Sandboxes, data kits and deployment
What a Data 360 sandbox copies (metadata, never data), how to enable it (including license match), what it costs, how to keep production activation targets safe, and how to deploy with DevOps data kits through change sets or the Salesforce CLI, including governance mergeback.
Manage the development lifecycle with available tooling.
~7 min read · 9 practice questions ·
What the exam expects
- Explain what a Data 360 sandbox replicates (metadata only) and what must be activated, reauthorized or rebuilt, including unified profiles.
- Enable Data 360 in a new sandbox or, with license match, in a sandbox created before production was provisioned.
- Control sandbox credit consumption and keep sandbox activations from touching production destinations.
- Choose between a DevOps data kit and a standard data kit, and deploy with a change set or the Salesforce CLI, meeting the prerequisites.
- Plan governance mergeback of tags and policies.
Key terms: Data 360 sandbox is a copy of production Data 360 metadata with no data; license match gives a pre-existing sandbox production's Data 360 licenses without a refresh; DevOps data kit migrates metadata from a data space to the same data space in another org; standard data kit packages Data 360 solutions for distribution; mergeback moves validated governance metadata from a sandbox to a linked org.
Key facts
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- Metadata only in every sandbox type; no data replicated
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- Licenses only; up to 24 hours to sync
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- Not copied; run identity resolution after ingestion
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- Can't be used for a Data 360 sandbox
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- Consume the source production org's credits; discounted multipliers
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- DevOps: any space to the same space; standard: default space to any space
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- Not created by the kit; create it with the same prefix first
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- A second change set installs the kit; click Deploy Data Kit
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- No custom tags, no CLI, no deletions
Sources for this section (7)
- Create a Data 360 Sandboxhelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Set Up Your Data 360 Sandboxtrailhead.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Considerations for Sandbox in Data 360help.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Billing Considerations for Data 360 Sandboxhelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Data Kitshelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Deploy Data 360 Changes Across Orgshelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Data 360 Governance Mergeback with DevOps Data Kitshelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Why must identity resolution run in a new Data 360 sandbox?
- When is license match the right way to enable Data 360 in a sandbox?
- In which org is the deployment connection created for a sandbox-to-production change set?
- Why can't custom tags reach production through mergeback?
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