead, and related marks belong to Salesforce, Inc. Exam formats and policies can change, so candidates should confirm the current official credential page before booking an exam.