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Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Guide

By : Paul Goodey GP, Goodey
Book Image

Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Guide

By: Paul Goodey GP, Goodey

Overview of this book

Do you want to be able to confidently design and build apps that support business processes within the Lightning Platform? Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Guide not only helps you to do this, but also prepares you for the certification exam. The book starts by describing the core capabilities of the Lightning Platform. You'll learn techniques for data modeling to design, build, and deploy apps without writing code and achieve rapid results with the declarative capabilities that the Lightning Platform provides. Next, you'll explore utilities for importing and exporting data and the features available in the Lightning Platform to restrict and extend access to objects, fields, and records. You'll also be able to customize the Salesforce Lightning Experience user interface (UI) and build functionality for custom buttons, links, and actions. Later, this certification study guide will take you through reporting and the social and mobile features of the Lightning Platform. Finally, you’ll get to grips with Salesforce build environments and deployment options. By the end of this Salesforce book, you'll not only have learned how to build data models, enforce data security, and implement business logic and process automation, but also have gained the confidence to pass the Platform App Builder exam and achieve Salesforce certification.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to the Lightning Platform Core
5
Section 2: Behind the Scenes
11
Section 3: A Step Closer to the Exam

Chapter 11: Managing the App Building Process

In this chapter, we will look at the processes and steps for managing the application life cycle when building apps using the Lightning Platform and identify the tasks and issues that can be encountered during the app building process.

You will learn about the different types of Salesforce environment and the capabilities of sandboxes, which are available to help orchestrate change management during the building of apps.

An overview of development models is covered, where you will learn in detail about the capabilities and considerations of using the change sets development approach for the migration of changes between Salesforce environments.

You will also discover scenarios that warrant the use of unmanaged packages to deploy changes, and you will learn about the various deployment strategies that help to determine the appropriate strategy for a given scenario.

Finally, you will be presented with a number of questions about...