Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification Guide

By : Jan Vandevelde, Gunther Roskams

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Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification Guide

By: Jan Vandevelde, Gunther Roskams

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Overview of this book

Salesforce Lightning Platform, used to build enterprise apps, is being increasingly adopted by admins, business analysts, consultants, architects, and especially developers. With this Salesforce certification, you'll be able to enhance your development skills and become a valuable member of your organization. This certification guide is designed to be completely aligned with the official exam study guide for the latest Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I release and includes updates from Spring '19. Starting with Salesforce fundamentals and performing data modeling and management, you’ll progress to automating logic and processes and working on user interfaces with Salesforce components. Finally, you'll learn how to work with testing frameworks, perform debugging, and deploy metadata, and get to grips with useful tips and tricks. Each chapter concludes with sample questions that are commonly found in the exam, and the book wraps up with mock tests to help you prepare for the DEV501 certification exam. By the end of the book, you’ll be ready to take the exam and earn your Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I certification.

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Section 1: Fundamentals, Data Modeling, and Management

Salesforce Fundamentals

Considerations when developing in a multi-tenant environment

What is multi-tenancy?

The MVC paradigm

The core CRM objects

Extending an application's capabilities using AppExchange

Common use cases for declarative customization

Summary

Quiz

Understanding Data Modeling and Management

Data modeling

Relationship types

Schema design and modification impact on Apex development

Visualizing and creating entity relationships

Importing and exporting data into development environments

Summary

Quiz

Section 2: Logic, Process Automation, and the User Interface

Declarative Automation

Formula fields

Roll-up summary fields

Declarative process automation features – workflow and processes

Declarative process automation features – approvals and flows

When to use declarative process automation features versus Apex

Summary

Quiz

Apex Basics

What is a class and an instance?

Understanding the features of Apex

How to develop Apex

Apex variables, constants, and expressions

Access modifiers

Apex control flow statements

Working with data in Salesforce

Summary

Quiz

Apex - Beyond the Basics

Apex classes and interfaces

Apex triggers

The order of execution

Exception handling

Security in Apex

Web service callouts

Summary

Quiz

The Salesforce User Interface

Introduction

Displaying Salesforce data using Visualforce

Lightning Component framework

Benefits of the Lightning Component framework

Resources in a Lightning component

Summary

Quiz

Section 3: Testing, Debugging, and Exercise

Testing in Salesforce

Testing deployment requirements and the testing framework

Writing Apex unit tests

Executing test classes

Invoking Apex to execute anonymously versus unit tests

Summary

Quiz

Debugging and Deployment Tools

Monitoring and accessing debug logs

Working with the Developer Console, Workbench, and Force.com IDE platforms

Deploying metadata to another org

Summary

Quiz

Mock Tests

Mock exam

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Appendix

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Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Code solutions

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Salesforce Fundamentals

Salesforce is a company, founded by Marc Benioff and Parker Harris in 1999, that specializes in software as a service (SaaS). Salesforce started by selling a cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application, which laid the foundation for many of its future services and was built on the Salesforce Platform. Following this, the company began packaging other applications that were closely intertwined on the same platform and divided them into clouds. These cloud-based applications are now popularly known as Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, IoT Cloud, Integration Cloud, Community Cloud, Health Cloud, and Financial Services Cloud, among others.

In this chapter, you will learn about the basic concepts of working on the Salesforce Platform. The material covered in this chapter represents 10% of the exam questions.

We'll learn about...