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Every outside reference the courses cite, in one place, grouped by the chapter that teaches it. Each link shows who publishes it, the module that explains it, and the date it was last checked. Salesforce’s own documentation comes first; standards and law next; then everything else.

913 links from 80 sites, across 60 topics in 5 courses. Links that moved show their new address; Link changes lists every move. For Salesforce’s guides by release, see Salesforce documents by release.

Data Architect

Thinking Like a Data Architect 12
Modeling Data for Meaning 8
Salesforce Data Architecture 73
Understanding Enterprise Data 10
Data Quality and Governance 29
Master Data and Identity 13
Designing for Scale 40
Query and Retrieval Architecture 53
Integration and Data Movement 24
Migration and Synchronization 45
Transactions, Concurrency, and Reliability 38
Data Security for Humans, Applications, and Agents 33

Sharing & Visibility Architect

Thinking Like a Security Architect 17
The Front Door: Logging In to Salesforce 27
Profiles, Permission Sets and Permission Set Groups 52
Object and Field Security: What Users Can Touch 19
Steve's 25 Ways to Share a Record: The Map 44
Org-Wide Defaults, Ownership and the Role Hierarchy 31
Public Groups and Criteria-Based Sharing Rules 21
Owner-Based Sharing Rules 11
Config-Based Sharing: Manual Shares, Teams and Territories 27
Overrides and Implicit Sharing: What You Get for Free 18
Programmatic Sharing: Apex and Flow Managed Sharing 22
Files, Folders, Reports and Other Data 37
Testing the Security Model 15

Integration Architect

Think Like an Integration Architect 9
The Client and Server 13
APIs, Contracts and Data Across the Wire 36
The Admin's Integration Toolkit 25
Understanding the System Landscape 19
Understanding Integration Requirements 8
Integration Patterns 7
Salesforce as an API Provider 43
Salesforce as an API Consumer 20
Moving Data at Scale 39
Events 67
Keys, Certificates and Trust 29
Trust, Identity, and Integration Security 39
Reliability, Recovery, and Observability 36
Integration Orchestration 20
Choosing the Right Integration Design 8

Identity & Access Architect

Thinking Like an Identity Architect 10
The Front Door: Logging In to Salesforce 27
Keys, Certificates and Trust 29
Single Sign-On: The Browser Is the Broker 15
SSO or OAuth? Choosing the Mechanism 18
Salesforce as the Service Provider: SAML 16
Salesforce as the Identity Provider 10
OAuth: The Base Pattern 11
The Burger House: Flows With a Person 11
The Mirror Image: Social Sign-On and Delegated Authentication 10
Acting as Someone: The Impersonation Flows 11
Getting Users In and Out: Provisioning 13
External Client Apps, Tokens and Their Lifecycle 17

Data 360 Architect

Data 360 in One Picture 3
Understanding Your Data Structures 3
The Doors In 3
Bringing In CRM Data 3
Streams and the Lake 3
Data Transforms 3

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