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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

Exam objectives – Salesforce Fundamentals

The knowledge and skills that app builders are expected to demonstrate in order to pass the Salesforce Fundamentals section of the Certified Platform App Builder exam are as follows:

In the Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder Exam Guide the total number of questions is given as well as, a percentage break-down for each of the objectives, and an indication of the number of features/functions that can be expected in each of the objectives.

By analyzing these objectives, percentages, and question counts, we can determine the likely number of questions that will appear in the exam and for the Salesforce Fundamentals objective.

Salesforce Fundamentals: Total number of exam questions

There are likely to be 5 questions in total. This is calculated as 8% of the 60 total exam questions, which is 4.8 or 5 questions.

Using these figures for the Salesforce Fundamentals objective and the number of items that are likely to be assessed, we can determine that there would be 1-2 questions for each of the following concepts:

  • The capabilities of the core CRM objects in the Salesforce schema
  • Where the boundaries lie between declarative and programmatic customization
  • How and when to use AppExchange

Now, let's look at what is meant by the Salesforce Lightning Platform.