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Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Guide

By : Paul Goodey GP, Goodey
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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

Using the Platform App Builder exam study guide

Salesforce provides a study guide for the Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder exam, which gives you a good summary of the purpose of the exam and some guidelines on what topics to be familiar with. You should refer to the study guide as it contains the latest information about the number of questions, topics, and so on, as these can change over time.

The exam guide is particularly useful as it outlines the features and functions that a candidate with hands-on experience would need to demonstrate in order to pass. The exam guide also shows the weighting of the features and functions that are applied to the Salesforce Platform App Builder exam. By looking at the weighting, it is possible to determine the approximate number of questions that may appear, to help you focus on the topics with the greatest number of questions.

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